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{{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” :—Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, qui

...cing transactions regulation]], by composing an unctuous reply for you. “''So'' inspiring!” <br> 4. Oh help me we lawyers are all doomed because of ChatGPT-3

...al bounds to which no stock can go. Well, we now know this not to be quite so obviously the case. The internet can stay irrational a lot longer than you ...but ''not out of the question''. Can we imagine $7,000 though, or $70,000? What would [[Homey don’t play that|Homey]] say about that?

...review|}}JC is no expert but he likes to twang on his guitar and he knows what he likes. This will be a series of deeply idiosyncratic investigations of u Along the way, we will look at the musical composition, instrumentation, technology, perform

...this time is different, yet so many still buy into the pyramid scheme that we are special. It is both self-aggrandising and self-exonerating; it feels ri ...what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it

...sign, but in calling his book “sign here”, and not “everything you need to know about designing commercial legal process in the twenty first century” {{a What I liked about it especially is that so much of it focuses not on [[legal services delivery|legal services ''delive

Commentators are given to bemoaning the loss of confidence in truth — we are hostages to “personal truths” that cannot be gainsaid — this is t ...uch consensus even on trivial points — if there were we would hardly spend so much time talking about them —

So we have the old [[LinkedIn]] saw: {{Shitmaxim|Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about}}.

...ed by the happy thoughts that so many other odious people are going to get what's coming to them. Note how, even ion Thomas More’s original vision, plainly utopia can resemble dyst

...interface|user-interface]] easy enough for the [[meatware]] to deal with ''so you didn’t need a service contract''. Right? Of course, “software as a service” isn’t charging a running cost for static software. It is charging a running cost

{{a|book review|{{image|what we owe the future|jpg|}}}}{{quote| ...erhaps ''too'' widely-read — and he applies his polymathic range to ''What We Owe The Future'' with some panache.

...[legal eagle|over-enthusiastic members of the bar]] waxing lengthily about how they ''do'' differ? it will not.<ref>Pedants will note the different roles ...ng fruitlessly about who should be the {{isdaprov|Calculation Agent}}, and what rights the other poor sap should have to challenge its determinations, in p

...reternaturally nimble, responsive to society’s demands: best incentivised, so the theory had it, to allocate capital where the community most needed it. ...he disasters of central planning, five-year plans, great leaps forward and so on.” These are ''theoretical'' philosophies: robust in concept but flimsy

...ious, but often are. [[Bernie Madoff|Bernard Madoff]] was a bad apple, but so was the [[GameStop]] share rally, and Citigroup’s archaic [[Citigroup v B ...what we’ll all then ''do'', but this is surely just a quibble: the problem we would love to have.

...e suffused the nation and Gordon Brown banished boom and bust [''subs: can we check this?''] rates stayed abnormally low, around six per cent. ...es that led to the interest rate derivatives market]] What didn’t change — what hasn’t changed since the invention of credit, and which will not change u

...esides, even if the disclosure is only “requested” it is the sort of thing we should expect parties in a commercial relationship to be adult about: where ...ry disclosure (see below for obligatory essay) but there is a balance, and we think OneNDA strikes this balance fairly well. Also, if you ''notify'' the

...long as it gets its [[commission]], it doesn’t really care a hill of beans what its [[principal]] gets, however much it might protest to the contrary. ...e round]] game, for which the option payoff is markedly different. This is what {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} calls the “Rubin Trade”.

*[[This time is different|This time ''isn’t'' different]]. The laws of physics, finance and economics still apply. Even ...harlatans use heuristics ''instead'' of it. See: {{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}

We have canvassed the odd phenomenon of [[mediocrity drift]] whereby the feedb ...mal in job lots]], and letting the jumped-up and flighty go one at a time, we are nicely containing our costs within a range.”

...n risk''. It’s a free country. (Now, we say, “its own dime”: note, though, how common it is for an agent to ask its customer to foot the bill: it gets pai ...for the agent to sue its lawyers''. That’s what it paid the blighters for: so they, and that juicy [[professional indemnity insurance]] policy they never