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That depends on the structure. There are no 1st Amendment issues with Amber Alerts or weather alerts pushed to my phone, for example. But if CNN or Fox News are allowed to post to …

And, if I may, I think the point is that is all well and good, but for reliability's sake, a publicly, not privately, controlled alternative to any of the above (Facebook, Twitter,…

> Governments should earn their taxes the same as a person should earn their income So you're coming from the perspective that individual minimum wage is wrong, and applying that a…

> This becomes a minimum wage for nations Why is that a problem? > removes the incentive to compete to be the home of corporate headquarters No, it shifts the means of incentives. …

Exactly, pensions were considerably more common in the 1960s also, but at the end of the day, I don't really care if my retirement is actually funded by a pension or a 401k or by s…

As is nearly always the case with these types of conspiracy theories, never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. More charitably, you can explai…

Right, wrong, or whatever, welcome to America. What, today, is stopping a billionaire from parking nearly anywhere they like and then just paying the fine, over and over? Or, beyon…

> Who decides when a mask is needed/not needed? The elected authorities, whether local, regional, state, or federal, preferably as advised by trained and trusted experts. > Should …

That's kind of the thing though. > Signer agrees to become contract murderer unless pre-empted by local laws and regulations. I'm over-exaggerating, and I get the value when it's p…

You're arguing "slippery slope." The answer to any slippery slope argument, when asked "when does it stop" is to just choose a point to stop. (And in the case of a representative D…

You seriously don't think "we should decrease the number of people born with Down Syndrome" is a morally defensible position either? I don't think "we should decrease the number of…

I'm not going to go back and forth with a "yes, it is" "no, it isn't" exchange with you, but "not allowed to exist" is VERY clearly different from "not allowed to be visible" -- th…

Unless you have better evidence than Keith Olbermann to back your statement, I think we're done here. I'm not going to go back and forth about Twitter followers as a valid metric f…

"not allowed to exist at all" doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. Nothing you have said bears any more discussion.

Keith Olbermann, currently hosting on the mainstream news channel of YouTube (/s) after being evicted from actual mainstream news, is the opposite of strong evidence. Further: > "T…

> People are alarmed by these moves because they represent a wider trend in which the left increasingly does not recognise the right as politically legitimate, i.e. they do not bel…

Sure, as long as we have the tooling available for students to get there too (which, I think we do, or pretty quickly can).

And just for encryption, you can self-sign. Obviously that doesn't work for the web, but "TLS cert feudal lord" doesn't track for me at all.

googling for 'man date' to read the manual page on date always gives me a second thought.

> If you want to say that something exists you need to define that thing first. I have yet to say anything, in one direction or another. You're saying a monopoly cannot exist given…

Regarding your edit > Unless granted by a government, monopolies don't exist in free markets. You made that claim, it's your responsibility to prove it first, not everyone else's t…

At least three of those four have an undeniable technological/VC subject matter, clearly relevant to HN (WeChat, Peter Thiel, and TikTok) I'd have to read them all to be certain, b…

Hackers talk about tech. Tech can't be separated from people and politics anymore than anything else can.

Why is this marked as a dupe, when the "original" doesn't mention the other 6 VPNs leaking data? Yes, UFO VPN's leak in this article is based on the "original" article, but I looke…

Even under the most generous reading of Trump's statements, how in the world would it be remotely possible to "inject disinfectant" in any way? His speculation, particularly in an …