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Elon Musk Could Become First Trillionaire Under New Tesla Pay Plan(nytimes.com)
6 points by dctoedt 1y ago|2 comments
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> Why would racists mad about Democrats supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 respond by switching to the party that had pushed through every other Civil Rights Act before it? Of course, they didn't. Your revisionism is pretty g
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> Bork believed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which his party got through Congress) was unconstitutional. Um: You're massively overstating the case for GOP involvement in the Civil Rights Act. The Act was muscled through by Presid
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> I've thought a lot about what happens to Christianity if you discard the writings of Paul. Without Paul, Christianity reverts to being a variety of Judaism whose leader from the hinterlands got it right about what really mattere
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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for 1st time, have dinner(tomshardware.com)
3 points by dctoedt 1y ago|2 comments
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by dctoedt 1y ago
From June, apparently. Reported also to have been at the dinner: Dave Cutler, Mark Russinovich.
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> Why isn’t [sic] tariffs within the “emanations from penumbras” of the president’s foreign policy powers? Says the consistent mocker of Justice Douglas's use of the quoted phrase to support privacy rights. It seems you'd l
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> You’re also proving my point about why it’s so critical to strictly control who is allowed into your community. "Strictly control[led]" is a line-drawing function — and needs to remember that life is a movie, not a snapsho
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> People are voting for what kind of ideas their children are socialized into, which is one of the fundamental rights as a parent. Wait, I thought you were all about how Western society has gone too far in the direction of individual r
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Very true; I've noticed the same thing myself.
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> scraps of paper that eventually get spontaneously disposed of Where "spontaneously disposed of" is sometimes abbreviated L-O-S-T, right? <g>
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by dctoedt 1y ago
The SPUR Agenda can be helpful as a template: • Status (good and bad — things done and left undone) • Plans (incl. contingency plans) • Uncertainties (untested assumptions, upsides/downsides, etc.) • Reports? (e.g., document any agre
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by dctoedt 1y ago
How about "to give the public a cut of the economic rents — i.e., private taxes — that the public is allowing you to extract from the market, which you get from your legal monopoly that lets you block competitors from copying you"
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> Only the patents that are deployed to the market and valuable will have high carrying costs. You're assuming that "deployed to the market" means "actually making things that people want." That's someti
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> This is a reward for taking risk in R&D and for sharing the result with the public via patent disclosures, not a tax. You say potato .... The "reward for risk-taking and sharing knowledge" is a nice story, and sometime
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by dctoedt 1y ago
FTA: "The new fee would be a much more exorbitant cost for some patent holders that would function like a property tax." I've long thought that'd be a good idea: The government practically gives away these legal monopo
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> It’s an accepted principle that unclear legislative text is best interpreted by reference to sources closer in time to the enactment of the legislation. I've come to think that this is a dangerous hybrid of (a) bibliolatry — the
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by dctoedt 1y ago
You're citing the Slaughterhouse Cases ? Did I miss a time machine's returning us all to 1870?
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Readwise.io FTW. Saves all kinds of online stuff. The iPhone & iPad apps sync seamlessly and have quite-good text-to-speech recognition for most of it — which is great for listening to longer articles in the car / at the gym. I&#x2
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> state governments are not ones of enumerated powers. They inherited the plenary legislative power of the British parliament and can do whatever they want that’s not expressly prohibited. *** My secret left wing view is I think New Yor
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> The constitution embodies a particular set of moral and political philosophies. Sometimes we add more (e.g. the concept of equal protection). But judges don’t get to be philosophers weighing in on moral issues the framers of the const
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Fair. Context matters.
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Fair.
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Parts of this are excellent. I teach a contract-drafting course for 2L and 3L law students. Some aren't good writers. When I mark up their work, I can provide them with links to specific points in the RH guide. Some parts aren't s
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> Regulating the “public health, welfare, and morals” is the prerogative of state legislatures. So the question is whether there is anything in the constitution that overrides that general power. Resort to “emanations from penumbras” is
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> I think there is some blame for not standing up to Musk and leading better. That seems in the same category as saying there's some blame on her for not working harder on basketball in her youth and so never becoming a WNBA Final
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by dctoedt 1y ago
That's why it's often critical to implement systems to second-check important stuff. If I may lapse into garrulous-old-fart mode: Soon after I made partner in my BigLaw IP firm, as the resident software(-adjacent) geek I was taske
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Reminiscent of a tweet about the death of the inventor of the GIF, who reportedly said it should be pronounced "jif" — the retweeter's comment was, "I guess he's with Jod." https://twitter.com/a
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by dctoedt 1y ago
I love the ambiguity of "The Cat's Meat Man" — my initial thought before reading the rest of the title was, "and to whom does he sell cat meat?"
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by dctoedt 1y ago
This is an unfortunate title change by the mods — what's of interest is (the original title about) Musk's email supposedly being on Proton.

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