> find a way to make anything like the average income of any of us on HN
replya) This is not about trying to protect the incomes of people working in Big Tech
b) In his talk Doctorow gives examples of business opportunities that are actually being repressed by the laws against reverse engineering
For a very brief window of time, USA did a little bit more good than bad.
replyThose of us wanting to believe USA was more better than not have struggled to recalibate our beliefs.
> We sorta fumbled things after we, to put it bluntly, nuked the Japanese twice
replyWhat?
I believe OP is saying that the US has not been reliably sane in its public policy since ending WW II via nuclear warfare.
replyI don't know if I agree with the claim overall, but I certainly think nuking civilian populations was an execrable choice (even if the official targets were technically military ones).