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Josh Blackman
Personal blog · joshblackman.com/blogpoliticsculture
Josh Blackman's personal blog at joshblackman.com covers politics and culture. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Josh Blackman's posts on free speech law and tech policy, including a 2013 post on early smartphones and a post on rent control in San Francisco. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
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Works/Blog site for lawyer Josh Blackman
What Hacker News says?
For the purposes of American law, "speech" is defined very broadly. It can apply to burning an American flag[0], plans for 3-D printed guns[1], and even bombmaking instructions[2]. Our Supreme Court has decided that corporations spending money[3], even in politics[4], is speech as well. The O'Brien test[5] is generally used to tell whether a law encroaches on 1A rights. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Jo…
Comment linking /blog/2018/07/10/doj-second-amendment-foundation-reach-settlement-in-defense-distributed-lawsuit/
on “We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them”Submitted The Next Evolution of SCOTUS Predictions as a story · 28 points
HN discussionAs a native, but former Memphian, while I've always thought that they get plenty of things right, it's hard to compare it to San Francisco. For one, there's the freedom to sprawl, while San Francisco proper is constrained to a much smaller geographic space. That alone skews a lot of the comparisons. I was reading this today, and it struck a chord especially after yesterday's "rent in SF" article, and while I feel th…
Comment linking /blog/2015/03/15/the-economist-houston-is-not-pretty-but-it-thrives/
on “Rent Control Creates Higher Rents in SF”Submitted Without Scalia, Legislative History Cited Without Dissent as a story · 4 points
HN discussionRemember what "smartphones" looked like before the iPhone: http://joshblackman.com/blog/2013/03/14/i-had-a-smartphone-i... Also, I think you're underestimating how heavily machine learning plays into the services that you use every day (e.g.: spam filters, web search, movie recommendations, autocorrect on your phone,...). The best AI services are the ones that you don't even think about using.
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/14/i-had-a-smartphone-in-2005/
on “Avoiding BlackBerry’s fate”Submitted The Value of Unpaid Internships as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Glitch: Red Light Camera Photos Signed/“Verified” by Dead Officer as a story · 1 points
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