- An email from Epstein to attorney Kathy Ruemmler reveals Epstein learned of the plan and mentioned a $3 million offer to stop Brunel from cooperating. Brunel ultimately went silent; the deal collapsed and no flip occurred.
edit to tone down the accusatory tone of my previous comment. In retrospect, the post was likely derailed due to a subthread discussion that appears to have been flagged.
Interesting in the sense that similar things happen all the time- stories get posted and either get no traction or else somebody starts a boisterous subthread with flags and downvotes that results in the HN algo downgrading "arguing".
FWiW it's currently #2 on https://hckrnews.com/ .. but that's chronology of submissions with votes, unweighted by comment numbers / arguments.
I’d also love to hear more about this crew I am apparently being accused of being a part of. I have been posting and commenting independently on this site for years.
The paper describes deliberate ignorance as a universal human tendency, not a partisan one. Reducing it to a conservative specific problem is ironically a good demonstration of the phenomenon.
The framing of the whole paper makes the point implicitly. They open with Aristotle’s claim that all humans by nature desire to know, then argue the converse that choosing not to know is equally a part of human nature.
The examples they use span medical patients, Nobel laureates, lawyers, investors, and ordinary citizens across multiple countries. The paper treats it as a species level cognitive phenomenon.
This is accurate. For a scenario with a possibility of litigation you must ultimately geocode the address with google maps API or census geocoder, point in polygon against district boundaries (geopandas or shapely), then pass the result through a rules table keyed on jurisdiction + case type.
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