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I agree. If alcohol were marketed for heart disease reduction, I'd have no problem with it. But it's marketed as a lifestyle product and a ton of young people with no history of dr…

Legality under US free speech laws. See first amendment law literature.

The phone company does unfortunately allow spam callers

Disagree. Platforms are immune to liability of their users. HN could become a platform and abide regulations like the phone company.

Disagree. Newspapers and ISP follow under this regulation. Social media networks have been able to skirt the issue. If newspapers can get sued for their content and the phone compa…

Companies profit but citizens lose out. Those two entities should not be conflated. This is akin to the outsourcing of many industries such as pharmaceuticals and medical supplies …

The shortage is false, a form of gaslighting, artificially created so that corporations and academic institutions can keep costs low and suppress wages by flooding the US market wi…

Racket will never be a practical language, but not because it is a lisp. Clojure is a lisp and is plenty practical. Racket was designed to teach programming to young students, whic…

Thanks for all the great effort and progress. Better error messages would be awesome, but this composable multi-thread support makes Julia even more absurdly powerful and versatile…