danielweber

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by danielweber 9y ago
> They're a law firm that specializes in _patents_. What the fuck. Oh, you got that when you googled them, and you think the fucking top-tier national IP law firm had no other ideas at all because the patent hadn't issued yet.
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by danielweber 9y ago
They blamed it on a rogue employee, and then claimed that they had removed all our typos and that we would need to sue them if there was anything more we needed to demand. It wasn't until the patent came out, two years later, that we c
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by danielweber 9y ago
We are being asked to make the same hard decisions that each generation before us has made. And we are doing it while being far richer and having a greater repository of knowledge than them. Something's wrong with us if we quit where t
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by danielweber 9y ago
> And if you can't afford it? Does society pay? Do we let them die? I'm interested in your answer. The same thing that happens with the people whose lives could be saved right now if we stopped funding roads, or basic researc
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by danielweber 9y ago
Perhaps they should be different, but people get most upset about the awesome drugs that cure things completely being under patent for so long. They don't care about that antacid drug so much. You would find yourself very short on alli
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by danielweber 9y ago
> In medicine, you often can't just wait it out. Healthcare is not a normal market Then you pay. I have family members who are only functional because of prescription drugs. When I see someone on HN talk about how "oh, it wil
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by danielweber 9y ago
There were multiple paths we pursued in consultation with our lawyers. If you want me to take your advice over Fish & Richardson, okay.
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by danielweber 9y ago
You are getting close to advocating for "cost plus" which sounds really good to outsiders who are concerned about "too much profit" but have stunted every industry into which they have been deployed, and end up driving p
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by danielweber 9y ago
> We just need shorter patents. This is nuts. By the time a major drug is ready for market, out of a 20 year patent there are usually only 5 years left. How much shorter do you think it should be? When they are operating under that kind
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by danielweber 9y ago
The strategy people should be following is to buy the printer based on the cost of consumables. It's what I do. But most people do the strategy of 1. find the model where the company subsidizes the printer to sell the ink 2. Then try t
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by danielweber 9y ago
When I was at a start-up and had someone literally rip-off our product (including typos), we would have really liked some faster protection than the patent, which took around 2 years to issue. As a business matter, we would have happily acc
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by danielweber 9y ago
You got me, developer2. I've been commenting with my real name on HN for 5 years just waiting for this moment, to get the $35 that Intuit will mail me for my comment.
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by danielweber 9y ago
I wasn't arguing against that. Rather against the conceit that my tax situation must be the result of people conspiring to keep things complicated, when the big thing (that got me thousands of dollars) was probably something that canno
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by danielweber 9y ago
I pay less than $1000 for a lawyer and get 10x the value I get out of an agent for which I'd pay several thousands of dollars.
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by danielweber 9y ago
Have they stopped beating their spouses yet?
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by danielweber 9y ago
How do you think carryover losses of subchapter S corporations should be handled to make them easier?
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by danielweber 9y ago
I've always been taken seriously when raising issues with contracts. Sometimes "taken seriously" means they scratch something out. Sometimes "taken seriously" means they spend 3 days talking at me about why I should
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by danielweber 9y ago
If you get a lawyer for your house transactions, you will pay a flat fee of less than $1000 and still get the advice to always have it inspected.
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by danielweber 9y ago
TurboTax found several thousand dollars for me in a fairly complicated tax situation that I was completely not expecting and would never have realized on my own. Even some CPAs I've talked to have said "oh, really?" They&#x27
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by danielweber 9y ago
Have there been clinical studies of doing this to correct eyesight? A few years ago I would hear radio ads, which struck several of my snake-oil buttons, and they've totally disappeared from the radio, which presses a few more. (Becaus
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by danielweber 9y ago
Sometimes I enjoy exercising, sometimes I do not. I always enjoy having exercised .
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by danielweber 9y ago
Put your tablet in a ziploc bag and it's easy to spend an hour in the tub.
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by danielweber 9y ago
Every generation has to create its effort-free alternative to exercise, whether it's electrodes you attach to your abs or standing there while a vibrating belt shakes your body. Even George Jetson would sit around while the computer ex
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by danielweber 9y ago
When you hold up your hand, you have no information on the person pulling over to pick you up. You don't know the rate, you don't know the safety records, you don't know anything about the driver. At the airport, I have even
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by danielweber 9y ago
No, seriously, it isn't a taxi service. A taxi service can pick you up from the side of the road when you hold up your hand and whistle. A car-for-hire service is where you call a company and ask for them to give you a ride from place
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by danielweber 9y ago
That doesn't show they are losing money by subsidizing rides. From your source: > Net revenue—the amount of money Uber generates after it pays its drivers—was $1.7 billion in the third quarter, That's what it takes to be a real
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by danielweber 9y ago
It's a lot different if Uber is found, as is alleged, to have induced the employee to take the secrets and bring them to Uber.
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by danielweber 9y ago
They're not a taxi service. This might seem like splitting hairs, but it's important. The car-for-hire industry just got good enough that it ate the taxi companies' lunch.
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by danielweber 9y ago
That's not what private leaks show. For example, in the first half of 2015, they got $3.6 Billion from customers and paid $3 Billion to drivers.
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by danielweber 9y ago
Assuming self-driving cars are just about to work, why is Uber significantly better positioned to profit off of them than other people?

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