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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I totally get the walls of text are needed to a point, and we don't have good options to produce succin[c]t contracts. You're too kind — literally. Wall-of-words text is never needed in a contract. Clients should demand
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Forgot to add the business case for readability: Readable contracts get signed sooner (and, probably, inadvertently-breached less often).
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The lawyer. Needs walls of text. Lawyer and law professor here: No, no , NO ! Wall-of-words text is a sign of a L.O.A.D. — a Lazy Or Arrogant Drafter. I teach contract drafting to 3Ls and stress The Two Great Rules of Readability:
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The king [Charles III] could have me executed. Really? If Charles suddenly issued an order, "seize @trasz4, take him/her to the Tower of London, and chop off his head," do you seriously think anyone in the UK would
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by dctoedt 3y ago
It worked pretty well with "Ms." back in the day. (I know, I know, it's not a pronoun.)
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Well the singular use of "They" is actually pretty old The cardinal rule of writing is Serve the Reader — Don't Make Him/Her Do Needless Work. In modern parlance, "they" is an unobjectionable shortcut w
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Now say the same about (say) Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), etc., etc.: What would have happened if their parents had decided to just chilax on the beach and not have kids? That's right: Their "accom
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> This crosses into religious flamewar. Disagree: This is an area to which I've devoted some study (amateur theologian, former professional "street-level historian," i.e., litigator). I can't speak to his comments a
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> People just say “oh I’m not good at math” because nobody will shame you for not being good at math. It’s not considered a personal flaw. My undergrad degree was in math, but neither my wife nor either of our (now-adult) kids think th
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by dctoedt 4y ago
No, I was responding to a comment that now starts out, "I'm tired ...."
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by dctoedt 4y ago
How often do your scenarios occur in real life?
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> And it means that you’re doing what you’re programmed to do, and not deliberately thumbing your nose at society’s conventions. Perhaps what you call nose-thumbing is in fact "doing what you're programmed to do" by ge
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> He [Grant] was no Sherman, but his "governance" of the south led to carpetbaggers and "south shall rise again" BS that remains to this day. A while back I read a tweet from an anonymous Army officer: "Sherm
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> even given the best mode requirement The best-mode requirement was pretty much neutered as part of the America Invents Act, because: 1. USPTO patent examiners normally don't inquire about best mode unless there's a pretty-o
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> There is no scientific reason why Denmark or Germany’s 12-week ban [permitted if mother's life or health in danger or for other reasons, per Wikipedia] is more justifiable than Texas’s 12-week ban. It's not a purely-scien
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by dctoedt 4y ago
What toaster oven do you use? We've put ours away because it hasn't been that great.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I'd love to believe in God, a superior power, benevolent aliens, re-incarnation, anything! The problem is that I just can't, no matter how much I try. I hope people here don't get tired of my self-cite about how I came
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> “Bodily autonomy” is not a scientific concept, it’s a philosophical one. It does not negate what a fetus is scientifically. Limiting the "what is a complete human" inquiry to the realm of genetics is itself a philosophical
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> It’s a more fragmented electorate, with fault lines liberals can use to bypass the need to achieve consensus for social change. It’s an end-run around democracy that ultimately frays our system of self governance. Methinks you have a
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Social liberals use immigration to advance minority positions they couldn’t achieve otherwise. Isn't that like a losing team saying, "we'd have won the championship if only our star player hadn't gotten hurt"
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Agreed. From the late Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne KBE FRS — a noted Cambridge particle physicist, turned late-call Church of England priest [0]: "Early on, an Anglican clergyman, Charles Kingsley, stated powerfully the right way to thin
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Supplement to the above: "Why I Still Call Myself a Christian and an Episcopalian" — https://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/05/why_i_call_myse...
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I hear you: I've got a STEM background as well, and for many years I was a Catholic-raised agnostic, having bailed from belief at age 12 (and having been skeptical starting at age 5). In later life I worked my way back around to sort
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Nope, learning multiple languages from the beginning has been shown to have many benefits. Anecdata: I'm a native English speaker but as a little kid I was completely bilingual in French (dad was a USAF officer stationed at a NA
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Those who "believe the same things about nationality, gender roles, same sex marriage, etc., as even pretty liberal Bangladeshis" are free to practice their beliefs. But they should expect forceful pushback if they try to compel o
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by dctoedt 4y ago
The linked article's title is pretty open-ended, so I looked at it with just a scintilla of hope that it might include a Graffiti emulator for iOS devices, especially iPad with Apple Pencil. Sadly, no joy.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Can you explain what is this secret sauce social infrastructure? The NASA-industrial complex that built the Saturn V rocket is largely gone: The engineers, factory workers, etc., who had the necessary knowledge — much of it tacit — a
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> In a democracy, it absolutely is a criticism of a political party that it can’t win elections among an electorate that is securely rooted in the country, and must instead rely on newcomers who will put aside their own values because o
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Hilary Clinton would consider most of the people in my community “deplorables.” From Time magazine's summary of Clinton's remarks — which are spot-on: <quote> “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put
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‘Save string’ and other things to do when work habits are disorganized (2015)(poynter.org)
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