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> Citizen's United infamously set that in stone. The alternative is that you can't make documentaries about a candidate's bad climate change policy and monetize it as you would a n…

What data do you want? Look at the way people change their answers to whether or not they support Medicare For All based on how the question is phrased, or support for the Affordab…

> Secondly, I believe it confuses cause and effect. People say a lot of things. People mostly agree with universal background checks for guns. It isn't the Evil Rich People prevent…

that's because many people don't vote or take part in political advocacy. it doesn't make society in "oligarchy". our democracy actually works really well, even with gerrymandering…

The better alternative is just to learn thoroughly and apply knowledge as much as you can. You can explore without guesswork.

> That attitude is actually how I program—with scripted languages I write code and see what happens, if it didn’t work I write it again. This is an incredibly harmful attitude towa…

something being popular and eliminating other options is not inherently bad. there is nothing wrong with one company acquiring a monopoly through superior service. you can attack a…

exact opposite, they've made a 180 on advertising. there used to be external offsite ads shown on the website, which were removed. there used to be a developer API to show video ad…

because most companies do not recognize roblox as a platform, they recognize it as a game. nobody realizes that the development of games on it is on a similar level to web developm…

there isn't a tweet you can send that will start a war unless the administration sending it is willing to confirm that is indeed a move they're making. you think diplomats are idio…

sorry you just don't understand how the world works. nobody is ever starting a war over twitter, not least because people understand that accounts can be hacked. and the president'…

you spend too much time online if you think you can start any war over twitter

> you may be unaware of better alternatives because of anticompetitive behaviour by Google google provides all of the best services in each of its major consumer categories unless …

i guess we should all follow anarchoprimitivism in that case. we need to find "eternal ever lasting bliss and happiness".

> Microsoft is selling you into the IDE, in small portions what are they selling me

armed robbers randomly targeting people are not criminal masterminds. they are often hastily planned, or are completely opportunistic. you could easily accidentally shoot someone, …

if only there were some investigations into the source of the hack. i guess we'll never know

> and this young guy gets murdered for no reason and not even robbed? im sure you're an expert on crime but it is not in fact ridiculous that when a robbery is botched and someone …

fuck you and dang

> The Russian government just poisoned another opposition thinker, wow i didn't know he was an american CEO. you're a genius. > North Korea hired a couple of pretty girls to kill a…

no american tech ceo is getting killed because of a minor dispute like this why does everyone on HN think we're in some low budget spy movie

> photography was an art, and photos were generally manipulated, sometimes heavily , sometimes to remove people etc. Except this was time consuming and couldn't be done automatical…

i was assured by the cybersecurity experts of hacker news that REALLY this was all a mastermind ploy to steal and sell twitter DMs. who would they sell them to? doesn't matter! wha…

you cannot start world war 3 or become a billionaire through some tweets, this is not a movie.