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alt227last Tuesday at 11:55 AM1 replyview on HN

>speed limit signs that said “hey, don’t go too fast”

Yeah we already have that. We have the words 'SLOW' on the road that ask you to slow down from the current limit for the hazard ahead, but pulling you up on this is officers discretion.


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brookstlast Tuesday at 1:54 PM

Bad example, as there is a posted speed limit above which you are positively breaking the law. Discretion may lower the limit.

The DMA doesn’t have the objective measures. It’s all discretion, all subjective, all post hoc.

Which, cool, some people like the idea that police target those people and need flexibility to make life harder for undesirables in ways they would never do to high status people. I don’t personally like that, and I don’t think tech regulation should work that way.