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Live in Canada and work remotely into the US. Been doing it for the last 6 years...

"On the reason for the early publication, Prof Martin said it was related to the software the OBR chose to publish to its website, which was more suitable for a small or medium com…

I entirely agree - I have a 30 year career in STEM and am now a senior software architect at a $5b company. I also read, write and speak classical Latin at an advanced (almost flue…

As the above comment indicates, I guess I may be arguing with ChatGPT, but if it's broke, fix it, don't get rid of it.

Strikes me as victim blaming and misses the point. Humanities are critical to society and have been for many thousands of years. Getting rid of the department because of "glum" peo…

> I've found that asking AI tools to generate a changeset in this case is actually a pretty solid way of starting to learn the mental model. This. Leveraging the AI to start to dev…

> I've heard that few can speak Latin 'correctly', because the skill is almost useless Not useless at all - speaking Latin helps you to better appreciate both prose and poetry. Und…

contra proferentem - a rule in contract law that states any ambiguity in a contract should be interpreted against the party that drafted it

It is absolutely Matt tweeting.

Dying broke is the optimal way to die. The definition of broke could be the residual after the planned distributions to heirs. Or if no heirs, dying flat broke makes the most sense…

There still are massive levels of racism particularly in policing and the justice system. Kids are still dying - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/seven-youth-inque...

Like the senior boys at the schools being taken out in the middle of the night to dig graves...

The Churches are refusing to release the records.

Best intentions? Not even close - horrible racism and genocide. In many cases it wasn't disease, they were malnourished, and and in some cases beaten to death.

Yes corrected to read "persuasive" (phone auto-corrected). Non-binding precedent is still precedent. And as you've said, in the absence of an higher court opinion to the contrary, …

...and you've gotten the legal definition wrong. That precedent only applies to appellate court decisions is not true. There's persuasive precedent applies amongst courts of the sa…

Same love.

And cue the separate, but equal, rhetoric (...longer sigh). That same sex marriage, isn't a new style of relationship, and that civil unions could never provide the same "privilege…