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Maybe… however in the debate of this law, one side is saying “the law says you need purpose to cause” and the other side is saying “no it doesn’t. If you could read more than 14 wo…

No one’s 401k was plundered. Most of this was funded by the Federal Reserve via a combination of quantitative easing, low interest rates, and increasing the money supply. The Fed c…

Does anyone else hate the long tail? Most of the content I consume comes from the long tail. The content itself is interesting and great. I love it. However, consuming long tail co…

All measurement, but especially so at the quantum scale, involves interacting with the observed subject. One of the observations made by quantum mechanics is that you can't observe…

Sorry, I’m not understanding what you’re seeing. The law says “purpose to cause” and then lists two things joined by an OR clause. But you’re arguing that the “purpose to cause” la…

Crypto firms aren’t systematically important, so no bailout is necessary or warranted. This is more like the .com bust than anything else. In both cases, irrational exuberance surr…

I wouldn’t say heroin addicts act with purpose to cause inconvenience. They do cause inconvenience, but that’s not the purpose of their actions.

Really? An entire Wikipedia article filled with detailed explanation of the phenomenon and its cause is an appeal to the stone? Really? Sorry, but that is absurd .

It's always a bit terrifying to me how often I see people on Hacker News confidently asserting some phenomenon can be explained by something that any rational person would recogniz…

> That won't put the water back. Revenge is just the final form of prioritizing the comfort (or discomfort) of a handful of bad actors over the well-being of the other 99.9999% of …

It really depends on the specific situation. Public space is for everyone’s enjoyment. Unfortunately, some people take advantage of their right to the space in a way that detracts …

That's just color commentary from the author of this piece. If you read the rest of the article, the specific changes proposed by the SEC are outlined.

Your outrage is unwarranted. The proposed changes are: 1) Limiting PFOF because it creates possible conflicts of interest. 2) Limiting "gamification" of trading via engagement prom…

Those are good examples of inheritance. However, I think they'd be better served with mixins, which is another form of composition.

First of all, people aren’t pro-abortion. They’re pro-choice. Second, why start defining someone a human at conception? Isn’t birth control depriving a possible person of their rig…

I think a very legitimate, legal purpose of the technology is for the implementation of financial systems. How many billions of dollars of computers, networks, mainframes, and engi…

> It is the same argument used to justify any opinion without proof You offered an opinion without proof, which is that Apple wouldn't exist. This is why these "debates" are so unp…

What does that have to do with control of one's body?

Have you heard of the butterfly effect? You can't predict what would happen if you go back in time and change something. Maybe Apple wouldn't exist, or maybe it would exist and wou…

The point you are trying to make is starting to require a lot of caveats. She might be director not a writer, she's a producer not an executive producer, etc. Also, Lim lists herse…

Again, there is no debate to be had. Those who are against abortion are saying the the fetus has rights. That is unfalsifiable. There is no point in arguing about it. If you questi…

This article from Vanity Fair does a good job collection the circumstantial evidence surrounding the lab leak theory: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-no..…

Class inheritance in OOP seems to be largely derived from such contrived examples as "Duck extends Animal." It's basically a worthless concept and OOP would be better without it. C…

I don't see why you'd debate that. You could debate what the rights of the mother vs. the rights of the unborn baby are until you're blue in the face and you'd be unlikely to convi…

> I’ve thought a lot about this, and it does make sense for it to be up to each individual state. Many believe, myself included, that women should have the right to control their o…