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Assrockets and Opportunities (or: Why I Changed Jobs)(globalnerdy.com)
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by te_platt 15y ago
I don't know if it is related but they seem to have been consistently open and inviting to outsiders. I grew up within walking distance to campus back in the 70s and 80s. Two of my older brothers used to "sneak" computer time on a teletyp
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In Pictures: Tom's Hardware Recovers Gold And Silver From CPUs(tomshardware.com)
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by te_platt 15y ago
I agree that most ideas are obvious in retrospect. Still, In my experience most ideas are obvious before hand as well. So what is a good way to define obvious or novel as applied to patents? I have two ideas. 1. Boggle rule. In the game
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by te_platt 15y ago
Do you mean that sort of thing just isn't done? Or there are legal/other reasons why it can't be done?
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by te_platt 15y ago
Thanks, I must have skipped over that part. Also I was able to find a good chart at http://www.wikinvest.com/futures/Kansas_City_Wheat_Futures The article still isn't clear (at least to me) on who took the losses for the speculators.
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by te_platt 15y ago
Something seems wrong with this story. I understand how speculation can push the price up but if the price goes too far above the true value for too long there has to be a drop - the bubble needs to burst at some point. Has there been a d
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Why should we care what Jefferson thought about copyright?(volokh.com)
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by te_platt 15y ago
Try http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-8010.p... . Page 9 has some interesting questions. The whole article is pretty good too.
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The Grand Map - commentary on compelling images on Google maps.(theparisreview.org)
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by te_platt 15y ago
You might want to emphasize the first k sound. When I first looked I read it as Pissicle and had a different idea of what your product is. piCsicle, PiCsicle, ... ?
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Programming a Computer for Playing Chess By Claude E. Shannon (1949) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
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by te_platt 15y ago
The chess part of the story makes for a nice diversion. I think the main lesson from the story is having a good relationship with someone in authority is far more useful than a resume.
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Global variables are bad... mostly(c2.com)
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Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire with a modern U.S. Marine MEU?(reddit.com)
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A single synthetic small molecule that generates force against a load(nature.com)
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by te_platt 15y ago
Ha! That's nothing. One time I got 12 yatzees in a row. One day I was playing Yatzee and got 2 in a row. That was exciting but I was impatient so I wrote a program to play for me. Eventually my program made 7 in a row but that was still
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by te_platt 15y ago
You don't need to be 100% sure of winning, only more sure than the person suing you. Well, that's probably saying too much. Let's look at a few scenarios and see what comes out. In this case big means someone with lots of money, little ha
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by te_platt 15y ago
Do you know if they are targeting a specific geographic area? I'm guessing most everything will be coming out of Santiago.
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by te_platt 15y ago
Consider this quote from Scalia: 'You really can't judge judges unless you know the materials that they're working with. You can't say, "Oh, this is a good decision and this was a good Court," simply because you like the result. It seems to
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by te_platt 15y ago
Past that - maybe sys admin paranoid.
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Is Quantum Theory a System of Epicycles? [pdf](bayes.wustl.edu)
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by te_platt 15y ago
A patent is an explicit grant of a right to monopolize a market. The whole point is to restrict free trading and competition.
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by te_platt 15y ago
I'm a pen nerd. I keep two in my front pocket. A fine point for text. A wider one for whatever else. Maybe a better question would be "What would it take for me to prefer a digital device over pen and paper?". Here are some issues that
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by te_platt 15y ago
Recognizing that taxes are necessary and useful in some situations does not mean that current policy is not subject to criticism. Granted, much criticism is whining - but not all, not by a long shot.
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'Coated Sand' Excels At Water Purification(wateronline.com)
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by te_platt 15y ago
Anti-bully porn.
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by te_platt 15y ago
Makes me wonder what comments here would be like if names weren't shown until a couple of hours posting.
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by te_platt 15y ago
I hope so. What's really funny is I was reading through some of your articles on lessWrong just this morning and almost put in a caveat along the lines of "Assuming no singularity event".
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by te_platt 15y ago
A much more interesting read than I was expecting. My first reaction after a few sentences was "What a waste of time and effort." Then just spending a few minutes thinking about what around me is more than a few years old kind of got to m

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