Matticus_Rex

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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
"Structurelessness" is the polar opposite of Holacracy. Holacracy is more structured than traditional management.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Parts of many cities have always been in floodplains, but after just looking it up, it does not seem that "most cities" are meaningfully in floodplains. This also does not automatically make even the parts within a floodplain unin
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
I'm a former public school teacher -- maybe I can explain. There's a lot of competence necessary to teach two dozen kids with different backgrounds and mastery levels, even in the rare moments when 2-4 of them aren't activel
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
It's more that it's a category error. Replication has a context for where it's important, e.g. a treatment and cause & effect relationship. It doesn't If you say "we did this to people and it caused them to res
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
General reciprocity is a bad idea, because many laws suck and are a net bad for the country implementing them. Reciprocal tariffs are common, but harmful to the countries that implement them — if you're in a boat and the other guy shoo
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Not that closely related. Much of homelessness is still not a housing price issue, and housing price issues are partially but not completely remediated by a contraction in the economy. And also... no -- homelessness is one bad problem, bu
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
> The U.S. is filled with homeless people. Even Italy, which was doing economically terrible when I visited, didn’t even have a fraction of the homelessness problem as in the U.S. Interestingly, these are not unrelated. Italy's hous
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
I mean, the same is true of median income as well. People overestimate how much inequality affects the actual end numbers in the US. The median incomes in the poorest US states are still higher than most of the world.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
No, it really doesn't. PPP-adjusted disposable income per capita (meaning, after all the necessary expenses) is by far the highest in the world: https://www.statista.com/statistics/725764/oecd-household-di..
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
WKNC represent! I DJed there in undergrad from 2007-2010. Great station.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Wanna bet?
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Can you name any other agreement where it's considered reasonable to renegotiate the terms afterwards because you found out what the other party got was more profitable for them than you'd been aware of, through no misrepresentati
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
For people who've dealt with children a lot, sure. But making an exchange and then expecting a cut of the other side's profits on top of what you exchanged for is possibly the definition of unreasonable expectations.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Niantic was clear about the product of the labor: In exchange for swiping the PokeStop, you'd get the rewards. No one was ever told they'd get more than that, and no one had any reasonable expectation that they'd get more.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
New to the deeper internet? Just about anyone who has been aware of gwern for long comes to believe he's got some special skills, even if they disagree with him. He's a niche celebrity entirely for being insightful and interesting
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
> smugness and conceit that drips off the page Yeah, when he's like this his writing goes off a cliff. I feel like it peaks any time Sotomayor wrote whatever he's disagreeing with, but that may just be me.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
I only read the big cases since law school, so take this with a grain of salt -- I've only read one or two KBJ decisions and a handful from Kavanaugh and ACB. In terms of legal clarity alone, Gorsuch and then Kagan are ahead of the pac
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Ugh, and the range of clarity from judge to judge is another big factor.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
By the time you see a published SCOTUS decision clerks have definitely checked all citations. The problem is that occasionally the source or interpretation is questionable/contentious.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Late in law school, I ended up writing a study guide for a multi-day Constitutional Law seminar for non-lawyers, and found that unpacking all of the legal turns of phrase and items that would carry huge implications when read by lawyers too
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
> It's called the "social contract". You do good work and make me money, I keep you around and let you keep doing good work. It's equally a cynical and fair interpretation of a company. If it's more profitable no
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Huh? A promise to keep people employed? If it's not in the contract, it hasn't been promised. You're fan-fictioning a promise that was never made to manufacture an ethical issue that's not actually real. If the contract
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
>that should make that person one of the people on proverbial track That's a satisfying thing to say, but as practical advice it's absolutely terrible . Often that person's leadership wasn't the problem, but even whe
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
This seems incorrect. I don't need Claude 3.5 Sonnet to operate a robot body for me, and don't know anyone else who does. And general-purpose robotics is not going to be the most efficient way to have robots do many tasks ever, an
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Inducement to what? Where's the breach of contract being encouraged?
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Eh, my day-to-day lawyer and the firm I'd hire if a big company sued me and my company are different. If I were in Matt's position I'd have probably taken everything to a single firm that could handle all conceivable work, bu
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Tortious interference requires that the interfering party induce the party to the contract to a breach of the contract. Where's that element?
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
How does that look worse?
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
In a sub that size with a subset of people who are quite pissed, those scores don't look that bad to me. The OP only has +17. We'll see, I guess.
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by Matticus_Rex 2y ago
Maybe my view into the Wordpress community (mostly via Twitter) isn't representative, but it does not seem like WPE represents the community's views from what I'm seeing.

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