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by patentatt 4y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is satire or not.
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by patentatt 4y ago
As a lawyer, I agree. Much of the trope of 'the lawyers always win' has a lot of truth to it, believe it or not. And all of the incentives align in this direction, it keeps the legal profession fat and happy and beholden to monied
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by patentatt 4y ago
Sure, but citing a non-existent case would be clearly wrong. That was the hypothetical the post above gave.
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by patentatt 4y ago
This is the story that will be told to support austerity which will be used by a small cohort to accumulate even more wealth at the expense of everyone else and cause a generation of misery. What this story misses is that the government con
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by patentatt 4y ago
In the 90's the Democratic party abandoned the labor movement because they thought they could get more votes from moderate republicans if they spew the same free market and free trade ideology. And Clinton did that and won, so since th
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by patentatt 4y ago
I dropped Prime for the first time in many years just last month. 2-day shipping is pretty much standard now at Target and Walmart, there was nothing terribly compelling on Prime Video, and I never even used any other services. Why again ha
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by patentatt 4y ago
I'm curious what the economics are here, because getting someone to just read a book can't possibly be that expensive, right? I'm not talking celebrity voice-over work, but just getting anybody with a passable voice to sit do
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by patentatt 4y ago
And this is why half of the internet is borderline unusable. Page layout jumping around for 5-10 seconds after what appears to be a full page load, buttons simply not functioning, and god forbid you try to use the back button. I know some e
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by patentatt 4y ago
The limited monopoly isn't just for survival though, it's supposed to be an incentive.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Or just "rent" because that seems pretty close to the reality of the situation. Just have the rental term be long, and have it 'renew' for free. I'd be ok with that.
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by patentatt 4y ago
This is a great solution too. I have a wood 'heatilator' (or fireplace insert) and during the recent cold snap in the Midwest I went through about 1/4 face cord of kiln-dried oak over 3 or 4 days (that's a lot by my stan
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by patentatt 4y ago
Does anyone know what codec they're using at 2kbps per voice call?
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by patentatt 4y ago
May as well, it worked the first time.
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by patentatt 4y ago
But the receiver has to know the encoding to be able to detect it. Maybe the aliens are using a different type of spectrum spreading technique that makes a lot of sense to them but is unknown to us.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Can I inquire how you switch inputs (mouse, keyboard) along with the hdmi?
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by patentatt 4y ago
Having been on both sides of that very dynamic, I'm inclined to agree.
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by patentatt 4y ago
At this point 'tech' is more an aesthetic than anything else. Just keep repeating the word 'disruptive' and light a pile of VC money on fire and you're 'tech.' Bonus points if that pile is at least a billi
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by patentatt 4y ago
Step 1: get real drunk and/or high. Step 3: have billions to burn. Step 4: you know the rest.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Also, same firm that Trump worked with. I see a potential pattern here.
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by patentatt 4y ago
I feel like these are not as common/popular as they were back in the day. Now it's all water cooling with those all-in-one setups. I always thought the Peltier coolers were cool (pun not originally intended, but now it is).
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by patentatt 4y ago
Using lossless audio with AirPods is still preferable. Rather than re-encoding a lossy stream with another lossy codec, you only encode it once. Is it minor? Yeah. Can I actually hear it on AirPods? No. But it's not entirely moot.
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by patentatt 4y ago
I hope they don't do this. It would be so wasteful to have every end user device running an ML model every time a song is played. Just run the model once in the datacenter and then distribute the time stamp metadata.
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by patentatt 4y ago
That's me. Grew up in a very middle to perhaps lower-middle-class area and went to more-or-less middling schools. It definitely wasn't 'the mean streets' or anything but very blue collar. I'm certain there were kids
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by patentatt 4y ago
You're missing the point of the entire field of "Public Health." It's not to communicate the minutia of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. That's what academics are for. Public health is more like marketing,
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by patentatt 4y ago
Isn't the consensus that Ivermectin is effective at treating parasitic infection, and treating an active, preexisting parasitic infection can help with COVID indirectly (e.g., the body doesn't have to fight a 'two-front'
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by patentatt 4y ago
But what about all of the real money that low-information retail 'investors' put into the crypto ecosystem as a result of the social media hype? Im not being facetious, isn't there potential future cash flow in the scam?
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by patentatt 4y ago
That sounds like an interesting challenge with today's technology. It's so impressive that this was accomplished at scale with Cold War era technology levels.
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by patentatt 4y ago
But the unemployment that those workers receive is an externality. Now, the nature of UI does mean that it should wash out in the end, but in the near term laying off thousands of people simultaneously potentially puts a strain on the sys
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by patentatt 4y ago
Agreed. I see the other 'prime' labeled services as a negative value frankly, because I know that the entire intent is to make the process frustrating enough to upsell me to their amazon branded services which are universally infe
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by patentatt 4y ago
Crashes every time... am I doing something wrong? iPhone 11 Pro.

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