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by ynniv 13y ago
Not true! They don't use cocaine, but they do extract flavor from imported coca leaves, and are the only US company allowed to do so. Randomish link from a quick search: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/02/
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by ynniv 13y ago
Because "Coca-Cola" is a "fanciful name", employing strange capitalization and hyphenation. It's also a household name world-wide, which allows protection of somewhat generic names.
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by ynniv 13y ago
Facebook was completely generic. Yes, Facebook WAS generic. They would have had a difficult time enforcing their brand from the start. Once a brand becomes a household name (which is admittedly a vague metric), the rules are different. Se
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by ynniv 13y ago
Whenever I hear the name "Paper" in a mobile / tablet context, I immediately think of 53, and I don't even have an iPad. If I took ten people off the street, in San Francisco itself, and asked them who made an iPhone a
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by ynniv 13y ago
"Facebook" is also pretty generic, but when you have enough well paid lawyers these things matter less. Also, it is very unlikely that Facebook is attempting to benefit from 53's brand. Facebook wanted to call their product s
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by ynniv 13y ago
People are going to call the app by Facebook "Facebook Paper" because "Paper" is simply too generic. 53's drawing app name is not strong either. Their iOS app is not called "Paper", but "Paper by Fift
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by ynniv 13y ago
We had one of those in Atlanta for a couple of years, but it appears to have changed owners and become a regular preschool a year ago. I don't see a post-mortem on the web. [ http://john.do/bean-work-play-cafe/ ]
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by ynniv 13y ago
Indeed, I too started off wondering what kind of regulation the state was interested in imposing. While the article does not mention any specific regulation, the inclusion of a "bootcamp's" claim that 12 weeks and $17,000 wou
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by ynniv 13y ago
There is certainly influence, but the Federal Reserve regions map doesn't align especially well with the study map. As a New Yorker from Connecticut, the gigantic barrier between New York and New England would have to be nearly comple
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by ynniv 13y ago
Yet you linked not to the original work but to a German site. Don't be ridiculous, one links to the currently maintained version of a project. While these states are proximate physically, the culture between these states is complete
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by ynniv 13y ago
I'm not sure which part of tracking the physical location of dollar bills you think has a European bias, but if means that much to you the project was completed at Northwestern University. The professor only later moved to a university
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by ynniv 13y ago
There are more realistic borders along which the United States might reorganize: http://rocs.hu-berlin.de/projects/borders
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by ynniv 13y ago
Maybe Mr. Calero should be putting new Toyota engines in legit Ferrari bodies!
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100% markup is pretty standard on nice hardware.
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by ynniv 13y ago
The only way trusted computing secures your computer is if you install a TPM chip with your own certificate and constantly verify that it is active. If it runs software signed by Microsoft or Apple, it's useless against a state agent.
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by ynniv 13y ago
Search for "legal conclusion of obviousness" in the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventive_step_and_non-obviousn...
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by ynniv 13y ago
IANAL. The definition of "obviousness" in a patent is whether there exist two works of prior art that can be combined to create the invention. In this case, any prior art that stylizes text based on syntax could be combined with a
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by ynniv 13y ago
This makes more sense in light of the view supporting zoom, which didn't occur to me the first time I visited the page. Perhaps add a note in the corner?
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by ynniv 13y ago
People in Atlanta drive because the urban planning is a disaster. In my view it's more complicated than that. Actually let people live right next to the rail and retail, instead of surrounding it all with enormous, pedestrian unfrie
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by ynniv 13y ago
(Originally https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=lNCOH0M1fh7uhr9viMZvek ) Yes, there are a lot of parking lots in Atlanta. As I commented on the original submission, they aren't there because of the market for parking, b
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by ynniv 13y ago
That's the catchy title, but the article is really about density and transportation by car. There's a nice diagram describing how living in the suburbs reduces the number of places in walking distance, but in that diagram the hous
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by ynniv 13y ago
The article mentions that Atlantic Station sits on a large parking deck, but doesn't explore how its 7,200 parking spaces can make an otherwise small outdoor mall very busy at popular times. Cars remove you from your immediate surround
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by ynniv 13y ago
The dragging mechanism is irritating. Sometimes the drag sticks, sometimes it refuses to start, often it selects the whole page. At least allowing a direct click would provide a workaround. (Chromium community build 30.0.1599.101, Mac 10.8.
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by ynniv 13y ago
Of course we should. But an automated warrant officer would also be something new... Airports seem to have their own notion of legality, so at what point would it detain someone? An international warrant? US felony warrant? US state felony?
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by ynniv 13y ago
I can see how this appears to replace a TSA employee watching for reverse travel, but what has been created is of a different nature. Atlanta's airport has a similar reverse-travel prevention system in the form of a 3 story escalator,
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by ynniv 13y ago
Hah, maybe not on purpose.
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by ynniv 13y ago
Swipe, click-to-switch, swipe, click-to-switch, swipe... Why steal one card's data when you can copy the whole wallet? :-) Or, run one card but take down the information for another. It also appears that the Coin is programmed over Blu
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by ynniv 13y ago
That it is systematic implies you can use it to generate insights into things that are causally linked. Only if the model is accurate. If (as in the case of tarot reading and failed gambling) you have a system that doesn't correspond
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Compulsive gamblers and tarot card readers are also systematic. Thinking that systematic implies insightful is deeply flawed. (Disappointed by the downvotes... I'm not trying to be pithy.)
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by ynniv 13y ago
No. Making up a model is an absurd way to predict anything, because there is no validation. Useful models have shown to be predictive over time (except when they aren't, and then someone amends the model). "I'll model this by

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