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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>I think what he's saying is the smart move for investors is to keep the process going (buy property, see appreciation, capture gains upon sale, re-invest gains to buy at even higher price point) until it goes bust. By "continu
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>Take the analysis a step further though, population density matters, not median income. With respect, I'll maintain that it's an issue if the supporting cash-flow underlying the market can no longer, numerically, support the
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>Speculation can hide some of that dynamic during periods of rapid price increases but a lot of speculators go broke and give up. We saw a lot of that during the mortgage meltdown. In Vancouver, ownership costs exceed the median househol
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
This is commonly done in most industrial food service verticals. It will be called product innovation, reformulation or some other R&D adjacent term. Large food companies have the equivalent of a commodities trading desk built-in. The t
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
> Like I said -- I don't know much about how non-US healthcare systems are funded. Then shouldn't you read up on that before expounding upon how a 38k price tag for a scheduled routine procedure is reasonable? Healthcare billin
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>The fix is to remove the loopholes. Is it, though? This is a situation where Chesterton's Fence is important to consider. No single government regulates tax worldwide, and each is iteratively attempting to balance a multitude of co
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>I do not understand how people can not understand that a percentage tax, by it's definition, does have the largest companies pay more. They don't understand it because it isn't true on a proportional basis (and in some ca
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
I've had staff at an unnamed $10B tech company in CA tell me that they 'trusted their system' and that 'the data never lies' after one of their staff members made a process mistake by failing to log some information
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It's back, and it's a very good comment.
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>It means you don't know what the law actually is yet when you're trying to comply with it. Yes, this happens in all industries that have cases being litigated all the time. In some instances, areas of settled law are completel
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
I agree that there's an obvious risk here, but this is a burden for the courts to bear. The concern over data-use at filtering service companies is new to me and interesting but substantially mitigated if they are compliant with GDPR.
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
Sorry, I'm confused. Did you not notice that almost every post of mine is referring to specific limiting provisions - that everyone else is ignoring in creating their doomsday scenarios - in the text?
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>You clearly didn't. I did. I wrote at length about it in the previous thread, and provided links to the language of the articles as well as the elements that were ignored. You need to read ALL of the language to understand how the
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
Let's be precise then. Streamers are already getting abused by Content ID. How does the EU legislation change how that works? It already exists. Edit: Content ID already covers the requirements of Art. 13 under any reasonable reading o
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>But that's part of the problem. No, it isn't. Tech changes rapidly, and legislation quite simply isn't going to be able to encode a specific contextual mutating standard. Law isn't wrong to offload that analysis to a
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>Calling the political discourse that opposes these articles "fearmongering" is disingenuous. I don't have an issue with political discourse that opposes these articles, given that I criticize them in almost every post I&#
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
Yes, her work is commendable in bringing information to the public. I don't quite agree with her tone or conclusions in this matter, but I'm glad there are solid IP-centric advocates like her as MEPs. Unfortunately, a ton of artic
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>The problem is the proportionality requirements are poorly designed. I don't think this is the issue. The requirements aren't set out in detail, and will largely be fleshed out by the courts. This is where the reality of Art.
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In the real world, people are being fed misinformation about what's going on by people who didn't read the actual text of the article. That's the point. I did. I've followed every public draft of the language as its deve
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>In practice, it will all be up to the judge That's the case for any piece of legislation. The test isn't 'if your AI was good enough'. For the majority of people the most important part is: 'is it proportional t
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>Because now a startup has less than 3 years to add this content filtering, which provided as a service or not, is going to cost €€€. Not really? This isn't a flat 'you need to pay 10k a yr regardless of your size' imposit
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
This isn't a fight between elites and the proles - most people who are framing the result today as such have not read the text of article 11 and 13. And I don't blame them, most articles on the matter conspicuously refuse to link
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
This isn't a law that serves multinationals; quite the opposite. The proportionality requirement in the text of Art. 13 is more onerous to larger corporations. If you're a tiny blog with a banner ad or two, you're not getting
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
As always in the Canadian Real Estate discussion, the RBC reports have the best data and analysis. http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/reports/rbc-housing-affordabilit... The Toronto and Vancouver markets are in territory
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
Also also a lawyer. There's a number of civil and criminal sources of liability triggered by the fact situation. I think the OP is referring to the requirements for the sources which trigger 'big dollar' litigation remedies.
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>Didn't the Waymo-Uber suit end up with Uber settling by paying a quarter billion dollars Yep. They did. In fairness, though, Waymo did run into difficulties during the litigation in respect of tying the misappropriated documentatio
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>I wasn't trying to defend that. I just saw your "it's pretty simple to..." and as someone close to the issue wanted to explain ways it's not that simple. Oh, I thought you were the original poster I was replying
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>It's way more expensive than this, and it's an adversarial system Sure, but I've overstated the hourly costs by an order of magnitude. You can get body shops to do this work very inexpensively. Making a call as to whether
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>Measuring the "content on the page" is hopelessly ambiguous and easy to scam. Is it? It seems pretty simple to audit your 10,000 largest ad-spend domains and check to see if they're actually just ad fraud. You'd need
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by ABCLAW 8y ago
Your posts in this thread have been accurate wrt competition law. It's interesting to see how many people are shocked abuse of dominant market position remedies. I think enforcement has been so lax that many people casually assume anti

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