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by s_q_b 12y ago
My usual response to this complaint of the "decline" of HN is that it is a tactic of older entrenched figures in a community marginalizing the viewpoints of newer members. The second strain I see tends adheres to the timeless trad
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by s_q_b 12y ago
> I don't see Chomsky espousing pseudo-mystical notions. He simply said it's found all over nature and it's not well understood why. By your insulting tone, I would surmise you have a grudge with Chomsky that goes well bey
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Fairly certain of the following: Nautilus shells and sunflower petals are consistently logarithmic spirals, not golden spirals, and deviate from the golden ratio. See e.g. Sharp 2002.[0] > "Starting with the observation that shell s
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by s_q_b 12y ago
> "Or, take the mathematical series called the 'Fibonacci series'. It shows up all over the place in nature; nobody knows exactly why. If you take a sunflower and you look at the flower, it has spirals that go in different
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by s_q_b 12y ago
"Arrested and charged", without independent and investigation, on Goldman Sachs say-so has been consistently my point all along. Nobody moved the goalposts. You just got farther from them.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
For anyone interested in modern interrogation techniques, I'd recommend the book "How to Break a Terrorist."[0] [0] How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest M
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Agreed, and as do I. Perhaps our tone has gotten too rancorous. Civil people can disagree without being disagreeable, and I know from your comments around the site that you're a civil person, so if my tone has been less than appropriat
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Before deciding the value of the theft to attach to the charge? Certainly. That would be one reason the FBI employs art specialists as well. Absent a fleeing felon, I would definitely expect the FBI to consult with an art specialist.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
I directly quoted you in addressing your point. With regard to the "valuable part," financial experts will tell you that lives in the trading strategies, which he didn't take. You must admit that's very odd behavior fo
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by s_q_b 12y ago
If someone steals a donut from a donut shop, do you think the police need a statement from a third party donut vendor to make an arrest? Silly analogies lead to silly conclusions, because they inherently obscure essential facts in the compa
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Pretty sure my local git repository contains thousands of lines of valuable proprietary code (granted on a hardened dedicated work laptop), mixed with open source libraries etc. And I also delete my bash history all the time if I do somethi
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by s_q_b 12y ago
We're arguing past one another. I am discussing the investigation and arrest, not the subsequent trial or any evidence brought to light therein. If you read the complaint, the trial transcript, or even the top post here, it's abun
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by s_q_b 12y ago
> If he were in certain other countries, his sexual orientation might result in death, or have other severe legal or social consequences. Among those social consequences could be regular physical abuse, or even being beaten to death. In
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by s_q_b 12y ago
My concern is that the investigation of the incident relied solely upon the word of Goldman Sachs. An agent essentially parroted back what Goldman employees told him, putting it in the form of a criminal complaint, and without further inves
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Law enforcement SOP requires an independent investigation. That was not performed. The trial is a separate issue, and has its own package of issues. I'm far more concerned with the FBI acting almost as an extension of Goldman, effectiv
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by s_q_b 12y ago
His argument was that most of it was open source, or modified open source with licenses that required contributing back the source code. Basically, it sounds like he grabbed his stuff because he wanted to get his utility functions and open
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Yes. The FBI has technical specialists on staff that could very quickly say, "Yes, this complaint checks out." The problem here is that the agent apparently just took Goldman at their word, and didn't conduct an independent i
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Seriously, can you imagine being individually liable for personal injury in an accident, with no insurance company lawyer to back you up? Insanity.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Virginia might actually be the only state that allows un-bonded uninsured motorists. I know it shocked me when I learned they allowed it.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
You're personally liable. Let me be clear on this: I'm not advocating being uninsured, and of course I insure my own vehicle. I'm just pointing out there are some states that don't require it.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
IFF you have insurance: "The Virginia Uninsured Motor Vehicle (UMV) fee allows a motor vehicle owner to register an uninsured motor vehicle. At the time of registration, the motor vehicle owner must certify whether the vehicle is insur
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Some states don't require car insurance, e.g. Virginia.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
This looks very Eurocentric to me. China and the various Indian empires are getting short-shrift here, at least from an economic and military power perspective. It's a cool diagram, but what was the methodology used to generate this? E
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Sovereign immunity is literally derived from the divine right of the King to be immune from prosecution and civil suit. It's an anachronism in the legal field, and one that most people don't realize exists, but is responsible for
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by s_q_b 12y ago
There's a lot more racial admixture in the American population than most realize, especially among populations who have been in the country for long periods of time. At least 4% of self-identified "white" Americans have recen
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by s_q_b 12y ago
So you were probably "the guy," one of the last holdovers from the true enthusiast days around the exact time I was learning electronics. I remember distinctly at the three (!) locations within driving distance of my house, there
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by s_q_b 12y ago
OECD Data puts the number at 1,790 currently vs. an OECD average of 1,765.[0] Differing underlying populations (i.e. the way you cleaned up your dataset per your definition) probably explain the discrepancy. Out of friendly curiosity, what&
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by s_q_b 12y ago
I agree with your logic in the second and third paragraphs entirely. I won't pretend to be smart enough to know how to have saved that company, but surely any viable solution would have involved reducing their physical retail footprint
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Kodak's case was very interesting too. I have an aunt that worked at Kodak's medical imaging division in the early 2000s (if memory serves.) At the time, Kodak was actively taking the most profitable new divisions and selling them
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Radioshack's demise was precipitated by a number of factors. In no particular order the proximate causes were: 1. A drop in retail sales of electronics from in-person stores as the average consumer purchases more and more online, benef

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