U.S. Supreme Court Curbs Excessive Design Patent Damages
(All: sorry for the offtopic digression, but this thread was bound to be about this whether I posted the below or not. There are fine comments about the Supreme Court ruling elsewhere on this page, and you can always click [-] to collapse a subthread you don't want to read.)<p>HN has been running a no-politics-for-a-week 'experiment' [1]. Although it hasn't been a week, I think we've learned as much from it as we're going to, so it can be over now.<p>Among what we learned is that it's impossible to define 'politics' with any consensus because that question is itself highly political, and that HN is at its best when it can meander through <i>all</i> the (intellectually) interesting things, some of which inevitably have political dimensions. The current story is a good example: it's not apolitical, but it isn't purely political either, and it's clearly on topic for HN.<p>In other words, the existing guidelines have it about right (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>), so carry on as normal.<p>1. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404</a>. I put 'experiment' in quotes because people understand that word differently. We mean 'trying something for a little while, just to see what will happen'.