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That's not what CU held. The idea that corporations have legal personhood with some degree of rights is much, much older than Citizens United. Citizens United was a non-profit corp…

There are roughly two orders of magnitude more microcontrollers in the world running code than application processors. GC is not acceptable on a microcontroller due to the extreme …

Perhaps you could expand upon the parallels you’re seeing as it seems like you’ve fundamentally misunderstood my post.

> ... there is actually an ever-increasing number of things that used to have an absolute right (scientifically proven) answer that become controversial. Climate change. Vaccines. …

UBI would be pure deficit spending which would basically double it. Our interest is already the #2 federal outlay at $1 trillion (defense is #5 last I heard) and we're already in f…

I also don’t think people should vote like that, the problem is there’s no way to enforce such a pattern[1]. Everyone benefits from voting as you describe, but that’s precisely whe…

Voting is meant to allow a community to police itself to some extent, although the downside to that is it incentivizes controlling the discussion over contributing to it. It’s a lo…

As I’ve grown older I’ve come to realize that there are no solutions, merely tradeoffs. Saying something is “free” is selling a solution which rhetorically works well with a voting…

You’re using multiple definitions of “free” here. One is freedom in the Lockean sense, the other is freedom from the properties and consequences of an emergent system. It’s a bit l…

You’re only considering one part of the system, not the whole. As the GAO puts it[1]: > Intragovernmental debt holdings represent federal debt owed by Treasury to federal governmen…

I want to highlight your point because you're correct and this is something that a lot of people don't understand about economic systems. We exist in a resource constrained system.…

I fully admit what I said was simplistic and not meant to indicate the true complexity of the system. I agree with everything you’ve posted as inflation is not immediate merely bec…

I don’t disagree with your first point, but your second point may have been a misunderstanding of what I said or I don’t understand what you’re saying. I’m not suggesting when you …

> There's something that happened during ZIRP & Negative Real Interest Rate Policies that completely divorced the value of money in the real economy from the value of assets & futu…

It's no different than the South in the US which does not include Texas, New Mexica, Arizona, or any other states that are geographically South in the modern day US. Once you under…

Sorry for the double reply but I think a concrete example might elucidate what I am discussing. I have had to deal with close friends being addicted to heroin. I believe the free m…

I didn’t miss their point, I challenged the foundation upon which it rested. You are asserting that a free market is unstable and will inevitably lead to a monopoly. Even if I take…

> A free market actually requires a lot of surrounding regulation to work While I am not a free market absolutist, I think your assertion is based on judging negative outcomes of a…

> There's a real folly in capitalist countries thinking they can be self-sufficient walled castles. Capitalism by its nature will seek out the lowest cost be it in labor or manufac…

> or replace them altogether. Before AI companies were usually very reticent to do a rewrite or major refactoring of software because of the cost but that calculus may change with …

The standard as decided in Brandenburg v. Ohio is "imminent lawless action". You're correct that context matters; the speech must be tied to an imminent violation of law. This is a…

It’s not about making zero mistakes, it’s about learning from previous languages which made mistakes and not repeating them. I decided against using go pretty early on because I re…

> Where does this idea come from? It seems to be acquired through social osmosis, i.e. hearing people talk about it and then repeating their assertions as if it were a fact - usual…

> A few presidents ago, the chairman of the joint chiefs publicly said that 7 trillion in military spending is unaccounted for. You're likely referring to the fact that the pentago…

If you're truly curious I would say the best way to start is to get a basic understanding of economics and how our current system actually operates. It's also important to look up …