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Not really. I'm a lawyer so I have a decent grasp of this stuff. Mens rea is closely tied to intent, not really to whether it had anything to do with intending to break a law (igno…

Yes, we've got to make sure we're talking about the same thing here. In general, we don't morally censure a person who does bad things with good intentions. For example, in crimina…

Well, I would say that if you want to accuse them of misconduct then the main thing would be to ascertain intentions. Certainly, if there is no bad intention on the part of the act…

Yes, of course, I agree. And it doesn't invalidate my point at all. I would say that you're pointing out the problem that people don't understand how important it is to avoid confl…

> It's kind of a throwaway passage in the article but it feels like a crucial point. Maybe I'm wrong but "buying off" to me strongly suggests something along the lines of a bribe. …

Yep, Vim is the first thing to come to mind. I'm not sure there's any program with better undo-ability. I also am not quite sure what the post above means by "GUIs support undo". Y…

Or, since he says "pre-teen", it could just be that his parents sent him to a programming class at a local community college when he was twelve years old. That's the sense I get, a…

"I've been programming for a long, long time. Went to college for it when I was a pre-teen." Yet you don't tell us how old you are, so it's hard to get a grasp for how long you've …

Yes. And that "only second to VB" must be in reference to sales. Delphi was way more advanced and usable than VB, from a technical point of view.

Yes, you are correct. The people who say the "piano" comment was meant just as an observation, not as criticism are wrong. They're ignoring that this was made as an "observation" s…

Yes. Also, for a person with the requisite piano tuning/repair skills, a free piano can be a great thing. And this person can identify which free pianos are great things and which …

The 9/11 attacks killed less than 3,000 people. Or if you want percentages, resulted in the deaths of about 0.0009% of the U.S. populace. Yet it sent our country to war and has had…

??? In what economy do most people not have to pay just to live somewhere?

Yes, exactly. I would add, though, that the "Wuhan lab leak theory", in many people's minds, seems to be combined with a suspected intentional act by the Chinese government, to unl…

Not following. The inspector is generally out of the picture after the inspection, however it goes. If they identify problems, specialized contractors (e.g., plumber, electrician, …

> "General rule of thumb: rent if strongly believe you'll be in a place for less than three years, and consider buying if staying longer." This is a valid rule of thumb only becaus…

Besides the idea that finance (i.e., ROI) is relevant at all to the decision to read a book, this doesn't even work as an ROI analogy. You're comparing the investment by one person…

Note that the source you're using for California lists 'large hydro' as around 15%, but doesn't count it as a "renewable". Texas, by contrast, has close to zero 'large hydro'. It's…

Jazz musician/educator Dave Frank did a Chick Corea "Masterclass" video in honor of Chick, which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8V7iTWuzY A lot of it is techn…

> . . .also saves power consumption, time, and frustration for folks on M1 MacBook Pros. Did you mean to say ". . . for folks /not/ on M1 Macbook Pros"?

> What the best thing about Pascal (and its successor Delphi) was the blazing fast compilation time and I am not sure that freePascal has that. I'm not sure how FreePascal compares…

I understand that. My Linux machine is a 2015 Asus UX305 laptop. Suspend/resume works under Ubuntu's desktop, but I use i3wm, which requires the user to enable features like that t…

I think that "extra" claim is actually false and misleading, if you read the Factcheck.org article I linked in my response to same post.

I'm not sure what post you're responding to said, but I do believe federal Medicare reimbursement is higher for covid-19 care than for similar care that doesn't involve covid-19. I…

I'm not sure how. iPhone was available in June 2007. Android went into public beta in November 2007, and reached 1.0 and was first released in a commercial device in September 2008…