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by Lazare 7y ago
This dispute has been going on a long time. Recall, the backstory is that Chevron claimed that Donziger tried to shake them down with a corruptly obtained judgement. They won a judgement against Donziger, but Donziger claims he has no mone
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by Lazare 7y ago
No. Donziger won a lawsuit in Ecuador. There is some evidence that the win was the result, in part, of bribery and fraud, but that's a matter for the Ecuadorian courts, and they're apparently fine with it. So he's not in trou
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by Lazare 7y ago
Interesting that there's no mention of the documentary "Crude" at all. For those unfamiliar, it was a (very pro-Donziger ) documentary that seemed to suggest Donziger was crossing some ethical boundaries. Chevron sued to obta
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by Lazare 7y ago
This isn't about scale, it's about location. Ecuador is a LOT more powerful than you are, but assuming you are not currently in Ecuador and don't have any bank accounts in Ecuador, how do you think they could seize any of y
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Also make sure the people who hire you actually own the system being tested. There's an ongoing political dispute in Iowa over the extent to which the court system controls court buildings. The courts maintain they have full cont
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by Lazare 7y ago
It's the term he used for the subjects he claimed to have recruited (or for himself, in one case) who pretended to have symptoms to get admitted. It's to make the point that he didn't recruit actual patients for the study,
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by Lazare 7y ago
> But the claimed response of the hospitals also sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Keep in mind, a major part of his paper was about how the pseudo-patients were admitted after describing extremely limited and mild symptoms. And a majo
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by Lazare 7y ago
Certainly the original paper failed even the most basic norms, and large parts of if were clearly fabricated, and the remaining ones cannot be verified now. Ultimately he claimed to have eight pseudo-patients, but investigation has turned u
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by Lazare 7y ago
> I mean, are we to believe that she did not realize this was paid sponcon by her own company Well, first off, I doubt she wrote that FB post herself, and it's questionable if she even saw it before it went out. But even so, I'
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Sex trafficking is not consenting adults By the dictionary defintion, this is true. If you look at what gets called "sex trafficking" in the media, by politicians, by police and prosecutors, and in some cases, by the legal sy
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by Lazare 7y ago
When you say it like that, it doesn't sound amazing, but you can also phrase it as: "JetBrains listened to their customers, took feedback on board, and made meaningful changes that addressed the concerns." In a perfect world,
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by Lazare 7y ago
I'm a really big fan of JetBrains. The pricing is reasonable, the pricing model is reasonable, and the products are moving forward quickly. There's a lot of products I am either reluctant to pay for, or pay for only begrudgingly
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by Lazare 7y ago
I don't have an especially high opinion of Robinhood, and I'll grant you that they've leaned into the "move fast and break stuff" mindset, and they've certainly made some comical mistakes. On the other hand,
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by Lazare 7y ago
Yeah, that opening sentence was extremely valuable, because it let me decide to stop reading so quickly.
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by Lazare 7y ago
It's a huge business! Not sure if that makes your idea terrible or not though...maybe both?
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by Lazare 7y ago
If you don't like the density, maybe consider moving somewhere with lower density?
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by Lazare 7y ago
So your offering an anecdote of two people who tried a strong painkiller, and discovered they only needed a weaker one, as evidence of...what? That nobody every needs strong painkillers? Paracetamol and ibuprofen are the right choice in a l
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by Lazare 7y ago
Both valid points. I'm pretty keen on the concept of harm reduction, but how much overlap there is between harm reduction and blindly trying to reduce the consumption of opioids remains to be seen.
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by Lazare 7y ago
> I mean, nobody is suggesting that opiods shouldn't be used to treat pain, are they? Well...yes. Some are quite explicit about it, but even the ones who aren't are advocating for a policy where that is an inevitable result at
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by Lazare 7y ago
Well, yes. The original story ("Cotten was honest, Quadriga was on the up and up, Cotten just randomly died and weirdly was the only one who had access to the funds") has been disproven ten times over. So no, no benefit of the dou
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by Lazare 7y ago
I would consider that hilarious, well deserved mockery of an author overselling their argument. It certainly didn't read as a "rant", insane or otherwise.
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by Lazare 7y ago
> The State Court Administrator and Chief Justice orchestrates an illegal break in of a county property in violation of Iowa Code 721. That's a very open question. Under Iowa law, the counties have to provide the buildings to the st
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by Lazare 7y ago
> in that case surely it doesn't matter whether it's actually fentanyl or something else, any opiate of this strength is too dangerous to be out there, no? I don't see why. The primary issue with fentanyl today is not that
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by Lazare 7y ago
> Claiming that we must be reliant on private corporations for free speech is a corruption of the very concept I don't disagree with you! And I think if you'll look around, you'll see it is true. Your ability to get your v
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by Lazare 7y ago
That's not how social media works. Feeds are highly curated. > you can quickly get the work out to your supporters without having to go through intermediaries, or having to pay for advertising. How do you think Facebook makes money
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by Lazare 7y ago
I notice you don't address his actual point though. If, let's say, a group advocating for the abolishment of asset forfeiture wants to communicate their message, and the media is not covering it, it would be natural for them to tr
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by Lazare 7y ago
That is not a good description of what checkout does. :) That is one of the things checkout can do, if you pass it a commit hash as the only argument. If you pass it a branch name, it does something quite different (a branch does not rep
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by Lazare 7y ago
> In industry you _eventually_ need to show result and earn money > It doesn't take long to think of entire industries that are shady, from payday lenders I trust you aren't arguing that payday lenders don't earn money!
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by Lazare 7y ago
It's a great idea, if you do it right, and scale it up, which is what industry had been doing for decades. The problem with the MIT version is it was a toy, that also didn't work, and was developed by people who had no grasp of th
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by Lazare 7y ago
Your examples seem to support the point you were replying to. Theranos is a perfect example of a scam unravelling because eventually the scammer needs to produce results, and not just self-referential research papers that never quite go any

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