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$62 million is indeed nothing compared to the $1.7 billion ($1,700 million) that Neumann walked away with.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/22/20927188/wework-adam-n...

That’s nothing. Look at the numbers for WeWork and Adam Neumann.

For those wondering, as I did, who’s behind this terrible report:

> The background check company is Sterling Talent Solutions, and it looks like they contracted with Fama Technologies for this part of the report.

Just switch to a different terminal and kill the process.

It’s not clear that it did start in the US.

That actually refers to criminal cases, not civil.

That’s highly nontrivial. (And by the way, almost no one uses reexam anymore. It’s all about IPR these days.)

It’s not at all unheard of for a patent to take 5 years to be granted. Do those folks just lose out? Or do we base patent term on issue date instead of filing date? (NB: it used to be that way, and it invited all sorts of gamesmanship.)

See the motivation to fund CRISPR research for a counterpoint.

€ I strongly believe that the pursuing of patents gets in the way of the collaboration that helps science progress

Do you have any evidence for this belief?

Here’s a blurb with the patent numbers. https://patentlyo.com/patent/2020/01/billion-verdict-caltech...

That can’t be right.

> “Health care is a right for all, not a privilege“

Insurance has to be free too!

> “Health care is a right for all, not a privilege“

In that case, charging people even $100 a month is unconscionable. It needs to be free, just like food, housing, entertainment, and all the other inalienable rights.

How is it possible to reason about filter() without thinking it through as effectively a conditional? How is that easier than being explicit about it?

Sometimes nothing.

Branches aren’t hard to reason about though. The only* reason anyone cares about branches is that branch misprediction is expensive.

My biggest annoyance with my iPad is accidentally opening links in a new Safari window. Sometimes that happens when I’m just scrolling and didn’t mean to open the link at all. So now you have multiple Safari windows that are completely undiscoverable. To switch between windows, you have to swipe up slowly and pick the one you want.

I have literally never wanted multiple windows of the same app on my iPad. But it keeps happening.

I’m a computer guy. I shudder to think what this is like for my grandmother.

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Unskippable this time too. Reader view doesn’t help. Turning off JS doesn’t help.

Medium has gotten worse and worse. At this point it is literally unusable.

Do most bathrooms have electrical outlets right by the toilets? Mine sure don’t.

For that application, I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just use a regular raspberry pi.

That's a design patent, not a utility patent.

Nicely done. I was just taking them at their word instead of looking into the archive.

The point is the timeframe. They’d already reviewed both and recommended the expensive one. Then they changed the recommendation.

(Allegedly.)

> B) On the other hand, as explained by The WireCutter, it was downgraded because of a new option that was half as much.

Except it wasn’t new, if the article can be believed. It was one they’d already reviewed and found to be inferior.

It’s... jokey. But it’s not exactly unsubstantive.

It really is unsurprising to hear that a company that purports to give unbiased reviews is actually asking for kickbacks from manufacturers. That is the most obvious way for such a company to operate. Did anyone expect them not to act like that?

I am Jack’s total lack of surprise.

Or even race, for that matter. What if you have someone who’s 1/1024th diverse like Elizabeth Warren? What if you have someone who’s “transracial”?

There are real benefits, but they’re not direct. Basically some companies and government agencies won’t do business with you if your management is insufficiently diverse.

I’ll talk about whatever I like, thanks.

Amazing. Windows peaked at 7, and every update has been downhill ever since.