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by dctoedt 3y ago
> There... isn't such a norm (at least not in the American system) courts defer to legislatures on matters of policy, not fact. There's a norm that appellate courts in most cases have some deference to lower courts on findings
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by dctoedt 3y ago
EDIT: I just realized what you did with your Biden and Obama examples. Counterexamples: Bush the Younger and Trump were both elected despite losing the popular vote — in Trump's case, bigly.
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> which resulted in the election of a President that threatened the Supreme Court until it relented and effectively rewrote the Constitution. You're referring, of course, to the "conservative" Supreme Court majority that
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> It's theoretically possible that Senators representing a minority of voters could block an amendment, but it doesn't actually split that way in practice. Biden carried 25.5 states (excluding DC) which exactly reflects his
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> So, what changed in next 50 years to completely change the attitudes? The answer is that the American system of law and government has been slowly but steadily destroyed, and replaced with a related, but ultimately different legal and
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The system is rigged against doing so.
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> Your consequentialist arguments are irrelevant. Whether Congress has the bandwidth or expertise to take up particular issues doesn’t change the governmental structure the Constitution created. It seems fair to say that you ascribe mo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus ?
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> You should imagine that you are forced to sell it every day. Semi-serious question: Which of the following do you mean: A. Every day, you should imagine that you are forced to sell it; or B. You should imagine that you will, every da
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> The expectation is you can't do willful infringement if you're not aware of competitor's patents, and you can't be aware of them if your policy is to never look at patent documents. Or that's the idea anyway.
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> The concept/idea is not what is patented. The patent is (or should be) for the specific execution of the idea. Competitors are free to implement their feature using methods other that what is covered by the patent, even if the en
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That's why the top marginal tax rate for incomes is too low: Landlords (and other rentiers) have little disincentive to try to maximize their incomes at the expense of everyone else.
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> Shouldn’t the immigration system—and every system—be designed to pacify voters? To an extent, yes — but like all humans, voters can sometimes focus too narrowly on the short term, and/or on their own desires and fears; sometimes
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Reading the headline evoked the question: Good enough — but for what? Glad to see TFA (and the comments here) delve into that question, albeit without using those words.
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> For example, they have made the case for textualism so strongly that even liberal judges feel the need to fight on that turf. The "so strongly" part comes solely from what Justice White's Roe v. Wade dissent grumbled
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Aboard the USS Enterprise (the aircraft carrier) in the late 1970s, I automated some of my division's reports by writing BASIC programs on a "programmable calculator" — a desktop in all but name — that was owned by the air wi
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US trade tribunal issues potential Apple Watch import ban(reuters.com)
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It'll be interesting to see whether there might be any kind of late -mover advantage for those who sat out lithium and begin pursuing sodium-based batteries now.
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> If we could somehow "bounce" a spacecraft off a planet's surface, it would impart momentum similar to that of a gravity assist. When my kids were little, I showed them by holding a basketball in one hand and a tennis b
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> legal documents don't have copyright protection 1. That's an overstatement: For "original works of authorship," copyright happens automatically upon "fixation" in a "tangible medium of expression&q
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> the Canadian parliament applauded a literal Waffen SS fighter That seems to have been a simple screening fuck-up — probably by a relatively-young staffer — and the MP resigned his post as speaker in consequence.
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Another possibility: Blue states got so expensive precisely because so many people wanted to live there and consequently moved there — supply and demand, etc. And so, when opportunities opened up in red states, it made sense for some of t
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Sometimes in such matters, the customer is using the lawsuit as leverage to renegotiate the price after the fact. (I don't know whether that was a motivation in Oregon v. Oracle .)
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by dctoedt 3y ago
A extended account, with a good deal of backstory about the people and state- and federal agencies involved, can be found in Jennifer Pahl's book, Recoding America . [0] [0] https://www.amazon.com/Recoding-America-Gove
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Fun fact (tangential): In 2014, the state of Oregon filed a $3 billion lawsuit for fraud against Oracle Corporation and six Oracle employees personally , in the wake of the allegedly-failed attempt to develop Oregon's health-insurance
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> the whole article reads as blatant virtue signaling I've never quite understood why, in some circles, setting a good example is derided as "virtue signaling." (In TFA, the guy is doing neither: He's being the vill
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Sorry, no idea; I wasn’t a DEC employee — I was (one of their many) outside counsel.
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The link I posted is public information; I can't say more than that (and don't remember much in any case). Normally the "prosecution history" documents would be available online [0], because they're also a public re
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Seeing David Cutler mentioned brought back memories: Back in the late 1980s I wrote a patent (now long expired) for DEC in which Cutler was one of two co-inventors: "Radix-16 divider using overlapped quotient bit selection and concurre
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by dctoedt 3y ago
I tell my students that insurance is simply a backup pot of money — that I doubt very much that, say, Bill Gates carries any kind of insurance at all, because he has other assets that he can use for any conceivable human need.

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