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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
gotcha. Thanks for the reply.
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Sorry, not familiar with CA politics ... is the subtext here that a land-value tax would be impossible without a constitutional amendment? Or that California already enacted a 1% ad valorem tax in the 70s? From what I can tell, Prop 13 seem
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
>I'm not entirely certain that the role these bots are performing wouldn't be better served by a large stationary robotic arm This was my reaction, though I suppose it's a capability-demonstration video. Would think in un
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
>doing local tax collection authorities' work for them isn't exactly Airbnb's responsibility. Not by default, sure, but nothing prevents a local government from creating a law that says, "where an organization takes c
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Not sure if OP meant it seriously or sarcastically, but the pro-campus housing argument runs: * being collocated with other students provides an academic safety net for the underprepared (it's easier to get your neighbor to explain phy
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Not OP, but given the context, it seems OP is using infrastructure to mean "all prerequisites to doing ML/data analysis work." Some of that (e.g. datawarehousing, etc.) is easier to outsource; other parts (data acquisition fr
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Looks like it may have been from the EFF based on this comment: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/eligibli...
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
The excessive fines clause hadn't, probably in no small part because states would argue "this is a reasonable fine" rather than "we're allowed to give unreasonable fines." I believe cruel and unusual punishment
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
To name a couple in the legal context specifically: * under the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a civil plaintiff who doesn't show up to trial has their case dismissed for failure to prosecute [0][1] * a claim of malicious prosecu
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
In defense of parent comment, I think this is actually a correct usage. As a verb, 'prosecute', doesn't necessarily imply criminal action, just pressing a claim. The first definition per Google is "institute legal procee
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Not parent commenter, but the common argument is that for the class of service jobs where the employee's role is to interface with the customer and provide them a service, customers are in a better position to assess the employee'
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
>You realize that since 2-3 years it is now standard legal practice to make sure deciders don't know the details of important decisions. What leads you to believe this? You mention a specific time period as if there is some event t
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Oh, great. Out of fairness to OP, the "withheld" wording was used in the source article, but think this title is probably clearer.
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Leaving aside the merits of the underlying claim, the word "withheld" in the article's title seems a little misleading. I'd normally think of withholding wages as refusing to hand out paychecks which had been agreed upo
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
> It's unlikely this ruling will be upheld since providing biometrics to unlock a phone is difficult to construe as 'testimony' Agreed, feels like this rises and falls with the forced blood draws issue that was decided in
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Gotcha, so it's an effort to close a "run the game on the server, stream video back and forth, and don't pay for client-side licenses" loophole? I'm surprised to hear that's a scalable model and the terms do se
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
>It was 4 consoles fighting for attention around that time: Sega Dreamcast Nintendo 64 Microsoft Xbox Sony PlayStation 2 Yes and no. N64 was 3 years earlier. PS2 was a full year later, Xbox/Gamecube were two years later. I've
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Not OP, but i imagine it would face political pressure in the US. Farms take up more land than penthouse apartments, but likely have less ability to pay. You could pass the costs on to customers, but then you're advantaging food import
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
It's making a real comeback as the online options and apps have gotten better. Check out LiChess or chess.com. You can find a live match in seconds for shorter time controls or play 1 day per move if you don't want blitz. It mak
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
I suspect it would have gotten more press coverage if caruana hadn't switched from playing for Italy just a couple years ago and if he'd been favored. Without an "all American boy" or "next Bobby Fischer" in t
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Any idea where I can read the opinion? I know they won a preliminary injunction, which LinkedIn challenged in the 9th Circuit in march '18, but hadn't heard anything since then.
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
I inferred the same and was quite excited to see the results. In fact, it seems they just asked people about hugs they received generally, without distinguishing between consensual and non-consensual hugs. Classic case of popular science re
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
What makes them incomparable, in your view? The medium in which it's recorded? The ease with which it's recorded by Spotify? That the recording task is done in a different system than the client-server interaction? That Spotif
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
>It's easy to say that the money in my bank is my property, even where it is in the care and custody of a third party, so by that argument, Gorsuch's property argument gives me more privacy protections for non-warranted searche
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
That's one possible explanation. A more charitable, and frankly, reasonable explanation would be that Gorsuch places high priority on limiting government power through to take private property and thinks of many problems through that l
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
> I can't help but think that college admissions based solely on test scores [...] might be the least unfair way to judge applicants. Intentionally provocative question: is "least unfair" the right goal to solve for in col
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Am i missing the article? All i see on the link is a blurb repeating the question and a call to action to sign up for a newsletter. (On mobile)
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
It would be interesting to see on a % of US/global population basis. The country colors get much brighter from the 70's on, making it tough to distinguish the effects of recent immigration trends from the global population growing
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
Yes, sorry. My goal was to lay out the parade of horribles on the other side of the case to illustrate why the question was being asked at all. You're right that IPR is judicially reviewable and I'd agree that my example would pro
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by perpetualpatzer 8y ago
That's a fair summary of the finding (and I would contend, the major issue in this case). The counter-argument that might lead one to disagree with this decision is that the Patent Office reports to the President, so it is subject to t

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