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The culture is at least somewhat relevant if it gets in the way of efficiently performing the mission.

I don't know, but I can speculate. For example, there is no evidence I'm aware of that the hacks were politically motivated or that the results of the hacks were used to assist one…

This is a semi-variant of Hyrum's law.

Here's how it works. If those were the only charges, then your standard of proof would be "beyond a reasonable doubt" (i.e. 97-99% likely). They aren't. Since the other charges wer…

? I quoted the judge in the case, who does have the evidence . . .. She didn't presume guilt. She factored evidence of guilt into her sentencing decision.

> As long as a conviction feels good, it doesn't much matter if the due process of law is followed What? I don't believe I said anything about "feeling good" anywhere in my comment…

> It's strange that sentencing can be increased for crimes you haven't been convicted for. I feel like judicial discretion in sentencing is pretty well understood, but I guess it c…

I don't know. I don't know too many prosecutors, and whenever I read about them, it's normally related to sensational news stories or even more sensational fictional TV shows. Perh…

It actually is how the law works, though, since (for better or worse) there is judicial discretion in sentencing.

I quoted someone who was intimately involved in the trial saying there was ample and unambiguous evidence. Your theory on why those charges were not included is one of a number of …

Well . . . the charges themselves were all for non-violent offenses. But part of the reason why the sentencing was so harsh was that whole thing where he paid to have five people k…

You do not understand correctly. r vs. g has little to do with the return of debt vs. the return of certain classes of securities (since neither is pegged to economic growth). Rath…

The "liquidity requirements" you refer to are the fraction in "fractional-reserve." If I deposit $1, and then the bank's capital requirements are 75%, and they lend out $0.75, the …

Well, at a very high level, banks can use saved money to lend to businesses or individuals at a given multiplier. If a bank has insufficient deposits, it can't lend any more money.…

You're not wrong that that effect can exist. And I'm not saying that investing is a totally altruistic, virtuous action. However, the criticisms of the stock market as not being "r…

There's an enormous amount of complexity here. For one thing, it's not like there is an infinite amount of beef available at a fixed price. Bob's eating that burger probably on the…

> Yes you should. Bob supported a host of vacation-related workers and kept the economy moving. You sucked money out of the economy and sat on it. Eh. I'd rather say that Bob diver…

> If the goal is to spread wealth more evenly . . . If the only goal was to spread wealth more evenly, then what we should do is simple appropriate all wealth beyond (num_wealth / …

Most shareholders (holders of the wealth represented by companies) are members of the wealthy class? :P You don't say. I'm of two minds on this. Wealth and income are not the same.…

Didn't someone just recently post a DQN solution for Montezuma's Revenge (the game that according to this article they cannot solve)? > "Though DQN is great at games like Breakout,…

My iPhone has been through three major OS releases. My MacBook has been through two, and the previous one survived three. However you came to your current beliefs, I don't think th…

That is not a very good take. There have been dozens if not hundreds of similar leaks from people who thought they could handle the backend and used more traditional technologies. …

OK, all of this is true, and concerning to me, despite that I would never buy a Tesla (when there are perfectly good used Nissan Leafs out there!). This is part of the reason I nev…

In the case of adversarial legal disputes? They are rarely economically productive in isolation. Normally it's actually negative-sum.

Well, since we don't know the terms of the settlement, we don't really know. Presumably one team's shareholders are slightly better off, and the other team's are slightly worse off…