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Almost every “crazy” decision you’ve heard about in recent years comes from this one district.
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Good point. There’s no sign at all in our culture of a complete breakdown of the concept of “experts” whereby everyone with a claim of academic or positional authority uses it in service of partisan wars. Imagine how disillusioned the general public would be if something like that were to happen.
My experience is that people attack experts incessantly when it conflicts with their politics. (Think: Anti-vaxxers attacking the medical system). In my experience they may raise good points, but those are usually tangential to the matter at hand. WRT this specific expert group, is there something wrong with them? I haven't heard such but am willing to be educated. Disillusionment is easy when one accepts sweeping ge…
With Federalist Society judges?
Oh my sweet summer child.
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IMHO we already have good evidence about the harm to corporations we can expect to see by banning non-competes. California banned them in 1941 and everybody can see how no big business, especially tech businesses, want to be in California.
Not that I believe this, but it’s always possible there would have been even more economic success, and that the historical success is despite the ban not because of it.
Dumb middle managers drive out the good people in CA. It's as simple as that. If they could prevent the good people from plying their trade elsewhere, there'd be no discipline on them at all.
The question before the Court in this case was whether the FTC has the power to issue substantive rules related to unfair methods of competition. The Court concludes[0] that the FTC does not have that power, and that Section 6(g) of the FTC Act permits the FTC only to issue "housekeeping" rules related to agency organization, procedure, or practice. That follows from three main statutory and historical clues: 1) Sect…
Dupe, posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870515
> Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas The shape of everything to come. I wonder when those in the techworld will hear that little klaxon ringing in their head. “She is the first African-American woman federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Brown_(judge)
The question before the Court in this case was whether the FTC has the power to issue substantive rules related to unfair methods of competition. The Court concludes[0] that the FTC does not have that power, and that Section 6(g) of the FTC Act permits the FTC only to issue "housekeeping" rules related to agency organization, procedure, or practice. That follows from three main statutory and historical clues: 1) Sect…
Thank you for a thoughtful summary of what really happened. So many people are focused on outcomes that they would destroy the plumbing of government to get where they want to be.