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-...
> Drawing on its massive store of customer data, Amazon plans on shipping you items it thinks you'll like before you click the purchase button. The company today gained a new patent for "anticipatory shipping," a system that allows Amazon to send items to shipping hubs in areas where it believes said item will sell well. This new scheme will potentially cut delivery times down, and put the online vendor ahead of its real-world counterparts.
IIRC, they now site the most frequently ordered items in smaller, more localized distribution centers for quicker/shorter shipping.
That's the large-scale strategy, but IIRC Amazon had per-buyer prediction. If you looked at a specific item and it predicted you're likely to order it soon, it would be delivered to a distribution center closer to you. (Using free space in a truck already heading there anyway)
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.
It’s a preference in his case that cannot be solved with licensing. Eric doesn’t want even potential ideas to influence him, and he says he has more puzzle ideas than time to implement them.
Personally, I suspect that he wants something that consumes so much of his free time to wholly be his, and I respect that.
If you want to help, why not ask the people running the site what you can do to help? Do you actually want to help, or do you want to make puzzles? Or do you just want to discuss a perceived problem that may or may not exist?
“your site” is really complicated. Who is “you”, person, website or the company? If it’s the person can they transfer the rights? What happens if they die? If they donate the estate? If they get hired or contracted? If the website expands scope or changes in any way?
"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.
Maybe he enjoys/benefits from the work, I feel like coming up with puzzle ideas would be somewhat fun/beneficial. I would definitely assume that if this were not the case he would outsource it or maybe even open source it.
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.
