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awayfromhomenow··on President Trump says that he’s waiving interest on federal student loans
or maybe it's meant to actually help the students, and it's something that he can do without the opposing party conducting lawfare and stopping it? I don't know, I always look at the simplest motivation for actions first.
awayfromhomenow··on President Trump says that he’s waiving interest on federal student loans
there was a case where the USSC ruled that growing food on your own land for your own consumption was interstate commerce, and forced the farmer to stop. Never underestimate the ability of political justices to contort the Constitution.
awayfromhomenow··on A single character code change
no need to re-architect the program at that point, since heap pressure was reduced.

The big takeaway for me here is to learn how your target language allocates memory for new objects.

awayfromhomenow··on ABCL – Common Lisp on the JVM
Don't do it, you'll hate every other language after that (I do).
awayfromhomenow··on Twitter to ban political advertising
No, but I sure bet Twitter wants to have the Safe Harbor protections. By deciding (editing) what is posted on the site, they would seem to forfeit the protections.
awayfromhomenow··on Twitter to ban political advertising
Slippery slope arguments take into consideration the very human capacity to become accustomed to a certain boundary, and then seek to push beyond that boundary. For good or ill, look at the progression of rights leading to the current transgender/feminist argument over what constitutes a woman. 50 years ago that would not have even been a discussion.

You would be hard-pressed to ever see a government give ground where once they have asserted authority. Only encroaching further into our rights.

awayfromhomenow··on China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
I would say that it's not the system that is prone to corruption - it is people in general.
awayfromhomenow··on Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts
not all of Amazons books contain DRM. There's a big movement (mostly authors of Baean Books, afaik) that ask that the books be published DRM-free.
awayfromhomenow··on Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
Pretty scary thought, but progress being what it is, I don't see anything blocking it. I'm sure they already decline to do business with anyone that is vocally critical of China, or for example, highly complementary of the Dali Lama.