sheepleherd

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by sheepleherd 10y ago
you are correct to point out the "flaw" in what s/he said. I don't know the actual answer (and it would be difficult to convince me that anybody has all the data either) but many people "experienced" with start
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
ponzi's are illegal, and not for being misleading, for having the financial structure of a "pyramid scheme". "disclosing" the structure makes it easier to prove that they fit what has been made illegal.
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
These things have changed dramatically in the last couple generations, in Europe and in the US, and Asia. I would caution you against thinking that things will stay as they are. Hell, I'd caution you against thinking things actually ar
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Yeah but the world is not a pretty place, at home we have monopolistic unicorns, and abroad we have unfair business practices... I'm not shedding any tears for Apple, screw'em. Even if the US is a relatively "clean" plac
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
actually, i would say yours is the narrow point, and it's also a POV whose reach you are looking to broaden. The negative aspect of your POV is that some of us get tired of hearing it over and over (and I'm not picking on you, jus
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
thanks, that's very good. quick critique (wanted to contribute to this conversation while it's active rather than delve deeply into LLVM for the rest of the day :) it's (naturally and understandably) written from the perspect
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
like you are saying "it's a problem", and like I'm saying "that's the problem I'd like to see solved" as an example, what they teach us in school, and what large projects like NASA have do do, is to f
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
more detailed question please? I'm happy to discuss but I'm not sure whether you are looking for bottom up nitty gritty details or more top down grounded philosophizing.
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
the computer science / computer programming problem I'd like to see solved is, keeping projects "fresh" and open/accessible enough that people like this could feel like they were learning in an unencumbered way, and
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
the language was already in the founding documents. yes, with hindsight, more language could have been added; but what I'm saying is, the language that was there is perfectly clear; it's lawyers and their bullshit who create the n
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
thanks for asking what does "constitutional right to petition" have to do with this, by thinking about how to explain it I figured out what I meant overall. I meant it in the sense that "rights to petition" and "rig
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
| Gawker wasn't guilty of either libel or slander because they didn't publish anything about Hogan that was false. ...not to mention, Hogan's public persona and living he has earned has been by posing as a larger than life cl
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
they took a gamble and lost, that's business != good riddance
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
I think they wanted you to notice the design and the thinking lines. They didn't set out to invent the world's best chess player.
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
what would make it much better along those lines (are you listening designers?) would be if it drew its thinking lines on the board but under the pieces. because I can't study the board while it's thinking (it obscures all the pie
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
it's like you are explaining how somebody can invent a new alphabet that is "evocative" so we should accept using it instead of the alphabet we already know. or to put it another way, Staunton.
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
There is no answer, there is no law, no standard, no precedent, which any "unusually sophisticated" lawyer looking at it for a few minutes would realize. But instead of informing the "unusually sophisticated" court hones
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
I was pointing out a thought process that I thought would work better and more rationally (it's the way parents adjudicate disputes, i.e. what's really at stake here, and yes, parents do get to legislate) rather than making an &qu
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
In my cases, I felt that the court spent time on issues that were not only minor, but the court left them unopined. This just encourages laywers to keep doing it, it earns them more money. For example, and since you are an attorney I'l
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
Negative PR is used; unfortunately, it's used on the judge to turn the judge against the other side. It comes so thick and fast the judges get sick of it... yet, they are influenced by it, and they bluster but issue no pain to the offe
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
ha ha, good one! :) but my personal peeve is actually a little different: regardless of whether I'm part of a unique group or it works this way for everybody, the different parts of my brain remember the prank differently and at differ
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
| We do not have equal access to our judicial system in the United States. If you have money, you have the power... Your POV that money distorts and helps determine winners, while seeming so prima facie obvious, does not come close to g
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
oh the rich rich irony of your comment here, you silencer of dissenting opinions you.
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
first of all, oh come off it, when I said everybody else, I meant "everybody else here on HN who is downvoting me and not balanced by upvoters in my corner, and since anybody can upvote and only a small faction can downvote, we are tal
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
The situation with supposed gerrymandering is more subtle than you give it credit for, and you therefore are either hopelessly naive about voting constituencies, or you would soon see on inspection that your "impartial system" wou
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
False. My "most parent" comment attracted downvotes well before any of my other comments. I went to edit it to improve it but I think downvotes turn off the edit button or something (not much time had transpired). So what exactly
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
cute turn of phrase :) however, I feel you are so convinced you are right that you are not looking at the actual issue and you intellectually impoverish yourself as a result. Gerrymander is an accusation you hurl at opponents in the majorit
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
if you scour the discussion history of the wikipedia page you will find my comments many months ago disputing that the article implies that there is some "fair" way to draw districts without laying out what that way should be. I c
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
You (and everybody else) don't understand what I mean because you haven't thought about it as much as I have. By what principle do you think districts should be drawn--they must be redrawn due to shifting population--so do you int
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by sheepleherd 10y ago
pranks that surprise people, ok. pranks that waste somebody's time, not ok. I never want my time wasted, and I know that I can be fooled, there is no real challenge to wasting my time.

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