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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
The culture is at least somewhat relevant if it gets in the way of efficiently performing the mission.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I don't know, but I can speculate. For example, there is no evidence I'm aware of that the hacks were politically motivated or that the results of the hacks were used to assist one candidate or hinder another.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
This is a semi-variant of Hyrum's law.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Here's how it works. If those were the only charges, then your standard of proof would be "beyond a reasonable doubt" (i.e. 97-99% likely). They aren't. Since the other charges were already proven beyond a reasonable dou
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
? I quoted the judge in the case, who does have the evidence . . .. She didn't presume guilt. She factored evidence of guilt into her sentencing decision.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> As long as a conviction feels good, it doesn't much matter if the due process of law is followed What? I don't believe I said anything about "feeling good" anywhere in my comment, so I struggle to fathom how my argu
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> It's strange that sentencing can be increased for crimes you haven't been convicted for. I feel like judicial discretion in sentencing is pretty well understood, but I guess it could seem strange if you haven't spent muc
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I don't know. I don't know too many prosecutors, and whenever I read about them, it's normally related to sensational news stories or even more sensational fictional TV shows. Perhaps you have more direct experience with thes
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
It actually is how the law works, though, since (for better or worse) there is judicial discretion in sentencing.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I quoted someone who was intimately involved in the trial saying there was ample and unambiguous evidence. Your theory on why those charges were not included is one of a number of possible explanations. Another possible explanation was that
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Well . . . the charges themselves were all for non-violent offenses. But part of the reason why the sentencing was so harsh was that whole thing where he paid to have five people killed. > "I find there is ample and unambiguous evid
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
You do not understand correctly. r vs. g has little to do with the return of debt vs. the return of certain classes of securities (since neither is pegged to economic growth). Rather, the return on deposits and the return on stocks are both
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
The "liquidity requirements" you refer to are the fraction in "fractional-reserve." If I deposit $1, and then the bank's capital requirements are 75%, and they lend out $0.75, the total amount of money is now $1.75.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Well, at a very high level, banks can use saved money to lend to businesses or individuals at a given multiplier. If a bank has insufficient deposits, it can't lend any more money. This is called fractional-reserve banking. https:&#x2
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
You're not wrong that that effect can exist. And I'm not saying that investing is a totally altruistic, virtuous action. However, the criticisms of the stock market as not being "real investing" are largely off-base. Liq
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
There's an enormous amount of complexity here. For one thing, it's not like there is an infinite amount of beef available at a fixed price. Bob's eating that burger probably on the margin increases the supply of beef, but it
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> Yes you should. Bob supported a host of vacation-related workers and kept the economy moving. You sucked money out of the economy and sat on it. Eh. I'd rather say that Bob diverted labor toward supporting his luxury consumption
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> If the goal is to spread wealth more evenly . . . If the only goal was to spread wealth more evenly, then what we should do is simple appropriate all wealth beyond (num_wealth / num_people), and give it to all the people who don&#
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Most shareholders (holders of the wealth represented by companies) are members of the wealthy class? :P You don't say. I'm of two minds on this. Wealth and income are not the same. You get wealth by not consuming all of your incom
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Didn't someone just recently post a DQN solution for Montezuma's Revenge (the game that according to this article they cannot solve)? > "Though DQN is great at games like Breakout, it is still not able to tackle relatively
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
My iPhone has been through three major OS releases. My MacBook has been through two, and the previous one survived three. However you came to your current beliefs, I don't think there is good data to support them. Apple is quite good a
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
That is not a very good take. There have been dozens if not hundreds of similar leaks from people who thought they could handle the backend and used more traditional technologies. There's precious little evidence that I'm aware of
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
OK, all of this is true, and concerning to me, despite that I would never buy a Tesla (when there are perfectly good used Nissan Leafs out there!). This is part of the reason I never invest in individual stocks: I have no tolerance for the
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
In the case of adversarial legal disputes? They are rarely economically productive in isolation. Normally it's actually negative-sum.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
Well, since we don't know the terms of the settlement, we don't really know. Presumably one team's shareholders are slightly better off, and the other team's are slightly worse off than before, but it's hard to say
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> This begs the question, why doesn't Facebook just completely redo their apps? I'm sure it wouldn't take long to achieve feature parity with the old app It's hard to tell on the internet . . . you mean this as satire
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
The price of gold is not defined according to some fixed utility function. There's a demand component, yes (which is not fixed). But there's also a supply component.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
I normally think of financials as things that don't need to be heavily encrypted, because we have laws limiting liability in case financial information is stolen and misused. What makes you feel it needs encryption?
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
A facile response. Sometimes prohibited activities are not observed. In these cases, it's hard to impose consequences. But it's much more complex than this. There's a question of how much we want to prevent such things, and,
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by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
You mean, assuming it happened? It's probably not permitted. It'd fall under the category of cruel and unusual punishment, or maybe extrajudicial punishment. Plenty of things happen that are not permitted.

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