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That's voter registration, not votes - and it's specifically because we vote with paper ballots instead of computers/phones that hacking into any official computer system won't allow you to change the results.

That's not a fair comparison - you're measuring the bill's maximum against a murder charge's minimum.

The bill allows anything from fines up to 20 years in prison, while a murder charge has a mandatory minimum of 15 years (up to life).

For the purposes of American law, "speech" is defined very broadly. It can apply to burning an American flag[0], plans for 3-D printed guns[1], and even bombmaking instructions[2].

Our Supreme Court has decided that corporations spending money[3], even in politics[4], is speech as well.

The O'Brien test[5] is generally used to tell whether a law encroaches on 1A rights.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson [1]: http://joshblackman.com/blog/2018/07/10/doj-second-amendment... [2]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/raisethefist/archive/abi.htm [3]: https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center... [4]: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/citizens-united-v... [5]: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/obrient...

> Why is insider trading a different category than other forms of speech?

The speech isn't illegal - the act of trading based on insider information is. This works in a similar manner to bomb-making plans being legal to disseminate, but making a bomb being very illegal.

> Why is paying someone to murder someone a different category than other forms of speech?

This is solicitation to commit a crime, which is a specific exception to the 1A.

> Why are intentionally deceptive drug advertisements a different category than other forms of speech?

This is a false statement of fact, which is a specific exception to the 1A.

> Why is pointing a gun at someone and telling them to do something a different category than other types of speech?

Pointing a gun isn't speech, it's coercion.

It's a reclaimed slur - it's meant to be used exclusively by the targeted group. Not respecting that requires you to ignore the painful cultural background of the term.

> In sociology and cultural studies, reappropriation (or reclamation) is the cultural process by which a group reclaims terms [...] previously used in a way disparaging of that group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation

Perhaps this could be offset by using something like the GS Locality Pay[0] index?

[0]: https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality

CRA-III?

As I mentioned in another comment here: "luxury" gets you around rent control in at least one major US city, so I imagine there are developers out there doing the absolute minimum to meet "luxury" standards.

It's a perverse incentive: they make it nicer to avoid regulations, not to actually attract luxury-minded tenants.

Not sure about other cities, but in Los Angeles a "luxury housing unit" can be exempted from rent control (there's an application process) if it would otherwise be subject to it.

I imagine that a lot of the dilution has come from (re)developers labeling units as luxury and doing the bare minimum to qualify, specifically to avoid rent control.

As I understand it, you'd need to:

- open the deceased's eyes

- position the eyes so that Face ID thinks the eyes are "looking into" the iPhone

- pump warm blood/liquid into the deceased's face in order to fool the infrared temperate monitoring

Seems possible, but sounds like an awful lot of work unless you did something that law enforcement really wants to look into.

Sounds like this luxury building trend might, on the whole, be good for renters.

> scary if the military is driven like an MBA only led business with no influence from engineering/security

Having known many people that worked in/around the military and defense industry, this seems like our reality.

"...the First Amendment protects the right to record [police/gov't officials carrying out their duties in public places] regardless of whether the police/officials consent. This constitutional right would override any state or federal laws that would otherwise prohibit such recording."

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-police-officers-an...

As the GP said:

> The press release linked by OP doesn't give the full story. For a better perspective see [the random blog post].

Yes[0], due to the presence of acrylamide apparently.

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-judge-rules-...

Is it? I've never heard of net neutrality being applied to web standards - only carriers and usage pricing/prioritization.

To me, this sounds like antitrust, not net neutrality.

Well, this has been the case with the web for a while. See: jQuery.

My impression is that it's largely from people littering, i.e. _not_ using garbage collection devices in the first place.

One could say that bootcamps were the first to pave the software development track.

The AI sees data/markers/patterns that look like something it's seen before, as opposed to actually comprehending that it sees a tube of meat that people call a hot dog.

The best metaphor I can think of is the cognitive difference between navigating a transit station that has signs in your native language, and one that you spent a couple of hours learning on Duolingo - with the latter, you aren't really understanding anything, just associating a:b::x:y.

This article misses what I really wanted to hear - how did they unlock the device?

> The dude who carries a gun because he has to carry a ton of cash to fill up ATMs will be arrested

Those folks usually roll around in armored trucks, not the subway.

If you decide to pick up React and need some pointers, email me - mine is in my profile, I work in React full-time at the moment.

Cognitive behavioral therapy!

A better hardware/software equivalent for a gun would be something like an AED or an insulin pump.

Why?

It also has project management features that tightly integrate with Git repositories, which are not stored within the repository itself.

Most (semi-)serious projects make use of this, which makes migration harder.

Maybe this is my blue city bubble talking, but I think we're slightly past the apogee of the right swing right now.

The GOP (barely) failed to hack up the ACA this Congressional term, and I would be shocked if they came out of the midterms in the same or better shape than they're in right now.

Good intentions absolutely are[0] compatible with the law...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

The tents aren't owned by a company that rents them out, and the scooters aren't used as a last-resort shelter for homeless folks.