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Earning Interest On Your Money

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While I'm between jobs, I've been tinkering with the family finances, and I've learned a thing or two about banking. It's nothing personal finance experts haven't known for years, but I find it fascinating, so I thought I'd share. And while it's not quite financial advice, you might get something useful out of it. Be warned, however, that I'm going to talk a lot about interest … [Read more...] about Earning Interest On Your Money

Snitches Get Disses

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Eugene Volokh notes a disturbing federal case regarding 18 U.S.C. § 1513(e), part  of the witness retaliation statute, which appears to criminalize retaliatory speech against witnesses: And U.S. v. Edwards, a nonprecedential decision handed down Thursday by the Sixth Circuit, read it precisely this way: Joy Edwards made numerous derogatory posts on Facebook about a … [Read more...] about Snitches Get Disses

Have Keyboard, Will (not) Travel

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I don't normally blog about my day job, but I'm genuinely proud of the work I've been doing, and (for reasons that will become clear) this is as good a time as any to talk about it.For the last eight years, I've been developing legal technology for Thomson Reuters. It started when I applied to an interesting-sounding job at a small company called Serengeti Law, which had … [Read more...] about Have Keyboard, Will (not) Travel

Is Chief Hopper a Perpetrator of Domestic Violence?

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Evan Rachel Wood, who plays Dolores Abernathy on Westworld, has been taking a bit of flack on Twitter for this:https://twitter.com/evanrachelwood/status/1147213677247860737(Because I don't trust Twitter embeds, she wrote: "You should never date a guy like the cop from #strangerthings Extreme jealousy and violent rages are not flattering or sexy like TV would have you … [Read more...] about Is Chief Hopper a Perpetrator of Domestic Violence?