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by mchahn 8y ago
> in many years my amount of downtime due to Debian's unattended-upgrades is exactly 0. The same cannot be said of Windows updates. A few years ago I turned on my windows machine to see the dreaded upgrade. Being in a rush I went
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by mchahn 8y ago
Yes, the first thing VCs ask is whether you have patents.
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> Even lawyers are terrible for this. That would be surprising to me but I'm just quoting the lawyers. They might have just simplified it.
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by mchahn 8y ago
Since there has been interest in my story I'll tell another part of it. When we first discovered the distributor was copying us we sent them a letter telling them we had a patent and to stop. It did no good. When we met with the lawye
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by mchahn 8y ago
> Do you mean damages could not possibly have been enough to pay back your legal fees Unfortunately yes. The infringer was not big enough to be worth it. However, that meant the patent was then worthless. If you don't enforce a p
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by mchahn 8y ago
> especially given about half will end in divorce That ancient statistic is very misleading. It is derived from dividing the number of divorces by the number of marriages. A more interesting statistic is the number of people who get ma
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by mchahn 8y ago
I know there is a 99.9% chance that my paranoia is just paranoia, but when I first read this I thought tesla just changed the car's behavior to work better on CR's specific tests. The diesel fiasco has scarred me.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> This is why it's important to have a reliable return process for online shops. Unfortunately, no online store that I know of has one, least of all Amazon, Huh? I have bought hundreds of items the past year for my small business a
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by mchahn 8y ago
> Why bother for the cost and enforcement? The cost is not a big deal. Spending 10's of thousands for a product earning millions is not a big deal. However enforcement is ridiculous. One of my patents was for a very unique product
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by mchahn 8y ago
> I honestly have no idea why it is this way. Think of an actor coming to hollywood. It's not that different.
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by mchahn 8y ago
The 3X rule assumes a middle-man distributor. When selling direct, as Tesla is, 2X is more common.
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by mchahn 8y ago
I prefer MB and Mb.
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by mchahn 8y ago
I have developed a personal theory that evolution is basically horrible software that has been tested so long it works reliably. It might even be literal when you consider DNA.
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by mchahn 8y ago
Have you ever watched a cat walk up to something and smell it? They purse their lips to use the smell receptors in their mouth.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> In its 15-year run, MiniBooNE has registered a few hundred more electron neutrinos than expected. Wow. How could this be significant? (Not arguing).
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by mchahn 8y ago
Speaking of physics, I just read The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. The book is about time in physics and the title refers to the fact that is no real ordering of events. Good read.
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by mchahn 8y ago
If they had locked it a little earlier wgran wouldn't have had the opportunity to report the cause.
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by mchahn 8y ago
I'm a little ticked off at how far I had to read and how much time was wasted before figuring out this was a joke. I guess I'm to blame for how long it took.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> It is also planning a pilot to help tenants reuse so-called grey water - the water from bathroom sinks, showers, baths and washing machines. So two different sewer systems?
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by mchahn 8y ago
My company had an IO device ATT wanted to support on the 3B2. I got to visit their lab and work with them for a few days. They were a bunch of great guys who really believed in what they were doing.
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by mchahn 8y ago
Does anyone other than me have a cognitive problem with pie menus? For some reason I have to slow down and think about what I should do to use them. I have tried and tried and it doesn't get easy. I use autodesk daily and it offers
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by mchahn 8y ago
Why can't you see an eclipse from a flat-earth?
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by mchahn 8y ago
That would be impressive. I'm not sure, but I think if the north pole was at the center of the flat-earth disc and the disk was spinning on the axis through the north pole you would see the sky rotate around the north pole. You woul
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by mchahn 8y ago
> it wasn’t my use of the term “decentralized” I apologize. I have a serious problem in forum discussions of not paying attention to who writes each post. I absorb all replies and then reply to the group. My bad. (Edit: And I thought
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by mchahn 8y ago
This is most interesting use of scotch tape since graphene was first observed.
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> by going out just one whole night and watching the stars rotate around the pole A flat earth can also spin.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> Might be a good idea to finish the paper now ;). I did read the entire paper and it was interesting. You're more specific meaning of the word should have been spelled out before the claim. The meaning that I read was perfectly
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by mchahn 8y ago
A db is either centralized with a master server or not. These definitely work without a master. The tagline at the github repo at https://github.com/basho/riak is "Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Tec
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by mchahn 8y ago
Well, the one I use is CouchDB. It is very practical. Others I can think of quickly are CockroachDB, Cassandra, and Riak. And there are many others. Are you possibly limiting the term decentralized to blockchain DBs? That would be a st
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by mchahn 8y ago
It was the claim that no other practical decentralized databases exist that turned me off. If you want I'll name a few.

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