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by hackuser 10y ago
> Do you know how much Martha Stewart went to prison over? $45,763 That's just one example, and probably not a representative one, being a high-profile case. Sometimes they are made examples of. > Risk v. reward skews heavily tow
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> I'll bet $1000 ... This isn't evidence. > 'the war on drugs' is very real I'm not sure what that means. Certainly it's a real policy and there are real problems with drugs that should be addressed. The
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by hackuser 10y ago
Remember that the article says a lawyer from Canada had trouble doing it.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The decision is very easy It's very easy to decide to give up citizenship in your native land and move to strange new place? I don't see that as true.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Bringing people to a foreign land does not really help them that much What is this claim based on? It's very hard to believe that Somalis or Syrians, for example, or any of the hungry, tired and poor who emigrate to the U.S. aren&
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I've seen many immigrants who have absolutely no interest in the culture or society of the country they immigrated to The U.S. culture is whatever the people make it. Italian immigrants brought Italalian food; Mexican immigrants b
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. But people still do it somehow; it can't be that effective a solution. > If you want hard data, in 2016 the SEC handed out $4B in fines Possibly a sign that it's still widespread; and the SEC
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by hackuser 10y ago
> people with direct knowledge of actual insider trading have a strong incentive to report it We're talking theoretically: Your point is one factor. Another is the profit from insider trading may far exceed the reward. Also, people
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by hackuser 10y ago
I clarified my statement to say I don't have direct knowledge. But do you? I know they have compliance departments, but every town has law enforcement and yet crime still happens.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Would one of the apparently many happy FM subscribers share details of what kind of security they provide? (It bears repeating: No email can be very secure.)
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by hackuser 10y ago
The focus on legality and absolute enforcement of the law I think is cover, dog-whistle language, for anti-immigrant discrimination. (I'm speaking generally; I don't pretend to read the mind of everyone who says it, including the
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The situations in which those people are very often extremely complex, confusing, etc. If one focus on money only, or self-determination, then you end up with a very tough, unfriendly, non human system... Could you share some examples.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Auto-translated legal advice and critical information could be dangerous.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I am also afraid they will go out of business because of these practices. Propaganda is a very good business - better than the real thing these days. Look at who are the leaders by far on cable and talk radio, and in the business commu
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended. The sentence is misleading and normalizes
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by hackuser 10y ago
Is there a rule saying they can't? I hope they can; my attitude toward immigration is that those are the people that need help and will benefit the most. From a statue in NY harbor: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conque
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by hackuser 10y ago
One reason I posted this is that it gives the immigrants access to real expertise: An app designed by experts, and access to real legal advice. (Caveat: I don't know about the quality of the app or the lawyers beyond what this article
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by hackuser 10y ago
Now we know which publications we can trust to stand up to the President. Why isn't the WSJ banned?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended. The sentence is misleading and normalizes
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by hackuser 10y ago
Flagged on what basis? Has HN released a new policy on political issues?
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Borderwise: App and a lawyer for immigrants, for $1(washingtonpost.com)
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by hackuser 10y ago
> if the 'viewer' is highly motivated videos of any quality could be invaluable That's what I meant. Just stick some cameras in the ceiling (or wherever is best) and capture what you can. It seems cheap and better than no
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I wouldn't consider one of the (100?) investors Uber has to be responsible for Uber's actions Not fully responsible, but still responsible. IMHO we are accountable for the consequences of our actions. As an extreme example, I
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by hackuser 10y ago
I didn't mean record it to use the data in your analysis, but record it to preserve the methods for others. If they have trouble getting part of the experiment to work, they can pull up the video and see how you did it (at least to a d
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by hackuser 10y ago
I disagree. Grammar rules are a very effective checklist for clarity and precision in communication, IME. Does the verb have a subject and object? Otherwise, it's not clear who should do which to what. The instructions say, 'turn
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by hackuser 10y ago
> there is often little incentive for a researcher to hide parts of their methods from their 'competitors' since, for example, my memory study is not about reporting but protecting a new technology If you are protecting, not re
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by hackuser 10y ago
> not everything appears on video Sure, but a lot of information does appear. Not everything appears in papers; should we stop publishing them?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> No one is going to document and record the entire course of an experiment; that would literally be months of footage. Why not? Just setup a permanent camera and go. Storage is cheap. Organizations with security cameras often have multi
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by hackuser 10y ago
Blur their faces? Some experiments might depend on seeing faces, but not all. Plus, you would at least have video of everything the experimenters do, if not the results.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> no one is going to record or archive, let alone watch, years of footage Recording and storing years of footage shouldn't be a significant problem with modern tech. Nobody has to watch years of it; they can watch the parts they are

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