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by eadler 3y ago
The courts view arbitration as a _forum_ change. The idea is that you're waiving some procedural rights while retaining all substantive rights. This is independent of a jury waiver (although arbitration necessarily requires a jury waiv
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by eadler 3y ago
Arbiters have the same power as judges in court and could, in theory, rule the contract unconscionable. In practice, arbiters are less likely to do so because - they don't realise they are allowed to do so. - they are biased towards
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by eadler 3y ago
In case anyone is interested I've been compiling as much factual information on arbitration here. Not yet complete but reasonably useful and well sourced. I've posted this here before, but now it has a new website: https:/&#
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by eadler 3y ago
Related: 1. James M. Cook & Dawn Plourde. (2016). Do scholars follow Betteridge’s Law? The use of questions in journal article titles. Scientometrics, 108(3), 1119–1128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2030-2 2.
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by eadler 3y ago
`git diff --word-diff` is wonderful for this diff --git 1/old 2/new index 7164d6e..61a276c 100644 --- 1/old +++ 2/new @@ -1 +1 @@ I am {+not+} studying tonight
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by eadler 3y ago
You might enjoy these three things on the topic of software development: 1. Derek Jones. (2021, January 17). Software effort estimation is mostly fake research. The Shape of Code. https://shape-of-code.com/2021/01/
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by eadler 3y ago
You'd like the Dolphin Emulator blog. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/
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by eadler 3y ago
In case anyone is interested I've been compiling as much factual information on arbitration here. Not yet complete but reasonably useful and well sourced https://grimreaper.github.io/arbitration/docs/problems&
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by eadler 3y ago
In case anyone is interested I've been compiling as much factual information on arbitration here. Not yet complete but reasonably useful and well sourced https://grimreaper.github.io/arbitration/docs/problems&
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by eadler 3y ago
I track almost all of my expenditures. At a restaurant I used to visit fairly regularly I noticed that my costs were often off by approximately ±25 cents. This was inconsistent and not always in one party's favour. Upon reporting and i
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by eadler 3y ago
The processes to initiate arbitration can be ignored in some cases. You'd typically either file a 9 U.S. Code § 4 motion to compel or you would view failure to attend a a breach-of-contract and sue in civil court. That said, a recalcit
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by eadler 3y ago
Mandatory arbitration is deeply problematic but that isn't the problem. Some better sources : Katherine V.W. Stone & Alexander J.S. Colvin. (2015). The arbitration epidemic: Mandatory arbitration deprives workers and consumers of t
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by eadler 3y ago
I wrote more about this sort of thing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278222 and urge anyone who thinks arbitration is 'fair' to read https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitrati
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by eadler 3y ago
There are a series of awful supreme court decisions (often written by Scalia though not only) that eviscerated the right to actually use the court system. - Southland Corp. v. Keating, 465 U.S. 1 (1984) arb applies in state courts i
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by eadler 3y ago
Do you have a source for this? I often see people make this claim but can't find evidence that it was originally meant in the more limited sense.
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by eadler 3y ago
Corporate personhood predates the formation of the United States and is not unique to the states.
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by eadler 3y ago
https://forrt.org/reversals/ is a great resource for checking to see if specific effects have been replicated.
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by eadler 3y ago
See https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=shar&sektion=1&for... for a tool to generate these types of archives.
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by eadler 3y ago
The article does not cite or link to the study. > The researchers found that people who ate microwave popcorn every day over the course of a year had levels of PFAS that were up to 63% higher than average. As far as I could tell the rele
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by eadler 3y ago
It's not a prepayment. It's a line of credit. Think closer to a credit card with a limit instead of money out of pocket.
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by eadler 3y ago
Perhaps https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ might work?
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by eadler 3y ago
Aren't 'legacy' mechanics exactly this?
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by eadler 3y ago
You might be interested in this three article series https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/
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by eadler 4y ago
https://archive.ph/aeff1
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by eadler 4y ago
Musk started with three big cuts and has been doing near weekly cuts since then. I'm not sure that counts as "Cut early, cut big, and cut once". (I'm a former Twitter employee)
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by eadler 4y ago
https://archive.ph/BLafr
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by eadler 4y ago
I was one of the last judges of the competition. As far as I know Professor Craver just lost interest. Even the years I was involved I had to prod him to start the contest.
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by eadler 4y ago
Rust kind of does this. Language feature uses "edition" and has crates for its standard api instead of built in.
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by eadler 4y ago
I like how the UK does it. Total final price is the one on the sticker but tax is listed on the receipt. Something like Sticker : $100 Receipt Price: $92 Tax: $8 Total: $100
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by eadler 4y ago
I can't stand both writing and reading markdown and find its use painful. While HTML isn't the nicest at least it has (a) separate markup and content and (b) predictable output.

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