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charlesjshort

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About charlesjshort

Lawyer / Computer Engineer

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    Comment #5767517

    What happens when the FBI becomes infected with people like Lerner who use their power to persecute political dissidents?

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    Comment #5734223

    So does this mean the U.S. needs to issue more work visas?

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    Comment #5733365

    OMWFL Obey my will forever license. Copying or creating derivative works shall irrevocably enslave you to my will forever.

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    Comment #5718219

    This a reference to the "Protocols."

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    Comment #5718086

    Bill Gates is a goy so he can not be king of the internet. But Google would make a good king, so just bow down.

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    Comment #5673621

    Meteor is built on top of node. 'npm install async' becomes 'mrt add meteor-async' ... Sometimes you have to do a little configuration work to get off the shelf NPM packages settle…

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    Comment #5621704

    I dueled law-math in grad school. It made me weird; but I also gained a perspective very few have. You might find your self as being the only person who notices something cool; but…

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    Comment #5563741

    Tell Congress to eliminate the incentives for Examiners to issue quotas of patents.

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    Comment #5557155

    Krugman's error is to label the the bitcoin open network 'antisocial' in comparison to the federal reserve closed network. If antisocial means 'not wanting the company of others' :…

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    Comment #5539792

    I've worked as a patent prosecutor for a top ranked patent prosecution firm; and I know first hand that most patents are 'pencil patents' worthless subtle distinctions that are all…

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    Comment #5499278

    Any thoughts of putting some Erlang in there?

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    Comment #5354802

    Don't tell anyone but very carefully selected disciples.

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    Comment #5255195

    Unless the idea is novel and non-obvious and sufficiently detailed for a person of ordinary skill in the art to make and use it; or you have signed some sort of agreement. You can …

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    Comment #5118999

    Corruption, plain and simple. The high price lawyers have to grease the wheels to ensure the win.

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    Comment #5105638

    If you don't need ca$h there are plenty of opportunities for equity. Get one or the other, maybe a mix of the two.

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    Comment #5025440

    I'm investing time into Meteor because I think it has a smart model for concurrent user updates.

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    Comment #5021051

    Somebody has to figure out the name of the thief and post it!

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    Comment #5011773

    Is it not a rule that a novel application will break the paradigm that other applications follow and hence leak out of the abstractions that allow the traditional application to be…

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    Comment #4994606

    Please see academic paper here on Mathematics of Digital Republic. http://www.ysenate.org/academic.html

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    Comment #4928199

    I'm working on a project with ideas expressed at YSenate.org We are trying to tackle exactly this type of problem in an open source way. The big problem with open politics is the e…

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    Comment #4902800

    Patents are a crap shoot. I don't think you will get much scope on this invention, which is closer to 'design patent' than utility patent. Without scope you won't be able to tag so…

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    Comment #4765457

    If you've been subject to the discrimination it probably feels the same. public/private whatever you call them, they are all just groups of people, and exclusionary judgment based …