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Don’t patronize me.

You’re basically arguing that the act of purchasing renders the NDA void. Good luck with that.

If the price list is provided under NDA, that could certainly be a reasonable effort to maintain its secrecy. It should be unsurprising that NDAs are canonical examples of such efforts. The fact that any given case may be distinguishable on some issue from our hypothetical fact pattern doesn’t mean much.

A customer can misappropriate a vendor’s trade secret and price lists can be trade secrets. As a general matter these propositions easily fall within the relevant laws (UTSA, DTSA, NY common law) and there are plenty of cases around the country supporting that. If you have a different opinion, all I can say is that I believe you’d find out in court that you’re wrong.

Here's 4 from the first page of results on WestLaw:

- Ahern Rentals, 59 F.4th 948 (2023)

- Wilmington Star-News, 125 N.C. App. 174 (1997)

- Ingram, 260 Md. App. 122 (2023)

- Intertek Testing Servs., 443 F. Supp. 3d 303 (2020)

They totally can be. There's plenty of case law on it.

Source: I'm a 3L about to graduate with an IP specialization and got an award for being the best student in my trade secret law class.

Sure. Broadly, a trade secret under state and federal law is "information that derives independent economic value from not being generally known to the public or people who can obtain economic value from it and is the subject of efforts to maintain its secrecy that are reasonable under the circumstances." Price lists could clearly fall under this definition, and they do! Here's an 8th circuit case where the plaintiff "adequately allege[d] that the information that was purportedly misappropriated— ... pricing information ... qualifies as trade secret[]." Ahern Rentals, 59 F.4th 948 (2023).

Ok but why would he just “give” them? Patents can cost like $20k a pop to prosecute.

You should request your data from CoreLogic and see if the wrong location is in their DB, because they’re the broker for a lot of real estate underwriting data.

Surely there’s an insurer somewhere willing to underwrite this.

Cue the FCC for yet another toothless Meta consent decree.

Idk if it’s true but supposedly in the the Telarc recording, the cannon fire went down to like 7Hz and would blow out your speakers if the signal wasn’t filtered.

It goes without saying that provisioning an army includes feeding them.

Yeah. Anyone building a bunker just for themselves and a few other people is planning for a very boring and lonely future that will exist only so long as they can access/produce sufficient food and water. It should basically go without saying that a "real" plan is for provisioning an army.

Nobody in the privacy world is really holding their breath on the CPPA but maybe this could be the one!

Some lawyer at GM is reading this and saying, "No private right of action FTW, suckaaaaaaa"

Broncolor is “buy once, cry once, then cry again when you need an attachment, and also cry when you need to replace a bulb.”

Is this different in some way from the still photo world where you have like Broncolor that’s unreasonably expensive and no one can explain why?

I'm not the least bit ashamed to say that I can't grok CSS today any better than I could when I first tried to learn it about 20 years ago. Whether or not alternative abstractions are "bad" or "wrong" or whatever is entirely irrelevant to me. The worst case scenario is that I end up finding them as painful as CSS.

You continue to miss the point. The term “non-profit” in no way describes this structure.

No it’s not. It’s just a corporation with one kind of tax status owning another corporation with a different tax status.

Nonprofit is a tax status, not a corporate structure.

Asking the LLM if the query can be optimized a few times and then checking it in a planner works surprisingly well for me but YMMV.

Combining schema discovery and data catalog seems like it might be a hard problem requiring a lot of LLM prompt engineering gymnastics but maybe I underestimate the state of the art.

Maybe this is a dumb question but why wouldn’t it be cost effective to pre-aggregate counts occasionally and sample on the fly?

These kinds of experiences are so meaningful. In college I was in the so called “gay-straight alliance” and we did an exercise where the straight people had to wear a t-shirt all day that just said “I’M GAY” and we weren’t allowed to deny it if anyone inquired. Definitely an unforgettable moment in my adult life.

Believe it or not, FedEx. Just ask for a “tie-on tag”.

By explaining what LLM stands for, you have identified yourself as a replicant.

Let’s be honest, intuitive is the last word we’d use to describe most Apache projects.

Maybe it has desirable properties compared to plexi.

Maybe, but the business judgment rule is usually going to win if you want it to. Unsurprisingly, though, it’s rarely invoked to support doing something other than giving capital to shareholders.