Retirement assets such as individual retirement accounts cannot be used to secure loans , but even they may indirectly count in a borrower's favor as evidence of astuteness .
I posit that while strategically targeted support mechanisms can be advantageous, they must not compromise the fundamental tenets of equality and demonstrable competence.
Provable, not in the weak sense of convincing some judge, but in the strong sense of there being something that's impossibleaccording to the laws of physics.
Now, in the research in my lab, we have approaches that we think could, in principle, lead to provably safe systems, and we've been working on that since 2014.
In many cases, the defense's role is not to prove that the defendant is innocent in every conceivable way but rather to ensure that the state fails to meet its heavy burden of proof.