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by sofon 8y ago
Isn't there relationship already problematic? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/20/firefox-g...
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by sofon 8y ago
The waveforms will all likely be disclosed in their patents too: https://patents.google.com/?assignee=E+Ink+Corp Certainly a number of drive waveforms and the basic concepts are presented. There are likely implementation su
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by sofon 8y ago
Could you not get a prenup?
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by sofon 8y ago
Are many/most companies with billion dollar valuations so exposed? I would imagine most billion dollar companies have multiple sites and manufacturing and data centers spread across multiple sites.
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by sofon 8y ago
That's such a neat idea. I wonder why floating plants don't already exist. I'm also surprised that I've not seen it in Scifi.
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by sofon 8y ago
Why? VCs might just be not very good at selecting good plays?
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by sofon 8y ago
Yes, or some startup figures out that they can start doing it and charge the tech companies for access to their platform. An open standard would be better of course.
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by sofon 8y ago
Sun was serious about software at least to the extent that Acorn was.
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by sofon 8y ago
Interesting thread. I think self-driving cars are short term doomed, and we've doomed them. The problem is we view them as a purely technical problem where-as the real issues are sociological. It's not possible to create a self-dr
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by sofon 8y ago
I don't see how that follows. They don't just waste money, they redirect resources that could be deployed better elsewhere.
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by sofon 8y ago
Urgh, it's really bullshit. A minority of Japanese workers are Kaishain (Salarypeople), and there's nothing you really really /need/ from a corporation. Corporate socialising is a thing, as is finding a partner at work.
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by sofon 8y ago
I read the article, but I can't see how the title is supported. What is for example, the second largest tech hub and how narrow is silicon valley's lead over it. I would guess that the bay area if way way ahead of anywhere else (I
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by sofon 8y ago
I agree, we can't proceed without mistakes. But it's incorrect to say that there is no cost, and that we shouldn't minimise mistakes (which is what the comment I was replying to was implying). The VC stuff... I'm not sur
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by sofon 8y ago
It's probably not very bad, but stupid experiments can have a negative influence on the community as a whole. Let's say e-ink keyboards are a good idea, but it's too soon. An early implementation will quite possibly delay (mo
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by sofon 8y ago
> - Earth will have another 10,20,30 Billion people living on it Unlikely. > - These people, ... lots of kids, and more Also unlikely. > - Human will inhabit more parts of the Earth that are uninhabitable Unlikely > spending of
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by sofon 8y ago
> One proposal, developed by American economist Bartley Madden, is "free-to-choose medicine." Once drugs have passed Phase I trials demonstrating safety, doctors would be able to prescribe them... > > More radically, it
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by sofon 8y ago
Pretty much all the Dyson's I've used have had very poor suction and hardly pick up anything. The Toshiba bagless cleaners work well in my experience.
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by sofon 8y ago
I don't understand the Dyson hype. Their products seem over-engineered, over-priced, and under-performing... On top of which Dyson himself is strongly pro-Brexit [1] which is shaping up to be a disaster for the UK. Really don't ho
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by sofon 8y ago
wow that's neat! sampling between PWM cycles is a cool idea. I'd guess the issue is that the required parameters are not well controlled in the fabrication of most LEDs. Possibly LEDs not used as indicators, with a tighter wavelen
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by sofon 8y ago
Don't know, but I would guess that in most cases they want to coerce people into giving up their rights. I.e. "sign this to agree you give up your right to X". That might be remaining holiday pay or something else. Actually..
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by sofon 8y ago
No, but this service did also do the rounds in Japan. In this case it's most likely not very useful, but I think people can understand what the utility might be (and the social context in Japan in a little different).
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by sofon 8y ago
I think like most "weird Japan" articles this one is being mischaracterised somewhat. It is often somewhat difficult in Japan to get your legal entitlement when leaving a so called "black" company. They might not easily
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by sofon 8y ago
You could say the same thing about Janitors or network engineers or devops, or many other positions in a company. If they're doing their jobs well, they increase the productivity of all other employees. Managers might get paid more bec
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by sofon 8y ago
Really interesting article! The Peter principle states that "every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence". The article cites an example from Sales teams. That it's the highest performing sales people that are pr
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by sofon 8y ago
1 in 10 people being racist wouldn't really qualify as being "incredibly racist" in my view. Perhaps "incredibly racist" isn't a very useful term anyway. Yes, it's important to look at data rather than ane
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by sofon 8y ago
Do you trust the statistics that show how effective vaccines are and that the downsides are small? Great! Me too! I wasn't involved directly in that work, but I trust that it hasn't been manipulated. This is what I mean, I still t
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by sofon 8y ago
There's been a breakdown in trust. People who accept vaccination as good, do so because they trust the scientific and political institutions which have developed and tested those vaccinations. A relatively small number of people have a
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by sofon 8y ago
> Like I said, I'm not saying other countries aren't racist. I'm saying that the Japanese are incredibly racist towards other Asians. You have supplied no data to support this statement, beyond anecdotes. The data I'v
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by sofon 8y ago
They suggest using a frequency that minimises absorption by the atmosphere, and run the numbers. It's pretty interesting.
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by sofon 8y ago
Interesting, by the World Value Survey figures South Korea looks worse than Japan overall. 34.1% of people mentioned that they would not want a person of a different race as a neighbour, as opposed to 22.3% in Japan. I was still shocked by

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