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“the US, in siding with Russia, may be betting on the wrong horse” This is delusional. Russia would’ve bulldozed Ukraine without US support. What county is under US sanctions? What…

“Government monopoly on violence” is a phrase that I see constantly see on the internet that makes less and less sense the more you think about. Of all the news I read of killings …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34331793

> If credit dries up in a broader downturn, they are at risk of losing access even to those programs. Meanwhile, they may find that their reliance on these parallel lending methods…

> Mr. Balwani’s former business partner and ex-girlfriend, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, was sentenced last month to 11¼ years for four counts of criminal fraud tied to her no…

While it's possible the US just has more tech companies, I think it should be pointed out the top fines here are to Amazon Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, WhatsApp Inc…

Anymore. You only need a law because it was happening.

Your reasoning is kind of like saying if Saudi really killed Khashoggi why didn’t they update their laws first to make dissident journalists executable without trial? You’re lookin…

Just because certain false statements were banned under the policy doesn’t mean true statements were not also banned. Twitter’s own examples are (obviously) self serving.

free association != dark money organizations influencing politics They have a slick landing page, but there's nothing there about their efforts to influence advertisers and social …

This is very nit picky. The entire web works by severs “seeding” data to the client, so by your logic you can’t “put stuff” on the web. The difference with torrents and IPFS is you…

Henry Ford wasn't saying that people are just too dumb to understand how great cars are, he's saying people become so uncomfortable with what already works they don't understand ho…

If I would have asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses There was genuine skepticism over the horseless carriage when it was first becoming available. Vac…

To be fair, I think Musk thought he was backing the winners when he made the tweet backing Republicans.

Newspapers, iPods, blackberries, the modern smartphone. The effect on the mind gets progressively worse from these things. I'll often go out somewhere without my phone, but I'll br…

Of all the drama about Twitter, a lawyer publicly begging the FEC to prosecute their client has to be the craziest thing I've seen.

> Twitter encourages a very extractive attitude from everyone it touches. Twitter gives people the means to express the attitude they already have. "Influencer Culture" didn't star…

It's interesting compare it to a real speech. Nixon has weird mannerisms but the deep fake feels like a disconnect between the speech and the words. It's tough to describe how my b…

I'm not a lawyer but every time I look at the criminal justice system I do wonder how it could be constitutional given the strong protections of the bill of rights. > Recall how pl…