Erik816

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by Erik816 10y ago
I think some of those factors are relevant, others less so. For example, in most jurisdictions judges are probably seeing the same defense lawyers just as much as they are seeing the same prosecutors. Also, whether it is beneficial to be &q
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Can you spell out why judges don't have an incentive for defense lawyers to have better access to the law? When I was clerking for a judge, my main complaint was that the legal briefs were not well written or researched and I basically
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I'm sure most popular press articles are "duh" if you have PhD in the field or a closely related field ...
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I never said social media was not powerful. The question is what percentage of the "economy" it makes up. This source[1] puts the share of the "internet economy" at 5.6% of US GDP. I'm not sure how those terms are d
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The "economy" is much, much larger than a few social networking apps.
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The edge cases are also exactly when lawyers get involved. If the law is clear, there's not much work for a lawyer to do (you plead guilty, you settle the case, you don't sue in the first place, etc.). Dealing with ambiguity is th
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Junior associates are not burning the firm's resources. They are the firm's resources. They generate billable hours, which is how the partners make money. Which is why most of the legal profession is much slower to replace them th
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Only my master password? That seems kind of important.
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Except you probably have a password manager client app on your phone so you can look up and enter any passwords you need for your own convenience.
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So you're not going to do business with a company you already weren't going to do business with. I fail to see how that is going to make any kind of statement.
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In theory, yes. This is what they should have done. But now that they have violated our trust, our ad blockers are going to block even their legitimate self-hosted and managed ads. Some people will white-list, but not nearly enough to make
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Not if your clients are paying by way of an insurance policy (which often happens in litigation). Then they might as well spend up to the policy limit. And in lots of other cases, you hire lawyers based on the prestige principle. I.e., &quo
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It doesn't strike you as at all strange that we deny reality in order to promote this goal? If 85% of soldiers are male (which they are), why should it be just as likely that a child pictures as female soldier as a male soldier? Or do
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No. Technological progress should raise all boats if handled correctly. But refusing progress because some boats will be raised higher than others is not a good solution. It's also not even "fair" if your notions of fairness
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I think it would be hard to argue that we are a long way from fully autonomous vehicles, since millions of miles have already been driven by autonomous vehicles. What remains is mostly regulatory hurdles, psychological hurdles, and fine tun
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Alternative interpretation: 30 years ago this kind of job could't easily be done by someone in a third world country for a fraction of the price. Now that it can, the price has adjusted.
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Pretty sure you could get at least a passing grade from an average humanities course by just copying and pasting sentences like this, depending on the school. I say that as a philosophy/political science grad.
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I don't think "regular" is the adjective you are looking for. By definition there will always be lives that are not regular, both positively and negatively.
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An interesting perspective, but false. Risk of legal action should definitely inform your conduct, unless you want to go broke. You can easily spend all your money paying lawyers to defend you right up until the point you are declared &quot
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One would hope that an elitist could write a proper sentence.
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This is probably too large of a topic to debate on a message board, but I would claim that the subject of "how ought we to live" is much larger than the small subset of issues discussed in academic philosophy under the rubric of &
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Science is unlikely to fill in gaps of subjective experience and values, because it explicitly rules out subjective experience as part of its method. Which it should do. But then it can't very well claim that subjective experience has
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Certainly. I think science, and more objective areas of philosophy, are great at providing information about the world. And that should certainly factor into the discussions of how we should live in that world. They just can't determin
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Completely agreed. But one major area that science, in my opinion, cannot answer is the question "how should we live?" Science almost by definition strives to be objective and value-neutral. But the question of how to live is subj
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So your identity determines whether you are entitled to safe spaces?
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As someone who sat through four years of classes at The University of Chicago, most of which were liberal arts classes, they would most definitely allow you to argue about the justification of the Holocaust, whether we should return to slav
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Which is the "student vs consumer" argument. If you are a consumer, then you complain about how your money is not being spent to match your existing preferences. If you are student, you are there to be exposed to things you disagr
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It is meant to be a nod to the intellectual bankruptcy of the entire concept of safe spaces and trigger warnings. Taken to their logical conclusion, these policies would lead to a gutting of the entire premise of a liberal education, which
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It's hard to put a market price on something that no one pays for.
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That sounds a lot like people that refused to get married until everyone could get married. That might explain 10% of their situation, but 90% was that they didn't want to get married. Saving is hard, and this is just a nice rationaliz

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