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by keernan 3y ago
Articles that discuss concussions in sports while completely ignoring the dangers of sub-concussive impacts have become so rampant that I've come to suspect an active effort is underway to perpetuate the myth that concussions cause CTE
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by keernan 3y ago
The concept of salaried employees needs to be outlawed and employers required to pay employees for every minute they work. Being salaried is just a way for employers to avoid paying employees for their time.
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by keernan 3y ago
>Are you paying more than 1% of your assets in fees? >Then you may be paying too much. The article was 10 years ago. Today indexed stock ETFs should cost ~0.03% and combined fees overall should be under 0.10%. PS: Schwed's book,
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by keernan 3y ago
I spent a good portion of the past 40 years hiring people (certainly not full time but as part of my primary responsibilities). A stint trying to establish your own business would definitely attract a large part of my focus during any inter
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by keernan 3y ago
haha... yea, I was a bit off As an aside, I'll use this as a way to update my post. I found a discussion of someone having a similar problem and turns out it was a windows office driver relating to automatic office updates. I turned it
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by keernan 3y ago
I used one method for every car I've purchased since 2005 (three). Most of the time I spent was obtaining emails for 10+ car dealers. I then sent the same email to each of them, essentially worded as follows: "Dear ___ I will be p
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by keernan 3y ago
Only 1 in 7 men agreed with the listed statements compared to 3 out of 5 women; quite a large divergency.
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by keernan 3y ago
>ensures that lawyers know a fair amount of substantive law (at least at one point in time), and that they are capable of memorization Thinking you know substantive law can be a dangerous thing for any lawyer who believes they don't
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by keernan 3y ago
I've been an attorney for over 40 years. While I don't have answers to the political and moral issues involved, I can say with very high confidence that attending law school and passing the bar has zero to do with whether that per
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by keernan 3y ago
A problem that recently started in Feb 2024 for me is probably unrelated to the topic, but close enough that I'm posting in the hopes someone has an idea of what is happening. I am running on a relatively new Lenovo Legion (~ 18 months
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by keernan 3y ago
He was scheduled to appear for day two of his deposition testimony the morning of his death. Had he died Sat night instead of Sat morning, the transcript of Saturday's testimony could have been read to the jury during trial. Obviously
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by keernan 3y ago
Yes, that is exactly right. There was no color coding (they were all white). There were probably 25 strips per page. I don't remember the details of the information collected - only that my later computerization of the same concept inc
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by keernan 3y ago
Sadly, I do not have pictures. I only worked for that one firm before the age of computers, and therefore I can't say for sure what other firms did for timekeeping. But the fact the pull-off adhesive strips were sold commercially by of
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by keernan 3y ago
I was a young trial lawyer back in 1977 working for a firm that billed by the hour. We kept track of what work we did on cases on sheets of paper with pull-off strips that clerks would take from completed sheets and paste onto a board insid
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by keernan 3y ago
How much did LinkedIn pay MSft for the right to put keyboard spam on my computer?
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by keernan 3y ago
Can I encourage hatred of people who steal and sell children? If not, then let me now state that I hate the authors of the bill. If yes, then how does anyone know where the line is distinguishing what is and is not permitted?
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by keernan 3y ago
Article author Steve Kirsch is identified by Wikipedia as pushing vaccine misinformation. If his article is going to be posted on HN, then his questionable background needs to be posted as well.
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by keernan 3y ago
"A study conducted by librarians of Emory University found that Cureus was in the top 2 of institutional publications deemed predatory or untrustworthy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cureus "Steven Todd
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by keernan 3y ago
Take this down. I thought this was written by the government. Instead it is written by a right wing anti-vax troll farm. Written by truthforhealth.org Total 100% bullshit. Get it out of here. Outrageous this crap is being posted here on HN
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by keernan 3y ago
I don't know Goldman at all, but I know there are plenty of corporations engaging in labor fraud by giving everyone and the kitchen sink the title of "Vice President" because of the benefits under the labor laws. Doing so is
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by keernan 3y ago
>>Perhaps no political promise is more potent or universal than the vow to restore a golden age. From Caesar Augustus to the Medicis and Adolf Hitler, from President Xi Jinping of China and President “Bongbong” Marcos of the Philippin
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Ask HN: How Far in the Future Before This Product Exists?
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by keernan 3y ago
What persuades me the most is the fact that 99.99% (or however else you want refer to "essentially everyone") of members of every organized religion are members only by chance of birth. Every Christian is only a Christian because
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by keernan 3y ago
Not being a billionaire, I don't view either scenario as very enticing.
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Resources are currently allocated through paid work. The biggest unknown is how that will be replaced once jobs are gone. My worry is who will make that decision. To add context to that question, it is important to consider that life expect
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Harmful diagnostic errors occurred in 17.8% of hospital records reviewed.
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I've been really surprised people have been so willing to share a verified phone number with a company that has a product with the potential to learn everything about everyone. I have refused because the mere fact they insist upon that
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Am I reading the article correctly that it was published in Feb 2020?
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>>Like so many controversial initiatives and decisions coming from the current White House, this executive order... Difficult for me to give credence to a tech article that includes gratuitous political rants.
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by keernan 3y ago
I'm a (retired) trial lawyer. I'm simply using basic legal logic to establish principles (use the extreme case to establish the essential exception and then work increasingly inwards until a demarcation line can be established). A

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