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Re:“But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments... by hef19898 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:42AM (#36306417)
Heroin, as in heroin derivates, are not illegal. That's what a lot of hard, medical painkillers are.

Same goes for weapons in some of the countries with the most restrictions on gun sales and ownership, it is still perfectly legal to sell military grade weapons to the military in those countries.

Funny, how HN seems to qctively failing to understand how regulations and compliance works as soon as they themselves, or one of theirs, is negatively affected by them...

Re:“But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments... by scott_w on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:45AM (#36306930)
It seems a common "debating" tactic to spend inordinate amounts of effort questioning the analogy and seemingly pretending to not understand what an analogy is.
Re:“But the SEC let us go public” and other flawed arguments... by shapefrog on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:29AM (#36307703)
It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is