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by bdowling 6y ago
> So without any other evidence why should we assume that estimate is wrong? We shouldn't assume that the estimate was accurate either, for a couple of reasons: First, the defendant definitely has more information (e.g., manager&#x2
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Most employment lawyers would be very reluctant to take a case like this for 5-10k. We don't know the actual value of the case. The defendants seemed to think that it was worth hiring "the most expensive defense firm in Calif
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by bdowling 6y ago
> After giving me more than one death threat, I finally quit and sued. Threatening to kill you is probably another claim beyond failing to reasonably accommodate your medical condition. It may also be a criminal threat that a prosecutor
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by bdowling 6y ago
> 1) Taxes. What taxes are you talking about? You mentioned that you were selling through app stores, which I assume handled sales taxes for you in the few cases when they may be required. Your business income taxes would be the same as
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by bdowling 6y ago
> The problem is information wants to be read and be free. Copyright is a wall around information that has already been thought of and recorded. Copyright isn't a wall around information. Copyright doesn't prohibit anyone from
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Nothing you're saying counters the original advice. The original advice was to buy the cheapest thing and just use it. GP's advice was "Sometimes you don't know what the minimum viable is because you are a beginner
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by bdowling 6y ago
> What's wrong with fixing inconsistencies? In general, nothing. It's just not the software developer's job. If the accounting profession decided to change certain terms to fix inconsistencies, that would be fine.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> I mean, this is just....wrong. It's beyond wrong. The developer here is redefining established accounting terms because he doesn't like their inconsistencies.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> It's not like the seller couldn't have fulfilled it; they would have just taken a loss to do so. Contract law exists to enforce contracts that one party doesn't want to complete because they regret entering into the deal
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by bdowling 6y ago
> if you're a seller, you have to pay extra to not have your goods co-mingled It would be great if Amazon passed that information on to the purchaser. It might even justify paying a higher price to buy from a non-comingled vendor be
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Yep, its a rice cooker A rice cooker is a cylindrical item that usually comes in a rectangular box that leaves empty room in the corners. The LP associate was checking for additional unpurchased items in the box, not that you were gett
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by bdowling 6y ago
> often under the same SKU. If the SKU is the same, wouldn't this open everyone up to the problem in which a buyer buys one item from the expensive retailer (better product) and one from the cheap retailer (inferior product), then r
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Saleh showed compassion Or Salah thought that he probably wouldn't get his money back if Haspil was arrested, so he made a deal with him.
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by bdowling 6y ago
Taxes are computed at the cashier because tax rates vary from state to state and city to city. If sales taxes were uniform then we would see more advertised prices including tax. One exception is in advertised gasoline prices, which usually
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by bdowling 6y ago
Why the 6502 instead of the 65816?
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by bdowling 6y ago
The structure of a loop around a big switch statement (based on value at PC) to blocks of code that manipulate the register variables (A, X, Y, PC, etc) and RAM looks exactly like an emulator core. The code also appears to include the Commo
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by bdowling 6y ago
I assume this is the same defective water slide case: https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/civil-procedure/civil-pr... Here, the issue was whether the defendant manufacturer could amend their pleading to deny
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by bdowling 6y ago
> the existence of a patent shouldn't necessarily stop someone from infringing that patent I should clarify that I'm not suggesting that anyone knowingly and willfully infringe any patent, because there may be liability for doi
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by bdowling 6y ago
> impossible to write any meaningful piece of software without violating some patent. Even if that were true, the existence of a patent shouldn't necessarily stop someone from infringing that patent. If a startup infringes someone e
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by bdowling 6y ago
If the resulting combination is a machine that is useful, new, and non-obvious, then I'd call that an invention.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> existing things with maybe a new twist somewhere. To be valid, a claim must be novel (new) and non-obvious over the prior art. So there absolutely must be a new twist somewhere.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Where is that in the patent document? The new parts are necessarily included in the claims at the end of patent document. However, there's nothing that requires an applicant to specify which elements of a claim are new over the pr
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by bdowling 6y ago
From the article: > The contract with Take-Two was the studio’s only source of revenue at the time. Without it, the independent studio was in serious trouble. > The [founders] had been in discussions about selling their company to Tak
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by bdowling 6y ago
There is no operator. The Grubhub-owned number will ring through to the restaurant, but will log the call so that Grubhub can get its commission.
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by bdowling 6y ago
According to your link the situations in which decompilation is legal are extremely limited. For example, under EU law, (1) "a person or entity must have a licence to use the program to be decompiled" and (2) "Article 6 presc
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by bdowling 6y ago
> It's decompiled and reassembled code and completely legal. If it’s created by disassembling Nintendo’s code, then it is derived from that code and it infringes Nintendo’s copyright.
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by bdowling 6y ago
> could actually release . . . using ports/code improvements they didn't have to write. Porting the code is the easy part. The hard part is relicensing the original music, art, and other essential assets. Consider the recent re
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by bdowling 6y ago
> Look at the recent build of Super Mario 64 for the PC That build was made with either stolen source code or code decompiled and distributed without without a license from Nintendo. It is not comparable to an intentional source code rel
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by bdowling 6y ago
> A kidnapping/hostage situation, for instance. A situation like that probably doesn't require a warrant because it probably falls under the "hot pursuit" exception.
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by bdowling 6y ago
I don’t disagree, but there’s something magic about using old floppy drives. Even if you were a bit too young to have used them yourself, you may enjoy the experience. I think it’s worth trying even if you end up buying a floppy emulator la

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