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If I had to be incarcerated, I would choose a Norwegian prison over almost any other country's.

It's a bit rich for you to hold up Norway as a model for sensible attitudes towards punishment. This is the same country that sentenced a man who killed 77 people to 21 years in a resort-like prison. Regardless of your own philosophy, most people (even opponents of the death penalty) would view this sentence as so absurdly lenient that it verges on psychopathy towards the victims and their families.

(I strongly disagree with the original commenter, by the way. I do think capital punishment is warranted in extreme cases.)

Someone asked how she hadn't been indicted a few weeks ago, and I said that the investigation was ongoing but she would surely been indicted. Everyone following this case closely saw this coming.

Such a shame to see someone so talented working for a company that is lightyears behind Waymo and GM in autonomous driving and that is going to go bankrupt.

I believe the last three directors of autopilot have quit in the last 3 years or so. And that's in addition to the mass exodus of executives, some of whom left millions of dollars of stock options on the table.

The criminal investigation is still underway. I will be shocked if she does not end up in prison.

Another way of looking at it is that the patients who are refused treatment count as losses. So the current system is not actually maximizing wins, it's maximizing win percentage for doctors.

Labor is a much smaller component of agriculture costs than people assume.

Garner's Modern English Usage is the final word on grammar, as far as I'm concerned. Other dictionaries are pathetic postmodern excuses for language guides.

No, it doesn't. Not if you care about usage.

http://www.lawprose.org/lawprose-lesson-145-is-comprised-of/

"Already today, a portion of our European delivery fleet is comprised of low-pollution electric and natural gas vans and cars, and we have over 40 electric scooters and e-cargo bikes that complete local urban deliveries."

Sad to see even the mighty Bezos misuse the word "comprise." The whole comprises the parts!

Actually it's called SliceLine

The article doesn't mention how great this could be for reducing transmission of the common cold! I hate signatures, especially ones at a drugstore where every single person has to use the same digital pen.

Since Square is still requiring signatures though, we can add this to the endless list of things that Jack Dorsey is fucking up.

The analogy is misleading in the following way:

Hiring illegal immigrants harms low-skilled domestic workers and taxpayers. Prostitution is essentially a victimless crime.

I don't think this is a good summary of the article at all.

It's mostly about why fiat currency is so entrenched, and why a lot of the things that cryptocurrencies advocates cite as weaknesses are actually strengths.

My offer letter says that I'm legally forbidden from disclosing the terms of my compensation. You should just fill in the salary boxes that you are under a legal obligation not to do so.

The New Yorker wrote a much better article about this months ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...

She still banned the subreddits though, which completely ruined Reddit and turned it from an interesting place into a ban-happy wasteland controlled by oversensitive mods.

The majority of people who read things like this and take them seriously are weird socially and don't read social cues well.

To the moon!

Things like this are why people laugh at Silicon Valley, this is a very aspie/robotic approach to this topic.

Make sure to add Blue Apron, it's only a matter of time!

I flew the coup on OneDrive when they reneged on their promise to provide unlimited storage. They still charged me $50 for the months that I signed up on the basis of that false promise.

This is kind of splitting hairs. Obviously it's not smart to build something with shit quality that won't last.

To me, the biggest difference between a mansion and a McMansion isn't build quality, it's size. I probably won't have the money to build a place that's 10,000 sq. feet, nor would I want to. But 3500-5000 is feasible.

When I saw the headline, I immediately thought "it's because of C-Sections." A few pretty graphs and thousands of filler words later, I discovered that — SURPRISE – it's due to C-Sections!

Data visualization of the bleeding obvious that anyone who gave it a moment's thought would have been able to guess.

I'm never in favor of any speech being censored (especially fair use speech), including in this case.

But as someone who wants to one day buy a huge McMansion in Vegas just for personal gratification, fuck all of these self-righteous snobs.