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by azernik 4y ago
No, they were already getting sued. They decided for apparently purely emotional reasons to punish not just the plaintiffs, not just their lawyers, but also every other lawyer at the same firm.
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by azernik 4y ago
Her firm is not suing them. People who were customers are suing them. Her firm is representing those people.
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It's not refusing service to "people actively suing" MSG. Some people are suing MSG. Those people hired lawyers. Those lawyers work at a firm. MSG is banning not just the plaintiffs (the people "actively suing"), an
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by azernik 4y ago
That is not, in fact, how boarding passes at airports work. Identity checking is done by TSA, in a step that is very often the bottleneck and consumes enormous amounts of manpower and physical space.
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I wouldn't care as much, because that big wall would be purely symbolic and impossible to enforce.
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by azernik 4y ago
Retaliating against a law firm's employees for doing their jobs by representing their clients is absolutely draconian. Especially for a large company doing this with unrelated properties.
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by azernik 4y ago
Notifying the target of an insane policy doesn't make it less insane.
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That is, to put it mildly, not the worst case scenario people are worried about.
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This purported stalking happened to a car, miles away from any airport, on a day when his plane hadn't flown and therefore its location hadn't been updated.
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by azernik 4y ago
Moving to Israel I knew prescription meds were way cheaper than in the US. What surprised me was that in the US, non-prescription meds are FAR cheaper. THe joys of having an actual free market as opposed to the captured and unwieldy hybrid
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by azernik 4y ago
More likely than "swallowing the planet" is disrupting orbits, sending the planet either flying off into deep dark cold space or onto some uninhabitable orbit around the star.
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by azernik 4y ago
Generally, the Israeli regulatory approach is built on the realization that a country the size of a large urban area just cannot spend the money and time to write its own regs. Everything from pharmaceuticals to (recently) food are regulate
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by azernik 4y ago
This is specifically funding for R&D.
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One example: Any project using a transactional database will want a monad for actions that occur within a single transaction (see e.g. the Slick `DBIO` monad).
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Religions generally don't phrase their actions as experiments, as this developer is doing. Engineers test new techniques to see what works. Not all of them play out. The Linux kernel community is very good at sorting out the junk, and
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1. Because different projects will want different monads 2. In my experience, having up-conversions between different monads is intuitive low-noise
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United States absolutism about freedom of speech is unusual, even among "Western" democracies.
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by azernik 4y ago
Not with this depot; there physical scale of geological coal deposits is enormously larger than and warehouse
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by azernik 4y ago
They got too much of a monoculture - flaws in one design meant a bunch of reactors came up for corrosion repairs earlier than expected all at once.
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by azernik 4y ago
They're powerless, but quite unsavory - no one really wants to have an authoritarian cult on their territory, even if they can't stomach letting Iran execute them as seems likely. Hence giving them asylum is considered a relativel
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by azernik 4y ago
Most of the chip fabs are in Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan; the work in China tends to be assembly and integration later in the manufacturing chain.
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The United States was a slave economy too, and still industrialized. That is not a sufficient explanation for Rome.
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Oh shit it's that guy! I remember reading this story at the time.
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You bought the other ones because they're cheap... but what is the actual gain you expect to get from those properties? $130K is still money, is there a plan to recoup that investment or was this a FOMO purchase?
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by azernik 4y ago
Yup - at two previous companies (one I ran, one I didn't) we had as a design philosophy "we don't cause regressions". If we gave a customer an extra feature by mistake and they've since started using it and relying
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by azernik 4y ago
I agree that it's a pretty shaky extrapolation they're making here, just trying to explain the reasoning.
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The comparison comes because they're trying to draw conclusions about the effects of large sauropods on the prehistoric environment from modern experience with mechanized agriculture. "As the total weight of modern harvesters is n
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by azernik 4y ago
The Israeli line isn't that Pegasus is a "defensive project"; it's that they sell it to governments for spying on targets in their own countries that they have jurisdiction over.
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Because it's illegality perpetrated by the state. NSO's customers are governments and law enforcement. They're not keen on investigating themselves.
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An employee in a state is physical presence

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