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by dodo53 14y ago
In my mind, the little guy would patent with a small declared value - so on the downside they wouldn't be able to litigate for large amounts. But they would have a defensive patent, and that patent would also have value for larger acquiring
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by dodo53 14y ago
possibly, doesn't seem to be exactly like I remember but is quite possibly my memory fail. Although it's not clear in your comment where the market value comes from (e.g. is it essentially the government is the market maker? that seems like
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by dodo53 14y ago
This is why I like the idea (from someone around here I think) that patent owners should state a value of the patent when filing, and fees should be a percent of that value. Then value of patent limits maximum damage for infringement. So th
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by dodo53 14y ago
That would be cool! (although probably banned from games if it got too popular...) Or you could synchronize loads of phones so they take photos at the same time and reconstruct a Matrix style 360 photo-model of a point in the game :oP
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by dodo53 14y ago
Well if nothing else it gives a portable measure of ability. Like instead of having to saying I'm an expert in Scala and the meaning of that being largely arbitrary; you've got a syllabus of stuff they claim to know (which you still need to
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by dodo53 14y ago
It's redistribution from heavier than average carbon users to lower than average carbon users.
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by dodo53 14y ago
I love this idea (there would have to be careful thinking around patent resell/value restating to avoid sneaky shell company tricks). It means you don't have the problems of special-casing software (no software patents) or vice versa specia
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by dodo53 14y ago
I think a huge factor is attitude to risk. The younger entrepreneurs are in the no-ties shoot-for-the-sky phase. A larger proportion of people in the 30-40 range will be becoming more risk averse as they need to have financial stability to
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by dodo53 14y ago
Flounder can be used as verb to mean to thrash around like a fish (e.g. struggling) - so either could work in context. http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/flounder.html
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by dodo53 14y ago
The canonical example of fast human evolution is lactase (the enzyme for digesting lactose and so cow's milk), thought to have spread widely in <10000 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence#Evolutionar...
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by dodo53 14y ago
Or because then the banks have an insider who knows what 'features' of the legislation are coming out next so they can exploit them the fastest.
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by dodo53 14y ago
Does your reader record which items in a feed were read? I'm sure lots of feed providers would be interested in metrics on which of their articles were frequently read (and possibly some clustering of interests based on what else readers su
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by dodo53 14y ago
usesthis.com?
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by dodo53 14y ago
I think the dubiousness comes from the history - it's a way of granting commoners a part in the aristocracy, somewhere below the rank of the existing nobility and clergy.
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by dodo53 14y ago
that would be pretty handy for actual criminals
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by dodo53 14y ago
It's not about whether third party investment is a good idea, it's about whether the valuations third parties make are reasonable or based on hype. The cost of bubbles is in talent misallocation - could talented people be producing other th
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by dodo53 14y ago
(Just kidding): this incentivizes sinkorship trying to sink everyone else's projects :oP Maybe they'll start organising startup WoW guilds...
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by dodo53 14y ago
I think what it will take is mind uploading. Once a sentience can suspend until interesting circumstances are detected, I'm sure some wealthy people will go decide to go off explore the galaxy / take a punt on van neuman machine mining.
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by dodo53 15y ago
Interesting, yes like social news aggregation it's quite possible to end creating reality-bubbles. I still feel like bumping into interesting people by trial-and-error is less than optimal, but I am generally introverted so my number of tri
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by dodo53 15y ago
I always wonder if it's possible to replace all computer monitors - could you plug your glasses into your work pc and see the display as virtual monitors floating in front of you? Or is there a resolution/eye focusing at wrong distance/stra
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by dodo53 15y ago
Well cannibalism is a pretty strong taboo and probably we have evolved disgust reactions to it, but rationally if it hasn't killed anybody and doesn't cause any health issues (like BSE analogues) what's wrong with it?
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by dodo53 15y ago
So wait for the Apple designer glasses version :o)
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think the people flailing their arms and dodging virtual stuff is not going to be the main use though. I could imagine several less-intrusive, very useful things. Go to an airport/train station etc.. and have a user-specific glowing arrow
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by dodo53 15y ago
Interesting, I've not heard much about multiple patent licensing deadlock before but sounds like it could be common.
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by dodo53 15y ago
Would be interesting to be more specific - LightSail actually sounds like the kind of situation people are more likely support patents in: non-obvious research work leading to large improvements over existing methods; presumably it woudld
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by dodo53 15y ago
A lot of opinion on that kind of thing is pretty much axiomatic and not changeable by reasoned debate
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Surgical robots [The kindness of strangers](economist.com)
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by dodo53 15y ago
Exactly, I always thing 'what's the worst that could happen?' as a motivational exercise is for people who lack imagination.
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by dodo53 15y ago
Also there are choices on what to optimise for. Our elevators are triggered by swiping your company card, which then tells the elevator which floor you're going to. You're then assigned one of 16 elevators. Elevators frequently wait for a c
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by dodo53 15y ago
I'm guessing the devil is in the detail (and I don't know much so I'll shut up shortly) - could companies set up shell legal entities to offend for them / shop around for a better jurisdiction to do dodgy deals in / is current law clear eno

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