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by abduhl 3y ago
Invasive security measures that constantly take audio and video of you when you are working absolutely helps address the “Investment banker tells his college buddy about the deal” step. Investment banker cannot tell his college buddy about
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by abduhl 3y ago
The jury is supposed to make all the decisions with respect to weighing evidence once it’s admitted. The standard for admitting evidence is very low if it can be authenticated, and it’s basically “is it relevant and does it have an impact o
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by abduhl 3y ago
Proposing is an action. Being furious is a state of emotion. Corporations can act through their agents. Corporations cannot feel their agents’ emotions because they are unable to feel.
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by abduhl 3y ago
The Fed probably believes that any banking sector issues related to interest rate risk are adequately addressed by the Bank Term Funding Program which allows banks to gradually get past their low interest rate problems and that any banks wi
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by abduhl 3y ago
What is the difference between Canadian artists and the Canadian version of artists? Isn't the latter definitionally a subset of the former? This comment just seems like a rant against governments and laws.
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by abduhl 4y ago
Your argument would have a lot more force if we were past that point rather than fast approaching that point. Concerns about training data errors being compounded are much more important when you're talking about the bleeding edge. An
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by abduhl 4y ago
You likely also had an option to pay the fine and plead nolo contendere which has a similar flavor to the “without accepting or denying guilt” language.
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by abduhl 4y ago
This is the Willie Brown approach: “News that the Transbay Terminal is something like $300 million over budget should not come as a shock to anyone. We always knew the initial estimate was way under the real cost. Just like we never had a r
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by abduhl 4y ago
And why would they expect that?
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by abduhl 4y ago
Depp was neither more powerful nor more wealthy when the US trial took place - he had already been shunned in Hollywood and his finances ruined by Heard’s defamation. I think it’s a great triumph of the American legal system that an underdo
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by abduhl 4y ago
Isn’t this kind of the story of the stock market writ large though? I don’t recall the exact number but some researcher found that like 95% of the net gains in the market are attributable to less than 5% of companies.
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by abduhl 4y ago
Local contracting practices is about the CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, not the consultants. You know, the general contractors and subcontractors.
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by abduhl 4y ago
You are allowed to discriminate when renting out your rental house assuming it’s a single family house and you’re the owner and not using an agent (under federal law, maybe not under state). So it’s not a lack of enforcement against small t
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by abduhl 4y ago
While you’re generally correct it’s important to note that the Fair Housing Act’s discrimination provisions don’t apply to all housing so it is actually sometimes legal to discriminate based on familial status. It’s probably not relevant he
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by abduhl 4y ago
This seems like a no-true-Scotsman argument to me: either you're a subject-matter expert and you recognize the downsides or you're an absolutely clueless idiot evangelist who is responsible for everything wrong with society's
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by abduhl 4y ago
Local contracting practices are only tangentially related to geology. They are very closely related to geography - hence the word "local."
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by abduhl 4y ago
Just saying “that is a much more transferable skill” does not make it so. Effective management on any infrastructure job is, again, highly dependent on relationships with local agencies and the local population.
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by abduhl 4y ago
Italy is 3/4 the size of California. Does Milan run all of the EU’s jobs too?
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by abduhl 4y ago
You don’t get it: if you should be fired then you should be getting paid 0%-0% of what a guy just out of school is getting paid, not 15%-20% more. And you sure as shit shouldn’t be getting benefits, accruing years of seniority, and accruing
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by abduhl 4y ago
You honestly think that the federal government would be more effective at managing consultants? The majority of additional costs in any underground job fall into one of two buckets: third party disputes or differing site conditions. A natio
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by abduhl 4y ago
Tunneling and underground work is a uniquely localized specialty. A national organization that runs underground work is going to still need specialized knowledge for each region both because of local ground conditions and local contracting
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by abduhl 4y ago
>>Let me begin by saying that we're not unfirable. It takes a bit more doing, but you can either be shown the door eventually or reshuffled into a go-nowhere job with no responsibility that'd otherwise be done by a new hire
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by abduhl 4y ago
The confidence level for the Covid-19 vaccine being sterilizing was low, but we still ran headlines saying as much. The confidence level for cloth masks being effective was low, but we still ran headlines saying as much. The confidence le
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by abduhl 4y ago
What is the substantive difference between "Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says" and "Lab Leak Most Likely Caused Pandemic, Energy Dept. Says"? The only difference I see is that one no
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by abduhl 4y ago
I don't think this is JK Rowling's position. JK Rowling doesn't think that trans women shouldn't have the exact same set of RIGHTS as cis women, she thinks that trans women shouldn't be able have the same set of so
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by abduhl 4y ago
Every lawsuit filed takes up judicial resources. QI is an effective way to dump a lot of frivolous lawsuits, it just happens to have a really high false positive rate for “frivolous” (and happens to be unconstitutional IMO). There aren’t di
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by abduhl 4y ago
I believe that Kagan is also mostly a QI supporter, given her generally deferential disposition towards the executive branch and its agencies. So your read on the bench’s leanings here seems to be almost entirely wrong. You’re unlikely to s
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by abduhl 4y ago
These cases do not say what you think they say. Please cite to the actual parts of the decision that discuss the legality of administrative subpoenas issuing for a criminal case rather than the admissibility of information provided in respo
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by abduhl 4y ago
Nothing against the guy but how does tptacek have domain expertise on cash bail or the justice system?
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by abduhl 4y ago
Sorry, I’m not seeing the part of the law that allows an ALJ to permit this (which makes perfect sense - title 18 is the criminal code and crimes can not be prosecuted in administrative proceedings generally). The statute seems to contempla

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