2020, US printed $4 trillion dollars, 20% of all the currency it had ever printed. Then gave it to the richest and the greedy through PPP loans, and they stuffed that into the market. More $1t companies is logical.
This isn't too dissimilar from when Spain plundered the new world for gold and silver. Which then inflated their local markets as there were only so many real goods to be bought, otherwise they paid off debt, and came out of that poorer and didn't have money to build ships. They were strong on paper until England challenged them.
US was strong on paper until it went after Iran. US is having it's Spain moment right now.
"The Supreme Court held in Carpenter v. United States that the government may not track the whole of a person's movements without a warrant. This system tracks the whole of everyone's movements, every day, and no warrant is ever asked. "
~94,000 Cameras in the national Flock network that Southold officers had access to, never disclosed to the Town Board
0 Opt-in or opt-out decisions the Town made about any of this sharing, in its own words
We take users' privacy seriously and have had a consistent policy for years. If anyone is worried about personally identifying information, we're always happy to redact the PII and reassign comments/posts to an anonymous account. The only thing we don't do is wholesale wipe someone's entire history from HN, because it guts the threads and ruins them for everyone else who participated and who might find them interesting to read in the future.
> If anyone is worried about personally identifying information, we're always happy to redact the PII and reassign comments/posts to an anonymous account
This is the identical line dang fed me, and what he did is useless. It changes nothing.
Stop saying you’ll go out of your way to help users when you clearly won’t. Changing my username on all my old comments to some other username is not enough.
It’s trivial to figure out who I am, and then have all my comments attributed to me.
You should aim to actually do better, not just say that what you do now is good enough when it clearly isn’t.
We go to great effort to find the right balance between a user's need for privacy and the community/public benefit in keeping threads intact and coherent (moving every one of a user's comments to a different username makes the threads incoherent).
On a case-by-case basis we can move a selection of comments to a separate username. We of course don't want anyone to be in danger.
> It seems like you’re more concerned about keeping threads from years ago coherent than you are about my wishes and safety.
This is obviously not true. We care about thread persistence and coherence as a default, because some of HN's most historically significant threads are from the earliest years. We will take reasonable steps to protect people's identity and safety once we know the specifics of the situation. We routinely redact URLs, company names, project names and other identifying details from historical comments to prevent people's identity from being inferred.
Please stop attributing false quotes and sentiments to us. The approach we take is necessarily tailored to each case, because each case is different. We spend far more time, effort and care to address these requests than it would take to simply do what you've asked of us, and simply doing what you've asked of us would not address the concern you've expressed. Your case is unusual. We continue to be willing to help. A cooperative rather than belligerent approach will make it easier for everyone to get the best outcome.
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