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by tsotha 11y ago
Martha Stewart was convicted based on an investigator's memory and the notes he had written in his notebook. It wasn't what she said, but what she said in someone else's words. Do you really want to bet your freedom on the b
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by tsotha 11y ago
This is as good a place as any to re-post this: http://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/how-to-avoi...
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by tsotha 11y ago
Did you read the title of this post?
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by tsotha 11y ago
And yet the numbers back my interpretation.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The women I've known who "attempted" suicide weren't really trying to kill themselves. It was either attention seeking behavior or an attempt to punish people in their social circle. IMO it's more a question of in
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's why they call it "climate change" now, instead of "global warming". This way if it gets warmer - climate change. If it gets cooler - climate change. Bad weather? Climate change. Nice weather? Also clima
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by tsotha 11y ago
>But making the leap from that to "my code can't harm people" is a bridge too far. Meh. My application is an internal app for a large company. It's basically scheduling software for a part of our business process.
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by tsotha 11y ago
My ethics are my own. I see no reason to make a public spectacle out of it one way or another.
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's odd that we never heard about that when the polar bears were supposed to drown.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>1) This is going to be used, fast, by the climate change denial camp to show "everything is OK", sad but true. Seems pretty fair, doesn't it? I mean, any decreases have certainly been used by AGW promoters to show &quo
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by tsotha 11y ago
I doubt there are many people entering prison who think they belong there.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I love the World Service. I just want to hear the news without gimmicks.
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by tsotha 11y ago
What makes it a story is the imbalance between the sexes. These women aren't married despite having a pretty unbalanced sex ratio to their advantage.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not sure I would call herpes a benign virus. There are strains that will kill you.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's a terrible example. Those John Doe investigations were a great example of prosecutorial abuse. If I had been Walker I would have had the state AG indict the prosecutors involved for corruption.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Most people who own a house or have savings or have family can scrape together enough money to engage a lawyer. How much that actually costs depends on the charge. So many cases are pled out these days (98% at the federal level), I doubt m
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by tsotha 11y ago
Might be, but can you assume that without evidence?
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by tsotha 11y ago
Statistically the rich don't do any better than anyone who can afford a lawyer. The people who get screwed are the ones relying on court-appointed counsel. They do significantly worse.
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's really past time to get rid of the qualified immunity doctrine. It's yet another "law" made up by the supreme court from whole cloth. Prosecutors should be fully liable for illegal actions they take even when they&
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by tsotha 11y ago
To be fair, most Teslas are being bought by enthusiasts. When they start selling the model 3 to people who just want a reliable car, there may in fact be some demand for the services typically offered by a dealership.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Iranian patrol boats always had anti-shipping missiles. They don't have many patrol boats, though, and they don't have many missiles. Beyond that, if you're going to use a missile there's no point in putting it on a bo
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Apple has a moral and ethical onus to make the right choices be it related to the confederate flag, changing drug laws, or using emoji to fight bullying, and we respect that. I can't decide if he really respects that or if he&#x2
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by tsotha 11y ago
>A healthy economy will, in most cases, exhibit inflation. A healthy economy will exhibit monetary inflation as it grows. But there's no reason for it to exhibit price inflation. >The government has to print more money to keep
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by tsotha 11y ago
>That doesn't make very much sense to me. It's not as if the "new dollars" are worth $1.02, while the "old dollars" are worth $1.00. It's very much like that, actually, except it's more like the ne
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by tsotha 11y ago
That was (mostly) true twenty years ago, but not any more.
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by tsotha 11y ago
On the other hand, you're commenting on HN instead of actually working :)
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by tsotha 11y ago
What you're missing is people with first access to new money are the ones who benefit the most in an inflationary environment. In a fractional reserve system that's the banks. Banks generally benefit from higher inflation up unt
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by tsotha 11y ago
>If the holders of wealth that seed the economy figure out that it's better for them to hold on to their assets rather than invest them, then people lose jobs. That's the theory, but I'm skeptical. If the economy is healt
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by tsotha 11y ago
Anything that has a half-life of 500,000 years isn't very radioactive at all. The half life is directly related to the amount of harmful stuff it puts out.
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by tsotha 11y ago
It was inevitable. Tesla was, for a long time, over-hyped. Now the pendulum is swinging back the other way, and every little thing that goes wrong will get national attention. I'd be very surprised if Tesla was "doomed".

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