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You are right; I had it reversed. I will add that Harvard Law is switching to a pass/fail system in 2009.

Yale Law School, which is consistently rated as #2 after Harvard, has pass or fail w/no grades. The implication is that getting in is enough to "signal" your "quality" on the marke…

"a great deal of apple's strength is that they don't follow trends. if they listened to what the industry thinks, they would license osx for plain-vanilla pcs, compete against ugly…

The counter-argument is as follows: what better subject group for a study about learning than a group immersed in learning activity (i.e., students)?

I recommend the original post and related comments over the link provided above: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/12/against-interesting-pr...

They probably qualify for the DMCA safe harbor so one of the few incentives to act are complaints. Also, one can assume they are getting complaints given the volume of documents th…

Re: "entirely online" bank accounts, E*Trade is a company providing such services.

The recent decision of Jacobsen v. Katzer (different jurisdiction) held that violation of an open source license can be a copyright violation, which is what is being claimed here. …

Balanced updates: http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/aust... http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/aust...

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Please remember that the only thing that is "free" is the fee that you would pay this company to do your paperwork. You will have to pay business organization fees to the state of …

Perhaps the comparison is off-base but I have not read any mention of the Principality of Sealand in relation to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

Linking free speech to property rights carries a bunch of political and philosophical assumptions that are divorced from the legal history and realities of 1st amendment law in the…

Duplicate post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182379

The one thing that stands out in this analysis is the author's almost casual statement that Flicker users regard "Flickr as their property and are resistant to change of any kind."…

Its not that its inherently hostile but it demonstrates one of the possible scenarios where private control can slip away with a majority of directors votes.

I guess you have never heard of a reverse merger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_takeover http://reversemergerblog.com/

Apple fans have always been fervent even during the very long period where the computers very obviously underpowered and overpriced. Apple was putting out 040-based computers at hi…