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by te_platt 14y ago
I know one but it's not really my place to put out his story. I know at least a dozen others who could have been but couldn't stand the pressure (or had the good sense not to take the pressure). When you buy something that doubles in pric
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by te_platt 14y ago
Interesting. I think my only issue would be with the clarity of the patent. I admit to not being skilled in the art of broadcast video but not completely ignorant of video compression ideas either. Still, the "legalized" writing style ma
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by te_platt 14y ago
I didn't mean for my original post to come across as a challenge that there are no good patents (software or otherwise). I think the examples he gave are quite good.
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by te_platt 14y ago
I just looked up the safety pin patent and it does look pretty good. I hope my original question didn't come off as confrontational. I do think we would be better off eliminating patents altogether, but I want to make sure I'm not discoun
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by te_platt 14y ago
Can anyone here give (and defend) an example of a good patent? By that I mean one that is non-obvious, novel, and clear enough to be able to be used to build the claimed invention.
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The nuclear potato cannon.(nfttu.blogspot.com)
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by te_platt 14y ago
Is it too much to ask for a long sleeve option?
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Godel Escher Bach QR Code shadow cube(thingiverse.com)
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by te_platt 14y ago
From the article: “The essence of development is to help people build capacity to do things themselves,” That is one of the most fundamentally Moral statements I have ever seen. Try replacing "development" with education. Or even better r
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by te_platt 14y ago
The list of reforms linked to in the article is here https://defendinnovation.org/ Note - not Obama's list. I think #4 (no liability for independent invention) would effectively eliminate software patents by itself. I like what's there e
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by te_platt 14y ago
5 minutes with Excel - take it for what its worth ;)
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by te_platt 14y ago
So here are the results so far scaled to population. I took the poll result, divided by population, multiplied by 1,000,000. Edit: formatting 34.79234505 22 District of Columbia 632,323 12.46916781 86 Washington 6,897,012 10.53242301 70
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Show HN: MifDif, solving the "Who goes first?" problem in negotiations.
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by te_platt 14y ago
First of all mediocre is a relative term. Be careful who you are comparing yourself against. I used to be able to run a 5K in under 17 minutes. That made me a mediocre high school cross country runner but way faster than I am now. Also co
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Aaron’s Law, Drafting the Best Limits of the CFAA, And A Few Examples(volokh.com)
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by te_platt 14y ago
I'm amazed at how the color changes the emotional response I have for these kinds of pictures. My mental image of 100 years ago seems very abstract, as if events and people from that time have the same reality of Sherlock Holmes. Somehow
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What About the Insiders? A Second Proposal To Change the Computer Crime Statutes(volokh.com)
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by te_platt 14y ago
How many of you laughed at how credulous news sites are before verifying that this blog post was accurate? Finding a reliable news source is hard, and not just in the games industry. Even here on Hacker News I usually read a headline, won
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War’s Paradoxes: From Pearl Harbor to the Russian Front to the 38th Parallel(pjmedia.com)
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When is software speech for purposes of the First Amendment?(stanfordlawreview.org)
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by te_platt 14y ago
You can see more about collecting water out of the air at http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/03/07/the-fog-collectors-h... . Having lived in the Atacama desert I know there are already ways to do it and am very curious about the efficienc
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by te_platt 14y ago
Sometimes I see other people's ideas and wish I had thought of that. Sometimes I'm just happy there exist people who love doing this kind of thing.
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Theodore Dalrymple visits Pyongyang Department Store Number 1(blog.skepticaldoctor.com)
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by te_platt 14y ago
The regulation to ensure a minimal level of competence is a driver's license and the regulation to ensure recompense is (as you mention) insurance. Both of which are required of every driver whether a taxi or not. The regulations on taxis
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by te_platt 14y ago
If it helps, I would much rather you made a mistake that hurt me financially than while working on my behalf you made a mistake that got you killed.
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by te_platt 14y ago
So it looks like it's not good to have a jury decide and it's not good to have experts decide on the validity of a patents. Maybe it's that the idea of patents is flawed and the flaw manifests itself as a lack of a good way to determine if
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by te_platt 14y ago
How about have kids? My kids are constantly challenging me to reexamine why I do the things I do. More so challenging me to explain why I make them do the things I make them do. Not to mention introducing me to new music (I get to introd
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by te_platt 14y ago
I've also traced my ancestry back to Charlemagne. It's good fun but it's not the iffy documentation that is the main problem. It's the milkman effect. In talking with a researcher at a genetic genealogy center he said that around 10% of t
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by te_platt 14y ago
What you say is true and there are competing interests to be balanced. Still, it seems the pressure to disallow short term renting is coming from business interests rather than neighbor complaints.
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Gamera II team smashes previous best human-powered helicopter flight time(gizmag.com)
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