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by L_Rahman 13y ago
The problem in this case there are many instances where the original inventor is not interested in taking on the risk of sales based licensing and so sells the patent for a lump sum to a third party.
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That's not entirely true. There's a lot of annoying paperwork, but it was something I was able to file on my own on a shitty internet connection as a teenager growing up in Bangladesh who with just my dad's 1040s. All of the
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
While the regulations that do exist are weak, they are an improvement over existing conditions. What's saddening is that there have even been a number of cases where the engineers in regulatory agencies have gone into factories and rep
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
There's been a huge effort from both NGO's and the government to promote birth control that has actually been quite effective. Birth rates have fallen sharply. [1] 1. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307&#x2F
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
> any quietly upvoted defense of child labor sounds like "the slaves had it better than in _x_" or "women were spared _y_" jobs to me when it comes to defending poor social policy. Grown-ass white men getting paid t
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
As someone who's spent his life roughly equally split across Bangladesh and America, I thought I'd provide some perspective. The questions I ask myself about this situation are: 1. Are the lives of the people who work in these fac
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
The graphene one still rubs everyone in the materials science community the wrong way. I haven't had a single professor bring it up in class without snorting derisively at the fact that the guys who discovered won a Nobel. This means t
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
The key to making reddit a bearable experience, and I think most people on HN will agree with this, is honing into specific subreddits that you believe are worth participating in and using them exclusive to the rest of the site. For me it&#
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
As someone who's had a reasonable amount of success with the SAT (a 2360 in the October 2009 SAT) and now spends a bit of time tutoring students for the SAT, I'd argue that for you a whole summer is overkill for the SAT. If you&#x
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
Making the demo widget on the landing page switch to a stream of Paul Graham's essays when visitors are arriving from HN is pretty clever. The problem however is that it leaves most of the space above the fold empty. I was wondering if
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
In most of the schools I was considering the family annual income cutoff is around $65k a year. That's below the median for the country, and covers most of the lower and lower middle class. That's a pretty substantial part of this
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
> meet potential cofounders So true. The people I'm planning to do my startup are battle tested. We've pulled all nighters, dealt with high stress situations, and come out of it as friends. We know each others work habits, stre
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
3. Be very poor and very smart and go to any of the world's best institutions for free. This is something that a lot of low income students never take into account when applying to schools. The fact of the matter is that most of Americ
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
I've found that the smallest classes at my school have also been the most rewarding. Sure you could sit in every day on my morning Thermo lecture and go unnoticed, but I've learned very little in that class that I couldn't al
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
Bryan Cranston of this to promote the second half of the final season of Breaking Bad. It's set to some beautiful shots of the New Mexico desert. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dpghfRBHE
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
Part of the problem is that the race for college has been pushed earlier and earlier as admissions has gotten more competitive. Admission rates for colleges have been dropping across the board, for top tier schools even more sharply. When s
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
I really appreciate that Small Empires exists, and we've even talked briefly about it before on Reddit (I'm /u/jhu). I couldn't agree more that there's a dearth of entrepreneurship education at most universitie
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
Hey Alexis. Between Small Empires on The Verge, and a number of recent media appearances, you've recently begun very publicly advocating in favor of entrepreneurship. Any particular reason you chose to do this now, instead of earlier,
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
As someone who really enjoys taking notes in Markdown, and prefers it over most other alternatives, this is appreciated. Thanks for making this. I look forward to using it in class tomorrow.
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
I went of a bit of a Murakami bender after reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. While it's still my favorite of his works, Kafka on the Shore is pretty fantastic as well.
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The problem is that it seems to matter in terms job prospects. I'm a biomedical engineering undergrad, so I thought I made the right decision turning down Harvard to come to Hopkins. However, our recruitment is abysmal compared to Harv
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There's a possibility that the client may be a user of the porn site where he advertises.
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While it's arguable that there haven't many major advancements in surgical techniques since 1986 aside from a few notable exceptions, medical diagnostic tools have seen significant improvement and now allow us to diagnose many lif
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
Yes. As an example, you'd be surprised by how few MDs that are experts in their respective fields have a detailed understanding of the pharmacokinetics of the drug they're prescribing. They just take the dose the drug company did
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> An Ivy League degree is expensive, but the value may not add up to the expense. Try Georgia Tech, not MIT. Try University of Washington, not Harvard. Use your own judgement here. If you're poor however, reverse this. UW or Georgia
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This is a very significant issue that I think should make Netflix re-evaluate their initial release model. For me, and for a significant number of attentive television fans, a big part of the experience is reading the nightly discussion pos
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by L_Rahman 13y ago
Things missing from the Leopold: 1. Backlighting 2. Better Aesthetics 3. Cherry MX Clear switches That's pretty much it. I personally don't think it's worth the 50 dollar premium when I'm just fine with MX Browns.
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I don't think it's being white so much as it is just being from a privileged background. Had the teenagers in question had been South Asian or East Asian or African American but dressed and carried themselves in the way that peopl
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Guardian journalist Charlie Booker is the showrunner of a series called Black Mirror on Channel 4 in Britain where each episode is centered around exploring the potential impact of technology in the near future. There are some scripts writt
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Not only are rape and sexual harrassment quite prevalent in wealthy, modern cities it also has a very real presence in those within the highest income brackets of those cities. What comes with education and wealth is the sophistication to d

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