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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Justin, with respect, there are many organizations working within the structure that you've put together. All of them get by on the basis that they argue the scope of what software does is not the practice of law. My concern is that in
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The ABA rules are model rules - they provide a framework for state bars to build upon, but they aren't directly enforceable unless a state bar decides the ABA model code is their code. The state bar of california has their own set of r
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I don't, given that core claims in the letter, which is clearly drafted in anticipation of litigation by legal, are contradicted by the reporting. Maybe you just get a sense of when a lawyer making shit up and slinging shit after you&#
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>"Does that make Wax a white supremacist for saying that culture matters for poverty-related outcomes, that not all cultures are equally good for escaping poverty, and that the 1950s American “bourgeois cultural script” was particul
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
You're prematurely optimizing. If someone is roadblocked and cannot work (login issues, etc) their problem needs to be solved immediately. If resolving that issue is causing the programmer or DBA themselves to become roadblocked and sl
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Misread your comment! Oops. I jumped into New America's filed 990 papers and the number at a first estimate is around 20%. But I haven't added in any personal donations by Eric Schmidt. Perhaps more importantly omitted is the fact
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
This is lazy thinking. Trying to smuggle the power into the concept of 'effective employment' doesn't do much to fix the issue if you're honest about it. You need power to fire people you directly employ, let alone resea
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>But is the concentration of power really at play here? Yes. The executive chairman of the corporation they receive ~%20 of their revenue from called and told them to get rid of the guy. The guy was gone in two days. This isn't a gr
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Heck of a lot of Dog wagging here over whether or not Google could legally apply the pressure they did. The answer is yes, they could. Great. The issue isn't whether or not they could. It's whether or not they should be in a posit
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I don't know a single biochemist that puts in 16 hours of work a day. I know of plenty of biochemists that routinely start and end their days 16 hours apart because they have a growth protocol that takes 12 hours to complete prior to h
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Sure. There are a number of issues, but I'll highlight a trio to give you the flavor. The first is with the OSS appellation, which should rely upon the permissiveness of the corpus of rights surrounding the work. React claims that it i
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I don't agree with your premise, that a variety of clients makes a representative inoculated against bias. If anything, it makes certain biases more pernicious as you examine the circumstances of your selected client roster while incre
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Heather Meeker is a lawyer who represents Facebook. I have a background in this (although I am not your lawyer, so please do not take anything in this post as legal advice). The license is a serious issue for a subset of software companies
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
The company's aim is to import low-wage labour on the promise of access to the states. The employee's aim is to obtain access to the states in exchange for accepting sub-standard wages. I'm not sure how savvy employees jumpin
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
There is very little in the way of empirical research on the effectiveness of patents and specific patent policy elements, so regulators are fairly hamstrung; they know the area is important but mis-formed, but they can't really get so
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
One former colleague of mine would explain to clients that "Hard thinking is hard work, and hard problems need hard thinking before we put pen to paper" when explaining our pre-drafting billing.
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Perhaps the libraries in your community share this property, but they certainly don't in mine. What communities are you referencing in this comment? Mine have extensive multimedia selections available for access, music rooms with instr
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
It isn't that goofy, and it's a known issue in providing international aid. If I provide a country with agricultural issues a number of tractors, but then outsize repair, maintenance and consumable costs for operating the tractors
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Say you sell wizards from the university of manchester. Say I want a wizard from the university of manchester. If you and I sign a document that says umanwizard sells me a umanchesterwizard with all the little deets like price and timing of
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
SF has an extreme homelessness problem, smells like urine in upscale pedestrian magnet areas (not just back-alleys) and the residential buildings are poorly maintained to the point it being visually distracting because the land underneath t
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
His argument is almost tautological, because it is conditional on the basis that the society is healthy. Societies fall apart over slow, widely predicted economic adjustments all the time, because healthy societies have buffering homeostati
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Prof. Lazonick's piece is interesting, but it seems like there are other forces at work, too. The central thrust of his argument is that public markets have not lived up to their function as capital providers to firms, noting that amer
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
I don't think an extended back and forth will be very fruitful at this time. You have very large misconceptions about what we know, because you've approached the subject to look at a point of interest without understanding the con
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
You are a large bag of molecules. You self replicate and generate a variety of structures. You are great evidence that complex systems arise out of simple phenomena. Wolfram's initial explorations dealt with this in particular. This is
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
That isn't true. Feel free to tell me what the alternative theories that constitute competition to abiogenesis. The alternatives are pretty much 1) a deity or 2) some mythical life force assembled things. Abiogenesis has a ton of evide
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
It's a cute paper telling biochemists things they already knew. The biochemical sciences aren't discovering entropy for the first time. The premise this work adopts doesn't add to our understanding of complex chemical systems
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
That's not correct. There's no scientific theory of abiogenesis, because we haven't elucidated the entire pathway and developed falsifiable methods of determining which of the various models is correct, but there certainly is
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
Forgive me if I'm dense, but I read the article twice and don't see how this is anything more than a well known fact getting some science journalism coverage to seem important. Is the big news here that someone in physics has appl
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>It's time for Congress to legislate the rules of the Internet, and stop the ping-pong game of regulations and litigation Sure. Great initiative, but yet once again the request places the interests of the end users in the hands of o
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by ABCLAW 9y ago
>Person in question wasn't exactly financially secure...I think he had about a grand or two in the bank, if that. That's quite a bit more than the average person has. Especially if you're a coder and can land a 175k/y

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