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ermacazon Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

it would be nice to see the japanese definition of the word in addition to the english definition in the hover modal

ermacazon Home Prices Are Now Higher Than the Peak of the 2000s Housing Bubble

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ermacazon Biden approves $735M weapons sale to Israel

That was quite a ramble Mr. Bananas

ermacazon Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign

This gets messy when people disagree with what a 'political cause' is

ermacazon Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign

The amount you can donate to a political campaign is already limited at $2700.

Your right, spending money isn't speech. However, preventing someone from buying an advertisement to display a message and they are denied because its deemed 'political' is definitely limiting someones free speech. It doesn't matter if the message is 'America Rocks', 'Shop at this new store here', or 'John McCain sucks please stop voting for him'; if your gonna limit some but not others because the message is deemed political then you no longer have free speech.

ermacazon Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign

And he also is against free speech, perhaps they should run together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSV6iqxL2s0

ermacazon Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign

Because regulating speech could never end badly...

ermacazon Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign

Imagine thinking a person shouldn't be able to rent billboard space for a month and say their congressman sucks because thats not covered under free speech

ermacazon Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign

Its hard to poll above 0% when your only issue is being against freedom of speech