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by patentatt 4y ago
Yeah, he could easily bankroll a 36 month severance package or something similar. Like "sorry I fucked you right at the onset of a recession, here's a pile of cash to help you weather the storm." That would be actually taking
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by patentatt 4y ago
> And the people filing obviously make sure their language doesn't easily bring back prior art. Meanwhile you have no skin in the game at all. You'd think so, but standard operating procedure for most patent prosecution is to i
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by patentatt 4y ago
Former examiner here. Largely agree, however, you and I both know you can string together some hand-wavey 6-reference 103 if you have a gut feeling you shouldn't grant something but you haven't found any better prior art ;-)
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by patentatt 4y ago
Cool helicopter! It brought me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole and it looks like there's an even bigger one: the Mi-26. "In early 2002, a civilian Mi-26 was leased to recover two U.S. Army MH-47E Chinook helicopters from a mountain i
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by patentatt 4y ago
Same lesson that every RTS or 4x game has ever taught me! Just need to have the generals play more command and conquer.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Agreed, duplicacy seems to be more resilient to the inevitable errors or hiccups along the way. The only downside is that it seems to be inefficient with storage with small metadata updates which happen frequently with my use case.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Have you tested restores? The problem I had with duplicati was that eventually restoring from a backup would take exponentially longer, to the point of never finishing. Maybe it would have eventually, but I can't wait multiple days to
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by patentatt 4y ago
Not saying that wasn't difficult, but that actually sounds pretty cool to me. And not to be overly pedantic (although we are on hn here, and when in Rome...), but leading American socialist movements are focused on democratic socialism
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by patentatt 4y ago
This is what I don't get. I thought military and aerospace used decades old cpu designs on decades old fab technology for the radiation hardness? Not saying they couldn't benefit from an upgrade, but it's not like Lockheed i
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by patentatt 4y ago
Try this: select all the text in a text box input in teams with your mouse, click and drag the cursor to select the text. Start typing. It will type the correct characters, right to left. So instead on "hello world" it will displa
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by patentatt 4y ago
I've heard variations of this story a lot. Common people and workers received a share of the company they work for, but times were so dire most people sold them to those with money for a pittance. So foreseeable, why was it allowed to
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by patentatt 4y ago
This. The disease is gross wealth inequality that leads to a certain sector of society having to figure out where to put all that money while the bottom 99.99% are facing real problems.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Unfortunately this is accurate, much like the bounties put on certain people within Afghanistan where it sure seems like it was abused by certain local tribes to take out some rival and profit from the US Government in the process. In areas
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by patentatt 4y ago
This is only pragmatic if you accept the first order assumption that they must use GCP. Which, maybe it's the case for a dev at Discord, but it's a somewhat idiosyncratic choice to call pragmatic. Seems like a lot of developer tim
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by patentatt 4y ago
Do you really envision a world where every person who now rents is homeless, and every rental unit is sitting empty? Is that realistic in any way? The answer is that the market would adjust, prices would come down, different types of mortga
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by patentatt 4y ago
Yikes, never heard of spraying lead as an insecticide! Even more eye opening is that according to Wikipedia it was a "less toxic alternative to then-used Paris Green, which is about 10x more toxic." [1] Makes you wonder what commo
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by patentatt 4y ago
The government and people of Taiwan understand that TSMC is a major reason mainland China hasn't bulldozed their tiny island yet. It's their ace in the hole. They have a monopoly on arguably the most important technology in the wo
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by patentatt 4y ago
Sometimes, some people fail down too, and it damages them. If you think that all failure is 'failing up,' I'd suggest you haven't really failed, and have just experienced setbacks.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Out of curiosity I looked it up on a map [1]. It appears two of the closest settlements [2],[3] are also ghost towns or otherwise pretty much abandoned. Kind of nice to know there are habitable but uninhabited places left in the world. [1]
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by patentatt 4y ago
I chalk it up to a cost benefit calculation. Google clearly isn't trying to eliminate all spam in search. It's not their goal. They are not trying to optimize for the user experience. They're trying to optimize revenue.
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by patentatt 4y ago
Too often I start my car and it begins playing a podcast where I left off. With my kids in the car. I listen to a decent amount of stuff that isn't necessarily appropriate for kids. Makes for a fun scramble to hit that pause button.
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by patentatt 4y ago
As a recent PHEV purchaser, I have to disagree on most counts. All typical driving is fully electric, meaning routine commuting, shopping, etc. is all covered by the battery. The home charger is required, but so so simple because it fully c
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by patentatt 4y ago
Except this is a complete straw man in the current political reality. Climate change legislation will never get a single Republican vote, and we all know it. And they will never be held accountable for that because the people that vote for
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by patentatt 4y ago
I would like to introduce you to Senator Joe Manchin. No substantive climate change legislation is going to pass the Senate. Stop pretending like it's possible.
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by patentatt 4y ago
As a lawyer, I agree with you whole heartedly. Just because a legal decision recites a sound legal argument doesn't mean that that's the only sound legal argument they could have made. In the same way that a competent lawyer c
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by patentatt 4y ago
Just happened to be listening to Dan Carlin's hardcore history about WWI. From memory, the Germans would build multiple railway lines to the front to supply a large offensive like this. And then they'd spend weeks stockpiling ammu
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by patentatt 4y ago
Maybe for the long-tail, but the largest subreddits are far from pet projects. I am under the impression that being a mod on a sub with millions of subscribers is at least a part time job and it's hard to imagine what Reddit would be l
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by patentatt 4y ago
Now I'm grateful for my parents' choice of dentist. She worked out of a small office attached to the back of her home, and had family members as office staff. This is in the 90's in a very posh suburb of a major city, not som
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by patentatt 4y ago
Now I'm a imagining a science fiction weapon: the black hole trebuchet. Just launch a small black hole at your enemies planetary system and they're doomed one way or the other. If the gravitational signature is too much of a dead
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by patentatt 4y ago
Isn't the switch a notorious outlier and oddball with respect to its usb-c implementation though? I think it's more just that Nintendo screwed up one product than the standard is bad.

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