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by dpatru 18y ago
> Quite simply a patent can be invalidated by someone simply inventing it themselves, which turns something from 'original' to 'obvious' and thus non-patentable. Just because an invention is re-invented, or invented independently more o
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by dpatru 18y ago
Thanks for posting as one page. The source is truly awful.
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Reason and WSJ's Solution to the Health Insurance Crisis (Video)(online.wsj.com)
1 points by dpatru 18y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 18y ago
As I understand it, the government was basically offering the banks money, albeit on perhaps not the best terms. Banks could pay it back if they could raise the money elsewhere on better terms. Every bank had to accept the offer because not
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by dpatru 18y ago
It took me a while to understand how he built the doubly linked list. Here's my explanation. You want to build a function which takes two doubly linked lists (DLList) and some values and inserts the values in between the lists and returns t
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Circular Data Structures in Haskell(haskell.org)
2 points by dpatru 18y ago|1 comments
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by dpatru 18y ago
The phrase "It's good enough for government work" comes to mind.
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by dpatru 18y ago
Beware of geeks: Beware of geeks with clever computer models: “I mean they had all these types from Wall Street, you know, and they had advanced degrees, and they look very alert, and they came with these — they came with these things that
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The financial crisis explained and a plan proposed which would not fleece the taxpayers(hussmanfunds.com)
1 points by dpatru 18y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 18y ago
Lessig should apply his analysis to Obama. He has no executive experience and hasn't even served a full term in the Senate. Palin may be unqualified according to Lessig's standards, but by the same standards, Obama is even more unqualified.
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A new way to look at networking(video.google.com)
3 points by dpatru 18y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 18y ago
Dignity is deadly.
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The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer(willamette.edu)
16 points by dpatru 18y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 18y ago
Zimbabwe, with GDP 0, is first for medals per GDP. One of the few benefits of living under Mugabe.
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by dpatru 18y ago
from http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html : > You know from an early age that you'll have some sort of job, because everyone asks what you're going to "be" when you grow up. What they don't tell you is that as a kid you're sitting on the
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Natural Project Planning with Emacs Org-Mode(members.optusnet.com.au)
1 points by dpatru 18y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 18y ago
> Money "going away" isn't necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes it serves a useful purpose. For one thing, when someone's money goes away, they tend to go out and do more work, creating actual wealth in the form of economic output, rather
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by dpatru 18y ago
Craigslist seems like it's willing to do a lot of work to avoid the simple solution of just charging a little for postings.
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The face of Leonardo (Video)(ted.com)
8 points by dpatru 19y ago|1 comments
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by dpatru 19y ago
Murray Rothbard's essay, Society Without the State, http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard133.html , seems relevant here.
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by dpatru 19y ago
It's interesting that the children, when left to themselves, solved their own disputes peacefully through negotiation and a form of organically-grown community law. They had no cause to complain about unfairness until the teachers used arbi
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by dpatru 19y ago
Apparently, Negroponte objected to an Intel saleswoman giving a side-by-side comparisons of OLPC XO and Intels Classmate PC. What's wrong with that? Is Negroponte hoping to make sales by keeping his customers ignorant?
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Radical Buy: Ebay killer?(facereviews.com)
13 points by dpatru 19y ago|0 comments
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by dpatru 19y ago
I remember reading some months back on reddit I think that exercise has been shown to promote neuron growth in rats. I searched google just now and found this: http://www.paulspoerry.com/index.php/2007/09/14/excersize-ma... Also, from my
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by dpatru 19y ago
thanks.
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by dpatru 19y ago
This material can also be accessed in audio form at http://www.mises.org/multimedia/mp3/audiobooks/rothbard/fora... .
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How to stop pollution and destruction of natural resources(mises.org)
1 points by dpatru 19y ago|1 comments
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by dpatru 19y ago
Seems like they're trading in a simple business model (give customers what they want and charge them for it) with a complicated one (try to give customers what they want while trying to charge advertisers.)