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phiskkon Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No

The state could just arrest the federal agents for breaking state law, and throw them in with the drug dealers and stall the fed's efforts to spring them with maximal paperwork.

Let the 'system' sort them out and see how keen they are.

phiskkon We Can’t Stem the Tide of Language Death

For most people language is just a tool, and, given a choice, nobody in their right mind uses a soon-to-be-defunct, second rate tool.

People aren't going to compromise their lives to maintain someone else's cultural zoo.

phiskkon A.I. ‘Bias’ Doesn’t Mean What Journalists Say It Means

If "these truths, while statistically correct, may fail our test for what we consider to be philosophically fair" then perhaps it is your philosophy of 'fairness' that is biased and incorrect.

phiskkon Tech companies declare war on hate speech and conservatives are worried

Incorrect argument.

You can easily debate whether France should be taking military action against ISIS without claiming that ISIS is right.

This is like saying that because France has laws against gender discrimination, so you could not advocate oppressing women as a show of support for Saudi Arabia, it is now impossible to argue against going to war with the Saudis.

What the law does do is make it harder to instigate more terror attacks within France.

phiskkon Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC

This isn't unnecessary drama on Rod's part. He is standing in the line of fire to shield the rest of his community from a McCarthyesque witchhunt conducted by SJWs, who are the real source of the drama.

phiskkon Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC

Perhaps you should be telling this to those who launched a witchhunt against Rod because he undermined their oppression tool. They certainly didn't try to "call those you are having problems with and talk about it."

phiskkon Rod Vagg's statement on the request to be removed from the Node.js CTC

When people have already mounted an attack, a polite defense seems a very reasonable response.

phiskkon Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court

For an admittedly artificial example of positive vs negative rights.

If you consider, say, a person living in the middle of a desert.

A right to privacy amounts to just being left alone, and enforcing that would only be required if another party were actively violating that right. <- It's easy to argue for this.

A right to water, on the other hand, might require that some other party be forced to provide water to this person in the desert. <- Here many people might quite reasonably argue; why should others put themselves out to facilitate this persons life choices.