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by mlissner 9y ago
The important thing about a trademark is that you start using it. If you run into a problem with somebody else using your name, the most important thing will be who used it first, not who TM'ed it first. In fact, if they TM a name that
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Celery 4.0(docs.celeryproject.org)
181 points by mlissner 10y ago|50 comments
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by mlissner 10y ago
No, businesses are saying that it's libel or slander or something else, and if you responded to their suit by saying anything about your first amendment rights, your be laughed out of court. Yelp's message should be about libel an
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by mlissner 10y ago
This first amendment says the government can't abridge your speech. The government is not doing that here, so mentioning the first amendment adds more confusion to the concept of free speech than it adds clarity. It's about as use
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by mlissner 10y ago
That doesn't actually create a properly encrypted connection. It only encrypts between the user and the site (at CloudFlare), not between the site and Github. Without that last hop being encrypted, you have to weigh whether this is an
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Comcast using your domain to route it's own traffic(twitter.com)
3 points by mlissner 11y ago|0 comments
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Toyota to invest $1B in new Palo Alto artificial intelligence lab(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by mlissner 11y ago|0 comments
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by mlissner 11y ago
Right, flipped that in my mind. Thanks.
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by mlissner 11y ago
Structured Settlements are the ridiculous deals whereby I buy money that's owed to you for pennies on the dollar. Say you reached a settlement that pays you $500/month for 30 years, that's $180k over 30 years. But if I offere
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Former paralegal charged with forging the signatures of NY state justices(manhattanda.org)
78 points by mlissner 11y ago|66 comments
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by mlissner 11y ago
You mean to RSS feeds instead of going to actual websites?
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Ask HN: What's the best ad-blocking, privacy-enhancing extension set up?
67 points by mlissner 11y ago|60 comments
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by mlissner 11y ago
yeah, I don't get this suggestion at all. They say that: > This option comes with a coordination penalty, but results in a much more predictable behavior In general, I'd much rather the greater throughput over predictable behav
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Luhn Algorithm for validating credit cards(en.wikipedia.org)
53 points by mlissner 11y ago|31 comments
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by mlissner 12y ago
I think it's a reasonable question and I'm a big fan of piwik, but running it at this kind of scale is very hard. We get about 10k hits/day on the piwik instance we run and it's consistently taking more resources than th
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Zittrain: Why Libraries [Still] Matter(medium.com)
2 points by mlissner 12y ago|0 comments
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by mlissner 12y ago
What's weird though is that they have a consortium. They could have all agreed simultaneously to stop issuing SHA1 certs years ago and at no market loss. But they didn't.
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How could using PACER go wrong?(freelawproject.org)
4 points by mlissner 12y ago|0 comments
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by mlissner 12y ago
Sorry - What's the point you're making about your girlfriend?
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by mlissner 12y ago
We're actually working on solving some of these problems at my non-profit, http://freelawproject.org : - We've built https://www.courtlistener.com to provide a powerful search system with millions of opinion
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by mlissner 12y ago
that plan was canceled.
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by mlissner 12y ago
Another approach, for the lazy, is to just push the photos to Google auto backup. If you do that it'll automatically figure out that they can be stitched together and will provide you with the image. Works very well in my experience an
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by mlissner 13y ago
As the lead dev of the non-profit, it's exciting to see it appear here. We've been working on this project for four years now. The legal world is a tough one when it comes to technology: Lawyers are conservative and risk adverse,
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Clean out your dead RSS and Atom feeds(michaeljaylissner.com)
3 points by mlissner 13y ago|0 comments