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by tivert 2y ago
> There's the trial in the courtroom and then there's the trial in the court of public opinion. And the judge is going to want to keep those as separate as possible. > There are people on Reddit calling for potential jurors
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I think it's pretty well established that UHC denies care that people actually need. It's not just long-shot end-of-life stuff. e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/nyregion/delay-deny-defen
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> There's lots of speculation out there that the shooter was motivated by some failure at United. If so, UHC's PR people are probably in for some long hours during the trial when their dirty laundry gets aired. I kinda doubt a
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>> They go to sleep at night knowing the populace hates them. And yet there's a complete inability to look inward. > is because they go to sleep thinking, "what are our customers going to do about it? They're a capti
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I think you're confusing talk about what to do about similar future infractions with what to do about this current infraction. Also, do you think the fine for a parking ticket is a taking? Does the government have to compensate me for
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> Drone + gun + trigger widget? I feel that would work at all because the aim would be terrible.
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> That's not sufficient evidence. Then your standards of evidence are too high, and least for making decisions in this area. It's like you're working in computer security, but you demand evidence a vulnerable system was ac
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> I know that's the conspiracy theory, but shouldn't we be asking for evidence? No. This is about using reason to anticipate and prevent problems, not dumbly waiting around until the actualized problem stares you in the fac
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> See also: is China suddenly a center of human rights activism, China is, when it serves their primary interest of deflecting criticism from the operation of their very extensive totalitarian/authoritarian system. IIRC, they put o
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> Seizing shares without paying compensation at the market rate would be flatly unconstitutional. There's really no question about that, it's a settled legal issue. I don't think so. The scenario isn't an eminent doma
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> Clockwork rover for long-lived venus exploration: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/a-clockwork-rover-for-venus/ STRANDBEEST EVOLUTION 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C97kMKwZ2-g Screw Venu
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> Shareholders are no more responsible for the misdeeds of management than voters are for the misdeeds of politicians, after all. That's BS. Big shareholders can get seats on the board of directors and have influence over management
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> I'd even "scare them incorrupt" by threatening to nationalize the company if no sufficient corrective actions are implemented to stop being a net negative to society. Now that's the way to discipline the shareholder
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> Stripping them out of their position and banning them from holding executive positions will. You mean a golden parachute? I don't think that will deter anything . I think the GP is on the right track. Business leaders need fear
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> The most shocking aspect of this murder is the fact that I S&P 100 CEO did not have any kind of security around, especially being from an industry that deals with so sensitive business like insurance. Brian Thompson was not a &qu
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> Oh my God, i has forgotten about that black mirror episode. Strange we don't see more civilian attack drones, they'll only get easier to make. It's probably because killing someone with a gun is far more represented in
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Freight isn't just Amazon packages though, and I'd imagine most of it isn't.
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> When I was a super angsty teenager I had a little thought experiment. I imagined that I had a Death Note or some other magical device that could instantly murder someone from any range at any time. How long would it take me to eradicat
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>> And what about this? Imagine a world where the especially blood-sucking CEOs have a 1/10 chance of being assassinated. Don't you think that the regular expectation of this might make them a little less blood-sucking? >
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>> He's right though. > He is not only wrong, he is dangerously wrong. You don't actually know that , because you keep missing the point. How do you know I'm wrong if you can't seem to grasp what I'm talk
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> How would you go about dealing with tire dust pollution in a sensible way that doesn't destroy the global economy? Just thinking off the top of my head, but build out rail infrastructure to decrease long-distance truck transport a
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> I have a little theory I like to tell at pubs that all of the intelligence comminities exist just because it attracts people who can't stand being bored. Advancing national security could be a thrilling entertainment. That's
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> ...and trying to pretend that if everyone were provided with the same opportunities they would achieve the same outcomes in basketball, or in intellectual pursuits, is not only dishonest, it's actively harmful to those born at a d
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> Forty nine percent of people will always be of below average intelligence.... > There will always be a bottom half and they will always struggle to understand the world the top half build. Before you spend too much time patting your
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> It's amusing to see the early signs of the anti-vax movement here. The history of that movement is long. > Humans are built to thrive in danger, chaos and instability. I think a good chunk of humans go insane in a safe and stab
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> It's probably along the same line as how vinyl records supposedly sound better. I'm not an audiophile, but that's actually probably objectively true, but for non-obvious reasons that are not clear if you're just loo
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> Is the Chinese instagram’s name, Little Red Book (小红书), related to Facebook’s Little Red Book, or just a coincidence? I'd bet they're both related to Mao's Little Red Book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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> True, but for me, the techno-optimism started with Google. I was a young kid back then... But for me, the world started with my youth. I was a young kid back then...
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> Except it doesn't, as we have seen with another nuclear power in the course of its psychotic attempt to invade Ukraine. Because the West has been very careful not to push too hard, and has afforded Russia a grinding and expensiv
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> It's pushing toward a stalement, far short of its initial invasion goals and at vastly heavier cost than intended. The momentum is in Russia's direction, and it feels like Ukraine is teetering in the brink due to manpower and

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