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coward76··on Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root
This Republician idea gets floated enough without the BBC article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/the-splinternet-an-internet-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-apps-pompeo-bre...

Or did want an older Democrat proposal:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/opinion/firewall-law-coul...

http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct....

The idea of walling the internet is quite old.

coward76··on Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root
The US wouldn't worry, and would make their own internet with hookers, blackjack, zero privacy, taxes, inane regulations and pork, but it would be US controlled. This is how Americans work.

Edit: Downvote if you must but it is the mindset of many:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53686390

coward76··on Child's burial 78k years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone
We should stop digging up graves.
coward76··on Smithy: A language for defining services and SDKs
"The primary difference between Smithy and OpenAPI is that Smithy is protocol-agnostic, allowing Smithy to describe a broader range of services, metadata, and capabilities. Smithy can be used alongside OpenAPI by converting Smithy models to OpenAPI."
coward76··on China emissions exceed all developed nations combined
We could build some blueprint legislation for states that has country of origin and stick it on a website. After that we could rally our state legislature to use our blueprint. It would be easier to go that route than federally. Look at what California does with emissions standards and cancer causing items. States have power.
coward76··on China emissions exceed all developed nations combined
If you don't like it, stop buying manufactured goods there. Supply stops when demand drys up.
coward76··on Honeywell gets hit with $13M fine for defense export violations
Manufacturering defense items overseas is a mistake for a xenophobic nation.

Defense spending is largely a waste of money.

coward76··on I made a $2M funeral startup and became a monster
Funeral industry needs an intervention, the way some states fight against pay day loan predators. These are people at their most vulnerable and are being taken for a ride.
coward76··on U.S. adds just 266,000 jobs in April, far below expectations
No more tipping. Make companies charge a fair price for their food, and pay a fair wage.
coward76··on I Got My First Job Had a Lot to Do with Hidden Option Shared with Daughter
I will hire ignorant, I will not hire liars.
coward76··on The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional
States are free to enact laws and companies are free not to do business in those states. States might prevent realtors from discrimination when showing homes, it is within their role as government.

Big tech could exclude Florida if they choose.

coward76··on White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
Make individual consumer grid energy taxpayer provided and pay the cost to optimize cost down and make long term investments to provide renewable energy. Do the same with internet and water and target wasteful bitcoin miners with asset liquidation.
coward76··on Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment
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coward76··on Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now
Yes and they will. Big tech and the DNC are tightly coupled. If he doesn't like it he can build his own data centers, but they can still refuse to serve him at the DDOS protection tools, the DNS servers and even the browser. Edge, Chrome and Firefox are all run by DNC cohorts. If they really wanted to unperson him nothing would stop it.
coward76··on A false facial recognition match sent this innocent Black man to jail
No. A judge and the police sent a man to jail. The match software is a tool and the process needs humans to be more careful about trusting it with grainy photos.
coward76··on Sail-pro – Simulation and modelling environment for virtual sailing
PC Building simulator made me want a game like this.
coward76··on Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.
Can someone tell me how this is different than something like webpack?
coward76··on Stephen Fry Would Like to Remind You That You Have No Free Will
He didn't have any choice in the matter.
coward76··on Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology
I have revised my vision to remove the ineffective cloud and it now includes a cruise ship fiberglass "kitcar" shell instead.
coward76··on Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology
I imagine a future with smugglers and pirates which only move during the day and generate enough smoke and water vapor during scheduled flyover to hide their journey
coward76··on Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
Is your son or daughter safe from the Russian menace "Tetris"? Some common symptoms include them attempting to organize their room into well fitting shapes such as neatly fitting boxes.

True Hackers use Compuserve or Prodigy.

coward76··on U.S. population growth is slowing down. Here's why that's a bad thing
Telling people not to have children and then importing people has always been the agenda.
coward76··on First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States
Burmese python and Kudzu, what could go wrong. We don't exactly have a good track record on this kind of thing.
coward76··on Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
Would you rather buy a Banksy NFT Or JPG of a Banksy they are the same image at a fraction of the cost?
coward76··on Women's Pockets Are Inferior (2018)
If they made fully functional pockets for women's clothing would they be purchased? I have found several pockets sewn shut and people act like it isn't a big deal.
coward76··on Elevator Sabbath service mode (SHO)
Maybe facial detection post covid masking would allow the elevators to smartly drop off passengers but this whole concept of having automatic processes violates the rule of making "strangers within your gates from working".
coward76··on Federal court says Florida city can take man's house for tall grass fines
People don't bat an eye at property taxes taking people's homes, why would grass be different.
coward76··on Florida bill to fine social media for banning politicians
Social media could just geofence Flordia, or abide by local laws.
coward76··on Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?
Sequence diagrams, state transition diagrams, and network diagrams provide the most value to the development teams I have been working with.
coward76··on You might as well timestamp it
Some of us have an audit log that tells when a record has changed. Others just use event sourcing.
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