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lakecresva

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    Comment #46030320

    It seems pretty obviously machine generated, and the appearance of the word "metaphysics" in the output suggests the prompt author didn't know what they were talking about to begin…

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    Comment #45788409

    If it were just the imagery I don't think this would be such a huge flashpoint relative to something like tux or octocat (the github mascot).

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    Comment #36007655

    Thanks, this doesn't address what I said at all. What I said is that Dobbs refutes the idea that the Supreme Court's authority is limited to "interpreting situations where federal …

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    Comment #36006494

    > Despite AWFUL national and international reporting on the Supreme court, their powers are actually quite limited. Their authority is restricted to interpretation of situations wh…

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    Comment #35897518

    > isn't salary dependent on job competition in the market Salary is dependent on the contents of the employment contract.

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    Comment #35897399

    What if I told you that the time and effort required to develop and deploy accurate tracking metrics for every employee's individual productivity and the negative externalities tha…

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    Comment #35823341

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    Comment #35456858

    Who are you even responding to? No one's arguing the science, they're talking about the size of the settlement relative to the corporation's financials.

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    Comment #35451822

    Does anyone actually think the trackpoint is superior to a modern trackpad like what apple is using? This seems like a fetish object with a vocal following.

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    Comment #35422640

    Sure, and their options include literally everything else on the market, including older macbooks. You're missing the point by a mile.

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    Comment #35422187

    Yes, the way consumers perceive your pricing matters. If you lose a key, you need to call a locksmith; it's rare that someone needs to buy a new apple laptop.

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    Comment #35253532

    Whoever/whatever owns the copyright to the underlying work(s) would need to sue to get the ball rolling. Current statutory law doesn't directly address copyright ownership with res…

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    Comment #35245811

    For what it's worth, the Federal Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit, and the Seventh Circuit have heard cases dealing with the GPL or some other open source license, and they all unders…

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    Comment #35244822

    > whereby the defendant is forced to share code against their will. This remedy of compelling a party to do something they agreed to do is called 'specific performance', and US cou…

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    Comment #34992362

    The entirety of IP law. I don't have to think of non-competes as patents or a way of protecting trade secrets, because patents and trade secrets have their own separate (and quite …

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    Comment #34853816

    The punitives in that case were capped; the law of the land is that punitive damages exceeding ten times compensatory damages are presumptively unconstitutional, and the judge in t…

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    Comment #34844749

    Those on the receiving end of SBF's generosity wouldn't want to send a message to future benefactors that their money won't actually get them what they want when the chips are down…

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    Comment #34844566

    > Prove that competitive pressures reduce margins and unbound risk reduces investment? Prove that any of the mechanisms you're describing are in play, in the way you claim they are…

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    Comment #34817574

    > It is better because arbitration agreements in a competitive employment market makes wages to be pushed higher or consumer prices to be pushed lower. Prove it. A very small fract…

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    Comment #34477239

    I'm still a datalog guy, but imo PRQL is indeed the nicest of the SQL family. Thanks for the hard work, and best of luck.

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    Comment #34476798

    > I understand many people do not "like" this kind of solution... Which in and of itself should be disqualifying. This would be so deeply unpopular and destabilizing that it's not …

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    Comment #34011938

    This is definitely not true.

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    Comment #33810694

    > All laws make you less free I offer the 13th amendment (US) as a counterexample.

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    Comment #33762856

    If op is affiliated with texmacs, your website (texmacs.org) is down.

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    Comment #33580147

    Hell yeah. If we can't detect all fraud all the time, we shouldn't bother trying to detect any new forms of fraud that emerge.