Hillary would've been an excellent president, and I say that with utter sincerity.
> My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.
– Hillary Clinton
That's the kind of person I want in the Oval Office.
Yeah right now the "clearly superior candidate" is (checking notes) crashing the global economy with a holy war against Iran to distract from his criminal conspiracy to hide his complicity in sex trafficking and abuse, posting AI images of himself as Jesus to spite the Pope, sending armed thugs into blue states to harass people and shoot them dead in the street, destroyed America's research and science infrastructure, his cabinet is full of conspiracy theorists, nazis and fascists, he's deranged, senile, definitely bought by Russia... and has in the space of a few months utterly ruined America's reputation and credibility throughout the world.
And yet people still insist Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were "the worst candidates ever," and that there was simply no choice. They want to turn all of the chaos and stupidity of the current administration into some kind of referendum on how bad the other side is, and they'll even claim that there would be absolutely no difference regardless of who was in charge. Yet even if that were the case, somehow, Trump is still better. For reasons I guess. Other than not being a woman.
Trump literally made a meme of himself lounging at the resort he planned to build on the ruins of Gaza but we couldn't vote for Kamala because she was the Zionist.
oh this hits all the right notes for me! I am just the demographic that tried to perl my way into the earliest web server builds, and read those exact words carefully while looking at the very mixed quality, cryptic ascii line noise that is everyday perl. And as someone who had built multi-thousand line C++ systems already, the "virtues" by Larry Wall seemed spot on! and now to combine the hindsight with current LLM snotty Lord Fauntleroy action coming from San Francisco.. perfect!
this kind of headline might have some scholarly name, because, no... actually the number of cameras and feeds in the San Francisco Bay Area is multiplying rapidly, along with the entirety of California with few exceptions.. long ago, San Diego county, a military-led area, was the exception and to many pariah on the constant increase in tracking of vehicles, people and "events".. now, what used to be thought of as harsh and creepy, is not only matched in hardware, but exceeded in backend capacity, across almost every populated area
don't you understand that this means a data trail to your location and government ID ? connecting to your ability to pay a legal fine? You are consenting to that ?
perhaps, but civil law is a negotiated contract including rights of all involved. If a tech conglomerate invents new applications, are they now exempt from civil law?
The era of the Nation State began when courts did have real means to enforce against powerful rogues. The suggestion that simply applying a new weaponized technology overrides the legal context is regressive.
The time you'd need to compare products also has value. Saving that time by buying a trusted brand is not inefficiency. You'd be poorer if you actually went out of your way comparing thousands of products.
If your model of an ideal market suggests that the realistic and practical approach is inefficient, i.e. your model fails when confronted by reality, your model is horseshit.
Also brand recognition and trust has real value because clearly people are willing to pay for it. Value isn't something intrinsic in an object. Value derives from what people are willing to pay. If people pay more for a rock with an Apple logo on it, then the rock with the Apple logo is more valuable. It's a quality other rocks don't have.
And what does "non-economic reasons" even mean? Should we all only drink tap water because it's cheaper and keeps us alive just as well? Or are we allowed to have some pleasure in life as well?
The time you need to find out competitor pricing (quote) is also inefficiency. Ideally (unachievable of course) all the options and prices (and fair comparison based on product utility only) is immediately available for any customer upon demand, with zero time spent on research.
Irrational behavior is when customers choose a product not for its utility divided by price (but note that pleasure is a type of utility).
Now, exactly how to calculate aforementioned utility is a big pandora box, the whole schools of economists grew up on that question.
> American institutions were set-up prima facie to be racially-motivated
the history of the United States is a collection of States and territories, forming under very different legal conditions over 100+ years or so.. that blanket statement is without context or detail aka insufficient.
ok - then most 9th graders would know that slavery was explicitly illegal in many US States from the day before they were founded.. Race-based slavery is not at all unique to the USA. Only people who do not know history think otherwise.. So this commentor a)does not know 9th grade level US history, and b) does not know high school level world history.
yes agree - education is an exercise for the reader.. you have to actually read something to learn from books.
You had a week to deliberate and digest this thread, and your retort shows you do not know what prima facie is.
And yes, slavery is not an American invention. But this topic is about American culture in regards to police and how they harass people (with a bias towards minorities) in "legal ways".
Again, hard to cover all the subtleties in HN. Research Jim Crow laws as a starting point for research.
the exact words used by Hillary for President people, with utter sincerity !
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