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Everything you said is 100% true.

Anyone who tries to take this right, or any other right, away from you is planning to, in the long run, kill you. History tells us this very clearly.

If you don’t like free speech or any of the other protected rights in the US Constitution, you can always go to a country that doesn’t have such things.

Why wouldn’t you want to? It seems getting rid of our rights is to make things better, right? So, why not go and see how awesome it is in such places?

France is doing great, I hear.

Does anybody know if this means that zoom will be using WebRTC for browser-based E2EE calls?

“A 2002 study by Tyrone Hayes, of the University of California, Berkeley, found that exposure caused male tadpoles to turn into hermaphrodites”

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine

A later study, funded by Syngenta itself, essentially said “nothing to see here, move along”.

Imagine, as a nation, being so deranged that you think your largest websites and corporations should be engaged in censoring speech that, in ordinary life, is protected by the first amendment, in order to support a specific political candidate.

Orwell and Huxley could not have dreamt up something as dystopian.

Instead we will burn 700,000,000 quadrillion gigatons of rocket fuel to send all this poison to the sun.

Or just use wind and solar?

I wonder if the science at work here could lead to the creation of a tractor beam capable of moving larger objects.

You just now saved me $530.

Thank you.

This process that you’re describing is how establishments, in general, prevent dissent, in general. They control most of the means of information dissemination, journals, media, education institutions, etc., as well as the badges and certifications necessary to create new means.

No, I don’t have a source.

Django is obviously surpassed in raw performance for more basic applications and APIs, but there definitely isn’t a lot of “magic” in Django.

Impossibly high standards?

Like, not lying to users about data collection, not opting users into third-party products, not censoring add-ons for political reasons?

Gimme a break. The foundation is given a big break as it is, being tax-free. Then there is this huge greedy corporation bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars while resting its brand on the perceptions most users (outside of HN) have about Mozilla and Firefox being a non-profit thing in general.

There are two kinds of doomer news in 2020. The first is “the virus is going to kill us all”. The second is “the things we’re all doing because of the virus will kill us all”.

The former is fear-mongering, but the latter is true.

UBI is transfer payments, plain and simple. It is socialism. It is a rich man’s trick to delete the middle class.

Why hasn’t any coalition of companies or rich people created a utopia with UBI? They could easily buy up tens of thousands of acres of property and do all of this fantastic stuff... but they don’t. Why? Because they are the ones who produce. Socialism is about taking from those who produce and giving it to those who don’t. The only way to keep that going long-term is by force.

Use some common sense.

Don’t say nobody warned you.

Probably WRT opensource tools (machine learning, databases, frameworks, etc.) that are now 80%[1] as good as what the biggest firms have access to.

1. entirely made-up number

The nickel then becomes the new penny.

This propaganda is part of the inflationary process, which is intended to increase economic velocity at or faster than the rate of savings, at the expense of savings.

Soon, a dollar will be thought of the way we think of a quarter, and the quarter will become the new dime. Decent family homes will cost north of $2.5MM, and people will say, “back when I was a kid...”.

This is the best thing I’ve seen so far on a TouchBar.

I wish Apple would offer a version without the TouchBar.

The only true government is newly-formed.

In the span of many decades, perhaps centuries, all manner of governments evolve into their final form: tyranny.

Let people be.

There’s way too much “we need to start...” bullshit these days, and mostly spearheaded by the same group of ~500 businesses and media corps[1]; as if any of these fucking mega corporations give a shit about any of us.

When everything you believe in starts aligning perfectly with the corporations that have been screwing you for decades (tax havens, monopolizing the industries your parents worked in, sending all our jobs over seas to underaged slaves, dumping toxins into our rivers, etc.), it’s time to rethink your thinking.

1. took me all of three seconds to find an example for the publisher in question, in what looks like The Economist running pseudo-critic defense for Nike’s sweatshops, etc.: https://www.economist.com/business/1999/02/25/sweatshop-wars

+100

This is what we do at work.

Unless there is some major database or library or language version change in a feature branch, once that branch is tested and QA’d, the M.O. becomes “merge any feature branches that we’re ready to put live into master and release”.

Long-lived branches are a mess, and rebase flow is crushed by them.

If you can fit this kind of simple Git workflow into your development workflow, I recommend it.

I already made my argument, so why make up a different statement immediately below? In fact, disregard my entire comment; people like you are the problem in this country.

Do you have any thoughts on the usage of consumption of Borax to treat Lyme disease (asking because your username)?

For systemic inflammation problems (including uveitis, joint pain, and intermittent brain fog), have you experimented with probiotics, especially acidophilus (including L-92), as well as cutting gluten and other potential allergens from your diet?

Some guy Craig may soon have a 10 year mineral rights lease on some small lot in Utah…

The author of this ad “is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign”, doesn’t even mention the size of this “large swath”, so I’m left to wonder if it is even similar in size to the 1,100 acre example he gives, which itself would be 0.002% of Utah; that’s not a large swath. I have multiple friends with larger farms than this in a single town.

If I stake a claim to pan for gold in Montana, I wonder if he will write an article about me.

Firstly, I never said anything about taking up arms against anyone. I am simply stating the fact that “unchecked power” is impossible when a monopoly of power (force... aka weapons) is held by the state.

History has shown us over and over and over that an unarmed populace will either A) be subject to unchecked violence by its overlords, or B) be successfully invaded by new and less desirable overlords.

Secondly, “fixing the regulations” is not necessary; what is necessary is enforcing the already existing regulations.

Not everyone.

Just like vocal anarchists make the left look bad, the freedom-loving libertarian side is marred by the vocal authoritarians; esp when they feel threatened.

... but the tyrants also can’t possibly “win”.

There is little incentive to attempt tyranny when the result can be predicted so easily.

Also, don’t underestimate the power of 100 million people wielding guns. The world has yet to ever witness a force 1/10th as great and well-armed as the American populous.

They were all arrested on felony charges and one was killed, and the media called them radicals... (iow, exactly what GP proposed)

> Why move into a place somebody else built?

In all seriousness, because if you dropped these same people in the woods with construction tools and resources, they’d produce nothing of value; all eaten by bears within weeks.

IOW, your question answers itself.

> unchecked power is bad

Are you pro individual gun ownership?

The second amendment exists in the US Constitution, first and foremost to balance the power between a populous and would-be tyrants.

I think you may have read the first word in my comment as “entrepreneurship”; or do I misunderstand what you mean?