Suppose that a company trying to build a better mousetrap hires a new mousetrap engineer.
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"There's too much emphasis on 'I built a better mousetrap,' but not enough on the cost of getting people to use the better mousetrap," Weiden said.
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As far as mousetrap improvements go, this is a big one.
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They are constantly adjusting and fine-tuning for quality, trying to account not only for the better-built mousetrap, but also the new mousetrap app, its upgrades and sometimes even the version sold on the black market.
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Killing machines like this absolutely terrifying giant mousetrap built by YouTuber TheBackyardScientist.
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Some had "mousetrap" switches and others had "clothespin" switches, the source said.
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There is, for instance, a life-size mousetrap arranged in a giant circle.
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An adorable toddler celebrated Halloween as a mouse stuck in a giant mousetrap.
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You're not really talking about a mechanism that necessarily generates the best mousetrap.
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Thanks to the cloud, you can build a better mousetrap without tons of cash.
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" Edwards Lifesciences: "This stock is way too cheap because they have the better mousetrap.
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New communication and collaboration tools flooding the market claim they've built a better mousetrap.
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I strive to teach my daughters that they can all invent the next best mousetrap.
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When someone builds a better mousetrap, the world should beat a path to his door.
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But, as Aster established in "Hereditary," his interest rests largely on building an elaborate mousetrap.
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So different elaborate mousetrap actions kick in at 665.75 than might be triggered at 666.
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Kavanaugh's confirmation is the closest successful Supreme Court confirmation vote since the invention of the mousetrap.
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"Dyson has created what I think is a better mousetrap," Reyman said after we were done.
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Once that was done, Daniel then dove right into the middle of the mousetrap-covered trampoline.
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But, as usual whenever a better mouse comes along, someone is bound to devise a better mousetrap.
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BUILD a better mousetrap, the saying goes, and the world will beat a path to your door.
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As Darren Walsh, a principal at Power & Walsh Insurance Advisors, said: "They haven't invented a new mousetrap."
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Not one of their regular museum mousetraps, but a 155-year-old mousetrap in the museums' gallery.
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If they have figured out a better mousetrap, they could give the industry something to seriously think about.
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This was the proverbial better mousetrap, a major improvement from the hemp-filled metal anchors then in use.
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"This is not just a better mousetrap," Johannes Jaskolski, general manager of the companies' joint Mobile Authentication Taskforce.
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Build the mousetrap of better book discovery, and I for one will steamroller a trail to your door.
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The mousetrap was located near straw, wood, and textiles — all of them huge draws for the beloved rodent.
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This is the same method I use on the rare occasion the mousetrap under the sink needs emptying.
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IN THE world of investing, everyone is always looking for a better mousetrap—a way to beat the market.
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Ari Aster's hyper-aware movie builds a scary mousetrap with Swedish bait, but it has more virtuosity than vision.
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The name, Dionaea muscipula, is derived from words meaning "the goddess of love" and "mousetrap," according to the conservancy.
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"These countries are not growing due to lack of investments — they are caught in a mousetrap," one analyst said.
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And in a bracing episode last month she built a more elaborate mousetrap involving sexual harassment in online gaming.
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WILLIAMS: It would be like sticking your hand in a mousetrap for those NFL players to get sucked into that.
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Building a better mousetrap on top of a more modern technical platform, or with a UX layer, can be enough.
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The Starbucks package contained explosive material and a mousetrap designed to set off the bomb when the box was opened.
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What it lacked, though, was an ecosystem that kept users from walking away when somebody finally built a better mousetrap.
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There were a bunch of big typewriter makers out there already, and how much can you improve that mousetrap anyway?
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If you're trying to catch the mice, you can strategically spray the peppermint oil in places that don't have a mousetrap.
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Click here to view original GIFBuild a better mousetrap, and they say the world will beat a path to your door.
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It's an interesting read that explores the origins of everything from chess and backgammon to modern favorites like Monopoly and Mousetrap.
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Some of these tricks show how smartphone makers are building a better mousetrap (with the hope of locking in new clients).
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Yes, but: Lots of startups have tried to build a better mousetrap only to find themselves unable to unseat Microsoft and Google.
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On the one hand, low-cost passive investments are simply a better mousetrap in many respects, one that's finally reached mass adoption.
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The fourth and final rule is having "a better mousetrap," which Cramer has seen time and time again with tech giant Apple.
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One cannot consider so many of these would-be revolutionary designs without concluding that carry-on luggage has become the new mousetrap.
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I don't like thinking about regular-sized mousetraps and I'm not even a mouse; a human-sized mousetrap gives me the straight creeps.
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Three, have a sizable business in Europe and Asia to offset American weakness, or four, have a better mousetrap that the customer loves.
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Far from letting markets work, the deregulatory agenda freezes markets in time to protect incumbents against innovators who can build a better mousetrap.
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The thrill shifts over to figuring out how you can exploit Hitman 2's many moving parts and, in essence, build a better mousetrap.
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He gestured to the floor, which was arrayed with what looked like construction rubble, a cardboard box with packing peanuts spilling out, a mousetrap.
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A mousetrap is designed to kill instantly, but we don't want to look at the little broken-necked mouse, so we set out poison.
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One of Biancoshock's interventions is "Refugee Trap," which features a European passport leaning on a mousetrap in front of one of the camp's entrances.
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Now that it's here, Pandora's shiny new updates feel like a distraction from the truth: that despite everything, it still hasn't built a better mousetrap.
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The grand dowager of that species is Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap," which has been running in the West End for more than half a century.
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In the study, each participant dismantled either a gun or the mousetrap, handled its components and then wrote instructions for how to assemble the objects.
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After the church explosion, components similar to those in the Starbucks package were found, including a mousetrap and small nails and screws, the statement said.
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Indeed, that the three computer savants ended up building a better DDoS mousetrap isn't necessarily surprising; it was an area of intense intellectual interest for them.
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Stance's epic win in the sock market should give heart and hope to entrepreneurs looking not to invent the wheel, but to build a better mousetrap.
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A mouse died at the Museum of English Rural Life after crawling into a 150-year-old mousetrap on display in one of the institution's exhibits.
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The house itself feels like a mousetrap, which works for a narrative puzzle in which the parts keep shifting as the wood-paneled walls close in.
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Let's hope that this time President Trump stands up for American consumers and workers and tells the uncompetitive solar panel manufacturers to go build a better mousetrap.
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Some models just allude to poor sanitation, such as the room that holds within its very white walls a sneaker or one that houses a waiting mousetrap.
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But these firms were long ago eclipsed by Google, which built (and monetized) a better Web search mousetrap, and Facebook, which dominates the online social networking ad market.
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It's as if our hypothetical mousetrap engineer were prohibited from seeking employment with any other manufacturing firm, or in any occupation that makes use of her engineering skills.
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The Verge likes The Slow Mo Guys, but we can't endorse their latest video, in which one man unleashes the full wrath of a mousetrap upon his vulnerable tongue.
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The logistics of putting on Maker Faire are no simpler than creating a 700-foot-long mousetrap that starts with a bowling ball and ends with a bank safe.
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"As soon as he said, 'Hey, join me up on stage, everybody,' I was like, 'Oh, there goes the little cheese in the mousetrap; it's going down,'" Thompson said.
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"They have the better mousetrap and if there are additional tariffs to bring its products back then they will be well positioned to pass those costs on," he said.
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But the director, Daniel Robbins, is willing to move beyond the tease of his setup to deliver a ringing indictment of popularity as the cheese in a deadly mousetrap.
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The device consisted of a mailing package containing explosive material and a mousetrap that was designed to be triggered when the package was opened, according to a probable cause affidavit.
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It's easy to write off Blue Man Group as the local equivalent of "The Mousetrap," a piece of old furniture that is always there but has little new to offer.
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So it's not surprising that I have avoided the Mousetrap for decades, opting instead for getaways that inspire me and ignite curiosity in my two daughters, ages 10 and 14.
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"These creative thinkers found novel ways to accomplish everyday tasks, choosing to build a better mousetrap rather than taking a tried-and-true approach to problems," the researchers wrote.4.
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Then there's David Haig's splendid turn as the leader of the band of traveling players, the same ones who perform the ill-fated "Mousetrap" for the royal court of Elsinore.
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When Hamlet stages his "mousetrap" play — in which performers replicate the murder of his father — the members of the court take their seats in an empty aisle in the audience.
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"Our problem is when you set a mousetrap, they build a better mouse," said JP Morgan's Legault, in reference to the escalating 'arms race' that exists between cyber attackers and defenders.
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She found it one night in December 2011 at the Cultural Mousetrap, a scrappy alternative theater where Ms. Castillo made her debut in drag, performing as Maria Vkallasova, a Russian diva.
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Carbon Engineering's experiment, which runs on a construction site and in a cavernous barn, involves four structures linked by various pipes, giving it the feeling of an ingenious, supersized game of Mousetrap.
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Perhaps you'd like a toaster, pregnancy test or rolling papers, or a spatula, mousetrap or smartphone charger and don't want to wander around town in the middle of the night looking for one.
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Delbert Latham and his family were enjoying a night out at Wonderland Amusement Park in Armarillo, Texas when he and his son Kaysen decided to ride a small roller coaster called the Mousetrap.
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"The industry's support of initiatives like Mousetrap Theatre Projects, Kids Week, Get Into London Theatre and many other schemes including day seats and ticket lotteries help make theatre accessible to all," a spokesperson said.
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After all, they had built a better mousetrap, allowing the masses to install environmentally minded solar power systems at little or no cost to them and to reduce their electricity bills at the same time.
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Will there ever come a time when we won't need laughter, when we'll be sitting on soft pillows, wearing our shimmering metallic robes, drinking our soothing space tea, and perhaps one of us will reach for a piece of cheese housed in an ancient device known as a mousetrap, and the mousetrap will snap on the person's finger, and he'll let out a yowl of pain, and the rest of us won't spit the tea out of our mouths but will just stare blankly?
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Still, for those who think the VIX will rise abnormally high in a given session, the new VMAX ETF may prove to be a better mousetrap — albeit one that still needs to do the proving part.
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"The good thing about the U.S. is if there's a way to make a dollar, you can bet people will be lined up around the block to make the next best mousetrap," Morrow told Scientific American.
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Some are placed just out of reach, luring greedy travelers into long-distance leaps to their death, while others are put in plain sight, like cheese in a mousetrap ready to spring shut on the player.
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After Wilde and Ibsen, what can one say about Agatha Christie beyond reminding those who keep track of such things that her record-breaking "The Mousetrap" celebrated its 65th birthday last month on the West End.
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"The pavilion's coiled form, in which visitors spiral ever deeper into a black hole of bad art and superficial temptations, straying farther and farther from the real world outside, is an elaborate mousetrap for consumers," he wrote.
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WHEN a financial firm boasts of offering the biggest loans at the lowest rates with the slimmest collateral, it has either devised the underwriting equivalent of a better mousetrap or is setting itself up for an almighty fall.
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The Nickelodeon game show looked fun as all hell—Marc Summers ran around screaming at contestants while they tried to sprint through a Mousetrap-style obstacle course, picked a giant nose, and watched their dads get covered in slime.
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Her last role was a cameo appearance with her son, Tom Waldman Jr., in "Kill a Better Mousetrap," a comedy, based on a play by Scott K. Ratner, that was filmed last summer and has yet to be released.
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"I don't begrudge people making money if they really can build a better mousetrap," said Stephen Dyer, a former Ohio state legislator and the education policy fellow at Innovation Ohio, a Columbus think tank that is sharply critical of online charter schools.
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The potential is to tap into the $12 trillion manufacturing industry because it is a much better mousetrap: lower inventory, just in time, manufacturing democratized, less shipping all around the world, less cost of capital tied up, for all sorts of reasons.
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A couple of hours later, he was in the starting hut for his first training run, peering down past the first two turns toward the precipice called the Mausefalle, or mousetrap, a two-hundred-foot jump over which the previous racer had just vanished.
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And we obviously in this day and age you can't just create a website, and you know as they say build a better mousetrap and hope that they come, you've got to be proactive you've got to get out there, you've got to deploy social media somehow.
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But Petipa certainly never imagined an incomprehensible back-story for the ballet that involves Drosselmeyer's nephew, Hans-Peter, being turned into the Nutcracker doll by a wicked Mouse Queen as punishment for his uncle's invention of a mousetrap that has killed off half the rodent population.
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It was all art, of course — the rubble handmade by the Swiss artists Fischli/Weiss, the box an objet from the New Museum's gift shop, and the mousetrap, one of several trompe l'oeil pieces by Doug Padgett, whose stopped clock and faux light switch also trip up Mr. Waters regularly.
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Other additions include a feather, potted plant, rock, wood, hut, pickup truck, roller skate, magic wand, piñata, nesting dolls, sewing needle, knot, flip flop, military helmet, accordion, long drum, coin, boomerang, carpentry saw, screwdriver, hook, ladder, elevator, mirror, window, plunger, mousetrap, bucket, toothbrush, headstone, placard, transgender symbol, transgender flag, anatomical heart and lungs.
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Figure talked recently with American Banker about the company's interest in competing more directly with SoFi, citing the $1.4 trillion in outstanding loan debt as the primary reason it's swooping into the space, and with the "same mousetrap" that Figure has developed to quickly process home loans, which it then securitizes and sells.
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Should Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE win in this scenario, Trump would take the bait of alleged voter fraud faster than a mousetrap can snap shut.
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Just as The Mousetrap inculcated the key themes of Hamlet as dumb-show while broadcasting its artificiality, the play demonstrates a certain self-knowledge on the part of Lost director Jack Bender (new to Game of Thrones) who shows us a depraved spectacle, milks the high/low resonance for all its worth, then reminds us who the plebes are here.
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While the attitudes that inform some of them come from a Marxist analysis of economics and post-structuralist understanding of power, they pale when compared to Pedercini's game To Build A Better Mousetrap, which teaches Marxist theory and the role of technology in automation, or Giles's theater game Class Act, which demonstrates the labor theory of value by implementing a factory.
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Leo and I sat on the wood floor, with the back door open to the sound of the robins, and played another round of Bingo, or checkers, or (so help me) Mousetrap, until Joshua came shuffling in, gruff and rumple-headed—like me without coffee—and issued his own directives, one sentence budding into the next: Now. Now. Now. ♦
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