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by johndhi 3y ago
When I was a kid I remember my brother and I asking my dad a ton of questions about SG. We viewed them as this amazing awesome company that made cool looking towers and the fastest computers in the world.
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That's how the UK works. But making it that expensive to sue someone means it's harder to file meritorious or important cases too.
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Generally yes.
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As a lawyer who has worked in and for big tech, we don't win 99% of the time. Far less. There are very well financed players and structural incentive that allow plaintiffs lawyers to win and take lots of money from big tech in the US.
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by johndhi 3y ago
in my professional experience it's hard to exactly comply with the cookie laws of Europe when using recaptcha. that doesn't mean it's a "nightmare" imo - it just means it's on par with a lot of online services.
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by johndhi 3y ago
I don't understand many of most of these words (highest I got was college calculus) but this sounds interesting to me.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Love this marketing
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by johndhi 3y ago
You're saying the left is just straight up nicer than the right? This seems like kind of a weak take.
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by johndhi 3y ago
This was funny and I meant to update it but instead down voted it and now can't find how to undo that. Sorry!
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by johndhi 3y ago
Honestly these prosecutions are really just driven by the media. They just are. The fact that sam was young and had a poluamorous house in the Bahamas meant this was front page material. This then meant that prosecutors feel they must do so
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by johndhi 3y ago
So many memories
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by johndhi 3y ago
I don't see the reference to where Sam asked for 7T... When was that?
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How is it with Slack and email?
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by johndhi 3y ago
Why would you recommend Niagara?
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by johndhi 3y ago
Great point. Thank you.
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One different with UK is they use the 'English Rule' of fee-shifting. In English civil lawsuits, the losing party has to pay the attorneys fees of the other party. In the US, there's basically no downside of suing someone if
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by johndhi 3y ago
Fair enough. Thanks. But... When I offer to do this here no one takes me up on it! So maybe the world doesn't need my blog.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Exactly. Yes. That's the idea. The US legal system relies more on "ex post" legal enforcement - meaning, if you break the law then you get busted and you personally pay the victim. Europe is a more "ex ante" system
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by johndhi 3y ago
Thanks for the fact check. I'm writing on my phone so I can't do this justice, but the operative wording of the Sherman Act (or its followup the Clayton Act) is something like: "unfair restraint on trade is unlawful," or
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by johndhi 3y ago
The common way people think about common law versus civil law is this: -common law depends more on courts to make and refine legal decisions -civil law relies more on regulators. In civil law countries it's more common for the statute
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by johndhi 3y ago
What are some of your basic questions about the legal system? Happy to take a shot at answering.
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It's really hard to compare them. Just like it's hard to compare one country to another. So many factors.
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Been thinking about it, but our industry is a service industry and we prefer to get paid to offer our expertise. If I go out on my own and find myself lacking clients, I might.
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by johndhi 3y ago
I'm a lawyer that works in tech. Anybody got questions for me? I fine these primers almost always focus too much on technicalities and don't make the takeaways sufficiently obvious.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Awesome I just rewatch Chris Rock's 1999 comedy special filmed there, last night.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Damn, this is a really interesting statement from AMZN: "The use of warehouse management systems is standard industry practice: they are necessary to ensure safe, quality and efficient operations and to ensure inventory tracking and pa
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by johndhi 3y ago
>The potential harms aren't only to the person doing it, but for people around them who might be victims of their psychotic break Fyi research apparently shows that mentally unwell people are more likely to be physically harmful to
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by johndhi 3y ago
Not satire. People deciding to drive while sleepy doesn't mean it isn't scary to do so (in fact it's horrifying). People definitely make illogical decisions. Being afraid while driving isn't even necessarily a logical de
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by johndhi 3y ago
Just spitballing but it seems a unique aspect of a human driver is their fear for loss of life. We're all subtly terrified we are about to die and that keeps us sharp and responsive and thoughtful while driving.
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by johndhi 3y ago
I could be just in a bitter mood, but somehow all of these articles decrying what a terrible job we did by shutting down psychedelic research in favor of a war on drugs... Don't make me feel optimistic that we've moved on or impro

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