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I know HN is super minimalistic but I’d love a way to indent quotes considering how often we do it here
I'm not against that but what is wrong with using a carrot? It works well.
It doesn’t indent
T-Mobile demand Lemonade to stop using the color magenta
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Why is this a problem? Visually, it's very clear what is and is not a quote.
So that it’s more clear? and supports multiple paragraphs Do you indent your code? Or are the curly braces enough?
...clearly we're not going to agree on this. Yes, I indent code, but—while I've never thought about this before—I actually think using carrots could work equally well! I'd add one carrot per ident level to the start of every line.
Back to quotes, for multiple paragraphs, I just add a ">" to the start of each paragraph.
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Do they not? I certainly haven't had any problems with them, but I switched to them from Sprint, so my tolerance for sucktitude is a lot higher than average.
I started with TMo for ethical reasons about 10 years ago, but their SFBay coverage has been really spotty for me in general the whole time. No bars in office buildings, in the suburbs, on underground public transportation where other people appear to have active connections...just lots of inconvenient holes.
I know its at least a year out but I'm personally looking forward to the 600Mhz 5G rollout - theoretically the range will be unbelievable. I don't want gigabit speeds when I'm 50 feet from a tower, I want 10mbps wherever I am!
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Can I trademark #ffffff? And then sue everyone who uses white paper?
A trademark cannot serve a utilitarian function. People write on white paper, and therefore white cannot be trademarked. EDIT: If you wanted an "ivory" white to build a brand around... that would be allowed as a trademark of course. But it would consistently be that "ivory white" color that you picked as a trademark, and nothing else.
That's even better, there are lots of ivory white houses out there to sue.
The "damages" would be the resale value of those houses combined.
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So that it’s more clear? and supports multiple paragraphs Do you indent your code? Or are the curly braces enough?
...clearly we're not going to agree on this. Yes, I indent code, but—while I've never thought about this before—I actually think using carrots could work equally well! I'd add one carrot per ident level to the start of every line. Back to quotes, for multiple paragraphs, I just add a ">" to the start of each paragraph.
I totally agree with you, but FYI they're called "carets". Much as I like the idea of carrots in comments :-)
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I'm not against that but what is wrong with using a carrot? It works well.
It doesn’t indent
> It doesn’t indent
I just use a carrot and make it italics, easy to see.
Though it should be:
> "It doesn’t indent"
• https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/titles-italics-or-quot...
• https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14876/use-quotat...
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It doesn’t indent
> It doesn’t indent I just use a carrot and make it italics, easy to see. Though it should be: > "It doesn’t indent" • https://getitwriteonline.com/articles/titles-italics-or-quot... • https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14876/use-quotat...
Isn't it nicer once it's indented though? https://imgur.com/a/LR0Otpb
I'm pretty sure this is the reason people try to use code blocks for quotes—because they want it indented.
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A trademark cannot serve a utilitarian function. People write on white paper, and therefore white cannot be trademarked. EDIT: If you wanted an "ivory" white to build a brand around... that would be allowed as a trademark of course. But it would consistently be that "ivory white" color that you picked as a trademark, and nothing else.
That's even better, there are lots of ivory white houses out there to sue. The "damages" would be the resale value of those houses combined.
> That's even better, there are lots of ivory white houses out there to sue.
Only if those houses are in the same industry as your trademark. You can paint your house UPS-brown and they won't be able to sue unless you were using it as a place of business.
Case in point: Lake McDonald Lodge (https://www.yelp.com/biz/lake-mcdonald-lodge-west-glacier) can exist because its in a totally different business than McDonald's fast food.
Yeah, "McDonald" is trademarked, but trademark is very restrictive over what you can sue over.
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So your hypothetical "Ivory" trademark will only apply in the industry that you've registered the trademark under. You can't just sue private houses for using your color.
EDIT: Furthermore, to obtain a "Colormark" trademark, you need to prove that the color has secondary meaning to your particular business. Ex: Fedex-brown is a trademark because Fedex is using that particular brown to color their trucks and employee uniforms, and applies it consistently across their enterprise.
It would be unfair if I were to start my own rival shipping company using a similar color uniform as Fedex. I'd have to use blue-uniforms or green-uniforms instead.
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EDIT: As an example: General Mills was unable to trademark "Yellow" as a trademark on Cheerios cereal, because yellow was used on too many cereal boxes already and clearly wasn't a color that people associated with General Mills.