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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
It also says something about the people that are willing to stick around. Not good things.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
He may not have been able to understand your answer without seeing it in code.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Algorithms remain unpatenable. The claims of this patent recite a chat bot system that does specific things a certain way. If it does require a particular algorithm, the algorithm itself is not protected.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
The claims define the protected inventions. In this example, claim 1 recites a very specific way to implement a chat bot. "A method for creating a conversational chat bot of a specific entity, the method comprising: receiving a request
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Some are. It depends on how they work. Remember utility patents are about how things work, not what they are. There are probably 1000's of issued patents for chat bots each one claiming different hows .
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
I watched Alex Jones on Tim Pool's IRL podcast say that it was a crucial part of "The Great Reset" to clear out the middle-rich -- the people considered wealthy enough to cause trouble but not part-of-the-program so to speak.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
They formed a Members-only union which can exist absent a majority of employees joining. The terminology is confusing since all unions are member-only. These minority unions do not have collective bargaining rights unless the employer agree
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Apparently this is a Members-only union. They are different than classic teamster/boilermaker/machinist unions most people think of. Unless the law or NLRB has recently changed its position, employers do not have to bargain with m
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
When I did employee-side employment discrimination law, the stories from the union employees who worked at a giant US airplane manufacture were the saddest. Often with local union leadership being involved in the discrimination. Eventually
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
I my one experience, they were more than happy to let us breakdown the booths at the end of the show rather than stick around after 5pm on a Friday. But setting up or carrying things things during the day had to use union people.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Omitting an inventor from a patent is usually grounds for invalidating the patent. (Unless they are careful to exclude all of your contributions from the claims -- which is almost impossible)
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Downvoting for disagreement is okay? That is new to me. Well okay then. I will proceed accordingly. Thanks.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Common law fraud is hard to prove in the US. All of the elements listed below must be proven. However, some of the comments here describe behavior that comes pretty close. (1) a representation of fact; (2) its falsity; (3) its materiality;
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Lying to consumers. Puffery is the legal term of art. The "reasoning" allowing advertising/advertisers to lie is that it is assumed consumers do not believe it.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
This is creeping pretty close to the legal definition of fraud. But advertising has had a fair amount of safe-harbor carve-outs for over a 100 years or so that are not available to other industries. So it is no surprise it continues today.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
I competed for some gov projects before. The one-trick that produces such bad outcomes is requiring the RFP winners to have done similar projects before. This often freezes out local innovators in favor of large national contractors that sp
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
The King 5 article says that the WA project was led by Hewlett-Packard and then Microsoft helped out at the end.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
I am talking about the cost of the software for Washington State. Added a link.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
"Eventually, the [Washington] state’s computers started to flag anomalies: out-of-state banks, duplicate email addresses and multiple names using the same bank accounts. But there and elsewhere, antiquated state computer systems fail
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
I switched to single spacing about 15 years ago when I was reading about typography for legal writing. Now I find two-spacing jarring. Also, when seeing two-spacing I somewhat irrationally get the feeling that the writer is old-fashioned or
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Well, the company would cut you loose in a second if they felt like it. A VP of Engineering at my first tech job was the first to tell me to never be loyal to a company because they will never be loyal to you. Later the worst example of thi
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Two weeks is fine. Candidates can take the first offer and continue their interview process. Then two-months later they can give notice when the slow deciding company they really want to work at finally makes an offer.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Given that turnbacks and rehabs have been a thing for years, it is probably working out the way the Army hopes. I got in trouble a few times in the Army and there was a lot of effort to "rehab" me. When I got in trouble as an NCO,
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Generally, yes. Victims of this tactic are required to obey the absurd orders and then seek remedy from the courts afterward. There are exceptions related to orders to break the law, put oneself or others into danger, and so on. For example
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Same in the US. But, people are required to obey police commands, unlawful or not, and then seek remedy from the courts afterwards. And, there is usually a narrow self-defense exception. One can lawfully resist if the police are unlawfully
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
The are US laws like the Electronic Communication Act that addressed some of these issues for phone companies and ISPs. Google, et al, need to be roped into similar laws. They are providing a defacto public square that deserves more regulat
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
I look forward to the signature audits. Witness affidavits suggest some counties in some states did not follow their own laws. Now, unfortunately, there is no legal remedy because in most cases the irregular ballots cannot be separate from
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Fraud is a very specific (and hard to prove) term of art in US law. There is no US law that would stop someone from making expressions that are later determined to be fraudulent. Note, commercial speech (e.g., advertisement) is considered a
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
Sure their may be consequences for speech that is later determined by a court and with due process to be unprotected. But no US law can prevent you from saying it in the first place.
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by pnw_hazor 6y ago
More recently, the pre-election suppression of the Hunter Biden scandals that are now okay to talk about openly for some reason.

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