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There was one ruling that was a lot more harsh but wound up getting overturned on appeal. On June 7, 2000, the District Court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its remedy. Accordin…

I’ve used my learning budget for music lessons on this site virtu.academy

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From the article: “The authors found studies with high-quality design, such as those which used a group of active controls – children who did not learn music but instead learned a …

Something that is not touched on in the post but the book The Color of Law touches on in depth is how single family zoning has strong racist motivations. There are many Suburban ar…

According to Wikipedia Legislation = Legislation (or statutory law ) is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body or the process of mak…

It's important to clarify. "Qualified Immunity" is NOT a law. It is judicial precedent. That means the Supreme Court made this up and courts don't go against prior rulings except i…

Curious, what books did you buy? I’ve been getting interested in this sort of thing lately.

I've thought about solving this problem with an ML approach like you all are taking but as you say never had the bandwidth because I was focusing on my "core missions". I'm no long…

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I think if 2 events are independent then you can use an eventually consistent DB like Cassandra and move on with your day. The importance of something like TrueTime arises when you…

This seems like a good resource in general for understanding how to structure and communicate your ideas e.g. preparing a slide deck

That stuck out to me as well. It kind of seems to me like they’re saying variable cost of goods sold increased

The exact same. I read the whole article but averted my eyes and quickly scrolled past all the images

Impossible Foods is a startup working on this mission. They have a really tasty product too. http://impossiblefoods.com/about/

I'm not saying I don't have beliefs, and sometimes feel that those beliefs are right compared to what other people think, but I try to recognize where things may be objective (like…

I think your last sentence gets at what I was trying to get across

Good and bad is in the eye of the beholder and what you value. Is American culture (a loaded term because American culture is the product of numerous sub-cultures) better than all …

Agreed. See this quote from the OSHA website. Under the OSH Act, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace . OSHA's mission is to assure safe and healt…

I'm curious if anyone has examples of large companies willfully funding organizations that are critical of them. Google plays a huge role in our lives, but it is also a corporation…

This is also an example of a repeated game, so over time if they maintained their strategies, investor B would own the whole company. Also depending on how the company operates, th…

Looks like a competitor to weCliq ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wecliq/id965067652?mt=8 )

Good luck guys! Think this is a step in the right direction.