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by jakewins 10y ago
The judicial branch is meant to be neutral judges - but police and prosecutors are not part of the judicial branch. In the case of prosecutors, their job is explicitly to not be neutral. However, the 5th amendment applies there as well - th
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I'm getting way out of my depth here. My understanding has been, and seems to be corroborated by the Wikipedia article above, that the fifth amendments no-self-incrimination clause is usually interpreted in the context of an inquisitor
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No that's incorrect. They can either do that, treating your speeding as a civil case, or - much more commonly - they treat it as a criminal case. The complaint here is that they are picking and choosing between the two approaches, prov
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The 5th amendment specifically allows it for military trials, but for civilian trials, no, it's made impossible outside of cases where the defendant agrees to it by the 5th amendment. Presumably, this is a big part of why Bush was so k
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I wonder how that works in the UK - the 5th amendment is just another version of the same law in England, triggered by the abuses at the same English court, Star Chamber. According to Lord Mustill: "A general immunity, possessed by all
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It was indeed because of the British - the fifth amendment was meant to keep US courts from using the inquisitorial method, rather than the prosecutorial, triggered by the abuses at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Ch
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A problem there is that some of the most expensive chronic conditions (CVD, Diabetes) can be substantially improved by preventative care. Hence: The actor paying for chronic care is the one incentivized to provide great preventative care, s
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This is one of the more ironic parts - obviously, few people choose death. They choose to massively delay going to the doctor, driving up total cost by skipping preventative care, and then bankruptcy when they finally do. That bankruptcy is
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If I start a fire insurance company, and I have a policy that you can sign up even if your house is currently on fire , I'm unlikely to stay in business. Anyone worried about house fires could simply wait and, if they did have a house
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> The simple idea that money is limitless has led to municipalities over-promising on pension benefits for just one example. Would I be right in restating your argument like this? "A fiat currency allows the state to inflate away lo
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Can you expand on this? I don't follow how fiat currency pertains to city budgets and the net cost/benefit of public infrastructure.
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I don't know how to say this in a civil way, so I won't: Please take your sexist bullshit somewhere else if you can't behave like an adult.
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What agency do you suggest would be more appropriate to build space platforms to monitor surface temperatures, ice sheet extent &c of planets? To me it seems like planetary-level data gathering and exploration is exactly what NASAs miss
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Holy crap, I hadn't realized just how powerful RLS ended up - last time I looked at this was before 9.5 and it was roles all the way down.. That is fantastic ! That's exactly what I wanted. I guess it's true as they say, tha
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I should have said "the security model in most databases is outdated" - the bitterness comes from my own failure to argue for an alternative when we built the security model in Neo4j. Just like PG, we based security in Neo on role
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This is super cool - but as others have said, you can't expose this to a public URL, it needs a security model. The security model in PG is, unfortunately, severely outdated. Now, if you combined this with a good RBAC security model, p
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The JIQ algorithm seems to have very nice overlap with the work being done on reactive streams and reactive network protocols, for instance http://reactivesocket.io/ The idea being that, on top of a general purpose message
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Well, the original article was about growing inside a warehouse - hence no sun. They could ofc use green houses. However, if you've ever seen a modern industrial green house after dark, you can see how they would be unlikely to get a p
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by jakewins 10y ago
Lettuce production seems to have very little overlap with growing weed: Lettuce grows to a few inches, racks tooled to the height of lettuce wouldn't fit hemp. Hemp has big root systems, it won't grow in tiny little cup mediums li
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> distribution of that farm product to a far away base of consumers is not viable Can you source this? My understanding of academic research in this area was that the energy used for artificial lighting by far outweighs the energy used f
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Excellent points. One of the emotional appeals of Go, to me, is the community behavior and mindset. Go code very often "feels" like a low level language, written by someone that was considerate of the underlying machine. You'
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I spent a lot of the past six years dreaming nightmares of the unpredictability of CMS and, to a lesser extent, G1. So it's been with extreme skepticism that I've received the Go teams claims of how the Go GC performs. Maximum STW
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Of course Uber has $2B in annual losses, that's by design. Do you think they would take $13B in VC capital and then not spend the money? The profit margin is stable at around (100%) because it is kept there artificially, balancing how
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As an aside, this is how null is defined in many languages as well. Many behaviors of SQL, for instance, are much more intuitive if you remember that SQL sees null as "unknown". If a boolean value is null in SQL, it conceptually m
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None - they never did match the (encrypted) files. WL commented on this conspiracy theory earlier today, both saying Assange appreciates the concerns that he's dead, and saying that "obviously" the hashes are for decrypted f
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Which reminds me - another thing we learned is that too much chaos can be easier on a distributed system than less chaos. One of the robustness suites tries as hard as it can to permanently destroy a Neo4j cluster, looking for things like d
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With CRISPR, it's even better right; live gene editing. You can be a rakunk, rather than just own one!
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Makes me really happy to see how earnest y'all are being about these issues and how you're approaching them. FWIW, we had very similar issues at Neo4j a few years back; I kind of wish we'd have blogged about it, but like you
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No - and even if it was, the bias is on the Trump side. As the BF review of 9 major news pages on FB showed: - MSM: 99.3% mostly true or no factual content - Left: 80.9% mostly true or no factual content - Right: 62.3% mostly true or no fac
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Sorry, can you expand on this? You're saying NYT is the "king of fake news", but the email you're linking to is: - not for the NYT, it's for NYT Magazine - not about a news piece, it's for a family-friendly pro

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