<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: esbranson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=esbranson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:26:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=esbranson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esbranson in "Everything that happens in a US airport is under duress"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You seem so sure. But provide nothing.<p>I'll go first, and you can match me. Here are several hundred court case dockets over the last 1.5 years or so related to one man.[1] Please provide court dockets for some relative number from your country of choice. Not selected documents: ANY document must be accessible from ANY docket.<p>I'd say Brazil is your best bet, I'd go with that. We'll wait.<p>Alternatively, we can explore your excuses on why you cannot. That's also a fun part of this conversation, exploring various national indoctrination systems around their lack of access to their courts. They are usually very different from the United States'.<p>It's always weird to see people go from "it's not true" to "it's true and it's a good thing" and repeat the government line.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_second_Trump_presidency" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_second_Tr...</a></p>
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<p>> Can someone from the US explain<p>I want to describe it as Americans arguing with Americans and others about American things. These details under discussion we share with England (incl. Wales if you recognize the Laws in Wales Acts as including some separate place).</p>
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<p>It is. From long, long ago.</p>
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<p>Municipal <i>corporations</i> ("cities") are not in all things the same as the government. Such as with property.</p>
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<p>See the W3C Linked Web Storage (LWS) work on what <i>could be</i> apropos data ownership and transfers.<p><a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/publications/" rel="nofollow">https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/publications/</a></p>
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<p>One, not a US thing. Two, the US Constitution is, despite the hyperbole.<p>Ignorance is bliss. Americans know because we can access our US court decisions, unlike any other country in the world. (Thanks be to CourtListener and other predecessors.) The "North Koreans have more rights, look it's right there in black letter law" is laughable, despite being repeated nonstop by <i>cough</i> some sectors of society <i>cough</i> since Soviet times.</p>
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<p>> Companies will now have to sue<p>Yes, that is covered by Annex A titled "You have to sue". Which is interesting because longstanding law says the US cannot normally be sued. Surely you're not be hyperbolic.</p>
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<p>Disease effects versus vaccine effects. Propaganda consumers ("news" viewers) seem to be generally clueless about one side or the other, which informs their balancing decision.<p>But you're right, a baby getting Hepatitis B versus the HepB vaccine. For the 0.15% of babies with perinatal HepB (2022 CDC cohort[1]) it's easy to say give them the vaccine after infection.<p>What about the other 90% of babies without HepB getting the vaccine (yes, they do)? Are our hospitals and elementary schools some version of Epstein Island? Are the hospitals competent enough to give the vaccines too incompetent to screen? What are population-level downsides to giving vaccines at such young ages before there is a reasonable risk of infection? I don't know, but I believe my preferred propaganda networks refuse to tell me, which makes the balancing decision harder for me in such cases than it is for you in your preferred case.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-surveillance-2023/perinatal-hepatitis-b/table-4-1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-surveillance-2023/perinatal-he...</a></p>
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<p>Calling a sentient living thing "a common good of humanity" is pretty dark. Putting those concepts together like that is an oversight.</p>
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<p>What does the AMA have to do with the Clinton-era cap on federal DGME and IME residency payments? New York spends billions every year, California spends none. These are choices that Congress and California make every year, not the AMA.</p>
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<p>> spent 2 hours, had my blood pressure taken 4 times ... cost me $2,000.<p>I'd hate to see what they billed your insurer.</p>
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<p>> legal<p>> don’t tell you<p>As a Wikipedian who has edited primarily on US legal systems but also Germany's ... I seriously doubt more than a handful of non-attorneys have any clue about the actual workings of the German legal systems.<p>The biggest issue is of course the lack of codified laws and regulations. (Note that collections like the Gesetze im Internet are more like US Statute Compilations. If you don't know what the Statute Compilations are and have never heard anyone mention them, case in point.) The Swiss SR is odd man out of course, even though it's unofficial it's still usable. US states and states like Germany do however follow similar court reporting practices, e.g. court case decisions are only selectively published, so we have similarly little insight into how laws are actually implemented in practice. (The US federal government is better, but its impact on everyday people is incomparable.)</p>
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<p>Pity the kids getting jobs in the ol' Argo Mill. Exactly what the article and OP are lamenting: trillions of dollars of investment in 1800s-era mining for gold, that rare earth metal vital to national security. No sane person would ever want to live in the Rockies.</p>
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<p>> contaminated drinking water, poor air quality, acid rain that ruins your cars paint, noise and light pollution etc, etc,<p>Ah yes, who can forget everyone's experience at the Denver, Colorado zoo, a 10 minute drive (or 30-40 minute bike ride) from a massive oil refinery operating since the 1930s. Same with the Rocky Mountains, totally polluted and gross by the likes of factories like Coors. Definitely stay away from those places. Sundance Film Festival in Boulder, CO? With so many factories up there and everywhere around, what's going to get them first, Colorado's water, air, or rain?</p>
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<p>N_DEVELOPMENT is a line discipline number for testing, first supported in Linux v5.18-rc1 from 2022, so you don't have to overload an actual discipline like SLIP or PPP when hacking.</p>
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<p>I believe your point is that, despite the resources thrown at the instant situation, you are admitting they are not resolved as of now, but the resolution will happen and be benign.<p>> assuming that anything released that is not resolved has to have gone through intense rigorous investigation, such that it means there is no known explanation for it<p>Yes.<p>> therefore it must be something truly anomalous<p>No, that is false. You are missing my point that, in the instant cases, presuming your point is true, is that this is a failure of the combined capacity of the US government. Nothing to do with cabals or aliens. Those are particular to your arguments.<p>Assuming your argument is true, my argument is strengthened. My argument is what your argument implies but does not make explicit because it wants the argument to be about cabals and aliens.</p>
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<p>You are discussing IAP/IFOs. That's good they were able to identify light and released videos of it. And yeah I get why conspiracy theories of military parabnormal cabals is exciting, but also beside the point. This is about UFOs/UAP and not about whether AARO can identify light but whether the US combatant commands, the alphabet agencies, and the White House together can.</p>
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<p>IDK I do find it funny the linked project readme is dunking on this thread.<p>And I am again going to mention the book Linkers and Loaders by John R. Levine from 1999, I'm not sure if there's anything comparable to it. How else does anyone know anything about this stuff?</p>
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<p>No, these releases are UFOs as of now, after extensive cross-agency review. Your premise of "one person didn’t know what it was" is demonstrably false. This is not a release of identified anomalous phenomena or IAP or IFOs.</p>
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<p>The Pentagon, White House, &c are not unusual or unique observation conditions. These are not just UFOs at the time, they are UFOs now after going through extensive review regimes.</p>
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