100 - 21,000,000 is a much, much larger range than 90-99.999.
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Not exactly. I'm not exactly sure on the up front cost to develop ASICs, but it's definitely well into 6 figures. BFL sold millions of dollars in pre-orders 12 months ago to fund the design and development of the devices. Everyone in the bitcoin world knew where it was going technology-wise last year, but only 2-3 companies have successfully developed ASIC miners 12 months later.
There are many people who pre-ordered devices from BFL over a year ago and still haven't received them. It seems like BFL would be guaranteed a lawsuit if they started mining on their own before fulfilling those year old orders.
I thought California 17200 allows for private citizens to sue on behalf of the general public and that no actual injury against the plaintiff is required. Is there something different about this case?
(below quote and link for other HN readers, I'm sure grellas is familiar.)
"Thus the statutory language allowing actions to be brought "by any person acting for the interests of itself, its members or the general public" effectively deputizes the world to find and bring environmental violators to the bar of justice."
If this were an unlucky edge case, I could understand. But it seems like they allowed larger block sizes without testing them on pre v0.8 miners - which might be 25% of miners and the upgrade to v0.8 was less than 1 month ago. It's nice to think that 100% of people will upgrade within a few weeks, but that's just not how some people work.
...only for goods manufactured outside the US and not authorized for import to the US by the manufacturer. Most electronic goods in the US that are made overseas are also authorized for US import. I bought my iPhone directly from Apple. Even if the Supreme Court rules against the sales in this case, I will be able to resell my iPhone because Apple authorized its import...they were the ones that imported it.
"Mission control contemplated sending Curiosity one last "parameter update" on Sunday, hours before atmospheric entry, giving the vessel an exact fix on its position in space. But NASA engineers said they would likely forego that transmission because the vessel has varied so little from its ideal course.
Otherwise, controllers will have little to do but anxiously track Curiosity's progress as it flies into Mars' upper atmosphere..."
"We're all along for the ride," Seltzner said."
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/us-usa-mars-idINBRE...
To take the example of price of an iPod vs. more memory. The slope is inverse depending on which variable you choose to plot on which axis. If you just watched Sal's one video, you would not understand why that is... your only context is 'rise over run'. If given sample data points and asked for a slope, you might not be able to figure out which way to plot it based on the question.
To be fair to Sal though, this was just a single video subtitled "Figuring out the slope of a line" and so Sal may have covered the larger concept and its importance in a different video.
Ideas/products with excessive speculation have failed in the past. Therefore, this product will fail.
I disagree with that. It suffers from survivor bias (or actually non-survivor bias). Mackey doesn't discuss ideas with excessive speculation that ultimately succeed. The internet in the 1990s and the California gold rush both had excessive speculation, but ended up being successful... so no one refers to them as 'extraordinary delusions'.
Do you not believe the vendor's story? or are you saying it's okay to be a dick as long as you delude yourself into thinking you don't owe people money?
Pretty sure he's not hiding $2B worth of bad investments. Paypal, Facebook, Palantir, Slide, Yammer, Path, Stripe... that's a pretty solid investment record.
Do you disagree with something he says? If so, can you back it up with anything?
And also, page 56 of the pdf lists $1,058M as total revenue for 1Q 2012.
If you disagree with one of his conclusions, please post your thoughts - but be specific. I'm open minded... if "He makes scientific statements that can generally be inferred from the cited sources, but which the sources don't actually prove"...I'm happy to agree with you but that seems like that would be simple to show but you don't link to anything or provide any arguments or even a sentence or two to back it up.(?)
I don't have a horse in this race, but I'm not going to discount someone just because they aren't a professor at UC-SF.
Which poster seems more guilty of a fallacious argument?
I've never thought this was a pain point. Were you using map bookmarks? It's 5-10 seconds of clicks that I'm regularly comfortable doing while driving.
The Group Messaging setting only affects messages you send out. If a third party wants to (or unwittingly) 'reply all' to an MMS message that included you, your individual Group Messaging setting won't stop that and you will get that message regardless of your setting.
If you don't think it should work this way, then you are asking Apple to not deliver messages that technically are addressed to you.
I do agree that Apple should have done a better job educating users on how it works.
It's over-discounting that's irrational.
If I have a school paper due in a month, the probability that I won't have to do the paper is certainly non-zero (I could die, my professor could get sick, etc)... but it's likely something less than a .01% chance that an event like that will happen. It's not rational to put off a paper until the last couple days if there's still a 99.99% chance you will have to turn it in. I over value my current reward of being able to watch more TV now, while under discounting the future cost of having to do the paper in the future. I treat it more like there's a 10%+ chance that I won't actually have to do the paper.
"Based on our calculations, it takes more than 3 ½ years (43.5 months) for the average case to proceed through the basic reexam process to a final conclusion... A 95% confidence interval suggests an average pendency for appealed cases (again, assuming no rework) is between 5 and 8 years" http://271patent.blogspot.com/2008/05/another-critical-study...
This is to the point where I'm not sure the courts take reexaminations seriously as a defense. In the handful of patent cases I've paid attention to, the fact that a patent was initially rejected in a reexamination had little impact on how the court proceeded with a case. While it's possible the USPTO will fast track this particular case, if I was a developer currently being sued I would not have any confidence that the USPTO will bring any relief before I was due in court.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/60587096/11-07-21-Lodsys-Amended-C...
"On May 22, 2007, U.S. Patent No. 7,222,078 (the "'078 patent") was duly and legally issued for "Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Units of a Commodity Across a Network."
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Rovio makes, sells, uses, imports, and/or offers to sell infringing applications, including but not limited to Angry Birds for iPhone and Angry Birds for Android, which infringe at least claims 1 and 24 of the '078 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/60587096/11-07-21-Lodsys-Amended-C...
"This application is a continuation application of and claims priority to U.S. application Ser. No. 09/370,663, filed on Aug. 6, 1999, now abandoned which is a continuation of Ser. No. 08/934,457, filed Sep. 19, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,999,908, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 08/243,63 8, filed May 16, 1994, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 07/926,333, filed Aug. 6, 1992, now abandoned, the contents of each of which are incorporated by reference in their entireties. "
"According to a probabilistic model they created, there was an 88.9% chance that bin Laden was hiding out in a city less than 300 km from his last known location in Tora Bora: a region that included Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed last night. "
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000USRG90
I bought them because I had forgotten about flux and I also tend to use my iPhone late at night. I had no idea how much blue light affected my sleep patterns until I started wearing these while I was winding down for the night.
"...some writers still pluralize initialisms in this way. Some style guides continue to require such apostrophes - perhaps partly to make it clear that the lower case s is only for pluralization and would not appear in the singular form of the word, for some acronyms and abbreviations do include lowercase letters." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism#Represen...
It's very hard for me to look at a company doing $740 million in revenue from the likes of Coke and Proctor & Gamble and say that it's not sustainable. I'll admit it's possible they are all just blowing their money away, but that seems less and less likely.