Comment by ryandvm
8 hours ago
Ugh. It hurts my brain to think about the Venn diagram of privacy advocates and YC sycophants that hang out on Hacker News.
8 hours ago
Ugh. It hurts my brain to think about the Venn diagram of privacy advocates and YC sycophants that hang out on Hacker News.
Money is a nice balm for cognitive dissonance.
Human rights are really important to us!*
*As long as it doesn't prevent us from getting rich.
YCombinator and HN would run a "Slit your mommas throat as a service" if they though there were hockey stick growth profit.
Flock, and anybody who funds them are the real domestic terrorists. Anybody who destroys these devices are patriots in my book.
And if I ever serve for jury duty over a case like that, they didn't do it.
> YCombinator and HN would run a "Slit your mommas throat as a service" if they though there were hockey stick growth profit.
While saying they're making the world a better place in the process. At least Wall Street sharks tend to be honest about their motivations and lack of giving a shit about you.
> And if I ever serve for jury duty over a case like that, they didn't do it.
Now you're bending facts. You can decide they are not guilty of a crime, but you can't make them have not done it.
And you're just being a pedant, aiming for the worst kind of correct.
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He’s referencing jury nullification.
Juries actually can “make them have not done it”, although that’s been used for good and ill purposes.
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If you really want to nitpick, juries are what settle questions of facts.
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