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by A1kmm 15y ago
The biggest problem with the patent system is it discourages people from using patented ideas - the more patented ideas you use in your product (even if you independently discover them), the more you pay. A good patent system would have the
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The front ends seem to get desynchronised when two incompatible concurrent edits happen; this is a difficult issue to resolve, but one solution would be to change the data flow so local edits are drawn by the client on a transparent canvas,
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B) Create an alternative parallel system to the copyright / patent system, where companies, individuals, and other legal entities can choose to pay a fixed percentage (say 10% or 20%, perhaps depending on the industry) of their profit / inc
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New Zealand recently passed a law (which the US government asked for, according to a Wikileaks cable, and the government here rolled over for them) which creates civil penalties for being an 'account holder' with an 'Internet Protocol Addre
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by A1kmm 15y ago
I agree with pg - but for a different reason. In the past, one of the most significant limiting factors on business growth has been the cost of human labour, and technological development has focused on working around this limitation, elimi
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I went to my university's electronic PhD thesis repository, and went down the list, starting with the most recently published, skipping people of the same gender to the last selected thesis or whose gender was not obvious from the name, unt
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IANAL, but arrest, by definition, means to take into custody. Technically, arrest includes the right to transport someone, and some laws in some jurisdictions grant powers to detain but not arrest (usually in association with search warrant
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In the US, there are two ways to infringe trademarks: 1) Using the trademark in a way likely to cause confusion - generally has to be in the same line of business. 2) Trademark dilution - using a famous, distinctive brand and making it
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There is more than one kind of parasite. Copyright and other intellectual exclusion (IE) laws were introduced in good faith to ensure that (1) it is rational to undertake intellectual endeavours and (2) the number of people who benefit from
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I don't think that is an appropriate generalisation, because you are drawing a similarity between the game theoretical outcome of properties on systems of rational actors and the outcome of properties due to random physical occurrences ('co
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Is it really fair that a child's access to health insurance for the rest of its life depends on decisions parents made? What your thought experiment really shows is that market based health insurance is hard to justify ethically, and that a
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http://www.reddit.com/
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Except that the straight line is in feature space and not input space; the computations are done using only a kernel function, which takes vectors in the input space, and computes the dot product in the feature space. This is a very importa
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A centralised system like that, however, has a very high privacy cost - one server knows all IPs addresses that access every IP address monitored by the system. The article isn't clear on exactly how trust is computed, but if all that is re
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The thing is, fully autonomous AIs will most likely be tested on a simulated world (maybe at a smaller scale) before they have any kind of real world influence. Real world resources are finite, and real world processes with real world mater
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In response to your second point, if there is a good BitCoin economy, a business might be able to earn BitCoins, and spend some of those BitCoins on costs to buy services from other BitCoin acceptors, and maybe even issue dividends in BitCo
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"Did you receive a SalaryShare link" is insufficient. I could send a different link to each co-worker. You would at least need to compare URLs.
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A race to the highest price the market can sustain. Companies will never pay so much they make a loss on a person, so the marginal revenue from having an additional employee is a firm upper bound on how much they will pay that employee. Thi
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Palytoxin LD50 (rat, intravenous): 0.089 μg/kg according to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19505494 Sarin LD50 (rat, intravenous): 39 μg/kg according to http://cbwinfo.com/Chemical/Nerve/GB.shtml So the lethal dose of palytoxin is ~
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At least power companies don't try and tell me what to do with the energy I buy from them - they don't tell me I have to pay more to use / can't use brands of toasters unless the manufacturer paid them money. I think the ideal solution woul
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I looked at the source - they are using Hipmunk for the physics engine, a Haskell binding to Chipmunk (a physics library in C) to store state like object positions. Things like updating positions of objects occur in the IO monad. The UI is
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I've checked back via the GoDaddy interface, and all twelve domain names are still available (on all the TLDs that GoDaddy sells) at the original price. This doesn't necessarily mean that GoDaddy doesn't ever take domains - maybe they only
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Alright, I'm doing an experiment - I've run the following shell commands: function randomWord() { head -n $(numrandom /1..$(wc -l /usr/share/dict/words)/) /usr/share/dict/words | tail -n1; } echo $(randomWord)$(randomWord).com This has giv
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Rational planning means taking into account threats into your business plan. If you have an established company, I'd suggest strategising on how you can survive a bubble burst event and the resulting downturn in investment, spending from ne
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IANAL, but from what I've read, the original legislative intent, in most jurisdictions, is that the process by which an artefact is created (including a stream of bits sent over a network or data sent on a block device) rather than the data
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The energy has to come from somewhere, but it doesn't have to come from electricity (every conversion means energy is lost, and a light -> electricity -> water conversion is potentially less efficient than a more direct conversion).
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It sounds like Franchise Tax associated with annual returns is payable by the corporation, not you personally. From 8 Delaware Code §503: "All corporations accepting the provisions of the Constitution of this State and coming under Chapter
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Parallel can mean in the same direction, or it can mean in exactly opposite directions. North and south train lines might run parallel to each other, for example. In plain English, two things are orthogonal if they are unrelated or independ
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Except that it is more formally the negative of the expected future loss of the company as a present value; it takes into account the probability of a given income in a given year, not the best case scenario. I would say the probability Fac
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If it is a convertible bond, that isn't really as silly a question as the article makes it out to be, and is very relevant given Yuri Milner's convertible bond offer - in which case I believe the answer is "1 year, unless Yuri decides to ex

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