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This is actually a really weird mistake. It's a completely different spelling mistake than in reality, and I wonder if it's an artifact of polishing the post with AI that "corrected" something that was right (or only a vague bullet point) in the original?

(ETA: Another one: referring to "hi good morning" in the images of texts when it's actually "hi <name> good evening").


In the absence of force or fraud, those are the same, more or less.

With that "we need more money" bit, you may be thinking of Boeing/ULA/Northrop. SpaceX famously is the major launch provider that doesn't do that.

I would suppose the lower pricetag reflected that arrangement: they weren't the primary customer, but just riding along to get into orbit at all.

They mention spacex rideshare by name in the article but neglected to link to it: https://www.spacex.com/rideshare advertises really cheap delivery... the lowest price they brag about is "$350k for 50kg to SSO with additional mass at $7k/kg"

That's why those characters exist, but not why Windows uses both: Unix already used LF only, and the Apple II (and Mac, for a while) used only CR. The choice to use both was, as far as I know, Gary Kildall's, in CP/M, and various DOSes including MS-DOS inherited that decision without much examination.

While inconvenient and likely to reduce patrons, the article does describe how they can opt out: use the web to do any payment activity.

Conspiracy to commit a crime is typically not included in protected speech. Whether you think that's happening here will depend mostly on what side you take, I suspect.


18 U.S.C. § 372 - Conspiring to impede or interfere with a federal officer

Freedom of expression does not include freedom from prosecution for real crimes.


“ If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both”

Interesting. Donald Trump would be a criminal under this rule because Jan6.

Trump’s speech does not meet that standard. It lacked coordination, targeting, or intent to physically interfere. The Minnesota case is different because it includes coordinated dispatch, targeting of ICE activity, and sharing de-arrest material with the stated intent to impede operations. That coordination and intent is the legal difference.

You keep commenting to cite this statute when you clearly have not actually read what it says. Peaceful protest is explicitly protected by the first amendment.

The statute defines a crime that is distinguishable from peaceful protest/1A. You are free to interpret that however you like in relation to what is occurring.

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We are referring to peaceful protest and assembly, which are protected rights, not crimes. You can have a huge group chat or take out a huge billboard and announce your protest. There's no crime to discuss here.

You can refer to what you like, but we have seen the actions of protesters thus far on video.

Interesting that there would be people on a "side" that think there was a conspiracy to commit a crime. What crime?

Interference with a law enforcement investigation?

It's a crime.

What do you have against crime?

Nonviolent political action is often criminalized.


18 U.S.C. § 372 - Conspiring to impede or interfere with a federal officer

This refers to physical impediments. Spreading legal information is not an impediment, it is free speech. If all info could be interpreted as impediments to federal officers then phones, the internet, the human voice, etc would be illegal

> This refers to physical impediments. Spreading legal information is not an impediment, it is free speech.

Yes, but physical impediments are physical impediments. The protesters have been repeatedly seen to impede, or attempt to impede, ICE physically.


No, they are organizing legally, of course there will be bad actors, but blocking an agent out of bad faith is certainly less of a crime than a bad faith ICE agent killing someone for their assumptions

In this case conspiracy is using communication to coordinate illegal impediment.

Communicating to protest in a legal way is a civil right

In the fascist's mind, anything that isn't supporting Dear Leader's vision of "greatness" is a crime.

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We already know that "doxxing" on its own is not a crime, and moreover that [non-undercover] federal agents are not entitled to keep their identities secret.

We also know that legal observation and making noise does not constitute interference.

So those may be their stated reasons, but they will not hold up in court.


Well, those are examples of revolutions against entities which were definitely not dictatorships. The British parliament stopped fighting the Americans over the objection of the King.

> > The massive Somali fraud had no evidence

> It's weird, then, that most of them (and it's, like, 60 Somalis out of 80k) were already on trial[0] a good month before ..

Those trials are for a completely separate fraud!

In spite of some overlap between the supposed food distribution sites for Feeding Our Future and the recent childcare center fraud, they're actually not the same fraud, uh, "event".


> the recent childcare center fraud

"As of December 2025, subsequent investigations by state officials have not found evidence of fraud at the sites Shirley visited."

There is no fraud there which means the only -actual- fraud people can be complaining about re: Somalis in Minnesota must be the Feeding Our Future one.

Unless they're not complaining about that and are just making stuff up, obvs.


Machinery, computers, and the internet do more than hundreds of slaves/servants worth of work (how many musicians and actors would have to be at your call to replicate YouTube, which is free?). A poor person in Europe can still travel all over the Eurozone by train, etc. In the first world, we pivoted to "food insecurity" instead of "hunger", but the most common signifier of being food insecure is obesity: more food and alcohol than a person should want, at least. The only one that is a definite downgrade among those you list is the lack of owned houses and/or land.


> A poor person in Europe can still travel all over the Eurozone

I picked a rich person in the Americas with hundreds of slaves, many houses, considerable land, a thriving business delivering returns, political connections, and frequently holiday on another continent.

This is well above the standard of living of a poor person in contemporary America.


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