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by bhousel 14y ago
from TFA: "After the partial copyright verdict was read, Judge Alsup launched right into the patent phase without even giving a break. Right now, the jury is watching a video about patents and patent lawsuits produced by the Federal Judicia
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by bhousel 14y ago
I can't believe cases like this are actually decided by a jury trial. There's no way 12 random people shown a video about the patent system can be expected to rule fairly on matters of nerd esoterica. Or is this opening round just legal th
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by bhousel 14y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty big untapped market! Did you tell them that they can get $40k from the government and replace all their paper files with iPads? It's the new hotness. Caveat: You can throw out any data points if those providers are par
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by bhousel 14y ago
MU = Meaningful Use The person making the purchasing decision will almost certainly know about this. A provider must meet certain "meaningful use" criteria to be eligible for tax credits, and so this designation indicates that DrChrono mee
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by bhousel 14y ago
I like this story a lot. But which of these men has more true freedom? Sure we may all want to "sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and
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by bhousel 14y ago
Money == Freedom Don't you want freedom?
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by bhousel 14y ago
> But definitely not law. I don't want my son spending the rest of his life chasing dollars." Strange remark. That is a strange remark indeed, but I suppose I could understand that sentiment coming from a doctor whose main interaction
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by bhousel 15y ago
Ok, I freely admit that I know nothing about selling bingo cards.. But it "feels" to me like that number should be closer to 5. I was really surprised to see that you give away 15 cards for free. You could A/B test this too, right?
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by bhousel 15y ago
I'm very satisfied with 1Password..
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by bhousel 15y ago
I did about 10 minutes of googling since it is my lunch break, and I'm now convinced that your risk rate will only be 20% if you are something like a logger or speedboat racer.
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by bhousel 15y ago
How can it cost that much? I pay something like $500 a year for my own workers compensation insurance, because it is required by New Jersey. $10/week is peanuts. Edit: I'm not calling you a liar, just genuinely curious.
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by bhousel 15y ago
You have a point. I think many of the criticisms you'll read here are coming from people who have "been there, done that" with their own businesses. The 1099 vs W2 issue is very real but (imo) totally fixable in a few days with a decent ac
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by bhousel 15y ago
You are correct that the maids are employees, but since he only just started this business, it seems like a very fixable problem to convert them to employees. I ran some numbers on a free paycheck calculator site (paycheckcity.com) and assu
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by bhousel 15y ago
But by stopping what you were doing to click that link, didn't you kind of prove his point? That it's more than the application, it's about getting noticed.
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by bhousel 15y ago
Glasses like this could take whatever you are looking at it and magnify it in the heads up display. It could probably even be selective about it, e.g. only magnify and sharpen text that is at the center of your field of vision. There are a
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by bhousel 15y ago
No, it's not insensitive. These glasses could be a huge breakthrough for the vision or hearing impaired: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3806640
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by bhousel 15y ago
"Blind" doesn't necessarily mean "zero vision". There are a lot of people with vision impairment (legal blindness, but partial sight) who could benefit from these glasses. For example, the glasses could automatically magnify small text tha
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by bhousel 15y ago
It's very common.. Investment decisions are often made based on things that representatives from a company say to the press, or details reported in their public SEC filings. Any inaccuracies in these statements can be the basis for a lawsu
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by bhousel 15y ago
As someone who builds legal matter management software for large publicly traded companies, I can confirm that your perception is correct. Public companies are sued all the time for this kind of stuff. These lawsuits often allege misrepres
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by bhousel 15y ago
Wow, that is outlandish.. The panels aren't pointed at the sun, and the blades would be so heavy that they'd need a gale to get moving. It's kinda the worst of both worlds. Though part of me is tempted to build it to see what it would do.
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by bhousel 15y ago
Heh, mount this "tower" on slip rings and an alternator and you can have both a solar array and a windmill in one.
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by bhousel 15y ago
The press release is a bit misleading.. The "story" is that this accordion arrangement of solar panels increases the solar power generated from a given area. So if you have a square meter of space, you get 'x' Watts/m^2 by laying a flat
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by bhousel 15y ago
Haha, why the hate? I use VBScript almost daily because I support an old proprietary system that offers 3 choices for business logic scripting (VBScript is actually the best of the three).
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by bhousel 15y ago
Nice site! I think the questions and answers need some kind of visible timestamp though. Q&A, by its very nature, can go stale quickly.
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by bhousel 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by bhousel 15y ago
I'm one of those casual users who maybe uses an image editing program a few times a year. I also found Fireworks to be a much better tool for these tasks. Last week was another of those times when I needed to open a graphic and tweak a log
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by bhousel 15y ago
In Rails that's called "Fragment Caching", which is different from "Page Caching".
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by bhousel 15y ago
I would have used VRML. And get off my lawn!
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by bhousel 15y ago
I'm not convinced that the top 10% sell things to the bottom 90%. We may have a situation where the different wealth brackets operate their own economies that really don't have much to do with each other. (I do agree with your main point
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by bhousel 15y ago
>Rationality doesn't necessarily exclude "morals, culture, or feelings". That would imply that having a rational discussion about culture, e.g. anthropology, is impossible. No I am not implying that the process of making rational deci

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