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>The only issue before the New York court in the disciplinary case was whether, taking as true that Donzinger tried to bribe a judge, etc., whether he should be suspended. That did…

>The only issue before the New York court in the disciplinary case was whether, taking as true that Donzinger tried to bribe a judge, etc., whether he should be suspended. That did…

>more cost-effective to use solar panels, batteries, and large scale reverse osmosis systems I can't imagine why you'd use batteries at all. Storing fresh water efficiently is chea…

I have a hard time believing that they suspended him without a hearing, describing him as an "immediate threat to public order" but they fucking did it anyway.

Norway actually does this and it's fairly effective. The ever so slight downside to this is that, while Norway's state investment fund is vastly wealthy shareholder of many compani…

>Unrealized wealth is just a number on a ledger. Be serious.

There have been a number of shareholder fights over executive pay (it is their money, after all, so it's only natural they should try to claim it). They often end up losing thanks …

>realized capital gains so, the amount of wealth they convert into yachts, but not the amount of wealth that they actually accrue which is usually many multiples of that...

>This is what the job is worth, if you want someone competent and responsible for thousands of employees and billions in revenue. Nobody is doing that for $1m/year when one wrong d…

Implementing an end to end testing framework on a badly written although heavily relied upon production system whose quality was getting steadily worse over time. It arrested and r…

Anybody who might want to back up uncommitted changes and files you can't check in to your repository? I don't do it personally, but I know people who do and it's not entirely illo…

> you’ve repeatedly talked about apartheid which is a highly inappropriate There's a wall with guard towers. I've been there and seen it myself. The existence of some 2nd class Ara…

Wirt said "I did not wanted to say its antisemetic, I wanted to say that we don't want to see either antisemetic _or_ antiisrelism" (sic) Deleting messages that express specificall…

>Don't bring geopolitics into everything. A general ban on hosting conferences in geopolitically sensitive hotspots that covered Israel would be the non-hypocritical way to achieve…

>Are you serious? There was an article on HN just yesterday about how Turkey censored Wikipedia for two years. And yet it would maximize those who would be able to attend. Both Isr…

Making the decision to host a conference in Israel in the first place is a form of political posturing, as is message censorship. If they truly wanted to be apolitical (and it appe…

I think it doesn't affect not-yet-open restaurants nearly as badly as existing restaurant owners. NRA doesn't represent the restaurant market as a whole it represents a % of restau…

>This mostly only builds trust with fellow developers. Trust is highly transitive for highly technical developer focused products though. The core of stripe's trust, even among non…

This is why the National Restaurant Association always lobbies furiously against minimum wage hikes - it will never destroy the restaurant industry but it sure as heck destroys act…

It will discourage hoarding. Unproductively using land in high value locations that are growing is currently rewarded - with asset appreciation. If it is discouraged - with taxatio…

Potentially we are if an even more polluting investment becomes more profitable and they go for that. Gas, for instance, usually emits less CO2 but emits a lot more methane, which …

>People doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is just fine. It's not laudable though.