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by woofie11 6y ago
For the most part, complaints are handled through the Bar. Unless something is a press-worthy scandal, they are promptly ignored by most Bars. The goal is to protect lawyers, not clients. A press-worthy case hurts lawyers. Normal scams are,
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by woofie11 6y ago
Have you ever tried filing a misconduct compliant with a bar association? You'll get just about as far as a police violence compliant with the local PD. The bar is there to serve the lawyers, like any guild or union. For the most part,
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by woofie11 6y ago
The way real lawyers are unethical and the way TV lawyers are unethical is completely different. Real lawyers will mostly do things like inflate hours, inflate conflicts, exaggerate expected outcomes, and generally blow things up so as to m
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by woofie11 6y ago
I know a lot of lawyers. Most lawyers in law firms are just as unethical just as often as their reputation suggests. There are high-integrity lawyers out there, and if you find one, cling onto them. They're out there, but they're
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by woofie11 6y ago
For those of us too lazy to think this through, do you care to post an explanation?
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No one is extending anything. It's a term in economics and in public choice theory. The short definition is "seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth." In this context, "creatin
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by woofie11 6y ago
It absolutely is the definition of rent-seeking. That doesn't make it bad. If I wrote a book, government grants me a limited monopoly on production of that book, and I can collect rent (in an economic sense) from anyone who wants to re
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by woofie11 6y ago
Fear is a good reaction to limited information! If COVID19 has a 15% chance of leading to a million people on long-term disability, that justifies a lot of precautions. You can phrase that as a mathematical equation, where you sum up the ou
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I'm not quite sure that was fearmongering, so much as people operating from limited information. It's reasonable that people will make mistakes.
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I would argue collaboratively editing documents is by far the most common and interesting use case, followed by presentations. You seem to have an odd, complex workflow which is representative of 0.001% of the population. I'm glad Exce
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by woofie11 6y ago
Office has more functionality, without a doubt. File compatibility, privacy/compliance/security, and functionality are key reasons to use it. Google Docs, on the other hand, the things it does, it does well: 1) Works reliably and
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by woofie11 6y ago
Yes. Microsoft Office is dramatically better than Google Docs in terms of privacy. I hate using Office 365 with a passion. The usability is horrible. Google Docs is much more pleasant. But in any environment where privacy or security matter
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by woofie11 6y ago
You can properly control a dSLR or mirrorless. You can determine exact aperture, field-of-view, exposure, etc. That's helpful if you're doing any sort of machine vision. Webcams have more controls than normally exposed, but you st
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by woofie11 6y ago
<sarc> Yes. Very much special treatment: "we hope that Apple will also make these options equally available to all iOS developers" </sarc> Epic seems to be fighting the good fight against a company abusing market
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by woofie11 6y ago
The GOTO approach is better, so long as the FSM is abstracted away. An FSM implemented as GOTOs is great. An FSM + state internals implemented with GOTOs is a disaster. You don't want to mix the FSM with the internals of the states. Fo
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by woofie11 6y ago
It seems like that perhaps makes it more likely everyone will want to settle quickly. Settlement money shouldn't be subject to a clawback, so Revlon comes out ahead. And a clawback doesn't help Citi either -- they're out the
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by woofie11 6y ago
Let me walk you through how this plays out. Lawyers from Brigade and Citibank calculate Brigade's odds of winning. Let's say both sides agree it's 5%. That means the expect returns on litigating this are $8.75 million to Brig
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by woofie11 6y ago
Which ones? I only skimmed the case, but it looked like market power would suffice. In either case, the standard legal approach is to throw the kitchen sink of claims, to see which ones stick. Most claims get rejected by the courts, but if
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by woofie11 6y ago
Did you read the link you just posted? Seriously. It clearly states what I said, and contradicts what you said. As per YOUR LINK, you don't need a monopoly for antitrust; just "the ability to raise prices above those that would be
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by woofie11 6y ago
Antitrust doesn't require a monopoly.
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by woofie11 6y ago
A one-sided agreement containing a retaliation clause, followed by exercising that clause, is retaliation. Say you're desperate and need water in a crisis, and I offer you some, but only if you sign an agreement which gives you water,
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by woofie11 6y ago
... and if you get to the very end of the map, with everything clear, and find you need to flag the bombs, do you take the risk? That's the user experience.
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by woofie11 6y ago
This clearly and unambiguously crosses the line into abuse of market power. Apple's actions before? Maybe? Sort of? Apple needed that 30 percent cut to monitor for fraud and quality or something, going above-and-beyond other payment pr
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by woofie11 6y ago
Assuming you're not on e.g. Mac with one mouse button. Or mobile, with touch.
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I liked the metagame here of guessing the guess which would make the rest of the puzzle as solveable as possible. P.S. Document how to flag mines in the text (ctrl-click)
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To the extent that wearable computers in the nineties, large graphic calculators, or calculator watches became a status symbol..... This is big, bulky, ugly, but incredibly practical for people who want to get stuff done.
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by woofie11 6y ago
Anywhere where one might use two windows on a computer: * Seeing two pages of a book * Looking up something on the internet while videoconferencing * Looking up something in a textbook in a web browser while reading a book * Same as above,
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by woofie11 6y ago
Well, there's a few possibilities: * They'll sell dozens, and everyone will give up. * They'll sell dozens, iterate a few times, and I'll have a nice device. * They'll sell dozens, someone else will iterate, and I&#
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by woofie11 6y ago
In a large, unconfined space, I would also not want to rely just on masks. It's a public health issue. If I've reduced the odds of catching COVID19 by even, say, 30%, that's an incredible impact on how much COVID19 spreads, f
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by woofie11 6y ago
* Aerosol COVID risk is basically proven, but we don't know if it is a major mode of spread. It does seem to be related to superspreader events. * Deployment of air purifiers would be a trivial expense relative to any other economic ha

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