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by slavboj 3y ago
When you intentionally enter an area with restricted ingress / egress like a highway in an attempt to shut it down, it's not exactly dirty pool to try to actually arrest and charge everyone involved.
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by slavboj 3y ago
The negotiation is won before the actual bid by having a better cost / payoff structure going in.
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by slavboj 3y ago
So the idea is that the DOJ is deebly goncerned that one of their political enemies du jour is not hiring the "refugees" (in most cases economic migrants) they are illegally allowing to enter the country with approximately zero sc
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by slavboj 3y ago
It almost smells like they're batching user requests together and tracking per-conversation offsets in a non threadsafe manner.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Grammarly is an extremely obvious intelligence cutout masquerading as a company. Their entire business model is getting employees insecure about their English skills to dump sensitive government and business documents into their service wi
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by slavboj 3y ago
People keep saying this I have seen no evidence that anyone at the FDA "hangs" when they approve a drug with unexpected negative outcomes.
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by slavboj 3y ago
There is this meme that Prop 13 is responsible for everything bad in California because of course we could pay for anything if we had more money. In reality the CA budget has grown faster than inflation for decades. https://www
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by slavboj 3y ago
It is extremely common to have, eg, a couple cops beating the shit out of someone, and a couple more instructing a crowd to stand back. You are within 8 feet of the latter, because they are approaching you. You will also be within 8 feet o
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by slavboj 3y ago
It's possible it's a versioning discrepancy - the language being referred to is here. Your version is "as introduced". During the committee process I believe it is possible for language to be altered before an actual v
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by slavboj 3y ago
Weirdly enough approximately 100% of the DEA's budget goes towards restricting the supply side, so this would be quite the realization for them to undertake.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Of course you're not "required to monitor", you're just also required not to be "deliberately blind". The combination of these is that you are required to maintain the capability to surveil users upon re
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by slavboj 3y ago
Was anyone pitched in 1994 that "of course we'll have to go through horrible wars for centuries but it will ultimately be worth it"?
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by slavboj 3y ago
Sounds like a pretty good argument that South Africa's previous regime should not have given up power.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Israel conducts a large amount of spying on the USA and exports a large volume of military tech to China, but for domestic political reasons the DoD likes to ignore them as a threat.
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by slavboj 3y ago
"With traditional SEC-registered financial firms, the SEC has unlimited and instantaneous visibility into every aspect of operations." That is obvious horseshit.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Name a state that doesn't have civil marriage. This is a non issue.
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by slavboj 3y ago
There is no state in the US that does not recognize a marriage by a judge or self-certified "minister" of no particular religious affiliation. There's also no requirement to be married in one's state of residence, or ev
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by slavboj 3y ago
What possible justification does Salem have for keeping their non-coastal counties as captive colonies when they clearly want to leave?
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by slavboj 3y ago
The FDA is emphatically not a democratic institution. Who exactly do I vote for if I disagree with FDA policy? Can a civil service FDA employee be fired on the grounds of supporting a particular wildly unpopular policy?
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by slavboj 3y ago
Predicting memory usage patterns can help allocation strategy - eg if you get a flood of traffic every day at 9AM you can time GC to run before the rush, and efficiently preallocate space for the objects you predict needing.
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by slavboj 3y ago
No, you have your lower-level guys coordinate transnational policy. That is the entire point of organizations like the Atlantic Council!
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by slavboj 3y ago
Look up section 162 vs 174 treatment and the distinction between "new companies" vs "carrying on a trade". It's far from unambiguous and as long as you have a defensible position you absolutely are entitled to push
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by slavboj 3y ago
Money changing hands without invoices is significantly sketchier and more difficult to accomplish.
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by slavboj 3y ago
It aligns incentives on both sides to keep the scheme secret.
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by slavboj 4y ago
Every tech conference of a reasonable size I've been to has had special events for diversity demographics. Most BigCos have recruiting resources targeted at historically black colleges, despite being unwarranted by the colleges'
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by slavboj 4y ago
And yet you would discover that most people couldn't assemble the necessary funds at once, certainly not near the beginning of their careers.
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by slavboj 4y ago
They have audited financial statements and more or less real time valuation of their assets, of course they can prove their solvency.
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by slavboj 4y ago
One way that BH has historically made good acquisitions is by taking over a company with cashflow but not enough liquidity to afford a giant tax bill - for instance on the founder's death.
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by slavboj 4y ago
You build the possibility of undercounting into your pricing.
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by slavboj 4y ago
The 3 can veto any appointment since a super majority is required for nomination, and they typically vote in unison as they are the only cohesive group on the panel due to 75 years of accreted groupthink (ie the supreme court members only

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