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by 0xBDB 2y ago
Business law is a state issue in the U.S. The reason that the U.S. has one set of legislation (more or less) is that 50 states (well, 49) have voluntarily adopted the Uniform Commercial Code. There is absolutely nothing stopping Europe from
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
A Samsung clothes washer. After I had owned it several months, they sent out a repair crew to reinforce the lid for the purposes of (I am not making this up) preventing it from exploding and spraying the laundry room with shrapnel. OK, fine
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
+1 for headache-inducing. Perhaps not all of them, but certainly the blue-shifted ones I eventually had to remove from my living room.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I don't know if daycare is free in the EU, and I know that some higher education is, but I am confident that private school, summer camp and club sports are not. You could argue that it would be possible to send your kid to public scho
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> And what do you think a broad non-compete clause is? Pretty universally illegal. California doesn't have noncompete clauses at all. Texas, the state I'm most familiar with, doesn't allow them to be enforced except for sk
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I would assume most HN users are in the United States, where the notice period is two weeks by custom, or thirty seconds if you are mad enough that you don't care about things like references and eligibility for rehire. The latter is c
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
Is that an argument against the electoral college, or an argument for re-devolution of power? Because the latter is probably easier to do than getting rid of the electoral college, given the requirements to pass a constitutional amendment.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I mean, I'll take a stab at it... the electoral college can be argued from first principles if you consider that the U.S. was supposed to be a federal union of sovereign states. There are certainly reasonable arguments for federalism a
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I believe the unemployment statistics, but I'm not sure what industry is doing all the hiring. I doubt it pays as well as the industries that are shedding people right and left.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
That is not the case. Support drops well below a majority after the first trimester, and always has. https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion... .
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I'm in Texas, in Big Tech. I didn't vote Trump. But I understand. I'd like to get out of here but can't move because of mortgage rates, among other reasons. I'd like to change jobs but tech layoffs have flooded the
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
https://www.wipfli.com/insights/articles/110727-tax-conseque... "In addition, a special punitive rule applies to convert gain otherwise taxable as capital gain to ordinary income. If the property sold or exch
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
This is most states, because the increases are capped for existing property owners especially for first homes - the homestead exemption. If you own a house you live in for a long time in a hot market your assessed value can be very low rela
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
You do not pay property taxes to the IRS, or report the value of your property to them unless you sell it. Federal property tax is unconstitutional. It took an amendment for the feds to be able to do income tax, which has been broadly inter
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
Not the person you were responding to, but if you ignore the hundred-page speech (which isn't that difficult to do) it's a fairly serviceable pulp sci-fi romance novel. It's far from Shakespeare and far from my favorite thing
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> In NYC I can tell you that the metropolitan area lost about 500,000 people since 2020, added ~20-30k housing units per year in that same time. The vacancy rate somehow dropped dramatically despite this and rents also rose dramatically.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I got the same e-mail and also declined to move off the lifetime plan. I would have considered it to support the site but I could see where the owner's attention was going to be focused. Politics is a hell of a drug.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I suspect the number of cops per capita also matters a lot. The U.S. seems to have very few by the standards of western countries, especially European ones, even though we have a more violent society. https://ourworldindata.org&#
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> I am positive that people in hospitals died as a direct result of this incident. I'm less positive than you, just because my experience of healthcare infosec is that all a doctor has to do is say "I cannot be slowed down or p
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> This entire comment boils down to "we can't be held accountable because it's soooo hard you guys", which isn't even convincing to me as someone in the industry and certainly won't be to someone outside it.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> If you build a building that can't stand up to the rain or the wind, you're not an innocent victim of the weather, you failed to design a building for the conditions you knew would be there. I genuinely have no idea how liabi
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
It was not a remark intended to excuse the Germans. There is some evidence, which I am admittedly struggling to find a citation for at the moment, that the early 1940 raids were generally intended to hit military targets and the Germans jus
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> Why even have laws of war then They didn't by our standards. A lot of what we think of as the laws of war today were clarified after WWII. Bombing civilians was illegal, but not in retaliation; so the US could bomb Hiroshima becau
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> Regulators should and do weigh both the harm and good of restricting the usage of new technology. The fact that they don’t always get it right isn’t a reason to stop regulation altogether. That might or might not be wrong, but is certa
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I suspect a part of Elon's issue is pure ideology. However, I am a railfan (I even ride long-distance Amtrak for fun) and a Texan advocate of building HSR from Dallas to Houston, and I have to say he at least has a point about Californ
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
The United States. Well, some of it anyway. Due to smallpox spread from Mexico, 90 percent of the native population was gone in most areas at least a half-century before Jamestown was settled. A lot of what white people 'stole' wa
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
Having a supply of something that is suddenly supply constrained is pretty much a literal definition of how to make a profit. No need for a ??? step on that one. Of course you will take a storage cost loss for potentially thousands of years
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> Why can't I just use Windows Defender and a network scanner for detection, and netboot the endpoints to make bootkits useless? Defender for Endpoint runs in kernel mode. If you just mean plain jane Defender, well, there's a r
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I'm pretty sure those were actual kernel modules, not eBPF. eBPF for their Linux agent is on their roadmap but not something they are actually doing yet. eBPF should be sandboxed and unable to crash the kernel. Could be I'm missin
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
>My point was, why a display at a check in counter needs to run EDR software to begin with? Because the thermostat on a fish tank has been used as a critical entry point into a casino network[1], and the point of EDR is not just to preve

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