matt4077

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by matt4077 8y ago
And while we're at it: death penalty for any crime (or misdemeanor). Including the criminal's family! That should stop these murderers and jaywalkers once and for all!
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As you could learn from the linked summary, there was an increase in the pipeline that was canned/delayed by the new administration.
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I think Matt Levine is rather excellent, a model for the sort of dialectic reasoning that's sorely missing. Yet I just don't get this argument of his. As far as I can tell, insider trading prohibitions are intended to protect the
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Reefer Madness at NASA(theatlantic.com)
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I believe it's almost tautological that a politician would prefer personal cash instead of campaign donations. Among other things, campaign donations cannot be used to buy themselves a boat or ensure luxury in retirement. It's a p
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by matt4077 8y ago
You're ignoring a whole lot of differences between the current and previous administration. There's a slightly outdated summary at https://www.govdocs.com/webinar-recap-trump-administration-a... . Among the highlig
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by matt4077 8y ago
There's a difference between "bribes" and "bribes". A bribe is usually understood to be of benefit to the politician personally . This sort of corruption is actually incredibly rare in the US. What is, unfortunatel
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by matt4077 8y ago
I believe "curbing" is simply a nod to the fact that the people/groups controlling these bots have no interest in turning them off, and are unlikely to change their opinion. The harms this article shows are, after all, their
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by matt4077 8y ago
Let’s maybe go easy on throwing around charges of “fundamentalism” every which way. I guess it’s an attempt to tap into the universally bad reputation of Bin Laden et al. But that alone should be reason not to stick the label to anyone who
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by matt4077 8y ago
> That's not a boogieman. It's a fact. Nope.... Immigrants are more likely to start businesses than the local population, thus creating jobs. Mostly that's small service and retail businesses. But also Google and Tesla. Pl
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Pre-screening is a huge burden indeed. Yet if we start with the assumption that copyright law is good in principle, I can sort of see the point of copyright holders: That burden or identifying infringing content exists no matter what. Right
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by matt4077 8y ago
Copyright has always been a government-backed scheme. Yet that has never stopped a publisher from being critical of the government.
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Fine tuning isn't really that important. That's easily demonstrated by the fact that "tests" #2 and #3 already happened in Japan.
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by matt4077 8y ago
The author works for the NYT. Evidence: this article by the author, published by the Times. Or are you saying they are secretly working for the WashPo?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone_Merkel
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> This is obviously a PR move to win favor amongst the college age people and to gauge his prospects. Yes... $1.8 billion is exactly what everyone pays to "gauge their prospects". It's not like it's like 3x times as m
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by matt4077 8y ago
Do you really believe he's getting $800,000,000 of PR out this compared to only giving a billion $?
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by matt4077 8y ago
For health, the Cochrane Library is a pretty good start: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/about-cdsr
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by matt4077 8y ago
I don't really understand much of what you are trying not so say. But I do think there is promise in your ideas of self-censorship and you should definitely think more about that concept.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I remember well the discussions, here and elsewhere, from around the time of the referendum. Next time I need some happy distraction I might just look up all the pro-Brexit commentators and rub it in there face how entirely spot-on the dire
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by matt4077 8y ago
> No mention of any targeting beyond what has been on user’s profile for a decade, The story about Cambridge Anal. was specifically that they had build a dataset that could infer a lot of information, such as sexual orientation and polit
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by matt4077 8y ago
> What a complete and utter lie. Don't accuse others of lying when even a modicum of good faith points to them simply holding opinions different from yours. In this case, they are also right. At least under the assumption of taxatio
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abscond
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All the successful restaurants I've experienced chose to give preferential treatment to locals and regulars. That's because they often give the place the charme that makes it special in the first place. And that the business is ra
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by matt4077 8y ago
I bet Google would gladly undo the Reader decision now, and even pay whatever they saved in costs over the last ten years, if only it would spare them from the endless repetition of this cliché. FWIW I'm pretty sure Google projects ha
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by matt4077 8y ago
At that level, he just isn't the guy making the decision to add a boolean type to the DB server or not. According to wikipedia, Oracle has 3000 products, each with their own management. The role is organisation and team psychologist mo
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The danish rape charge, which would have probably been resolved with a few months of probation or some mandatory training. Somehow, Assange managed to turn that prospect into the self-inflicted and unlimited golden cage that is the Ecuadori
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by matt4077 8y ago
He did not "enter Ecuador". Embassies are not extraterritorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission#Extraterrit...
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I don't think the NSA has actually ever made that argument. There is, after all, a lot of law governing privacy. And the NSA's capabilities and required procedures are also specified in minute detail. Even though these rules are f
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They have grounded aircraft before, so we know they aren't inherently opposed to that. I would tend to trust the FAA, given the rather impressive track record of aviation. The difference from "Oh, the humanity!" to today, whe

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