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Your quote literally says "as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech" emphasis mine

Maybe the authors think that misinformation is currently a bigger issue than censorship?

And Amazon isn't just a gravy train for Amazon executives and some employees, while people are suffering and going bankrupt?

This has been coming since 2018. Is there no end to Amazon's dominance? I seriously worry that it's becoming a real threat to democracy.

US healthcare is terrible _because_ it's for-profit. Won't this just entrench it further?

Pharmacy is such a small part of healthcare... they are only going to make it worse anyways. They're still for-profit.

It's a constant minor annoyance weighed against a fairly rare, hypothetical risk.

People ride motorcycles despite vastly higher death and injury rates than cars, cause it's fun. (I did for awhile and might start doing so again one day.)

I'm not disagreeing with you I don't think? I agree that it's a really stupid thing to not wear a seatbelt. I just think it's important to consider how to solve these problems without throwing up our hands and saying "people are irredeemably stupid" because that doesn't really do much good for anyone.

Because the average person has a very bad understanding of risk and consequences?

Also, the laws aren't solely about the wearer; not wearing seatbelts at scale has societal costs.

HackerNews loves talking about network effects and marketing virality but doesn't seem to understand actual real-world networks and viruses.

The wedding makes the jobs of the facility employees a lot harder.

It's a lot more than two or three people. And the decimation would be a lot less bad if stimulus relief was passed. How large is your town, that the hospital only has a couple ventilators?

No, it's like saying 100 people living in one house get the same say as 1 person living in another house.

You literally used people in your example!

Do you think that's a bigger issue than 2000 and 2016 where more people voted for the other guy?

Also, wouldn't rural areas have the same problem? And probably even worse due to less diversity?

Washington, Oregon, Colorado all have universal mail-in where every registered voter automatically gets a ballot in the mail (though you can still drop off your ballot, or vote in person). California is _largely_ mail-in but I don't think it's universal...

Last time I checked, Kamala Harris is neither a state nor President right now.

Surely you understand the meaning of "follow the money."

Yeah the rich irony of HackerNews...

There was a Japanese study about this awhile back and that was the general conclusion; that the signaling is important regardless of any "real" effect. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536629/

I guess anything that is fined or outlaws is eventually "enforced by violence" but it's still a silly argument. If a store asks you to leave, and you don't, and the store calls the police to arrest you, you aren't being arrested for not wearing a mask. You're being arrested for not leaving when asked.

Or they've been influenced by a broad array of politicians and media figures into believing that COVID is essentially over and there was nothing to worry about in the first place.

Right...

>where just about nothing is higher than 3 stories

The point is that cars destroy density regardless of what your building height limits are.

HackerNews is just as vulnerable to confirmation bias and reactionary behavior as any other group of people. Being an engineer does not make one magically immune to cognitive bias.

What misleading talking points? How does the media mis-represent what QAnon is?

One regularly talks about killing Jews and one doesn't.

What about it makes it "state level"? Dozens of failed predictions. Vague, open-ended insinuations that can be interpreted by anyone in totally different ways. No legitimate information that can't be found with a search engine.

Whoever made up Q is similar to Trump in that they identified a group of people with real problems (loss of faith in institutions, fear of losing social power) to whom they could spread propaganda, but have no real solutions to any of the identified problems.

I find it ironic that you say "think for yourself" while repeating nonsense propaganda that has little to no impact outside of made-up scandals targeting the Clintons.

The 2000 Supreme Court fucked us over for decades.

They aren't even remotely the same type of show! I don't know how you could possibly try to compare them. You wouldn't try to compare the Super Bowl against Downton Abbey, would you?

Can you point to a specific instance of him valuing entertainment over accuracy?

Yes the considerable risk of producing a wildly popular television show on Comedy Central. So brave and risky.

Do you feel that the science itself says climate change is not real?