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by ABCLAW 9y ago
REITs don't necessarily run the building management or development sides of the business. Normally these functions are bid out to developers and property management companies.
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It seems like a tremendous amount when you consider that the amount of prestige "BigLaw" jobs that can shoulder that debt burden are a fairly small portion of the average graduating cohort's employment. In contrast, I complet
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Sure, but that's a fashion vs. fashion comparison. I'm not arguing that the modes we operate under are informed by the mores of the time - I'm arguing that pretending they don't exist isn't 'logic'. It is
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Guys billing $500 an hour to a third party to provide a CYA paper trail that shields the executive from criticism should everything blow up spectacularly.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I can't wait to be in court with someone arguing that KODAKCoin is evidence of their ownership of their work, or to fight a malicious registration on the KODAKCoin platform by someone who registers public domain and non-owned works mal
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean it's based in logic and reason rather than fashion. It means it's based in your best reasoning given your known lack of data about the issue. You've now been given explicit data in the form of
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Openly seeking to reproduce is not frowned upon. Plenty of people get married, have kids, and are fairly straightforward about their intentions regarding family. No one has an issue with this. This is a private issue, to be discussed with y
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Mate, like 'female', provides a hint of depersonalization - it indicates that the person you're seeking is sought after to fill a procreative role. This is also the reason for the de-emphasis on Mrs. in professional settin
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The Kim Dotcom raid was fairly public knowledge at the time it occurred. I'd start there. Not quite to the level of actual SWAT operations, but far more common are Anton Piller orders. These orders are still used with decent frequency
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Sorry! Didn't see the flag controls. Thanks for the heads up. Post wasn't intended to insult, just demonstrate how silly it seemed as a response.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>in my opinion it's best to just let the matter drop Sure, because you're focused on the quality of conversation. That's what you're optimizing for. For others, who are interested in the quality of available informati
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I get that you have a pet project in attempting to create civil discussion - that's nice and very commendable. But... Please apply your own formula to the post you're replying to. Are you understanding what he's telling you,
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Vacuous and Naive. Sorry, for that, but is throwing insults really how discussion is supposed to be done?
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
It is absurd. Obscenely absurd. Rockefeller could literally pay an army of people to fan him with palm leaves, make sorbet from the ol' ice house and make him fresh iced tea as he walked around town if he wanted. What the fuck does Roc
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>they’re likely living better than John D. Rockefeller did When you make absurd conclusions, you should examine your premises.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The issue is specific to certain locations. Here's a research report authored by the largest bank in Canada on the point: http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/_assets-custom/pdf/20171221-ha.p... Ownership costs i
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Part A) That isn't a redefinition. Wealth is a measure of assets. Assets are, for the most part, rivalrous goods. Ownership's most fundamental quality is the exclusionary right to prevent others to use or occupy the asset in quest
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Wealth is, abstracted, control over resources. How does someone else controlling resources prevent you from obtaining resources? Well, because they control the resources. The entire concept of rivalry in economics is about this. Only in the
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Poverty also includes having your neighborhood torn apart by junkies on opioids. But I guess actually looking at the econometric data to compare apples to apples isn't worthwhile because you can stay indoors while your tires are stolen
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The other posters aren't correct. The actual reasoning is that the banks, as tenants, impart a top-flight credit score to a substantial portion of the building's finances if the leases are designed the right way. In return for the
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Your CPM estimations are in line with my experience, and I also think the profit calculations are off. That said, thinking about it raised an interesting question: are fake download button ads presented to a risk-taking demographic a specia
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I think I'm probably 95% on board with this, and I agree with the conclusions and most of the framework, with one exception. A personal belief held by a public representative is still a personal belief. So, the personal nature of the b
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Am I the only one looking at this and thinking that the so-called controversies are absurdly tame in comparison with the outcry associated with them? They're missteps, not trust breakers. Quantum was a massive step in the right directi
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The action/belief dichotomy is illusory. You're never going to police something inside someone's head, so the reaction will be in respect of an action and what it signals.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
You do realize that my argument directly mirrors a real-life occurance... right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner My point in making the example isn't to establish a framework for evaluating the Eich si
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
1) I don't agree that a CEO's job is "selling the product". That's literally the job of the sales team. But that doesn't really matter. 2) It is obviously the apex of bad optics. My initial point is to demonstr
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Sure. That's why it's a model. It is used to isolate an element of the factual situation for analysis. In this case, you concede the point that if what a CEO does causes bad optics, that is potentially fireable. To loop this back
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Okay, not the poster above, but lets get you a more concrete example: You are the CEO of Bread Inc. You make bread. You sell bread. As the CEO of Bread Inc., you make statements in the public about bread being terrible, that no one should e
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The case is public record. I have it linked in my comment history. If you're interested, that's a great place to start.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Pre 2015, the FCC was enforcing NN through other means. In late 2014, a court case declared the method they were enforcing didn't fall under the scope of their powers, but strongly suggested, while noting that the ISPs could and would

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