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Location: Houston area, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Primarily Rust, Ruby, JS / TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL, many others Résumé/CV: http://sevendral.com/r…

Looking back at what I've said in this thread, it's "free speech is a societal value like honestly and politeness, not just a constitutional right," "I would be in favor of lifting…

We do not live in a pure democracy, we live in a constitutional republic. Our lawmakers aren't able to create certain laws because of limits on their power in the constitution; one…

Hmm. So the way I interpret this is: true free speech lets people say things that are wrong, and leads to people believing things that are wrong. A company that allows it will perf…

Ads in general are probably something society doesn't want, because you have to pay people (in the form of ad-supported content) to look at them. You might say that most people in …

I actually think we should allow cigarette ads again, I don't think anyone is harmed by being able to see a sign telling them something. But also, think about it this way: isn't th…

I really don't think you're arguing in good faith here. This is a very common tactic for people of your political alignment, at least on HN: to nitpickily demand sources for comple…

> It just doesn't allow ads that say "Glock is the best pistol". Until, well, yesterday (edit: not yesterday, that says "June." My mistake), it was illegal in Germany to advertise …

Yep. The answer here is that Hulu should probably run the ads. Free speech is more than an amendment, it's a social value that should be respected by everyone, not just the governm…

I always wonder about these sorts of comments. Do you think sources for these easily-googleable facts don't exist, or that the pretty uncontroversial events I'm talking about didn'…

Pretty predictable responses. > Are you somehow implying Google and Facebook are run by Democrats Again, there was a White House office made specifically to coordinate these platfo…

Absolutely. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill to ban ads for firearms. Google and Facebook already ban that as well. If you have no problem with that then why should you have…

Perhaps Hulu recognizes that some people just want to watch TV and not be bothered by campaign ads. Also perhaps I'd be more sympathetic to the Democrats here if exactly this sort …

Parts are, but other parts, like the gulf coast, have plenty of water. Texas is not the giant desert you see in cowboy movies.

I think we're arguing over terminology. But "it takes resources to create" is not the same thing as "it stores those resources." That's the whole misconception with Bitcoin. It tak…

> doesn't it also take resources to create baseball cards, art, books etc. Baseball cards are generally valued more than an equivalent-size rectangle of cardstock. Books are priced…

A store of value allows you to get the value back out: if I spend a bunch of money and effort mining iron ore, or growing wheat, or building a house, I have the ore or wheat or hou…

I have a hard time believing that anyone actually falls in that category. No living grandparents who remember the great depression? No memories of 2008? And even if they were in a …

I'm not shrugging. I think you shouldn't be allowed to do fraudulent ads for investments, and that the loophole of "it's not USD so it's not a real, regulated investment" is wrong.…

This is hard to write. In 2015 I joined a local club for electronics hobbyists. It was great, we met every other week, had show-and-tell presentations of the things we were learnin…

So you're saying, in the scenario where someone asks directly "will this company lay anyone off," you'd rather the company deflect the question and not answer it than just say "no?…

I'm not well-connected, and if you have a bunch of experience on your resume, you're probably established enough. Send your resume out to a bunch of companies. Expect that most of …

I think you might be putting a bit too much stock in what a recruiter thinks. Recruiters generally do not know the first thing about the industry they're recruiting for, and in my …

As much as I want to agree with you, and as much as I usually go by that rule myself... The place I work at now said, in March 2020, that they weren't going to do any layoffs. And,…