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by bdowling 4d ago
According to the article, Starbucks chose not to sue in that case.
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by bdowling 11d ago
Thank you for telling your story. It is encouraging. I’m a candidate for the same surgery because of a high PVC burden, but I’ve been resisting doing it because of the risk of death and other life-altering complications.
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by bdowling 3mo ago
Might as well post the full version, which adds context: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one mo
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by bdowling 6mo ago
Powerful interests want it to be true.
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by bdowling 11mo ago
Arson is also an inherently dangerous felony, which is why when someone dies because of arson, the arsonist can be charged with murder.
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by bdowling 1y ago
More trivia: OpenFirmware is descended from Sun Microsystems' firmware, OpenBoot. Add-on cards could contain Forth code that would initialize their own hardware and provide a device driver that could be used at boot time (e.g., a netwo
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by bdowling 1y ago
The article is about college-level education, which is primarily about ranking students in order of who should get the best entry-level jobs. If technology is disrupting the effectiveness of that ordering function, then something needs to c
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by bdowling 1y ago
Design patents expire, unlike trademarks.
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by bdowling 1y ago
A patent application is a constructive reduction to practice. MPEP 2138.05. https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2138.html#:~:tex...
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by bdowling 2y ago
No one lives forever. You can’t take it with you. In the long run, we’re all renting.
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by bdowling 2y ago
New machines with Windows 10 were sold in 2021. So, less than 4 years of support for those machines.
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by bdowling 2y ago
The answer is to just build a lot more housing. Increasing the housing stock by 10% everywhere would be a good start. If there is so much housing available that buyers don’t get into bidding wars and landlords have to struggle to find tenan
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by bdowling 2y ago
I agree. The affordable housing costs $1M per unit because that is the market price for constructing any housing in those areas.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Homeless people want to live in cities, for all the reasons other people want to live in cities. In cities, affordable housing is extremely expensive. For example, in Santa Monica, California, an affordable housing project can cost over $1
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by bdowling 2y ago
Novelty (is it new) is the easy question because it’s just checking a database. Patentable inventions also have to be non-obvious, which is a more subtle question.
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by bdowling 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/386/
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by bdowling 2y ago
I'm curious too. I found a lot of skepticism of a similar claim. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47754/are-one-t...
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by bdowling 2y ago
It's a shame, because school choice could be a rallying cry for "Tax the rich to pay for private schools for all kids."
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by bdowling 2y ago
It’s a joke because most American schools are run by the government.
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by bdowling 2y ago
I wrote "some exceptions apply" to try to avoid getting into the weeds, but yes, independent creation is an exception. Other exceptions include out-of-term works, public domain, Mise-en-scène (e.g., stock characters), fair use (a
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by bdowling 2y ago
A work that is “substantially similar” to a copyrighted work infringes that work, under US law, no matter how it was produced. (Note: Some exceptions apply and you have to read a lot of cases to get an idea of what courts find “substantiall
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by bdowling 2y ago
Half a century worth of reporters’ notes might be some valuable training data.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Streisand effect bait?
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by bdowling 2y ago
Why do they have to use actual companies’ exact names and logos to make their parody, which someone could confuse for a real product? Can’t they use slight variations (e.g., McDowels to parody McDonalds)? Wouldn’t everyone still know who th
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by bdowling 2y ago
When there’s a sudden, dramatic, never-going-back/burning-the-ships move, it’s a sign that it’s a personal, not business, decision.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Even a 1 person company has customers.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Are you sure it didn't cry in `bytes()`?
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by bdowling 2y ago
You can do a lot with a program that looks like: while(1) { if (condition1) ... if (condition2) ... // etc } Subroutine calls can be eliminated by inlining everything, using macros to make the code
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by bdowling 2y ago
No, most people pretended to read Animal Farm and 1984 in middle school and haven’t thought about them since. They didn’t understand them at the time, and they don’t see the similar manipulations going on in today’s society.
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by bdowling 2y ago
For-profit startups don’t pay taxes while growing either, because they aren’t making any profit during that phase.

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