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by Digory 8y ago
Not really. Shareholder primacy responded to management supremacy — management was soaking up profits, making almost fraudulent promises to employees about the future, and insulating themselves from shareholder votes. The Warren proposal p
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by Digory 8y ago
It's in Kansas, not Arkansas. Tradition says the English and French pronounced the same Native tribe differently. Through Wichita, the river is the "ar-Kansas River," but through Little Rock, it's the "Arkansaw.&qu
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by Digory 8y ago
Someone asked a similar question on ProductHunt a few weeks ago (definitely not lightweight)[0]. It introduced me to skimfeed.com, and wttr.in. [0] https://www.producthunt.com/ask/9071-what-are-some-good-ligh...
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by Digory 8y ago
You can always be fired for doing a ‘bad’ job, however your employer/shareholder defines bad. The law gives management really broad authority to define “good” and “bad,” though typically that’s easiest to measure and quantify through p
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by Digory 8y ago
To put a bit more nuance on this: in the US, verbal contracts are hard to enforce because they're usually hard to prove. But a verbal contract you can prove is enforceable just like a written contract (with some important exceptions
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by Digory 8y ago
Reduced Awards =! Reduced Premiums or Costs Texas seems to have set caps so low that it has reduced premiums for doctors. But "making malpractice cheaper" isn't much of a policy goal. Nationally,'tort reform' caps
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by Digory 8y ago
Harvard's Bill Stuntz wrote about plea bargains extensively before his death.[1] His last book was the "Collapse of American Criminal Justice." The issue isn't the plea bargain itself, but the incentives to make lots of
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by Digory 8y ago
I didn't say defense lawyers are "appointed from a government-funded pool." I said many are "appointed," which is the term used in Gideon v. Wainright and Miranda. "Appointed" covers public defenders and
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by Digory 8y ago
For the most part, prosecutors are government employees or even elected officials. It would be difficult to defend accused people without running into a conflict of interest with your employer. While defense lawyers are frequently appointed
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by Digory 8y ago
“According to Schooley, owner Henry was at a trade show and simply decided he wanted to build the tallest, fastest water slide at one of his five Schlitterbahn water parks. He immediately shopped the idea to vendors, who declined, but he re
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by Digory 8y ago
The week he pays for the gym, TSA pre-check, car insurance, and health insurance, might be more interesting.
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by Digory 8y ago
As for #2, I think the tax incentives make it prohibitive to offer nonconforming plans to those who want to resist. In a weird way, that’s some of what the Hobby Lobby litigation was about — you faced crazy high fines if you wanted to opt o
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by Digory 8y ago
Reminds me of the moving platform idea a few years back. Essentially, platform trains would run on a loop, connecting to high speed express trains. It sounded unsafe, but maybe not more dangerous than a slip coach. https://io9.
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by Digory 8y ago
Interesting. It appears there are two big loopholes to the 20% limit: a general five-year exception that allows DAFs to wind out of large donations, and a new exception where the DAF acquires 100% of the voting interest.[0] [1] https:&#x2F
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by Digory 8y ago
The unappreciated risk in a setup like this is that multiple donors could inadvertantly give the DAF sizable impact in voting shares. As I understand it, the Fund, not the donor, owns and votes any donated shares. If two cofounders sign th
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by Digory 8y ago
The policy is “everyone is a customer.”
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by Digory 8y ago
I’ve heard nothing but raves for scan and go at Sams Club. I wonder if they’ll keep it for the warehouse clubs?
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by Digory 8y ago
I've built my last few performance "Apples" almost entirely from non-OEM parts. Apple has been pretty lenient with the Hackintosh community -- but that may be coming to an end, if Apple moves away from intel.
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by Digory 9y ago
It's actually pretty astonishing how easy it has become to churn out a decent, stable desktop hackintosh. This announcement seems to give them a four or five year lifespan.
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by Digory 9y ago
I sometimes use http://hckrnews.com - the interface is arguably a bit cleaner, but the top 50% and top 10 buttons are the real magic. Also @newsyc200 and @newsyc250 — twitter feeds of posts with 200 or 250 points.
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by Digory 9y ago
The other solution to under-enforcement is giving a private right of action to individuals and their lawyers. I realize people hate to feed and clothe lawyers, but a few class-action suits, and this problem would dry up.
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by Digory 9y ago
AFAICT, the “brake” was a rough pad attached to the surface of the slide, designed to slow the raft as it crested a hill. It wasn’t a user-operable brake. See page 4 of the indictment. [0] https://www.wycocourtks.org/uploa
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by Digory 9y ago
Interestingly, the states might be able to require a freedom of speech in malls. I’d settle for a modern version of Pruneyard for Google and Facebook. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v...
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by Digory 9y ago
Well, "hard to go wrong" except when it's wrong. California central district wants 14 points, with line numbers. Arizona district wants 13 points, no line numbers. The 7th Circuit's typography recommendations say Times
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by Digory 9y ago
2 & 3, though, are encouraging inefficiency, not awesomeness. The practice of high-end law is, to an unreasonable degree, about typesetting and formatting. You pay your lawyers to sweat the local judges’ preferences for margins and Arab
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by Digory 9y ago
Most? That’s a new one to me, and I regularly use notaries, though not in the context of real estate. I suppose in real estate transactions, your bank might insist on you using their pen, as it doesn’t want you to sign a note in disappeari
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by Digory 9y ago
Maybe try again? Calligraphy nibs (and Asian fountain pens, designed for Asian calligraphy) tend to be extra fine, and therefore more scratchy. A fountain pen with an American or European medium nib should be smooth to very smooth.
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by Digory 9y ago
The entry level Pilot, Parker and Lamy pens are pretty reliable, for between $20-50. I started with a Parker Jotter medium nib years ago, and it remains one of my favorite writers. (ed: I’ve had magnificent $3 chinese pens, awful $3 chines
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by Digory 9y ago
I think you're confusing Friedman-esque theory of large corporation ethics (in large firms, management should/must only maximize shareholder value) with the law of corporations. Your local mosque is likely a corporation; at least
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by Digory 9y ago
The Atlantic should be ashamed of this headline. Winkler's essay in the Saturday WSJ on this same topic says this: "Corporate personhood is a foundational principle of business law. In 1757, Blackstone in his influential 'Com

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