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by ABCLAW 7y ago
You dispense with "they provide a benefit" and instead land on "we're not great at being malicious yet". Literally the top post from this comments section is someone highlighting adblocking software to get rid of th
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>You say transfer like it's coming from the employee. That's not what I said at all. The first sentence is a constraint on firm survival, not a statement about where wealth is derived.
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>What's more, people continually click on them, which implies that they are getting some sort of benefit from them. How do you go from "people exhibit this behaviour" to "this behaviour provides them some benefit&quot
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>People are worth what most employees' employers are willing to pay. Companies must transact for labour at a rate that transfers wealth to them. On average, employees must be able generate more value to a firm than their wages, othe
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>Well labour prices (for whatever the industry is) is driven by market forces. [...] If the market rate is artificially inflated [...] First, are all markets just markets? Second, what if the market rate is artificially depressed - what
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Did the authors not consider the common causal variable? Many industries become more capital intensive as they grow, and higher capital thresholds for effective market entry make market entry harder. Additionally, as industries grow, the sc
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
>Unless you’re reusing the original source code, there’s no copyright violation per se Dunno about that one, chief. Copying non-literal elements of code can still be infringing.
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McGhee v National Coal Board is probably the most instructive case on the matter. It brought a 'material increase in risk' test to apply to the causation step of analysis. The case has been widely cited and has had international
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
You're replying after the quoted paragraph was snipped from the thread, so I'm not sure if you actually read my post with the full context. The original paragraph was: "Paradoxical in its manifestations, disconcerting in its
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I prefer the author's version. What you have gained in brevity, you have lost many times over in tone, pace and depth. The author's repetitions are not errors - they highlight his insistence. Additionally, despite ample pronoun us
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>What is point of letting them claim innocence? It changes the evidentiary basis of future claims on related grounds. The admission opens them up to other legal risks outside of the current dispute. Maybe European regulators want to slap
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The first paragraph of the quoted piece is a nightmare. The first sentence of the second and third paragraph are poorly drafted as well. In the rest, the verbose recounting fits the theme and does not distract from the point. As a writing e
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Experts are a nice resource to have, but they're not a cure-all. Not all of our legislature's representatives have systemically good incentives. Regardless of their ability to understand complexity, complexity offers them the abil
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My comment used the term in the exact manner described by the comment you're replying to, to describe a state of affairs whereby incentives are systemically perverse because risk is not properly allocated. A recent review I looked thro
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I think the imposition of this burden on engineers is the result of our belief that our legislators are too incompetent or unwilling to act in the fact of clear moral hazards. Tech has a very strong history of conscientious objectors. They&
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>Meh, the concern of the integrity of the election itself is a thousand or a million times more pressing than the concern about somebody trying to coerce somebody. 1) Coercion is literally the biggest concern within elections. You put a
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Not really. Best practices in the field involve having representatives from many to all parties present at each step of the voting process, from the distribution of ballots at the booth, to the counting, to the archiving of counted boxes pe
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This makes a lot more sense, Prof. Stein. Best wishes in your continuing quest :).
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I've worked with plenty of patent licensing and tech transfer offices at universities. This isn't a situation where they'd pitch a fit. Worst case scenario, they need an email from a dept head directing them to get it dealt w
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This is a really easily solved legal issue. You draft up a quick little IP agreement that clarifies the desired state of affairs - problem solved. Resignation was not required, needed, and arguably made the legal risk worse. Oh well.
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I think it's patently obvious that these services rely on unconscionable contracts - they are literally premised upon financial coercion. However, litigation on the basis of unconscionability is unlikely to be successful due to market
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That paragraph was meant to be glib, sorry if it wasn't precise enough. Money Stuff #2 has cratered before it really got wings. That said, your response is half accurate. You're right that not all trading on non-public information
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Yeah, not sure why they accepted that edit. Tailgating is something entirely different.
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The definition is probably cited in a lot of places because it's literally just the definition of insider trading. Which frontrunning is a form of. A nice neutral primer on the HFT frontrunning debate can be found here, which contains
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A lot of people, including the author of Flash Boys, would dispute how narrow that definition is. You don't need a client for there to be a systemic problem with trading on everyone else's advance information when the advance info
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If desktops had batteries the size of their PSUs, I guarantee I'd have blown one up by now. Probably more than one. Heck, I made a set of peripheral speakers explode once.
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For those that don't know, Louis Brandeis is also the father of modern privacy rights in the western world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article)
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The full disaggregation + analysis has been linked in related discussions on HN in the past, but I don't have it. If I had to get the numbers or die, I'd search HN for manufacturing related articles from the past year.
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>Production indexes for a few industries are derived by dividing estimated nominal output (calculated using unit production and unit values or sales) by a corresponding Fisher price index; the most notable of these fall within the high-t
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>Because it creates echochambers and it weaponizes the term hate speech. Okay, so that's the downside of curating your platform. You need to contrast that downside with the upside of taking action. Reasonable limits on Free Speech a

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