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by clucas 7y ago
My apologies, I was responding to the question about why a court would find an employment contract provision unenforceable - we don't know what the OP's employment contract states (or if he even has one), so I was treating this wh
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The fact that the employer/employee relationship is so carefully controlled (specifically to limit the power the employer wields over the employee outside employment) is what makes me suspect that at least some jurisdictions would decl
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There are things that you can't contract away. An obvious example in the U.S. is that even if you have a contract saying you have to work for someone for no pay, forever, with no possibility of getting out the contract, it would be une
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by clucas 7y ago
Now you're in A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer territory... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
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I think that you are correct, there isn't anything wrong with the question in itself, but Eton would be serving its students and its nation much better if, after asking that quesiton, it then asked "Now, you are the leader of the
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by clucas 7y ago
My neighbor parenthetical was in direct response your own claim that you lived next to someone way wealthier than you, and it didn't make you feel bad. And, just because people are bad at estimating something doesn't mean that the
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> If someone has a comfortable, secure life with food and shelter they aren't going to be unhappy no matter how much someone else has. I believe there are studies showing that relative inequality is a factor in people's happine
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Yeah, using it sparingly is key. Tobias in Arrested Development would occasionally have pratfalls that always got me. And just yesterday I saw this video, where the physical comedy caught me off guard and had me laughing harder than I have
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by clucas 7y ago
In software, "stable" often means that, given certain assumptions (OS interfaces, working hardware, etc), the code will not crash even if given bad inputs. Based on my reading of this thread, in aviation, "stable" means
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by clucas 7y ago
Reading the post, I didn't get the impression that he was complaining about permission dialog boxes in general, but rather about the specific implementation (including lack of documentation and lack of power-user features) in Catalina.
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> If you want to object to censorship, great. But if you do, you need to do it as a general principle Why? I think it's perfectly reasonable to say "Blizzard, you should ban people who make racist statements from your tournamen
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by clucas 7y ago
I couldn't tell...
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Scott Alexander has been thinking about this sort of thing recently: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/10/ssc-journal-club-relax... https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/11/lots-o
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Fair enough, I see that now on a re-read. Sorry for mischaracterizing your position. But I still think taxing a thing, especially in this particular way where the policy is very clearly saying "we want to address this particular behavi
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by clucas 7y ago
Serious question: what if the answer to "why these people are making these choices" turns out to be "culture"? As in, this is the way lots of big Scottish people have behaved in front of lots of little Scottish people fo
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by clucas 7y ago
I don't think shipping container housing is the panacea the marketing makes it out to be. The savings aren't as crazy as you might think because of all the retrofitting involved to make them pleasant for human occupancy. Square fe
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by clucas 7y ago
It is possible for regulation to lower the cost of some things. For example, currently the regulatory environment in many California real estate market lowers the cost of holding rental property. In a more competitive, less regulated market
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by clucas 7y ago
If there is no economic sense in building nuke plants, we can just stop talking about it, right? Presumably the utilities will run their analysis, and if you're right, the plants will just never get built. Is the nuclear lobby so stron
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by clucas 7y ago
This is a false dilemma. It is possible for something to be less deadly than people generally think, but still not safe enought that anyone would be accept unneccessary exposure to that thing.
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> In Adventure, each room has a numeric ID, with an associated description in a table. Another table defines its short description. Another table lists which rooms lie relative to other rooms using their numeric IDs. This means that in o
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A lot of reasons - one, we only recently (in academic research time) started using single servers to host services from multiple customers, so the value of these sorts attacks only recently became apparent. Second, as I understand it, Spect
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Perhaps people were upset last time because it was for commercial purposes, rather than as an emergency fix to help people to get their browser working.
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The SHIELD policies they promulgated after that incident has to do with studies. This was not a study. This was an emergency band-aid to help as many users as possible get their browsers back to the way they (the users) chose to make them w
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by clucas 7y ago
An analogy: Why complain to BP when one of their employees hits the wrong button and blows up an oil rig, spilling massive amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico? It's the employee's fault. The reason to hold an employer liable fo
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by clucas 7y ago
Donald Hall wrote beautifully about this: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitu...
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by clucas 7y ago
The whole conversation is a bit abstract at this point, so maybe it wasn't clear: the "cesspool" I'm referring to are virulent racists. If you believe that either (a) arguments against such people less clear and rational
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by clucas 7y ago
It probably isn't obvious from my posts, so I'll put it here explicitly: I'm not pro-censorship. I think ideas should be out there. My ideal world is one where there are the "big" sites with millions of DAU generall
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by clucas 7y ago
No, not like that at all. Could you explain the line of thinking that lead you to such a question?
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That's a much better argument than I thought you were making, so my apologies for misunderstanding. I still disagree though - I think Reddit probably agreed with you for most of its existence, but evidence indicated that rationality an
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by clucas 7y ago
The thing is, Reddit isn't responsible for, and couldn't possibly begin be responsible for, hate in the whole world. They banned it on their site, and it cleaned up their corner of the world, and they're happy that the place

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