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by abduhl 2y ago
The NY bar exam utilizes the same exam as the majority of other jurisdictions (with the notable exception of California) - the Universal Bar Exam. It is not one of the hardest in the nation, it is about the same as the majority of the natio
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by abduhl 2y ago
“Slow” doesn’t show up when I do a ctrl+F, so again, it seems like you’re just confused about how the law works?
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So there isn’t a legal distinction regarding fast/slow metal after all. Well that revelation certainly makes me question your legal analysis about copyright.
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> A fast piece of metal is different from a slow piece of metal, from a legal perspective. I’d like to hear more about this legal distinction because it’s not one I’ve ever heard of before.
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You think that people will be less motivated to do what they’re told after someone has proven a willingness to kill?
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by abduhl 2y ago
As I understand it, bankruptcy judges are not appointed by the president but rather by the relevant Court of Appeals. And they do not serve for life (because they aren’t Article III judges).
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by abduhl 2y ago
Previous discussion of this discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351886
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>> Remote work showing low contributions is a symptom of something else and I don't see this being addressed. That isn't the purpose of the analysis though. The analysis just provides data that more remote workers contribut
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by abduhl 2y ago
I don't understand this comment. The graphic states that this is based on an analysis of over 50,000 engineers from 100s of companies. What are you proposing they control for (and how would they control for it)? The dataset seems la
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14% of remote software engineers do almost no work vs. 6% in office(twitter.com)
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Because they win with the same tired argument? Maybe the better question is why do plaintiffs keep rehashing the same tired argument that Apple’s control of iOS and the App Store is illegal?
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Which is why we started calling it M$ in the 2000s, emphasizing its overriding goal of making ca$h off its users
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I have always assumed that a focus on stock tickers is the natural result when your primary user base is a group of people hyper focused on “total compensation” and stock grants. The name hackernews is merely a playful reference to the hist
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by abduhl 2y ago
So we agree that there is more than one way to interpret 5/2+3 (a correct and an incorrect way) and therefore that the GP statement below is wrong. “Which is a question that can be interpreted in only one way. And done only one way.” T
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> Well that is because you ask a calculator to divide numbers. Which is a question that can be interpreted in only one way. And done only one way. Is it? What is 5/2+3?
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>> There was zero chance we'd have landed a house that year without her help Of course there was zero chance. Real estate agents regularly refuse to show homes to or entertain offers from buyers that are not represented by a real
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> If someone did business with our company and I was in any way connected with decisions regarding that, and it turned out they’d spent tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on gifts for me, yeah, I would, even if there was no str
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> Plenty of us would get fired from our jobs for less. No we wouldn’t. The contention that “plenty of us” would be fired for going on a fishing trip is farcical on its face and even more laughable when you consider how much is given
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by abduhl 2y ago
How do you feel about drugs prescribed for mental health (Prozac, Zoloft, etc.)? Why do you feel differently (if you do feel differently)?
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Elon Musk admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving(electrek.co)
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by abduhl 2y ago
Not to be rude but you're arguing with somebody that works in what I would assume is a highly mathematical space and asserting your opinion on how quickly that highly mathematical space can advance while your own profile admits that yo
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by abduhl 2y ago
The poster claimed to be a ex patent examiner. Most USPTO examiners aren’t lawyers, they’re people with technical degrees and most of them are there because they couldn’t make it in industry right out of school and are trying to bulk up the
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by abduhl 2y ago
Given your stealth edit, I can’t help myself but to respond. The statement that you’re not familiar with the case was an edit added after I posted. Whether or not what the article says is correct (it’s ambiguous), what you said is not. Your
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I’ll leave this conversation now. You fundamentally do not understand the procedural posture of this case because if you did you would understand that there is no federal law at issue here. This injunction is based on a federal court’s inte
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Apple prevailed with respect to the federal antitrust claims in Epic v Apple. Apple lost on the California antitrust claim, a California issue. California courts are the authority on California issues.
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by abduhl 2y ago
This has not been true since the mid-1900s. Federal courts considering claims based on state law are bound by state court precedent. Even the US Supreme Court.
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This is a really romantic view of sports, and a strong attack against the strawman argument that's been advanced by nobody ("sports is just numbers"). But to answer the OP's original question: no, she didn't do anyt
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by abduhl 2y ago
Have you heard of Tesla's robotaxi fleet? What about Google+? The Apple Vision Pro? New X-Men movies from Disney? Perhaps the US military is not so unique after all when it comes to projects that don't pan out.
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What is the substantive difference between a government employment program and entitlements in your view? Is it that people don't have to do the performative function of working for an entitlement? Note that Social Security, pretty mu
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by abduhl 2y ago
>> People need to be able to make public officers accountable (Article XV – The society has the right of requesting an account from any public agent of its administration. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarati

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