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…
Powerful interests want it to be true.
Arson is also an inherently dangerous felony, which is why when someone dies because of arson, the arsonist can be charged with murder.
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…
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…
Design patents expire, unlike trademarks.
A patent application is a constructive reduction to practice. MPEP 2138.05. https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2138.html#:~:tex...
No one lives forever. You can’t take it with you. In the long run, we’re all renting.
New machines with Windows 10 were sold in 2021. So, less than 4 years of support for those machines.
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…
I agree. The affordable housing costs $1M per unit because that is the market price for constructing any housing in those areas.
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…
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.
https://xkcd.com/386/
I'm curious too. I found a lot of skepticism of a similar claim. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47754/are-one-t...
It's a shame, because school choice could be a rallying cry for "Tax the rich to pay for private schools for all kids."
It’s a joke because most American schools are run by the government.
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),…
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…
Half a century worth of reporters’ notes might be some valuable training data.
Streisand effect bait?
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…
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.
Even a 1 person company has customers.
Are you sure it didn't cry in `bytes()`?
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…
Powerful interests want it to be true.
Arson is also an inherently dangerous felony, which is why when someone dies because of arson, the arsonist can be charged with murder.
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…
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…
Design patents expire, unlike trademarks.
A patent application is a constructive reduction to practice. MPEP 2138.05. https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2138.html#:~:tex...
No one lives forever. You can’t take it with you. In the long run, we’re all renting.
New machines with Windows 10 were sold in 2021. So, less than 4 years of support for those machines.
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…
I agree. The affordable housing costs $1M per unit because that is the market price for constructing any housing in those areas.
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…
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.
https://xkcd.com/386/
I'm curious too. I found a lot of skepticism of a similar claim. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47754/are-one-t...
It's a shame, because school choice could be a rallying cry for "Tax the rich to pay for private schools for all kids."
It’s a joke because most American schools are run by the government.
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),…
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…
Half a century worth of reporters’ notes might be some valuable training data.
Streisand effect bait?
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…
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.
Even a 1 person company has customers.
Are you sure it didn't cry in `bytes()`?