DrBob

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[–] DrBob 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Japan, the EU, and Canada together hold 3 trillion in US debt and they are flexing that muscle. https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet

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I commute on a 10 year old bike that cost $400 at the time.

[–] DrBob 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My understanding is that contempt of court can't be pardoned. The reasoning is that a pardon forgives an action against the (nation)state. Contempt is an offense against the judiciary and is therefore out of scope for the president. But IANAL and I am not even an American so take this for what it's worth. Benjamin Wittes et al. wrote about this a fair bit over at Lawfare a couple years ago.

[–] DrBob 8 points 1 day ago

Bad faith is the term. IANAL but I've been married to two of them. "Bad faith argument" for the action, "acting in bad faith" for the actor. It captures the idea of appearing to comply with procedure and orders, but deliberately misconstruing meanings and inventing ambiguities to justify actions. A gentler version of this is "sharp practice" which comes close to, but doesn't cross the line into bad faith.

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[–] DrBob 33 points 2 days ago (19 children)

I'm not a phone person. What benefit does this provide?

[–] DrBob 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True heterosexual love between a biological man and a biological woman. It's why he never hooks up with Lois Lane and keeps sneaking peeks at Jimmy's junk at the gym.

[–] DrBob 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It does, but it's a reason to regulate the market. Otherwise there is minimal incentive to build affordable housing. The margins on luxury housing are just too fat. A developer is better letting half of a luxury setting sit empty than selling out affordable space. Same reason there is so little competition for affordable cars.

[–] DrBob 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He likes to sleep on planes. So do I.

[–] DrBob 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A version of "nice guys never win".

[–] DrBob 2 points 3 days ago

If you stay in one too long it becomes your space and you know the staff. Ruins the vibe.

 
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I didn't eat supper tonight. (self.dull_mens_club)
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I ate so many cookies I wasn't hungry. I'm sure there will be regrets - I might need a Tums before bed.

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Friday Night (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 5 months ago by DrBob to c/[email protected]
 

I don't know if this is what your after, but I flew into Denver today. I ate a takeout burrito in my hotel room while watching tv. I'm going to be in bed by 8.

 

She doesn't really watch hockey so I don't know what her opinion is worth. But she wanted to do Leafs Lucky Guess with me this morning. Evidently we are going to lose 16-1 or something.

 

The US 2nd circuit has ruled that auditors opinions aren't relevant in cases of investor fraud because the statements are too vague for people to rely on. Whut?

Wall Street Journal article here for those who have access.

Here is a professor's blog entry for a barrier free commentary on the importance of the case.

 

I was thinking about this after listening to Marc Andreassen blather on about how he doesn't trust government as a repository of trusted keys and other functions. He advocates for private companies to perform critical functions. Standard libertarian stuff in many respects.

The problem of course is that corporations lack accountability. They can shift terms and conditions or corporate purpose and there is little meaningful recourse except to stop using them. I can think of small examples that don't widely resonate (Mountain Equipment Co-op I'm thinking of you 🤬) but are there big examples that I'm missing?

 

I am finally going to join the '90s and set up a blog. The audience is mostly students to show how the academic stuff blends with real world professional practice. I'm an adjunct so I have a foot in both worlds.

I have my domain names (parked for years) and free webhosting through my university - but the university doesn't provide any development tools. All of the recommended tools I've run across (weebly, wix, webflow etc.) either want to host the page, manage the domain name, or require a fee to link the page to my host. I'm simply looking for a low cost site builder where I can edit my files and move them to my webspace.

Any recommendations for a WSYWIG style editor? I'd be happy to not have to learn any actual coding, but will if I have to.

The last time I did any of this I was manually tagging static pages in notepad (lol).

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