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by egdod 7y ago
If that particular combination of state transitions has happened before, then it lacks novelty. If it hasn’t though...
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by egdod 7y ago
I actually didn’t get the call myself, so I couldn’t say. I’m sure there are examples of it on YouTube or whatever though.
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by egdod 7y ago
> There’s nothing novel about software Well that’s not even close to true.
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by egdod 7y ago
We got a call recently from my elderly grandmother’s Apple Watch letting us know that she’d fallen. This feature was the main reason we bought the watch for her, and it worked when it mattered. (She’s fine.)
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by egdod 7y ago
Juries might disagree about what a reasonable person would do in a given situation. But that was just a digression. I think that almost all juries could agree on some subset of behaviors being labeled as “horrible.”
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by egdod 7y ago
> corporate governance was one of the main factors why the market refused to accept anything close to their last private valuation That’s not at all clear.
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by egdod 7y ago
No, it isn’t. The “reasonable person” standard in lots of laws exists exactly because we can agree on it as an objective standard.
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by egdod 7y ago
"Horrible" is sometimes subjective. There are things that pretty much every reasonable person would agree are horrible.
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by egdod 7y ago
Ha, that’s pretty good. Back when I was in school a million years ago, nobody thought to make us clear the memory before exams. So people just got away with it, as far as I know.
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by egdod 7y ago
>no ability to store notes You can still type in programs, right? I remember kids storing a bunch of notes that way.
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by egdod 7y ago
I’m not thrilled with Equifax, but I have a hard time believing bureaucrats are the solution.
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by egdod 7y ago
Sounds a lot like the creepy Black Mirror shit China is doing.
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by egdod 7y ago
Where do you buy your carbon offsets? What actually happens to the money that you spend on them?
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by egdod 7y ago
Demand for AR-15s is high. Demand for Colt AR-15s is not. Colt makes a perfectly ok rifle, but the premium they charge is not justified, and buyers know it.
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by egdod 7y ago
I’ve visited google a few times and never had my picture taken.
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by egdod 7y ago
> accused rapist That’s the standard for being “canceled” now? An accusation? Anybody can accuse people of things. We have courts and the presumption of innocence for a reason.
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by egdod 7y ago
I just instinctively hit reader view on my iPad, and that worked too.
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by egdod 7y ago
> Pardon the interruption. We see you’ve read on Medium before - there’s a personalized experience waiting just a few clicks away. Ready to make Medium yours? Why in the world do I need an account to read a glorified blog? It’s text data
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by egdod 7y ago
Their income stream is month-to-month and can disappear quickly in an economic slowdown. Their lease liabilities have a timescale of years.
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by egdod 7y ago
What’s an “invention”? It’s not a particular physical embodiment.
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by egdod 7y ago
> ideas area not patentable Totally wrong. Ideas are exactly what is protected by patents.
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by egdod 7y ago
If you think there's anything clear about the demarcation between patentable vs unpatentable subject matter, you haven't read the caselaw. It's an unintelligible mess.
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by egdod 7y ago
This is the only intellectually honest case for ending software patents. Methods have been patentable for as long as we've had a patent system--why should they become unpatentable because they're machine-implemented?
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by egdod 7y ago
> multinationals What is that supposed to tell me?
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by egdod 7y ago
[citation needed]
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by egdod 7y ago
That graph suggest that climate change has caused a 2 degree change in the last 50 year. No one believes that—the number is more like 1 degree in the last hundred. And anyway, we’re talking about outlier heat waves, not yearly medians.
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by egdod 7y ago
> Why is it so hot and is climate change to blame? No. No more than a cold day in winter means that climate change isn’t real.
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by egdod 7y ago
There haven’t been any improvements in energy density in the last 4 years? That would be pretty surprising.
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by egdod 7y ago
I just swapped out the deteriorating battery on a 6s for one that has even more capacity than the stock battery did new. It may go up in flames or something next week, but for now it’s a huge upgrade.
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by egdod 7y ago
And?

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