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by ABCLAW 6y ago
This is wrong.
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
I agree entirely. Most of them sound like "how to I justify my AI driven technocracy by pointing to studies of lemurs"
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
How exactly is she screwed? She owns an apartment building. She can likely liquidate for multiple millions even in a down market and live in luxury for the remainder of her life AND pass on a ton of money to her heirs.
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
"The gist of it is that those other corporations cowtowed to the administration and could then got away with scummy antitrust behaviour" I think the reality is simpler; antitrust enforcement in the states is laughable and historic
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Wow a lot of comments in the theme of 'but what about this OTHER company acting anticompetitively'. Okay, so let's bring action against them too. The answer isn't to ignore all of them.
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>Laws are not black and white and courts/judges have to interpret how the law applies Kinda but not really. Jurisprudence is not the primary source of law in civilian countries; generally civil codes are. Additionally, civilian juri
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>AFAIK, most legal systems (at least based on the British legal system) Just a nit: Most legal systems are not based on the British system. Civil law is more widespread globally and it operates in a very different manner in respect of th
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Not supporting Monsanto's business model isn't the same thing as not 'listen[ing] to scientists'. The issues with blanket application of Glysophate combined with roundup resistant crops are real; application volumes have
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>Because the first goal post was meaningless. You're the one that placed it there.
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
New York. Italy.
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
Am I though? The preambles of the articles that you're citing do not agree with your position, neither does a number of other definitions found easily online, neither does the academic publication record (you'll easily find 500+ a
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>Areas like philosophy and law actually suffer in my opinion when they overload common words It's more that people take material from our fields and misuse them in casual contexts. >If "contractualism" were just known a
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>Wealth creation isn't zero-sum, just because someone builds a business and creates wealth doesn't mean they're taking it from others. We want a society where people are incentivized to create and grow wealth as much as th
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
I don't see how you got that from what I said. Are you looking for an explanation of how a demand curve works? Sorry, a bit confused here.
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
> I feel like there has been a backlash against time saving tech It isn't a luddite backlash. It's just that in many cases the value-add for customers doesn't justify the price difference. There are certain benefits to app
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by ABCLAW 6y ago
>the status of sneakers amongst low-income Americans. Not to discount your point, but there are a lot of very, very wealthy sneakerheads. It isn't low-income Americans that pick up 10k worth of limited designer run sneakers on launc
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
>- In theory, secured creditors should be ahead in line and always get paid ahead of unsecured creditors. Some classes of unsecured creditors that are paid out before others are employees, pensioners or people with support claims. These
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
>They have the right to access anything they pay for without telling you. No, they don't.
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
I think you need to re-read your posts. Read your admission that half of the stated areas of competition law they're investigating are related to abuse of market position and contrast it with my original point: >It literally says th
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
>Dominance isn't required for antitrust to apply. Abuse of dominance is literally the title for the entire relevant subheading of law in the relevant jurisdiction: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/consumers/
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
Generally the term for these arrangements is 'consignment'. A lot of people are discussing this arrangement by allusion. Where retailers also own brands and compete against other vendors in these areas, they are subject to competi
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
Because the proper comparison isn't X accidents vs Y accidents. It's X accidents and Z billion dollars spent vs Y accidents, where that Z billion dollars could have gone to other efforts. If the delta between X and Y is minor, Z i
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
>Maybe Toronto is way more expensive than Houston It is. >~800 sq ft 1 br 8 minutes from downtown in a nice neighborhood for $850 Lol.
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
It's laughably not close. I wrote a full reply with figures, but it took up a ton of space. The short version is that neither of your models are accurate as to the actual costs in this city, and you've also just flat out ignored a
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
"Looked at that way, $2/hour is potentially the equivalent of $8/hour as supplemental income. And you can fit it in to otherwise useless scraps of time." No. $2/hr is potentially the same as freelancing at $8/h
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
I live in Toronto, those numbers are hilarious. You cannot live in this city on a yearly wage of 21600. Not only are your numbers wrong individually, but they're also woefully under representative because your fake individual isn'
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
>Well the Left may lament the fact that it will not be due to any change of heart or international cooperation [..] Pretty sure they've just been advocating for making the 'mercenary calculations' more accurate by pricing
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
>That doesn't have to be a backdoor. It is a backdoor. The definition of the term doesn't require intent.
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
Sorry, this is bullshit. Huawei structured the Iran deal to obfuscate that they were providing the equipment in question. Not only did they know they weren't allowed to sell telecom equipment to Iran, they intentionally tried to do so
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by ABCLAW 7y ago
Did you grow up with any competitive-level hockey players? The sport is a VERY large time and finance drain on a family.

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