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by dctoedt 4y ago
> My spouse is 39 so the window has closed for biological children, more or less. Not necessarily. My wife was in her late 30s when we had our (and her, and my) first kid, and just shy of 40 when we had our second. Yes, older mothers a
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Am I the only one who initially thought the guy in the video* was Alton Brown (of Good Eats ), somehow rejuvenated? * Adam Conover, with whom I wasn't previously familiar
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> countries with the economic might of China [read: CCP] and the US could pretty easily do both [healthcare and lunar exploration] That assumes facts not in evidence, viz., the political support (doubtless less of a problem for the C
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Do we try to apply these "lets find our shared morals" / "present our side with the joy (of a missionary)" practices in these situations? Probably not. They were wars. Relatedly: As Barack Obama said in his N
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> No, can you cite a precedent for someone being ordered to pay almost a billion dollars for saying a mean thing on a blog. You're obsessing with the fact that the total of the individual damage awards is so high. But under the la
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Peel with the adhesive on the side, then rotate 90 degrees to write with the adhesive on the top?
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Neckties are uncomfortable only if the shirt collar doesn't fit properly when buttoned. (That's one advantage of having dress shirts custom-made: You can have the collar made to an exact fit — and also have the sleeves made to the
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I don’t think any EU country legalized same-sex marriage by court order. I’m also not aware of any European country where abortion was legalized by court ruling. The US Supreme Court is unusual in running roughshod over the political
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> If you assert that a cluster of distinctive cancers is caused by the local chemical plant, pointing out that similar cancer clusters are cropping up other places nowhere near a chemical plant is an evidence-based rebuttal to your theo
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> "how did you choose this algorithm?” or “what factors did you consider when choosing this algorithm?” Another variation: "What's your thinking behind choosing this algorithm?" That has worked well for me over the ye
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> At each and every point in my life, I was working with the information I had at my disposal, each information having its own "weight" in my mind. This. You play the hand you're dealt — and the hand you're dealt in
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> * just a little antidote about something else that the internet seems to love about 'Seinfeld'* Nit: Anecdote, not antidote.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Bernie was very close to clinching the nomination That's a counterfactual. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-close-look-at-sander...
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I hope Andrew [0] — the college junior with morals who blew the whistle on the attempt to get him to impersonate the author — gets an internship or job offer out of this; he apparently was having a hard time with that. The author's sle
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Yet we are very allergic to giving examples I encourage my contract-drafting students to (judiciously) include examples — and of course I show some examples of using examples. [0] [0] https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com&#x2
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by dctoedt 4y ago
More about Rescorla's "epic death" — and his "epic life," as a "Celtic warrior," including legendary performance in combat as a young U.S. Army officer in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, written up in
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I used to carry an emergency high-value banknote in my back pocket so that in case the worst happened I would at least have some money on me. A friend does that; she refers to it as her "Don't Kill Me" money.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> a bunch of men who had just used guns they had lying around their farms to form militias and overthrow their government. That pretty seriously overstates the case: The American Revolution started out that way, but as time went on, th
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> how much of this is attributable to a party of the contract trying to sneak favorable terms into the agreement? I've long thought there's sometimes some of that. But I preach to my students that it's not smart to try t
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I'm curious what you think about a post I did ten years ago, on "defying" the Single Sentence Rule when drafting patent claims: https://www.oncontracts.com/multi-sentence-claims/
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by dctoedt 4y ago
The inconsistent-edits problem is a real one; failure to follow D.R.Y. cost a Dallas lender $693K because a guaranteed repayment amount was written as "one million seven thousand dollars ($1,700,000)" and words take precedence ove
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Ultimately, the ethical responsibility is to choose the best client representation over the most readable contract, right? Those don't always overlap, do they? It depends on what's meant by "the best client representat
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Lawyer and contract-drafting teacher here. The biggest problem with unreadable contracts is that we have too many L.O.A.D.s: Lazy Or Arrogant Drafters. (You can decide for yourself: L.O.A.D. of what?) There's a relevant Dilbert carto
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I think the reason contracts aren't readable to laypeople is because laypeople aren't the intended audience. That's partly true — but there's no reason a contract can't be written to be understandable by me
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Of the Civil War Amendments, neither the 13th nor the 14th Amendment mentions race, or marriage. The 15th Amendment mentions race, but only in respect of the right to vote.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
That's a shi[p]load of razor blades .... (Old joke — ships used to be literally melted down to be made into razor blades.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/10/02/from...
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by dctoedt 4y ago
From the NY Times: "Her personal behavior, unlike that of most of her family, was beyond reproach, never tainted by even the remotest hint of scandal. Elizabeth offered her subjects a mirror of the high moral standards that many might
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> As a former atheist Mind if I ask what your path was? I called myself an agnostic starting at about age 12 (and was a doubter from age 5), but eventually worked my way around to concluding that something was going on. Some of my mu
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I think anything I say to you is going to generate a snarky, dismissive response, and so am opting to keep things simple I feel no such compunction, so: This guy seems to be hiding behind a new handle; for what reason(s), we can spec
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by dctoedt 4y ago
13 years, you say? That's not what your profile says — did you feel some need to create a new identity?

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