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This wikipedia article is out of date ("There is no federal or state statutory minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays. Paid leave is at the discretion of the employers to their employees."). Illinois law now mandates paid
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>> falacious argumentum ad logicam argument Respectfully, I'm not sure that you can both press enter after putting together this string of words and be taken seriously as somebody that isn't full of themselves or in the &quo
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>> this seem to be a ham-handed attempt to seek a consent decree to create minimum rent prices, nationwide, without any appropriate legislation. And that will actually harm consumers. Where does this contention come from? What makes i
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I think this would be equitemporal rather than equidistant? Maybe isochronic? Isochronal? One of those…
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>> You can't really have a free market without regulation The definition of a free market is one without government regulation. There is no such GPL-vs-MIT debate here. Perhaps you are thinking of the term “capitalism”? https:&#
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What possible browser competition can exist? The market price for a browser from a consumer perspective is $0. I will never pay for a browser. All that will happen is new ad placements from smaller companies, directly in the browser.
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Are you sure we can’t do any of these things, or are you just not thinking big enough? Give me a couple million dollars of VC money and I bet I could have an MVP that could conceivably accomplish at least one of these. I’d obviously need to
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I don’t think that this is a fair characterization of what it means for a circuit to have one of its decisions be heard by the Supreme Court. It makes it seem like being “reviewed” by the Supreme Court is a proxy for “out of the norm,” and
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Are you implying that working at a McDonalds counter was more than the future founder of meetup.com could chew?
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Courts are bound by precedent below the Supreme Court. Eventually what a circuit court or the Supreme Court says will just be the Law and there will be no point to forum shop. Executive agency interpretations with Chevron intact? Not so muc
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>> And if it was wrong, well, maybe I'll get a bill or a check in the mail, but that was always a possibility and making a mistake on your taxes isn't illegal. If this is your approach to your taxes then you are probably was
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These aren't stupid games. Musk-affiliated companies regularly just refuse to pay. They don't pay late -- they don't pay. Their response to requests for payment are eventually met with "fuck you, sue us" after be
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Don’t take this the wrong way but I don’t think that the average HN poster’s view on lodging/expenses is the correct gauge for what’s an appropriate per diem for your average government worker on a business trip. And if the government
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Per diem rates can be looked up at https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-a-trip/per-diem-rates . The standard combined rate is $166: $107 for lodging and $59 for meals and incidentals. This is adjusted for high COL locat
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Which should result in even larger penalties, hopefully those penalties can also be levied against the individuals that were associated with hiding the data breaches. Mid level manager that gets an email from Snowflake saying that there&#x
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>> AT&T said it learned of the data breach on April 19, and that it was unrelated to its earlier security incident in March. Why was this not disclosed on AT&T’s earnings call on April 24? At least someone will get compensated
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>> As of April 2024, five states—California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey—used this method at the state supreme court level and four states used this selection method for at least one type of court below the sup
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It's always been a legitimate political strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_machine#In_the_histo... I'd be interested i
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>> What's stopping a sitting president from directing his party's governors across the states to appoint judges favorable to their politics (already happening the last 4-8 years). Nothing has ever stopped this except for the
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The case is brought by the federal government in federal court. The recent Supreme Court ruling is applicable only to the enforcement of the federal gratuities law against state and local officials, federal officials are still prosecutable
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>> Your guess is as good as mine why the same steel shape is an I-beam but an H-pile. This is because the shapes are different. I beams are typically more slender through the web because the goal is to concentrate mass at the flange f
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idk man, probably the same way that they get mafia bosses who write their plans on little pieces of paper that are given to henchmen who then burn them I understand your point and I'm not saying it's a great spot to land at, but I
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No, the Court said that the President could not be prosecuted for actions that the President takes while being The President. If the President is not being The President then they can be prosecuted. If the President beats his/her wif
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There is a distinction to be drawn between The President (the office) and the President (the person). The latter is not above the law with respect to all criminal prosecutions. The former is.
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That's exactly what Microsoft would say about Teams though, so it's probably better that we err on the side of caution and ban curl bundling. At least until curl can prove that it's not anti-competitive.
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Coming up with new words and terms in order to escape the comparison smacks of This Time It’s Different. Therac-25 was an Agent for performing radiation therapy - it controlled the radiation machine and made decisions. Autopilot/FSD is
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And you think that a driver commands their Tesla to run into an object when they enable autopilot or FSD?
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First, Tesla is not legally required to put the driver in control - they are free to indemnify the driver completely and shoulder all of the liability themselves. Second, who do you think was ultimately the one at fault for the excessive ra
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OSHA has a nice pamphlet regarding hazard identification and hazard controls. The least effective method of protecting workers is to put the risk on the worker to protect themselves. Your view has a similar vibe to "well they weren&#
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Subtract out Russia from this calculation and “Europe” is 75% the size of the US. When people talk about “Europe” and Europeans not understanding how big the US is they are not talking about Eastern Europe/Russia, they’re talking about

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