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by nickff 1y ago
One easy-to-find example: https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/too-big-comply-n...
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The federal government actually makes that argument all the time, and often prevails with it.
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I think a company of Carmacks would probably be a mess; maybe resembling Xerox PARC, in that they came up with many interesting ideas, but rarely if ever actually created a profitable suite of products.
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I think the level of care is only one factor, and often not the one that prevents new entrants. I work at a small electronics manufacturer, and can tell you that in my industry, the biggest regulatory obstacles have nothing to do with our q
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I think you hit the nail on the head when you mention the complexities of the business being the cause for the inefficiencies. Private Equity has figured out that they can buy into businesses with high legal, regulatory, and 'friction&
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PE is profiting off regulatory barriers to entry in situations like this; it has little to do with who the clients are. The way to solve this is to lower regulatory barriers to entry, which will make these industries more competitive and le
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The requirement which is driving the posting is a requirement that they search for candidates other than the one specific person they have in mind. If they post it with 'already filled' in the posting, they would not be complying
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Those 'one specific person' ads are usually there to comply with an internal requirement or external regulation/law, so they wouldn't be able to say that it was filled, because that would be an admission that the whole p
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If you think this is bad, you should see the regulatory burden imposed on small manufacturers. This is nothing. The problem is that voters don’t seem to care about regulatory requirements.
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As much of a fan of human spaceflight as I am, the Apollo program which made up the most notable part of the reaction to Sputnik was immensely wasteful and unnecessary.
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What you're describing makes complete sense to me, but what I don't understand is why the USDA should be endorsing specific practices like this or that. To be clear, I also think the Farm Bill is a ridiculous and unnecessary givea
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Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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They usually require records for compliance with state regulations (but the state does not require them to follow HIPAA).
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From some quick research, it seems unclear whether dispensaries are covered entities under HIPAA, as they are not reimbursed by Insurers, due to the federal illegality of the drug. https://mjbizdaily.com/do-medical-marijuana
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Matt Levine often repeats the phrase ‘everything is securities fraud’. Any statement which turns out (with hindsight) to be false is grounds for a shareholder class-action lawsuit. Even many correct statements are grounds for shareholder cl
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Why do you think most people inherit nothing? Every person I know who has had an immediate family member die has received some sort of inheritance, though sometimes not a very valuable one. Do you have a citation for your very strong claim?
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Voters have basically no power, and very little incentive to even bother voting wisely. There is abundant evidence that your vote does not matter, and to pretend otherwise is fantasy.
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That would make sense as a program, though it might incentivize some strange Cobra-Effect type behaviour among both institutions and students. The problem is that the backwards-looking forgiveness/giveaway programs do not incentivize p
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Nuclear submarines were developed at about the same time as civil nuclear power plants (and you could actually argue they were developed earlier or reached maturity earlier). Nuclear submarine power was a sort of ‘killer app’ for nuclear po
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The only thing more popular (on those/these forums) than shallow dismissal is piling on (i.e. the recent Coldplay episode).
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In my experience, there has been a wide-spread (across the retail and service economy) decline in how customer service personnel treat customers, and it seems like it might actually be deeper than that (extending throughout young people&#x2
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The end of the Cold War (allowing reduced defense spending), along with a massive asset bubble (with accompanying capital gains tax revenue increases) did wonders for the budget.
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More vacation for the same pay can be interpreted at least three ways: - Same annual income for fewer days worked. This is increased daily pay - Same daily pay for fewer days worked. This is actually increased daily compensation, because of
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Sociopathy is characterized by a lack of empathy. Regardless, the only way to make a deal stick is to ensure it is beneficial to all parties. Healthcare definitely impacts workers, but the only reason for widespread employer-provided health
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Corporations don’t need to have empathy to make deals with the benefits you mention, they just need counter-parties which prioritize those terms. Medicare has little to do with corporations (which usually don’t like having to spend time and
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It’s uncommon in startups and companies focused on high-growth (such as the FAANGs). Older, smaller, and more stable companies tend to have more of this orientation, but it usually comes with significantly lower compensation.
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Many companies encourage employees to go home and relax or engage in other rewarding activities; it can be very beneficial for the employer. For one thing, it encourages people to separate their work lives and home lives, which can decrease
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Do you live in a parliamentary democracy? If not, you may be unaware that in those systems (like Canada and the United Kingdom), the ruling party is referred to as ‘the government’.
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I don’t understand what you’re talking about; could you please give some sort of example, or perhaps further elaborate?
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This was the case until recently, but I believe the FAA (and some but not all other regulators) has now approved a one-to-one unleaded option (which was created some time ago, and took a long time to approve,) and it is being adopted.

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