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by rprasad 14y ago
Ditto. Especially since the OS UI standards are usually based upon empirical studies conducted by MS or Apple.
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For most of history, artists operated under the patronage system and were paid to create works. Almost every dead artist from the pre-copyright era who is still revered today was either a product of the patronage system or born into a weal
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Eventually you would get no people spending anything on creation because it would simply be cheaper to use something that someone else has already created. There are some forms of art which can survive on minimal economic returns. There are
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Slander? Not a chance. I do not think you understand what the requirements for a slanderclaim are. Tortious interference with a contract, perhaps. Copyright violations, perhaps. But not slander.
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Lawyers do not charge for the documents. They charge for customizing documents to a client's individual set of facts. All lawyers create their own set of tested templates that they reuse and customize for later clients. Orrick is simpl
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by rprasad 14y ago
That depends on why you would want to switch to Delaware. Don't do it just because the "common wisdom" in the Valley is that you're supposed to. The common wisdom is usually wrong or seriously overgeneralized to the point of meaninglessne
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by rprasad 14y ago
Clearer, and more succint: A lawsuit based on these claims would have no merit. Problems with the summation statement quoted: "At the end of the day" is superfluous and pedantic. "In this situation" is ambiguous and suggests that the sta
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by rprasad 14y ago
Maybe we have different ideas of what legal brilliance is. I thought that letter was at least 4 pages too long and excessively pedantic for what it is trying to say. The letter also spends too much time reaching conclusions rather than ac
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by rprasad 14y ago
The analogy is apt. His point was that to most Ethiopians, VOIP calls are a luxury that requires other attendant circumstances, i.e., wealth, similar to the circumstances in which a Westerner would have a private jet capable of going Mach
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by rprasad 14y ago
Wikipedia is wrong on this subject, unless you greatly expand the legal definition of gambling. The gambling prohibition passed around the same time as the alcohol prohibition, but survived because it grandfathered existing gambling loc
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In the same way that McDonalds leads fast food satisfcation survey, despite being undeniably bad for consumers' health.
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Possibly. It depends on the size of the codebase and how many other people are handling maintenance alongside him. In a small codebase, 90% is way too much. In a larger (enterprise-scale) codebase, 90% could be normal if there are employ
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by rprasad 14y ago
So you are opposed to police using bulletproof vests, GPS (in their cars, not to track people), and the internet (including websites for their agencies)? Almost all of the equipment used by police today was once military equipment. Some of
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by rprasad 14y ago
Gambling is illegal nationwide under federal law, except where specifically excepted. Horse races, Nevada, and Atlantic City are specifically excluded from the gambling prohibition, and indian reservations do not fall under federal juris
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by rprasad 14y ago
Types of gambling are legal all over the U.S.: betting on horse races, for historical reasons, and state/regional lotteries (which includes "scratchers"). Keno and other forms of gambling are legal only in Atlantic City and Nevada, for hist
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by rprasad 14y ago
The US was not an economic power until after the Civil War, or in other words, roughly only the last two decades of the 1800s, which coincided with major technological advances such as the development of the steamship and the cotton gin. T
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by rprasad 14y ago
The alternative to a convoluted tax system which treats everyone fairly (analyzed in the context of each individual provision, not overall) is a simple tax system which treats everyone equally poorly. Taxes are like C: a low-level language
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by rprasad 14y ago
VAT is "easy" in the sense that it is easy to figure out, but it is difficult in the sense that the administrative burdensome exceeds the burden associated with a sales tax by many orders of magnitude.
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I could say the same thing about the need to select proper platforms and technologies for scaling a website or SaaS (i.e,. AWS, database choice, even language choice)..."A system in which people need to worry about planning and optimizing t
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by rprasad 14y ago
Or they could just visit the IRS website. There are taxpayer-friendly guides for understanding the tax system. The NOLO series also has good advice. Alternatively, spending about $1000 on tax advice from an accountant or tax lawyer could
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by rprasad 14y ago
VAT is imposed only once, albeit at multiple levels in smaller amounts. In effect, the VAT is a more hasslesome sales/services tax. Imported items are subject to higher VAT, but usually only once...if importation was a way to avoid VAT, the
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by rprasad 14y ago
The linked article is inaccurate. While the US has the highest base corporate tax rate, it has the lowest effective corporate tax rate of any major nation. The US favors a deduction/credit-based system for lowering taxes. Manufacturing
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by rprasad 14y ago
It's common knowledge that all of the NY Times' tech bloggers have meaningful stakes in Apple stock. They claim that it does not affect their reviews, but I've seen yesmen who are less obsequiously fawning than "writers" like Pogue.
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That is because graduating from 5th and 8th grade once was an achievement, and in the scheme of human history, is remarkable. What most 5th and 8th graders have learned by the time they "graduate" would have once been more education than
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Time spent on this sort of stuff early in the lifecyle of a product can be invaluable to fixing/iterating the product for countless future customers. Think of it as beta testing or customer-focused design that you are getting paid to do.
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Eradiacting a disease that has killed millions...that is a meaningful contribution to society. Helping fund massive innovation in the education system...that is a meaningful contribution to society. Selling electronics gadgets for a lot
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Yes, by donating a huge chunk of his wealth to funding malaria research, treatment, and prevention programs.
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You can verify donations to public charities when they file their (publicly accessible) information returns for the tax year. If Steve Jobs was a generous donor, he will show up in their returns for 2011 or 2012 (which should become availa
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We do know that Jobs made almost no charitable donations over the course of his life. He used to brag about it quite publicly in interviews, and it was only when he was rediagonised with cancer that he hinted that he might consider eventual
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Everyone remembers Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, and Stanfurd because of their generous acts. Nobody remembers their almost-as-successful, but far less generous competitors. To date, Bill Gates has donated more money to charity than Stev

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