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Programming is esoteric to common folk. Almost like witchcraft. When things go wrong for villagers, they often burn witches.
They didn't burn witches in the old days because of some moral failing that we've outgrown. They burned them because they were unable to understand that "witches" didn't actually cause plagues.
I was on a jury for a murder trial, and so I have some insight into how juries work. At one point, when I was splitting some hairs and discussing the meaning of some small details from the evidence, one of the other jurors got impatient and reached for the coroner's photo of the victim. "Someone died here, you realize."
If it was a normal company you could boycott them, but how do you boycott Goldman Sachs for all they have done?
> The fourth, and final, rule was by far the most important: Don’t say a word to government officials. “The reason you don’t,” he says, “is that, if you do, they can place an agent on a witness stand and he can say anything.”
Aren't you allowed to have a lawyer present in conversations with agents?
Additionally, while private people can suggest charges or report crimes, ultimately they have zero say one way or the other if charges actually get filed.
See also: Apple/DoJ/Gawker, ATT/Apple/DoJ/weev, JSTOR/MIT/aaronsw
On the night of the arrest—without an arrest warrant—Serge waived his right to call a lawyer. He phoned his wife and told her what had happened and that a bunch of F.B.I. agents were on the way to their home to seize their computers, and to please let them in—though they had no search warrant, either. Then he sat down and politely tried to clear up the F.B.I. agent's confusion. "He was completely not interested in th…
I rewatch it annually and send out mass emails to all my friends and family when I do reminding them to do so as well.
EDIT: should always read on before commenting:
"He married a girl and manages to have three kids with her before he figures out he doesn’t really know her."
"He didn’t fully understand how Goldman could think it was O.K. to benefit so greatly from the work of others and then behave so selfishly toward them."
I don't think he understands Wall Street.