ABCLAW

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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Clearly you didn't read all of my comment. I did. I also read this post. Saying you are empathetic while also uniformly dismissing those you claim to empathize with doesn't ring too clear. No evidence of empathy, lots of evide
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>If you consider that laws tend to be passed to support populism first, business interests second [...] It's been a while since I looked into this, but my understanding is that quantitatively this is almost the opposite of what actu
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
"Yes, I have empathy for your situation" "I don't need to see continual Facebook posts about it." Framing someone's struggle purely in terms of how it annoys you makes you come across as something other than em
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
I agree. It's unfortunate that the tone of this site has shifted from a playful, exuberant, rebellious culture looking to creatively tinker, build and solve problems with new approaches and solutions to... this. Denying problems exist
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
To the extent that the individual and the marketer's interests are not aligned, the harm is borne entirely by the individual. It doesn't matter if the intention is to harm the individual; a blatant disregard for their interests ac
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
We tried this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_estate The move from life estates and fee tails to fee simples was not a mistake. It was a core component of western society moving out of the feudal era. It's VER
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
In case readers are interested in what the levels mean: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/litproficiencylevel.asp
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>The alternative is a slowdown in research and development since now the research you paid millions for in payroll and time can now be copied by your competitor with one or two engineers. I'm not going to argue regarding the merit o
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
Right, so the problem is making your KPIs exclusively about measurable 'growth', rather than optimizing for making the best communities possible. It isn't inherently social media or democracy that's the problem, it'
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>What's your definition of a normal worker? Lawyers, doctors, dentists, pilots, architects and programmers sound like normal workers to me. We're not. Lawyer income is not on a normal distribution. People making >400k a year
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Buffett always complains that he did not pay enough tax. He could simply wire 50% of his fortune to the IRS. His secretary had no choice. (End of sarcasm) Wealth is competitive. Over time, having a higher rate of return than someone els
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
Shell companies are just companies without offices. You can use corporate entities to organize assets, create trusts, hold certain obligations, create joint ventures, provide equity to align interests, etc. All of these things are beneficia
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
Because legal tax avoidance isn't an issue and is a topic for another paper. Why is every second reply in this comment thread trying to deflect away from the documented widespread, commonplace fraud that constitutes a wealth transfer a
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
Tax law has issues, but deficient analysis, audit and enforcement against richer, more complex files is a huge issue. Why fail to fix one over the other?
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Thank you for this link. This was a very worthwhile read.
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You can create a strict, high functioning organization without being an asshole. Maintaining high standards and expecting excellence isn't an exercise in babysitting; it's an exercise in aligning contributors to those same standar
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Costco/Walmart/Best Buy/Target/Home Depot/Lowe’s/grocery stores all sell their own brands next to competing brands in their stores. These are almost all 'control brands'; similar or identical prod
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
The law of nuisance isn't about 'people fitting each other'. It's about securing the rights of property holders. If someone is running a train yard and hasn't obtained encumbrances on surrounding properties to allow
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. I actually wrote a reply along these lines then decided I should get some work done and dropped it. >"Cannot help but switch to previous single-celled metabolism" This line itself should immediately gi
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>I wonder why the Eastern District is like this? Slow evolutionary pressure on people and institutions. You form a small cottage industry around a court system that doesn't have a ton of work, and therefore can hear your cases quick
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
The concern is that temperature response to emissions may look like other buffered chemical systems. See the PH curves here: https://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/acidbaseeqia/phcurves.h... Basically we see plateaus
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>He's wrong. Nah, the numbers are pretty firmly on my side. I picked a fairly 'risky' procedure as far as the routine ones go to make the comparison really conservative. I'm still more likely to get fried to a crisp b
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
No, I'm not saying I have a higher chance of dying IF I get hit by a bolt of lightning. I'm saying I have a higher chance of dying by getting hit by lightning going about my life as normal than dying by getting a whole slew of rou
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Given that I have a higher likelihood of getting killed by a bolt of lightning than by undergoing a number of medical procedures, I'd say the bar is pretty high.
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>If it works until it doesn't, is it really something you should be trusted? Depends on why you need to trust something. If the failure state is multiple nukes going off, sure throw money and time at it until your systems are bullet
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
I think there's a fetish for this "don't trust your anecdotes" reply, when the reality is more nuanced. People will trust their anecdotes because in general they are right to. They don't need a double blind study to
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
The RTS genre isn't really stuck - it's dead. Blizzard killed it. Studios left the genre when SC2 came out because at the time it was launched, SC:BW was, literally, e-sports. Power user players sought legitimacy for their games,
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Unfortunately, regional market segmentation is something that international trade agreements have encouraged, not prevented.
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Being helpful and kind to others also requires that you be kind to yourself. You can only give when it is healthy to do so. Some people will be narcissists, self involved, and mean. Some people will try to take advantage of you. That's
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
I dunno why this is downvoted. This phrase: "the problem seems to be we can't tax the rich because they take advantage of globalism to move their money around" Is a tiny distillation of one of the most difficult problems faci

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