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100 - 21,000,000 is a much, much larger range than 90-99.999.

> But in this case, setting up a mining business is trivial. Not exactly. I'm not exactly sure on the up front cost to develop ASICs, but it's definitely well into 6 figures. BFL s…

> Nowhere is there any express private right of action that gives any private citizen the right to file suit complaining about alleged violations of these laws. I thought Californi…

> It seems this database has a limit on the size of the modification it can make atomically to the database. If this were an unlucky edge case, I could understand. But it seems lik…

"If they condemn the sales, they strike down the first sale doctrine " ...only for goods manufactured outside the US and not authorized for import to the US by the manufacturer. Mo…

From a Reuters piece... "Mission control contemplated sending Curiosity one last "parameter update" on Sunday, hours before atmospheric entry, giving the vessel an exact fix on its…

Sal is right but I understand the critique... which I might clarify as the importance of understanding the larger concept that slope is a comparison of the rate of change of one va…

So your argument is: Ideas/products with excessive speculation have failed in the past. Therefore, this product will fail. I disagree with that. It suffers from survivor bias (or a…

> Expressing passive skepticism and slow-rolling an invoice you don't believe you should pay is not a bad strategy. Do you not believe the vendor's story? or are you saying it's ok…

Every 210,000 blocks the mining reward is cut in half. At current rates, the mining reward will drop from 50 to 25 btc around December 2012. This is separate from the difficulty up…

What are the privacy implications of a teacher giving students' grade information to a third party? I was under the impression the law (in US) required a parent's release. Is it po…

"Thiel was ranked #365 on the Forbes 400 in 2010, with a net worth of US$1.5 billion....However, this number now underestimates his wealth as his Facebook share alone, at a 2010 va…

I'm confused then. Where are you getting $972M? If you are doing total revenue (advertising + payments and other), it's $872M + $186M = $1,058M And also, page 56 of the pdf lists $…

Agreed, he should clarify 1Q 2012. And it looks like he has it wrong.... The filing says $872M not $972M (page 51 of pdf).

I read both links but only 4 abstracts of the referenced articles (which on their face seemed legit but I did not have access to the full articles. His analysis of the last 37 year…

The parent posted a link to a 1,500 word argumentative essay backed up with inline references to 19 peer reviewed journal papers and included the words "check it out here and make …

"getting tired at how many actions it takes to enter directions in Maps on iPhone." I've never thought this was a pain point. Were you using map bookmarks? It's 5-10 seconds of cli…

It's not a bug. The problem is that most people don't know that MMS messages can be one-to-many AND that iOS 5 turned Group Messaging on by default (which causes group messages to …

"But both doesn't mean time discounting is something irrational." It's over-discounting that's irrational. If I have a school paper due in a month, the probability that I won't hav…

Note that this is a Non-Final action - which I believe means that Lodsys has not had a chance to respond. In general reexaminations take a long time... "Based on our calculations, …

US Patent 6714559 is one they sued several hotels over. It was filed in 2001 but was a string of 6 continuations of a patent filed November, 1991.

Here is the complaint that lists the patent numbers. http://www.scribd.com/doc/60587096/11-07-21-Lodsys-Amended-C...

The amended complaint clearly shows what patents Lodsys is accusing Rovio of infringing. "On May 22, 2007, U.S. Patent No. 7,222,078 (the "'078 patent") was duly and legally issued…

I'm sure you have better things to do, but blog.onswipe.com is basically unusable on (my) iphone on safari. or atleast holding it horizontally, and vertically is not much better.