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by d2vid 14y ago
It's not THAT easy. Gifts are taxable: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em... So are trust fund transfers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation-skipping_transfer_ta...
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by d2vid 14y ago
I end up using underscore.js in every project I work on because JS doesn't have good functional programming built in, at least not that you can count on in all implementations. I use date.js or moment.js whenever I have to deal with times/d
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by d2vid 14y ago
I agree, I got the book because it was recommended by someone here on HN, and I found it full of reference to studies that I think most interested readers would already be familiar with. Then it would take those study results and extrapolat
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by d2vid 14y ago
I just went on to AskPatents and tried my hand at it: http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/197/prior-art-for... I'm not doing anything close to as good a job as a patent examiner would do, but with about an hour of work I (hopefully
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by d2vid 14y ago
How many teacups we talkin here? In 2011 there were about 500K utility patent applications: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm Many of those are not software related. There are about 1.3M programmers in the US al
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by d2vid 14y ago
Regarding the treble damages for having read a patent - since these are patent applications, not granted patents, perhaps one could argue that one didn't know it was actually granted?
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by d2vid 14y ago
Not true regarding 46 ancestors - chromosomal DNA is swapped between the homologous chromosomes during meiosis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis#Prophase_I You are correct about mitochondrial DNA.
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by d2vid 14y ago
I found a dime when I was a child and swallowed it - maybe my parents should have sued the US Mint.
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by d2vid 14y ago
Opportunity cost. If we're comparing it to annual income, we should compare to the annual income of the median mobile developer, which is less than $80k.
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by d2vid 14y ago
> The notional size of the derivatives involved is on the order of $360 trillion. Total worldwide wealth is estimated at only $200 trillion. These derivatives are not serving their useful function as a hedge and are instead being widely
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by d2vid 14y ago
Punchcards are a form of price discrimination - only customers who are price conscious will keep the paper card in their wallet and remember it every time. Price-insensitive customers still pay full price. From the store's perspective, the
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by d2vid 14y ago
It depends on the quantity of people who were spied on. If it is everyone, then it means nothing. If it is you and a few "terrorists", then people will draw conclusions.
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by d2vid 14y ago
Could one take real recorded noise and add that rather than noise generated via algorithm? Wouldn't that force attackers to solve a real problem (removing background noise from an speech sample)?
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by d2vid 14y ago
This. I think many people don't think they are susceptible to these biases because every time they encounter one, it is in the context of reading about biases and thus they are primed to be on the lookout for trickiness. I guess "many peopl
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by d2vid 14y ago
Agreed. Thinking intelligent people can better resist biases makes as much sense as saying that handsome people can. In both cases the halo effect is at work.
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by d2vid 14y ago
> That second screenshot is most troubling, as the title does not match the query (i.e. that copy was built.) Did you mean to say that the first screenshot was more troubling? That is the one where the user searched "meetingburner" and
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by d2vid 14y ago
> in a process called saccadic suppression, we are effectively blind for at least 2 hrs of the day. This is why you cannot see your own eyes moving when you look in a mirror! False! Stare into your own eyes in a mirror and turn your hea
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by d2vid 14y ago
How about it raises the costs of coordinating a conspiracy - it signals to other protest groups that if someone starts suggesting violence, you should decline because they might be an agent. That could then prevent violence in cases where
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by d2vid 14y ago
I found that interesting as well. The problem is that people predict that a generous return policy will make them happy, and they are more likely to purchase if you give them what they predict will make them happy, not what will actually ma
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by d2vid 15y ago
It would also be nice if there were an example showing the code necessary for integration.
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by d2vid 15y ago
I tried dragging the street view dude onto the monster, but unfortunately no battle ensued ;(
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by d2vid 15y ago
>"[I]f tomorrow air passengers were offered the option of a 'secure' flight on which all passengers are subject to security, or a 'non-secure' one where they could go straight to boarding, hassle-free," he writes, "I promise you that ma
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by d2vid 15y ago
No affiliation. I think they might contact you to get quotes for media about how cool it would be and to notify you of their progress.
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by d2vid 15y ago
My girlfriend told me about this because she gets blood clots from hormonal birth control and we wish this was an option today. You should complete this survey like I did if you are interested: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TSKSKGM
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The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men(techcitement.com)
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by d2vid 15y ago
>unfounded prejudice is unstable in a competitive market for labor. Only with perfect information. In the absence of straightforward tests to evaluate job applicant quality, discrimination can unfortunately be a stable and rational str
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by d2vid 15y ago
I kept reading the article and looking for something that would give this away as an early April Fools joke.
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by d2vid 15y ago
> you're going to be limited to > 45 year old females with Stage IV glioblastoma expressing marker Y If the drug is approved for a specific use in a specific demographic, then doctors can choose to prescribe it for other uses and to
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by d2vid 15y ago
Mint was acquired by Intuit, they did not IPO: https://www.mint.com/press/intuit-to-acquire-mint-com/
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by d2vid 15y ago
> I neither own nor possess my apartment In a legal sense, a renter actually does possess their apartment (but they do not own it): http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/possession

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