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by travisp 14y ago
>No one "owns" a view. I agree with your sentiment about neighborhood groups using the law to protect their high property values, but you can, essentially, own a view. You can purchase the "air rights" above existing houses and building
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by travisp 14y ago
Oh, I certainly agree with much of what you say about this restaurant being a bit of an exception. And, I recall an article that discussed their thinking on the ticketing. Their main reason was that even at the high prices that their first
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by travisp 14y ago
How does this article not mention one of the pioneers of this, Next in Chicago, which uses non-refundable tickets for reservations and costs a different amount on weekends and weekdays? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/dining/reviews/rsta
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by travisp 14y ago
Calorie-restricted diets that are being studied for life extension involve stopping before you're full. Other animal models had suggested that calorie-restriction would extend maximum lifespan beyond normal, anywhere from 20-50%. This is
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by travisp 14y ago
>That is, Trusts are only useful and good for sheltering assets because only a privileged few know how to use them to their advantage. Since the volume of people is small, and enough of those people are sufficiently influential, the IRS
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by travisp 14y ago
When looking at patents you need to go beyond the title and read the full patent. It rarely broadly covers the title description.
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by travisp 14y ago
I think the idea was that even if it was an engineering failure, it turned out not to be so dangerous. In a sense, it passed the tests of "What if things go wrong? What if the engineering wasn't so good? What if there's human error? What if
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by travisp 14y ago
If so, it would be about moving wood that hasn't been heat treated. The law is generally worded to specifically be related to the funeral business. There are other laws that are similarly restrictive, such as a law in Louisiana that prohibi
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by travisp 14y ago
This may be the result of some weird personalization specific to the author, which I suppose may be interesting itself. I do not see similar results at all (one result from coolibar for sun hats and 1 result from amazon for womens sun hats)
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by travisp 14y ago
OK, sorry if I was took it the wrong way. What I was responding to was more the seat belt usage isn't too common and people feeling offended if you as a passenger put on a seatbelt. I did not experiencing the particular situation with the k
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by travisp 14y ago
That's kind of a rude response to someone relating a personal experience. Yes, I have personally experienced Russian drivers getting offended when I try to put on a seatbelt. Maybe it's changed from when I was there last 4 years ago as it's
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by travisp 14y ago
This isn't just a Chinese thing. I've experienced it personally in Russia, and I've heard of it in other countries too.
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by travisp 14y ago
In this recent case, NYC officials are refusing to defend a police inspector in lawsuits against him: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/03/city-wont-defend-nypd... However, his union is now paying for his defense.
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by travisp 14y ago
Not necessarily, here's an alternate view: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=892062 >The conventional wisdom holds that American patents have always been grants of special monopoly privileges lacking any justification
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by travisp 14y ago
I keep hearing this "purpose of patents", and while it's a common belief today, I don't know that it really fits in with what historically has been the purpose of patents. Much 19th century writing on patents and intellectual property saw t
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by travisp 14y ago
Make a horrible schema just to avoid ten dollars a month? Surely the time of most developers is worth more than that.
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by travisp 14y ago
I'm new to Macs so I may be missing something, but I tried your shift-click approach in a half dozen applications (including Apple ones). It didn't maximize any of the programs. I suppose a separate software program may enable this function
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by travisp 14y ago
Yes, I learned this from a talk at the University of Chicago Hospitals -- Medicare/Medicaid almost always paid less than a dollar for every dollar in costs that they incurred (I think the quoted average number was closer to 50 cents on the
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by travisp 14y ago
Libraries do not pay the same prices as individuals. In fact, they pay higher prices for ebooks for the license to lend them out. If you wish to enter into such an agreement with publishers as well there's nothing stopping you.
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by travisp 14y ago
Per book obviously. But, ebooks are often (but not always) discounted more than a dollar off the price of the physical book, while their total costs often end up being similar. Even for ebooks priced exactly at their physical counterpart pr
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by travisp 14y ago
I think you're missing my point and the point discussed in the article I linked to. Sure, the incremental cost is less (not 0, since places like Amazon may charge an electronic delivery fee), but the total cost still ends up being very simi
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by travisp 14y ago
I challenge your assertion that it "doesn't cost a dime to manufacture" an ebook unless you're trying to be overly literal and ignore all of the non "manufacturing" costs that go into ebooks. "To produce a quality eBook takes just as long a
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by travisp 14y ago
Sadly, he's probably right. Many estimates suggest that the average American is unknowingly committing multiple felonies every day due to vague criminal statutes.
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by travisp 14y ago
The idea that carbohydrates impact fat storage through insulin is one of the main arguments put forward by Taubes in his book, and he provides a lot of evidence and studies to back up his assertion. He may be wrong (and he somewhat acknowle
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by travisp 14y ago
Sure, if you stop eating you will lose some weight and die. But, you can die of starvation while obese. In animal studies, it is possible to reduce calories and the animals won't lose weight or to add a lot of extra calories and not become
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by travisp 14y ago
This seems like an unfair attack (edit: especially as below it seems it's not even accurate). As an example of what a company actually run by someone who advocates that philosophy looks like, take a look at BB&T, which avoided much of t
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by travisp 14y ago
Not if you have FiOS TV and want access to On Demand and similar features. The router connects up to the TV and not through a network cable. However, I've had no issues getting exactly the 50/20 speeds I signed up for with their router.
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by travisp 14y ago
You don't have to throw away your car over a small amount of damage (unless it is the frame), but you might have to replace a thousand plus dollar component the size of a macbook.
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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits(startuplessonslearned.com)
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by travisp 15y ago
Ending the copyright of a work at the death of the author without any minimum would have significant problems. People who are old or ill would not get book deals (or at least not good ones) because what publisher would want to take the risk

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