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Ask HN: Best beach to work for a week?
10 points by chasb 13y ago|22 comments
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by chasb 13y ago
Patients, doctors, and payers: Usually only one of these stakeholders knows what the cost of a treatment is. It's not hard to see how the incentives quickly become perverse, especially when a health system gets involved. I, for one, am hopi
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by chasb 13y ago
This is very cool, nice job.
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The first link is to a DOD report. What part of..well, anything, suggests the US isn't taking cyber seriously?
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by chasb 13y ago
Combinator attacks guess "the square of the number of words in the dict" when the password is just the combination of two words, correct? So a 3-word pass would require dict^3? This all seems to come back to length.
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by chasb 13y ago
Filed in 2005, granted in 2009. Doesn't seem like "actively working" on production to me. Surprise!
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Including libraries in a project does not an expert make.
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CNN has an editorial process?
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by chasb 13y ago
> All of this has me really questioning how and where I want to apply my skills for the remainder of my career. Come work in healthcare.
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by chasb 13y ago
Wealth is created in ecosystems. You recognize that. VCs are part of the tech ecosystem. They have their own incentives, just like any entity a complex system.
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Learned Hand never sat on the Supreme Court. The quoted passage is from his Second Circuit decision, 69 F.2d 810.
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All this kid wants to do is make zombies. That's adorable.
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Change from the judiciary takes years and is usually piecemeal at best. And small wins like this undercut the urgency for legislative action. Ugh.
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by chasb 13y ago
Even moreso: After 9/11, the DC Circuit and the 4th Circuit (where Maryland is) broadened the intent requirements for 18 USC 1960 to general intent, meaning a defendant doesn't have to know they're breaking the law, just that they're transf
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Also: In 2010, the median marriage age was over 26 for women and over 28 for men. More and more young people are staying in cities, where cars are much less necessary. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/09/ne...
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Same here - as a male interacting with a female, waiting for the other party to initiate any physical contact is the best bet. If they want to hug you, they'll do it.
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80% intensity is no joke - this should not be comfortable. Might want to do a little easy warmup first.
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I read it as, "[Practically speaking,] [f]or anything to change...Congress must act." You are right that Congress is not the only branch of government that is constitutionally permitted to opine on the scope and subject matter of patents. B