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thaumasiotes
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> malicious is orthogonal to illegal, although they are often correlated
Interesting choice of words. Orthogonal variables are by definition uncorrelated.
niftich
on Aug 11, 2016
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My bad about the incorrect usage. Please disregard the original phrasing, as my point is that all four combinations of [malicious, illegal] are possible, with an attempted-but-botched observation that sometimes malicious things are made illegal.
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Interesting choice of words. Orthogonal variables are by definition uncorrelated.