lrs

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by lrs 14y ago
What's the idea behind that "Submit a Story" uncollapsible floating tab on the left side of the page? Seems like you're obstructing a pretty important, content-dense part of the screen with something unimportant and obnoxious that doesn't e
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by lrs 14y ago
Great post - really brilliant tactical thinking, and it's always a delight to see smart moves pay off. I feel like it should be noted that it's quite dangerous to threaten a move like this unless you're actually prepared to follow through w
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by lrs 14y ago
Assuming you're referring to Marie's scolding of Megan, I think the quote is closer to "Not every little girl gets to do what she wants - the world could not support that many ballerinas." Which is even closer to what this article is saying
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by lrs 14y ago
This rings painfully true.
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by lrs 14y ago
No sarcasm; just a lot of regret and self-loathing. It seems like the root of our disagreement is our differeing expectations for the cognitive and decisionmaking abilities of teenagers. As other posters have mentioned, there are lots of so
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by lrs 14y ago
I think the OP's characterization of the decisionmaking process that leads to crippling educational debt is somewhat unfair. It's definitely driven by the parents and children who he condemns as "clueless." But I think it's important to con
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by lrs 14y ago
I'll add to the chorus of voices requesting the ability to add a price constraint.
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by lrs 14y ago
To generalize from this very good point - perhaps a future iteration should include a fully-blinged-out "Advanced" settings menu that lets you add constraints for a wide variety of dietary restrictions, including micronutrient requirements,
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by lrs 14y ago
Kind of a derail, but would you care to share the rationale behind the 60/20/20 macro ratio?
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by lrs 14y ago
Whoops, my mistake - thanks for the correction. Still baffled by how answers.com expects to get $270M of financing to buy about.com. To anyone who has ever clicked a link to either of those domains from a Google query, the headline must see
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by lrs 14y ago
Unreal. How can such an awful website have $270 million on hand, and how can they be willing to spend it on another awful website?
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by lrs 14y ago
I remember having this same thought when I learned about the existence of "Islamic finance." Apparently, Islam has a strong doctrinal prohibition against charging interest, and there's an entire thriving sector of Islamic law and business d
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by lrs 14y ago
I am so fascinated by the idea that these people exist. I would love to read an interview with one of them.
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by lrs 14y ago
Seems consistent with what we're seeing in this case. Very hard to imagine any VC greenlighting this sort of "it's the principle" litigation; very easy to imagine a founder doing so.
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by lrs 14y ago
I didn't look at the claim construction order so I don't know if anything particularly remarkable happened at that stage, but based solely on the SJ order, it looks like they did get a very favorable construction in light of Ricoh v. Quanta
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by lrs 14y ago
I think a good trial lawyer would probably be able to get a jury to a level of at least rudimentary understanding of the technology over the course of a multi-day trial. But I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. Reliance on trial b
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by lrs 14y ago
It's very expensive. Kaspersky almost certainly paid its lawyers much, much more to take this case through summary judgment and trial prep than Microsoft paid the Troll to go away. Don't get me wrong, I'm with you. But...it's easy to pontif
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by lrs 14y ago
The public documents in this case are heavily redacted, because the relevant underlying facts involve confidential or sensitive information about licensing agreements. That, plus my unfamiliarity with the underlying technology, makes it tou
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by lrs 14y ago
The Order indicates that Kaspersky won summary judgment on noninfringement grounds, not invalidity grounds. e: Not sure about this, but the Order also suggests that some of the Troll's claims survived summary judgment and are proceeding to
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by lrs 14y ago
Plaintiff can definitely appeal a dismissal with prejudice. In fact, Plaintiff would probably have more trouble appealing a dismissal without prejudice, since the implication in a dismissal without prejudice is that Plaintiff can refile.
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by lrs 14y ago
I don't know, man - I'm no ally of the Plaintiffs in this case, but I don't think I buy that argument. What Comcast characterizes as "shakedowns" are really just negotiated settlements. The fact that the claims didn't go to litigation doesn
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by lrs 14y ago
The fact that Comcast is carrying this banner almost makes me want to switch to Comcast in support. I say "almost" because I quickly remember their frequent random connection drops, slower-than-promised speeds, intentionally misleading prom
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by lrs 14y ago
Yuuup. I'm always amused at the predictable trajectory of the comments on any sort of HN posting about Asperger's. In almost all cases, a disproportionate number of the people who comment or read the comments have Asperger's themselves, or
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by lrs 14y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted here. Isn't this the same effect Buffett is talking about in the letter when he describes the local paper's advantage in coverage of "local sports?" People will pay to read about their kid's soccer goal
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by lrs 14y ago
What sorts of policies and practices, if any, do you have in place to prevent your company or clients from engaging in the kind of behavior that you yourself found so personally objectionable that you sued for it?
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by lrs 14y ago
>So no, I wouldn't call the service "superior"— rather more irritating and intrusive because that's the best way to get a good tip, while pretending to be superior. This seems to lend more support to the inference that you personally ha
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by lrs 14y ago
Extremely attractive presentation of interesting data - thanks for this. As for where to go next, why not automate this methodology and do the entire world? :)
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Twitter's PR Stunt (Skeptical Legal Analysis of the IPA)(theipstone.com)
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