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by dodo53 15y ago
by finding a good tenant by asking your friends on Facebook might be a good idea - some form of social vouching would really help (even if it's friend-of-friend-of-friend).
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by dodo53 15y ago
Crazier idea - what if the patent pool (for some domain maybe?) was fixed? (ie. there can only exist 10k patents?) Then the cost of patent search isn't ever increasing as long as rate of patenting is higher than rate of expiry. And possible
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by dodo53 15y ago
If you infringe a patent - isn't possible to get a fixed cost or is it a fraction of earnings? Can you be more out of pocket than what you earn? ie can you do [1. Possibly cursory layperson check of existing patents ] 2. Weekend / hobby / s
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by dodo53 15y ago
Heh - well, some of them have pretensions to holiness http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226114/Goldman-Sach... (I do know people there who are very nice also)
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think that's quite funny. If he really was poor, that unexpected family member becoming ill would probably have knocked him back financially / meant he had to take time off work to care for them whatever.
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by dodo53 15y ago
There's also various disorders that produce dwarfism and giantism and other forms that might have looked like mythical creatures before medical science knew about these things. Also, I like the mythical cyclops could have been from dwarf el
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by dodo53 15y ago
How about combine this with book-in-advance? So say you get $20 of pizza for $10, coupon website actually runs the payment system - takes payment of $10 in advance, and then you show up to get your deal. Then limited-capacity places could
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by dodo53 15y ago
it pushes a lot of work on consumers - you need a lot of information/research to know who you can buy from (and if you're being strict you'd have to follow their supplier chain also for your opinion to affect all the B2B companies). I feel
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by dodo53 15y ago
That requires people who are (temporarily) able-bodied to be sufficiently foresighted and activist-y - I'm not sure consumer boycotts frequently work (either due to lack of information or coordination or it being too much effort). I agree I
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by dodo53 15y ago
I always think Alex the grey parrot is impressive too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6KvPN_Wt8I
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by dodo53 15y ago
>According to the lawsuit, the ADA requires that all “places of entertainment” provide “full and equal enjoyment” for people with disabilities. I'm sure it's lost in translation from legalese, but that seems like a really broad requirem
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by dodo53 15y ago
It's a bit of a silly way to respond though - they could either be whitehats themselves and charge a more reasonable amount; or charge the same amount and donate whatever they think is reasonable to education campaigns or whatever.
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think the greenhouse effect is totally uncontroversial. To what extent the climate will change due to that is slighlty more scientifically controversial, but as uninformed lay person I'd say is fairly broad consensus. Which green energy c
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by dodo53 15y ago
The problem is that climate change and green energy are so complicated and political, it's hard to tell what is propaganda (and there's strong incentives in many different directions for the results to come out in a given direction). Ethano
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Turning neurons on and off with lasers (video talk, text summary)(singularityhub.com)
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by dodo53 15y ago
>As a general rule, one should expect no-one to care about anything new you happen to be working on. Consider: if people cared, it would be done already I think that's a bit of a jump! There's plenty of things that people care about but
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Living tissue lasers(bbc.co.uk)
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by dodo53 15y ago
Or presumably you could go one further and solve for the fundamental matrix which gives total probabilities (given unlimited steps) of ending at either end of the plank ('absorbing' states which you don't come back from). see: http://www.m
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by dodo53 15y ago
That is such a cool scheme. I'm glad somebody is actively seeking to invalidate bogus patents. I'm not sure how they're getting money - is they idea that people that join up donate to the cash pool they use to reward people who find prior a
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think this is a good idea. I'd even go further and say some startups catering to specific geographic areas could franchise - you take some of the risk, put in some of your own money maybe, they get cut of profits and give you their tech /
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think steep learning curves are used in two contexts - 1. for example at your job - steep learning curve is good, it means learning / time is high. 2. for example programming languages - steep learning curve is (possibly) bad, it means l
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by dodo53 15y ago
I'm always a bit sad that sci-fi books/ideas that are cutting-edge and shocking at the time are either diluted or delayed so much by the time they hit film that they're no longer particularly surprising when the hit the vast majority of peo
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by dodo53 15y ago
My take: I worked for a startup as one of their two devs/IT guys at the time (2 business partners who definitely I'd say saw everyone else as employees, three-four customer service types). None of us knew a great deal about dev at the time
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by dodo53 15y ago
Suppose there is a tech/social web bubble, is there anything anyone would advise for starting your own startups? E.g: stick with the day job; bootstrap rather than take money; postpone and launch in 2 years; get in fast while the hype is
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by dodo53 15y ago
That sounds really interesting, thanks for link.
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by dodo53 15y ago
I guess the goal would be to choose work where you don't rely on people at slower clock speeds (say working on deep algorithm stuff - you can get low latency connection to a library and research stuff 100x faster). Or you could change your
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by dodo53 15y ago
Ha, that's funny, that model was the one UCL referenced in their kinda 'This is possible' motivation. I find it all very interesting, but gave up after a year as I felt like a lot of the models were going to be a bit flaky for the next deca
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by dodo53 15y ago
Yes, I think my current thinking is: this should be considered. But I'm also cynical that lawmakers could get it right, or that the laws would be followed. Strong AI would presumably have military applications too, or could allow rogue nat
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by dodo53 15y ago
I agree you could just go on to a full body simulation - I guess you have to somehow decide what level of accuracy is needed for the key features. You're not going to be able to do chemistry-level simulations of your whole body, so you'll h
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by dodo53 15y ago
Also - if you're interested in background on systems biology - there's a broad overview of UCLs biological modelling research group here ( http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10844/1/10844.pdf [pdf]) - they've got a project modelling the liver / bl

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