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by egdod 7y ago
That’s true, but... that culture isn’t there for Windows users the way it is for Linux users.
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by egdod 7y ago
$62 million is indeed nothing compared to the $1.7 billion ($1,700 million) that Neumann walked away with. https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/22/20927188/wework-adam-n...
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by egdod 7y ago
That’s nothing. Look at the numbers for WeWork and Adam Neumann.
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by egdod 7y ago
For those wondering, as I did, who’s behind this terrible report: > The background check company is Sterling Talent Solutions, and it looks like they contracted with Fama Technologies for this part of the report.
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by egdod 7y ago
Just switch to a different terminal and kill the process.
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by egdod 7y ago
It’s not clear that it did start in the US.
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by egdod 7y ago
That actually refers to criminal cases, not civil.
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by egdod 7y ago
That’s highly nontrivial. (And by the way, almost no one uses reexam anymore. It’s all about IPR these days.)
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by egdod 7y ago
It’s not at all unheard of for a patent to take 5 years to be granted. Do those folks just lose out? Or do we base patent term on issue date instead of filing date? (NB: it used to be that way, and it invited all sorts of gamesmanship.)
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by egdod 7y ago
See the motivation to fund CRISPR research for a counterpoint.
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by egdod 7y ago
€ I strongly believe that the pursuing of patents gets in the way of the collaboration that helps science progress Do you have any evidence for this belief?
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by egdod 7y ago
Here’s a blurb with the patent numbers. https://patentlyo.com/patent/2020/01/billion-verdict-caltech...
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Period doubling, universality, and the Feigenbaum constant(youtube.com)
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by egdod 7y ago
That can’t be right. > “Health care is a right for all, not a privilege“ Insurance has to be free too!
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by egdod 7y ago
> “Health care is a right for all, not a privilege“ In that case, charging people even $100 a month is unconscionable. It needs to be free, just like food, housing, entertainment, and all the other inalienable rights.
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by egdod 7y ago
How is it possible to reason about filter() without thinking it through as effectively a conditional? How is that easier than being explicit about it?
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by egdod 7y ago
Sometimes nothing .
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by egdod 7y ago
Branches aren’t hard to reason about though. The only* reason anyone cares about branches is that branch misprediction is expensive.
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by egdod 7y ago
My biggest annoyance with my iPad is accidentally opening links in a new Safari window. Sometimes that happens when I’m just scrolling and didn’t mean to open the link at all. So now you have multiple Safari windows that are completely un
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by egdod 7y ago
> To keep reading this story, create a free account. Unskippable this time too. Reader view doesn’t help. Turning off JS doesn’t help. Medium has gotten worse and worse. At this point it is literally unusable.
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by egdod 7y ago
Do most bathrooms have electrical outlets right by the toilets? Mine sure don’t.
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by egdod 7y ago
For that application, I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just use a regular raspberry pi.
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by egdod 7y ago
That's a design patent, not a utility patent.
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by egdod 7y ago
Nicely done. I was just taking them at their word instead of looking into the archive.
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by egdod 7y ago
The point is the timeframe. They’d already reviewed both and recommended the expensive one. Then they changed the recommendation. (Allegedly.)
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by egdod 7y ago
> B) On the other hand, as explained by The WireCutter, it was downgraded because of a new option that was half as much. Except it wasn’t new, if the article can be believed. It was one they’d already reviewed and found to be inferior.
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by egdod 7y ago
It’s... jokey. But it’s not exactly unsubstantive. It really is unsurprising to hear that a company that purports to give unbiased reviews is actually asking for kickbacks from manufacturers. That is the most obvious way for such a company
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by egdod 7y ago
I am Jack’s total lack of surprise.
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by egdod 7y ago
Or even race, for that matter. What if you have someone who’s 1/1024th diverse like Elizabeth Warren? What if you have someone who’s “transracial”?
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by egdod 7y ago
There are real benefits, but they’re not direct. Basically some companies and government agencies won’t do business with you if your management is insufficiently diverse.

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