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I like the author's datalog work generally, but I really wish his introductory material did not teach using binary join, which I found to get very messy internally as soon as you g…

The Supreme Court just made it up in the 1960s.

There's just no way to spin this as the proper workings of an elegant system of checks and balances when time and time again these decisions about federal regulatory issues or othe…

This just does not match my experience with these tools. I've been on board with the big idea expressed in the article at various points and tried to get into that work flow, but w…

> If you want speed of policymaking, you can become more authoritarian a la china or have a more elitist policymaking system like some portion of european countries I didn't realiz…

> It sounds reasonable to NOT allow just any member of the judiciary to prosecute members of the other branches, which might wreak havoc on the political process? The judiciary doe…

> The trump immunity case put forth what has always been - Presidents aren't charged without being impeached first. Can you point me to the part of the constitution describing the …

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The framers understood the concept of immunity, and in at least one instance explicitly granted it in the constitution. They did not mention anything about immunity for the chief e…

From McCormick's opinion: “Put simply, neither the Compensation Committee nor the Board acted in the best interests of the Company when negotiating Musk’s compensation plan. In fac…

Public nuisance. Don't bother trying to explain why some statutory language you googled and skimmed doesn't apply.

This misses the point. What you wrote is essentially "witness testifies defendant once shook child in their presence, child died". The magic third ingredient is that the state was …

> You could wait for the final icj decision on the case. And Google could freeze all work for and collaboration with the party plausibly accused of acts of genocide until the decis…

The International Court of Justice found that the employer's client in this case is plausibly conducting acts of genocide ( https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related…

> You don't actually need a lawyer to respond to bogus charges. Small claims court is a completely different beast, it is designed to be navigated without counsel. If you play this…

I passed the California bar exam on my first attempt (I only say this to head off cries of sour grapes), and I think this is good news. The MBE in particular is an embarrassment an…

Urweb is extremely cool. My own attempt to use it for personal projects was shut down by how isolated the server component is; I think I was trying to read a json file on the serve…

Wall Street Journal bootstraps cumrag from their "Work & Life columnist", literally begins with a dubious founder origin story. Save yourself three minutes and read something else.…

There are "right to try" laws both Federally and in 40+ states. It's unfortunate the author doesn't address those, I'm curious how they interact with his case.

At the end of the day it's not black and white, but there's a large and obvious difference in degree that would plausibly permit someone to find that one is and the other isn't. It…

The idea is that if you violate the terms of the license to develop your own model, you lose your rights under the license and are creating an infringing derivative work. If I clon…

>I have personally seen another alumni development quid pro quo, not a monetary donation, at MIT. Honestly it seems like common sense that the two are related. You're comparing app…

They actually investigate this starting on p. 115 and find no significant short-term decrease based on observations from institutions that ceased consideration of legacy status. I …

You are confused; evidence of absence is not absence of evidence. Unless you can point to a problem with the methodology, failure to discover a relationship between A and B is inde…

>I do wonder if this will have any impact on alumni donations. Wonder not. "[T]here is no statistically significant evidence that legacy preferences impact total alumni giving." ht…