I dunno. Maybe it's a pragmatic way to approach the problem, but it does seem a bit overly broad -- as well as helping people who are going to be in serious financial difficulties, it also effec… (View Post)

Arm succeeded because of its business model (the tech is good but not world-dominatingly so without the businese model), but it's also the business model that means it's a small company at … (View Post)

Yeah; whatever the merits or otherwise of the idea, if a tech company has been around for nine years iterating on their idea and still hasn't made the breakthrough to real serious profit-making … (View Post)

Yeah, it's a clever idea with some definite uses. My issue with it is that I think it would be a terrible idea for us to end up with the 'standard' location/coordinate system being one… (View Post)

You'll disagree, I'm sure, but personally I think "discourages people from working a ton of overtime" is a good outcome. Working long hours is (as a generality) bad for the person… (View Post)