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by hopler 8y ago
Or you could believe that your reputation is so important that you should defend your self responsibility for your crimes to preserve the credibility of your civil work.
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by hopler 8y ago
That's what we do for billionaires like Martha Stewart and some millionaires. Anyway there is a huge difference between suspect, person of interest, and convict.
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by hopler 8y ago
Sovereignty isn't binary, and states and laws are one of many social constructs. Discussing the complexities is interesting. Purely semantic arguments is not.
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by hopler 8y ago
A legal entity is just a group that certain other people recognize. The OP is about the creation of such a legal entity.
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by hopler 8y ago
Ancient Greece no longer exists.
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by hopler 8y ago
I thought marshmallow was replicated but clarified -- that it showed how children react to un/trusted adults, not uncover some genetic propensity to deferred rewards.
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by hopler 8y ago
You can do that with a free lunch too.
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by hopler 8y ago
Are you over 30? Dinner is big for young/single people who don't want to cook/clean or go out every day, and who like to sleep late.
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by hopler 8y ago
That's the fantasy, yes. In reality, a professional working parent usually gets home after the kids eat.
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by hopler 8y ago
What is the lockin? What do you lose if you migrate your c9 to AWS c9?
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by hopler 8y ago
Calling a statistician and entertainer is a rude insult, similar to calling a cable news channel an entertainment channel.
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by hopler 8y ago
Communism has had a famously difficult history as an economic model.
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by hopler 8y ago
The need to prevent that is the same need for any copyrighted work --to protect the economic incentive of the author
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by hopler 8y ago
Oregon also tried to make it illegal for engineers to point out safety flaws in their red light traps. https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
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by hopler 8y ago
There are many required fees if you want to follow the law. Building permits, drivers license, car registration, the list goes on. every bit of it is awful.
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by hopler 8y ago
We already went down that dead end road with Microsoft in the 1990s. What's different today?
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by hopler 8y ago
Colonists are mass murderers too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
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by hopler 8y ago
You only need to authenticate a device once, when you first acquire it, or after it is tainted due to loss of physical control. This is how Bluetooth works today.
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by hopler 8y ago
Defense in depth has not been debunked.
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by hopler 8y ago
The driver could read data from the device and clamp the results to a reasonable number of non control code characters.
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by hopler 8y ago
The only reason your laptop is trusted is because you trust the person who gave you the laptop. The same threat model applies to the first keyboard you get for your desktop. Neither laptop/desktop nor keyboard is inherently more trustw
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by hopler 8y ago
This is why Steve Jon's wanted all peripherals wireless ;-) www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/ Miniaturized wireless electronics is the Ice IX that will destroy civilization wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_IX
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by hopler 8y ago
The numbers make sense. People don't make sense. Humans are notoriously bad at conditional probability
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by hopler 8y ago
"expect" is a technical term, as in bug reports where you wrote Observed Behavior and Expected Behavior. It is confusing/misleading for survey respondents, though.
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by hopler 8y ago
After GPL solves this exact problem. The new problem is that no one wants that solution because massive cloud deployments ate business projects not open source hobby nrojects
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by hopler 8y ago
IBM have been doing this since Deep Blue, if not older. It's their core business model: build cool tech demos and then sell consulting deployments that use nonexistent features of the tech
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by hopler 8y ago
Tax compliance is high when counterparty (employer or broker) reports income. Tax compliance on cash transactions is lower. I don't think stealing books from library at any kind of scale approaching the value of tax evasion is so easy
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by hopler 8y ago
Obviously but that's not the choice people make. Medicine is full of uncertainty.
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by hopler 8y ago
Is wasn't long ago that homosexuality or intersexuality was a terrible condition that "any loving parent" would kill their child to prevent.
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by hopler 8y ago
That's a bizarre bigotry. Christianity teaches of heaven and the second coming, and also that Jesus heals regardless of doctors. There is a huge diversity in Christianity. How do you as a paramedic know what's happening to a patie

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