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by shasta 13y ago
With a $20, too, right?
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by shasta 13y ago
> Once the issue was raised as a legal issue, it became subject to constitutional scrutiny and the U.S. Constitution simply doesn't allow for that kind of discrimination and the kinds of argument used in support of. This is actually
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by shasta 13y ago
> a company who is interested in patenting any ideas their engineers come up with is somehow evil No, not at all. I'm blaming the patent system, not the company. I see the potential benefits of patents as: 1. Research is pursued b
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by shasta 13y ago
Note that I specifically said software patent. I've worked for a number of software companies. Most of them recently have a process in place to harvest potentially patentable work product from the engineers... stuff that we were goin
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by shasta 13y ago
> Stabaility leads to more investment, and patents lead to society gaining access to ideas much sooner than they would have otherwise. Has anyone ever read a software patent to learn something other than "do I infringe on this?&quot
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by shasta 13y ago
Your view of patents doesn't match reality. > What they don't always do without patents is to say how those inventions work. For 90+% of patents, the idea is implicitly disclosed by releasing a product that makes use of the ide
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by shasta 13y ago
You see that little triangular down arrow?
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by shasta 13y ago
It's marriage. It's a tradition, not something which you can derive rationally. Let's hear your rational explanation of the role of marriage. Be sure to explain why it follows logically that it should only apply to groups
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by shasta 13y ago
Free as in sofa. (No cost, similar value)
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by shasta 13y ago
I disagreed. What's the new HN comment system?
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by shasta 13y ago
The acceleration curve you describe would have infinite jerk at the start, stop and halfway points. A |jerk| minimizing curve for a fixed travel time would gradually (linearly) increase to maximum acceleration during the first 1/4 of
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by shasta 13y ago
Yeah, but I can't do that to my family in the other branches.
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by shasta 13y ago
If our universe is just one branch in a multiverse, then we already have plenty of backups.
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by shasta 13y ago
> It has been observed that the United States will always have a "President"... even if through the vicissitudes of history the President becomes a de facto King, or becomes de facto as powerful as the UK's royalty. So we&
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by shasta 13y ago
So we're going to be enlightened enough to elect an AI president, but we're going to be stuck with our current model of government?
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by shasta 13y ago
[sarcasm]Please continue to use this question. It’s a wonderful marker for candidates (like me) who don’t want to work with folks who think questions like that are useful.[/sarcasm] That's a two way street. Asking this question t
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by shasta 13y ago
Did you see the picture of the burger in the article? All this guy has to do is declare that remaining prepaid burgers are non-transferable upon death, and he'll only ever have to make a few hundred per buyer.
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by shasta 13y ago
Wow, you must be super wise to even know that.
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by shasta 13y ago
Maybe not "tooth", but why do we use the phrases "a third" and "a fourth" for fractions, but not "a second" for half?
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by shasta 13y ago
I was really impressed by my current company's 60 vacation days per year until I realized that included weekends.
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by shasta 13y ago
I haven't read the patent, but I assume Keurig patents a way to improve cups in some obscure way that probably doesn't matter but for which they can claim novelty. Their patent must explain how to implement this "improvemen
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by shasta 13y ago
The patent was required to be sufficiently detailed to allow producing compatible cups? I don't think so.
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by shasta 13y ago
I don't know why you got downvoted.
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by shasta 13y ago
Let me see if I can channel some of ESR's pomposity: If S-expressions are the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
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by shasta 13y ago
And that's how spritz gets its speed improvement -- by forcing you to go faster than you would choose to read.
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by shasta 13y ago
It's a cruel world.
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by shasta 13y ago
F'ing poor people...
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by shasta 13y ago
> Why isn't there a 3rd party? http://www.gametheory.net/News/Items/120.html
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by shasta 13y ago
> and we'll never really know until we die I think the atheist would say you won't know then, either.
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by shasta 13y ago
That's reasonable. Again, my original comment was comparing the "clump of cells" to an older child.

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