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Sad. I grew up in Champaign-Urbana and remember attending a talk he was giving about Prairienet.

Please don't give the EU any more ideas.

He paid some ex-con $50k to dig up dirt on the guy.

I believe the official term is accessory dwelling unit. You'll have to check your local zoning regulations on the rules and regulations for those. Yes there are companies that specialize in building those.

My dad was a EE professor specializing in semiconductor fabrication and he warned me away from a career working at semiconductor labs. He has warned me about every single warning of this post.

Whether they represent a liberal district or a conservative district, every legislator in California represents a significant number of constituents who wants their kids to go to Cal.

Yeah I got a kick out of watching his videos and seeing him every so often pull out some slightly wilted vegetables to make his dish. Quite the contrast to seeing all the pristine ingredients on TV cooking shows.

And, although not a junior, Eric Hansen aka one of the chessbrah also beat Magnus this tournament!

A professor of mine once told me about when he was in school he studied a book written by a famous expert in the field and found a bunch of errors. So he wrote back to the author with the error and, after some back and forth correspondence, the author offered him a job after graduation. So that was how he first got his foot in the door in the field.

Beto O’Rourke, former U.S. Congressman, was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-poli...

> People roll stop signs all the time

Those people are called bad drivers.

The Raiders moved mostly due to receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing to build a state of the art stadium in Las Vegas as opposed to playing in the semi-decrepit Oakland coliseum.

Did they also study whether total sugar sales rose in the cities next to Seattle? I can imagine that some price sensitive soda drinkers just drove to the nearest store outside of Seattle to buy their sodas.

Some commuter rail lines in the U.S. are designed to only cater to commuters. So they may not run any train into downtown at night, or they may stop running well before the shows end at night, so there's no way to use the trains to get back home.

20% low income housing (and we're not talking about dirt poor people but people with solid middle class jobs)is hardly giant towers full of low income housing.

I live in SF and I'm not aware of there being any lockdowns here in the city either.

False: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/30/fac...

Interesting... that fur store always seemed so out of place in the North Loop as shiny new apartments and restaurants sprouted up around it.

There is some controversy regarding that paper: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/peer-review-of-a-vaers-dump...

Sure, a few restaurants I loved have closed, but that seems to mostly be due to covid (e.g. Bachelor's Farmer) or poor management (Butcher & the Boar). If anything restaurants have gotten even better in the last 10 years in the Twin Cities. There's of course higher-end places like Spoon and Stable, Kado no Mise, and Owamni, and also quite a few better Chinese options that have opened in Dinkytown (e.g., Lao Sze Chuan). And of course old favorites like Bar La Grassa that's still going strong.

In high school, my school's basketball team went to play a basketball game at my state's high school for the deaf. A really interesting and unique experience.

Then you would probably choose to live somewhere else?

>1. People (in the US at least) overall consistently choose more land over living somewhere walkable. In a lot of places, the marginal cost of more land is near zero

Yeah this pretty much. In some other countries, it's really expensive to own a large piece of land somewhere remote, so only the Uber-rich can live in those sorts of settings.

Eh. I suspect besides housing prices, a significant amount of people also move to Texas because of political preferences. Also according to exit polling (as unreliable as it can be, so take it for what it's worth), Beto O'Rourke actually won the native Texan vote over Ted Cruz.

> So apparently all schools are amateur at commercialization. UF just has more experience than most.

I knew an engineering professor at a large state school with a renowned engineering program and one of his biggest complaints was how incompetent the licensing/commercialization office was at the school compared with, say, Stanford.

If anything given the cost of high quality ingredients, high end restaurants might even be losing money on food alone, and may depend on alcohol sales to make up the difference.

IBM also plays tricks to artificially boosts the number of patents it gets. For example, for a computer-implemented invention, a patent application will generally have a set of claims for the method that a computer performs to implement the invention and a set of claims for the computing device itself configured to perform the invention. What IBM likes to do is to split those two sets of claim into separate patent applications, so one application just claims the method and another application claims the computing device. So when most other companies would only get a single patent for a computer-implemented invention, IBM would get two patents. So this helps IBM maximize licensing revenue in the example where they're just adding up the number of patents.

Note that the patent bar exam tests you on knowledge of rules and regulations of the patent office and of the Patent Cooperation Treaty that many countries have signed on to. So you won't necessarily learn to draft a patent or how to read a patent just by studying materials for the patent bar exam.

Apple is already on the hook for about a billion dollars to VirnetX. That's not a lame excuse at all.

It's hard to give really specific advice on this but do you have friends who work in tech who've filed patents? If so, they probably have worked with a patent attorney hired by their company to convert their invention into a patent application. Ask about their experience, whether the patent attorney properly understood their invention, whether the patent attorney was responsive, etc.

In general, as a patent attorney who's worked both in large international law firms and in a smaller firm (patent boutiques) that deals just with patent prosecution, my general advice would be to try and find a good patent boutique. In general the quality of the work will probably be about the same and the patent boutique will probably charge you less money.