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This should apply to anyone. IMO engineers aren't special. As a human you should try not to fuck over other people.

Both criminal law and code are vast enough that the fraction I understand of either is closer to zero than the entirety.

I've learned to identify a kragen post from the preceding zero.

Just bringing your stuff with you from one state to another could make you a felon, making people very locked in from moving across certain states. Someone in Idaho would become a …

Euro floats.

More like they trusted two (well actually three if you count US gov) centralized entities instead of one. It's like asking permission from both momma and pappa to eat desert. They …

Lol almost no one in South America is laughing at USD. I've been to 3 of the 4 continents you mention and spent USD directly in all of them but Europe. Hello in many south america …

Aren't there lots of terrible crimes without a victim? Like smoking or growing plants, or owning an NFA restricted firearm item? So looking at victims may not tell the whole pictur…

Exactly. If men are disproportionately in prison, maybe that isn't justice. Why is it ok for 'spaulding to just shut down the argument as "nothing about justice requires that punis…

Exactly. If black people disproportionately are in prison, maybe that's just justice.

Same when comparing racial disparity in crime/prison.

>You’re going to be waiting a while. He's been arrested. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-frie...

Looks like you're right, thanks. Gonna be a long time before he goes to jail then. Maybe Bahamas will charge him first to get him in jail and then US would be able to extradite as …

He can be imprisoned on one "sacrificial" offense for which they have probable cause but don't care much about.* Then reset the clock with a superseding indictment. * Note per belo…

No they responded that "AML/KYC violations " (the allegations they responded about) were "generally (although not always) victimless crimes." The violation wasn't money laundering …

I presume a gun in the hands of a federal employee is a potential danger and thus these government employees are violating endangerment law by engaging in armed enforcement of KYC/…

If someone can't have a fair judicial process the "path forward" is for them to have "jail time"? Fuck that, I praise Ghosn's actions.

At what population size is democracy acceptable? Is it bad to say live in a world with decentralized democracies i.e. say the US and Sweden are separate entities?