Seam0nkey

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by Seam0nkey 11mo ago
In the US at least I think as a policy matter there is still a commitment to building out of it in the medium to long term. However it's not politically viable to advocate that as a policy solution without a stopgap policy to make prog
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by Seam0nkey 3y ago
In the sense that a former president of the US was just indicted for the first time ever, yes, it's political. By definition, in fact. However, to engage in a counterfactual: would I expect in the scenario that a different president n
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by Seam0nkey 3y ago
>he doesn't like laws that go after social media platforms From a legal perspective you don't gotta be biased to reach the conclusion that there's not much states can do. Section 230 and and the 1st amendment are both cra
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by Seam0nkey 3y ago
Most indictments are never sealed (if the accused has been arrested on other charges, for example, there isn't much use in trying to keep it secret from the accused), and the ones that are always become unsealed in order to go to trial
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by Seam0nkey 4y ago
The second half of paragraph 2 on page 7 of the brief: >And no foreign state has supported NSO’s claim to immunity; indeed, NSO has not even identified the states for which it claims to have acted as an agent.
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by Seam0nkey 4y ago
I actually think you give the parent argument just a tad too little credit. If crypto was useful as a currency (and, as you point out, if it is comparably as energy efficient as visa), that would be an effective refutation to the energy co
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by Seam0nkey 5y ago
>That policy was rectified many years ago. You're half right - the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act reformed the punishment ratio from 100:1 to about 18:1, and later in 2018 Congress made this change retroactive. This certainly improved th
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by Seam0nkey 6y ago
Platforms have the problem of scale. If I don't like how facebook or twitter are contributing to the information ecosystem I could go hang out on Gab or some other niche platform - but the tradeoff is that the people I want to interac
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by Seam0nkey 6y ago
To clarify the WSJ opinion section wrote articles including the one you linked that treat the allegations credibly. The newsroom wasn't as generous: https://variety.com/2020/politics/news/wall-street-jou
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by Seam0nkey 6y ago
Actually ad-homs rarely show up in competitive debate. Competitive debate has the norms that an unanswered argument is considered to be true, and that the winner of the round is usually decided by a judge trained in argumentation. (most o
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by Seam0nkey 6y ago
If you scroll down a magistrate ruled a couple weeks ago that the journalist must disclose their source. Pishevar's conduct doesn't really have anything to do with the story. The issue is about the circumstances under which a jour