neekburm

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by neekburm 3y ago
"We have no moat, and Congress should give us one by law"
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by neekburm 4y ago
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.
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by neekburm 6y ago
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 way to get content onto the device than the process
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by neekburm 6y ago
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 device. Hopefully this doesn't change, because it'
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by neekburm 6y ago
This is not how rational basis review works.
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by neekburm 6y ago
"You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
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by neekburm 7y ago
Thanks for this, it's really useful.
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by neekburm 7y ago
It reminds me of this: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
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by neekburm 7y ago
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 entirely reasonable for a site to discriminate who they wi
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by neekburm 7y ago
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 , which I attempted in text form but got bor
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by neekburm 7y ago
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 produces endorphins, which are blocked by th
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by neekburm 7y ago
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.
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by neekburm 8y ago
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 that the fine must be "so grossly excessive as to amount t
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by neekburm 8y ago
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 do the same.
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by neekburm 8y ago
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 benefits to the citizens of that state.
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by neekburm 8y ago
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. However, East Wind is incorporated as a 501(d) o
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by neekburm 8y ago
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" generally requires the government to deprive the owner
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by neekburm 8y ago
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 is until we have some court cases about it. The court
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by neekburm 8y ago
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.cfm?abstract_id=1422048 ) on the Court
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by neekburm 9y ago
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 status quo that existed before Prohibition, making it
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by neekburm 9y ago
Interesting proposition. Anything I can read on this further?
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by neekburm 9y ago
I did. I was a shitty lawyer, though. Best decision I ever made.
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by neekburm 9y ago
In a world of hawks, it is foolish to be a dove.
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by neekburm 10y ago
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
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by neekburm 10y ago
>The Russians can any day drop their margins and put SpaceX out of business. This is an argument I haven't heard before. Any sources I can read up on to learn more?
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by neekburm 10y ago
What do you call a wumao in the U.S.? A fifty-center? Let's just call him a wumao.
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by neekburm 10y ago
I'm really surprised that piracy hasn't been pushing them to more a more reasonable price point, like file sharing did with music. When I went back to school, almost every single one of my textbooks was available in some pirated f
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by neekburm 11y ago
"Unfortunately, VMware has explicitly asked for the filings not to be published and, accordingly, Conservancy has not been able to review either document." Anyone more familiar with German law that can explain this to me? Normally
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by neekburm 11y ago
You're thinking of Lucy v. Zehmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_v._Zehmer
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by neekburm 12y ago
If you're going to lawyer up, I'd delete this post. No need to invite counterclaims of defamation (not that they'd necessarily succeed, but no sense in poking the bear). Contact an attorney and follow his/her advice.

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