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by rprasad 14y ago
An alternative way to look at it: When you use technology to do things in ways your content producers don't understand, they respect technology less. Eventually, they fight back, even if the technology does improve their situation. Lesson?
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It's worse than that: in the UK, some statements are libel even if they are proven true, simply because the damage to reputation is so great that the truth of the statements is irrelevant if the facts were not public knowledge prior to pu
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As usual, TechDirt completely fudges the facts in favor of mob justice. Nothing to see here, folks.
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If only they had built it with two thousand and one factors of authentication! Joking aside, once you start down the road to two-factor authentication, you might as well go to three factors if you are truly concerned about security. Moreov
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[Reply to the dead comment; you need to be logged in witht showdead to see it.] Benefits in kind does not refer to work equipment, since those aren't things you get to take with you--the company owns that stuff, you just get to use it. Ben
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Uh huh. Sure they did. And I'm the Jolly Green Giant. This guy hasn't had problems in the past vocalizing his issues with the police and their alleged misdeeds. Why did he wait several months to make this claim if it actually happened?
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Because...magic. And fairy dust. And nobody who uses a laptop could possibly be cool. It's not a great device for making music. It's an adequate device mostly used by hipsters (and I use that term offensively) to look cool, sort of like h
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Because good editors and typesetters cost money, just like good programmers and designers. The marginal cost of printing a book is in the pennies because the cost is spread out over millions of books (across multiple titles). Materials o
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Plenty of M&A lawyers bill $1000/hour. Hell, Big 4 accountants who handle M&A bill $1000/hour and get away with it. You're right, even BigLaw lawyers generally don't charge 4 figures an hour. But M&A is a special beast. Whe
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Keto diets are faster than normal diets and prevent muscle distrophy. He's not following a keto diet. Note that both keto diets and starvation mode diets cause cardiovascular stress (though for keto diets, this is only an issue if you have
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Really? The posted link contains all of 3 studies. One of those studies involves a single individual and the other study is a meta-study which contains no actual data at all. ("Meta-study" is a fancy scientific word meaning "find studies
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It sounds exactly like a starvation diet; you can't lose 1 lb/day without losing massive amounts of muscle. You haven't noticed the muscle loss yet b/c the body prioritizes the breakdown of unused/minimally used muscles. But if you keep t
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He's not in ketosis; he's in starvation mode. He's losing massive amounts of muscle as a result of this diet, which is why he is losing so much weight. He's also losing fat, but not as efficiently as he would in a normal diet. If he keep
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Holy cow. If CheddarApp justifies a $1000/hour rate, then good programmers could easily justify $100k/hour or better. Lawyers who handle multimillion dollar deals can justify $1000/hour. Security specialists can justify $1000/hour. Some
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At the state level, yes. *But not at the federal (U.S.) level. These distinctions matter.
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The honest services fraud statute was struck down earlier this year...
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That is because prison is not the punishment for most of those offenses. Before you say shit about the U.S. judicial system, you should learn something about it. SEC and FTC violations are civil offenses . The punishment for civil offe
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There are plenty. They do not advertise open positions because that always results in a flood of applications that overwhelms their ability to scrutinize the applicants. Find someone in the U.S. who is in the django market, and get to know
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The hacker rage is misplaced. The student is in the wrong . This is not a story of a bureaucracy run amok; this is a story of a student exploiting a university computer system and causing technical problems with their back end. TL;DR: st
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Using that logic, no hacker should ever work with Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Airbnb, Craiglist... Athletes don't care about the management of the IOC. They compete in the Olympics to compete against the best
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A lot of the professional athletes from my school use their positions to help fund (and/or run) nonprofits across the state of California. Some of them run nonprofits that benefit refugees in Africa. Others fund medical clinics in Southea
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Second-chairing trials was the most lucrative work. This mostly involved helping the primary attorney on the matter with pretrial hearings, jury selection, presentation of evidence, and cross-examination of expert witnesses. Courtroom appea
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by rprasad 14y ago
After graduating in the middle of Lawmageddon, craiglist was very useful in finding jobs. I managed to cobble together enough work through Craiglist to start paying off my student loans and gas. If I'd kept at it for an entire year, I cou
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People overestimate the opportunities for Yale graduates too. I've received resume from Yale and Harvard grads for legal-related unpaid internships. The problem is not an oversupply of lawyers; there are just about enough lawyers to satisf
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Indeed, I now may make in legal-related market than I would as a lawyer doing the same work. It's very bizarre... Worse (well, not from my perspective), I work fewer hours than any lawyer I know but make more than all of them except for th
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tl;dr: whine, whine whine.
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People already do that by moving into the city, esp. NY, SF, and CHI. (People moving to LA buy more cars...) Taxis are disproportionately located in cities because that is where they make the most money (largest customer base). Making tax
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You've got the right conclusion but the wrong reasoning. Non-inventory sales result in taxable gain if the sale price exceeds the seller's "adjusted basis" (i.e., tax-adjusted cost) in the item sold. For personal property that isn't subje
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In academia, quotes and excerpts are cited . They can be verified. Many publications do verify (at least a random selection of) the citations in an article they are publishing.
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In a traditional hydroelectric generator, yes. Norway has the advantage of numerous, steep cliffs and waterfalls. It is my understanding that the Norwegian HEG's are placed in the middle of the waterfalls, so that no dam is necessary...

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