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by WildUtah 11y ago
In the Bilski decision the Supreme Court drew a distinction between routine logical and mathematical operations that have existed for thousands of years and complicated technical operations like linear programming, encryption, and compressi
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by WildUtah 11y ago
"It costs millions of dollars to run these operations" It costs millions on the defense side. The plaintiffs don't have any documents to discover and the attorneys are usually the partners in the scam, so it's almost fre
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"Software patents are pitched as a policy choice that encourages programmers by giving them some financial incentive to invent more software. That's how they have been pitched to programmers and the American people." And afte
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Note that 28 USC §1400 is still in force; the Congress did not choose to remove the limits on patent case jurisdiction when it expanded other jurisdiction. It's right there in the US Code in black letters with no ambiguity. But the not
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The USPTO isn't required to follow court rulings. The MPEP (Manual of Patent Examining Procedure) isn't even updated to reflect what the courts say unless the PTO likes it. If you don't like what PTO says, you can always just
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by WildUtah 11y ago
The Mixed-Member Proportional system proposes to keep the advantages of FPTP and PR by electing most members FPTP and adding a few PR seats in the same body so that gerrymandering is ineffective. You just lay out about 75-80% of your distri
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There is no constitutional provision that would ever allow abolishing the Senate. The Constitution of the USA prohibits any amendment that could change the disproportionality of the Senate.
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The Senate representing the states was abolished a century ago when the Seventeenth Amendment was adopted. Today senators are chosen by popular election the same as congressmen, they just have wildly disproportionate electorates with some e
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by WildUtah 11y ago
North and South Dakota are two states instead of one so that Republicans could have an extra two senators. Hawai'i and Alaska were admitted to the Union together so that neither party would gain an advantage in the Senate from the addi
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>>Just within the last 50 years, we've made a ton of progress on this "impossible problem" The overwhelming majority of that progress comes from replacing an evil, murderous, and incompetent dictatorship in the world&#x
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If you've ever seen how politics really works, you would know that Veep or Parks And Rec are the realistic ones.
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Your genes programmed you to believe that your "own gene survival is of zero interest to [you] personally." They did that because they found that exhibiting that belief was a good way to get themselves into the next generation. So
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"Tech entrepreneurship works in the US and fails in other states because we're in this sweet spot of low taxes and low corruption, with high levels of education and easy access to a large and powerful economy." Corruption in
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I've been an American 40 years and never had a credit score or a credit report and never borrowed any money (the three agencies don't know who I am). Nevertheless, I can rent apartments. I just have to have a lot of cash available
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Republican Party insiders like organizers, lobbyists, congressmen, senators, governors, media personalities, and fund raisers despise Trump and adore Bush. Republican insiders make bank working for defense contractors and Trump was against
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Both parties are bad on DoJ operations because both parties' insiders and base voters like an abusive DoJ. Vote for Rand Paul or Bernie Sanders in the primary and -- if enough fellow Americans agree -- you could change that. If candida
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Yes, specifically [:whatever] is syntactic sugar for (vector :whatever) and {:what :ever} is syntactic sugar for {array-map :what :ever}. CL has the #() syntactic sugar for the first and the #'acons syntactic sugar for the second. So,
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That could be it. I just turn mine up to listen to music without earbuds when I'm alone, but that would probably upset neighbors in a crowded place.
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"it's incredible when I hold it up to my ear" Why would you hold a phone up to your ear? Trying to take a photo of your ear canal or something?
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"let's look at NYC and Tokyo: despite all that density, the problem of housing availability remains." NYC has a housing availability problem. It's the same one as San Francisco: new denser construction is near impossible
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by WildUtah 11y ago
Without patents the new pharmaceutical industry would collapse and complicated new drugs we might otherwise benefit from would be lost. But computer software and tech startups would be much better off since patents are purely harmful to sof
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That's also the plot of Tom Cruise's previous movie where he'd been fooled into harvesting the Earth for an illegal alien tetrahedral species. Maybe he's getting typecast. At least it's not as bad as Matt Damon who&
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by WildUtah 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/977/ "Gall-Peters: I hate you."
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The Republic of Korea and the People's Democratic Dictatorship of Korea have their flags reversed.
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What happened in and around 1973? * End of the Vietnam war. Deep reductions in the draft released many young men into the workforce and allowed them to start businesses. During the war, only being an exempt student or employed in an essenti
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>the truth is a little more nuanced than a federal judge simply not believing in the precedential validity of binding precedent Not much more nuanced. The EDTX judges have a tradition of making millions for themselves and their families
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These cases are in the Eastern District of Texas. EDTX allows plaintiffs to choose their judge. Judge Gilstrap does not believe in the precedential validity of Alice v. CLS Bank and prohibits defendants from making motions based on it unles
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It really matters whether the art is good or not. Without wise judgement about the quality and value of different works, we can't have a beautiful world or live in beautiful cities. Of course, getting your leaders to have good judgemen
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The version of this mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City is spectacular and anyone interested should go see it. The Palacio itself is a gorgeous museum and theatre with a world famous folkloric dance company, too. The 1999 mo
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The vast majority of patent defendants are small companies. Startups are much more likely to be slammed by a bogus patent suit than to get a patent that proves lucrative. Patents effectively never level the playing field. Trolls and big com

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