anon_
4hr ago
If the IB wants to preserve its man hours it can simply hire a lot more people
A network of N people working on a problem requires at least order logN overhead to synchronize their efforts and receive instructions/feedback.
So unless someone accepts working 75% time for 50% pay, they are gonna naturally scale to working more.
anon_
4hr ago
The white collar world is exactly that place that's dominated by frictions that scale with the number of employees.
I think our modern economy doesn't value the type of work left to be done very well, namely spiritual / emotional / community work.
People don't value it -- or if they did, they would pay for it.
anon_
4hr ago
we just shorten the work week
In some industries, ObamaCare already did this -- the mandate for insurance kicks in at 30 hours.
But in other industries this is counterproductive. Those have overhead: training, management and communication (synchronization) that doesn't allow work to just scale. In a competitive market, those firms would always rather pay fewer employees proportionally more -- and those firms would outcompete those paying more employees proportionally less.
So you cannot "just shorten the work week" -- at least not for a large sector of the economy.
anon_
4hr ago
"Won't vote" implies that the officer cannot assume the powers of a principal officer. And again, on the meta, the Senators know that not voting means rejecting the candidate.
Imagine applying this to any other clause. The Constitution says that no money can be spent except as authorized by Congress. Senators understand this too.
anon_
1d ago
This distinction breaks down completely at the meta level when legislative leaders won't bring something to a vote because it lacks majority support. It's a waste of time Senators would rather spend fundraising or eating steak on a lobbyist's dime or flying back home.
In this case, Graham specifically said there were not votes to advance Habba. I have no reason to doubt him on that, but I'm fine if you want to make this contingent on the result of that hypothetical vote. What I object to is the idea that it's meaningfully different for the purposes of "advise and consent" for the Senate to have that vote or not.
anon_
1d ago
But they are the same question. Respect for the blue slip is, given facts, a rejection of Habba.
It is always within the power of the majority (plus Vance) to move whatever they want through.
anon_
2d ago
No argument here about the media.
Nevertheless, on an individual level, you should endorse a logic on the threshold for armed conflict that cannot transparently justify both you and your opponents.
anon_
2d ago
Strong disagree. If you had the Senate vote right now on "do you want to advance Habba despite her not receiving a blue slip", then the answer would be in the negative. Graham said as much.
anon_
2d ago
The key missing point is that the Dems are blocking due to Senate custom.
And that Senate custom has 51 votes for it. Probably 60.
anon_
2d ago
Even if it is unconstitutional, the proposed interpretation is not the only way a court would cure the infirmity. That's conclusory at best.
For example, a court could consider just severing (d) and otherwise asserting that beyond that time, only an appointment with the consent of the Senate can exercise that office.
Otherwise, you permit a small minority in the senate to give unfettered executive power to a judge allowing him to appoint an AUSA within his district.
A majority of the Senate believes in the blue slip process.
That in turn means they are not in favor of confirming Halligan and Habba.
anon_
3d ago
I don't buy that argument. The statutory text makes clear that after the 120 day term expires (c2), then (d) the district court appoints until the vacancy is filled. What would the point of an expiration be if the AG just gets to repeatedly re-fill it? The entire (c)(2) provision would be surplussage.
That said, maybe the Supreme Court looks at 28USC§546 and decides the way Prof Calabresi argues here. I just don't see it.
anon_
3d ago
There's a real question about separation of powers if a President tries to appoint principal officers without the consent of the Senate.
Or if there's no one to actually run the US Attorney's office.
There's no way around the dysfunction. Congress tried to craft a compromise (muddle) solution.
anon_
3d ago
At least one such GOP Senator has said he will not vote to bypass the blue-slip process that has been custom for a century or so.
Even the 60-vote Obama Senate respected it, rather than allowing Obama to put a Keith Ellison type as USA in Texas.
anon_
3d ago
And if everyone else feels that way, I think moderation guidelines will be a less than pressing concern during a civil war.
10/10.
Can we put this on the sidebar?
anon_
3d ago
I think whatever response you give here, you should give in sufficiently general terms that I can also give it to my lefty college buddies that think we're at the point of having to pick up guns against the Ice-Nazis.
At the very least, it's "we're not even close".
anon_
3d ago
Because in subsequent interviews Comey has constructively admitted to submitting false testimony on multiple occasions.
That is absolutely true. It also has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not the attorney that submitted his case to the grand jury for indictment was properly appointed.
People go absolutely bonkers on procedural rulings. It wasn't even dismissal with prejudice!
anon_
3d ago
OK, well then allowing or forbidding her from going into the service does nothing for the marriage rate.
She as the person-who-would-have-enlisted already had all the traits and dispositions that were gonna lead to not being married at 28.
anon_
6d ago
Well, I think given how negative about sex the modern left has become, it was inevitable that some reaction would happen.
Moreover, I think the football-and-beer contingent never quite as prudish as the conservative average.
anon_
7d ago
Taking aside the insipid culture war aspect (which we all agree on and hence is just kind of boring to discuss), it's actually kind of interesting as an extremely effective example about the Generalized Lucas Critique.
- Conditioned on some threshold SAT score, having a good GPA was fairly predictive of college success.
- This makes sense -- the SAT was a good filter for aptitude. Beyond aptitude, GPA measured other components (diligence, focus) that contribute
- Once you remove the SAT, having a good GPA is no longer predicative
- You can not use correlations in the historical data to predict the effect of a change that modifies the structural rules by which the data are generated.
anon_
7d ago
I also found amusing the implicit admission that doing things like prancing around in a bikini is a central aspect of a young woman's lifestyle.
You know, maybe this off topic and deserves it's own thread, but at some point we're going to come around to an America where the red tribe is more promiscuous and sex-positive than the blue.
When that inflection point comes, everyone from Gen X and older is gonna have to totally rewire their brain.
anon_
7d ago
Just shows the importance of having your own versions of the services which are necessary for daily life.
This would require unchaining their private sector to provide them, which in turn changes the balance of domestic power.
These things are all linked, you can't just manage an economy like you're playing SimCity.
anon_
7d ago
The most shocking thing is that Rubio isn't even doing this to protect Americans. Rubio is doing this on behalf of a foreign country.
Be assured if the ICC had their way, they would have charged Rummy and Cheney.
Protecting a small country from the ICC is an excellent way to remind them not to try it against a big one.
Consider the following thought experiment, courtesy of Scott Summer
I think this is a good counterpart to the AGI questions below. There is a massive conceptual gap in defining welfare across vastly different levels of technological mastery.
It also highlights that some of the analysis misses the largest factor here -- that AGI (if it happens, sadly not if it doesn't pan out) will greatly increase the quality and personalization of a large set of goods & services. If that does happen, it will dwarf the distributional aspects.
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