PatentTroll

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by PatentTroll 9y ago
The legal services industry is not a free market. There, I said it. First, the value (i.e. "provide better value") is opaque. That's why the legal industry relies so much on the proxy of prestige, because it's really har
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Does that exclude 'selling' to Fannie/Freddie? As I understand it this is considered a normal part of the process for mortgages
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Yeah, this is somewhat heretical but I feel like democracy works best with monoculture, not the pluralist society that we have. Which is sad, in a way, but it seems like maybe the US is just too big, maybe we should embrace federalism and s
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Why?
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
The checks and balances you deride are not abstract concepts, words do not leap from paper and take action. The checks and balances you disparage are people who disagree, which actually is how it's supposed to work.
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Or at least at a discount like amazon does. Apple Music lacks the third party integrations and web player that Spotify does, I'd need to see a couple of bucks off for that to switch. As it is I don't see any advantage over Spotify
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
That's true too, good points. And let's face it, this whole endeavor is about entertainment and artistry, so the subjectivist viewpoint is totally valid!
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Agreed, but I have returned a pair of sennheiser phones because they butchered the sound too much ... think it was one of the first in the momentum line if I recall
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Yeah, OP swerves towards subjectivism there at the end, which the audio industry loves because it's not quantifiable or easy to compare.
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Sure, but the non-linear effects he's listing are probably not an issue for headphones. First, they're generally crossover-less and usually single-driver designs and they have very low moving mass which eliminates a host of issues
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
How can I run chromium as a daily driver on windows? What about automatic updates?
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Humanity has had big big challenges up until maybe about the industrial revolution. Then we had us a couple of wars to deal with. The post-war period has been a new era of human evolution, one in which survival is a given for most people, e
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
what is the end of this cycle? Does capitalism always tend toward innovation->monopoly->decline->disruption->innovation->monopoly .... ?
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
I disagree. First is the immense capital investment these companies have in physical servers and data centers. They have economies of scale in delivering content over the internet. Second is mindshare and data lock-in. Users log onto Facebo
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Is the tendency towards mono/duo/trioploy a feature or a bug? You might say that increased concentration of proven tech/ideas allows them to be more efficient, which in the long run is better for consumers. But is efficiency
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Oh yeah it would. TJ's has a very defined, distinct, and recognizable 'feel' to its stores which are a part of their brand. If I started a grocery store called Merchant Mike's and all the employees wore Hawaiian shirts,
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
What if you found out today that your neighbors have been watching you undress for the past year? In material terms, nothing has changed and there is no material harm to you, but knowledge of that level of intrusive exposure without consent
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
I like how the accepted dichotomy in this entire debate here in the comment is either MIT or bad school. There is an in between! There are lots of competent, well managed, and important educational institutions outside of the top 2-3 school
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
The pop mechanics article is clearly written by a non-lawyer and retells the story of a guy who got a patent invalidated at the ptab. How does that support the conclusion that the ptab is bad for small businesses? That's like saying co
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
You are wrong. IPRs are much quicker and less expensive that district court litigation, which is what it replaces. If you're afraid of Big. Co.'s deep pockets, they're much scarier in district court! The PTAB is designed to b
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
A lot! Think of the legal system like a CPU. The legislature is a big, slow HDD. The courts are like DRAM, much faster than the legislature but still slower than ... The USPTO. The USPTO run by the Director is like L3 cache in this analogy
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
This isn't an answer, but I used to examine patents in this space. There are very advanced watermarking methods out there that are stable through transcoding, compression, obfuscation, etc. while being invisible to the naked eye. Reall
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Maybe the US's federalism is a part of it too. We learned a lot of 'stock' law from hornbooks too, but there was always a caveat that most of the 1L stuff is state law and may-no, will-vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Yeah, I'd support throwing some cold water on the demand for a 'college lifestyle' too. You know what, I would also like to be young and have all of my bills paid for (by loans) and live in a small town with only other young,
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Oh, sorry, I meant that as an example. It's not '.me' - the last two letters are just the last two letters of my last name which happen to correspond to a country code TLD, something like 'john@smi.th'
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Which is interesting because sane people know that we cannot use nuclear weapons against any nuclear armed country, it would be the end of times if we did. Or they did. So in that respect, maybe nuclear arms are entirely toothless. Or, thin
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
And neither should the remarkable prosperity that the US enjoyed during that hegemenony. Much of our current domestic and foreign politics can be viewed through the lens of grasping at straws to maintain/regain that unprecedented run a
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
Are nuclear reactors noisy? Isn't it just some hot rocks sitting in water? What's noisy?
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
I ran into the AirBnB guys around the time they were in YC. It was a bad idea then, and it is still a bad idea. They were pitching a for-profit couchsurfing clone. And that idea never did take off, really. What happened is they persisted an
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by PatentTroll 9y ago
I don't find modafinil (or the non-prescription adrafinil) to help with focus, per se, but nooopept certainly does. Beyond that, I say embrace the distraction and indulge in it fully, then pretty soon it loses its luster and it's

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