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BZ.
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> Developing an intuition for these situations is hard. They never happen in real life, and we practice them in high-fidelity trainers where time is precious, so young officers don't get many reps. I thought it would be fun to chea
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I'll confess error in my wording above (and it's too late to edit it): The judgment (outcome) was arguably correct, as you say — state governments should indeed be able to do reasonable public-safety regulation. (Whether Louis
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As has been noted in other responses to you: Dicta are just that, dicta. Moreover, the Reconstruction-era Slaughterhouse Cases arose in the context of the defeated South's often-violent, century-long attempts to preserve "state
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I haven't read the Mueller Report, but from media reports I had the distinct impression that Trump would have been indicted had he not been the sitting president. But I suppose it says something that Garland and Jack Smith didn'
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> the best they could find was he paid off a pornstar I guess you've been too busy to pay attention to Jack Smith's Florida cases, and to the January 6 committee's hearings and findings.
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> Imagine a world where anybody can gestate a baby in a tank. Heinlein also explored that possibility a bit in one of his juveniles — in the novel, the tank farms were called "creches." https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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> Nobody elected the people making these decisions! These are awfully big decisions for unelected appointees to be making. Agency costs [0] are everywhere, so it's a question of the lesser of two (or more) evils: For most issues,
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Half a loaf ....
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> The flip side of this, of course, is that Congress is gridlocked and is unlikely to pass sweeping new regulations of any sort. That's a fair point! But I think I side with the court on the notion that you gotta fix that problem
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There are lots of politicians like Julius too.
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> He's kind of doing a Dave Barry thing, right? I definitely see the resemblance.
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> Her policy changes have been countlessly shut down/overturned by courts since she's overstepped her authority. We have a dysfunctional Congress that can't/won't legislate to fill gaps that emerge over time wi
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> To fix this, we need to end the filibuster so Congress can actually make laws. It’s much harder to legally challenge the real laws made by Congress than the fake laws made by administrative agencies. Then we need to repeal the Adminis
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> Enforcement of election laws inherently allows unelected lawyers and judges to second guess voters. Um, legal enforcement of almost any standard allows unelected lawyers and judges to second-guess "the popular will" — for
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> 'part task' drills (e.g. firing a tank gun), then practice them in a team environment Brought to mind "wax on, wax off" from the original Karate Kid movie. https://thekaratekid.fandom.com/wiki&#x2F
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MS Zenobia: Cargo ship capsizes, sinks due to ballasting software bug (1980)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Nit: Andersen, not Anderson.
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> suicide by means of a paracetamol overdose (usually with a lot of alcohol as well) In his final days, my dad, dying from leukemia in home hospice care, had been getting his calories entirely from a cocktail of beer and V-8 juice — an
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> more airbags, for the bad code Great metaphor. I might steal it for some model contract terms I'm doing (for an expanded version of my contract-drafting course materials). I'd been thinking of "guardrails," but &q
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I'd not known about "F.D.C. Willard" — the nom de plume of a Michigan State physics professor's Siamese cat, Chester — who was listed as a co-author of a number of the professor's physics papers. More on Chester
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The timing isn't going to win a lot of friends — there's a public interest involved here, as journos keep telling us.
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> I'm not a woman and I don't have daughters. Do I care about abortion. No! Empathy allows seeing things from others' perspective. Rational thinking allows looking ahead on the chess board. My kids are grown and gone but
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Back in the day, on Navy ships it was a punishable offense for anyone to have bolt cutters except for the master-at-arms people (the ship's internal police force), because everyone used padlocks on their personal lockers and also on a
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> the CEO of a non profit hospital isn’t taking home $1M/year while doctors and nursing are fighting for proper compensation and work life balance (including patient ratios). In Houston, the renowned Texas Children's Hospital
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> Not all AI comments are downvoted like this one was, which should tell you that this just wasn't a very good comment, AI or not. Please tell us your qualifications to judge whether my comment was a good one.
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Please cite your source for the supposed HN policy. I sometimes answer nonlawyers' questions about how the law works; my answers often attract upvotes. If purists insist on downvoting AI-assisted answers, I can live with that.
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> You'd be posting in bad faith, knowing that posting AI output as your own on HN is frowned upon First, you haven't proved up your "frowned upon" premise. It'd be misguided to peremptorily condemn the posting
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So it'd have been OK with you if I'd just posted the Perplexity.ai output — which I thought was a very good summary of the law, and I claim to have at least modest knowledge in this area — without identifying it as an AI output.
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Would your answer have been different if I'd quoted from — and approved of — say, Wikipedia? or Cornell Law's Legal Information Institute? If not, then your beef is that the comment was drafted by an AI, and only humans should b

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