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by stult 9y ago
Well this is pretty much exactly what I meant when I said our political discourse is "childishly uninformed." You claim that environmental remedies should be worked out between factories and local residents. Disregarding the absur
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In academic US legal theory, litigation is frequently portrayed as an efficient substitute for regulation, particularly from a libertarian perspective. Our political narratives also tend to reject regulation as government overreach or uncon
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It's not Africans, it's just people. Westerners sell each other out to foreigners too. Just look at the history of Latin America. There are just far fewer foreigners with the relative wealth to buy off whole governments in MDCs. A
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It's only their preferences that are bounding their salaries in those cases. At some point, a polite manager is worth more than X more in compensation. The type of person who becomes a top programmer tends to value being in an environm
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by stult 9y ago
That depends on your risk tolerance, though. Self-employment, especially the entrepreneurial kind, inherently has a higher risk of failure. Sure, you might win big and build a self-sustaining business that earns you a tidy living, but then
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Or it's relevant for the opposite purpose when it's a secured environment.
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Well, that exists in the form of citations. The more a paper is cited the more valued are its authors. Just as the more often a site is linked to, the higher its page rank. And since you're not dealing with massive numbers of sites wit
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by stult 9y ago
Agile doesn't work with cars because you can't deliver value incrementally by designing additional features. Producing a brake pad this week doesn't help if the chassis is still unfinished. Similarly having the entire car exc
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Our Data, Who art in the Cloud, hallowed be Thy Index, Thy Algocracy come, Thy Classification be done, in IoT as it is in the Cloud, lead us not into Underfitting, but deliver us from Anecdotal Reasoning. For Thine is the algocracy and the
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Where do they advertise?
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The issue isn't whether you can hypothetically contribute to the potential security's value but rather is whether the success of the venture depends primarily on the efforts of others. There's a lot of grey area between being
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No, because it doesn't meet the Howey test. You may buy them with an expectation of profit, but they aren't a common enterprise that depends solely on the efforts of a third person. The effort to resell is solely yours. Now if you
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That works for me too. I'm originally a lawyer and a decently competent writer and that's also how I approach papers or briefs. Writing is how I think and organize my thoughts so there's no more efficient way for me to design
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13 would be closer to the average ;) But you're right. A number of people I've spoken to about parental leave (not all of whom have been men) are skeptical of paternity leave because they largely see maternity leave as an opportun
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Well, do you happen to know how many other people are repeat buyers of similar products? Maybe a large number of buyers end up buying a second set of speaker stands because they don't like the ones they just bought or because they&#x27
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Not in the US at least. Expectation of privacy is an element of the test for determining whether a government search subject to the Fourth Amendment has occurred. As such, it only applies to government actors, not private parties like Googl
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On a related note, I hate how that Aurelius quote is always cut off. The full quotation is, "Live every day as if it were your last: without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense." The point isn't that you should go party
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As a tax lawyer who works exclusively on section 41, you're completely wrong. You should send your clients to tax consultants who know what they're talking about because you clearly do not. Section 41 is a taxpayer centric test, s
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Wouldn't salt water in toilets require two sets of pipes leading into each home? Seems like an expensive proposition unless you're building a new community from scratch.
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I can see it going either way. On the one hand, you may find people spend less time reinventing the wheel. On the other, they may lose the basic skills involved in pursuing answers to questions that aren't readily available, or even th
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by stult 9y ago
I think the author misses some of the point of the "99%" rhetoric. It's not that someone in the 98th percentile making a 6 figure salary doesn't feel well off, it's that they don't feel any control over the pol
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Just wait until you have a tweet-reading bot that picks out the items most interesting to you. Arguably, we already have that in the form of Facebook's like-driven echo chamber algorithms. But it would be nice to have a version whose p
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Well, that's not exactly a fair representation. The court found as a matter of law (not fact) that the GPL is an enforceable contract. 12b6 standards require the court to interpret the facts in the most favorable possible light for the
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Maybe it's my philosophical materialism, but I've never found that to be a satisfactory alternative explanation for anything. What can explain a psychological disorder other than underlying physical disease? Attributing a disease
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It requires a different kind of appreciation than Tolkein's other works. It's more like reading poetry than a novel. You have to focus on the sounds of the names and invented languages and the archaic and mystical feel of the arch
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The problem is when these tax expenditures become a substitute for more inclusive policies. Congress passes a tax deduction and then claims they have done something to address unaffordable tertiary education, when in fact they've only
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> (1) both sides have a decent chance of winning, or (2) one side - or both - hate each other so much that they refuse to settle. There are three other categories of cases you missed and (1) can and should be divided up further into two
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>Money is expatriated via Bitcoin from the PRC to, say, Vancouver. The point is that with a currency, people would be comfortable leaving it as Canadian dollars or US dollars. No one is OK leaving their money in hard currency. That'
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I would expect to see a surge and then a rapid drop off, but I think we've been in the surge for a while now. The surge reflects people not having faith in native Chinese markets, which has already been the case for most well-off, well
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I think you're right mostly but missing a key point. Crypto's value is inversely proportional to faith in government backed currencies in places with high internet penetration. So in the US, it's actual value is quite low bec

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