gammateam (u/gammateam)

gammateam commented on Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica Regarding Amazon governor.ny.gov/news/open... · Posted by u/agreen

gammateam · 7 years ago

> The union that opposed the project gained nothing and cost other union members 11,000 good, high-paying jobs.

I want to see this feature film so people stop wasting their time with them

gammateam commented on New ‘past’ link on HN front page news.ycombinator.com/fron... · Posted by u/Y_Y

dang · 7 years ago

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We eventually ban accounts that keep doing this, and have had to ask you before.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19230951 and marked it off-topic.

gammateam · 7 years ago

Yeaaaaah but it was on topic, in a chain of threads making fun how unsubstantive people’s skepticism was back in 2010

Your team tells me that upvotes/downvotes are noisy, but once you have downvotes it is unsubstantive and the account is rate limited

Pick

Your team also never explains how you mods interpret a guideline or substantiation, just unilaterally say it violates and pray for classical conditioning as if you want community standards to be decided by the community

If you are judging this primarily by flags and downvotes, you arent noticing that a lot of the collective conscious is just incorrect. It isnt as open to ideas as you might think

gammateam commented on U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru

rplst8 · 7 years ago

Isn't the difference here that Federal courts can't create law, only rule on constitutional matters. Common law (state and local courts) can create "laws".

There are some exceptions to this where federal laws have likely overreached the framers intentions, and then federal courts had to rule on a matter pertaining to that law.

gammateam · 7 years ago

The federal courts can create law solely because overruling them is nigh impossible. The Supreme Court exists to rule on constitutional matters, but it is merely the final arbiter and uses that to its advantage based on case law they made for themselves.

Overruling the Supreme Court requires a constitutional amendment and this won't happen, and the court rarely does something untenable or an impossible outcome for a functioning society as it wants compliance. It tries to match a partial collective conscious understanding of a topic.

When it does act as fill-in legislature, Congress/Legislatures are capable of simply changing the law it ruled on, such as repealing the legal framework supporting enforcement agency.

The courts can also overrule itself in a future court case.

(The Supreme Court exists by the constitution, the other federal courts are created by congress and have a path to the supreme court.)

gammateam commented on Microsoft Staff: Do Not Use HoloLens for War bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/sambeau

mjfl · 7 years ago

let's add some critical thinking: why not use it for war? Would it be better for the world if the US military was less well equipped relative to Al-Qaeda, Russia? I sure don't think so. I think it's best that any fight our military gets into is as asymmetric as possible, and in general the more asymmetry, the less people will die.

I'd further like to emphasize that the idea that the inequality in strength between our military and various 3rd world warlords is a form of injustice is absurd and childlike and anyone who thinks this way deserves to have their opinions discounted like children.

gammateam · 7 years ago

I’d say your paranoia and justification for any tool to be used for a potential unknown threat deserves to get discounted like a child’s

Yes it would be better for the world if the US took a more collaborative approach with other regional powers that it disagrees with

gammateam commented on China’s surveillance state has created at least four billionaires bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/metaphysics

caithrin · 7 years ago

Writing this from China- it’s hard to really understand how little the Chinese seem to care about any of this. The systems that so obsess western writers seem to have absolutely no effect on Chinese society, and the majority of these new systems seem to be replacing similar but more intrusive systems of human-to-human checks. The concerns are warranted, but the interest approaches zero in the culture here.

gammateam · 7 years ago

Writing this from the West, pointing this out is a great way to lose friends

Different kind of firewall

gammateam commented on 12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018) fusor.net/board/viewtopic... · Posted by u/richardhod

wizardofmysore · 7 years ago

When did HN become Reddit?

gammateam · 7 years ago

A long long time ago, check out the new ‘more’ button

gammateam commented on 12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018) fusor.net/board/viewtopic... · Posted by u/richardhod

eli · 7 years ago

This sort of sexist joke about traditional gender roles is mildly offensive in 2019 and, in any event, not very funny or interesting

gammateam · 7 years ago

And also a non-negligible probability that people have a shared experience of and may want to objectively consider avoiding it?