https://www.ndtv.com/feature/man-fired-from-microsoft-after-22-years-becomes-goose-farmer-see-viral-linkedin-profile-5586211

I view the patent process as furthering the ability of others to benefit from the results: without patents, the only way to keep clones of your product from immediately appearing on the market is obfuscation and trade secrets. Patents grant a limited monopoly, but at the price of full disclosure. That full disclosure serves a useful social benefit as others can learn and innovate on what was done before. The limited monopoly encourages innovation because it helps people get exclusive rights to sell their work.

There’s a lot of bad patent behavior with patent trolls, etc. The duration of the patents should be relatively short and not extensible. But I think the disclosure aspect of the patent process does further overall innovation.

I’d like to get back to ‘for limited time’. Patents 10 years, no extensions. Copyright, 10 years, no extensions. Trademarks indefinite as long as the owner still has a meaningful business still operating and using the trademark ( this one is tricky to define well).

Oil being priced in dollars is a primary driver of why other countries need to buy dollars. I’m worried we’re about to find out what happens when OPEC decides to start allowing oil to be traded in euros or yuan.

Why can’t they deport you? Does the jail in El Salvador care what the nationality is of the people the US is paying to hold and torture?

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who also has the initials ‘J. G.’

That is how it works in this case. Musk took loans backed by the value of his TSLA holding as collateral in order to fund his part of the twitter purchase. Value of TSLA drops enough, those loans get called.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/elon-musk-faces-margin-call-on-loan-used-to-purchase-twitter

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/25/23141940/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-margin-loan-buyout-deal

I don’t know if we have enough visibility into how much he’s currently margined to know when he’s at risk of getting called again, but it doesn’t seem realistic to think that he’s not currently margined.

Part of the answer is that mortality rates were far higher 150 years ago. A couple might have 5 children but only 2 survive to adulthood.

Yes, sooner rather than later is the Project 2025 plan. They need violence to break out soon in order to get martial law in place so that the '26 midterm elections are suspended.

It’s explicitly not a dealership.

This article explains what a dealership is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealership?wprov=sfla1

Specifically:

Today, direct sales by an automaker to consumers are limited by most states in the U.S. through franchise laws that require new cars to be sold only by licensed and bonded, independently owned dealerships.

Tesla does direct sales and does not use the dealership model.

Tesla only does direct sales, no dealerships. Otherwise, point taken. Carry on.

Deep blue Washington state has the advantage of giant amounts of hydroelectric generation combined with a relatively small population to consume it.

You’re not looking at the bigger picture here. Trump might have an opportunity to have a hotel in Moscow license his name and put it on the side of the building.

Porque no los dos?

The oncoming recession is going to hurt most businesses.

It has options for providing metadata, thumbnails, etc for jellyfin automatically, by pulling the metadata from the youtube page.

To expand on this for clarity, there are lots of cases where the person selecting and paying for the appliance isn’t the person paying the eventual utility bills.

Landlords, builders like DH Horton, property flippers, etc.

They’ll rule that the states don’t have standing and the only remedy is impeachment and conviction of the executive by Congress.

The money has to come from somewhere.

That’s why elons team took over the treasury payments system.