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What can I spend the coins on?

This all started in the US with Judge Easterbrook in ProCD. https://www.bitlaw.com/source/cases/copyright/procd.html

The basic gist of Easterbrook's argument is that in everyday life it is common to buy now and find out the terms later, and under the law and the UCC the sequence of money and accepting terms don't matter.

While the case has been stretched to the limit, and lots of research shows that users aren't reading the terms of service, the practice and the law in the US has only strengthened.

Sometimes not and yes. Online ticket purchases are routed through a protocol which has an earlier cut off time after which the ticket is in “airport control” and purchased or changes happen in-person. https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/111197/what-does-...

We’ve gone from customer pays for shipping, to free shipping, to 25% of the US prepays for shipping.

After free and faster free shipping, the next best thing feels like predicting what you want and sending it to you.

"You" would be the company, and the submitter would assign all the rights to it. Interestingly, I looked and couldn't find any terms of service or company name.

Eric, the author, says he won't accept any puzzle submissions because of attribution and legal issues. This seems like the wrong outcome for people who want to make the site better but don't want credit, compensation, or attribution.

Has anyone seen a site using an IP assignment agreement which is the equivalent of "take my work, I don't want credit, and it's just for your site"?

The Creative Commons CC0 license comes closest, but one could scrape those puzzles and create a competing site, which I'd guess Eric wants to avoid.

So far CA DMV publishes autonomous miles driven without incident etc. It would be interesting to see commercial numbers driven - ie someone paid for a ride.

A friend of mine was laid off (https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/disqus-lays-off-11-as-it-p...). He spent time interviewing for a new job and found that it sucked. Companies move super slowly because recruiting/hr expects candidates to move slowly because of job and limited time. So he's finding candidates and companies willing to move fast.

It's a bigger deal than it appears. The indemnity means that if Anthony told Uber before the deal that he stole trade secrets from Google, then Uber indemnifies him - ie pays for lawyers and any penalties. But there's no protection for the criminal piece of this, and if Kalanick knew about the theft, then he just committed a crime too. Uber interviewed their employees and lawyers, and created a list of people who saw and knew about the stolen files. Uber wasn't able to interview Travis because he is still grieving over his family loss, but they are scheduled to speak in the next 5 days and will say whether Travis saw and knew about the stolen files.

It's not easy to be first on google, especially on brands where you don't own the brand. If you can do this consistently please immediately set up a company, charge, and go eventually go public.

Seems like a good way to track lab supplies - is there a buy button when I run out of stuff or do I have to buy from somewhere else?

I'm not sure openly publishing salaries is collusion, which usually is a (secret) attempt by a few players to set prices for everyone. Like in the law firm example, all this affects only the top companies. Also, different structures can create economics outcomes that vary by 2-3x, no market failure needed. Take a look at a small example like Hired.com - firms openly bidding on engineers has resulted in salaries that seem to be 50-100% higher than those achieved absent such a structure.

The story gets more interesting - the legal field is one of the few where salary information is totally transparent. If you know the law firm name and how long a person has worked there you can look up their salary. [1] Partner salary is also published, but only the average for all partners. In 1998 a group of lawyers started posting salaries in a Yahoo Group called Greedy Associates. [2] Many firms, upon seeing competitor salary information, felt the need to move in lock-step for fear of losing out top talent because of salary. This created a faster increase in lawyer salaries in the last 10 years then in any other time in history. In 1998 the firms that were paying $90K are now paying $165k. [3] Today, firms publish the data themselves so they can control the message.

Similar to lawyers, it would be interesting if instead of relying on Wealthfront and AngelList, engineers at Google, Facebook, Apple, etc started openly contributing their salary information to increase wages to 2-3x that of engineers at less selective employers and create this bi-modal distribution in tech.

[1] http://www.lawfirmstats.com/firms/ [2] https://books.google.com/books?id=IY4ieeVyer4C&pg=PA18&lpg=P... [3] http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/1998/10/05/newsco...

Yes - you need the % that is reservation taking vs walk-in. That said, my 10% stat is from their 10Ks and relates only to the markets they are in.

Future growth must come from international. OT is in 50% of all reservation taking restaurants in the US but in only 10% of reservation taking restaurants in international markets. That said, it's not easy to go international - they've tried a few times in Europe and had to retreat.

Tangential to the story but the most obvious question is what company fired Alex - it was Somawater ... drinksoma.com

Streeteasy has a terrific brand in nyc. Given that they have 1.2m monthly uniques and 7M in revenue, I'm surprised that the acquisition will not have an impact on zillow revenue projections. Guess if you do $200m in yearly revenue, an extra $7m is only a ~5% bump.

I should have been more clear: rent a secondary home for the sole purpose of generating revenue on Airbnb.

i) Write a scraper that compares electronic prices on Craigslist with what the fair value is on ebay/priceonomics. Auto send emails to craigslist sellers who are selling below market value, purchase, and then sell on ebay/craigslist. You can do similar live negotiations at moving sales.

ii) Airbnb your home, especially if you live in or near a big city. Or rent a home to Airbnb.