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by slavboj 4y ago
The three judicial appointees can veto any selection, and are by far the most cohesive and only long-lived subgroup of that panel. In practice they run the show.
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Again, they are self-selecting. No one gets to vote on their replacements, in practice no one gets to vote on the people who vote on their replacements. It's crazy to talk about "empirically strengthening democracy" without
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If your supreme court is issuing diktats to executive agencies they are extremely part of the government. I don't know of any state where "the government" writ large doesn't assert absolute power; we are discussing the
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by slavboj 4y ago
It's oxymoronic to say that removing final authority to an unelected body that effectively chooses their own successors "strengthens democracy" in some metaphysical sense. The logical implication is that an unelected self-pe
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"Judicial review" in Israel is a unilateral and unjustified assertion of authority. It's not found in any sort of basic law and is incredibly uncommon in the kind of parliamentary supremacist unitary state (ie no tradition o
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by slavboj 4y ago
Infrastructure provides public benefits way in excess of the private benefit to the users, which is why roads have been public projects for millennia. People generally travel on roads to get somewhere and do something, and given increased
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by slavboj 4y ago
It gets the money from you, and unlike MicroGoogBook, you are absolutely obliged to be their customer.
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by slavboj 4y ago
I have heard from my tax guy about the 174/162 treatment and "new" cos vs "carrying on trade" cos and his read is that it's defensible to continue using the latter provision especially given one has actual reve
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by slavboj 4y ago
You need to talk to an actual accountant or tax lawyer. The key verbiage is "for the purposes of this section", and the language which optionally supersedes it in other sections (notably section 162) in combination with several c
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You're absolutely not required to categorize things like payroll as amortizable R&D.
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Given how the office of the surgeon general has been so obviously politicized and their recommendations based on political considerations, I am reluctant to take their advice in and of itself as evidence of anything health related. It&#x27
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Who's paying the capex on charging cycles for personal car batteries?
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by slavboj 4y ago
This is also true for authoritarian states, many of which have greater ability to impose policy shifts than democratic states.
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Indeed, failing quals doesn't define her - as you can see from her resume and works like this, it's far more important she is "an Afro-Latinx first-generation college graduate". I'm sure she will go on to enjoy imm
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The reason you don't legalize drugs is because you don't want the kind of people who engage in major drug trafficking to suddenly be granted access to legitimate political and economic power.
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by slavboj 4y ago
Unlike the entirety of the tech system, the school system is ipso facto in charge of the school system's own operation. I'm sure Altria is working real hard on a non-cancerous cigarette too.
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by slavboj 4y ago
School attendance is reliably associated with student suicide rate. We know it's causal because the association tracks random variations in the school year (snow days and make-up days, teacher strikes, differences in district calendar
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There is no such thing as a "fire proof safe". They are rated to maintain a certain temperature delta inside for a certain length of time given a fire outside. In the common situation where a house lights up and the structure co
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by slavboj 4y ago
Noncompetes should be illegal but it's a bit absurd to claim the FTC suddenly discovered they have the authority to unilaterally and retroactively modify contractual terms for tens of millions of contractors and workers - especially de
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They make money off of X% of N travelers per day stopping to buy a coffee, cigarettes etc. If you require a substantial amount of space to be taken by travelers who sit there charging for 30 minutes, you're reducing peak travelers (eg
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by slavboj 4y ago
Gas stations do not universally want cars taking up space in their parking lots for the requisite amount of charge time at a much lower expected revenue per minute than equivalent gas fillup capacity.
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by slavboj 4y ago
The Theranos board was basically a miniature Atlantic Council round table. To say Holmes had no political connections is false.
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by slavboj 4y ago
So the "conspiracy theory" is that he makes long term plans to do things that some people don't like?
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"George Soros", the physically existing human being, who publicly funds numerous foundations and electoral campaigns, is beyond the "antisemitic point of no return"?
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by slavboj 4y ago
Restaurant menu and supermarket shelf space is expensive. Yet I almost never see it purchased at anything like what would justify the frequency - it's like it's offered out of pure politeness, like a decorative menorah at a &quot
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Of course it's "asian soil", it's land where asians live and wish to continue their cultural traditions. But a very small faction of people is demanding that those cultural traditions be discarded in order to promote th
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Asinine to reduce "wealth" to "quality of middle class consumer goods available", as if a Soros or a Trump's top priority is having the most accurate wristwatch. Rockefeller was able to, for instance, insert multip
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The entire point of bankruptcy proceedings is to arrange a final resolution of outstanding claims when there aren't enough assets to cover them. Someone is going to get screwed, because the money simply isn't there, including the
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The proximal cause for a lot of people is military in origin ("send it" as slang for "fire", especially in a pseudo sniper context), and military usage probably derives from crossover with extreme sports community. &quo
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See, your job is to get accurate results because clients are paying to know if they have a problem or not. The FBI's job is to get convictions, so their lab's job is to create railroadable pseudo-evidence.

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