robinsoh

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> Is it also patent hell What patent hell?
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Could you clarify your position? It sounds like you are saying all patents are bad. Also what license are we talking about? And what unwillingness to license?
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> India is much more difficult to get to from Ukraine than Xinjiang is, but they have a very strong Indo-European presence Could you elaborate? I was intriguged so I measured on google maps. Ukraine to Xinjiang is around 2500 miles. Ukra
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As with almost everything nowadays, it is about volume. If you're Apple and you're buying a million displays an order, then that's the tier 1 price which is where the price is dominated by the actual material costs and buyers
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So holding patents is evidence of a licensing fee?
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any evidence or imagination?
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what licensing fee?
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> It hasn't been proven that space aliens didn't create the masonry walls There's no need to be disrespectful and attempt to portray my position as if it is something ridiculous and requires belief in space aliens. As I sa
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> Especially if your only tools were other rocks. This is not a entirely valid assumption. It has not been proven that these civilizations only had stone tools. Attempting to portray them as primitive people with only stone tools is high
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I'm unsure what you're trying to communicate.
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Not to my knowledge. Almost all European stone walls all use mortar. Drystan is more like piling rocks together. They aren't shaped. The Inca (or possibly their predecessor civilization) techniques at Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu are
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> with the recent trend of bringing up race everywhere from shampoo ads to Netflix series to fake news to fake election I can't trust anything which mentions race in the title. I'm not aware of such a trend. Is your claim for t
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I think we need to take a deep breath and look at our own abuse of the planet. Sadly, even advanced European countries like Italy and Switzerland were found to have participated in toxic dumping in Somalia. https://theecologist.o
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I'm not trying to be pedantic but when you wrote: "dithering was a sub optimal solution to simulate more colours on old computers with limited colour palettes." perhaps what you actually meant is: "dithering IS an optima
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Please search my comment history for what I posted about electrophoresis and physics. I don't think they'll be able to get past the physical limitation. To summarize, you either move ink fast but end up losing bistability, or move
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I think you've misunderstood my comments. I saw this recurring theme on HN that electrophoretic panels were expensive due to patents and evil misdeeds by that most evil corporation called E-Corp. I thought, hey, I work in this bloody d
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> You can tell this article was written by someone young who thinks they have discovered sex drugs and rock and roll I couldn't tell that. I still can't tell that. > dithering was a sub optimal solution to simulate more colo
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> my device didn't even cache the previous/next page... Even though there is ample time to do so while you are reading. It is sad isn't it? The state of software. You would think all these open source pdf readers would hav
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> Theranos was not a Silicon Valley darling Please allow to present some exhibits. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-silicon-valle... "Theranos, the blood-testing startup that went from Silicon Valley d
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My guess is that it is because Theranos came out of Stanford, was a Silicon Valley darling for a bit. I know that PG had said "people like Elizabeth Holmes are actually rarer there than in the rest of the business world, or in politics
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> While the port would support OTG, Remarkable has added a kernel module that, Remarkable is open source isn't it? The CEO posts regularly on HN. If that were true, wouldn't you just go in and disable the insmod/modprobe o
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> But there is plenty of evidence, you simply ignore it and then make claims based on your evidence-less "insider" knowledge. Lets go through the "evidence" you've provided. > Wired discusses patent restrictio
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> Most eink devices run some modified walled-of modifications of Android. That's not that surprising is it? Doesn't regular Android have a lot of stuff that would break eink displays since they can't update like LCD? >
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> they also designed the USB-C port in what has to be a completely noncompliant way so as to keep any keyboards (or most anything else potentially useful) from working I'm curious what that means. Is it a USB-C certified port? If it
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> I think of how stagnant the Eink space is, and how much broader usage might that technology get if it wasn’t encumbered by patents (just one example)? I work in the display industry and I have no idea what you're talking about. I
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> Basically - I'm claiming your argument is bullshit. The cost difference is driven by IP protections, not by volume of sale As I've said before, a shred of evidence for such a confident claim would help convince me. Also I ser
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> As long as the E-Ink licensing remains the way it is, there won't really be an affordable competitor in this space. "E-Ink licensing"? Tell us more. > I think the current fees are leaving the tech only in niche and hi
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> Incumbents will resist choosing to continue with current public domain technology. In 30 years when the IP expires it might possibly come into more common use. The current IP regimes are a complete disaster and are hamstringing human p
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> The core of the kernel is actually pretty small and very well understood and maintained. I still find that even Linux based OSes like Ubuntu crash at least once a month or so. I've had to boot into initrd and manually do fsck on m
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> What is unsatisfactory about the patents that other commenters have repeatedly pointed out to you The same thing that I said in my past replies. See below. " And I have to point out that just googling for E Ink patents doesn&#x27

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