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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Goes over it in more depth. It does not. You can see in that thread, I had asked there as well and the throwaway account never responded to me. I'm pretty sure it is fake as that narrative describes things like "strongarms th
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> so i want to know how much of this price is licensing costs? suppose today the e-ink patent goes public, is free to use, how much of a price delta can we see? What licensing cost? Who is licensing what from E Ink? What patent? Please
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> Monopoly and patents, I believe. So yes, it's technically not expensive to make, but licensing. R&D costs money, take that to mean what you want. Unfortunately the laws in our world have not caught up with technology changes.
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I notice no response and yet downvotes. Parent claims there are "ridiculous barriers to entry" implying patent thickets by the "semiconductor industry we have today" or something along those lines. I can't help but
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> Especially because the pharaohs exaggerated their victories. Ramses II exaggerated even his defeats, that is, he claimed that as his victories. For example the famous wall relief of Ramses II slaying the Hittites at the Battle of Kades
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> There has got to be something better than the semiconductor industry we have today, which has ridiculous barriers to entry. I am curious about your exact meaning. When you say barriers to entry, it sounds like you're implying the
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> Believe it or not, western countries have reduced carbon emissions over the last ~15 years, in both absolute and per capita terms (despite a growing population). The only countries that are growing their carbon emissions are developing
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Why would one want to bet against that? Aren't we supposed to want humanity to progress?
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> If we can't keep people alive on a space station, how will we ever spread beyond a single planet? If we don't start trying now, then when? Depends on your meaning of "we". As of June 17, 2021, the Chinese space stat
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by robinsoh 5y ago
They'd also need a significant source of Calcium. > one possibility is that concrete is a better understood material than some novel "concrete like structural material," so it's more acceptable in safety critical sit
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> they say they already (indirectly) pulled that same CO2 out of the air, instead of the ground, so overall the process is carbon neutral. I find that difficult to understand. If the output is CaCO3 that still needs to kilned to make CaO
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I'm probably missing something obvious. > The world needs CaO for cement. We have a carbon neutral process for making it vs > We make synthetic limestone using atmospheric CO2, such that when it is used to make cement, the proces
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I am curious what is your take on Davidovits geopolymer based carbon capture. I believe he was using kaolinite as the starting point with alkali activation. A second approach was using fly ash and silica flume/slag, byproducts of power
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> They have a "monopoly" with their key franchises, most notably CoD and WoW. I don't follow, even in the air quotes monopoly context. Could you elaborate? I thought anyone can make a game, even that specific type of game
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> I have never been able to get an eink screen at any cost approaching the Kindle - continually, everywhere, the cheapest way to get started with eink is to jailbreak a kindle and just load your own images onto it. That's true beca
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> Not to mention the patent hell around eink display technology itself, which thankfully has also slowly gotten some competition. I work in the display industry. I've never heard about a "patent hell around eink display technol
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> a very low opinion of a "display guy > HN (hallowed be its name > white knighting You clearly have very high opinions of yourself and your belief system. It is clear you are unwilling to respond with facts when simple ques
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by robinsoh 5y ago
Ok, if that's what you want to believe then I can't change your mind. It is pretty clear to me that this is equivalent to me as a display guy claiming Microsoft is blocking progress in operating system development just because the
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> They've got a hefty patent portfolio, but I can't think of a recent example of them using it to freeze everyone else out à la eInk. I work in the display industry. I've never heard that e-ink "freezes everyone else
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> Unfortunately, most flexible e-ink displays aren't made to always be flexing. If they're flexed during an update, it can damage the display That's news to me. I've seen their flexible displays being updated while be
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> I wonder if eink would be feasible. It would depend on your meaning. If you mean taking a device like a Dasung or a Onyx and connecting to the laptop and using it as another screen, then sure, that should work fine. If you mean taking
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> examples where a large company stuns the development of a technology just because they can (3D printing, LCD monitors, electric cars, e-ink). I work in the display industry. I've never heard that e-ink "stuns" the develo
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> They do seem to hold rather a lot of patents ( https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-corporation ), though I don't have the domain knowledge to know whether any of these are "unavoidable" in the d
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> Google and Microsoft are used by billions, why not eInk, is the question we're asking. I don't understand the comparison between a search engine, an OS , and a niche low power display component. I had brought up Google and Mi
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by robinsoh 5y ago
> The explicit accusation, AFAICT, is that eInk holds certain patent(s) which cannot be avoided if you want to produce an electrophoretic-technology display panel yourself They don't hold such a patent, at least as far as I know. Wh
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> > When you say "good enough for movie watching", I'll say that'll never ever happen with electrophoresis. You can't violate physics. Either a pigment particle moves slowly and stably or it moves fast and is
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> You might do better to speak to that accusation directly. That's the thing. I'm trying to figure out exactly what the accusation is. So far, every time I've challenged comments made about this, people have been vague and
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> but I have often heard in these threads the rumor that the reason the Remarkable E-Ink tablet cannot be fully open-source is due to restrictive licenses for the E-ink technology they use. isn't the founder of Remarkable an HN use
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> (Immediately checks for author affiliation to eInk or some bullshit mid-tier American university with an "up and coming" tech transfer office) Awesome, maybe this will actually come to market with a reasonable license fee! Uh
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In my industry, unfortunately, this has led to some level of bias and mistrust against employees of Chinese origin. The problem is, as you state, there have been multiple cases of individuals working for a company, getting access to key for

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