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by nickff 2y ago
Because you specifically mention Alan Kay, I just finished reading “Dealers of Lightning”, which is about PARC, and says that the researchers there were very handsomely paid. IIRC, they were paid 20% more than their counterparts in ‘regular
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by nickff 2y ago
I don’t necessarily disagree with your conclusion, but legislators generally don’t make prosecutorial decisions. Prosecutorial decisions are generally made after legislation is passed, by a different branch of government.
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by nickff 2y ago
Consumer support for right to repair is broad, so long as it comes at no cost to them. People don’t want to pay to fix things, and they don’t want to accept any reduction in performance either.
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by nickff 2y ago
It’s the case with many laws when strictly applied to international activities.
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by nickff 2y ago
Lawyering is not just about knowing the law and proving facts, for an example of this, I recommend the book about Theranos: “Bad Blood”.
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by nickff 2y ago
Expressing confidence publicly just seems like a ‘stronger’ way of expressing it (as compared to doing so privately). Perhaps Automattic is trying to get WP Engine stakeholders to press for a settlement? What about this “seems crazy”?
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by nickff 2y ago
Definitely! And I’m typing in an iPhone right now! But he wasn’t a great example of “co-opetition”.
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by nickff 2y ago
Selecting a lawyer with a proven record, and expressing confidence in them are not "hinting in the direction that they think the case should be decided on quality of lawyer". They're smart strategies, whether you decide to ta
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by nickff 2y ago
Steve Jobs was famously mean, and had a 'flexible' relationship with the truth. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/5l3hys/commen...
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by nickff 2y ago
I am not sure which way this will go, but WPE's website was using the word "WordPress" in every possible way before they 'cleaned it up' a few days ago. I am not sure whether it was trademark infringement, but they
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by nickff 2y ago
> ” If you offer someone a contract, they stall for a few months, and you show up at their house with gasoline and a match and threaten to burn their house down if they don't agree to sign the contract, you're guilty of extorti
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by nickff 2y ago
Perhaps the government should make it a bit easier to go public, rather than restricting every other option. The SEC and FTC seem to be all-stick, no carrot.
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by nickff 2y ago
Graves generally aren't permanent; most plots are leased for a fixed term. What is done with the caskets and contents thereafter varies widely.
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by nickff 2y ago
Arthur Andersen went under after its accounting negligence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen A few food companies have failed due to poor quality control: https://www.thestreet.com/retail
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by nickff 2y ago
Do you think WordPress is diluted? It definitely doesn’t seem to generically refer to blogging or website building software. It seems to me that even WP Engine isn’t diluting it, they’re hijacking it.
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by nickff 2y ago
Wordpress is using their trademark though… do you mean to say that you must enforce a trademark to keep it? That’s different, and a subject of some controversy; I’m not sure that it’s been decided conclusively. Please correct me if I’m wron
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by nickff 2y ago
Out of curiosity, I looked at WP Engine's website, and counted thirty uses of "WordPress" (before I stopped counting), as well as at least a few uses of "WooCommerce". I am only casually following this dispute, but
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by nickff 2y ago
It seems like an impasse caused by the first amendment, which does not distinguish between "personal" and "commercial" activities. I suppose there could be another amendment to add in these categories, but the freedom of
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by nickff 2y ago
Recording things is generally interpreted as a form of speech. For example, recording police officers in public is speech. If the government can ban private parties from recording people's faces in public, the same could be done to pre
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by nickff 2y ago
Looks like they’ve been paying out healthy dividends for about ten years now https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/intc/dividend-... They also had a stock split in 2000, and I’m not sure the parent co
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by nickff 2y ago
It seems like the purpose was to disable enemy combatants, and prevent those combatants from striking Israel; which would be a legitimate and targeted strike. Your phrasing makes it seems like the explosives were targeted at damaging the re
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by nickff 2y ago
The issue on the other side is that the FAA has no incentive to move quickly. There is no negative consequence to FAA officials if they sit at their desks, shuffle papers around (with minor revisions or changes in approvals in each draft),
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by nickff 2y ago
Hezbollah is already willing to shoot rockets at civilian targets; an attack like this is much more carefully-targeted than their average strike.
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by nickff 2y ago
I am not disputing the propriety of the confiscation (in the parent comment); that is a separate matter.
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by nickff 2y ago
This seems more like a confiscation than a payment; you might argue that’s a semantic difference, but it’s more clear.
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by nickff 2y ago
Not parent, but it’s a term of art https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-critical_feminism
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by nickff 2y ago
According to this source, NYT Opinion is "Left", and NYT News is "Lean Left", and I think their ratings seem relatively well-calibrated: https://www.allsides.com/blog/see-our-updated-bias-rating-ab..
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by nickff 2y ago
They've suffered a massive contraction in revenue and already had to cut back hugely; you're ignoring that, and focusing on the bounce-back.
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by nickff 2y ago
Perhaps the NYT isn't left-wing in a global context, and it is likely centrist in New York City, but it is definitely to the left of the median US voter. They're probably anti-union in this case because they're on tenuous fin
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by nickff 2y ago
Maybe; depending on their age, the content of the product page (videos, comparisons, etc.), delivery time, and the rate at which those who see the listing purchase it (after searching funda). I am guessing that Amazon uses some sort of Baye

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