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There's a fine line between what you described and toxic positivity. It's important not to ruminate on bad thoughts (when your proposal is a good replacement behavior), but it's al…

> if the success of the show 'Silicon Valley' indicates anything That show was created by the creator of Office Space. They were both fictional and satire. Just because it was popu…

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Wait. Apples and oranges. People who haven't even been interviewed let alone hired getting a company brand is one thing. But coworkers (and likely friends) getting a company tattoo…

No, bad logic. This was a local professional tattoo artist from San Francisco doing a pop up shop at their company party, not some prisoner with a sewing needle. Professional Tatto…

Cringe? Yes, to you and I. But it's kinda accurate. It is a pseudo-bank using crypto/ stablecoins to bring banking to Latin America. And it's 10 years late to the crypto game. It l…

There's hundreds of thousands of programmers out of work from recent layoffs. Getting a small tattoo to stand out in a crowd doesn't necessarily signal bad judgement. It's more lik…

Group think. Monkey see, monkey do. It's actually remarkably difficult to be the only one to dissent unless you grew up in a culture where dissent is encouraged. The people who wor…

I can't imagine a basic analysis of the Kik account would require a terribly expensive expert, in theory. Could the solution be to turn lots of local IT / programmers into potentia…

That is a hazard of the way evidence is collected for cases. If the state has a warrant and they find evidence of another crime while executing the warrant, that might be used to b…

Your comment was already asked and answered several times in this HN post. There was evidence of a crime, only the Kik account ownership evidence was thin. Any decent lawyer would …

Rape is unfortunately a difficult crime to prove compared to lots of other crimes. But I also suspect your statistic is not accurate and designed to make your point, not represent …

Overturning convictions presumes that the defendant was wrongfully convicted and that the scientist has the technical skill which is relevant in the case. The problem is that these…

I doubt any professional prosecutors would say this out loud. This is likely a disciplinable or disbarrable statement. This is effectively a truth, but prosecutors are generally he…

In the US legal system, the defense isn't given access to the prosecution's evidence used in the case immediately. In fact, lots of plea bargains happen before the defense attorney…

Interesting. I was actually dismissed from a jury panel partially because I said I don't know if I could trust the experts because my perception is that individual experts either r…

Alternatively, Anthropic employees have basically unlimited token / model usage compared to you and I. Focusing on a better prompt is likely to get to the correct result faster tha…

You are right, but your parent is right too. If the police logged into his Kik account from his device, they would have seen the lack of connection to the case. If they simply trus…

It was a judge, not a jury. And yeah, the trial lawyer failed to make the case, but if the defendant couldn't raise money for a defense, they he likely didn't have any experts to r…

I'm guessing there are LOTS of poor/rural parts of Canada (and the US) where convictions happen on less than convincing evidence. Also, the legal system is made up of humans who ar…

He was just acquitted last week. Let the process play out. "News" is called that because it is new and things are still happening.

There was lots of evidence of a crime, just not evidence of the defendant doing it. This is most likely super common for criminal trials outside of highly professionalized police a…

Public defenders are required to build the best case they can, but the nature of a defense requires hiring experts to contradict the prosecution evidence. Without hiring experts, t…

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If you find them, let us know. In the US public defenders don't have time to try cases. They are basically plea bargain assistants.