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I'm shocked Netflix hasn't just settled to keep this quiet, because the entire situation makes them look not only like an abusive, discriminatory employer but even worse, horrifica…

You can't have an HR policy that discriminates against people for receiving mental health treatment from a physician, that is plainly illegal under multiple statutes both federally…

Yes, it seems likely they violated California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) based on the details I have seen so far…

That is a hopelessly naive description of lobbying, to the point that I assume you are being intentionally disingenuous. Lobbyists commonly funnel money to politicians via fundrais…

I stopped cooking with nonstick pans over 15 years ago, and the only thing I've found that can consistently be a bit tricky is eggs, but really only if the pan isn't hot enough yet…

I don't get why decoupling insurance from employment isn't a bigger part of the healthcare reform discourse. It's the most obvious, easiest, lowest hanging fruit for improving the …

Every other country is responsible. But in proportion to their wealth and power, and the US is far and away the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world so we bear an outs…

> A similar dilemma faces PACER. Overwhelmingly, PACER is used by attorneys, who are generally well-compensated professionals with a whole host of protectionist policies insulating…

This analysis is almost bafflingly stupid. They conflate domain expertise with coding expertise, and then assess that people with domain expertise demonstrate great success at codi…

Literally does not work for me at all, just keeps reloading and spinning. I'm not even on my VPN. Really frustrating dealing with these things lately.

Man, I really freaking hate cloudflare bot checks. I can't even access this site, which I presume is just a few kilobytes of simple static HTML with some straightforward text conte…

That's not true. ITAR and security clearance are entirely separate regulatory regimes. For ITAR purposes, being a permanent resident is good enough. I used to work for a defense co…

Troops is almost exclusively used to refer to Army personnel in the US.

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I think warfighter crept into the lexicon for somewhat understandable reasons, likely because of the increasing frequency of joint operations (i.e., operations involving more than …

> - Do we have reasons to care about LOC in a world where we don't write code manually? What happens to token usage numbers when the codebase is significantly larger? Yes, at least…

I'm not sure about that, I actually think planning may be just as important in both domains. Outlining before drafting is an almost universal best practice in legal writing that is…

I could not agree more. A simple example: it boggles my mind how every state organizes their statutes in entirely dissimilar ways. I'm not sure there's a need for every state to ha…

I would agree with this point and as I explained in a comment replying to the GP comment above, that atrophy is far more dangerous in the legal field than it is with code because l…

IME so far (as both a lawyer and a software engineer), LLM error rates when drafting code and legal documents are reasonably comparable, but it's more problematic in the legal cont…

That's not true at all. Modern legal education has focused on plain English drafting and avoidance of arcane jargon precisely to make legal documents comprehensible to non-speciali…

The R&D tax credit change actually took effect in 2022, and one of the few good things Trump's BBB did was reverse it

I think that study is the wrong framing of the problem for identifying economic returns on AI. We don't need AI to complete tasks perfectly, just to be able to generate a good enou…

That's an asinine comparison that completely ignores the underlying economic substance of the transaction. You can't pay yourself fees from a mortgage.

Weirdly the CIA actually does require case officers to get signed receipts from their assets for payments. Whether they verify the signatures is another question...