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by ahi 14y ago
IANAL, but foreknowledge of patent infringement can triple damage liability right? So is just having the headline of this story on the front page of HN enough to cause problems for the entire HN community?
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by ahi 14y ago
How do you verify that the bitcoins have in fact been stolen?
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by ahi 14y ago
>They are just another patent troll attempting to take advantage of bad law. It is their nature. They look for opportunity, and patent litigation can be very profitable. The real problem is the law. Disagree. Assholes will always be abl
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by ahi 14y ago
Tom Friedman isnt known for his great intellect. He is the voice of east coast middlebrow moderates. Consistently "meh".
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by ahi 14y ago
Learning when and how to convince a client their requests are stupid is a skill that comes with experience. Sometimes it is possible to ignore or "misunderstand" a request that is not in your client's best interests. If they were really com
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by ahi 14y ago
Do you consider google one of the scummy salesmen of the internet?
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Inside the Schwinn Varsity Bicycle(sheldonbrown.com)
1 points by ahi 14y ago|0 comments
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by ahi 14y ago
He says so about a third of the way down, but maybe he added it after the fact?
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by ahi 14y ago
I don't know why you are assuming an impact on poverty. This will be little more than a gated community for wealthy libertarians.
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by ahi 14y ago
I'm not. I find it far more likely that the FBI doesn't know they've been hacked yet. It takes time for institutions that large to figure stuff out.
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by ahi 14y ago
Someone talked to a lawyer.
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by ahi 14y ago
86.64 million nickels were produced in 2009[1]. This stunt would take 230.84 years of nickel production to pull off. http://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/the-value-of-united-st...
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by ahi 14y ago
What was youtualfunds.com?
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by ahi 14y ago
A story on This American Life about a guy who got hookworms intentionally to deal with his immune disorder: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/404/e...
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by ahi 14y ago
Unfortunately, the best response to realworld muggings is the same -- hand over your wallet.
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by ahi 14y ago
This is one of those situations where the regulations were effective so we don't remember why they were put in place. Basically every other grandma was having her purse emptied by a good looking scam artist.
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by ahi 14y ago
Those are called fax machines.
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by ahi 14y ago
I vaguely recall that unpatched XP averages just a couple minutes on a network before being owned. If you didn't have the SP on a disc it was a race between the updates and the bots. That might have been old linux propaganda though.
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by ahi 14y ago
Nice and clean design. The wait for processing is a little long. A similar service is currently selling on flippa: https://flippa.com/2793470-htm2pdf-co-uk Maybe you can steal some ideas from them. Considering they're PR6 and seeing only
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by ahi 14y ago
The article states that many of the sperm donors are IDF soldiers. I'd imagine their exposure to DU is a bit more intense than environmental background noise.
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by ahi 14y ago
"Speculative theories range from the mundane (carrying cellphones in front pockets) to the far-fetched (depleted uranium from exploded munitions)." Strange. Depleted uranium is almost certainly a better guess than cellphones. The health eff
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by ahi 14y ago
'1) 5 years of a 512MB Smartmachine for per lifetime account. Not lifetime. 5 years. Because lifetime is not a "legal" or "financial" term.' He might want to have a chat with a lawyer. Glad I have never had to deal with joyent.
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by ahi 14y ago
For example: pretty much any of the larger banks over the last decade.
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The Bingo Event Horizon(whatgamesare.com)
1 points by ahi 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Inc. Using State Law to Close Instagram Deal Without SEC(insidermonkey.com)
2 points by ahi 14y ago|0 comments
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by ahi 14y ago
As a user, I'm not so sure #1 and #2 are haha funny. Things are being added and changed constantly, reducing usability. Features seem to be broken or at least temperamental all over the place.
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by ahi 14y ago
Public education is about citizen training not job training. Once upon a time, employers would actually train their new employees. These days they have managed to push those training costs onto publicly supported community colleges and the
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by ahi 14y ago
PLR seems to be mostly a European thing.
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by ahi 14y ago
It's not as much fun.
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by ahi 14y ago
As a user but nonprogrammer of java I have never found java to be cross-platform. It seems every application of any real complexity has required me to go on an hour long hunt for the right version and dependencies. If it take me longer to m

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