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by dijit 9mo ago
Everyone bringing this up is missing the point entirely. I thought people would be able to “get” it on their own so I didn’t bother replying but you’re the fourth person, so let me help you understand. Britain had 1/3rd of the fucking
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by dijit 9mo ago
You've cited a 2-25% range. That's enormous. The low end supports my position, the high end would be catastrophic. Where's your source for 25%? Here's mine for the low end: a study examining attorney perspectives on plea
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by dijit 9mo ago
We’re agreeing. Excel produced massive value because it accepted catastrophic failures. That’s my point. The problem isn’t Excel. It’s trying to get Excel’s accessibility in infrastructure whilst demanding engineering reliability. You canno
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by dijit 9mo ago
No, just trying to open friendly. I sweated over the opening for 5 minutes because I didn’t want to go in really hard with “don’t you know most brits had it bad ackshulee!”- because I’m one of those generationally poverty-stricken brits and
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by dijit 9mo ago
I understand the constitutional point you're making, but I think we're conflating two things: exercising your right to trial, and showing remorse for what you did. The right to trial isn't being penalised. You get a fair tria
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by dijit 9mo ago
Boo! Hiss! … (Thanks for the advice.)
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by dijit 9mo ago
I’ve done more digging now because even though its apples to oranges, the UK itself is now no longer an empire, and we have a 50 year window on when it wasn’t… So just for additional context on how wage growth compares across different peri
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by dijit 9mo ago
Explain. If you go to trial you are saying you are not guilty of the offence. If you are not guilty the ideally you are acquitted. if you are guilty, you’re hoping to get away with it. I struggle to see how hoping to get away with it, i
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by dijit 9mo ago
You’ve rather missed my point. I’m not saying nothing improved. I’m saying the imperial profits didn’t go to the people doing the dying for empire. 50% wage growth over fifty years whilst Britain’s running the largest empire in history? Com
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by dijit 9mo ago
Yep. Britain controlled the largest empire in history, yet most of its own population lived in dire poverty. I don’t believe this was accidental. Imperial profits flowed almost entirely to a small propertied class (the landed gentry). The
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by dijit 9mo ago
You demanded I provide numbers for "vast majority" and "edge cases" in your first reply. I provided data: 375 exonerations over 35 years in a system processing 20 million cases annually. You then spent two dozen comments
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by dijit 9mo ago
Fair enough. We've found the actual disagreement. You're right that cost is a real barrier, and it's a legitimate concern. If people can't afford proper representation, then the "choice" to take a plea isn&#x27
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by dijit 9mo ago
Alright, let's see if I get this right. You're arguing that a system can apply the law unjustly even when it reaches correct outcomes. I think that's only meaningful if the "unjust application" materially affects pe
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by dijit 9mo ago
Dylan, you're a masterclass in saying nothing whilst appearing to argue. You invented that "7%" stuff in a sibling thread from thin air. You claimed nobody was arguing about innocent convictions whilst spending a dozen commen
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by dijit 9mo ago
Fair enough, let me step back because I'm getting angry. You're right that "biased in process" and "wrong outcomes" aren't the same thing. A system can have unfair disparities (wealth based, racial, whatev
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by dijit 9mo ago
I'm having a productive discussion by not letting vague claims slide. "Unfairly biased most of the time" and "unjust more often than just" are the same claim when discussing legal outcomes. If the system is systemat
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by dijit 9mo ago
I recently purchased a "paperlike" for my iPad Pro (M4, if it matters). I'll be honest, it has made the writing like 20% better, but the touching about 50% worse. The feel of the screen is somewhat irritating, though it looks
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by dijit 9mo ago
No, I don't have burden of proof for defending the status quo. That's not how this works. The legal system processes millions of cases annually. The claim being made here is that it's unjust more often than just... that'
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by dijit 9mo ago
You've misunderstood the point I was making. I'm not claiming legal findings are objectively true in some metaphysical sense, I'm saying that for a legal system to function, there must be finality to proceedings. The alternat
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by dijit 9mo ago
Yeah, I adjusted my comment to better reflect the parents comment, I was getting muddled in all the replies. Apologies.
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by dijit 9mo ago
Anyone who says "all of x is justified" or "all of y is unjustified" is usually wrong. I thought we were smart enough to realise that on HackerNews. Parent of mine claimed that the law as practiced is unjust, I said,
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by dijit 9mo ago
So, back to the thread at hand: to your mind is this more often than when the law is working properly or less? because it has been claimed in this subthread that the law is applied unjustly nearly 100% of the time.
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by dijit 9mo ago
You're conflating "plea bargains exist" with "innocent people are systematically coerced into false confessions." The vast majority of plea bargains involve people who are, in fact, guilty and are receiving a reduce
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by dijit 9mo ago
Yes, it is. If you plead guilty to an offence you shouldn't serve the same amount of time as someone who shows no remorse. Also, included in those "plea bargains" are cautions, for children. edit; I'm getting flagged but
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by dijit 9mo ago
More often than not, I would argue. There's a reason that due process is a thing, it's more commonly upheld than it's not, no matter what rhetoric you've been spun by a fear-mongering media.
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by dijit 9mo ago
You’re absolutely right, we use that phrase a lot in the UK when we emphatically agree with someone, or we’re being sarcastic.
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by dijit 9mo ago
Fair point, but I think you’ve actually illustrated my argument perfectly: you didn’t eliminate the need for specialists, you outsourced them to your cloud vendor. Those underlying nodes being “patched and replaced automatically” by AWS&#x2
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by dijit 9mo ago
You’re not wrong. The EU websites require the cookie consent due to this section of the cookie policy: > Third-party providers on Commission websites * YouTube * Internet Archive * ScribbleLive * Google Maps * Twitter * TV1 * Vimeo * Mic
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by dijit 9mo ago
It always impresses me how its actually easy not to need these banners yet everyone will consistently participate in the civil disobedience of annoying their users. No doubt in the hope of making people mad at the EU. To the point that peop
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by dijit 9mo ago
they share so much visual language that I always do a double-take when I am about to click on MacOS. You’re right that in isolation they are visually distinguished, but our eyes don’t see colour uniformly, and these icons do not exist in is

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