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by gyardley 14y ago
Stephen Gordon doesn't know what he's talking about. Take this, for example: In a market economy, the excess demand for venture capital would be closed by a price adjustment: entrepreneurs would be obliged to accept smaller injections of c
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The Federal Prosecutor (1940)(roberthjackson.org)
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by gyardley 14y ago
Is approaching our body of laws like a programmer necessarily a bad thing? I'm being a bit tongue in cheek here, but to use your example - if only our body of laws were properly DRY, changing that precisely-defined 'reasonable person' would
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by gyardley 14y ago
The 'several federal laws every day' angle is there to remind each and every one of us that we could be treated like Aaron Swartz, whether we think we're violating a law or not. The federal government prosecutes cases all the time against d
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure, but the appropriateness or inappropriateness of the particular charges isn't the issue. Anyone who focuses on 'computer crime' or any of Aaron's pet causes is missing the point. The issue is abuse of power, and why the federal governm
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by gyardley 14y ago
It would imply that she was called in front of a grand jury to testify against Aaron Swartz. I presume she initially refused to do so on the grounds that it might incriminate her - as is her right under the Fifth Amendment. Therefore the go
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by gyardley 14y ago
Lessig's probably referring to one of the two assistant district attorneys who did all the day-to-day work - their names are mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Carmen Ortiz is their boss.
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by gyardley 14y ago
You're misunderstanding both the issue and the motivations of the person. This person is not trying to avoid a ticket for riding alone in the carpool lane. He does not want to avoid that ticket. If he avoids the ticket because a judge acc
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, working for yourself over the Internet can bring you financial security and scads of free time, which will let you avoid conventional life indefinitely. There's no need to take on the responsibilities that come with marriage, children,
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by gyardley 14y ago
Rule number one: no surprises. Your job is to know exactly what's going on with the product and why, and make sure no one else is surprised by communicating the information they need in the form they need it. Rule number two: get to know th
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by gyardley 14y ago
Let's pretend I wasn't happily married and the women I dated tended to be models. Somehow I can't see myself using dating sites on and off several times over the years, trying to get the attention of women I thought were ugly.
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by gyardley 14y ago
While I'm not an expert here (thank god), I believe D&O insurance is one of those things where the insurance companies pays after the fact, when you file a claim. So instead of sending you a bill for the lawyer's fees, they likely would
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by gyardley 14y ago
I'd have to write a book, it's a long and complex case. (If you do want to read a book, Conrad Black's own book on it is very good.) Perhaps start with some of Mark Steyn's writing for the Canadian news magazine Macleans? http://www.maclea
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by gyardley 14y ago
If it was downvoted, it's because the grand jury process has become a farce. A pretty good description of how it actually works, written by a former government prosecutor, can be found in this entry: http://www.popehat.com/2010/12/30/the-f
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sure, and in the corporate world it's standard already - director's and officer's insurance covers criminal charges as well. Naturally deliberate criminal acts are excluded, but it'll cover you against the sort of accidents people can make
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by gyardley 14y ago
See, this is the problem - thanks to a decade's worth of state-sponsored smear campaigns, you think Conrad Black 'looted his own companies', when that's just not borne by the facts at all. I wish you luck finding someone who looks more symp
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by gyardley 14y ago
If you'd like to learn more about how the federal government unjustly railroaded Conrad Black, I can't recommend his autobiographical A Matter of Principle enough. A great eye-opener of a book.
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by gyardley 14y ago
In my neck of the Canadian woods, the default unit of measurement for road distances was the time it took to travel that distance. "How far is it into town? Oh, about twenty minutes." People could deal with kilometers just fine, but you'd h
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by gyardley 14y ago
People are often inconsistent. I suspect it's because weakening of the second amendment affects the public in an obvious and visible way while weakening the fourth amendment doesn't affect them immediately and is usually framed as necessary
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by gyardley 14y ago
Sometimes this is true. It depends on the developers. Sometimes the developers don't have product skills but know they don't have product skills. This is also fine. Sometimes the developers think they have product skills when they don't,
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by gyardley 14y ago
Of course they do. I wasn't suggesting the contrary.
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by gyardley 14y ago
What about Scott Eckern, the Sacramento theatre director who made a donation in support of California's Proposition 8? I'd be wary of suggesting people of only one political viewpoint behave badly, since we don't know what issue will be the
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by gyardley 14y ago
Your ignorance of the respective areas is showing. It's hard to talk about a common culture between California and Louisiana when neither California nor Louisiana has a common internal culture. In Louisiana, spend some time in Houma, and
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by gyardley 14y ago
Negotiating.
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by gyardley 14y ago
If you want Americans to stop making ridiculous generalizations about Europe, the way to do it is by similarly pledging to avoid the sort of ridiculous generalizations about America made by some Europeans - not by arguing about relative lev
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by gyardley 14y ago
Flat (edit: okay, flat ish ) kitchen sinks, as opposed to bathroom sinks, are ubiquitous in North America too. In the kitchen, the flat sink is useful for dish-stacking.
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by gyardley 14y ago
There will be a few more of these filed by a few more of the usual firms, then the defendant will fight to get them consolidated into one case, then the various plaintiff's lawyers will fight over who gets to be lead plaintiff and how to di
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, of course I'm sure.
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by gyardley 14y ago
You're absolutely welcome to think what you like, but I'd be a bit wary of thinking your view of firearms is just 'common sense'. You know, during some of my family members' lifetimes, my own people were subjected to a genocide by a governm
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by gyardley 14y ago
The Readability browser extension is awesome for cases like this. I use it all the time.

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