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by ABCLAW 3y ago
>Is the Dutch legal system inviting themselves to become a party to every single he said/she said drama on Facebook? Legal action is very expensive. While vexatious litigants exist, the total volume of legal proceedings being commen
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
There's a common issue in philosophy and epistemology over how we come to know things. We wanted to know what 'knowledge' was, and settled upon the concept of a 'justified true belief' for a fairly long period of ti
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
>But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me since influenza will be mutating to escape the immune response Not all mutations are equal; the flu has antigenic factors that rapidly change in response to evolutionary pressure that don&#x
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by ABCLAW 3y ago
>Ambulance shows, guy says "No!" and so everyone says "Oh, this person is doing just fine, leave them alone." No, no one says 'this person is doing fine'. It's 'we're medical staff and we can&
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>Like how is it not an admission of wrongdoing if you finally say "Ok, I'll give you money for this problem to go away". Because an admission could be used against you in future litigation, thus defeating the purpose of se
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>It's not a problem with the "system" that mathematicians know more about math than the general public One of the historical high watermarks in legal history is the existence of the twelve tables, a highly condensed, short
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
I'm not going to discuss any of the tie-ins with capitalism, because frankly I don't care to, but I'm going to point out that as a historical note this is not an accurate representation of legal history. In fact it largely ig
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Both neoliberal and classical definitions of capital make it nearly tautologically required as an input for production. 'Wealth' and 'Capital' aren't the same thing.
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>People will say capital Because the answer is capital.
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>I'm sure everyone could probably live much longer and "healthier" if the government controlled every aspect of their life, but that's exactly the authoritarian dystopia that much of the population fortunately rejects
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
I think the only way you can make this argument is to have a completely value agnostic perspective and believe that any individual value curve is good. Is Meth good because people clearly value it enough to destroy their lives to get more?
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>Welcome to reality. You'll laugh now, but if you want to hold something of lasting value, that's kinda how it works. Yeah, when I own a bunch of equity, real estate and other intangible rights, I do my best to fit them all int
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>I imagine there’s reasonably priced financial products like business lines of credit So much so that there's names for various ways of cutting up the receivables risk. For example: https://www.investopedia.com/terms
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Lazy thinking. Governments that provide and purchase healthcare services are also in the business of funding research. In what world do we not see an alignment of interests for studies from nutritionists and dieticians on this topic? We hav
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
We don't. You're confusing what's being called absurd. The argument you presented or the comparison itself. One doesn't imply the other. Anyways, this is an old thread so I'll drop off. Have a nice day.
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
There's a bunch of these analytics platforms available. Government isn't the only one using them, and twitter isn't the only platform being used. Look up Talkwalker, Hootsuite, Nexalogy, etc. Governments and other institution
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>but it does seem like a questionable use of the FBI to be doing content moderation for Twitter absent a criminal investigation. Law enforcement, people in corporate risk, and business intelligence groups very often use social media to p
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Pop a few custodians worth of emails into Brainspace or any of the other tools to parse the information and you'll find that 300~ emails over 3 years is next to nothing (i'll double the number listed by Taibbi to be charitable). I
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>But the metaphor of "pants" is absurd. Yes that's the point. It's a reductio ab absurdem. The pant metaphor is obviously absurd for the same reason that the initial position you posited is absurd. In order to salvage
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>It’s anti-social to not wear a mask when society has decided to do so. Sure, because the efficacity of mask usage increases with adoption. The logic works in one direction, though, not both. >I’m not going to go around wearing a mask
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
In my area, cases are rising fairly rapidly and certain hospitals have begun to rescheduling electives on the basis that they're overstressed. This is concerning because winter is just getting started and transmission rates when people
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
While I understand the sentiment of saying that a purely individual perspective is egregious, selfish, myopic and inappropriate for a situation in which individual selfishness can cause extensive social harm, it's not a good look to te
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>Covering your face, as a primate, is not a natural thing to do. 1) Neither is wearing pants or a shirt. 2) Something being 'natural' doesn't make it right. >Assuming that obscuring the face has zero cost is clearly wro
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
1) This is the technical answer: Cyanide binds fairly strongly to one of the molecular machines involved in cellular respiration, inactivating it. The result of that inactivation is that your cell begins to have issues producing ATP, even w
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
It's not a hypothesis. You don't need to believe it exists and it may be less common in your market. I know this is true firsthand as in the course of my work, I review the financial and legal side of these entities at times.
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
The problem doesn't necessarily blow up immediately. If people's analysis of the EV of a particular deal is positive on the basis of the bubble continuing, some groups will find continued investment is within their risk tolerance
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
There are plenty of REITs operating in my city that have substantial detached residential holdings. The EV on renting and holding substantially improves if the housing market takes off like a rocket. It might not work in your market, but th
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>do regulators know that for a fact before they decide no to enforce penalties for what you are claiming is trademark infringement? The regulator doesn't pursue trademark infringement cases. It is upon the trademark holder to defend
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Well your government has reached the point that it cannot govern at the federal level or reasonably receive strong mandates to deal with issues. Faith in democratic institutions is tanking. This is what it looks like before the system break
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Most chemical synthesis steps produce side products. More steps means more %yield loss. If it's possible you go from A->B at 80% efficiency. If we compare this with A->C then C->B need to be nearly twice as efficient to provid

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