lawtalkinghuman

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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
NYT article came out on Friday, December 4. By Thursday of the next week, December 10th, Visa and MC had cut them off. Discover had followed the next day, the 11th. The Washington Post article linked below includes a statement from MC which
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
As a software developer who just finished law school, I have precisely zero intentions of going into politics. I have plenty of views on how you could improve things, but elected politics is about as appealling as a skin disease.
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The hosting of open source code on GitHub is not some completely selfless act on their part. GitHub's value proposition to commercial users is in part contributed to by the fact it is used by a lot of open source projects and for solo
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One is allowed to do both. Human beings are allowed to have opinions and not be walking LinkedIn profiles all day long.
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Even if logically two statements are the same, the implication or tone can be important. There are media reporting guidelines on suicide e.g. the Samaritans in the UK provide one, as do the WHO and CDC. https://media.samaritans.o
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> I really don’t want to have the government locking people up for being well-paid fuck-ups. If you go to a doctor and he fucks up: he (or his insurer) has to pay you. If he really fucks up, he ceases to be able to practice medicine. The
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
In the US, yes. Elsewhere, not necessarily.
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With respect, I think you've got it quite wrong. On the question of proving damages, that is the same in England and the US: both make a distinction between libel (or slander) per se and per quod. Libel per se covers statements that re
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> Not the good ol boys who support conservative christian causes. Two words: Peter Thiel.
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Because if you get it wrong, lots of people die, so you err on the side of caution.
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There's a fairly significant difference between the Tuskeegee Experiment, and having to wear a surgical facemask while in a supermarket.
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The children should have had the good karma to be born to more responsible parents.
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From August 2020.
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Government requiring car manufacturers fit seatbelts and airbags is intrusion in the free market. And a good one that saves hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Some corporations put up a mixture of Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays signage/messaging etc. Christian persecution complex hustlers—and Fox News etc. seeking outraged eyeballs—took the existence of people saying "Happy Holidays
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> Outside of HN a lot of people I meet and speak to are super-pumped about W3W. Lots of people have heard positive media fluff that W3W have paid to have placed, and haven't really thought critically about it at all.
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Microsoft is an applicable precedent here - when it was found that they had breached competition law in using bundling with Windows as a way to gain unfair market dominance for Internet Explorer, the remedy was to require that Microsoft off
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I miss all those old video games without politics. Nothing political at all about escaping from Castle Wolfenstein and killing Hitler in the process. No politics in Final Fantasy 7, just some lively ecoterrorists saving the world from an ex
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In the long run, you are dead, at which point you probably don't care as much.
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Historically, it is because UK government-backed student loans (for English students: no student fees in Scotland after all) are (a) low-interest, (b) only repayable on money earned above a particular salary threshold, and (c) automatically
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
What the civil court system desperately needs: more lawsuits from people who got banned from web forums.
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There's plenty more where those come from. Society rightly puts limits on what you can do with your property after you are dead. By analogy, there are legitimate limits on what you can ask your successors to do with your bodily remains
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> I think you own your body when you die the same way you own your money: you can specify what should be done with it while you are alive You have the freedom to specify what exactly should be done with your stuff when you die. Whether t
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This sounds like a very good argument for socialised healthcare. Which, last time I checked, was something the UK has.
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> I think asking people this question when they apply for a passport would be a good middle ground This already happens. When you apply for a driving licence, you are asked whether you would like to be put on the donor registry.
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by lawtalkinghuman 6y ago
If you can't type on an actual keyboard, touchscreen typing is barely a downgrade from hunting and pecking. If you can type quickly, touchscreen typing is really fucking awful.
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The negative inference comes from the fact that you can't push an affirmative defence at trial that you haven't hinted at during questioning. So, if you are arrested for beating up X, and you invoke your right to silence, THEN at
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Refusing to cooperate or exercising one's right to silence is absolutely NOT the best strategy in the UK. Whether you should or not will depend heavily on a variety of factors. If you plan to offer an affirmative defence at trial, you
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That'd explain it. The science reporters at the BBC almost always link to original studies, but I guess the sport team haven't faced that issue.
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Board of directors, not an employee. "FSF board members are not compensated for their board service, and are not permitted to receive any personal financial benefit from FSF funds or other assets." https://www.fsf.org&#

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