thephyber

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by thephyber 2mo ago
I can't imagine a basic analysis of the Kik account would require a terribly expensive expert, in theory. Could the solution be to turn lots of local IT / programmers into potential experts to bend down the cost curve?
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by thephyber 2mo ago
That is a hazard of the way evidence is collected for cases. If the state has a warrant and they find evidence of another crime while executing the warrant, that might be used to bring more charges. I don't know enough about law to kno
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Your comment was already asked and answered several times in this HN post. There was evidence of a crime, only the Kik account ownership evidence was thin. Any decent lawyer would have probed into that aspect of the case, but there are lots
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Rape is unfortunately a difficult crime to prove compared to lots of other crimes. But I also suspect your statistic is not accurate and designed to make your point, not represent reality.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Overturning convictions presumes that the defendant was wrongfully convicted and that the scientist has the technical skill which is relevant in the case. The problem is that these intersecting conditions make the number of relevant cases s
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by thephyber 2mo ago
I doubt any professional prosecutors would say this out loud. This is likely a disciplinable or disbarrable statement. This is effectively a truth, but prosecutors are generally held to high ethical standards, where they are expected to dro
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by thephyber 2mo ago
In the US legal system, the defense isn't given access to the prosecution's evidence used in the case immediately. In fact, lots of plea bargains happen before the defense attorney knows for sure what evidence there is to tie thei
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Interesting. I was actually dismissed from a jury panel partially because I said I don't know if I could trust the experts because my perception is that individual experts either repeatedly testify for only the prosecution or only the
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Alternatively, Anthropic employees have basically unlimited token / model usage compared to you and I. Focusing on a better prompt is likely to get to the correct result faster than incomplete prompts and lots of "no change this .
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by thephyber 2mo ago
You are right, but your parent is right too. If the police logged into his Kik account from his device, they would have seen the lack of connection to the case. If they simply trusted the Kik account contents from the subpoena response, the
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by thephyber 2mo ago
It was a judge, not a jury. And yeah, the trial lawyer failed to make the case, but if the defendant couldn't raise money for a defense, they he likely didn't have any experts to refute the prosecution's evidence.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
I'm guessing there are LOTS of poor/rural parts of Canada (and the US) where convictions happen on less than convincing evidence. Also, the legal system is made up of humans who are ALL fallible and subject to cognitive biases. Ca
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by thephyber 2mo ago
He was just acquitted last week. Let the process play out. "News" is called that because it is new and things are still happening.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
There was lots of evidence of a crime, just not evidence of the defendant doing it. This is most likely super common for criminal trials outside of highly professionalized police and prosecutors.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Public defenders are required to build the best case they can, but the nature of a defense requires hiring experts to contradict the prosecution evidence. Without hiring experts, the public defender is just pounding the table or arguing the
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by thephyber 2mo ago
If you find them, let us know. In the US public defenders don't have time to try cases. They are basically plea bargain assistants.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
You can assume "the system is lazy". In practice, "the system" is a lot of humans. The police in rural Canada aren't used to challenging the word of Wisconsin police. Police and prosecutors need to have an incredibl
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Legal processes take time. The news doesn't wait until the entire process plays out before they start reporting on the news. Apparently the appeal leading to the acquittal just happened last week.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
If you read it carefully, the victim was in the US and the defendant was in Canada (I suspect a rural part). I think everyone is rightly questioning why the defendant's lawyers failed to tear apart the prosecution's case. This gen
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Who is "they"? Police generally have to send faxes to companies for subpoenas, except for the few mega techs who have digital portals built specifically for police subpoenas. Source: I worked for a company who received subpoenas v
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by thephyber 2mo ago
The messages ARE evidence for a case. They are the proof that a crime happened. The problem is that they don't tie the defendant to the acts. The lawyers aren't supposed to be technical, but they should know their limitations and
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by thephyber 2mo ago
The short answer is VW doesn't have the ability to compete with China's best EV car company on EV price, factory automation, or raw input (labor, electricity, metals) economies of scale. The complaining is to get politicians &#x2F
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by thephyber 2mo ago
What do you mean why? This memory stock popping on IPO has nothing to do with how well/bad capitalism provides in the USA. This is entirely about Chinese investors speculating on this company's ability to grow and undercut some Sa
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by thephyber 2mo ago
There's a lot of speculation in your comment. I lived through the crash of 1989, the Dot Com crash in 2000, the GFC of 2008, and whatever the crash and WSB speculation in 2020 were called. None of them had a tiny blast radius like you
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by thephyber 3mo ago
Some in China, but also Thailand and Mexico. They seem to be playing whack-a-mole with manufacturing contractors and changes to tariff policy.
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by thephyber 3mo ago
It's still an issue with the newest generation cameras. If you record at the highest resolution and FPS, the camera can't shed the heat fast enough.
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by thephyber 3mo ago
> but government policy is now making Chinese consumers poorer than they otherwise would be What country has perfect government policy? The US has atrocious government policies. Costs of college, cost of healthcare insurance, the reason
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by thephyber 3mo ago
This is written like an American who is both ignorant of cybersecurity, American politics, and of the advantages that the US has benefitted from since at least WW2. The core points are: - we can't trust a connected GoPro device any
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by thephyber 3mo ago
Risk mitigation is not "for no reason". It is actually one of the larger revenue generators in the economy. That said, I wouldn't bet (if I were you) on something without clearly defining the terms. If Stripe simply homogeniz
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by thephyber 3mo ago
It's not only about morals. No, chargeback rates are not the only reason banking companies like Mastercard are dubious about adult content. In 2021 they added contractual terms to ensure that adult content uses age verification, has

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