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by law 14y ago
> Informational goods are nonrival: they are copyable and usable with no loss to the original. The relation between copies of information is abstract. A copy adds its value, and subtracts nothing. That is where I disagree. There's an
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by law 14y ago
Thank you for the absolutely fantastic insight. I completely agree with everything that you've written, and especially with your sentiments concerning rash decisions in reforming patent law. Patent law is an enormously complex system that's
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by law 14y ago
Let's take it a step further: every item that you purchase with a credit card is recorded. It wouldn't surprise me if some retail stores use CCTV systems capable of facial recognition to identify cash purchases, too... It's time to create a
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by law 14y ago
I agree with you that Roberts should be praised for his prudence and pragmatism; he held true to his belief that the Justices are umpires. However, there's a huge inconsistency in this ruling: The Anti-Injunction Act says that you can't fil
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by law 14y ago
Although some may argue the relevance of this ruling to readers of HN, thank you for posting the link to the PDF. Effectively, it comes down to this: (1) buy health insurance and pay lower taxes; or (2) don't buy health insurance and pay hi
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by law 14y ago
That's a very good point, but recall that the standard is the hypothetical person who is presumed to have known the relevant art at the time of the invention. From KSR, we know that it's this person who's the baseline for determining which,
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by law 14y ago
I appreciate their efforts, but I disagree with a couple of their points. First, their use of the term 'troll' automatically imbues the reader with a sense of the type of person from whom this effort attempts to protect innovators: people w
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by law 14y ago
I love the concept: crowd-sourced research can provide an enormous amount of help to research groups barely clinging onto life (financially). However, there's an enormous issue that also needs to be addressed: the impact of university aff
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by law 14y ago
It bothers me when people equate the right of privacy (i.e. the right to be let alone) with a perceived right of seclusion (i.e. a perceived right to not be seen/heard/disturbed by others). The disconcerting reality is that privacy is far m
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by law 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking that isn't already addressed by the model rules of professional conduct. Read http://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibilit... -- it'll answer many of your questions. Consider finding a lawye
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by law 14y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=unauthorized+practice+of+law "[A]s the term is generally understood, the practice of the law is the doing and performing services in a court of justice in any matter depending therein through its various st
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by law 14y ago
You don't have to do any work to find a lawyer beyond calling your county bar association's lawyer referral service (or the ABA lawyer referral service). Lawyers are obligated to turn down cases on which they would be unable to provide comp
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by law 14y ago
jsprinkles is 100% correct. Federal courts generally aren't courts of equity (with bankruptcy courts being the sole exception); they're courts of law. They have a strictly enforced set of procedural rules the nonobservance of which can re
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by law 14y ago
> My advise is hire counsel to advise you, educate yourself of self representation and court procedures, and rake these fuckers over the coals. This is terrible advice. Unless you're a duly licensed attorney in OP's jurisdiction, don't
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by law 14y ago
For anyone who's interested, here's a list of C++11 features built into VC10 and VC11: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368(v=vs.110).a...
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by law 14y ago
> Particularly, if you're using a language like Haskell or Ocaml, it helps to have at least a vague idea of what a functor actually is and where the idea comes from. (I actually only realized that functors were actually similar ideas in
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by law 14y ago
Becoming "fluent" in a programming language is vastly different from becoming "fluent" in a natural language. I hate when people make that comparison. How often does one ask for the etymology of the "if" statement and to what extent is such
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by law 14y ago
You're completely correct. Where I have trouble with the model is that Kickstarter does not do enough to correct the spread of misinformation concerning the precise character of your "pledge." It's not a donation and it's not an investment;
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by law 14y ago
What I want to do with the data is largely irrelevant; I care more about being free to analyze this data--data that belongs to the public. But to answer your question more precisely, I'm interested in identifying trends in the courts with r
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by law 14y ago
I don't sign petitions, because that type of feel-good inaction is one of the major problems in America today. Instead, I support the efforts of Carl Malamud at public.resource.org and am trying to figure out a way to crowdsource PACER. Adm
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by law 14y ago
I used to be devoted VS2010 user, but when C++11 came out, I realized that Microsoft had no intention of incorporating all of the changes into its products in the near future. Accordingly, I moved to MinGW with gcc 4.7 and use Code::Blocks
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by law 14y ago
I'm referring to some problem that renders specific provisions of a contract unenforceable. In some jurisdictions, absent a severability clause, the entire contract could be thrown out, meaning that judge.me would no longer have consent of
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by law 14y ago
My biggest problem with this is that "fairness" isn't objective and impartial, which is in contrast to the intent of U.S. law. Fairness is a function of one's life experiences, which may differ between arbitrators and subsequently shift the
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by law 14y ago
Because the ones that don't specify something else, like an accrediting agency.
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by law 14y ago
I'd be pleasantly surprised if he (and oDesk, by extension) were to share this data. They're very profitable, and this type of information might offer them a competitive edge. Moreover, it appears as if they're also fervid believers in inte
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An Interview with Kevin O'Leary(youtube.com)
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by law 14y ago
Heh, I never actually took the time to think of the literal meaning of the phrase. Nevertheless, the quantity modified by 'steep' is in fact scalar and thus 'steep' affects only the magnitude. It reveals nothing about the underlying natur
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by law 14y ago
But lumping these high-performing individuals together with the single glittering generality "genius" leaves us less enlightened for the trouble. I think that was precisely the author's point: viz. , the word "genius" is vacu
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by law 14y ago
PGF/TikZ are low- and high-level packages that can be used from LaTeX as well as from the original TeX. The packages allow you to program graphics just as you'd program a document, but it gives you finer control over graphical relations bet
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by law 14y ago
Although I use LaTeX for my resume, it's also worth checking out PGF/TikZ: http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/base... The learning curve is very steep, but if you're doing anything creative with the organization or

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