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If you wanted to pass the refund on wouldn't the most sensible way be to pass it on to the two supermarkets since they were the actual buyers from you? If the supermarket that raised prices wants to pass that on to their 1000 buyers th
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The importer pays directly. There are three ways the importer can deal with the burden of that. In most cases it will be a combination of all three of them. 1. Raise the price they sell the imported item for. 2. Eat it. 3. Lower the price t
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Wait...how do we know there was no such memo? We have no reason to believe that if such a memo exists it was used improperly, but I don't see how we could know there is no such memo. BTW you've got an extra Justice on the Supreme
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> Now they stand to make huge returns of 3 to 5x for being correct on that bet, while, of course, consumers get nothing. Even if they hadn't made that bet were consumers going to get anything? The refunds would go to whoever directl
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The Supreme Court has not ruled on this issue. An appeal of a lower court's ruling on this issue was appealed to the Supreme Court but the Supreme Court declined to accept the case. The Supreme Court has "original jurisdiction&quo
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Did they eventually remove/replace all the LGPL code?
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They originally were going to build their first plant using this technology starting in 2018 in China, but that got killed by the first Trump administration.
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The only penalty for violating this law is that if someone is injured by your chatbot giving bad advice they can sue you for the actual damages they suffered, and if your violation of the law was willful they can also sue for attorney fees.
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> Isn't software engineering "engineering" too? No. FTA:>> Important nuance: "engineering" here means New York Education Law Article 145 professions (professional engineering, land surveying, and geology),
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> Copyright, patents, censorship, age controls etc... have never worked on kids. What the heck does it even mean to say patents have never worked on kids?
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That seems overly restrictive. Consider this scenario: 1. Romeo and Juliet meet when they are teens. They are not step-relatives. They develop a romantic relationship, which their parents disapprove of. 2. The maintain their relationship, w
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You'd probably have the rising cost issue no matter what had happened, because that problem affects pretty much all first world health care systems. The US is way more expensive than others, but the ratio of US costs to the costs of ot
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Here's is what Carr is asking: > That is why I am inviting broadcasters to pledge to air programming in their local markets in support of this historic national, non-partisan celebration. As an example, this could include: > • Ru
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>> "The Pledge America Campaign enables broadcasters to lend their voices in support of Task Force 250 and the celebration of America’s 250th birthday by airing patriotic, pro-America content that celebrates the American journey
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Several countries with universal healthcare use the "you have to buy private insurance" model, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland. There doesn't seem to be anything inherently wrong with that system. ACA has survived 12
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That's a ridiculous comparison. The California special redistricting was done via a voter initiative that was approved by a majority of California voters, and imposes a temporary change on the rules for drawing districts that reverts t
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Almost all NIST research is published in publicly available reports and journals and proceedings. If there is some research the US wants to keep away from foreigners they don't do it at NIST.
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Generally the coldest part of the day is just after sunrise. The warmest part of the day is typically in the early afternoon, around 1-4 pm. This makes a few driving hazards more likely or more intense in mornings, including fog, sleet, and
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> The US decided (and Canada followed) that daylight time was more correct for the larger portion of the year, presumably it's easier to transition the remaining 4mo to daylight than it is to move 8mo to standard. How is transitioni
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In addition to the reason already given (kids get home before the evening traffic picks up), another reason is that generally driving conditions are worse in the morning than they are in the evening so if there isn't enough light for b
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Below are the items from that section. How should they be written to not look like an AI? > hollance/neural-engine — Matthijs Hollemans’ comprehensive community documentation of ANE behavior, performance characteristics, and support
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The idea of voter ID is fine. The problem in the US is the implementation. Those other countries have national ID systems and are good at making sure everyone gets an ID. In the US there is no national ID. There are state IDs but a signific
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> The irony is that almost every single one of the countries these foreigners come from would do exactly the same thing were the shoe on the other foot. I'm having a hard imagining Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Norway, Swi
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> A significant component of the price gap is indeed subsidy. It would be foolish to say otherwise. It's $4700 of a $9000 price gap and thats not nothing. The article says the subsidies are 5% of $4700 [1]. [1] "The February 19
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The number needed for a study to get significant results depends on the strength of the effect it is measuring. For example if I have a bag full of thousands of coins, pull out 19 at random and flip them sequentially, and they all come out
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This study wasn't big breakfast vs light/no breakfast. It was high fiber big breakfast vs high protein big breakfast. (And no, this comment was not written by an LLM).
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The cheapest and easiest way to minimize liability is not to collect any information not needed to actually provide the service you are providing.
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The military uses a lot of open source software. It would be interesting if the maintainers of several projects the Pentagon depends on were to start using Claude on those projects. How would Hegseth explain that it is both such a big risk
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That's just wrong. At most it requires the DoD to require that contractors do not use it on the work for the DoD.
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> It's a logical mistake to say that because an extremely motivated person can still cause harm somehow that implies no regulation or policy can have any positive impact anywhere That kind of mistake is common here, but I don't
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