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I’m reading it a bit differently. Yes the censorship of political speech related to political figures is bad but we’re coming out of a period where much more fundamental rights wer…

Human rights are really important to me, and it was quite shocking to see what are supposed to be inalienable rights violated for something that’s much less than catastrophic.

A warrantless search that’s a cronjob? Seems that for some people, if the tech is simple then that’s ok! To me, that’s still a rights violation whether it’s a cronjob or not.

A lot of countries did not have much restrictions and seemed to get through without a catastrophic population decline. Are there any countries that saw more than 10% of their count…

It’s great to see not only this ruling but balanced reporting on it from NYT. I’m optimistic that the turn towards accepting tyranny is finally ending.

A place to start would be the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. Of course this didn’t prevent slaves from being born in the USA nor did it prevent internal slave trade. B…

The confederacy could easily have prevented the war by not attacking union forts. And as you say the war did not end slavery. So all we’re left with is a thirst for blood.

Most settler colonial states under British rule gained independence without death and murder, unlike the USA. It’s unlikely the USA would have been different if it’s population had…

I know several blockchain projects that would love you but none that can afford you. Market is terrible especially in web3 gaming. I myself have taken a 97.5% pay cut with my most …

Thanks for the invitation to join your club, I appreciate it. I’m quite familiar with security clearances from close contacts. It’s also inevitable to run into controlled informati…

Me to, twice. Which is where my opinion of jurors was formed.

Jurors by definition aren’t the brightest, since they don’t know how to get out of jury duty.

Something about this smells like a bad attorney. Especially the part where he didn’t know that he was free until his card stopped working. But who knows, and it doesn’t matter anyw…

If the FBI actually operated in the open and stopped keeping secrets, the mystery would be removed and they would no longer have any power. Once the mystique is broken, the mundane…

The idea that people who are close to power are “in on the secret” and thus are more correct that people who aren’t doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. It’s a religious idea that extends…

Make officers personally liable for civil and criminal penalties when they break laws or violate rights, even if acting on orders or in accordance with their departmental policies.…

Or, just enforce laws and follow the proven “broken windows theory” of policing. Which worked in cities such as NYC.

Advanced Asian cities which combine rapid zero tolerance policing with the resulting social conformity don’t have these issues. There has been a rise in drug abuse but it tends to …

You’ve hit it on the head. A well written react app will have a lot of code that isn’t in hooks or components and is instead imported by those. That said anything to do with the pr…

I was pretty late to switch from jquery to react- I didn’t switch over until after react hooks were released. The reason is simply that jquery works great and the issues with scala…

For code I’ve found LLM mostly useless, since if I don’t understand something I need to read the docs anyway, and the generated code tends to be buggy even in react. Where I have f…

No idea. Open source seems to come and go in waves. It has pros and cons as a business model. Personally I prefer working on open source because my GitHub becomes my resume, wherea…

Most hacker news people aren’t experiencing any positive effects from inflation, since the tech industry is fundamentally about future growth rather than present income. Higher int…

It’s certainly true that branding as morally pure isn’t usual beneficial, but even businesses that brand themselves as sinful or evil have internal processes to maintain moral prin…

Minimal state is absolutely compatible with leftist philosophy! Anarchism itself is a leftist movement. What’s incompatible isn’t ideology, its praxis. Mainstream leftist movements…