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You're confusing a single wiretap warrant that was a small part of a large investigation with the investigation itself.

> Groups of people don't have guilt or automatic responsibility, only individuals do.

This is not exactly correct. Governments are composed of groups of people and governments maintain continuity of responsibility even when all the people in that government are different. Black Americans were discriminated against as a matter of state and federal policy and thus both state and federal government is at fault for the treatment of Black American. There is clear precedent in American law that in such cases, harmed individuals and groups are due financial compensation. Precedent for financial compensation due to government abuse of power is an incredibly old precedent and the only reason Black Americans haven't been compensated for the discrimination they've suffered is because the continuation of racism, the tradition of discrimination and the sheer size of the problem have turned what should be a fairly straightforward legal case into a complicated political question.

> Black Americans were quite clearly discriminated against as a group.

This is clearly true, but it also reduces the impact of what really happened. Black Americans were discriminated against on an individual level. Ruby Bridges is still alive for goodness sake! She's only 68 years old. It isn't hard to estimate financial damages due to the Jim Crow era and it's extremely easy to figure out who was harmed due to explicit government policy.

I've done many database migrations from db2 to MySQL. It's a thing that happens quite a lot. ORMs and Java's usage of database access layers over the underlying sql drivers vastly simplified the process.

If misleading statements was the problem, then people would be a lot angrier about the blatant lies and propaganda large oil companies pushed for decades.

Dishonesty is the problem, but not in the way you suggest.

Except the whole pregnancy scenario is incredibly common example of a social faux pas.

I was lead on migrating several systems from traditional deployment to a cloud provider for a major company. Part of the migration was switching a microsoft DB to MySQL. The java ecosystem and ORMs makes this so easy it's barely worth talking about. And that wasn't the only time db migrations have some up.

Not sure if that's enough to justify ORMs, but DB migration is a real use case and there are things you can do ahead of time to greatly simplify the process.

According to the article, the desired outcome of the election was a free and fair election. Not a particularly terrifying conspiracy.

I'm concerned that you've selectively ignored parts of my comment and have read meaning out of it that I did not put into it.

>do you have any justification for why obsessing over alienation is bad?

Obsessing over alienation is bad for Marxists (and good for capitalists). As I said, Marxists are not being serious (maybe credible is a better word here) when using alienation to critique capitalism. Of the economic systems in discussion, capitalism has the least alienation. Marxist solutions are either pure fantasy, or have been tried and lead to worse outcomes and other socio-economic systems sfrom history are also worse than capitalism. In other words, Marxist concerns with alienation are hypocritical.

>do you think workers would be better off if they were not alienated?

Again, I'm discussing the Marxist use of alienation and how they undercut themselves when discussing it.

> Would you say it's a good or bad thing that all of an employee's work product (during and outside of office hours) belongs to the company (assuming you accept my premise that this is enforced)?

Nothing in my comment can be taken as arguing one way or another on this topic. However, given that you've decided to focus on the goodness/badness of alienation, it sounds like it's important to you. How do you feel about alienation?

Most of the public discourse on the current problems of capitalism is not serious. Many folks aren't actually comparing capitalism to an alternative, instead they're comparing their current situation to a mythical alternative reality. The is exacerbated by the fact that Marx himself and other communist/socialist authors make similar mistakes. The whole marxist obsession with "alienation" is a perfect example. They are largely delusional about the plight of the working class in non-capitalist systems.

Workers in socialist systems are inundated in propaganda in ways that would make the most ardent Fox News producer blush. They don't experience alienation between their work and their non-work life, they experience alienation between the life in their head and life in the physical world. Similarly, workers in a feudal system also experience fear and domination at the hands of a system that vests in them little power or autonomy.

First, the same problem applies to service names like "Galactus" or "Buttforce". Second, a descriptive name is not the same thing as a service description. A descriptive name or label is as much a mnemonic device as is is a name. They're intended to be easier to remember, not to replace proper documentation. Third, just from the names it looks like Text Service is the front end for an ecosystem of texting related services, reach of which is implemented using a different technology. Though twilio and telephony look like especially bad names for services behind a texting service.

After the 10th sms service I'd be curious to know why people have done the same thing ten times. If there is a real difference in functionality between those ten services, I suppose the next question is why don't their names reflect that?

One of the useful things about descriptive names is that it can help you detect duplicate work.

Amazon's contract says something similar. A court case might be difficult to win if your project is very close to your work projects, but other than that, a company generally has to prove that you used company resources in some way for your project in order to claim ownership.