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by tofof 8y ago
I think what you're encountering is that most broad areas of law immediately break down into specific definitions and lists of rights. Examine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_law and see that in the open
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by tofof 8y ago
The term "intellectual property" was used in 1845 in Davoll et al. v. Brown , 173 years ago. The WIPO was created in 1967: 51 years ago. Whatever your personal objections are to a collective term for intangible human creations, c
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by tofof 8y ago
It also contains no technical information about Disneyland or the Superbowl, despite their mentions. Technical information about any of the three would be equally (ir)relevant to the article's topic: intellectual property law . If you
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by tofof 8y ago
These are already taxpayer funded, but without the advantage of collective bargaining. Individually paying for something is taxpayer funded, unless you're Al Capone.
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by tofof 8y ago
> The rate of horsepower in the world exploded once the original steam engine patents expired. An invention exploding throughout the world upon the expiry of a patent is the primary feature of patents, not evidence that patents are bad
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by tofof 8y ago
You're correct that they're very similar; PurgeCSS even describes itself as an improvement to PurifyCSS. (Purge tries to actually parse for matches, whereas Purify just looks for the presence of words -- so if you have a .arrow CS
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by tofof 8y ago
It's unfair to claim that styles are removed "at random." And even if you're only using one framework, you'd still almost certainly have unused styles that can be pruned. Generally, you'd want tools in your bui
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by tofof 8y ago
Personally, I use the PurifyCSS[1] and PurgeCSS[2] Grunt/Gulp/Webpack modules for this task. https://github.com/purifycss/purifycss https://github.com/FullHuman/purgecss The Purge docum
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by tofof 8y ago
Did you really get to the end of the first paragraph before you decided this wasn't going to be about formal proofs/specs? "It will then formalize the Two Generals' Problem and formally prove the impossibility."
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by tofof 8y ago
2) You're looking for Doris Lessing's "at the cost of men" anecdote: https://imgur.com/gallery/BypVRmk
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by tofof 8y ago
On this side of the Atlantic, we successfully blocked SOPA from becoming reality (so far). Looks like it's your turn, EU techies.
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by tofof 8y ago
"This place is not a place of honor" is the first line of the most basic signage created by a Sandia National Lab project aiming to keep future explorers/archaeologists/looters/settlers unharmed by a nuclear waste d
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by tofof 9y ago
From the Nasa press release, 93% of the genetic expression pattern (very different than "DNA") remained the same before and after spaceflight, while 7% was altered. Search for "93%" in https://www.nasa.gov&#x2
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by tofof 9y ago
Update: August 2001. The follow-on article [0] references this article as appearing in "issue 5" of Pixelate, so it seems you found the original source. Issue 4 [1] covered June 2001, probably published in July, and so it seems th
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by tofof 9y ago
This particular bug is often taught in university compsci classes as "bug that killed people" is a good attention grabber -- the CS/EE analysis is sound; its truthfulness is only suspect because of the DoD's claimed succ
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by tofof 9y ago
I think https://www.benkuhn.net/squared offers a much more comprehensive view of the advantages of squared error in about the same length. Edit: turns out that article was actually featured on HN previously! See https:&#x2
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by tofof 9y ago
The author uses CMC I:c (and somewhat incorrectly claims it's also called Delta E, which normally refers to one of the CIELAB metrics). Then he notes the asymmetry of that quasimetric, and a workaround -- averaging the C1,C2 and C2,C1
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by tofof 9y ago
Enjoyed this back in 2014 when it was written.
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by tofof 9y ago
Thank goodness, I've been looking for a f.lux improvement that would actually let me control exactly when and across what duration the shifts happen. The f.lux developer is very stubborn about wanting it synchronized to sunrise and sun
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by tofof 9y ago
As I note in the Github for this project, that list is woefully incomplete. See my analysis at the Anti-Adblock Killer repo for more detail - https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer/pull/2502#issuec... A
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by tofof 10y ago
Ultimately, Airbnb is just a trap. Hotels already have economy of scale working for them. They bother to pay for insurance to protect themselves from things like this, and have the ability to bill you directly if you cause damage. Anyone re
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by tofof 10y ago
"Startups are for grownups. [...] Grownups are willing to give the next five years of life to the pursuits of the startup — the people. Blindly." Nothing to see here except more patronization. Move along.
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by tofof 11y ago
I'm interested in how you knew you were getting a shoe not made in a sweatshop, instead of another sweatshop shoe plus a higher markup.
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by tofof 11y ago
Because the USS Parche (SSN-683) is decommissioned?
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by tofof 11y ago
And yet there's not a single 'solved' advertisement anywhere on their website to demonstrate their 'technology'.
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by tofof 11y ago
From that very page: "Loosely based on BoxCar2D, but written from scratch, only using the same physics engine"
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by tofof 11y ago
I stopped reading at: "Besides, grammars are more complex than regular expressions, so they're simpler."
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by tofof 11y ago
Summary: 'Updating' involves everything from transcription itself to changing the spellings to match their modern equivalents - but also to convert ingredients or their handling (room-temperature butter, for example), and finally
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by tofof 12y ago
It is clearly the ivory dress; the negative and positive of the original image will show nearly the same colors simply swapping places ('gold' stripes become 'white' and vice-versa) which is only possible if the two colo
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by tofof 12y ago
And by 3 you meant iii, or 13 of the pdf, but actually iv/14 for GET, which is Ground Elapsed Time. You can't just not define it in your edit without making others (just me?) curious and then mildly annoyed when it isn't on &

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