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Re:Justin Amash announces introducing the “Ending Qualified Immunity Act”
on Monday June 01, 2020 @01:51PM (#23381441)
They are not the source, per se, but they are the deciding entity as to what moves in the process. Legislation cannot move without leadership, which includes committee chairs, majority leader, floor leader, whip, etc. Under a very technical way a discharge petition could be brought to force it out of committee, but ..that's extremely rare[0].
[0.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_petition#Uses_since_...
Re:San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn
on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:57PM (#23380680)
The German housing laws are protective with rent spikes.
Re:News Outlets Are Liable for Others’ Facebook Comments, Australian C...
on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:56PM (#23380668)
Does the solution to turn off commenting negatively impact sharing news stories? Maybe another way: What is the business rational to allow commenting on news stories?
Re:Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:55PM (#23380661)
That appears to not exist anymore and replaced by a person's feeelings as more important than your right to speech.
Re:Ask HN: How much of pay cut would you take for a more fulfilling job?
on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:33PM (#23380395)
This is to assume you have the pay to cut!
Re:Ask HN: Why you do what you do?
on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:32PM (#23380386)
I am a technical writer and I am physically disabled. At my point in life I work to survive. Technology is my single source of income potential.
Re:Apple Doubles the Price of RAM Upgrade on Entry-Level 13-Inch MacBo...
on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:31PM (#23380366)
Apple's Sales Distortion Field. offer a must-have device without something it clearly should have, only to unveil that feature later as a new Apple perfection. It goes all the way back to copy and paste on the iPhone.
Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive
on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:28PM (#23380319)
What do you think will drive the market towards that? In my city our bookstores are closing. Many individuals use tablet electronic-readers. Will it be the electronic books, or the demise of bookstores that drives a publishing industry revolution?
Re:New executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t about Tw...
on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:24PM (#23354409)
I think this is the most pressing point of the entire article: "As long as Facebook and other social-media platforms make money by increasing engagement without much regard to the content they algorithmically amplify, it doesn’t matter whether every last employee is an avowed liberal."
Re:TikTok blocked the blacklivesmatter tag and every tag related to Ge...
on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:22PM (#23354386)
It appears to just be a system error and not anything of actual malice.
Re:Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:21PM (#23354380)
Thanks for checking in, but it still is contrary to what the House of Representatives founds. Your truth that there was collusion is met with other truths that there were not. Is it twitter's role to decide who is right?
Re:Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus cl...
on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:21PM (#23354374)
Maybe international students have begun to replace donations from alumni, so the university sees its alumni as more of a product than a relationship
Re:Why we have so many problems with our teeth
on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:20PM (#23354370)
Sugar!