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by charonn0 3y ago
Belfort cooperated with the FBI and got 4 years. Holmes got 11 years. The Mt. Gox guy was prosecuted in Japan.
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by charonn0 3y ago
The biggest Ponzi scheme in US history was Bernie Madoff's.
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by charonn0 3y ago
Mods probably merged multiple posts.
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by charonn0 3y ago
His crimes are closer to those of Bernie Madoff than, say, Jamie Dimon. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years.
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by charonn0 3y ago
As I read it[1], the plaintiffs allege that the government has overstepped its authority by using emergency powers to make new demands for information under threat of prosecution. There is a plausible argument for that position, and so a TR
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by charonn0 3y ago
> 18% of the U.S. population is functionally illiterate N.B. This stat appears to pertain to English language literacy, not literacy per se. Some of those 18%ers might be reading Dante in the original Italian or Shakespeare in the origin
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by charonn0 3y ago
I don't see the problem you do. SO is a Q&A based knowledge base. Questions are supposed to be somewhat open-ended prompts that inspire experts to write detailed and informative responses. The OP seems to be an excellent example th
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by charonn0 3y ago
I've been contacted by collection agencies over an ER bill that I paid up front and in full. The system isn't even designed for that possibility.
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by charonn0 3y ago
> number = -number They actually point this out when introducing the code snippet in the report. And then after the snippet: >> Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics of the most basic rules
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by charonn0 3y ago
It's been my impression over the years that = vs. == is one of the most common mistakes made in languages that use them. In which case, can it really be said to be less confusing?
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by charonn0 3y ago
> it said "= 0" rather than "== 0" Why do so many programming languages have different equals/assigns operators? There are languages that combine them and apparently don't have any problems. Is it something
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by charonn0 3y ago
After reading your link I'm not sure I see the problem you're pointing to.
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by charonn0 3y ago
I think I have better things to do than parse vague innuendo like that.
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by charonn0 3y ago
Honestly, this sounds like a conspiracy theory and/or an attempt to deflect criticism from the AI companies.
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by charonn0 3y ago
If the NYT goes under, why would its replacement fare any better?
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by charonn0 3y ago
> He also ordered Polychron to destroy all electronic and physical copies of the published work, “The Fellowship of the King,” by Sunday. It sounds to me like the order applies to published copies rather than to his original manuscript.
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by charonn0 3y ago
I'm assuming that this is just more of Ken Paxton abusing the courts to boost his political profile. Like that time he sued to overturn other states' elections.
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by charonn0 3y ago
This isn't even the first time[1] Microsoft has done something like this with the curl name. And, then as now, people bother Daniel with support requests. [1]: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/
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by charonn0 3y ago
>After all, why should I pay if others can steal without consequences? I've had this exact thought while waiting to pay for my purchases and watching people carry armloads of stolen items out the front door.
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by charonn0 3y ago
A cucumber is a good, not a service.
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by charonn0 3y ago
Receiving a service is consideration.
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by charonn0 3y ago
Because you agree to the terms of using their service when you use their service.
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by charonn0 3y ago
The lawsuit asks for injunctive, not monetary, relief.
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by charonn0 3y ago
Meta is not being banned, though.
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by charonn0 3y ago
I never realized that Worf's weird chair with the round things was an actual chair.
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by charonn0 3y ago
The EU had already banned this dye.
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by charonn0 3y ago
At night it's called the moon.
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by charonn0 3y ago
If that were the only consideration, the kernel could be placed into the public domain.
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by charonn0 3y ago
Antitrust laws prohibit anti-competitive practices generally, not just literal monopolies.
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by charonn0 3y ago
I would call it authoritative.

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