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New comment by rubberstamp in "Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22"

rubberstamp — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:24:58 +0000

Judicial review is below parliamentary supremacy. Judicial review can be easily corrupted and relies on a few persons. Parliamentary supremacy on the other hand cannot be easily side stepped as more members needs to be corrupt to do corrupt things. Swiss type cantons/districts and direct democracy by people is much more stable system.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22"

rubberstamp — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:17:22 +0000

Surveillance of communications of private chats is never okay. Law enforcement can access chats via device directly from the arrested person if necessary. Backdoors via service providers is bad idea. Democratic countries, you know the so called "government rule of the people" doing this or pushing for this is deeply anti-democratic. Non-democratic countries and monarchies obviously has fickle laws that can change at any moment and one cannot expect "democracy" from them. For me democracy means inclusive of all citizens, considerate of every citizen and citizens not having to worry about sneaky laws trampling upon privacy or rights. Democratic governments making mass surveillance laws or making deals with foreign governments to side step constitutional rights and privacy is wrong on a different order of magnitude. Providing security for nation doesn't require mass surveillance. Decent physical non-overreaching policing on the ground is all that is necessary for decent acceptable level of security.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

rubberstamp — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:28:28 +0000

It works only to a point and only if the product has not degraded/enshittified. Retention is often terrible for bad products/service. Humans are not robots. Most people think about what they are purchasing and no amount of ads can fix it if the product/service is bad.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

rubberstamp — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:20:46 +0000

Yes there is a subconscious part but we can also do deliberate shopping, by buying only from whitelisted sources and whitelisted brands who have earned my trust. Before 30 I never used to consider things like this but after a certain age almost everyone is picky and filters with their own biases too. Anti-ad bias or an anti-product bias is not going to be overridden subconsciously by watching an ad for that product, unless the product is actually good product.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

rubberstamp — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:02:28 +0000

Yes, somehow moral, ethics and fairness aspects are absent in many laws. In my opinion a constitutional law needs to be there to mandatorily list what each particular law is trying to achieve as its objective. Then people should be allowed to list any unfairness or ethical or moral concerns about each law, which is also recorded as a journal entry.

Democractic laws needs a guiding framework that considers these moral and ethical aspects, as these kind of things can be easily missed or overlooked if not documented as a mandatory tests for legality of law. Otherwise people have to constantly be on the lookout for sneaky laws that takes away the core values that may not be immediately apparent. Laws should be entirely written and modified only be legislature, and courts cannot be allowed to interpret it in any different way or apply it out of context or allowed to edit or delete laws, which is what legislative body is for.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Code is clay now"

rubberstamp — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:03:42 +0000

Did the delivery work functionally as expected? If yes, then they understood what they need to understand to do that work on code. You don't need to understand the whole codebase, just the parts relevant to the work at hand.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Lobbying is corruption"

rubberstamp — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:13:19 +0000

Not AI/LLM. A secure voting web app where verified voters can make proposals to create/amend/withdraw a law, vote on it and legislate without the middleman known as "representatives". The case for representatives have been that it is not practical for everyone to vote to make laws and that it only works in small scales. With internet and secure application, large scale voting and consensus is now feasible. Direct democracy better than indirect democracy. I like the swiss canton style direct democracy.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Lobbying is corruption"

rubberstamp — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:28:11 +0000

Gerrymandering is blatantly unethical. Its cherry picking their own votes for next election by including certain areas while excluding certain other areas to obtain maximum votes for themselves by redrawing constituency map.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Lobbying is corruption"

rubberstamp — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:21:28 +0000

Lobbying purely via transparent talks is ok. Lobbying that has any kind of quid pro quo that pays money or some alternative arrangement now or in future in exchange for the representatives backing a position is corruption.

Transparent talks is the key part. Without transparent talk how do you know if your representative is doing corruption behind your back? Representatives are elected in democracy to represent the interests of people of their constituency. Technically, since now technology has grown enough for each person to represent themselves, we really don't need representatives anymore in order to do democracy. We would still need some people to form government, which is different from representative in legislature.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Paul Buchheit on Lessons Learned from Investing in 200 Startups"

rubberstamp — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:26:33 +0000

Also those big projects might not have made billions for those who invented it, but it did enable many others make billions standing on shoulder of those giants. They created trillion dollar computing and associated software market.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down"

rubberstamp — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:10:50 +0000

gyrocopters are light weight and can takeoff and land in small patch of land.

New comment by rubberstamp in "MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award"

rubberstamp — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 02:47:46 +0000

A better name would've been TakeNoBullshit award. Because that is what which rots the world and Aaron tried to fight it to save others from being subjected to the same bullshit.

Like 2muchcoffeeman commented:

>>The award is clearly for people who are being disobedient for the benefit of society. Breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules is just anarchy or trolling. You're just inconveniencing people who set out to recognise real contributions to society.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13848430

New comment by rubberstamp in "Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?"

rubberstamp — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:03:45 +0000

Should I take acid to be able to write like you? Its so hilarious

New comment by rubberstamp in "Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants"

rubberstamp — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:47:42 +0000

Was he making as much as an American? Also did he get huge bonus for the excellent work he did?

New comment by rubberstamp in "Ultimate Linux on the Desktop"

rubberstamp — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 19:22:03 +0000

Try manjaro kde. It has pretty good auto detection and configuration for hardware. Looks like ubuntu messed up release 16 and it rears its ugly head on many ububtu based os. It feels so brittle. Debian based netrunner kde is also nice but I like manjaro better for its excellent ux.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Obama signs defence bill calling for space-based missile systems"

rubberstamp — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:20:26 +0000

Chemical weapon or not doesn't matter. US has committed plenty of war crimes and have killed millions, most of them not even an immediate or future threat to US.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Obama signs defence bill calling for space-based missile systems"

rubberstamp — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:04:02 +0000

Yemen and Somalia is effed into stone age by all the drone attacks which is only creating more of so called "terrorists" in a country 11000kms away. Which is terrorism? Killing many innocents on a daily basis by a country or people there trying to defend their country against external aggression? All those innocents being killed is plain wrong.

New comment by rubberstamp in "A practical introduction to functional programming (2013)"

rubberstamp — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 20:02:09 +0000

Thats great. My greatest petpeevee is having to keep in mind the language gotchas when all I want to do is get it done.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Julian Assange Confirms Internet Restored at Ecuadorian Embassy"

rubberstamp — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 19:51:56 +0000

Electoral votes = senators + congressmen. All votes from a state goes to winning candidate as it is winner takes all. So Trump won. Does popular vote mean all votes from US tallied together as a whole or is it winner takes all votes from that state and then tally each state? My argument was based on the understanding that its the later one.

New comment by rubberstamp in "Obama signs defence bill calling for space-based missile systems"

rubberstamp — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 19:37:48 +0000

It would have higher speeds and thus hard to intercept. This is going to lead to a new space weapons race, which is bad. US has no need for it as they have plenty of other good weapons anyway.