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Re:Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane by handrous on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:54PM (#29398977)
I think they do it in pieces to get them to start saying yes to stuff, both to get them on a roll and to have a place to pick back up that's not the very beginning if they say no to something along the way.
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Re:Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane by dheera on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:12AM (#29401197)
> that's not the very beginning

So you binary search the damn thing, and you find the logical culprit in log(N) time if N is the number of clauses, instead of searching linearly.

Like, if they agree what a phone is, you don't need to drill down all the details of what constitutes a phone.

If they disagree, only then traverse the sub-nodes of that.

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Re:Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane by jjeaff on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:10PM (#29399856)
I have also heard that depending on the situation, an attorney may want to bore the jury. If you overload them with information you can reduce the effectiveness of facts that may be detrimental to your case.
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