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"We have no moat, and Congress should give us one by law"

Companies are welcome to stop increasing prices, but I'm not going to fall on my sword re salary negotiation to make a tiny contribution to stopping inflation.

I haven't tried it. The existing app works pretty well for my purposes, but I'll keep this in mind if that changes. I also have a Kindle, and the ReMarkable app is a much easier wa…

I have one, thus far their cloud service is free and hopefully will continue to be so. Every ReMarkable comes with an 8gb cloud account, which is the same amount of storage on the …

This is not how rational basis review works.

"You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."

Thanks for this, it's really useful.

It reminds me of this: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

Net neutrality is more about nondiscrimination in routing content from a provider to a user, rather than forcing content providers to serve everyone regardless of conduct. It's ent…

One thing I really like about audiobooks is that it works really well when trying to get through dense texts. Thanks to audiobooks, I've "read" Capital in the Twenty-First Century …

You might consider the Sinclair Method. https://cthreefoundation.org/the-sinclair-method You take an opioid antagonist, like naltrexone, 1 hour prior to drinking. Since drinking pr…

This is the course that set me on the path to my new career from a failed legal career. I can't be thankful enough.

It is exceedingly rare for a fine to be struck down as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. The standard as articulated by Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Texas, 212 U.S. 86 (1909) is tha…

I'd be worried that Newton would be spending an even higher percentage of his time on alchemy research than he already did, and using his reputation to push promising scientists to…

Pharmaceutical markets don't exist without government-enforced patent monopolies. The entire market is state-created, so the state should probably regulate that market to maximize …

I've given this one a lot of thought. Ordinarily, you're supposed to pay tax on the fair market value of goods and services received in return for your labor in barter transactions…

I think the court neatly avoided that question by relying on fair use rather than extinguishment of copyright as a basis for allowing the copying of the standards. A "taking" gener…

This is pretty much the basis of the common law system. We write laws defining general principles, and then let the courts sort out the specifics. We don't really know what the law…

I think this was a tactic by the defenders of IPR, rather than some deeply-held belief. We have at least four self-styled originalists (but see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

This was the crux of state regulators' arguments in Granholm v. Heald, and it failed there. From Wikipedia: "The context of the 21st Amendment, they wrote, was to return to the sta…

Interesting proposition. Anything I can read on this further?

I did. I was a shitty lawyer, though. Best decision I ever made.

In a world of hawks, it is foolish to be a dove.

Based on concepts from "The Dictator's Handbook," this is entirely logical. This 20 minute video opened my eyes to how politics works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs