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I've often heard suggestions that fines be specified in law as percentages of revenue. IANAL and don't know how feasible that is, but it makes more sense to me than raw dollar amou…

I agree that the original comment was not overtly _un_friendly. I also think that the reply represents a better way. > If the only way some one can give usable problem analysis and…

Informing all consumers in the market is not a legitimately accomplishable solution to the problem. As long as there are 350 consumers unaware that these people have done this befo…

> But it's a risk you're taking buying a product from a fledgling internet-based startup. This is my problem. It is not reasonable to expect a purchase of a product online to be a …

> If you gave $700 to a company who promised to deliver you a scooter a few years down the line if all of the dominoes fell exactly as planned... I would argue that you got what yo…

> the only way it may have become not that is if we have allowed our complacencies to kick in Just wanted to observe that this belief presupposes the US ever lived up to the princi…

The rational approach to all peer review is to assume there's a flaw and look for it. Quite a few commenters seem bothered by this reflexive reaction to published research, when th…

This is probably the nuance I'm missing.

From the paper's abstract, though, "The results suggest that a 10% reduction in daily PM2.5 and ozone could save $1.4 billion in crime costs per year, a previously overlooked cost …

My hero!

> their results only show a strong correlative relationship The paper's abstract says "The results suggest that a 10% reduction in daily PM2.5 and ozone could save $1.4 billion in …

The first sentence of this post strikes me as needlessly combative and the post would be better without it.

Mental *super illness ;)

Also the statement presumes the superintelligent entity will be capable of taking all possible steps to prevent this. Imagining a machine capable of such steps quickly devolves int…

I will read it, sounds very interesting. But the Wikipedia entry for the book says the book "argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this n…

”We’re strongly dissatisfied and oppose Adam Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right to freedom of expression,” CCTV said in a statement. “We believe that any remarks that challeng…

5> Vans removes innocuous custom shoe design https://www.cnn.com/style/article/vans-hong-kong-intl-hnk-sc...

Social media promised to connect people. It connected avatars instead. People are physical. We have bodies and brains. We have thoughts and opinions. We have friends. Avatars are c…

This is the little detail my dumb joke missed.

I can use this. I make prophecies. I write them down and seal them in envelopes, then I wait. When one is proven false, I just throw it away. When it comes true, I put the still-se…

Thanks very much. Some great other replies to my question in this thread as well.

> They control close to 50% of e-commerce which itself represents less than 12% of total retail sales. Both of these numbers are surprising to me, can you source them? Particularly…

LOL I came here to see if someone else had noticed it's the worst mobile-first layout of all time. At least it's mobile-first I guess. :)

> Snowden distributed documents to the Guardian, Washington Post, and Der Spiegel - not Wikileaks. That's an important distinction, thank you for making it. Late May, Snowden fled …