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by cduan 16y ago
From my brief reading, this paper essentially deals with solving an information asymmetry. The males don't know if the females are willing to mate, and the females don't know if the males intend to stay around. Thus, gifts are used as signa
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by cduan 16y ago
Those would be sunglasses that filter out green, otherwise known as red sunglasses.
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by cduan 16y ago
There was another recent case that touched on the related question of whether violation of a license agreement attached to software could give rise to copyright infringement: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/mixed-ninth-circuit-rul...
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by cduan 16y ago
Ah, this is helpful, as I think it highlights the point of disagreement. If you are of the view that an MLM scheme is legal if there is a "real product" that "might be useful for some people," even if that product is a zero-cost ebook, then
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by cduan 16y ago
Here is a definition of a pyramid scheme: pyramid schemes — also referred to as franchise fraud or chain referral schemes — are marketing and investment frauds in which an individual is offered a distributorship or franchise to market a pa
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by cduan 16y ago
So if I'm understanding this correctly: 1. You sell books, and make some money off of the sales. 2. A commission is paid for each sale, to between one and four "referral sources." Isn't this what every author does, except #2 is called an ad
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by cduan 16y ago
This line in the patent: This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 09/919,672, filed Jul. 31, 2001. means that it was effectively filed on that date, so you would need prior art predating 2001. (Though it might be more complicated
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by cduan 16y ago
If you look at the Patent Office record, you will find that the patent was ultimately upheld, with a few wording changes. The blog post refers to the Patent Office's initial opinion (called a "non-final Office Action"), not the final decisi
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by cduan 16y ago
I used to write papers in a fractal form. A short one would go like: In my opinion, A is true. A is true for at least three reasons: B, C, and D. B is true for at least three reasons. First, E. Second, F. Third, G. Therefore, B is true. C
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by cduan 16y ago
The way I read it, they're not deleting any tests, but rather just providing additional case law guidance on three of them. The reason the other four aren't included is simply that there is no case law to be discussed for them, presumably.
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by cduan 16y ago
I suppose the saving grace is that it would be pretty difficult--not impossible, but pretty difficult--to truly get away with this without detection. With all the logging that goes on, chances are that you could be identified by a MAC addre
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by cduan 16y ago
This is based on this comic, I think: http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/jpeg-vs-png-image-q... (It has a link to the original website, but the original website isn't working for me.)
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by cduan 16y ago
I see a lot of economists making arguments of this form: 1. There is this social norm I observe. ("Which makes it ironic that we consider pedophilia a bad thing.") 2. The social norm is justified by some sort of moral/psychological factor.
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by cduan 16y ago
So if you picked "keep" you have a chance at an extra $125,000. But you also look like a selfish bastard on national TV, you'll probably lose a lot of friends, and whatever relationship you had going with your housemate (I assume there was
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by cduan 16y ago
If you have US patent numbers, you can get the related European patents either from either http://ep.espacenet.com or http://www.patentlens.net . For example, http://www.patentlens.net/patentlens/patents.html?patnums=US... shows relate
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by cduan 16y ago
A simpler explanation seems to be that morning people are more in line with the regular 9-5 schedule of businesses and schools, and that 9-5 schedule was set from the days when natural light was an important factor in when work could be con
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by cduan 16y ago
If it really is the case that this is copyright infringement, the easiest step may be to send a DMCA complaint to GitHub. The purpose of the DMCA complaint mechanism was to make it cheap and easy to deal with online copyright infringement w
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by cduan 16y ago
That's not really a reason to avoid answering the question either. Regardless of the mechanism by which your mind arrives at the answer (be it animal instincts, brain chemistry, whatever), you are indeed capable of coming up with an answer,
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by cduan 16y ago
It's never clear to me why people answer thought experiments like this in this manner. The point of the question "would you kill someone for a trillion dollars" is to tease out an answer to an underlying philosophical question, such as, "is
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by cduan 16y ago
Two questions come to mind: 1. It would be pretty simple to write a computer simulation to test this, no? Would anyone care to do so? 2. I don't know enough about the AIDS situation in Africa to say whether it is empirical evidence for or a
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by cduan 16y ago
All the points are good, but it always sounds a little weird to me when people say things like "LaTeX is great because it handles hyphenation." The hyphenation support is part of TeX, which is the programming language, not LaTeX, which is a
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by cduan 16y ago
Knuth agrees with you (see the bottom of the page): http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
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by cduan 16y ago
> However, what's "free to stream"? According to the interpretation of the U.S. law, if you stream your video with ads (e.g. Youtube, Vimeo), then that's a non-free usage. It's commercial video, even if you, the producer, makes no dime
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by cduan 16y ago
Back in 2004, someone pointed out to me a nice way of getting free CAPTCHA solvers by offering certain audiovisual materials to visitors and requiring the visitors to solve CAPTCHAs in order to access those materials. To maximize effectiven
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by cduan 16y ago
The current title ("How to manipulate people with font type") relays two pieces of information about the article: that it is about fonts, and that it is about psychology (manipulation of people). The original article title does neither, at
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by cduan 16y ago
It's probably less assuming that a programmer is male, and more the fact that, at the time, "he" was well-accepted as a gender-neutral pronoun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
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by cduan 16y ago
If you are consistent in ending your tag lines with an opening brace, :g/{$/p will work.
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by cduan 16y ago
There are plenty of good reasons for selling tickets at lower-than-necessary prices on a first-come, first-served basis. If tickets were sold at market price (or auctioned off), they would tend to go to more affluent--and likely then older-
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by cduan 17y ago
Link to actual paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1102378 EDIT: This must be an early version of the paper, or the linked article is substantially overstating its conclusions. (Is there a student on HN who can get f
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by cduan 17y ago
I like to add a simple hash value based on the URL onto my passwords. A simple hash that you can calculate in your head is best, such as the first four consonants of the URL, and then you can integrate that into a password by just concatena

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