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New comment by ratelimitsteve in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

ratelimitsteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:01:06 +0000

you are factually correct but realistically the office of the president cannot ask for anything without pressure, by nature of being the office of the president

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

ratelimitsteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:59:04 +0000

Free market solutions, by definition, exclude external interference. Subsidies, by definition, are market interference by an external actor.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

ratelimitsteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:00:34 +0000

I mean, anyone can fail to deliver their end of any agreement. They may have learned a harsh lesson about bargaining with Trump, but that doesn't mean that it was dumb to pursue the deal as negotiated or would be dumb to pursue a similar deal with someone who might actually follow through on it.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

ratelimitsteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:58:21 +0000

that and directing US dollars into crypto markets via the government. you can sell people on the idea with the same arguments that are currently moderately successful in convincing people to do things like buy gold as a retirement plan, and anyone who is holding crypto before the government "invests" in it will see incredible returns as demand spikes for an asset whose supply is intentionally capped. The crypto whales are suddenly in the presence of a crypto leviathan in the form of government spending, they not only make a ton of money but they can sell out without crashing the market (solving a huge problem, esp for shitcoin whales but realistically for major stakeholders in all crypto) and everyone who's actually involved in the decision-making process leaves with fistfuls of money from people who didn't meaningfully have a say in which bag they'd be purchasing or at what price.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

ratelimitsteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:51:13 +0000

someone below is saying it's over a third of all spending so far. which feels like a lot to me.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

ratelimitsteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:32:46 +0000

if you're in with the fascists they are the most liberty-oriented party. you can do whatever you want, entirely without regard to the law.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

ratelimitsteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:05:52 +0000

is it humane to solve that problem by excluding people based on income? that's what your proposing, as that's how markets solve problems like this: if more people need a product/service than the market can provide prices go up and the poor are excluded. also not trying to be snarky but that's the choice in front of us. part of the problem with free market solutions to healthcare is the feasibility of walking away from a bad deal. in every other space prices are regulated downward by the buyers' ability to either buy something else or do without but there is no doing without emergency care and doing without preventive care is just deferring the cost until it's emergency care at punitive interest.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming"

ratelimitsteve — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:22:01 +0000

i feel like you've just accidentally stumbled upon primate-patching as an umbrella term that can be anything from monkey-patching to hominid-adjustment via apefoolery. As a coder for 8 years I know I'm personally capable of operating at any of these levels depending on the day and the strength of the local coffee.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming"

ratelimitsteve — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:20:30 +0000

okay but at least those are provably equivalent, unless my understanding is off. isn't that the whole impetus behind the idea of functional programming?

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

ratelimitsteve — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:51:36 +0000

rare scotus W, but i strongly suspect that because this data is "owned" by someone other than the people that generated it that said owners will simply choose to voluntarily cooperate with government inquiries 100% of the time. You can suppress information if the government unconstitutionally compels google to turn it over, but I don't believe that you as a defendant could push to exclude evidence if it was willingly turned over by a third party that had the right to have it.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "I didn't think I could get addicted to weed. I was wrong – and I'm not alone"

ratelimitsteve — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:08:15 +0000

funny, because I started smoking marijuana and it actually got me out of my parents' house. I got my degree, got a career, got clean from everything else, got married and bought a house. i now work every day with other well-paid and well-regarded professionals and the preponderance of us that smoke weed every day just like Dr Dre ordered would be shocking to your sensibilities. maybe stereotypes aren't a good place from which to draw your worldview, because i think the primary driver there is less the truthfulness of the belief and more your comfort with it.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "I didn't think I could get addicted to weed"

ratelimitsteve — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:05:22 +0000

>Quick doctors appointment every 6-12 months on an opt in basis - just a check up to make sure you are partaking responsibly.

I'm in a medical state that does this and it's just hilariously corrupt. That checkup to ensure responsibility is nothing more than a drug fee. There is nothing to it beyond a phone call where they ask you if you still want to be certified and you say "yes".

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

ratelimitsteve — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:58:25 +0000

I have a friend who picked up heroin in jail, came out an addict and died of an OD in his basement. His daughter found him.

If your anecdote can prove your point, then mine can disprove it.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

ratelimitsteve — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:23:26 +0000

i like the way that when ai does something good of course the people who built it should make a lot of money but when it does something bad no one is responsible

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

ratelimitsteve — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:36:56 +0000

this. was it LG that shipped an update to their TVs that made it play ads and bricked the TV if you didn't agree?

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

ratelimitsteve — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:34:46 +0000

it's not true anywhere in america, at the very least.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

ratelimitsteve — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:34:28 +0000

here's the thing about that: it's absolutely not true at all. once again, in the place where this ruling took place (and, therefore, the place we're talking about) the people who accuse you of a crime have to prove that it was definitely you that did it. an accusation doesn't put the burden of proof on you to prove that you didn't, or to find who actually did. this isn't a phoenix wright game, or an argument with your mom. if the state can't prove that it was you, then it wasn't.

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

ratelimitsteve — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:33:21 +0000

> If it wasn't you driving, you know who.

I don't have to prove who was driving. I don't have to prove I wasn't the one driving. The state has to prove that I was the one driving.

>If someone shoots a person with your gun, you gonna say it wasn't you and expect them not to question any you further?

I don't expect them not to question me further and that's not what this is about. This is about whether your car running a red light is proof, in and of itself absent any other facts, that you ran a red light in your car.

>This is how it works in Poland

This is not how it works in the US

>I assume, most/all of EU and the rest of the world.

You assume incorrectly

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

ratelimitsteve — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:30:52 +0000

they sincerely think that the primary problem they're facing is one of PR, don't they?

New comment by ratelimitsteve in "Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away.""

ratelimitsteve — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:58:22 +0000

>claude build a plugin to do the above