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by HillRat 1y ago
One thing is that a lot of economic activity was front-loaded to the first few quarters as businesses scrambled to get inventory on board ahead of tariffs; now we're seeing companies having burned through inventory, so inflationary imp
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by HillRat 1y ago
As an FYI that might be helpful to some, in the case of sales, there's a positive legal obligation to maintain call recordings, so in the event of a courtroom dispute the failure to produce can lead to an adverse inference instruction.
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by HillRat 1y ago
Not gonna spend PACERbux on this to find out, but not sure how they’re arguing there’s an actual case or controversy to rule on, since no one’s trying to domesticate a judgment against them in the US. This is just an attempt to preemptively
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by HillRat 1y ago
Packer and ag consolidation is a huge problem, but the underlying issue here is climate change and long-lasting droughts; some of the issues with herd size — the smallest since about 1950 — come from COVID hangover when cows weren’t getting
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Void, the Bluesky bot that remembers everyone(cameron.pfiffer.org)
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by HillRat 1y ago
The class B bonds paid roughly 11% over LIBOR, so about 40% over three years, against the risk of a viral outbreak for five different families, defined as At least two countries experiencing at least 250 fatal cases increasing over twelve w
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by HillRat 1y ago
It's been interesting watching who actually places rule of law and liberty above partisanship -- the Cheneys, tellingly, or Bill Kristol, or the Cato Institute -- and who has cheerfully befouled every declared principle they held in th
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by HillRat 1y ago
The DOD already has the Defense Science Board (and the services have their own advisory boards), so other than giving a few billionaires the chance to strut around in their freshly-pressed Class As, it's not clear what advantage this p
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by HillRat 1y ago
Genuinely curious what legal waivers they’ve been afforded, since generally speaking “holding a decision-making position in the part of the uniformed services you also sell to” is very much adjacent to profiteering and disturbingly in the v
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by HillRat 1y ago
It looks like the military being deployed on rioters Leaving aside the equivalence of "protesting" with "rioting," the United States has robust Constitutional, common-law and statutory guardrails against the use of the
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by HillRat 1y ago
The problem here is that all software development (excepting that done for hire) is classified as R&D. The software developer working on your Wordpress or Magento site (and arguably the accountant building a spreadsheet, to take the s
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by HillRat 1y ago
She’s a magistrate judge, she’s handling discovery matters, not the substantive issues at trial; the plaintiffs are specifically alleging spoliation by OpenAI/Microsoft (the parties were previously ordered to work out discovery issues,
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by HillRat 1y ago
One thing about Andor is that Gilroy specifically encouraged the directors not to shoot a lot of coverage and focus instead on very intentional shot lists, which both sped up shooting (critical given the cost of the production, COVID requir
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by HillRat 1y ago
I think the fundamentalist Christian radicalism is more a comorbidity of the West Coast Straussian obsession of the place than a primary focus; nonetheless, the school is pretty much the funnel into the DC Trump echelons, and the students
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by HillRat 1y ago
Still to this day the largest single line item I’ve ever signed off on; I have an old varsity jacket in the back of my closet that was their sales swag for the E10K. Still not convinced that it was that much more cost-effective than a bunch
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AWS introduces key committing variant of XAES-256-GCM [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
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by HillRat 1y ago
Flip side of this is that every one of these regulatory rollbacks will get challenged in court as arbitrary and capricious (after all, no more Chevron ), reinstated by the next Democratic administration anyway, and possibly not even be fun
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by HillRat 1y ago
Obama wasn't allowed to keep his Blackberry; he requested a secure commercial-quality cellphone to communicate with his aides, and NSA (which was, to be sure, not really happy about the request) selected the Blackberry as their platf
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by HillRat 2y ago
There's no coherence here, the people coming up with this policy are either ignorant or incompetent to the point of malice (Navarro, AKA "Ron Vara," being the benchmark). Tariffs, when used judiciously, can help support &quot
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by HillRat 2y ago
There are already ways to enforce those -- for example, Democrats and US labor unions used the USMCA negotiations to enact a "facility specific rapid response mechanism" that lets the US essentially strong-arm Mexico and Mexican c
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by HillRat 2y ago
During "snowmageddon" and similar winter outages fossil fuel shoulder load also broke down, since the dynamic pricing market doesn't pay to keep spinning capacity, and the plants couldn't start up, which is why the cost
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by HillRat 2y ago
Roman Stoicism, of the sort practiced by Marcus Aurelius or Seneca, is vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy and tendentious sanctimony; Seneca’s insistence that virtue is detached from worldly goods is somewhat undermined by his corrupt explo
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by HillRat 2y ago
As it is, this is a bullshit document, which I'm sure their lobbyists know; OSTP is authorized to "serve as a source of scientific and technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to major policies, plans, an
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by HillRat 2y ago
Not going to defend the cult of the consulting MBA, but when I was running strategy work, my consultant-level kids had been recruited from a small number of MBA programs, undergone six-month intensives, and then spent 2-3 years as entry-lev
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by HillRat 2y ago
Also, speaking of Musk, note that for all his fits of pique over losing in chancery court over his attempt to wriggle out of a terrible contract that he wrote (Twitter) and a pay package that was rubber-stamped by a conflicted-controller Bo
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by HillRat 2y ago
There's definitely an "investor beware" signal here, especially with companies like Meta that have dual-class share structures (or Tesla, which Musk has unwarranted direct control over and which he has expressed his desire to
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by HillRat 2y ago
I don't know about "disruptive", since they were trying to enter, using conventional tactics, what is in general a mature market with pretty high barriers. Urgent care as a market combines a very small number of very large na
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by HillRat 2y ago
The AT&T split had nothing to do with monopoly regulation (as opposed to the Bell breakup in 1982), other than the fact that Wall Street wasn't rewarding regulated operating companies with dot-com valuations. AT&T wanted to sel
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by HillRat 2y ago
LLMs are a utility, not a platform, and utility markets exert a downward pressure on pricing. Moreover, it's not obvious that -- once trained models hit the wild -- any one actor has or can develop significant competitive moats that wo
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Gas companies, cruise lines threaten to sue Unicode over "greenwashing" symbol(sealng.org)
2 points by HillRat 2y ago|0 comments

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