Fender makes a whole series of Strats at different price points. The challenge is even at the high end Fender has inconsistent QA, so the 'knockoffs' are sometimes way better quality/consistency. See this video for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU7RUpkXsV0
Terrific writeup. Massive congrats to the whole team for all that creative thinking in flight and all that was achieved. (Add a note about updating FPGA's in space!) Looking forward to team Bedo unlocking VLEO for everyone.
This Serum release significantly exceeds Vital's feature set. Vital is awesome but the developer hasn't been working on it for a while (maybe they'll return).
a) awesome. b) please increase the default font size of that doc. c) please consider moving the exposition to the end and just jump into the good stuff about how it works and what's different. Perhaps a short intro like "Texti is modern markup. Think Markdown and Wikimedia markup had a baby. Here's how to do all the things..."
For patents on physical things/devices, he's giving very good advice. You need to file within the 1st year you've used the item in commerce.
The internet is littered with great products that weren't patented, then copied (sometimes by their overseas contract manufacturer itself just running a 2nd shift on the production line).
If you don't have global patent protection, you find yourself competing with your own product sold cheaper by someone else and no way to fight it. Super common problem for popular products.
If it helps, skip to section 6 for the conclusions (spoiler: Angels are). The section you've quoted is academic signaling (in 'entrepreneurship research') to context and differentiate this paper from other research and entrepreneurship books/papers. And yes, I strongly agree with you: perhaps someday academia will embrace plain English and real hyperlinks.
Again, I fail to understand that math or extremist rationale. You're comparing existing significant energy waste to an artificial scenario where all drive space is hoarded - and if that case ever came true, the total energy waste would still remain less than PoW by orders of magnitude.
Hardly. It's not about scarcity for PoS+T. The pollution, heat, and energy waste of Proof of Work far outweigh and minimal change in the cost of storage that PoS+T might bring.
Hey, thanks for the article. The goal of Hotwire is to remove Ajax calls and minimize Javascript client coding as much as possible. That starts with Turbo as the foundation and then Stimulus is the next layer up. There's nothing wrong with doing what you did w/ Stimulus, but calling it Hotwire creates unnecessary confusion for those new to Rails+Hotwire. That confusion is what I'm addressing in the grandparent comment.
The author just used Stimulus, not Hotwire - if you add Turbo (the main part of Hotwire) you can remove all the ajax calls. See thread below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26555842 )
You’re on the right track, but there’s a big difference between under patent and post-patent expiry drugs. Patents last 20 years, so if you invent a drug, patent it, then go through FDA approval, you can charge whatever price you want to recoup development cost until the patent expires. After the patent expires other firms can make ‘generic’ versions of the drug without having to license it. The goal with generics was traditionally take expensive patent drugs and make them more affordable while still retaining reasonable profit - in theory multiple drug makers would create an efficient market price. However, many generics for critical but low volume drugs have become single sourced, and there has been a move over the last 20 years for single sourced drugs to dramatically raise their prices and bleed insurance companies and the unlucky individuals that aren’t covered by insurance. This is what MCDC are fighting.
Postgres used PostQUEL. SQL was added to Postgres by one of Stonebreaker's graduate students (Andrew Yu) around '95. By '95 Stonebreaker's lab was already working on a new distributed Postgres called Mariposa.