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by johndhi 4y ago
This is interesting. I was thinking while reading this thread that it would be cool if there was a way to solve the problem. My idea: get a significant percentage of users of a service to sign up for a 'union' of sorts to negotiat
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by johndhi 4y ago
Agree. There is generally little hope of a layperson (or even a lawyer typically) of benefitting from a EULA. That said, laws separate from the contract might benefit you - if Microsoft's software kills your dog, you probably can'
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by johndhi 4y ago
Your question is exactly the reason why meeting of the minds doesn't solve this problem. It's subjective. Fyi in practice, signing the document means that you understand it, as far as a court is concerned. Contracts will often thr
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by johndhi 4y ago
Lol. Brutal
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by johndhi 4y ago
I can think of three reasons why they might be: 1. Your contract is really confusing and looks like it benefits the counter party at face value, but actually benefits you upon close inspection. These things can help with that. It's &qu
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by johndhi 4y ago
While the parties are usually laypeople, the drafters and readers of significance are almost always lawyers. If you decide to try to bring a claim against your mortgage lender, will you have a lawyer read your mortgage agreement before you
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by johndhi 4y ago
Tangent: Montreal francinization laws are such a pain in the ass.
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by johndhi 4y ago
Cool! Let me ask you this, though: why shouldn't I be a L.O.A.D.? Also, who's the L.O.A.D. when I and a counterparty are editing a contract someone else drafted a template for five years ago? Am I expected to use my negotiating &#
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by johndhi 4y ago
I tend to disagree. US law does require "plain language" in certain places (privacy policies for example) and that doesn't help. Also, while EU law is, perhaps, written in clearer language, the ambiguity of how it will be int
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by johndhi 4y ago
Actually, clarification: what I'm saying applies to contracts between two sophisticated parties that are negotiating. If I'm Facebook and you're a user, there is no negotiation. So I try to make it as air tight as (legally) p
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by johndhi 4y ago
What you're describing is more applicable to a motion filed in court (one party is in battle with the other and has no reason to be friendly to the other party at all). In the case of contracts, you're partially right, but it&#x27
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by johndhi 4y ago
This is a very complicated proposal you've made but I think the main answer is, it isn't scalable for policymakers or even courts to consider everyone's individual situation a priori. It would cost too much money.
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by johndhi 4y ago
Pretty wildly different rate. I tend not to believe science reporter in three tweets though. Would like to see methods and peer review.
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by johndhi 4y ago
I'm guessing what they mean with long distance dependencies is section 3 of the contract sets one scenario and section 46 an exception to it. This happens (normally, intentionally) when there is a section up front or at the end that se
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by johndhi 4y ago
I am a lawyer who works with but doesn't do a MASSIVE amount of contract writing like some. I don't think "poor writing" is the right phrasing here, which implies ignorance or ineptitude. I think the reason contracts are
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by johndhi 4y ago
What are we so afraid of with TikTok? If there's a real concern, someone propose a law and let's debate it. It's so tiresome to just see senators personally attacking executives in Congressional testimony. Imo we're afra
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by johndhi 4y ago
My wife got laid off a few years back and started her freelance marketing business out of that. She loves it. She's really anti-meeting and bullshit and this allows her to just do her job (copywriting) 90% of the day. Maybe because her
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by johndhi 4y ago
What % chance do we feel that we will have fusion power within the next 50 years?
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by johndhi 4y ago
Umm wait lol this blog is from June. This bill passed yesterday. It's the law now.
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by johndhi 4y ago
God bless this man for making this -- but you know what's CRAZY to me? That no one has done this before. We all visit websites constantly and governments (particularly in EU) talk endlessly and vaguely about cookies and yet almost NO O
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by johndhi 4y ago
Hmm. I write daily, fiction and journaling, and spend a lot of time researching and thinking deeply about writing - and I have some reservations here. I agree there is almost always some value in writing. However, for many people, when writ
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by johndhi 4y ago
This reminds me of something I read about babies (I have one). When they cry for hunger, is it that they are trying to say "I want food"? Probably not - it's more like, my stomach feels emptyish and that feels dangerous and I
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by johndhi 4y ago
Tim Cook jumping on screen killed me
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by johndhi 4y ago
this was my reaction, too. and I'd add: the legal requirement is basically to have 'industry standard' security; no more and no less. there is no legal requirement to have air tight security (which probably isn't even te
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by johndhi 4y ago
Ehh, this feels like mere semantics to me.
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by johndhi 4y ago
Imo it's a lack of meditation. We think too much and don't balance that with not thinking.
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by johndhi 4y ago
haha. I am a lawyer so sorry, but while you might be able to claim that, you are legally and ethically obligated to also divulge the intentional spoiling of hte evidence.
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by johndhi 4y ago
really? what do you mean 'middle management is trained to keep that from getting to the top'? intentional malfeasance? where I work people are trying their best but dealing with complex systems, memories, and methods of communicat
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by johndhi 4y ago
Thought about this at the gas pump yesterday that told me I'd pay more if I used a 'credit card' versus a 'check card.' I thought: why can't I just have one card that can do both?
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by johndhi 4y ago
hehe, ironically diverting resources and skewing research and overall making worse the biggest PANDEMIC of our time isn't a crime at all :)

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