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They don’t have a citation because they made it up.

It's been a decade since I was in college but I used to send applications to every vaguely interesting internship, expecting less than 20% of them to contact me.

My university required an internship for graduation so you had to cast a wide net unless you wanted to wait to graduate.

Given how high-profile is and the number of students in the US, 1000 doesn't seem all that impressive.


Sure. Let’s start pushing back against over-incarceration by not punishing people that knowingly did something wrong and flies in the face of the country’s supposed values.

Makes sense.


We should start by removing the ability of prosecutors and police to bring such cases in the first place.

What does that look like here?

They falsely claimed he'd made an actionable threat. We can't remove their power to request warrants and arrest people for legitimately threatening others, right?

They misused power.


The magistrate judge is supposed to be a check on that power. Unfortunately, they've become rubber stamps for the most part. In a functioning system, the judge would block the warrant and arrest.

I think there are ways to have a system where judges do that, without having to criminally prosecute either cops or judges.


> In a functioning system, the judge would block the warrant and arrest.

But they lied to obtain the warrant.


OP says that they left out information (which cops do all the time) but that the warrant shouldn't have been granted either way because of SCOTUS precedent.

Would welcome reform that makes it harder to lie on warrant affidavits, although again, that should be civil in nature.


> they left out information

Yes, we call that lying by omission.

They knew that information would result in the warrant not being granted, so they left it out.


The affidavit did not support the post was a threat.[1] This was why FIRE said the information left out should not have mattered. Any reasonable competent person would have denied the warrant. But the information left out could have overcome incompetence possibly. This was why FIRE said it was important.

A reasonable system would have required the investigator attached an unedited full screen image which included the post. And the magistrate attempted to view the post if possible to counter deceit. And required the magistrate had legal education.

[1] https://www.fire.org/research-learn/complaint-bushart-v-perr...


I doubt that. The magistrate judge already granted an unconstitutional warrant, why assume the result would be different with more info?

As you are well aware, they kept important facts from the magistrate judge to obtain said warrant.

Swedish death is a specific sound like Entombed, which is fairly different than melo-death bands like In Flames.

I'm not entirely sure why those specific song choices for the Swedish Death category. The older At The Gates albums are more like the original Swedish sound but Slaughter of the Soul (included in Swedish Death) is essentially THE Melo-death album.


What is going to be the event that triggers Wall Street to realize a lot of these companies have been lying about their financials?


Why not? They haven’t left him even as he’s done little but dilute them to stockpile cash.


Have you seen the state of the world? Why would you go through the trouble of being subtle nowadays?


The “powers that be” hate ideology?


LLMs are just replacing consultants as the #1 generator of sloppy code.


> LLMs are just replacing consultants as the #1 generator of sloppy code.

The "consultants wrote sloppy code" is one of those memes that never die.

The only thing that differentiates consultants from you is the contract type. All broad strokes accusations are just a consequence of in-house employees feeling threatened by their presence and having a vested interest in portraying themselves as infinitely better than any prospective replacement. You also see the same attitude in junior devs who complain that everyone else's code is shit, but the mess they themselves created is always justifiable and understandable.

If you were moved from your project right now and you placed someone at your spot under probation, I will guarantee that your work would be extensively criticized for being an unmaintainable pile of hacks.


> The "consultants wrote sloppy code" is one of those memes that never die.

Your comment is one of those that feel intuitively right, because what you say makes sense... until faced with reality.

Most consultants that most permanent employees are likely to find are those that will do a crappy job, then be gone when shit hits the fan. Source: anyone who's ever worked with them, myself included. Actually, both sides of the desk. They tend to do crappy jobs because those are the incentives they have.

You can argue till you're blue in the face, but your theory cannot push aside the actual experience of many if not most of us.

Of course, the occasional scenarios where the consultants are solid and doing top-notch work exist, but what matters is the majority of what happens... and it's not good.

So the meme won't die, because it reflects reality.


No, it’s mainly because consulting firms love running their bait-and-switch scam and use their junior consultants to do the actual work while the seniors move on to butter up the next sucker.


One of the interviews I had straight out of university was a firm that asked if I was willing to lie about my work experience for Java consultancy work (Kuber Infotech).


The guy that almost destroyed PayPal because he was obsessed with re-writing their entire stack for Windows instead of addressing fraud?


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