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Yes, it would be a bad thing to have someone randomly delete your data from a site you depend on or enjoy using.

As far as I know, they never figured out who did that. Could have been Russia although the reasoning seems absurd, with excuses like, Putin is so crazy he would blow up his own pipeline.

Anyway, the fact that they just threw an accusation like that, widely in the media, and never bothered to definitively conclude an investigation into the cause puts all "pipeline" news into boy-who-cried-wolf territory for me. (Enjoy that sentence.)

> There are obvious parallels with the Lethby case. Statements in de Berk’s diary about ‘a very great secret’ and a ‘compulsion’ on a day that a patient had died were given a sinister interpretation.

They didn't include any examples of the parallel. This goes over some of the notes:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/13/lucy-letby-p...

> On another, she wrote “I am a horrible evil person” and on another in capital letters: “I AM EVIL I DID THIS,” the jury was told.

> She also wrote on the note: “There are no words”, “I can’t breathe”, “kill myself”, “I haven’t done anything wrong”, “how can I get through it?” and “I am an awful person”. She had also written “No Hope” and “Panic Fear” and then circled in capital letters “HATE”.

Personally, I don't think any of this is strong evidence, since she contradicts herself a bit. But the notes more directly address the murders because she wrote them in response to the accusations. It isn't as vague as a diary entry mentioning a secret.

And as far as I know, they had more evidence in the form of testimony from experts suggesting the babies were killed by injecting them with air, but I'm sure there are reasons to be skeptical of that.

Mainly, I don't know how strongly any statistical "evidence" was presented in court, how much the jury depended on it in their guilty verdict, and how the UK court system works, so I don't have a strong opinion. But I also don't believe a not-guilty person would think to write anything like what she wrote in those notes.

One last thing I'm curious about and have never heard definitive information on is whether babies stopped dying when they took Letby out of the NICU or whatever they call it. I suppose that might still be accounted for in this statistical coincidence element the RSS and other statisticians are discussing.

Nice, looks like I have an actual reason to convince my wife that we switch to Instacart next year.

The "deal" is mandated by a regulation. These companies couldn't choose the deal if the regulation putting forth the deal did not exist at all. As a sibling commenter noted, people (and organizations) respond to incentives.

When you make a regulation that incentivizes these companies to use up slots, they're going to do it simply because they know the competition will also do it, and if they do not, they lose. These rules were poorly planned, as they did not account for the incentives or the unintended consequences in the event that these flights did not actually have to occur. And after this happens, they're attempting to blame businesses for responding to the incentive.

Say I were to go into a crowded room and announce that I will give $10,000 to whoever breaks some specific person's nose. Who's to blame? Yeah, probably some combination of the people who took the money and especially me, who put forward the idea or "deal" that resulted in people taking action when they otherwise would not have done anything like this.

You understand that there were years before 2016, right? In some of them, Democrats outnumbered Republicans in Congress.

I still remember the plethora of articles about RBG's supercool workout regimen dating back to the early 2010s because she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009. The fixation on her health was largely because everyone knew this woman was getting ready to kick the bucket at some point, but she refused to make her exit before the Republicans took control over Congress.

Just some examples of what I'm talking about as evidence:

* https://www.yahoo.com/shine/healthy-living/ruth-bader-ginsbu...

* https://abovethelaw.com/2013/03/meet-the-personal-trainer-to...

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/personal-trainer-bryant...

* https://time.com/4804007/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-workout-book/ (a bit later but you get the idea)

Yeah, this.

Also:

> I politely decided to stop working with him after finding out and hearing horror stories from mutual connections and his previous employers (lawsuits, threats, etc).

IMO this is not a valid reason to stop working with someone after the relationship began. But I suppose I don't know the whole story.

This reminds me that I find it hilarious when they ask permission to collect more data on you so they can make the ads "more relevant." This is close to their version of mutual respect, "We'll show you the ads you WANT to see."

People don't need money to not die, they need to work to not die. Until the fulfillment of everyone's basic needs can be automated, people are expected to work (disregarding some obvious exceptions). The money is just a proxy for that work.

Although there is certainly a lot of fuckery going on with the money (currency) itself, but if that's the problem you're alluding to, I don't think summarizing it as "capitalism" is accurate.

I think you have this reversed unless I am misunderstanding you.

We do not owe the debt to ourselves. We are liable for the debt ourselves, directly and indirectly. We owe our debt to creditors, which can (and does) include other countries.

And obligations like social security are not debt. They may be funded by debt, but the obligation itself, being paid out to some US citizen, does not represent debt being paid off. Its payment is funded by debt, and in order to fund $100 of SS, we had to take $100 from someone's paycheck, or by issuing new debt, etc.

I think kids require more energy than the average 60-year-old has to spend. If the solution to that is then to just have the state look over the kids, then why bother messing with fertility? Just clone the children, or cook them up in vats and incubators. Enabling 60-year-olds to birth children seems like a pointless endeavor that will cause just as many problems as any other solution that's an apparent affront to nature/god/whatever.

Large corporations are more likely to comply with a policy, so I think that would factor in to when and where policy is more effective than police, no?

What I don't understand about your point is that policy already makes stealing cars, murder, etc. illegal. What do you see as the difference between a policy that forces a car manufacturer to implement some technology that hinders theft vs. a policy that makes theft illegal?

I agree with you that the technology is probably beneficial on the whole and more effective than having police running around attempting to stop every car theft, but you're making this into a debate about policy vs. police, and I'm failing to make sense of how you distinguish one policy (regulating car manufacturing) from another (stealing cars is illegal).

Reminds me of this recent tweet from an SF supervisor, suggesting an innovative new policy of victim-blaming:

https://twitter.com/deanpreston/status/1704689172538347809

My guess is that in some cases, this sort of policy is actually a form of layoffs where they want to reduce costs through lower headcount without calling it a layoff. They know some sizable chunk of employees will balk and find another remote job if forced to return to the office. Instead of the company picking who gets laid off, the employees pick themselves.

There are definitely some downsides to such a policy, especially in that you can't control who leaves. You could lose some top performers this way.

But it would still accomplish lowering costs while sidestepping much of the bad press of being forced to lower costs through a layoff.

> And the same problem of people becoming more rightist as they become more resource-starved, preferring the solution of demonizing people they think shouldn't get resources rather than anything else.

Ironic, the post was about how people are starved for the resource of shelter. I didn't see you call anyone here out for "demonizing" corporations or individual landlords with many real estate investment properties.

I guess this criticism only applies to conservatives in rural areas with barely anything.

Hah. I've been playing with StableDiffusion locally and have gotten a few abominations like this myself.

The cart nonsense isn't the only measure of "bad"/good in society. Time to grow up now, but I hope you feel the endorphins from your righteous behavior toward a stranger on the internet. Bet you taught em a lesson.

Not really because many of us have a problem with the cameras that are literally everywhere too.

You're not sneering hard enough yet.

At best, government and civilization is a chicken-and-egg relationship, where you could perhaps argue that anywhere civilization occurs, a government does as well. I doubt that's even provably true anyway.

But the idea that a government first forms and then bestows upon us the gift of civilization would be incorrect. I suppose you're being flippant since you didn't bother to justify that comment.

Had to double check where this was. I saw a man kick a pigeon to death right in front of the Federal building. Definitely one of the more depraved things I've seen in my years.

Good luck to everyone who still lives in SF.

Yep, like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141370

Any and all policies that made SF a comfortable and welcoming place for the homeless to live, specifically chronically homeless people who have no desire to sincerely receive help that might lead to a job and a normal life. Oakland and Berkeley across the bay have similar problems.

Building a company based on fraud is potentially more of a marker of ruthlessness over intelligence, but certainly we don't know with certainty, and it is likely a combination of the two.

> whole-house "air conditioner" he made from a cleaning bucket and some coffee cans

That sounds kind of cool.

But yeah, I'd still be pissed if my dad left me a mess like this to clean up. The property is nice and all, but a lot of it may need to get torn down if hoarding caused any structural damage (it can, houses aren't built to be filled to the brim with stuff), and that's not cheap work to get done up front. Probably not that easy to sell if you decide not to clean up the messes either.

> The increase in price and latency will probably result in my ordering less stuff.

No, you just stated your generous intent. You have to order the same amount in order to properly support the UPS driver. Ordering less stuff will reduce the demand for UPS drivers, causing some to be fired. You have now harmed UPS drivers, treating them unfairly.

Wow, that's incredibly generous of you. If I start listing out thousands of other professions that are not well paid, do you promise to loudly state your intention of generosity on an internet comment? It's the least you could do, after all.

In what way is the commenter "blaming" the library? This is simply the reality, that many libraries are unsafe.

We've got a library out here where the employees can get trained in adminstering Narcan because people frequently overdose at or around the library. I don't blame the library, but at this point, I don't even think it should be called a library any more. It's a temporary homeless shelter during daytime hours.

Many animals 'think' it too. Grizzly bears come to mind.

Yeah, why isn't the headline Remote Work to Save $800B on Office Rent?