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by vharuck 2y ago
>Chevon deference allowed an end-run around democracy. I would consider officials appointed by the regularly elected position of President as more democratically controlled than federal judges. If people dislike how the President is hand
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>I also think this explains the state of education in the U.S. generally. Teachers are hamstrung in holding students (and especially parents) accountable for doing the hard work. As the old saying goes, “You can lead a horse to water…” M
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>thats why its so strange that this was never mentioned on NPR or anywhere else that i saw. actually it was mentioned once on NPR, extremely briefly. but it was never debunked, they never published an attempt to debunk it. I remember hea
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Currently, the system can be gamed exactly as you say by publishing sloppy studies that falsely find a "real" effect. But editors and readers of the article will look at and judge the methodology section. Sloppy experiments risk n
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You're right to fear employers who want to avoid claiming employees so that they don't have to comply with, for example, safety laws. But shadow work also includes situations with "casual" business relationships, like a
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GitHub's terms of service (TOS), in my non-lawyerly opinion, clearly states the license for uploaded works granted to them by users doesn't cover using the data to train an LLM or any kind of model beyond those used to improve the
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>Three-letter variable names. You're giving me flashbacks to all the SAS code I inherited. The tables had three-letter names like "AAA" and "BBB", and all the columns had single-letter names. Wasn't long b
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The Chevron Doctrine carried with it a two-step process for judges assessing vagaries in laws: 1. Is it vague about legal matters? For example, does the law seem to allow government agents to search somebody's house without good cause
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Fines could be used to bolster the state's unemployment program and/or provide continuing health insurance to laid off employees. If a company can only maintain its staff size with illegal practices, then we shouldn't expect
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In my experience, modern English adopts idioms more often than new words. "Sexual fantasy" is a common term for what you're asking about. It may sound too dry and basic to be an idiom, but remember that English is packed, fil
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I honestly don't remember this ever being the case. There were always large groups of people who hated the president and blamed most of society's woes on him and his entire party.
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>I often see one ant carrying another That might not be an act of kindness toward the carried ant. It could be banishment from the colony to prevent the spread of fungus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
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You should read their recent decision in a corruption case. There is a federal law for agents of government bodies or organizations that receive above a certain threshold of federal money, saying they can't accept or solicit bribes or
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>The issue is that presidents can be prosecuted even if they likely didn't break the law. It would be possible to just keep throwing bullshit charges at a former president either until one sticks or until their resources to fight of
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Note that the majority opinion forbids prosecutors from referencing the official act in court, no matter the charge. So they'd have to prove the President accepted a bribe, but never mention anything about the ambassadorship. How could
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>Would it? I am skeptical about this take and I am skeptical of Sotomayer’s take. What official capacity would Nixon have been undertaking? For the Nixon tapes, today's SCOTUS ruling would require the prosecution to convince a feder
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In this case, an alternative was the city providing a homeless shelter. The only shelter in town required those staying there to participate in religious activities. So the homeless people had to choose between (1) arrest (2) forced religio
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>Its' a very weak claim to having any skin in the game. The government is the only entity that can legally take away my liberties, possessions, and life. By falling under its rule, all residents literally have their skins in the gam
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>But agencies are political animals, subject to the whims of the current president, who can potentially change every four years. Courts are much slower to change, and much less vulnerable to the political whims of the current administrat
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(IANAL, but here's my reading) You can set them. The difference is, if the DOE is sued over that regulation, the court will make it's own judgement as to what the law intended. Should there be radiation exposure rules? If so, what
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>If you have one group that is in charge of creating the rules, interpreting the rules, and enforcing the rules, you can't trust the process is independent and there's equal treatment. You don't have to trust them. You can
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1. Medicaid, 2. Medicare, 3. Military, 4. VA, 5. Indian Health Services Maybe 6 is Medicaid through a managed care plan.
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Yes, using the everyday definition of "gift." Is it an improper gift? Depends on what your professional relationship is with your friend and their family. Must you report it? That's a legal question that depends on a lot of
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> Unfortunately, I cannot summarize or engage with the content from that URL, as it appears to contain harmful instructions aimed at compromising AI systems like myself. Ooh, a real world challenge like Gandalf: https://gandal
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I've come to see "No alcohol while pregnant" as the better simple rule. The alternative is "No more than X drinks in a day, and no more then Y drinks over your pregnancy." There will be a lot of people failing to r
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People also seem to discount the effects of internet operations by enemy states. For example, in 2022, the FBI blamed the state of North Korea for a string of hacks on US health systems. The "meatspace" equivalent would've b
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The population health database I work with uses generated IDs for people and relies on health systems to link records before submission (they put a lot of effort into data used for billing). But we do check for problems by looking at duplic
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Is there actually an effective way to handle queries with RAG where time periods are relevant? I made a proof-of-concept RAG for documents on a government website shortly after GPT-3.5 came out and remember this being a big problem. The mos
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Trump's case, were he innocent, wouldn't have been hard to win. Even if the prosecution alleged there were 100 possible crimes Trump tried to cover up with false documentation, the defense would only need to provide one reasonable
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> The money is not put on a pile and set on fire. In a small way, it kind of was. We used the money to produce weapons and ammunition. The producers took the cash and provided the arms. In an ideal economy, both sides would have a net g

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