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by unavoidable 6y ago
Sounds like you have all this backwards. If the rumours are true, it's TSMC with all the power in this situation, not Intel. TSMC selling their services to the highest bidder because they have the best tech is the free market at work.
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by unavoidable 6y ago
I see this kind of argument come up a lot when talking about copyrights and patents. This is not how that works. If someone creates a derivative work (e.g. crazy colors), that new person does own the copyright in the new "crazy colors&
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by unavoidable 6y ago
For every story about Pokemon cards there's 20 stories about Beanie Babies collecting dust in the attic...
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by unavoidable 6y ago
DNA is spaghetti code... but it all works somehow.
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by unavoidable 7y ago
On the other hand he would have hated the economics of webcomics... shameless promotion, social media, merchandising, patreoning, ads, etc...
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by unavoidable 8y ago
Judging by the temperature of sibling HN comments and the degree of Canada-bashing from US-based individuals, it does indeed seem like there is a difference in degree of individualist mindset.
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by unavoidable 8y ago
Surprisingly few people are actually trying to answer this question on this thread. The answer is straightforward: you either structure your organization so that there are enough overlapping responsibilities to account for parental leaves (
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by unavoidable 8y ago
Most employees don't really care what the global mission of the company or their strategic interests are. It's whether you can get a decent paycheck with some stability while having a semblance of control and balance. The more yo
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by unavoidable 9y ago
Another problem with reality: most wall-floor angles are not exactly 90 degrees! Anyone who has tried to build custom cabinetry and shelving can attest to this.
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by unavoidable 9y ago
OT, but, Jefferson appears to have anticipated fake news and the thirst for eyeballs. >To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, “by restraining it to
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by unavoidable 9y ago
Geoff Hinton has deep roots with the rival University of Toronto and the surrounding ecosystem. His role and influence undoubtedly played a large part in this decision.
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by unavoidable 10y ago
In fact, the patent system comes close. If what you contributed was inventive and new, you get a patent on that slice of what you invented. For someone to commercialize the whole thing, they may need to pay both parties (essentially both pa
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by unavoidable 10y ago
Potentially related is the centrifugal effect - the Earth bulges at the equator slightly because of spin. Logically, melted ice would tend to cause water to "rise" more at the equators (further from the ice caps) than near the pol
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by unavoidable 10y ago
The fact that he bothered to learn is somehow a bad thing?
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by unavoidable 11y ago
I agree that articles like this usually suck for pictures. But in this case the video attached actually provides a great summary and a good deal of close ups.
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Source? The whole article basically argues against this view. What is your evidence to say AOA only contributes 10%?
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Having a patent doesn't grant you the right to use it (for example if someone else owns a patent for a similar technology you still have to make sure you aren't infringing that one). Defensive patenting only means that you have yo
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Most entrepreneurs have a reality distortion field that they sometimes fall victim to, otherwise they wouldn't be doing something as risky (and irrational) as starting a business.
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by unavoidable 11y ago
You can file a registration for copyright, which gives you certain presumptions and advantages in court (e.g. it serves as a presumption of ownership, which would be important in these kinds of cases). It also might serve as "notice&qu
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Yes, but if your rocket is smaller and nimbler because you only designed it to go to an altitude of 100km, isn't it easier to land?
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by unavoidable 11y ago
The example doesn't really change. > "The code was broken" instead of "You broke the code" serves the same function.
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Passive voice is one of those things that really irks people for some reason, mostly because their grammar school teacher taught them so. It has a lot of legitimate uses, but the knee-jerk reaction it invokes in people is bizarre. For insta
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by unavoidable 11y ago
The real holding (the dispositive part) is this: "Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the Happy Birthday lyrics, Defendants, as Summy Co.'s purported successors-in-interest, do not own a valid copyright in the Happy Bir
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Sorry, but I'm going to be "that guy", because someone is inevitably going to say "you can't patent that!", and there is generally a lot of misinformation about patents on HN. That particular document is a publ
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Yet at my law school, there was an unspoken rule in our criminal law classes that the exams would never have a fact pattern invoking sexual assault, for the obvious reasons. Perhaps the truth is always more nuanced than what is being said h
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by unavoidable 11y ago
That comment was about compiling from source, which requires much more memory than the actual program.
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by unavoidable 11y ago
For some reason, there is a popular misconception (even among some linguists!) that "Canada" is some kind of unified linguistic zone, or that somehow it is "close enough" (maybe people are just lazy). Whereas English di
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by unavoidable 11y ago
> monthly rates for a bed start at $1,000 This is the truly insane part.
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Likely, this is a standard term in their inventor assignment contract. When bsenftner signed it, the patent applications were probably not public yet (there is an 18 month period between filing and publication in which the application remai
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Come on guys. Like all patents, the owner must be disclosed to the USPTO. A quick Google search turns up Flixor as the original owner, and "Big Tent Entertainment, LLC" as the current owner of some of the recent patents in this fa

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