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> Well, first off, we can throw out the ideas of juries because contract law is civil, not criminal.

Depends on the jurisdiction/norms. Civil juries are common in the US, for example.

You can't change what happened. Deal with the challenge.

I thought we solved this in the 1980's by usenet groups having prefixes like comp.*, rec.*, hum.* etc...

You'd rather hit 4 keys over 3? And use 2 hands instead of 1 (US keyboards)?

shift semicolon w enter

ctrl x s

(Flaming in jest and good heartedness)

> In the U.S., the risk is the buyer's. If the property was fraudulently transferred, the transaction is mutable.

Ironically you're describing the original English legal system centered around deeds.

But a few US States, some of the UK Commonwealth, and England, as it sounds from this article, use the Torrens system[1].

The difference is whether the deeds are primary and the registry a mere copy (or even optional); or the registry primary and any papers reflecting registration a mere copy.

But generally with a Torrens system there is some statutory compensation for fraud cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title

(IANAL so this may be incorrect)

Happened with ZOOM/ZM near the start of the pandemic as well: https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/woops-wrong-zoom

An important trait of startup founders is a decent EQ, and relating to other people. This is interesting news in that area.

Skip I and O on the letters, and go up to Z. Then the letter component will not be mistaken for a numeric digit.

Can't a nuclear energy plant run continuously? (Genuinely asking.)

I always wondered if Common Lisp pathname versioning could be leveraged intentionally when pointing at files in a git repo, to reference older versions of that filename. (And whether that gives any utility...)

Offtopic: what a refreshingly lovely web design... I miss simple pages like this.

I found this fascinating but I need an ELI5. ;-)

FWIW, you can setup your machine to boot using your keys rather than Microsoft keys: https://www.dannyvanheumen.nl/post/secure-boot-in-fedora/

Since HN runs on its own software, it could literally enforce a "read me first" before posting requirement. For certain keywords in the title that might be an interesting way to influence discussion style (and keep it good over time).

> They’ve mastered fusion and matter transmutation so they just build their own habitats and energy sources wherever they want.

...and maybe not even within the four dimensions with which we're most familiar.

I believe you're describing the sovereign holding "allodial title", which is (mostly) true in all jurisdictions deriving from English common law, including, for example, the US States (well, 49 of them), so it's not a practice constrained to England and Wales, or to monarchy. (But IANAL.)

I think some US States had a feature where you could pay a fixed amount to satisfy all future property taxes, but I don't believe it relieved the possibility of eminent domain, escheat, or police power.

Relatedly, I like the Human Era notation for expanding the idea of years, where 1 AD is equal to 10,001 HE to denote approximately ten millennia since the start of human cities and agriculture, i.e. civilization. We're living in 12021 HE now.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

My favorite fact that puts time in perspective is that Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon Landing than the building of the great pyramids. (Also sometimes phrased as living closer in time to the first Pizza Hut instead of Moon Landing.) If you search it, you'll find listicles that go through a bunch of these fun facts.

> One also wonders why reforming the credit bureaus is not a bipartisan concern in Washington.

And one solution might be to simply create a statutory strict liability of $1000 per consumer per breach. The (possiblity of) class action lawsuits would do the rest to encourage correct behavior.

(It might encourage cover-ups as well, but you could penalize that, and incentivize and protect whistleblowing and well-intentioned security research.)

What is your opinion of the "Help to Buy" and "Shared Ownership" schemes in the UK?

https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/help-to-bu...

> The reality is Gen Z'ers are desperate at this point and they're turning to gambling in the hopes of making up lost economic ground.

There is a certain rationality to this, when you're coming from so far behind.

If you need a million dollars and you start with $200K, you set a timeline and a prudent plan.

If you need a million dollars and you start with $2K, you're so far behind[0] you may as well gamble.

I do not necessarily advocate the latter. I'm just articulating the thinking/emotion.

[0] 2000 at 7% p.a. takes 92 years to top a million if my arithmetic is correct.

> this turns on it's head all the innovation since the early 90s...

Would you mind just mentioning what that is?

> If it's encrypted and only you have the key, then it doesn't matter where it's stored.

Until advances in mathematics or computation obsolete the crypto. We might decide that it doesn't matter within each respective patient's lifetime (a debate) but that is getting longer and longer.

Wouldn't that need accounting for relativity? Distance to the gravity well (sun) affects the physical passage of time for you. Perhaps that's doable, but you can't count a sequence of numbers off and call it a day.

Sigh. Where was this wisdom when I was an undergrad...!

> It's something that can probably be fixed with the right ssh_config/sshd_config, but I can't for the life of me figure out the right incantations.

Have you tried something like this? It does a common TCP/IP socket for each remote host and does application-level pings every 4 minutes to keep the socket active. Solved most of my "stay connected" issues.

    Host *
      ControlPath ~/.ssh/cm-%r@%h:%p
      ControlMaster auto
      ControlPersist 10s
      ServerAliveInterval 240

"Filter - Begin With" didn't seem to work for me on a couple columns.

That's interesting. I found this: https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/can-hot-chili-peppers-make-me...

Woah. That sounds interesting; can you elaborate?

So, is the keyboard tray resting on your legs just above your knees and your hands are resting on top, sort of at 170-180 degrees (if raised above your head was 0/360)? Or have you done something to raise up the keyboard so your hands are more like 90 degrees (like a normal desk pose puts them)?