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> If only Bill Gates and Larry Summers had had my mom to go to for advice, they could’ve saved themselves a lot of grief. Well it looks like Bill Gates had his wife for advice, and apparently his not following it played a part in ending his marriage.
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That would be strange because not all Internet communications involve interstate commerce.
They absolutely do, because packets regularly bounce across state boundaries even if I am just sending a message to my next door neighbor. For example, my phone service provider is headquartered in a different state, so using their network to send an SMS message automatically creates an interstate nexus. If a US attorney wants to take over a case for reasons of professional or political advancement the argument is tr…
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This seems rational. We on't have term limits int he US Congress and it doesn't seem any the better for it. Japan, a heavily bureaucratized country, systematically moves junior and mid-tier staff around in some departments to minimize the possibility of nest-feathering and empire-building, although I would not say it's perfect by a long way.
We do have term limits for positions like the presidency, and what we see is a perpetual power structure one layer removed, in the party system, which effectively chooses who we're permitted to vote for. Introducing term limits only forces the wealth and power to change it's face periodically. It is addressing a symptom, not the cause. At least one constitutional scholar has argued that campaign finance reform strike…
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Isn't use of the internet to facilitate crimes commonly cited as a reason for federal prosecution, on the grounds that all internet communications involve interstate commerce?
That would be strange because not all Internet communications involve interstate commerce.
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You don't get that rich in the first place without being a ruthless asshole.
Proof please, not a slogan. Like, actual facts.
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They absolutely do, because packets regularly bounce across state boundaries even if I am just sending a message to my next door neighbor. For example, my phone service provider is headquartered in a different state, so using their network to send an SMS message automatically creates an interstate nexus. If a US attorney wants to take over a case for reasons of professional or political advancement the argument is tr…
Packets regularly crossing state lines doesn’t mean they always cross state lines.
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A few years ago there was some news articles about “group chats that rule the world”, and for some reason people didn’t take it seriously enough. Closer to the top, it feels like it’s “everyone knows everyone” game. Playing against those groups just leads to a perma-loss, so you’re incentivized to partake. This is/was one of such groups.
Some people would love to play against those groups with the goal of not winning but costing their opponents dearly. They never get the opportunity though because those groups are intentionally protected from those kinds of players.
I was hoping the comments would be full of similar stories, in which a demon makes a half-hearted effort to pull you into his clutches, only to be naively blown off, then not thought of again until his true nature was revealed. Our story of this sort comes from when my partner interviewed at Theranos (!) long before the collapse or any public recognition, related the super-creepy interview process, and I was like "so…
What was creepy about the interview process?
- Sunny asked me why I went to such an unprestigious academic institution for undergrad
- Sunny flipped out at an extension cord going to the table AV setup in the meeting room. He called in 5 IT people and yelled at them during my interview about the extension cord and yanked it out of the wall.
- Elizabeth and Sunny parked their Lamborginis in the handicapped parking spaces directly in front of the office
- When I got the offer, the fine print noted the location my office would actually be located in was NOT at the fancy HQ in Palo Alto where they had recruited me at and showed me that I would be working, it was at a trailer park on the east side of highway 101 in Menlo Park (um, no thanks. Part of the reason I passed).
- part of the hiring process was to go get your blood tested by them and my lab results were discordant with my lab results from Stanford so it showed their testing didn't actually work
- security stood outside the restroom stall while I peed before the interview and came in with me while I washed my hands.
- Elizabeth rescheduled my interview with her 4x, once with 18 minutes notice. Their entire process took 3 months and 7 rounds.