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by rudyfink 6y ago
Some guesses on possible sources of the pattern for you: 1. Criticism is fast and easy compared to thinking up a solution; building the solution; trying to show a solution works; etc. Criticism has the benefit that it can be directed to an
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by rudyfink 6y ago
From what I can tell (this is not my field), at least as concerns the English state, the tally stick was divided into the "stock," which was kept by the state, and the "foil," which went with the individual. This video s
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by rudyfink 6y ago
As a related aside, split pieces of wood--so the holder could check and see the pieces matched up--were also used as an anti-fraud device ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick ). Apparently, these pieces of wood a
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by rudyfink 6y ago
I hear you, but my experience is that increases in capacity (be it storage, processing, network, etc.) bring new possibility, new technology, and new use cases. Here are some off-the-cuff possibilities: "Photos" that are interact
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by rudyfink 6y ago
Here are a few that I did not see listed by others: 1. Automatic device discovery and driver installation (e.g., with USB devices (also USB device categories, etc.)). Instead of trying to find a driver, things just worked. 2. Automatic upda
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by rudyfink 6y ago
In case anyone else wanted to see the ad, this version has photos of them: https://allthatsinteresting.com/aaron-epstein-att-ad
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by rudyfink 6y ago
"Of course, you can always pay a recovery company to get your identity back. But, that's expensive--more than most people have. The company will do it on credit (if they like your prospects), but then they have title to your ident
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by rudyfink 6y ago
Maybe, in essence, the bacteria that we host to help break down carbs start producing something that makes us crave/prefer carbs? It seems like the bacteria would, in essence, be self interested and might have developed their own evo
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by rudyfink 6y ago
There may be something better, but I found something similar to what you are looking for in https://www.allmusic.com years ago. They grouped music by genre (and sub-genres) and noted significant artists and albums by year withi
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by rudyfink 7y ago
Apparently, there are things called "swim out" torpedoes? https://www.reddit.com/r/submarines/comments/at5nt4/silent_l... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbeQmfXE0ws - discusse
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by rudyfink 7y ago
No, the truth appears to be boring and ordinary. The senator bought the shares on the 28th; the day the company issued a press release. If you go to the link below, you'll see what looks like it might be insider trading by others, but
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by rudyfink 7y ago
I expect it is a nod to Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash," which was a book focused on virtual reality that put the Sumerian language in a central role.
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by rudyfink 7y ago
I keep thinking about the reasoning of Twitter's Jack Dorsey for banning political ads--that the technology was too dangerous for use in politics: "While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercia
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by rudyfink 7y ago
That is more complicated than you might think. In a lot of ways the legal profession is only a semi-functioning market--at least compared to software. On one hand, there are fairly amazing and very longstanding restrictions on how attorney
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by rudyfink 7y ago
One simple example would be where an attorney receives a thumb-drive with 100s of documents and files as a "production" in a case. An attorney without basic skills would (or would have staff) manually enter all of those files int
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by rudyfink 7y ago
Speaking as a software engineer who became an attorney, I would say that most attorneys could benefit from basic programming knowledge (e.g., simple scripts, macros, and SQL). I say this because the bulk of work for many types of legal prac
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by rudyfink 7y ago
You might enjoy David Foster Wallace's delightful article "Consider the Lobster" http://www.gourmet.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ma... : "Up until sometime in the 1800s, though, lobster was lit
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by rudyfink 7y ago
Facebook's market cap is $566B (common stock) and Equifax's is $16.6B. The ratio of market cap differences is about 34:1. If Facebook's fine is adjusted to Equifax's it would be a $22.1B fine instead of $5B. So, from a
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by rudyfink 8y ago
-the article the OP is referring to discusses an old letter briefing requirement in the Eastern District of Texas. That requirement has not existed in patent cases in EDTX since 2016 ( https://mcsmith.blogs.com/eastern_distri
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by rudyfink 9y ago
Though, in the nature of legal cases, "work out well" is relative. While one side might appreciate a court that provides a "better verdict quicker" the other side would almost certainly decry that court, since they, for
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by rudyfink 9y ago
To my knowledge, the statement "both of the judges that hear most of the patent cases in ED Tx have son's that represent most of the trolls in court" is incorrect as written. The comment may be thinking of former judges, who
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by rudyfink 10y ago
If all roads were owned by companies, should it be OK for UPS to charge FedEx or ambulances more to drive on its roads? This is imperfect, obviously, but I think it gets close to the core issues fairly concisely. Frankly, I, as a citizen, t
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by rudyfink 12y ago
I've seen two general explanations. I'll present them without comment, though I recognize there is plenty of room for that on both: 1) it's considered easier to justify internally, since the worker in the more expensive area
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by rudyfink 13y ago
As one data point, I explicitly did not purchase an HTC One because it did not have an accessible SD card. It is a key buying feature for me. The main reason I like the external SD card is that I can bump up the storage capacity tremendous
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by rudyfink 13y ago
Since the parent article is mainly a set of quotes from the underlying site/twitter feed: http://lolmythesis.com/ or https://twitter.com/lolmythesis I'd recommend just going to the underlying sour
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by rudyfink 14y ago
Yes, Soverain's patents were originally from OM. I think the path was roughly something like this: OM->Divine Interventures->(holding entities)->Soverain. '492 assignment history: http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=
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by rudyfink 14y ago
According to the NY Times, the parent article is now blocked in China ( https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/world/asia/china-blocks-w... ).
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by rudyfink 14y ago
Law school graduate salary distributions are really an interesting thing. I suggest a quick gander at this chart of the distribution from 2006-2011: http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib .
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by rudyfink 14y ago
Here is a data set on post-graduation employment (full time legal) rates for different law schools-- http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/clearinghouse/?show=com... . Here is an explanation of where the data in that table came from-- ht
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by rudyfink 14y ago
As the author got the 1 job he wanted out of 30+ applications, I feel this point is appropriate. The college I went to had a pub with the policy that a rejection letter (for a job, post graduate position, etc) could be traded for one free b

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