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anonunivgradon Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill

If you want to do business in a country, then you have to follow the laws of that country. Polish courts would enter judgment against the company for violating Polish law, premising their jurisdiction on the activities of that company within their borders (e.g. accepting payment in polish currency, selling ads to polish businesses, charging for polish views/clicks). They can then seize the company's property in Poland to enforce that judgment. They can also introduce that judgment in foreign courts to do enforcement actions there. Those foreign courts would examine the validity of the Polish judgment (e.g. by reexamining jurisdiction) before issuing orders to enforce it.

There's nothing novel about this. This is how civil judgments are enforced across borders every day.

anonunivgradon 20% of LAPD officers, civilian employees say they won’t take Covid-19 vaccine

Those deaths are almost all among the extremely old or extremely unhealthy. Consider that that vast majority of doctors and nurses are neither.

anonunivgradon After Unused Vaccines Thrown in Trash, Cuomo Loosens Rules

Not everyone did. Only virtue signaling addicts like Cuomo and Newsom.

anonunivgradon After Unused Vaccines Thrown in Trash, Cuomo Loosens Rules

Everyone said this would happen but Cuomo was more interested in virtue signaling about vaccine priority lists. Meanwhile, Florida has required all vaccine doses to be distributed, out of priority order if need be, and hospitals that fail to distribute every dose will not get more.

anonunivgradon Gab’s Response to Senator Mark Warner

Gab’s position is that they will censor no more than the law requires.

anonunivgradon Gab’s Response to Senator Mark Warner

I said exactly what I meant to say. Saying that the government ought to be overthrown is a long protected American right. The book stores are full of books arguing just that. People taking you up on it is not your problem.

anonunivgradon Gab’s Response to Senator Mark Warner

Conspiracy theories that might drive someone to violence are protected speech in this country. Many “conspiracy” theories have proved true, e.g. the CIA’s insane antics in the 50s-80s.

We don’t have a Committee of Truth that determines what is true and therefore legally speakable.

If facts or alleged facts drive people to violence, that is the responsibility of those engaged directly in violence (or actually inciting it).

Incitement in America is basically: “let’s go burn down that building right now”. “As a moral matter, someone ought to burn down that building” is protected speech.

anonunivgradon Party Like It's 1925 on Public Domain Day

Beyond the tragedy of the commons w/r/t the general public, the other problem (or maybe a specific aspect of the same problem) is that the commercial beneficiaries of shorter copyright are companies and projects that don't exist yet. It's hard for hypothetical future businesses to lobby against existing current businesses.

anonunivgradon Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)

Yep, there's no substitute for a qualitative understanding of the system.

anonunivgradon Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)

Best place to start is to have a good mental model of how things work and why they would be performant or not for a particular use case. Otherwise you're just taking shots in the dark.

anonunivgradon Identical twins are not so identical, study suggests

“I was born this way” is no longer the thinking w/r/t homosexuality. It was a short-lasting trope actually, probably more political than scientific in origin. Modern theories leave some room for genetics but nothing like what the public came to believe back in the 2000s and early 2010s.

anonunivgradon Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

That’s a logical fallacy if I’ve ever seen one. Bill Barr has his reasons, I’m sure, for saying what he said. That doesn’t mean he’s right.

anonunivgradon Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

Human beings are not dogs. The law treats them as autonomous. Getting people riled up and angry and encouraging them to protest is not incitement just because a few of them take it too far.

anonunivgradon Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

"Fight like hell" does not mean violence. Political groups "fight" for this or that all the time. And yeah, go to the capitol to protest, like the vast majority of people did. Only a tiny percent had anything to do with breaching the building.

anonunivgradon Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

Trump did not incite violence. If anything, the media this summer was much more involved in inciting and fueling the BLM riots.

anonunivgradon The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours

Political opinions are not incitement.

anonunivgradon The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours

The concepts and values of free speech and open discourse are more than the legal requirements of the First Amendment. Coordinated private censorship by oligopolistic platforms that have largely replaced the public square is contrary to the value of freedom of speech.

anonunivgradon London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing

In Florida, bars and restaurants are just about fully open and everything is just fine.

anonunivgradon Microsoft job posting suggests a major user interface update expected in 2021

I second the shell extension thing. This is the tool to use: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

anonunivgradon FBI Questioned Michigan Senate Aide About Tear Gas Bill

Incredible that everyone in this thread just takes the word of this person like it’s the gospel. Did it occur to you that maybe she is being less than candid about exactly what she said?

anonunivgradon America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented

I think he means the thousands (and rising) of people shot by criminals every year, not the few dozen shot by police.

anonunivgradon America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented

Yes, the actual socialists and other economic leftists are the big losers right now. Biden admin will push idpol nonsense to the extreme while not delivering anything worthwhile for the economic left.

Next four years will be a feeding frenzy for the sociopaths of America.

anonunivgradon America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented

There are not enough "higher quality manufacturing / blue collar jobs." The US has embraced an economic model of outsourcing manufacturing and shifting to an economy based around intellectual property, finance, and other knowledge work. What's left is low-skill, low-pay service jobs, where outsourcing is not possible, but where technology is instead the threat.

And knowledge jobs are jobs for smart people. Most people are not smart enough to do those jobs and no amount of money spent on education (the US spends more than almost every other western country, at every level) can change that.

anonunivgradon The smallest possible money unit When money crashes into the laws of physics

Normal payments are not debt. If you want to buy a tv at a store, they can decline cash as a form of payment. You don’t owe them. The tv in your cart at the checkout aisle is still theirs. There is no debt.

But if you bought that same tv on an installment plan, they would have to accept payments in cash.

The first one does not involve debt, the second does. That’s the difference.

anonunivgradon The smallest possible money unit When money crashes into the laws of physics

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/currency/pages...

“This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor.”

anonunivgradon The smallest possible money unit When money crashes into the laws of physics

(I’m not your lawyer and this is not legal advice.)

Many countries have laws specifying that certain denominations are legal tender only up to a certain total amount. The US does not, but you can run into other legal trouble. Consider the contractual obligation of good faith, for example. You might potentially be liable for the additional expense incurred in accepting a truckload of pennies.

anonunivgradon The Plague Year

It sounds like you’re not really a libertarian then. Fwiw, this consequentialist (rather than deontological) view of libertarianism that you’re espousing is what turns libertarians into either liberals or conservatives.

anonunivgradon The smallest possible money unit When money crashes into the laws of physics

Sorry to be pedantic, but I don’t think that’s right.

31 U.S.C. 5103 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5103) says “United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts.”

It’s not legal tender for just court judgments, but all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.

anonunivgradon The smallest possible money unit When money crashes into the laws of physics

I don’t think that’s right exactly. My understanding is that any debt can be settled by legal tender. A court does not have to get involved.

anonunivgradon The Plague Year

YLL is an interesting metric but deceptive. As the article says, about 80% of deaths have been in the 65 and above bracket.