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ALittleLight
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ALittleLight
8y ago
The explanation I've heard is that he had servers in the US, he paid people in the US, he made money from customers in the US by breaking the law in the US and therefore the US government position is that he is a criminal in the US and
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ALittleLight
8y ago
For context, also from Wikipedia >For 2012, the US Department of Justice reported a 93% conviction rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate I agree the high rate is troubling. We'd need to find a goo
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ALittleLight
8y ago
What if a significant portion of your friends were on the same server? Wouldn't you not have an easy connection to them?
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ALittleLight
8y ago
I believe the term "tiger mother" was popularised by Amy Chua's book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" which is a great read for people interested in parenting. It's been a few years since I've read the bo
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ALittleLight
8y ago
A confounding factor with real prisons is that (hopefully) most of the prisoners have antisocial tendencies which led to their incarceration and the prisoners and guards are under credible threat of violence from both parties. In other word
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ALittleLight
8y ago
I once had a job where we had six months to train employees in the "India development center" how to do our current work and then we were supposed to find new jobs. Due to timezones every question took a minimum of a day to answer
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8y ago
If you think it's 30% likely to work and 99.9% likely safe, you're in the case where you believe it's safe and you don't believe it will be effective (different from believing it will not be effective). I'd suggest
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8y ago
Would you need to believe it's effective, or just safe? I think as long as you have justifiable high confidence in safety then you should take a shot even if it may not be perfectly effective, or might fail entirely.