LiquidSky

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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>the court attained the right outcome, and I won the case. Ha, well, you would say that.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
No one is forced into joining an HOA. If you don't want to be bound by one then don't buy property bound by one. If there's property you want not bound by an HOA them's the breaks.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
<But that's just a straight-forward appeal-to-authority argument No, it isn't. It's a simple statement of contractual obligation. They signed a deed under the authority of an HOA so they are bound to obey the rules of the
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
In a different way. There's the old joke and doctors and God, and you will certainly find attorneys who are full of themselves. But while I've never met an attorney who thought they were an engineer simply because they were excell
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Yeah, I never understood this "censorship resistant" nonsense. It seems completely disconnected from the real world. The Internet is not some magic fantasyland in another dimension. If a government made it illegal to possess, use,
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Seems like the developer just made it as a lark. It has some of the old "do dumb stuff for fun" spirit of the old Internet.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
See the comment below. You can just admit you communicated poorly. It's fine.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Given that I'm not the only reply you received reading it that way, perhaps you should consider that you did not communicate what you think you did.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Yes, I responded to yours.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
This view that you can't just do an activity for your own joy, you have to do it for the approval of other, is the actual dystopia. I wonder how old you are because this seems very much like the attitude of someone who was born in the
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Can you recommend some good VNs for a newbie?
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>One has to wonder how this bank ever managed to be successful before. The article touches on exactly this: >No one in Elkhart has managed to make sense of the mystery at the center of the betrayal: Why did a successful, financially s
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Obviously Democrat politicians will make noise over this, but Trump just won an election and the Republican may believe that this is what their voters want, or at least they don't really care about it. They may be unaware of how things
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>Congress is the other branch of government and has no power or authority here. The judiciary is the other other branch of government and absolutely has power and authority here if laws or contractual agreements (e.g., requirements to fi
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
You've seen it used correctly many times because language evolves and "decimate" has taken on a new meaning other than the one used to describe ancient Roman military practice.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>but still must be fired for cause. For all of the talk about "fraud" this is exactly that. All of these thousands of people are being told that they're being let go for "performance reasons" in clearly template
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
It's not even a "gray swan" event, it was entirely predictable. Google was internally explicitly predicting this a year and a half ago* and they can't have been the only ones. *"Google 'We Have No Moat, And Nei
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>I have no interest in "proving it". You should, you made the claim.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>You have no idea what the evaluations were Sure we do because, again, the people put in charge of these initiatives spend endless time just making jokes about agency names that they clearly (sometimes explicitly!) have no idea about or
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Except we're not dealing with software here. The "ouch it hurts" once a government initiative has been "turned off" could be medical services, or social services, or food, or ensuring safe and clean products, or poi
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>I look forward to the evaluation by the administration to see if it's needed or it's redundant red tape. That's kind of the point: they're doing no such thing. All of the talk from Trump, Musk, the now-departed Ramas
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Poe's Law truly is a terrible thing.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
No, they wouldn't, nor is this some kind of secret trick as you seem to be implying. This is a fairly common practice sometimes called "judge shopping" similar to "forum shopping" (where you try to get your case mov
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
New York attorney here. You're kind of getting it, though put in a silly way. It's not that "vague, bad stuff will happen" it's that, in common law jurisdictions at least, precedent controls. So if you use language
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
You can't just shoot people and kill them in the street! That's barbaric! You need to do it from behind a desk through a corporate bureaucracy like a civilized person.
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>There’s thousands of different tax regimes in the US - dozens to hundreds in every state, thanks to city taxes and the like. All businesses would need to advertise the right price everywhere. Doesn’t scale. Of course it does. Seeing thi
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Oh, it's even worse than that. See that "DM this account with your CV" part? You currently need to pay for X Premium to send a DM to an account that does not follow you, meaning that you have to pay Elon for the privilege of
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
Attorney here. Word tracking works just fine for my work and the work of pretty much every attorney I've ever interacted with. Meanwhile, as another comment in this thread noted: >Git is a tool built around the needs of software dev
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
>Users often don't know how to communicate what they need. No, quite the opposite. Too often developers tell users what the developers think they need with little to no understanding of what the users really want, which is the paren
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by LiquidSky 2y ago
That's pretty cruel of Cory Doctorow.

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