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by marcinzm 3y ago
You claimed: >...and detailed enough that an expert in the domain can reproduce the invention from the description. I can assure you that in practice they are neither. I provided a counter-example. I'm going to take the the fact you
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> I can assure you that in practice they are neither. Having written some patents that has not been my experience. For example, this is one of the patents in the lawsuit: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/67&#x2
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> Patents almost never describe processes and technology with sufficient detail to reproduce them (in fact many companies will purposefully not patent those things they consider central to their business, to keep them secret) and are ins
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Now image if there weren't patents. The larger entities would simply wait for their smaller competitors, copy their products and then use their capital to more efficiently/cheaply manufacture/market them. edit: While also mai
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Which you mitigate by keeping an eye on competitors and avoiding overly saturated market spaces. This in turn incentives a broader research focus and also incentives publishing paper in saturated areas to make sure there's documented p
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by marcinzm 3y ago
In my experience, legal is perfectly supportive assuming you're sane, reasonable and not a dick to them. They have expertise and constraints (ie: client contracts, bandwidth, etc.) that you are not aware of but that's different th
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by marcinzm 3y ago
There's nothing idealistic involved. Startups want users more than they want revenue. Thus they open source it, use VC money to cover the loses and then eventually try to squeeze those users for money. Redis Labs also did not in any wa
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I was at Yahoo during the time of Hadoop/MapReduce. I'd summarize the value of MapReduce in one sentence as: a solution you can use is infinitely better than a solution you can't. An optimized DB might bo much better for a sp
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Exactly. Especially in something like customer service where they're often helping fix and issue. If they don't know the name is incorrect then they will have a lot harder time figuring out why a downstream system is sending the w
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> If anything, it's excessive if you consider the nature of the crime relative to the nature of murder or kidnapping. I suspect the resulting number of shortened lives amongst all the people who lost $8 billion worth of their money
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>it went from unbearably torturous to really annoying That's like saying the difference between getting stabbed and pushed isn't big since both are physical assaults. It is. 120 is at the level of ear injury and pain even in th
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> Without a license it’s not legal to copy and distribute. Yes it is. Due to both the terms you agree when you use GitHub and the general Implied License that covers everything public on the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Two weeks to notify customers with many first finding out on social media is impressive?
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AI Platform is a recent example that’s been deprecated.
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Now have fun doing all that with 2 young kids in tow and the cost of paying for them.
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No...they literally have the password you just entered. In plain text. They can change the case of that and compare against the DB hash twice. The entropy for someone trying to brute force the hashes directly is identical.
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To me it says "we'll never succeed at making fewer disasters given how we've done so far, so we better learn to handle them better."
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> If not, what specifically are you talking about? The right to have an abortion for one.
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This should be all accounted for in rent. California rent seems to be 50% higher than Florida.
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> Ah sorry I assumed people read comments. Links are not comments. If you're unable to even try to summarize the content in a comment then you shouldn't expect other people to parse through it for a random online discussion. Ei
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> You clearly didn’t read or understand what the bill is saying. You clearly didn’t explain what the bill is saying.
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You can't lower the thresholds for determining if a drug works also also argue that you're not lowering thresholds.
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> Quacks won’t be allowed in such regulated environments. Presumably, however, pharmaceutical companies striving to maximize shareholder value at all costs are allowed which is probably much worse in the end.
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> And the minimal assurances in Mr. Sweeney’s curt response were swiftly undercut by a litany of public attacks on Apple’s policies, compliance plan, and business model. So according to Apple [edit] one isn't allowed to say bad thin
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> Same story with global warming claiming additional deaths due to increased temperatures without the corresponding statistic on deaths due to cold. I am not claiming the point is invalid - just that a fuller picture can make the convers
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If you need to bring in an external CEO to do a large pivot at an early stage company then you may as well just invest the money in a new company. If the original team was there then there's an advantage of having everything in place f
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> Company burned more money than it made and winded down As far as I can tell that applies to neither Heap nor Benchling which were the companies OP cites as successes.
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> The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners Probably lower on average given a lot of them got paid $0 it seems.
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Yes, amazingly paying someone $2/hour won't fly in a major US city.
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In my experience, a good platform team will increase velocity a bit while a bad platform team will tank it. Perpetual migrations and re-writes, "simplified" platforms that fail to meet future developer needs, half-abandoned NIH sy

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