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It may be how companies assess risk, especially family-owned businesses, which is probably why it's remained in tort law.
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One of the principles of tort law is that the penalty should account for the likelihood of getting caught. If your nuclear power plant melts down, punitive damages will be low, since there's no way you could have ever covered it up, an
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All barriers are deterrents. Whatever crime you committed, the authorities are going to be equally or less likely to arrest you if doing so is more expensive and more difficult. They'll spend billions or trillions to get Osama Bin Lade
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by qq66 9y ago
Deliberate practice is VERY different from "doing the thing." For example, there are plenty of people who take thousands of photographs and only get marginally better with each photo taken, because they simply take the photograph
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Microsoft has tremendous resources, it's definitely costlier to build a great desktop UI than a great Web UI (but the great Eat desktop UIs are always better).
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The foolproof way of extending battery life, which is to make the phone thicker, has been roundly rejected by the marketplace (and there are many benefits to limiting the number of models, so most manufacturers won't make an "exte
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I would like to see the organizers of these scams executed, and given the nature of their crimes and their victims, I do not personally believe that this would be cruel or unusual punishment. I know that the Supreme Court would disagree wit
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Gold wouldn't have this role if there was not substantial consumer and industrial demand for it.
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It's much worse for me now that I have a kid. I of course categorically refuse to buy any kids products from third-party sellers on Amazon, and Amazon provides no good way of filtering them out, so I have started to drive to Target muc
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"Stop trying to make the meal-kit-by-mail business happen. It's not going to happen." Meal kits are going to be a big business. But they're going to come from your grocery store, your office cafeteria, or Amazon. That&#x
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This is mostly due to employee demand (although some employees are very angry about it).
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> I rarely see doctors, lawyers, or most professions engaging in their practice outside work as a hobby That's more because it's hard to engage in medicine or law outside of an institution, which makes it hard to hobby with on
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The idea that someone who brought so much bad publicity to their employer and to themselves, regardless of how, could ever stay employed by that company is completely ridiculous.
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The role of the assistant is to help the assisted realize his or her goals. In your own work, you can do whatever you want. Sachs is saying only that when you are working as his assistant, focus on implementing his ideas instead of yours.
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Did you listen to the podcast "Crimetown?"
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Sure, if you can maintain comprehension. It's a combination of 1) most audiobooks are narrated very slowly so that people have no trouble comprehending them, and 2) audio speedup algorithms have gotten really good.
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Not to mention, cabbies are often socially, ethnically, and even often genetically connected with each other, making the penalties for noncompliance high. If you're spotted driving when you're supposed to be boycotting for a surge
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by qq66 9y ago
Most of these articles about broadband access conflate Internet access with broadband speeds. Yes, Internet access is basically a necessity in modern life. However, 25Mbps download (which is the definition used) is absolutely not.
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When you use a VPN can your OS update request be used to de anonymize you? I would think that Microsoft or Apple would get a request saying "the OS running on this machine with activation token 0xfe875c56a788d0 is checking for an OS up
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The risk of getting hit by a 14-year-old kid is obviously less than the risk of getting hit by one of the hardest-hitting 26-year-olds in the world, but the rewards are also less. Many Hall of Fame-level NFL players have said that the glory
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by qq66 9y ago
Each contract is individual, but generally, endorsement contracts have a lot of termination clauses, so Bose could and will end the deal soon, unless Urschel's brand is so unique (MIT math PhD and NFL player? Nothing like it) that they
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There is a camaraderie born only of shared violence that seems to be expressed by football players, soldiers, mobsters, that might be hard to replicate in volleyball. I can't claim any firsthand knowledge of it however.
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I find the iPhone to be one of the most usable pieces of technology ever made. I've seen 2-year-olds and 80-year-olds acquire mastery of it in a day. iTunes, on the other hand...
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When Isaac Newton was old, he used to give his visitors a lock of his hair in a small gold case, because he knew, and they knew, that they would be museum pieces one day. He was right, I saw one of them in a museum. I don't think any l
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When economic power begets political power, the state's justice molds to the needs of those with money. Thus, Purdue Pharmaceuticals executives who knowingly misled doctors about the medication OxyContin, causing the explosion of opiat
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Maybe they should be criminal. Too many people are allowed to buy their way out of consequences that would actually harm them.
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Part of the problem is that the penalties for doing this are usually just civil. I imagine people's behavior would be very different if the next person who manufactured an allegation to attack a business competitor got a twenty-year (o
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"Show barely any progress" and "show barely any progress to the public" are very different. I don't have any inside information here, but a lack of public announcements is not proof of anything.
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Yes, but because human knowledge is so much greater than it was 100 years ago, a given lifetime of work is able to push knowledge forward less. Yes, we still have CRISPRs and other titanic discoveries, but even those are collaborations. The
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Not all H1B is "low end"." There is H1B use and there is H1B abuse. They are not comparable. I work with some extraordinarily talented people on H1B visas who would absolutely not have an US replacement if they were not here.

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