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Is that true? I'm not a lawyer, but I know that in certain criminal plea agreements, such as in antitrust cases, the financial penalty can be paid over installments, the size of wh…

Sure, it's a "financial penalty", technically. Plea deals are common in many jurisdictions, and the settlement imposes additional penalties. They're being punished.

Paying a fine isn't a real punishment?

Counterpoint (kinda): https://efficiencyiseverything.com/

Cities are much more diverse than rural areas in terms of ethnicity, religion, economic class, linguistics, etc. To claim that city dwellers have "similar needs/wants" simply doesn…

No, it doesn't make sense that people should have greater voting power based on their location in the same polity. Your argument is equally valid in reverse -- there's no reason wh…

How will the economy avoid shutdown when the virus is spreading like wildfire, people are terrified to leave their homes, and hospitals are overwhelmed? The argument isn't that we …

Then why does Europe execute much better on infrastructure projects with similar labor costs (and more unionized workers and labor protections) and similar if not stricter environm…

The location of the isochrones themselves are a function of time, depending on current traffic levels, when the next bus is scheduled to arrive, etc. Hence, this map can't be stati…

No. Like Atom, VSCode is also an Electron app, written in Javascript.