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by sjy 9y ago
The judge in this case found that he was able to decrypt the hard drive but chose not to.
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by sjy 9y ago
Are you denying that the Fifth Amendment only applies to witnesses (which seems clear from the text), or are you just disputing the court's decision that being compelled to decrypt a hard drive is not 'in effect' forcing some
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by sjy 9y ago
That article relies on Doe v. United States , 487 U.S. 201 (1988)[1], in which the Supreme Court found that a suspect could be compelled to sign a form authorizing banks to disclose records of any accounts over which he had a right of with
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by sjy 9y ago
Whether a person's guilt has been proven beyond reasonable doubt is a question of fact for the judge or jury deciding a particular case, and not something that can be determined by precedent. But given that people are regularly convict
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by sjy 9y ago
It is still ridiculous. Just because some lawyers take on clients over the internet doesn't mean that you need to say 'I am not a lawyer' every time you discuss a legal question online. I have never seen a case of someone bei
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by sjy 9y ago
Prostitution is not 'completely legal' in Australia. Brothels are still illegal in some states and even those states which have decriminalised prostitution have brothels operating illegally. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by sjy 9y ago
But a loan documented on the blockchain is just as assignable as one documented on paper, and a lender has no more incentive to agree to a clause prohibiting off-chain assignment than a clause prohibiting assignment without the borrower&#x2
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by sjy 9y ago
Federal judges, such as the one who will sentence Shkreli, are not elected.
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by sjy 9y ago
MOOCs are not very useful for any kind of science that requires lab access, and Sci-Hub is not very useful for any kind of scholarly material that's not scientific, so I'd say universities are still far from obsolete.
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by sjy 9y ago
The problem with your first two examples is that the 'investment' locked up in the smart contract can't be spent, which means the investors are not bearing any risk, and therefore cannot enjoy a return. If the money could be
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by sjy 9y ago
Whether your denial is plausible is a matter for a judge or jury. Your credibility might be stretched if, say, the drugs were worth a lot of money, you didn't report it when they turned up at your house, you had drugs in your house whe
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by sjy 9y ago
This is a very US-centric perspective: in most common law countries, jury trials have been all but abolished for contractual interpretation cases.
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by sjy 9y ago
I was confused by the idea that 'in measures' could mean 'en masse,' but it looks like you've switched the two terms by accident and 'in Maßen' corresponds to 'measuredly.'
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by sjy 10y ago
They don't; yes; no.
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by sjy 10y ago
It is, especially (but not necessarily) if the person promising not to sue has a valid claim. This is covered in any contract law textbook, but it's an old common law principle so there are plenty of free online sources, too. For examp
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by sjy 10y ago
Can you cite some of those studies? The effective incidence of corporate income tax is controversial. With internationally mobile capital and immobile labour, a source-based corporate income tax theoretically has no impact on shareholders a
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by sjy 10y ago
The grandparent referred to tax revenue as a percentage of GDP, which is a measure designed to compare the tax burden across countries without having to delve into the various ways of measuring income, applying tax credits, and balancing th
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by sjy 10y ago
The article specifically states that the OECD analysis estimated 'payroll taxes, federal income tax, state and local government taxes.'
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by sjy 10y ago
What evidence did you have in mind? A casual glance at the predicament faced by lower income people in the United States, compared to more redistributionist OECD nations, suggests that redistribution (particularly universal healthcare funde
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by sjy 10y ago
Using a VPN to another country slows down browsing a lot – in my experience, enough to make the web unusable from a bad hotel WiFi connection. It's annoying enough that I usually just accept the loss of privacy.
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by sjy 10y ago
Perhaps you could consider the regulatory schemes in place in Canada, the UK and EU? Many countries have reduced the influence of money on politics without bringing an end to freedom of speech. The US is a clear outlier.
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by sjy 10y ago
Especially an evil action: this earlier meaning lives on in accessory after the fact .
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by sjy 10y ago
It would be better if you provided more recent examples: medical science was very primitive in the 19th century, and Galileo was not persecuted by scientists. More recently, Marshall and Warren's research on stomach ulcers quickly led
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by sjy 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy
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by sjy 10y ago
It is unrealistic to expect that any one person could convince a sizeable portion of the world to become vegetarian, but simply by being one you can influence others without being evangelical. I would not have become a vegetarian without th
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by sjy 10y ago
Then why are there so many more drivers than lawyers?
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by sjy 10y ago
What do you think that lawyers and insurance companies have to gain from better crypto (than HTTPS)? Most leaks come from poorly secured servers and compromised credentials. I have a hard time thinking of a realistic threat that an insuranc
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by sjy 10y ago
Some people earn income by preparing handwritten calligraphic wedding invitations and signs; plenty of graphic designers (and software developers, for that matter) use paper in the process of preparing a digital product. It's no more o
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by sjy 10y ago
I directly experience dreams and optical illusions, too. Trusting your perception is basically the opposite of science.
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by sjy 10y ago
There are many non-quantum phenomena which can't be accurately predicted, like turbulence and the stock market. I've never understood why the argument that 'it'a unpredictable, and therefore must be quantum' only se

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