sdhgaiojfsa (u/sdhgaiojfsa)

sdhgaiojfsa commented on As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/Tomte

hayd · 7 years ago

They are putting payloads into space, so it's the same mission. What the hell does "culture" have to do with anything? Really, there's a culture against re-useablility? No.

It's fine (or at least honest) to admit they're a protectionist block and are looking into regulation to ensure French contacts are safe.

But the mission is the same (put things into space), and the culture is irrelevant.

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

The culture is at least somewhat relevant if it gets in the way of efficiently performing the mission.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts politico.com/story/2018/0... · Posted by u/bougiefever

pandasun · 7 years ago

I know this is about congressional campaigns, but does anyone remember this from 2008? https://www.theguardian.com/global/2008/nov/07/obama-white-h...

I wonder why that never reached the same amount of outcry when Obama won.

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

I don't know, but I can speculate. For example, there is no evidence I'm aware of that the hacks were politically motivated or that the results of the hacks were used to assist one candidate or hinder another.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on SRE Fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs cloudplatform.googleblog.... · Posted by u/nealmueller

pspeter3 · 7 years ago

This is a great article for defining terms. For some reason though, this quote made me laugh out loud:

"Excessive availability can become a problem because now it’s the expectation. Don’t make your system overly reliable if you don’t intend to commit to it to being that reliable."

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

This is a semi-variant of Hyrum's law.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on Clemency petition for Ross Ulbricht reaches 7,000 signatures in less than 4 days change.org/p/freerosspeti... · Posted by u/mich_op

dpark · 7 years ago

> She didn't presume guilt. She factored evidence of guilt into her sentencing decision.

What does that mean? How do you factor in "evidence of guilt" without assuming guilt? That is absurd.

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

Here's how it works. If those were the only charges, then your standard of proof would be "beyond a reasonable doubt" (i.e. 97-99% likely). They aren't. Since the other charges were already proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the defendant is already going to be incarcerated for the statutory thirty years to life. Now the judge has to decide how much time to give. If the defendant is a saint who made a mistake, maybe they get thirty years. If the defendant is the devil, they might get life. I don't know what standard of evidence the judge is required to use to make this decision, but I'm under the impression that it is not "beyond a reasonable doubt." It is probably more like, "preponderance of evidence," (>50% likelihood). So if the judge believes the most likely scenario is that the defendant is a super bad guy, they might give a harsher sentence.

As an aside, epistemically, you seem to be confused about the meaning of "evidence." Evidence is stuff that causes you to believe something more. Evidence does not imply that there is a 100% certainty of something being true.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on Clemency petition for Ross Ulbricht reaches 7,000 signatures in less than 4 days change.org/p/freerosspeti... · Posted by u/mich_op

colordrops · 7 years ago

Charges were dropped and he will not be convicted on those, and you have no evidence yourself. Rumors are not a bar to presume guilt.

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

? I quoted the judge in the case, who does have the evidence . . .. She didn't presume guilt. She factored evidence of guilt into her sentencing decision.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on Clemency petition for Ross Ulbricht reaches 7,000 signatures in less than 4 days change.org/p/freerosspeti... · Posted by u/mich_op

DINKDINK · 7 years ago

>Another possible explanation was that they felt they had enough to nail him sufficiently on the other charges, and didn't want to bother to prove unnecessary additional offenses.

Your argument is equivalent to: "As long as a conviction feels good, it doesn't much matter if the due process of law is followed" . It's the equivalent of arguing for a system that is ok with police breaking into a house without a warrant as long as they find something illegal.

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

> As long as a conviction feels good, it doesn't much matter if the due process of law is followed

What? I don't believe I said anything about "feeling good" anywhere in my comment, so I struggle to fathom how my argument can be equivalent to an argument that includes that term.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on Clemency petition for Ross Ulbricht reaches 7,000 signatures in less than 4 days change.org/p/freerosspeti... · Posted by u/mich_op

nostromo · 7 years ago

It's strange that sentencing can be increased for crimes you haven't been convicted for.

He wasn't even tried for those charges, which should give us pause.

I'm surprised a judge is even allowed to site "unambiguous evidence" for charges that weren't even brought before the court.

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

> It's strange that sentencing can be increased for crimes you haven't been convicted for.

I feel like judicial discretion in sentencing is pretty well understood, but I guess it could seem strange if you haven't spent much time reading about or experiencing the legal system.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on Clemency petition for Ross Ulbricht reaches 7,000 signatures in less than 4 days change.org/p/freerosspeti... · Posted by u/mich_op

nostromo · 7 years ago

> didn't want to bother to prove unnecessary additional offenses

Oh, come now. What prosecutor is going to drop murder charges in favor of money laundering and computer hacking charges when they have unambiguous evidence?

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

I don't know. I don't know too many prosecutors, and whenever I read about them, it's normally related to sensational news stories or even more sensational fictional TV shows. Perhaps you have more direct experience with these elusive creatures and have a better understanding of their mentalities.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on Clemency petition for Ross Ulbricht reaches 7,000 signatures in less than 4 days change.org/p/freerosspeti... · Posted by u/mich_op

ekianjo · 7 years ago

> Even if you only get charged and convicted of the drug possession the case with the trunk full of guns will in all likelihood experience harsher sentencing.

That's not how the Rule of Law works.

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

It actually is how the law works, though, since (for better or worse) there is judicial discretion in sentencing.

sdhgaiojfsa commented on Clemency petition for Ross Ulbricht reaches 7,000 signatures in less than 4 days change.org/p/freerosspeti... · Posted by u/mich_op

ekianjo · 7 years ago

Maybe you conveniently forget that there was no such proof and that is why the "procuring murder" charge was dropped by the prosecution.

> Of the six murder indictments trumpeted by the U.S. government in the days following Ulbricht’s Oct. 2013 arrest, five have fallen off the table and the sixth sits untouched in a separate indictment (legalese for an unproven allegation) that was purposefully left out of the upcoming trial.

> Prosecutor Serrin Turner used the murder-for-hire allegations to get the judge to deny bail. Now, Turner isn’t even going to charge Ulbricht with the murders.

> Why have six of the most important accusations been left as yet uncharged?

> “Maybe you don’t have that proof,” criminal defense attorney Jay Leiderman told the Daily Dot. “Maybe the proof isn’t as good as you thought it was.”

> There are a couple of other possibilities that deserve mention. First, there may be informants out there that the prosecution doesn’t want to expose, that they want to use for other cases, so they’re willing to leave half a dozen murders uncharged in order to protect him. Second, they may have determined that a relevant informant is unreliable and can’t be used in trial.

> Either way, the murder accusations are buried and uncharged.

from: https://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross...

sdhgaiojfsa · 7 years ago

I quoted someone who was intimately involved in the trial saying there was ample and unambiguous evidence. Your theory on why those charges were not included is one of a number of possible explanations. Another possible explanation was that they felt they had enough to nail him sufficiently on the other charges, and didn't want to bother to prove unnecessary additional offenses.