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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by jdavis703 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:36PM (#13132177)
We're supposed to be a community of hackers. Why can't we try weird and crazy ideas?
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by ceejayoz on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:40PM (#13134549)
> Why can't we try weird and crazy ideas?

There's still the "should I really stick this knife in that electrical socket?" evaluation that should take place with weird/crazy ideas, though.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages by kristofferR on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:44PM (#13132246)
It's a good idea to think through ideas before attempting them.

This experiment was like asking people to flag "news", and getting surprised that people were flagging tech news, when they really wanted to avoid crime news.

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