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by petertodd 2y ago
I'd rather people like OJ get some money out of a botched prosecution than the alternative. Most likely, we'd see a lot less botched prosecutions.
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by petertodd 2y ago
No need to make it optional. If the state can't convict on all counts, you should get full compensation for all expenses, including your legal bills, any time spent in prison, lost income, etc. In a case like this it would be millions
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by petertodd 2y ago
Another way to do it would be to require the state to provide funds for legal defense for everyone, regardless of income or assets, with at least with the same budget as they use for the prosecution. Again, this won't change anything i
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by petertodd 2y ago
It would help a lot if charges were an all or nothing basis. Either a jury convicts on all counts, or you go free, with all your legal bills paid and compensation for the false arrest and imprisonment. Most criminal cases are open-and-shut
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by petertodd 3y ago
What I said re: Ukrainians also applies to Israelis... Israel would not exist if they weren't armed, because people - including Gazans - irrationally hate Jews and want them to cease to exist. It's a good thing that Israel has the
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by petertodd 3y ago
I'd hope some of these employees are looking at what is happening to Ukraine and reconsidering their positions. Without weapons of your own, you're beholden to unfriendly nations with their own weapons. Certainly I get the sense t
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by petertodd 3y ago
> Accounts controlled or administered by the user have posted or sent more than 1,000 pieces of content, whether text, images, audio, or video, that are found to be 90 percent or more likely to contain content generated by artificial int
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by petertodd 3y ago
As I said: "This is likely an example of free speech and free press working to overcome corruption to achieve justice." I used the word "likely" for a reason.
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by petertodd 3y ago
An often forgotten aspect of sentencing is that once a criminal has done something evil, we still want there to be incentives for them to not do further evil things, as well as to co-operate with authorities. That can play out into, say,
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by petertodd 3y ago
I think we can look at SBF's political ties and make a reasonable guess at how likely it was that there were people trying to get him a deal with minimal jail time. You don't need specific evidence of that to say it was likely h
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by petertodd 3y ago
To be clear, ships have been using drive by _wire_ systems for decades. Even in WW2 rudder control on liberty ships was partially electronic: https://surveyship.blogspot.com/2015/09/liberty-ship-or-vict... Of cour
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by petertodd 3y ago
...and enough people pointing that out, and making it clear that they are outraged by the possibility of that happening, makes it harder to get away with him avoiding prosecution because of his political ties. This is likely an example of f
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by petertodd 3y ago
> If anything, it's excessive if you consider the nature of the crime relative to the nature of murder or kidnapping. The value of a single human life is not infinite. In engineering and public policy, a value like $10 million &#x2
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by petertodd 3y ago
A gravity measuring device, mounted in an airplane. Specifically a gravity gradiometer. The isolation platform was needed to isolate the device from the plane's movement to the greatest degree possible, as while we were doing a differe
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by petertodd 3y ago
There's a TOW missile with an 8km range: https://web.archive.org/web/20180831175435/https://www.janes... This Russian drone is claimed to have a 10km range under wire guidance, which isn't much
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by petertodd 3y ago
The cable is deployed off a spool on the drone. Once it leaves the drone, it just falls down to the ground with little further movement; there's no dragging. There's a lot of wire-guided missiles that use the same idea: a spool of
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by petertodd 3y ago
Revealing what you know about enemy drones can also reveal to the enemy the capabilities of your own surveillance. For example, imagine that the enemy was using drones for surveillance flights over your territory. You might not want to publ
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by petertodd 3y ago
> Is there any trade where people actually use appropriate safety precautions? Have you actually worked in construction or the trades? When I look at the construction/trade workers around me in Canada, the US, and the EU, hardhats,
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by petertodd 3y ago
> The huge 'box' his demanded his team put together, to rescue people from a cave with passages so narrow diver could not wear tanks on their backs? To me that demonstrates he has no ability to analyze a problem at high level a
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by petertodd 3y ago
> For a rigid road bike aluminum can definitely be made stronger and lighter, Absolutely. What I meant was that while an aluminum bike frame can be lighter than steel, it's not as much lighter than steel than you'd expect. St
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by petertodd 3y ago
Like steel, titanium alloys have a distinct non-zero fatigue limit, and thus can be engineered to have infinite fatigue lives. Though the exact details differ and steel or titanium can be better depending on exactly what the conditions are.
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by petertodd 3y ago
Also fatigue resistance. Bicycle design is a good example of where this matters: steel has a significant fatigue limit, and can endure cyclic stresses below that limit indefinitely. Aluminum has no fatigue limit, so any flexing is inevitabl
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by petertodd 3y ago
Exactly. Indeed, if your design goal is strictly "don't get dented when hit by a hammer", the "strongest" material could easily be a good synthetic rubber!
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by petertodd 3y ago
> They wouldn't make plane engines from it if it wasn't. ...but they don't! Jet engines can only use titanium for certain low pressure, low temperature, sections. The high temperature parts are made from nickle/iron-b
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by petertodd 3y ago
> We're not talking about exotic and expensive varieties of steel though. 4340 steel isn't exotic. It's one of the most commonly used grades of steel out there, and it's much cheaper than titanium. There are steels ou
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by petertodd 3y ago
Read this for starters: https://www.thomasnet.com/articles/metals-metal-products/ste... "When comparing the tensile yield strengths of titanium and steel, an interesting fact occurs; steel is by-and-large str
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by petertodd 3y ago
I've got one myself. For only a bit more weight (~70g) than single-walled aluminum mug (~60g), Snow Peak can put two walls, making the mug insulated. Though it's heavier than an insulated plastic mug, and _way_ more expensive.
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by petertodd 3y ago
A lot heavier actually. In an application like a stepladder, you have to work with certain minimum dimensions for the stepladder to be practical (eg rungs and sides have to fit in the hands nicely). You also have to have certain minimum thi
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by petertodd 3y ago
Those must have been soft hammers. Titanium isn't magic. It's neither as hard, nor as strong, as steel. It's a lot lighter, which makes it a wonder material in certain applications that can take advantage of it's excelle
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by petertodd 3y ago
While I mostly agree with you, note that Gaza does have an large amount of rooftop solar, which theoretically could be used to mine crypto. Mining Bitcoin with expensive imported fuel doesn't make much sense. Anyway, far more money is

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