Good essay! Shame he doesn’t talk about taboo. Taboo subjects could make for great essays but it takes a lot of guts to write about them. Anything from collapse of your life, work, prison or death threats may ensue. Breaking taboos move society forward though. Keep an eye on “exceptions to free speech”.
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quickthrower2 commented on My Clients, the Liars lesswrong.com/posts/h99tR... · Posted by u/paulpauper
In this case I was using guilty in its common English usage, and not the specific American Jurisprudence usage.
You must mean clear cut cases too then. Not self defence etc.
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Blameless culture is about well-intentioned people, not people actively trying to sabotage processes for money.
If the mechanic was reselling the real parts on eBay and instead using shoddy parts, everyone would agree on criminal liability.
If the CEO and leadership are also cutting corners and destroying a safety culture for money, and endangering the public, that is also criminal.
A blameless
culture
needs to take into account bad actors. You might add more processes for part sovereignty for example. This is what you rely on for safety.
In addition yeah also prosecute criminals. But that doesn’t stop crime. See “war on drugs” for example.
Funny, i went from the typical culturally alcoholic or at the very least binge drinking Brit to having a drink only when ‘forced’ to by circumstances which equates to one or two pints every few years when I visit Liverpool, my birthplace.
I feel culturally American now though and huge part of that is feeling alienated, pressured and ridiculed when back in the UK because of my refusal of alcohol.
I don’t even talk about it or ‘holier than thou’ about it or even care at all about others drinking but many people back there see it as a personal insult if I choose not to drink. Even if i sneak a Shandy or 0% beer.
So weird to me now but I was fully part of that culture until aged 28. I even remember ‘jokingly’ bullying people into drinking to excess.
I’m now 46 and have been in the USA since 2005 full time.
Three older relatives died of liver disease.
I met one uncle at the pub last month.
He’s yellow.
Yeah the Brit drinking culture is quite insane. Aussie has a bit of that but it is much less.
I used to drink a lot more, but now I find it hard to stand. No buzz just the stupification.
And of course drink is very toxic and will set back all your other goals from good sex, to muscles, weight loss and cognitive function.
quickthrower2 commented on My Clients, the Liars lesswrong.com/posts/h99tR... · Posted by u/paulpauper
they said it also applies to defendants testifying, so if question is
And then you shot her, correct?!
Answer: No I did not shoot her! I never did that.
And your lawyer knows it is a lie that you indeed did shoot her, it could be problematic at that point, depending on some jurisdiction.
I guess it depends if you think an effective defense should allow the guilty to go free?
Effective defence would allow the
guilty to go free. (although “guilty” is a jury verdict so that is impossible but I presume you mean would be found guilty had more evidence prevailed). You can’t have an advocate that draws arbitrary lines at which they are not on your side advocating for you, what would those be?
Say someone says to their lawyer they shot the person but really they are covering for their wife even to mthe lawyer. The lawyer then hears them say in court they didn’t shoot (the truth) but the lawyer just knows they are saying something different now to what they said before. It could be that.
quickthrower2 commented on My Clients, the Liars lesswrong.com/posts/h99tR... · Posted by u/paulpauper
isn't the entire premise of this article flawed? the feigned indignity at their clients lying...when it's pretty much required for them to receive any semblance of effective defense:
There is a kernel of an exception that is almost not worth mentioning. The Rules of Professional
Conduct 3.3 obligates me with the duty of candor. I am not allowed to present evidence that I “know”
is false, which encompasses witness testimony. Some jurisdictions make exceptions to this rule for
defendants testifying in their criminal trial (correctly, IMO) but not all. So assuming that a
client truthfully confesses to me, assuming we go to trial, assuming they decide to testify, and
assuming I “know” they’re going to lie, then yes, this could indeed spawn a very awkward situation
where I’m forced to withdraw in the middle of proceedings.Not indignity but inconvenience. It would be like a boss lying to a software engineer about the requirements as they are scared it will cost too much then the wrong thing is built.
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Terms evolve and now filesytem and "system of files" mean different things,
I would argue that not supporting folders or many other file operations make something not a filesystem today.
Yeah hacker used to not mean someone hacking into a computer and breaking a password, then it did then now it means both that and a tech tinkerer.
quickthrower2 commented on What Monks Know about Focus millersbookreview.com/p/j... · Posted by u/ingve
Focusing on solving hard problems, like in programming, is a good option too. Because when we solve something we keep our minds in motion on fixed tracks.
Exercise too.
The question is how long. Doing intense stuff needs breaks.
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Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.
I did the same switch. Then went to the Chrome extension YARC https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yet-another-rest-c... which I like for the simplicity. It does remember past queries.
Since home office I no longer have a laptop.
Good answer. A refurb Dell desktop tower or smaller form will get ya 10-20 years service vs. the 5 tops of the laptop (excluding battery and screen for generous comparison because they may fail sooner). Also laptops just seem to do sucky stuff like keyboard randomly stops working. Laptops suck.