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"nothing but browse the web and check email" Try using Safari instead of Chrome. And check if you're running a lot of Flash. The usual problem is that Chrome is engineered to gorge power with no regard to your battery. Flash,
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My experience with software patents makes me believe that Lander and Zhang, being part of the group that most aggressively pursued patents, are scam artists that should be drummed out of science forever. I actually have to remind myself not
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El Salvador has the Marco Rubio/Ted Cruz abortion policy. It's illegal even if the fetus is unviably sick, even as a result of rape, and even if the mother will die from the pregnancy.
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"The case to which this brief is attached is not about software. It's about a new way to attach transformers to printed circuit boards" As long as the patent bar and CAFC keep pushing their jurisdiction into software where it
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"the triple-damages rule, which says that if you're found to infringe on a patent willingly then the damages are increased, while if you didn't know about it, they aren't." That's the triple damages rule as inv
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Column was published before the web was invented (in the 1980s), so I have no idea.
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Robert X Cringely said that programmers are divided into nerds and geeks. The nerds do the wrong thing well and the geeks do the right thing badly. The reason computers are a revolutionary productive technology is that when you put them tog
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Mexico City had no parking meters six years ago and a serious sidewalk parking problem. As the new meters go into neighborhoods, the local parking cops (on bicycles with a trailer full of Denver boots) detain illegal parkers. It works absol
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Tokyo requires that car owners prove they have a reserved parking stall before allowing them to register a vehicle. That takes care of sidewalk parking. But the easiest way to eliminate sidewalk parking is to install meters on the street sp
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More topically, parking is built because city planners and local and state laws require it. It isn't optional, developers can't choose to organically build less over time, it isn't a matter of choice, and it won't acquie
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If you've ever observed drivers, you will have noticed that stop signs and traffic safety laws in general don't influence any of them much.
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"data from these programs admitted as evidence" You won't see that. Parallel construction will be used to hide the source of the original tip. Some other explanation will be invented to justify why the case is stolen.
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And that $310k house will cost $1200k in LA or $2100k in SF, but with less land.
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||I like to think our destiny is to colonize other planets. |Why? I'd rather live in a mostly automated robotic leisure society where I "work" 10-20 hours a week and enjoy my life here than break my back mining space rocks&qu
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Two? You'd better have a darn good plan for your life and a supportive partner or you'll be darn lucky to have more than one.
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It is supposed to be, but the administration organized a Massive Resistance campaign against the California Civil Rights Initiative. [0] Through mass 'holistic' review of individual applications for racial background, the Universi
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Research is discouraged, but not impossible. "Natural history of Ashkenazi Intelligence" by Harpending and Cochran is a good start. http://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jbi... (H
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This is relevant because employment discrimination law in the USA prohibits the use of any tests where certain protected racial categories score worse than the national average by a specific amount. Usually that amount is specifically that
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If that happened to today's kids, they could just look up lock picking on Youtube and fix the problem. The internet makes life better. Again.
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". The issue is people crowding to the right to make room for the people doing it," Yes, the problem is the people crowding right to stand still. People that won't even make the effort to climb the escalator at all should jus
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You'd still have violent drug gangs because dealing would be illegal. They'd need to continue lethal violence because they couldn't go to court to settle contract and credit disputes.
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If someone, including rating agencies, knew something useful about bonds that were not already priced into the market, then that someone could easily be a trillionaire just by buying and selling. Rating agencies are not populated by trillio
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Mexico is a great outdoor city. The parks and bike routes are great and abundant and mountains surround the city. Weather is good year-round. Lots of day hikes around the city are easy to get to without a car. Popo or Izta or La Malinche or
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The last Amtrak flag stop in the USA that I knew of was Green River, Utah. Until a few years ago, you could flag down the California Zephyr and get aboard there any day of the year. Otherwise it would pass through town without pause.
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#1 Mexico City is cheap.
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I'm surprised by parent and gp. Mexico City is beautiful and interesting and full of things to do, but driving a car there is a nightmare. My first fifteen minutes behind the wheel there changed my view of traffic and laws forever. I s
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Black voters seem likely to vote in higher numbers for Trump than any other Republican as do working class White Democrats. That isn't to say Trump will win those demographics, but 20% of the Black vote should be enough for any Republi
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Bringing in immigrants isn't a solution. It's just replacing Japan with some other nation. Most Japanese would like Japan to continue.
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A majority of Spanish sentences leave their subjects implied. I think French, Catalan, Latin, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese have mostly implied subjects as the old Latin roots make it easy. But you'll find most spoken English sente
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Shows you Pico's editor picked the pictures.

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