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by abduhl 3y ago
Shotcrete is regularly applied via robot in mining. The problem with shotcrete in open cell designs such as this is overspray and plugging of the large voids. Gabion baskets are likely a better idea if you have stability problems and want t
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by abduhl 3y ago
We are looking at this from different points of view. You define predictable as: I can predict if and when this will happen to me. I define predictable as: I can predict that this will happen one in one hundred times. Both are correct defin
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by abduhl 3y ago
The un in unpredictable got autocorrected out of my original post (It has nothing to do with UNpredictability.) My point was that insurance isn’t about unpredictability, it’s about cash flow and risk hedging based on probabilities.
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by abduhl 3y ago
No, in your Dunedin scenario you have an authority figure wanting to install more authoritarian measures, not an older generation.
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Cato is no doubt biased but your comment is the thing with FUD, not the study. They post exactly the question they asked in their study: do you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household in order to re
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by abduhl 3y ago
Insurance is for hedging against a risk. It has nothing to do with predictability. In fact, the bedrock of insurance is predictability. You have a 1% chance of sustaining $1MM in damage. Do you carry around a million dollars or do you get i
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by abduhl 3y ago
It’s 30%: https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-gov...
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by abduhl 3y ago
I have no horse in this race but just wanted to point out the absurdity of this methodology: “The generation data for wind, rooftop and utility solar data was rescaled to supply ~60%, 25% and 20% of demand respectively over the year. For ex
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by abduhl 3y ago
Pedantic: a corporation is controlled by its Board of Directors. Shareholders ostensibly elect the directors but they do not control them.
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by abduhl 3y ago
Permitting companies to come up with their own plan means that they can be hit later if the plan is insufficient. A company that implements a government solution exactly has no liability - they’ve complied with the law. A company whose poli
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by abduhl 3y ago
When you load this page you are assaulted by a pop-up that states that healthy forests don't burn. This is categorically false. Healthy forests burn via frequent low-intensity fires.
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by abduhl 3y ago
90% by what metric?
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by abduhl 3y ago
My interpretation isn’t the worst possible interpretation, it’s the realistic interpretation based on how permitting discretionary application of the law actually works in practice. Your view is fine in theory but fails (and not just fails
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by abduhl 3y ago
I think most people who have driven on the interstate are quite aware that police arbitrarily pull people over for many things given the vast number of laws that are continuously broken by all drivers. I do not think a regime where you’re a
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by abduhl 3y ago
What you are advocating for here is the opposite of a free market. Two independent parties contracting with each other and agreeing to a most favored nation clause without government intervention is a free market: either party may choose to
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by abduhl 3y ago
So your view is that we should enforce extremely strict laws arbitrarily and capriciously based on however the particular regulator or prosecutor feels about a given entity? I can’t imagine how this could be abused.
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by abduhl 3y ago
I had never heard of “stochastic terrorism” before this post. I looked it up. It’s a fringe media term that is not accepted or used in the scientific literature that basically attempts to make a tenuous connection between an extremist and w
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by abduhl 3y ago
This statement is ridiculous. $200k/yr goes very far, especially in the Midwest.
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by abduhl 3y ago
But Amazon is the 7-11 (and more)! It is the customer facing part of the business that houses and delivers the beef jerky to the ultimate customer. 7-11 sees that jerky sells, that lots of brands can sell jerky, that consumers don’t seem to
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by abduhl 3y ago
What’s the problem here? If you don’t have a durable competitive advantage then you’re going to get eaten up. First movers should not get a license to continue to reap a profit in a competitive market absent real innovation, which would com
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by abduhl 3y ago
How do you quantify long term consumer interest? We are talking about drastic actions when we are talking antitrust including the complete dismantling of companies in the extreme from the government perspective and a tripling of damages fro
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by abduhl 3y ago
It’s strange to call the most prominent view (and the one applied by courts currently) a “peculiar” interpretation. Lina Khan is the one with the “peculiar” view right now. The consumer interest test is preferred because, among other reason
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by abduhl 3y ago
You don’t see how someone’s history of shaking a baby could bear on whether this separate and specific alleged infant-shaking event wasn’t an accident or that the person didn’t have the intent, preparation, and knowledge to shake a baby? I
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by abduhl 3y ago
What is the standard to be used by a court sitting in appeal on issues of fact not presented at trial to a jury of a defendant’s peers when throwing away that jury’s verdict?
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by abduhl 3y ago
You incorrectly summarized the opinion based on your misunderstanding. I quoted it. You can tell because I put quotes around what I quoted.
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by abduhl 3y ago
No. It was training given to the HR department. Thorman received generic training regarding how to classify exempt employees from an attorney. Thorman did not request the training personally. It was a training given widely, and online. It w
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by abduhl 3y ago
Nothing you’ve said is true categorically and many attorney hours have been spent arguing both sides of this with the outcome being anything but predictable. Again, the test is whether an attorney is communicating legal advice to the client
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by abduhl 3y ago
Ford’s profit in 2022 was $24 billion. $6B represents 25% of that, not 4%.
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This is a weird way to view the test. The conversation is privileged if the conversation includes the provision (or seeking) of legal advice from the lawyer to (by) their client. That means that the contents of the conversation cannot be fo
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by abduhl 3y ago
You are unfamiliar with the Canadian international student game. For reference, the Unites States has roughly the same number of international students as Canada (~1 million) at 10x the population. This large number has created an industry

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