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  • On the post: President Obama Is 'Troubled' About Chilling Effects His Own Administration Is Causing To Journalism?

    vintermann ( profile ), 24 May, 2013 @ 03:52am

    Russian saying

    Maybe he's just thought about his legacy, and is counting on that old Russian saying to save it:

    "The Tsar is good, he just has bad advisers!"

  • On the post: There Is No Logic To The Argument That Zach Braff Shouldn't Use Kickstarter

    vintermann ( profile ), 10 May, 2013 @ 12:37pm

    Growing the pie vs. taking a slice

    Most of the backers of my film aren?t people on Kickstarter who had $10 and were deciding where to give it, and then gave it to me instead of someone else. They came to Kickstarter because of me, because of this project. They wouldn?t have been there otherwise.


    I asked another one who definitively has analytics, namely the kicktraq guy (Adam Clark): Do megaprojects hurt smaller projects? Do you see a fight for attention in your data? "On the contrary. Larger projects tend to prop up others during their run-up periods because they draw in attention" he said. So it's not just Braff saying this, independent observers also do.

  • On the post: Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into Australia, Allowing Chinese Companies To Strategically Block Innovation

    vintermann ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2013 @ 03:56am

    Absurd patents in Chinese

    If you thought current patent filings were absurd, I guess we'll soon see stuff like this:

    A display unit of a video control signal, characterized in that the pixels having the light-emitting element for emitting light, and said pixel circuit, the amount of the display device having a power supply is applied to the light-receiving element the luminescent signal scanningline select and for selected pixels sent to the default scan cycle pixels and the video signal supplied data lines of pixels by the light are arranged in a matrix pattern, for example, a display device, comprising: The amount of luminescence detection unit is configured to be able to detect a video signal in the light emission amount ...

  • On the post: Uber's CEO: Innovators Shouldn't Have To Ask For Permission Or Forgiveness

    vintermann ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2013 @ 04:46am

    Established power, or?

    For a critical take on Uber's business model, check out Tom Slee's rant against "Peer-to-peer hucksterism"

    Choice quote:

    [...] why is it that every town and city I?ve ever been to has licens?ing require?ments for peo?ple offer?ing taxi ser?vices or overnight accom?mo?da?tions? Is there a global taxi car?tel or a multi?na?tional bed-and-breakfast con?glom?er?ate enforc?ing its will on munic?i?pal?i?ties from Aberys?t?wyth to Yel?lowknife? And if there isn?t ? and of course there isn?t, because taxi and B&B oper?a?tions are usu?ally local and small-scale oper?a?tions ? I may ask myself: what?s behind all these rules?