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by wilfra 14y ago
Heroku isn't part of the domain though (ahmetalpbalkan.com)
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by wilfra 14y ago
Actually, it's 'frisco'
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And just like that, it becomes clear how Udacity can become a multi-billion dollar company. I hope their investors get rich, the World will be a much better place if they do. I think there has been a lot of interest in the company lately. I
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by wilfra 14y ago
This wasn't sentencing it was prosecution and I disagree that the mental health of the defendant should be taken into consideration when the cause of the mental health breakdown was facing the punishment for his crimes. If it led to them co
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by wilfra 14y ago
That's got nothing to do with how the prosecutor should respond to being told he is suicidal. I agree he shouldn't have been prosecuted.
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by wilfra 14y ago
A whole lot of people who were prevented by law enforcement and mental health staff from killing themselves would disagree with you. If someone is truly determined to end their life no human can stop them, only delay them for a little while
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Preventing him from killing himself, by any means necessary, would have been best for society. If he were in a psychiatric hospital the treatment wouldn't have been much different. They also use rubber rooms and cameras, if necessary. Outsi
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by wilfra 14y ago
I mean the alternative of him being dead. Yes, there were other alternatives and jail certainly wasn't the best one. My point is simply that it would have been better than what ultimately happened, so given that, it's not so terrible the pr
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by wilfra 14y ago
It's not 'since the thought of...' it's just that 'since he is suicidal'. The fact that he was suicidal because of the thought of going to jail is irrelevant to the prosecutor, as it must be. They can't allow such emotional responses to wei
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by wilfra 14y ago
>>I'm so glad to hear they had just the right environment for Aaron waiting to lovingly receive him. However horrible that might have been, it would have been better than the alternative...
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by wilfra 14y ago
I'm very sorry for your loss and for not properly qualifying what I said. I didn't consider that a person who has suffered through this very situation might read what I wrote. Yes many people do commit suicide in jail. But most of those peo
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by wilfra 14y ago
You don't think Congress agreeing with us on this can have any practical effect? You realize they are the ones who make the laws and confirm judicial appointments, right? I know it's cool to hate on the government and criticize everything t
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by wilfra 14y ago
"When one former lawyer told prosecutors that Swartz might kill himself, "Their response was, 'Put him in jail. He’ll be safe there.'" I know this seems heartless and terrible at first glance but it's actually a pretty reasonable response.
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Lawmakers slam DOJ prosecution of Swartz as 'ridiculous, absurd'(thehill.com)
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"the government" is something else entirely from one politician or prosecutor.
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Right and evidently whomever shared this did not want the other 21,999 people seeing that they had posted it to their blog. So they shared it anonymously.
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Prosecutors and politicians would respond the same way if a group so critical to their existence became enraged at their actions (think reporters or donors). MIT wouldn't be MIT without their stature in the tech community - precisely the pe
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by wilfra 14y ago
For anonymity. The person who posted it is likely an MIT Student/Alumnus/Faculty who received the email and others might not like them sharing it.
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This part does not need to be stated. It is obvious he is the one who made the final decision and who was ultimately responsible for it.
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by wilfra 14y ago
RIP. So sad. Like many others here, may path also crossed his several times as I kept bumping into his work. He had a ton of really cool side projects. I pinged him a few times about some of them and he was always really gracious and helpfu
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by wilfra 14y ago
He was more accurately describing bipolar disorder, whether he realized it or not. Are you implying that depression or BPD is 'compatibile with blame'? If so, that's absurd.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Anybody have good ideas for a booth? I'd like to get hired as a front-end developer/UI designer. Outside of just bringing my iMac down there to show off stuff I've built, I'm drawing a blank.
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by wilfra 14y ago
It's not farmland low-density, it's just not manhattan. And I don't know that they want it to become more dense than it already is. Northern California likes its trees, low-rise buildings and greenbelts. I don't think anybody wants to see a
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by wilfra 14y ago
Oklahoma is a defined area with one state government. Silicon Valley is made up of parts of a bunch of different counties and cities, all with the power to make their own rules. In your example, it would be like saying 'the midwest' or some
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by wilfra 14y ago
>>I thought it then to be weird at best for a city to run light rail on a sidewalk where pedestrians normally are It works this way in Amsterdam. Bicycles, pedestrians (many of them stoned tourists), cars and trains all mixing toget
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by wilfra 14y ago
That was a much different World where people only communicated with those who lived in their town. International travel and the internet have both made English much, much stronger and more important.
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Arrogance and entitlement perhaps, however I'd argue that both are deserved. It's the international standard, it's not as if we are arrogantly feeling entitled to everybody speaking farsi or something. However fear that english is on it's w
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by wilfra 14y ago
The only way I knew you were French is that you're saying 'we'. Your English is fine. As is the English of nearly every French person who I've coaxed into speaking it with me. I had to visit a hospital in France and even my doctor refused t
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by wilfra 14y ago
For the same reason everybody who wasn't French in that video used English - it's the international language of business. Also because most educated French people can speak it just fine, they just refuse to.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Why are French people always unwilling to speak English?

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