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by ABCLAW 4y ago
I didn't say a good lawyer will achieve the settlement. I said they could. Keeping costs down and only spending enough to acquire the absolute key arguments, research and evidence is how you get to discuss a settlement with leverage. A
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
This isn't a "great lawyer" play . It's the standard play for any unscrupulous party engaged against a party with limited funds. Even if a case is pretty open and shut, you can tie it up for years in motions for little b
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
It's unfortunate that you exclusively focus on the source rather than the argument when the information contained in the links I provided can be found in peer reviewed papers, other news publications, etc., all of which can be easily s
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>The biggest dangerous part of removing a kidney isn’t the act of removal, it’s the long term lack of having it. So? You wouldn't mandate mandatory kidney removals if we could mitigate the long term risk of not having one because th
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
If Gerrymandering was used to district people into exclusively 90/10 distribution segments, it wouldn't favor either party. But that's not what happens. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>On a closer reread I can’t tel what your actual point was. The point was that since carrying a pregnancy to term has a higher risk profile than having an organ removed, a pregnancy should be voluntary in the same way we wouldn't co
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>You WANT the representatives deciding the boundaries because they are ultimately beholded to the people How are they beholden to people if they can disenfranchise people via gerrymandering? The primary check against arbitrary action of
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>How far off am I, from a global perspective? I think this view of right/left as an axis of government optimizing for freedom/control is only very prevalent in particularly right-wing commonwealth discourse. The law and constru
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Fraud and money laundering unironically described as the killer use case for crypto isn't the slam dunk you think it is.
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>Can we also make a hostile work environment to pro-union employees? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_busting Historically, it would be hard to argue otherwise. It is lucrative to remove bargaining leverage from
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
> They’re exactly the sort of thing that even very strict zoning codes allow. My experience working with commercial real estate leads me to believe that your experience with strip malls is driving your consideration here. Strict or Not S
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Isn't the post he's replying to doing the exact same thing?
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>This assumes folks even read legal-speak. They obviously don't, but you're missing a key idea; why aren't they? You can't benefit from reading without expert knowledge, and the cost is a massive time-sink. Even lawye
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>The problem is people are stupid and uninformed about giving consent. You're the one trying to loophole around that. Not really. People have a limited amount of time to deal with issues and aren't trained legally. This doesn&#
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
The main reason for the fear is the loss of class action potential, which means almost all small disputes are impossible to obtain redress for. If you're in a situation where the case is worth 5-50k, it's generally a better option
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>Healthy soil can be cultivated at scale, so if quality is the top priority that's not an issue. The larger issue is that consumers have no way of assessing the nutritional value of the items they're purchasing at the point of
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>Why does a giant condo building have to be high-end? Because the margins are higher and you can't put up infinite towers. >if they weren't focused on profit They are.
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>At least this is what I heard in Econ 101 Yeah, and you probably also learned a laundry list of caveats which lead to the principle you're describing being non-applicable. Real estate is not a fully commodifiable good because it is
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>The only difference between now and then is we have far, far more regulations and zoning rules in the way. No, the only difference is that a metric fuckton of money which used to be parked in productive equity investments ran out of pro
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
This is a terrible argument. The costs associated with building wide, rather than building tall are hidden in future taxes and not disclosed to the homebuyer. Pretending there's some 'all costs' calculator over the useful lif
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>It says something about your worldview that you would take that away from what I said. Yeah, probably says I know something about normal distributions work.
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>The low-tier Harvard students are assuredly smarter than the top-tier students from my school. One reason is that students don't exist in a vacuum. Your peers influence your intelligence. You might be conflating class signaling wit
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Not really. The horizontal gene transfer pool is local - you'll find microsystems where the plasmid or gene segment is present, but unless the gene itself provides some fitness benefit to the host, it will be outcompeted in general. Yo
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
Because they're using energy making an enzyme that only produces a positive impact on fitness in the event plastic is the best food source in the area. In all other cases, a leaner genome that isn't wasting energy on a useless enz
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
The most likely outcome is that the bacteria would be outcompeted by wildtype strains and fail to metabolize very much in the immediate term. It's more likely we'd see this type of microbe used in a bioreactor style setup where pl
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
The Guardian's version of the article contains an update correcting a misattribution. The study was published in mBio: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-acr... Just an FYI for
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
It's not a straw man at all. Even in this post you restate the ideological underpinnings of starve the beast. If you want governments to work like efficient machines, you need to invest in them, which requires political will that will
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>No, because in these cases it's violence enacted in self-defense The use of coercive force is justifiable by the state or it isn't. If you now create justifications for why the use of violence in pursuit of self defense is val
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
A number of the comments to your post have some vague sense of what's going on. The key concept is that as you get more wealthy, you will have access to professionals and tax structures that allow you to defer and recharacterize signif
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by ABCLAW 4y ago
>You're making a pretty fundamental mistake No I'm not. This is pretty entry level econ material. Price elasticity is very well studied and there's plenty of resources to learn more about it.

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