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You never had a chance at effecting any real change, so don't feel guilty about bailing.

Hi, I'm the person responsible for/guilty of this. Thanks for the comments, everyone.

My mother still makes me feel guilty and shames me every time I see her. Until you've had a parent who shames you for doing better than they did, you'll never understand the trap.

And personally I don't even feel guilty about it. It's 2014, join the 21st century or suffer the consequences.

I myself have been guilty of it in the past too. But there's something about the negativity and criticism here that grates on me more than on other sites.

This story should be considered guilty of being an urban legend until proven innocent. The fact that it has been posted to HN a good ten times under different guises shows what a demand there is to believe it.

I think the author is perhaps guilty of romanticizing Bell Labs as they are accusing others of romanticizing Google!

Musk is probably guilty of the "fundamental attribution error" here. Anyway, even after Broder's latest response, it still reads like Broder was trying to stack the deck.

Western Union and so on are similarly edge case, but guilty. If you are a country, you first need to be recognized by the UN in order to be recognized by the ISO. Then, you need to have your currency recognized.

Aaron's lawyer claims they were threatening just the opposite if he did not take a guilty plea. In particular: "At no time did this office ever seek or ever tell Mr. Swartzs attorneys that it intended to seek maximum penalties under the law."

I am innocent until I am proven guilty, and those representing our country would do best to remember that." Despite my opinions about the lot of them, I am calm, polite, professional, and courteous in my interactions with them.

This way they don't feel guilty or obligated one way or the other, which is a huge relief for some personality types. Later, I made a second google group for announcing house dinners, and now regularly 5-15 people show up every wednesday and we cook and eat together.

The more accurately you can tell the innocent from the guilty, the less draconian you need to be with the innocent. And while it sounds unlike Google to have left room to do significantly better, the way they treat the innocent implies their technology may be insufficient.

It asked specifically if he had ever pleaded guilty, nolo contendere, or entered a pre-trial diversion program. Completing the program smoothly does not necessarily mean that this incident will be completely over for her.

The roommates of one of the Boston bombers was only facing 25 years in prison[1] if found guilty of helping Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dispose of a laptop, fireworks, and a backpack in the aftermath of the bombings. I understand it's not a straight comparison, but no matter how I try to re-arrange those numbers in my head, I can't reconcile the impact to punishment.

Let's take this incident to the most die-hard scaremonger out there and ask them how the hell is it in the interest of national security to hide it when government institutions are found guilty of breaching the Constitution?

Forget innocent until proven guilty, we are months away from any trial, only 3 of the 12 defendants are even in custody, yet domains have been seized and businesses destroyed by an 11-point case filing, of which only 2 or 3 points may ever get to trial If the site owners are found guilty, they could be facing decades in jail. Penalties for money laundering that were increased as a way to lock up leaders of drug cartels and terrorist groups are being applied to people who built successful legitimate companies and had to work around all US banks being sacred of the vagueness of a law that was never directly enacted.

Diversion is a plea bargain in which you plead guilty to the charges and receive probation. If you meet probation terms such as random drug testing and so forth, then your conviction record is "erased". Sometimes how this is handled procedurally is the signed guilty plea is held in a separate file and not entered into the main system, and at the end of diversion the file stays in the separate file if you have complied with all terms, or is entered into the main system if you haven't complied with all terms. Calling this "dropping charges" couldn't be further from the truth - this is a forced guilty plea. Since she "signed the agreement", the matter is over - she has admitted to charges and is legally guilty and has received probation, and that's the end of it.