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by mountainb 1y ago
Try to drop a foreign phrase into MS Word to add a little color and watch it go completely berserk.
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by mountainb 1y ago
I think it has more to do with the various new meanings that have been attached to the word "agent" and the concept of "agency" by software and some parts of west coast culture. Those concepts do not really have much to
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by mountainb 1y ago
There are so many other ways to make money that don't involve crime. And there are even many crimes that make more money that are far less harmful to society.
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by mountainb 1y ago
There's a more transparent and straightforward pathway to a lifetime appointment as a federal judge (which actually pays OK and has many social perks) than there is to a tenured professorship in most fields. Judges have Solomon-like-li
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by mountainb 1y ago
Many employers pay a premium for predictably elite cadres of students. The schools want to try to pass off mediocre graduates as having some of the elite special sauce even though only a small number of students have what it takes. We know
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by mountainb 1y ago
It is often easier to make another sale of a downgraded product using earned customer goodwill than it is to continuously innovate, delight existing customers, and win new ones based on quality. It's less risky just to run a brand into
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by mountainb 1y ago
To use John Adams' separation of republics into the categories of "the many, the few, and the one," the few in our current day are unusually conflict-adverse both among each other and with respect to the people. When faced wi
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by mountainb 1y ago
There's a lot of mental cycles being expended on "how to avoid going to court over contract litigation" when the answer could be provided by a bog-standard forum selection clause requiring arbitration from a template last upd
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by mountainb 1y ago
With the right teams and resources, this could be done in a shorter time. With that team and skillset there was no way to complete this in a way that did not result in a lot of contract liability to the government and other silliness.
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by mountainb 1y ago
"That’s not possible — you have 90,000 contracts,” he said. “Unless you write some code. But even then it’s not really possible.” This entirely possible with some lawyers, some business analysts, perhaps some hospital administrative co
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by mountainb 1y ago
Professional proctored testing centers exist in many locations around the world now. It's not that complicated to have a couple people at the front, a method for physically screening test-takers, providing lockers for personal possessi
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by mountainb 1y ago
I guarantee you that every company you have ever worked for has committed crimes and incurred various forms of potential civil liability.
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by mountainb 1y ago
One one hand, maybe it's good to have better searchable records, even if it's hard to quantify the benefit. On the other hand, now all your meetings produce reams of computer searchable records subject to discovery in civil and cr
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by mountainb 1y ago
For more, see the Copyright Office's reports on this: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...
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by mountainb 2y ago
Brings to mind the line about the behavior of most organizations being best explained by it being controlled by a cabal of its enemies. Just mass-violating the copyright of deep pocketed plaintiffs is like writing them checks that need to g
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by mountainb 2y ago
No they're not. There are whole classes of professional that take on personal liability related to handling of private information. Journalists can be one of them but one reason you do not want a journalist handling private information
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by mountainb 2y ago
>It's written into the statute as an example of something that would be fair use. Statutory text controls what the courts can do, even and perhaps especially when it includes an example. >People go to art school primarily because
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by mountainb 2y ago
No that is not an extreme interpretation of the fair use factors. This is a routinely emphasized factor in fair use analyses for both copyright and trademark. School fair use is different because that defense is written into the statute di
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by mountainb 2y ago
Part of the reason for this is also is that the underlying clothes and fabrics were also very very expensive relative to what they became in the post-industrial world. So you would want to show off what you had.
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by mountainb 2y ago
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-fraud/foreign-corr...
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by mountainb 2y ago
It will be "fixed" by just killing off old people in large numbers through some combination of high pressure euthanasia campaigns and denial of healthcare subsidies. Just no one wants to be honest about it. Our political culture i
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by mountainb 2y ago
In practice, even later English kings were effectively elected and could have their terms ended early. Taking a few Plantagenet examples, the nobles imprisoned Edward II as retaliation for the plots of Hugh Despenser, and then the king died
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by mountainb 2y ago
The difficulty here is that it has long been US policy to promote the exports of its intellectual property (such as its movies) and communications networks (such as the internet). Trade policy is almost always a two way street, particularly
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by mountainb 2y ago
When I handled a lot of ad spending for numerous companies, Google would schedule continuous meetings with junior sales people dedicated to figuring out which client relationships that they could interfere with to convince me to spend more
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by mountainb 2y ago
The "new" reddit constantly tries to promote brainrot to you when you are in the main feed. You can evade this by never using the main feed. No one wants to let you just read what you want to read. This is one of the reasons why I
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by mountainb 2y ago
So get more TAs. They cost less than Class B CDL drivers and will drag themselves over broken glass to take these jobs. And 65 hours of work per semester for oral examinations seems entirely reasonable. A week and a half for an FTE spent ob
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by mountainb 2y ago
You can still do written essay evaluations. You could just require proctored exams whether or not you use software like Examsoft. If it's a topic that benefits from writing from a store of material, you can permit students to bring eit
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by mountainb 2y ago
This is a big subtopic within this period. They had trouble with feeding the people because Southern policy to deter the war (Cotton is King speech) was to stop the cultivation of cotton. The CSA decreed that all the cash croppers convert t
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by mountainb 2y ago
It's because feudal is a technical term that has a long and misleading history of being used as a deliberately confusing term of abuse. The professors get ornery about it because they have to clear up the same misconceptions every year
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by mountainb 2y ago
Part of the issue is the aborted attempt to turn journalism into a profession. Professionals, by and large, carry personal liability for errors, negligence, and deliberate bad behavior that harms their clients. Journalists are supposed to s

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