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They didn’t say to let the government run it. Make the patents/trade secrets public domain and sell off the physical assets in open auctions. Someone would buy up the profitable manufacturing lines that aren’t known to be as harmful.


What would that help? 3M create way more value than not.


How would investors know if something is kept secret?


Ostensibly they wouldn't. On the face that may seem like a problem but I think it's more of an opportunity. With real consequences on the table for investors corporate transparency becomes a critical component of any investment strategy. What might that incentivize?


What about the situation with 3M now? We know that they kept this is a secret, so shareholders should either sell or be criminally liable.


That’s a very good point. At the least, the stock price should go to zero. I guess your point is that they are artificially keeping the company out of bankruptcy/receivership.


No the argument I'm making is that the shareholders are funding a criminal enterprise and therefore should face RICO charges.


That depends upon someone willing to buy when it comes with criminal liabilities. Lets not recreate sin-eaters.



You did make good standalone points. Monopolies have strong downsides.


It is the error message you often get when creating a password.


Yes I get that, didn't quite understand why this switching of error message is relevant to the code...


Jokes often work with subverting expectations. In this case you're surprised by a message that doesn't belong and then you remember where it comes from and likely relate it with how frustrating those ever changing rules can be.

That's why the joke works.


I thought it was funny because I've seen similar complaints from linters, e.g. clang-tidy's readability-identifier-length plus readability-identifier-naming, or pylint's invalid-name. (clang-tidy at least is smart enough to exempt loop counters.)


How is that different than C++? The places where you would pick something like Python instead for expediency still apply…

To be honest, I used to feel the same way that you do about Rust posts. Then I started using it, and I got enthusiastic as well.


It doesn’t appear that you read the article. Social science journals definitely are organizations, businesses and/or single entities that could change.


Journals just publish studies and things like that


I’m glad those police were exercising restraint. A similar situation gone wrong was in the news just last week.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/epz9nm/colorado-grandma-...


I couldn’t even imagine involving the police now over 10 years later.

But my Amex automatically covers any lost or stolen phone up to $800 as long as I pay the monthly bill with the card.


Recently, Stacy Abrams and Terry McAuliffe concerning the 2018 race:

“She would be the governor of Georgia today had the governor of Georgia not disenfranchised 1.4 million Georgia voters before the election. That’s what happened to Stacey Abrams. They took the votes away.”

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/26/politics/terry-mcauliffe-vote...


That's not an accusation of election fraud.

>Voter fraud, electoral fraud or vote rigging are intentional, illegal actions aimed at changing or influencing or forcing the results of an election - by either depressing or increasing the vote share for a particular candidate or choice.

https://www.polyas.com/election-glossary/election-fraud


Thank you!


If SBF embezzled FTX customer funds to make his donations, then I’m not sure why FTX directly donating a smaller sum is significant.

Personally, I see it as a more general example of a broken campaign finance system. It’s independent of party.


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