throwaway_law

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by throwaway_law 7y ago
The pension are presumably insured to cover their negligence and liabilities...including failure to properly notice employers/members of the fund in breach of their duty to do so, which resulted in damages. Otherwise it comes directly
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>If the pension didn't do their duty to warn businesses of the deficit in 2005, it should be on their heads to fund the deficit The irony is the Pension claimed they couldn't notice the employers at the time (which would have g
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
a Job isn't the only benefit of an education...an education is a benefit in and of itself. Society benefits from having an educated public. Society does not benefit from being in debt. Your logic is as follows: if college degree does
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Even if you forgive all of the student loans and make college free, people still won't find jobs based on college. Having educated unemployed people is bad yes, but its an infinite improvement on millions of educated unemployed peo
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
I know its unfair and maybe even disparaging, especially my suggestion they would seed their own thing with bots...but the reality is the social network/SV startup well has been poisoned and so it would be my (our) own fault not to app
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>They're selling people a solution to loneliness. I'll one up you, they are selling hope. Odds are this will be seeded with a bunch of bots, and these lonely people may or maynot get some sense of temporary relief thinking the
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>OK, so when the reporter specifically asks him if he'd drink the water in front of him, what's his least bad option? Probably to laugh and say instead of "trying the water" he will see the water is sent to a lab for
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>If your best answer is "We are adding diversity to the marketplace", then you're probably doomed. If you aren't better in some way (faster, cheaper, better tech, etc...) We have seen it over and over in tech though..
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>still the largest and most successful company to come out of SF this decade. That's a lot less reflective of UBER and more reflective of the type of startups SV is trying to take public. Look at any other SV Unicorn that IPO'
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>This makes them _de facto_ nondischargable. I have gotten student loans ($100k+) discharged for clients. My experience is most people who say student loans are not dischargable have never gone through bankruptcy and have no idea what th
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Yes, that is the big tech talking point. However, the reality is big tech needs customer data, customer data does not need big tech.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Generating wealth from employees, has nothing to do with generating wealth from customer data. If what is of value is customer data, customers can and should own and control the entity generating the monetary value from their own data.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Although a tangent, its impossible to read this and not ask: Why aren't all the big tech companies generating revenue from customer data...customer owned?
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>In classical education if you don't get a high paying job it's your problem not the university's because they've already been paid. I don't think that "classical education", in classical education stud
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>I'm more interested in whether the broad coalition in congress exists Seeing as no "mainstream" political party candidate is running on this platform, I think the answer is no. Of course, I would probably say the same of
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
I don't want to make it about politics or a politician, but you can search for their campaign platform proposal for additional details. As far as I know there is only one candidate running on this platform of student loan forgiveness,
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Just realize going in what's actually possible and what's political marketing. Fixing this is going to take a lot more work on everyone's part than simply casting a vote. You're not wrong, but at the same token why a
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>I don't disagree with you, but I'll note that the non-dischargeable terms of medical and student loan debt in the USA essentially do that already As a preliminary matter this is false...student loans are dischargable in bankru
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
It used to be society wanted people to have an education and that people with degrees would get higher paying jobs which resulted in a net benefit to society through higher taxes. Now education is just looked at as a way to in debt young pe
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
The Green Bay Packers are a not for profit...its the only team not privately owned by billionaires.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Yes the human microbiome consists of fungus in addition to bacteria, protozoa and viruses.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>A PR person hired to promote ULA promoting ULA on reddit under 10 different pseudonyms: Completely unacceptable, this should probably be made outright illegal. The only purpose of using pseudonyms like this is to trick people into think
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Children growing up in this sort of environment will come to expect it from their government. Public school systems and employees are the government.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Right, and by requiring a warrant to dig though my shit, at least there's one person with legal training who's ostensibly concerned about my constitutionally protected rights involved in the process. That warrant isn't re
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Sorry to hear all this, but glad it seems to be improving now. I had a similar issue (and like you I was engaged in serious endurance training). I would also go to sleep early, wake up at 4AM without an alarm and knock out a 2 hour run. I
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Usually I’m up at 5am and can’t fall back asleep. Do you drink alcohol regularly? Its counter intuitive but alcohol simultaneously prevents people from entering deep sleep and can cause them to wake up early.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>I've been getting supplementation Can you expand on this. Is this something like melatonin to help reset your circadian rhythm for sleep? Or supplements to jump start your pituitary gland? I guess am curious is the pituitary shu
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>I've spoken with people who have said they are ok with it, when I start asking questions or sharing details on how this has been abused I tend to find they have not thought it through In the future just ask them to unlock their pho
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
>Best is to avoid any judgment when it is not necessary That is generally why >90% of all lawsuits in negotiated settlements without going to trial/verdict.
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by throwaway_law 7y ago
Typically jury of your peers, they are after all called the finders of fact.

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