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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by boomshucka on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:28PM (#9925540)
Agreed, the law is less subjective. But that isn't even close to making the law objective.
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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by ectoplasm on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:14PM (#9926248)
Okay, so compare and contrast with science. Is it fair to say that murder is to Dodd-Frank what classical mechanics is to string theory? By the way, thanks for the discussion so far.
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Re:Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Inte... by boomshucka on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @03:28PM (#9931749)
I don't know. Classical mechanics is useful but has proven to be wrong in various places, I don't know how useful string theory is but, at least to my knowledge, it has never been proven wrong. Whether a set of facts adds up to "murder" is debatable and what is and is not legal under Dodd-Frank is also debatable.
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