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by tothrowaway 5d ago
Unethical IP lawyers spew that nonsense all the time. Failing to enforce your trademark against a tiny alleged infringer has no effect on your trademark rights at all.
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by tothrowaway 1y ago
Almost no chargeback will ever go to arbitration though. So it's not like this new fee is the reason behind the change. Patrick Collison is (probably) just exploiting his position in the market to squeeze more money out of merchants. I
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by tothrowaway 2y ago
I think it's more about running up the legal bill of the defendant. It costs virtually nothing to include a spurious claim in a complaint (it can literally be a sentence or two). The defense has the burden of getting the weak claim dis
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by tothrowaway 2y ago
That's been the case for a long time. I made a big stink about not being able to fill out my census survey to my congresswomen. It got nowhere.
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by tothrowaway 2y ago
This post caught my attention because I do the same thing! Yes, it absolutely works.
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by tothrowaway 2y ago
I would agree. I'm the defendant in a (frivolous) trademark infringement case and my firm (which does work for the EFF) averages about 2 hours per (substantial) page, at a rate of $500/hour. I do wonder in the back of my mind if I
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
1. Is it possible to cancel without contacting support? 2. Is it possible to refund the last charge within 3-7 days if the account hasn't been used (without contacting support)? 3. Do you send an email before each recurring charge?
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
Small businesses do not routinely send pennies to the UAE. Countries do not have unlimited resources to chase after you. The law cannot be universally enforced, so the government has to pick and choose its battles. And they aren't goin
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
Can you share which company your $5m policy is with? I'm considering umbrella coverage, and $25/month is a crazy good deal.
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
If you are the target of automated copyright trolling, inspect your server logs whenever you get a notice. Some troll bots will (surprisingly) use an honest HTTP user agent so you can easily block it.
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
Careful. Southwest is litigious about this. https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2012/10/23/stanford-grads-we... See also Southwest v Boardfirst https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/g
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
I've done this a few times, and was pleasantly surprised it actually worked. It's a lot easier than going to court.
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
Someone tell this to the US Census Bureau please. They send you threatening letters demanding you fill out a survey ("Your response is REQUIRED by law"), but then block every non-US ISP from accessing it. I wrote my congresswoman,
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
> Friedman wrote, “implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man’s belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny.” (Of course, Kennedy had said that Americans should not ask
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
The secret is JiffyShirts.com (or any other blank wholesaler). You can buy 3 or 4 tees for the price of one from a normal store. Buy a bunch of different "models", try them on, see which fits the best, and then order more. There i
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
Indeed. The problem may even be worse with other systems. There are other trivial ways to prevent unsophisticated card testing. For example, I have a card tester who visits my checkout page every day via a direct link (he must have bookmark
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Should the US Eliminate Entry Barriers to the Practice of Law? [pdf](brookings.edu)
16 points by tothrowaway 3y ago|11 comments
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
My opinion: It isn't worth it to do anything (especially because you only have a common law trademark). Even if you had the federal trademark, it might not even be worth it. A trademark dispute can easily be $100K and you won't ge
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
I was down for 10 minutes (almost exactly). But it's back up now.
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
> Ultimately, the court’s CalECPA analysis proved fatal to the defendants’ case. Despite ruling the warrant violated the Fourth Amendment, the court refused to suppress the evidence, finding the officers acted in good faith based on a fa
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
That window between the last two steps is a killer. PayPal Checkout supports iDeal, and I get complaints about how PayPal took their money, but their account (on my system) was never setup...because I never got the money/notification f
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
I switched to Porkbun after Namecheap threatened to disable my domain in 24 hours when some shady reputation management company (izoologic) claimed a page on my site was phishing. I don't know if Porkbun would handle that situation any
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
Filing a complaint with the Washington AG has worked wonders for me: https://fortress.wa.gov/atg/formhandler/ago/ComplaintForm.as... Logitech, Kaiser and Capital One all suddenly changed their tune when the A
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by tothrowaway 3y ago
Moving to another domain will make things worse (at least, for a while). New domains are flagged as suspicious just because they're new. I suppose you could prime the domain before moving to it, but I would just play whack-a-mole with
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
You should disclose that you're the owner of that website. Your post comes across as an advertisement.
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
Not an expert, but it seems like it is true. Quoting page 11: """ When a revocable trust owner names five or fewer beneficiaries, the owner’s trust deposits are insured up to $250,000 for each unique beneficiary. This rule ap
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
I use B2 and Wasabi because I don't like relying on a single cloud provider. Files are uploaded to both. OpenResty (Nginx+Lua) sits in front to provide caching, and the logic for deciding which provider to pull from. Wasabi gives you a
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Show HN: Generate Blocklists by ASN(asntool.com)
2 points by tothrowaway 4y ago|0 comments
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
JScript is Microsoft's JavaScript that can run server side. I guess it was a thing in the late 90s and early 00s. The "Click Commerce" web CMS/framework was largely written in it. They pivoted from commerce to medical re
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by tothrowaway 4y ago
This is similar to how I do things, minus the CPA and swap Square with Gusto. > you need to be your own tax "champion" Exactly! This is why I stopped using a CPA. I tried a few different people over the years, and I felt like I

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