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Feinne posted:It is not practical, the whole idea is laughable and I'm pretty sure it would just mean you hit your head on the car instead of the ground.
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WarpedLichen posted:What is causing transactions to be so slow? Is it just the computational time required to generate the proof of work, which seems like it should be adjustable, or is it because there are enough competing chains that rewinds are happening a lot? Credit card transactions are near instant but they are intentionally broken up into a series of steps that span a few days to minimize the need to change committed transactions. Amounts often aren't fixed when the card is first swiped (a restaurant needs to add in tips, etc); a card might be accidentally swiped twice, it is a heck of a lot easier to catch and reverse fraud when you haven't actually sent money to the other person, etc Edge cases might be relatively rare percentage wise but in terms of absolute numbers there are a whole lot of them once you hit that sort of scale. In general I think that is where a lot of tech companies get themselves into trouble - they grow so fast that they don't have a chance to figure out the best solution to edge cases and instead are throwing money at them to make them go away. That works great until the money stops.
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May 22, 2016 19:17
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pangstrom posted:I definitely think it would be safer-on-average to stick to the car but whatever I don't want to go down a rabbit hole defending this fringe idea/tech. Oh it's probably a bit safer on average, the real problem is an engineering and material science one. They need a combination of shell and adhesive that will only cause release in an actual collision, release with enough surface contact for proper adhesion, adheres quickly enough to do its job, and also strongly enough to keep you in place.
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May 22, 2016 19:52
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Even if it worked, can you imagine the liability? They'd go bankrupt the first time someone got degloved.
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May 22, 2016 19:59
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Explain the existence of stupid trivial software patents. Lack of political will to abolish the practise coupled with insufficient funding and USPTO having a vested interest in just letting most stuff through.
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May 22, 2016 20:11
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Explain the existence of stupid trivial software patents. Better asked in the law questions thread.
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May 22, 2016 20:28
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Disrupt Offices! Again!innovative architect posted:“It’s all about mobility,” says architect Scott Wyatt, who heads NBBJ’s corporate workplace division. “If you sit down for more than 20 minutes, you get dumber.” Walking outdoors, he says, is when your brain achieves optimum cognitive function, so the Samsung office is configured to get people out of their chairs as much as possible. With pairs of floors separated by an outdoor terrace, employees are never more than a floor away from stepping outside. The cafeteria, meanwhile, is housed in a separate star-shaped building, so they have to walk out to lunch – where 10 kinds of global cuisine are on offer in a food court worthy of an upscale mall.   Yes, I totally want to get into a state of flow and then break it and get away from my computer so I can't type.
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May 22, 2016 21:13
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Explain the existence of stupid trivial software patents. Grandpa understands how a car works and what a car can and can't do. He understands that just changing the hubcaps doesn't materially change the car or give it new magic powers. Since he's a judge and smart he'd look dumb to admit he has no idea how computers work, so he nods along and pretends he knows what's being talked about when the nice attorney from the tech company shows him why round corners revolutionize cellphones.
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May 22, 2016 21:15
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Coolness Averted posted:Grandpa understands how a car works and what a car can and can't do. He understands that just changing the hubcaps doesn't materially change the car or give it new magic powers. Since he's a judge and smart he'd look dumb to admit he has no idea how computers work, so he nods along and pretends he knows what's being talked about when the nice attorney from the tech company shows him why round corners revolutionize cellphones. Round corners is a design patent totally different. This thread did remind me to follow up on my patent bounty at work though. I threw a bunch of poo poo to the wall (lawyer) but never heard if anything stuck.
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May 22, 2016 21:26
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Haystack posted:Even if it worked, can you imagine the liability? They'd go bankrupt the first time someone got degloved. I think I'd rather go flying and dash my brains out on the pavement in that circumstance tbh.
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May 22, 2016 21:26
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Hughlander posted:Round corners is a design patent totally different. This thread did remind me to follow up on my patent bounty at work though. I threw a bunch of poo poo to the wall (lawyer) but never heard if anything stuck. Yeah but still something I'd say is absurd, and made for a better joke than "this revolutionary system that allows media to be transmitted from computer to computer (oiriginal idea, do not steal)" which is a more realistic version of how most software patent trolling works.
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May 22, 2016 21:37
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Haystack posted:Even if it worked, can you imagine the liability? They'd go bankrupt the first time someone got degloved. You say this, but in any collision where you would get swept over the car and smash into the ground the forces acting on the person would mean whole body degloving if the adhesive was strong enough to hold the person to the car. So yeah, the only potential for this car is as a high speed man flaying device, maybe sell it to those dudes on game of thrones.
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May 22, 2016 21:38
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pangstrom posted:There's a shell over the adhesive that would break on impact. Not sure how practical that would still be but who knows. I am 100% behind covering cars in lots of second world war anti tank grenades.
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May 22, 2016 21:44
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More cheap medical device failure news: Fitbit heart-rate monitors highly inaccurate.quote:May 19, 2016 (San Francisco, CA) – A comprehensive new study conducted by researchers at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (“Cal Poly Pomona”) reveals that the PurePulse™ heart rate monitors in the Fitbit Surge™ and Charge HR™ bear an “extremely weak correlation” with actual users’ heart rates as measured by a true echocardiogram (ECG) and are “highly inaccurate during elevated physical activity.”
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May 22, 2016 21:51
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Disrupt Offices! Again! IMO through confirmation bias and other psychological quirks I feel that devs overestimate the productivity of their particular work habits. Having access to outdoor space and encouraging ergonomic breaks seems like solid practice and it is not as if they are forcefully ejecting someone from their seats.
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May 22, 2016 21:57
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 vancouver's greatest startup hasn't received any funding since 2014. Are they going to blow up soon?
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archangelwar posted:IMO through confirmation bias and other psychological quirks I feel that devs overestimate the productivity of their particular work habits. Having access to outdoor space and encouraging ergonomic breaks seems like solid practice and it is not as if they are forcefully ejecting someone from their seats. Ergonomic breaks are good and sensible, but "you get dumb after 20 minutes"? Show me a study or two, thanks, and it should be on coding or writing.
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May 22, 2016 23:00
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Ergonomic breaks are good and sensible, but "you get dumb after 20 minutes"? Show me a study or two, thanks, and it should be on coding or writing. That reads like something on the level of oat-based cereals claiming to make you literally immune to heart disease.
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Gail Wynand posted:Maybe they've decided they don't need more. Lack of a recent funding round isn't evidence of anything on its own. Unless I have completely the wrong idea, you never turn down funding if you can get it.
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May 22, 2016 23:24
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OwlFancier posted:Unless I have completely the wrong idea, you never turn down funding if you can get it. You do if you want to keep your equity.
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May 22, 2016 23:37
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Absurd Alhazred posted:You do if you want to keep your equity. Equity is if you have a profitable product, which is not a thing with unicorns. The goal is to get as much VC as possible until you get bought or fold.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:You do if you want to keep your equity.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Equity is if you have a profitable product, which is not a thing with unicorns. The goal is to get as much VC as possible until you get bought or fold.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Equity is if you have a profitable product, which is not a thing with unicorns. The goal is to get as much VC as possible until you get bought or fold. Equity is power over your company, regardless of current profitability.
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Gail Wynand posted:Many unicorns have profitable products, I'm fairly certain Airbnb does for example. The investment is usually used for customer acquisition, some types of which are more legit than others. Setting up sales/marketing in new markets = ok, Uber style unsustainable discounts on the core product is bubble behavior though. If they have sustainable profits, then they aren't necessarily unicorns. Just overvalued tech companies. Airbnb is likely just as unsustainable as Uber since it survives in a legal gray area that could get legislated to hell at any time.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Ergonomic breaks are good and sensible, but "you get dumb after 20 minutes"? Show me a study or two, thanks, and it should be on coding or writing. It sounds like a typical hyperbolic catchphrase employed by workplaces designers and I am not going to defend the literal phrase because I have no idea what research (if any) it is based on, but by the same token I think expressing and at the idea of frequent breaks, even (gasp!) outside, is also a bit hyperbolic and hostile; I don't think the general concept is totally without merit given that it does fit within the realm of known research concerning the health effects of frequent breaks from sitting and the cognitive effects of spending time outdoors. At the very least, even if devs are unique creatures that operate totally out of the bounds of other humans, they are not the only persons that occupy a tech workplace.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:If they have sustainable profits, then they aren't necessarily unicorns. Just overvalued tech companies.
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Bandcamp was probably started too long ago to be considered a "unicorn", but it's doing great. Way better than streaming unicorns like Spotify. http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/479844/bandcamp-is-actually-doing-better-than-the-entire-music-industry.htm quote:Digital album sales grew 14 percent last year, whilst dropping three percent industry-wide and track sales grew 11 percent whilst dropping 13 percent industry-wide.
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I was under the impression that Hootsuite was one of the good 'uns, e.g. making money thanks to the whole insane notion of "people will pay for a service" nonsense
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Bandcamp, unlike Spotify, is also extremely transparent, easy to use and gives you lots of control as a recording artist. Fundenentally, a retail model is of course way simpler than a streaming/radio model, but Spotify's payment schedules and methods are pretty wacky. Bands pretty much see Spotify as a promotional tool, rather than a source of income.
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Octatonic posted:Bandcamp, unlike Spotify, is also extremely transparent, easy to use and gives you lots of control as a recording artist. Fundenentally, a retail model is of course way simpler than a streaming/radio model, but Spotify's payment schedules and methods are pretty wacky. Bands pretty much see Spotify as a promotional tool, rather than a source of income. Correct, Spotify is supposed to be a replacement for radio, but with more control than other radio replacements like Pandora. I'd like to think if we had compulsory licensing so they didn't have to negotiate with so many different parties, the music streaming sites would be a bit more stable and transparent.
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Frankly, radio is way simpler to figure out how to get paid as an artist. It's been a decade of internet radio, and we still don't know how to compensate artists properly. Obviously, radio licensing rates don't work, the volume is way way too high, but the sort of threshold system that Spotify (and to a lesser extend youtube) uses is an awful kludge that is completely useless to any artist without thousands of unique listeners a month. e: as a consumer though, I have to admit It's a service I love and use the gently caress out of. Fixing the problem is way beyond my pay grade. Compulsory licensing might indeed be a good start. Octatonic fucked around with this message at 02:10 on May 23, 2016 |
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Hmm. Until this moment I thought Bandcamp was the Apple version of Greenlight and not a separate company. I think I had it confused with GarageBand name and the iTunes social thing they had a few years ago.
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Gail Wynand posted:The thing is that many jurisdictions have passed laws accommodating Airbnb now, and at least they aren't reliant on an army of questionable independent contractors.. Most of them require registration and licenses to run a short term rental, which the AirBnB power users (out of area investors renting non-owner-occupied places full time) routinely ignore. Austin recently amended their law to require the inclusion of the city license number in the listing. That makes any listing without a license number an easy target for an administrative subpoena demanding the address because the listing's very existence is clearly indicative that something illegal is going on. It will be interesting to see if it has an impact or not.
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Switzerland posted:I was under the impression that Hootsuite was one of the good 'uns, e.g. making money thanks to the whole insane notion of "people will pay for a service" nonsense The whole 'primarily being based off of Twitter' thing unsurprisingly isn't going well for them.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Wouldn't the sticky coat become useless after like a week of driving due to road dust and other poo poo sticking to it? It would also create a nasty godawful mess on the hood of your car, a mess that would be immpossible to wash off. It would not be possible to force that bullshit on consumers even if the government wanted too.
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Octatonic posted:Frankly, radio is way simpler to figure out how to get paid as an artist. It's been a decade of internet radio, and we still don't know how to compensate artists properly. Obviously, radio licensing rates don't work, the volume is way way too high, but the sort of threshold system that Spotify (and to a lesser extend youtube) uses is an awful kludge that is completely useless to any artist without thousands of unique listeners a month. Compulsory licensing and dragging the labels kicking and screaming into the digital age and changing their attitudes toward modern music distribution. They have an extraordinarily outdated view of how people want to consume music; they basically have not progressed beyond the days of vinyl in terms of packaging and distribution.
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Spacewolf posted:A patentable invention must be novel, at least in part; non-obvious; useful (provides some identifiable benefit and is capable of use), and must be patentable subject matter. The past few requirements are easy to beat, just tack "on a digital stored program computer" onto every claim. Then no matter how obvious it is, or how long the process being patented has even been done on computers already, the USPTO will rubber-stamp it and the Eastern District of Texas will rule that it's valid.
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Gay But Crush Puss posted:Patent examiners are overworked dipshits and judges are technologically vapid dipshits And the Eastern District of Texas loves its patent case gravy train.
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