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by basseq 12y ago
Interesting tie back to common HN discussions on the Wikipedia page for ayahyasca[1]: Someone successfully patented the plant at the core of ayahyasca (B. Caapi) in 1986. That's right, UPTO granted a trademark on a plant. [1] https:&#
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by basseq 12y ago
If Spotify wants to send me a representative, scrubbed dump of their streams table (id, userid, trackid, artistid), we could run some interesting what-if scenarios rather than guessing. It's an interesting trade-off: "punishing&qu
723.
by basseq 12y ago
There seems to be a big gray area with "pure hobbyist" on the left and "commercial drone operations" (let's say Amazon's hypothetical delivery service by way of an example) on the right. This particular case wo
724.
by basseq 12y ago
I'm going back and forth on this kind of activity and profit driver. Two points of view (ignoring spam artists and other bad actors): 1. It's bad because it's not objective. Reporting organizations tout themselves as object
725.
by basseq 12y ago
I'd be interested to read more. Source?
726.
by basseq 12y ago
Agreed, this seems insanely high. Factor of ten at least. I don't work at those three companies mentioned: maybe I just don't know the sector (and maybe I should move to CA). I'm And at the very least, there's stipulatio
727.
by basseq 12y ago
Is it? A lot of free services manage to survive without so-called dark patterns. Frankly, I'd be more likely to pay for a subscription if I trusted them.
728.
by basseq 12y ago
This is my problem with social-network-based SSO solutions. Why would I sign into your service with Twitter when you request the right to post on my behalf? (I've been burned by that. Never again.)
729.
by basseq 12y ago
Hmm, that's a great point. I've always tried to be careful. I use LinkedIn frankly more than any other social network because it allows me to keep up with my friends' professional lives, not vacation photos or snarky tweets.
730.
by basseq 12y ago
I don't think I ever granted them access, but somehow they got a list of random email contacts. So every once in a while I'll get an email that says, "Connect with Joe?" Looks like a normal inbound connection request, bu
731.
by basseq 12y ago
Tran has always had the zen and art of business administration on lock. "Hot sauce must be hot. If you don't like it hot, use less," he said. "We don't make mayonnaise here." He might have capitalized on the ma
732.
by basseq 12y ago
I thought the same thing about the design (and magazine) cover as a whole. Looks like the internet in 1995: needs more BLINK tags and "Under Construction" GIFs.
733.
by basseq 12y ago
I hadn't heard of Eat24 before the Super Bowl. (Where their 30-second commercial with Snoop Dogg cost at least $4M.[1][2]) [1] http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/35255.html [2] http://www.forbes.com/s
734.
by basseq 12y ago
General question: who enforces DMCA? Legal protection would be nice, but if the company in question (say Nintendo in the MKW example) doesn't care and doesn't pursue legal action, does it matter in practice? The only reason the
735.
by basseq 12y ago
This also isn't an apt comparison, because no one is claiming that enthusiasts should own the copyright to Mario Kart. A better comparison would be Steamboat Willie, but even that is confusing because copyright is so caught up with tra
736.
by basseq 12y ago
This is a great way to LEARN, but a terrible way to TEST. Or more precisely, you can't lecture on facts and then test application. Learning HOW to think is as important as WHAT to think. (If the course content is centered around derivi
737.
by basseq 12y ago
That's an apt comparison: if no (or painfully few) students were able to give at least a reasonable answer, the problem lays in the teaching curriculum or methodology. (This may not be the course itself, it may be a broader question ab
738.
by basseq 12y ago
Agreed: weather forecasting was not the only thing at play. (I live in Fairfax, and it was also worse than forecasted.) This just illustrates what happens when you get it wrong (whether you are a school administrator, meteorologist, reporte
739.
by basseq 12y ago
Three problems: 1. Uncertainty isn't actionable. A statement like, "There's an 85% chance of snow with accumulation of 1–24" with peak probabilities of 28% and 17% at 2" and 18", respectively" is nonsense
740.
by basseq 12y ago
Doesn't work in the latest version of Chrome (Windows 8 v. 40.0.2214.91), but works in IE. Interesting concept, but not sure how predominant album color helps me discover music.
741.
by basseq 12y ago
As a DC resident, I agree. My wife got a ticket for parking illegally, but could not find a sign (among many) that prohibited it. She took pictures of everything and went to court. They upheld the ticket under the argument, "the sign m
742.
by basseq 12y ago
Almost two years old and a dupe of 5622887. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5622887
743.
by basseq 12y ago
This is awesome. Those starfields are beautiful.
744.
by basseq 12y ago
I went to UGA my freshman year. Compared to other campuses where the parties are at fraternities or private residences, Athens is a bar (and, as the article points out, a fake ID) town. It was very much a wink-and-grin environment: the &quo
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by basseq 12y ago
Apologies: I stand corrected.
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by basseq 12y ago
Notes and errata: Simple answer to the question posed in paragraph two ("How did a few asset managers earn more money in a single year than Pierpont Morgan did in his whole life?"): inflation. ($1.5B in 1913 is about $36B today.)
747.
by basseq 12y ago
Please rename to "Progressive Troublemakers Create Fake Exxon Site; Subtly Alter Management Photos" Notes: - "Progressive Troublemakers" are YesLab's words ("The Yes Lab is devoted to helping progressive organi
748.
by basseq 12y ago
Sad day. I still have a bunch of old Macworld issues. Though that name seems like such an anachronism. The Apple universe isn't so much "Mac" anymore.
749.
by basseq 12y ago
... because they're more likely to have multiple violations? Interestingly, I wonder what has a higher value/ROI for "the system". A) A couple small tickets (worth, say, $200) that don't get paid, result in multiple
750.
by basseq 12y ago
"... poor are being targeted by speeding tickets at an even higher rate than average because police expect to get more ticket possibilities" Can someone explain this? Are the poor really being targeted? Why are there more ticket p

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