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by sah2ed 9y ago
The US patent system has evolved into rewarding lawyers mostly.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
As a mnemonic: SARADI or SAnRAbDI.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think Musk realizes that electric cars will be a commodity which will lead to razor-thin margins. The one thing that's not yet a commodity, and will not be for a while, is lithum-ion battery tech which is why they are building the gi
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by sah2ed 9y ago
In the tech industry, the pioneers are usually the ones with arrows in their backs. You are absolutely right that the TK/Uber combo going head-on against existing laws is what made ride hailing a reality for millions of consumers, but
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by sah2ed 9y ago
There's this FastCo piece [0] that talks about their tech and has some videos. [0] https://www.fastcompany.com/40406052/this-sensor-technology-...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Remote driving assistance by a retired Uber driver on basic income is a possible low-tech solution.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
What do you think of Austin Russell's Luminar? https://www.luminartech.com/
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The linked BBC article says the victim hinted at how the public could find his address, so someone who knew how the system works called Clarkson's bluff with a £500 monthly debit to a UK charity. Apparently, the UK system was designed
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Never heard of LLI as lying on a spectrum that includes OCD, ADHD etc so thank you for that link.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Your perspective describes the underlying issue much clearly than those who talk about "leapfrogging". The newer platforms (like mobile banking) were adopted in those (poorer) markets because they were cheaper to deploy relative t
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by sah2ed 9y ago
By your logic Mark Zuckerberg who became a billionaire before hiting 30 certainly doesn't deserve the bulk of his riches since there is no way he could have done by himself, all the work thousands of engineers were hired to do at Faceb
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by sah2ed 9y ago
If he dreamt up such a company as TW then proceeded to build it with his own resources, without any outside funding, why shouldn't he be able to capture most of the value he created by keeping the profits from the sale?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
That's definitely a killer app for VR - remote emergency assist using VR. A VR service for Truckers sold by Uber/Lyft could be a thing for the millions of truck drivers to be out of work in the not too distant future.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
A better solution would be to provision each car with its own key pair and the car maker's root CA just before it rolls off the factory floor, that way it can constantly beam 2 signals: - a signed (regulator-mandated) signal for cars f
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I wonder where Marc Fleury [0] is these days. He sold JBoss to RedHat for a cool $350m back in the day. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Fleury
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by sah2ed 9y ago
If by everyone you meant UNIX-derived OSes, it's arguable that they all had containers in one form or another with the exception of Linux which only changed when cgroups [0] were added to the v2.6.24 kernel ~10years ago. I think that a
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Possibly the most amazing thing was that Docker was so successful while doing less than LXC. This is where I agree with Peter Thiel's very succinct (although somewhat philosophical) definition of the term technology in "
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Like the article said, Apple licensed the 1-click patent from Amazon in order to offer the same frictionless experience to iTunes shoppers. This was for music sales, before the iPhone was even a thing, if memory serves me right.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I guess that's because of Tesla's advantage in vertical integration -- they control the entire stack unlike Waymo or Uber who have to retrofit their gear into specific car models. Tesla's tech is generally considered weaker b
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by sah2ed 9y ago
No. It's only needed to playback archives of web pages that only work with old JavaScript libraries enabled. But then again there's WebRecorder for exactly that. https://webrecorder.io/
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Well, there's now Chrome headless which is slowly edging out PhantomJS for such use cases.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> When Jeff and I heard about this service, we both were curious on the meaning of the name Macie. Of course, Jeff being a great researcher looked up the name Macie and found that the name Macie has two meanings. I somehow initially pars
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Yes, was referring to a HN comment. The original comment [0] had an id of 15011549. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011549
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by sah2ed 9y ago
It seems the Japanese tend to have some kind of horizon that's longer than the average. It's not an accident that they dominate the list of the world's oldest companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> That was a surprise to me as I thought Android phones completely dominated the Chinese market. Likely that Android does dominate the Chinese market like the rest of the world. I think a better way to view it is to segment the mobile de
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Exactly. iPhone owners in general have higher disposable income relative to Android owners. In fact, I was about to link to Monument Valley's numbers.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Benchmark. At least that's according to this throwaway but highly upvoted comment [0] from some days ago. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14983957
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Companies don't do this in part because text chat introduces other biases, but also because most people ignore their own bias. Mostly likely it is because it doesn't mirror how they work. (Text chat is SoP for remote-first wo
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Funny thing is someone linked to Benchmark's twitter demonstrating the authenticity of the PDF in a reply to you. But refreshing this page and the post has now being deleted. https://twitter.com/benchmark/status&#x
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Beating the Market: Yes, it can be done (1992)(economist.com)
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