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by rprasad 14y ago
U.S. copyright laws and enforcement are not as bad as nerdom make it out to be. Indeed, the U.S. is frequently the opposition to extending copyright durations and other copyright regimes (ACTA, etc., notwithstanding). In the U.S., copyrigh
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Retric's other comments explain why this is legally and factually accurate based on the current state of US and UK copyright law. Basically, a "derivative" work product that is mechanically (i.e., algorithmically) created from another cop
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Wow, it's a good thing you're not a writer... Criticism is one of the best ways to learn to be better at what you do. "Hate this, hate that" may be negative but it is useful feedback from actual/potential users of your site/service/app/wh
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I always assumed the difference between a "startup" and a "small business" was that the small business was trying to make money, whereas a startup might be, but usually was not, interested in profit.
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When did they reinstate the draft?
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You know what I don't find amazing? When websites and SAAS's don't operate on 100% availability time, even though that's what I'm paying them to handle. I mean, seriously, this is the whole point of their job, and yet websites keep going do
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Premium clients can singlehandedly make a flight profitable (and in some cases, pay more for their last minute reservations than all of coach combined), so there's a damn good reason to wait for them.
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I see what you did there, citing 3-year old articles on the start-up problems of then-brand new bike services. Of course, as you can see from other comments, those bike services no longer have those problems, and appear to even be quite su
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Nobody who bikes regularly or serious owns a $100 bike. Good bikes start at around $1500, which is why bikes are such frequent targets for theft.
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Uber is a taxi/livery service that magically uses technology to do things that shuttle/livery services in major cities have already been doing for years. The difference is that: (1) Uber is a startup, (2) Uber is backed by YC, (3) Uber lets
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It's harder for an actor to masquerade under an Uber-style system than traditional regulation. Every move is tracked, and customers could even get photographs of registered drivers via their own trusted channel -- as opposed to the easily-
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By that definition, no cab companies are cabs, since that is exactly what the cab companies do--arrange trips between independently contracted cab drivers and potential customers. Under the legal definition of cab services in many municipal
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The purpose of the education and testing requirement for cosmetologists and barbers is not an arbitrary financial hurdle; it is a legitimate safety function of the government. These people will be using very sharp tools on your head . T
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Dozens, possibly hundreds. There are at least 6 of them in Santa Monica , 3 more in West LA, about a dozen in Hollywood. And those are just the ones I know about because they work with area startups. LA isn't even a major player in the ad
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Click fraud is not a crime in the U.S. It may be a breach of the site/service's contract with its advertisers, but it is not a crime . Whistleblowing laws only protect reporting crimes or regulatory violations. Ergo, they would not apply
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by rprasad 14y ago
Peteretep said that public perceptions on drug use have changed substantially over the past 2 decade, and I think he meant to say what he actually did say. It was not a matter of how the media reports it. The media gleefully reported on al
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It was never required as a tradition. Of the first several presidents, only Washington even served in the armed forces. In modern times, William Taft Woodrow Wilson, and Herbert Hoover did not serve in the military. Military service was s
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by rprasad 14y ago
Self-published books are lendable by default, and are subject to a lower royalty rate if lending is disabled. Most major publishing houses do not enable lending b/c they have negotiated separate contracts with Amazon that do not require
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Or, you know, rather than deal with the risk of getting caught through the money trail that creates, they could just use existing free services like they already do.
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Flagged as inaccurate. It's not crowdfunding, and it's definitely not crowdfunding done right. This site is just a directory of accredited investors, who are already allowed to make investments in non-SEC companies.
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They're not committing perjury. Perjury requires that someone know that what they are saying is factually incorrect at the time they are saying it . The authors in this matter are not technologically sophisticated enough to understand h
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Contracts are already interpreted against the drafter(s), because they are in the best position to have written their intentions. Businesses are also held to the express language of a contract because they are regarded as having the reso
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Southwest employees participate in a profit-share program which allocates a substantial amount of profits to an employee pool. Thus, the better the airline does, the better they do (financially).
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If you want proof, I suggest you read the 1939 Tax Code, then the 1984 Tax Code, then the 1986 Tax Code. What do they all have in common? Corporate rates went down, and deductions and credits went up. 99% of the complexity of the federa
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I can see the headlines now: "Is Google's Generous Post-Death Policy the New Unfunded Pension Liablity?" EDIT: Google's policy is not life insurance. The post-death salary payments appear to come out of Google's pockets, not the pockets
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"When the language you employ to communicate your ideas is small and boring, your ideas are going to be small and boring." That's how I felt reading this blog post. A long, pedantic, raging post that does nothing but demonstrate that the
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That's not how copyright law works. The user owns the copyright, and merely grants Craiglist a license to it. Note that a legal argument could have been made that based on the new (but since abandoned) Craiglist TOS, by posting to Craiglis
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An FAQ is great for technically-minded people. But most authors are not technically minded people . Lendink needed to have a dedicated page or section, for authors, telling them what they were doing (in layman's terms, not exact terms) an
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Title is inaccurate. Amazon did not force Unglue.it to suspend crowdfunding; it merely forced Unglue.it to stop using Amazon as the backend for their crowdfunding payment system. Also, the license for the ebooks and the distribution mod
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Amazon now allows California affiliates again, due to its tax agreement with the state of California (which in part, required both sides to drop pending legal disputes).

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