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Is that true? I'm not a lawyer, but I know that in certain criminal plea agreements, such as in antitrust cases, the financial penalty can be paid over installments, the size of which is tied to the company's financial performance. See e.g.

> If the parties agree that the recommended fine needs to be paid in installments because of the defendant's inability to pay the entire amount immediately, the plea agreement will include the installment schedule and any interest terms.(58) The payment of a special assessment(59) and any recommendation on a term of probation(60) or expedited sentencing(61) for corporations, or requests by individual defendants to be placed in a specific correctional facility,(62) will also be addressed in the plea agreement.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/speech/us-model-negotiated-plea-...

And to get back to the original comment I replied to, this critique seems like it would apply to any financial punishment, not something that came down to a technical distinction between "fine" and "financial penalty".

Sure, it's a "financial penalty", technically. Plea deals are common in many jurisdictions, and the settlement imposes additional penalties. They're being punished.

Paying a fine isn't a real punishment?

Counterpoint (kinda): https://efficiencyiseverything.com/

Cities are much more diverse than rural areas in terms of ethnicity, religion, economic class, linguistics, etc. To claim that city dwellers have "similar needs/wants" simply doesn't make any sense.

And having "similar needs/wants" doesn't have a logical connection to justifying taking away their voting voices.

No, it doesn't make sense that people should have greater voting power based on their location in the same polity.

Your argument is equally valid in reverse -- there's no reason why rural dwellers should decide what happens in cities. Why should your vote count for more because I have more neighbors than you do?

How will the economy avoid shutdown when the virus is spreading like wildfire, people are terrified to leave their homes, and hospitals are overwhelmed?

The argument isn't that we can choose between economic shutdown or preventing the spread of the virus. It's that we choose between economic shutdown or the spread of the virus and economic shutdown.

Then why does Europe execute much better on infrastructure projects with similar labor costs (and more unionized workers and labor protections) and similar if not stricter environmental regulations?

Seems like corruption is potentially the only big differentiating factor here.

The location of the isochrones themselves are a function of time, depending on current traffic levels, when the next bus is scheduled to arrive, etc. Hence, this map can't be static. To really be accurate, it needs to collect that data and auto-refresh itself in short intervals.

No. Like Atom, VSCode is also an Electron app, written in Javascript.