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by patentatt 9y ago
Exactly! This is a ploy by them sneaky liberals of the democrat party to pay back their wealthy donors in the fossil fuel industry and shield incumbent carmakers like GM and Ford from the existential threat that is Tesla. It’s genius!
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by patentatt 9y ago
Good theory, but you’d have to know the incremental cost of the lower emissions on a per-vehicle basis, and what effect those costs have on purchasing decisions (taking into account alternatives and so on). First, is there any basis for ass
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by patentatt 9y ago
No, these anecdotes clearly demonstrate that regulation is bad, politicians are evil people who want your clothes to be soapy, free markets solve everything perfectly, and the environment will just take care of itself somehow.
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by patentatt 9y ago
Do you really think all toilets work this way? Like, everyone else in the entire country has that same experience? You bought a shitty (pun intended) product, it has nothing to do with the boogeyman of ‘regultion.’
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by patentatt 9y ago
Could also be Amazon pretends to have social media, and then when challenged as being a monopoly they can say something like "well, ecommerce is but one of our many products and across out entire portfolio we have lots of competition&q
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by patentatt 9y ago
I use it just to secure open or shifty public wi-fi in cafes and such. I do trust the data center the VPN terminates in more than the open wifi at the corner cafe, so it works for me.
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by patentatt 9y ago
FYI: Windows' built-in IKEv2 VPN client is not leaking IPs. Works great with Algo.
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by patentatt 9y ago
Well that is diabolical, and a very plausible theory. It does explain some of the more oddball products put out by large dominate companies.
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by patentatt 9y ago
Yeah, I've seen the reality TV shows where they auction these things off, even the cherry-picked units for TV are like 1/2 absolute junk that literally goes strait into a dumpster.
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by patentatt 9y ago
Sure, what if the rent/mortgage you pay per square foot in your home is greater than the rent for a storage locker down the road? And there are reasonable use cases for medium-long term storage, such as seasonal items. I don't kno
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by patentatt 9y ago
Well, fanboyism aside, if that's the goal, and it no-doubt is, then it appears that they are currently failing at that goal, objectively speaking. That might change in the future, but for now, it's just not reality. Give 'em
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by patentatt 9y ago
Haha, yeah, good point. In the event of contrary inputs, I guess one does have to supersede, e.g., one is the 'pilot' and one is the 'co-pilot.' Your proposal is much better thought out. But then I think we've descr
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by patentatt 9y ago
But Tesla didn't 'invent' electric cars, or electric motors, or motor controllers, or batteries, etc. I'm sure they have put lots of R&D effort and money into their implementations and execution of these things, but
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by patentatt 9y ago
Maybe it's more accurate to say that Tesla is the strongest for electric car technology development (and mindshare?), but is the weakest at manufacturing cars? Whereas a player like Ford may be excellent at manufacturing cars (person
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by patentatt 9y ago
Ask a Delorean owner
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by patentatt 9y ago
"Thompson manages $25 million" Does that even count as "hedge-fund manager" these days? Although, I gotta hand it to him, this does seem a bit absurd: "As a reality check, Tesla is worth twice as much as Ford ... ye
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by patentatt 9y ago
Agreed that stock_price:weather::company_value:climate But a double-digit drop in a week's span is a pretty strong message
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by patentatt 9y ago
Maybe this suggests that an effective use of current (i.e., 99.9%) autonomous driving implementations would be a captain and co-captain type of scenario, where the car only responds to commands that are the same from both drivers, like a lo
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by patentatt 9y ago
$100k for a complete end-to-end IPR is at the bottom of the market. You can find it, but $2-300k is more the norm.
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by patentatt 9y ago
This phenomenon has ruined amazon reviews entirely.
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by patentatt 9y ago
Honestly I don't mind the ribbon UI. It might not be the best approach for all applications, but I think it's appropriate or at least not harmful in MS Office. It's not much different than a menu, functionally, but the persis
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by patentatt 9y ago
Here's some of the utility patents: https://www.lens.org/lens/patent/US_8255828_B2 https://www.lens.org/lens/patent/US_7703036_B2 Source: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2
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by patentatt 9y ago
So keep in mind that what is patented is in the claims. Here's the first claim from one of the MS patents on the Ribbon UI: ---------------- 1. A method for providing functionality from a software application by displaying an improved
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by patentatt 9y ago
This is somewhere between incomplete and inaccurate. The collusion aspect is far overstated, see other comments in this thread. And the idea that defendants settle because EDTX is too far away may account for some small litigants, but large
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by patentatt 9y ago
No IP protection would destroy the pharma industry. Like you said, the cost is not in basic research, it’s in making sure that new compounds do what they are claimed to do and don’t kill people along the way. But why would anyone go through
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by patentatt 9y ago
See: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
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by patentatt 9y ago
For all those reading this, remember that you should never rely on Internet forums for legal advice, the poster above may or may not be a lawyer, but is certainly not your lawyer.
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by patentatt 9y ago
Regarding patents, many may not know that there is a coalition of hearing aids manufacturers who jointly act in this space. On the plus side, they claim to clear patent trolls from the field. You decide: http://www.himpp.info