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Contempt of court

mercredi 27 avril 2022 à 11:06

The bullshitter has been found in contempt of court, and will be fined ten thousand dollars per day until he hands over the subpoena'd evidence.

What a weak action by the judge! A fine so small means nothing to a putative billionaire. For a measly $3,650,000 per year, he will get the opportunity to vaunt his defiance of all authority.

To have a chance of making him comply, the court should fine him 10 million dollars a day — or jail him.

Covid-19 racial disparities and reckless behavior

mercredi 27 avril 2022 à 10:51

*Pointing out racial disparities in COVID-19 makes white people more reckless.*

In other words, they think, "The danger is for blacks, so I must be safe."

Wrong!

US law and forced arbitration

mercredi 27 avril 2022 à 10:51

The EFF explains the principles by which US law rejected forced arbitration, until plutocratists on the Supreme Court started trashing those principles in the 1980s.

Machine learning can be backdoored

mercredi 27 avril 2022 à 10:51

It appears that any machine learning model can be backdoored during training. The backdoor makes it possible to fool the model during real use.

Idea for reducing US gun violence

mercredi 27 avril 2022 à 10:51

An idea for reducing gun violence in the US: to alter common situations to be less threatening and easier to handle without violence.