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 candidate or hinder another.
This is a semi-variant of Hyrum's law.
? 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, so I struggle to fathom how my…
> 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 could seem strange if you haven't spent…
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. Perhaps you have more direct experience…
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 possible explanations. Another possible…
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). Rather, the return on deposits and the…
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 total amount of money is now $1.75.…
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. This is called fractional-reserve…
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 "real investing" are largely off-base.…
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 margin increases the supply of beef,…
> 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 / num_people), and give it to all the…
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. You get wealth by not consuming all of…
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, it is still not able to tackle…
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. There's precious little evidence that…
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 never invest in individual stocks: I have…
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 than before, but it's hard to say by…
I normally think of financials as things that don't need to be heavily encrypted, because we have laws limiting liability in case financial information is stolen and misused. What makes you feel it needs encryption?
A facile response. Sometimes prohibited activities are not observed. In these cases, it's hard to impose consequences. But it's much more complex than this. There's a question of how much we want to prevent such things,…
You mean, assuming it happened? It's probably not permitted. It'd fall under the category of cruel and unusual punishment, or maybe extrajudicial punishment. Plenty of things happen that are not permitted.
> If thrill-seeking adolescents can compromise your systems, you deserve to be out of business. So, literally everyone deserves to be out of business? I am not aware of any major software company that has at all times…
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 candidate or hinder another.
This is a semi-variant of Hyrum's law.
? 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, so I struggle to fathom how my…
> 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 could seem strange if you haven't spent…
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. Perhaps you have more direct experience…
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 possible explanations. Another possible…
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). Rather, the return on deposits and the…
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 total amount of money is now $1.75.…
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. This is called fractional-reserve…
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 "real investing" are largely off-base.…
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 margin increases the supply of beef,…
> 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 / num_people), and give it to all the…
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. You get wealth by not consuming all of…
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, it is still not able to tackle…
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. There's precious little evidence that…
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 never invest in individual stocks: I have…
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 than before, but it's hard to say by…
I normally think of financials as things that don't need to be heavily encrypted, because we have laws limiting liability in case financial information is stolen and misused. What makes you feel it needs encryption?
A facile response. Sometimes prohibited activities are not observed. In these cases, it's hard to impose consequences. But it's much more complex than this. There's a question of how much we want to prevent such things,…
You mean, assuming it happened? It's probably not permitted. It'd fall under the category of cruel and unusual punishment, or maybe extrajudicial punishment. Plenty of things happen that are not permitted.
> If thrill-seeking adolescents can compromise your systems, you deserve to be out of business. So, literally everyone deserves to be out of business? I am not aware of any major software company that has at all times…