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SkyAtWork | 7 years ago | on: 3D-printed noise cancelling structures

I wonder how often this would need to be physically replaced/maintained. And for that matter what size is required - would this work for unpowered earplugs / would it be better than conventional foam earplugs?

SkyAtWork | 7 years ago | on: Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain

Hollywood and associated content creation/monetization businesses are historically strongly aligned with the Democrats - though I agree with your ideal, it is not likely that the party will bite the hand that feeds it.

SkyAtWork | 8 years ago | on: Setting Up a Cayman Islands Company [pdf]

That isn't entirely true. For instance, if you are investing on behalf of a foundation or other nonprofit structure, or a similar non-taxed or tax-deferred entity (like a pension fund), you have a reason to preserve your legitimate tax free status. This is one reason you'll see US hedge funds with both Delaware and Cayman entities even if they only have US subscribers - because some of those US subscribers will be entities outside the conventional person/corporation tax model.

SkyAtWork | 10 years ago | on: Why is Germany so obsessed with Hamlet?

I find that a stretch. Oscar Wilde is at least as quotable, though I suppose the Brits categorize him as Irish instead. How about Orwell? Lewis Carroll? Jane Austen? Emily Bronte? William Blake? There's enough Sherlock clones around that it's hard to overlook Arthur Conan Doyle? Tolkien? Douglas Adams? CS Lewis? Mary Shelley? Virginia Woolf? Heck, Francis Bacon (unless you buy the theory that he doubles as Shakespeare).

Literature is not what the English lack!

SkyAtWork | 12 years ago | on: It Is Time For Basic Income

I think I'm missing what you're saying, can you expound on this? There are records of mercantile law going back to Hammurabi; there's been paper fiat currency in China since the 7th century or so. Coinage and trade has plenty of historical record in Phoenician and Roman era.

SkyAtWork | 12 years ago | on: Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser?

I'm somewhat surprised to see that Chrome on my Nexus 10 shows up as unique, based primarily on user agent and screen size/color depth. Both seem to be surprisingly less common than I'd expect inasmuch as they would seem to be identical across all such devices.

SkyAtWork | 12 years ago | on: MariaDB 10.0 Beta launched

We're currently doing one. It's been relatively painless, most of the difficulty being simultaneously moving off old myisam tables to innodb -> xtradb

SkyAtWork | 12 years ago | on: Amazon is selling Cars

I was there when they did this a long time ago (circa 2000), I believe in conjunction with Greenlight.com - at the time it was a "cars" tab which was basically just third party storefront space. It didn't last as Greenlight (pardon the pun) ran out of gas.

But this certainly seems viable. Costco has a carbuying program that includes baked in discounts and single price point. It is an obvious disintermediation play with nearly-as-obvious existing regulatory complications and entrenched interests.

SkyAtWork | 12 years ago | on: The separation of advice and money

Presumably it would look a lot like an accelerator, inasmuch as most accelerators don't put in any significant amount of capital but do add a lot of experience around startup growth.

SkyAtWork | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Crime Doesn't Climb in San Francisco

Probably for the perpetrators, probably not for the companies involved (which are likely to have the same set of Delaware and/or Cayman mailing addresses) :-P

But sure, I would expect that white collar crime is unsurprisingly correlated.

Maybe not though - boiler room style phone banks of investor fraudsters are a stereotype for a reason, and those aren't necessarily the high rent end of town.

SkyAtWork | 12 years ago | on: Uber for Everything

> Anarchism without pacifism is a contradiction

Please expound on this - that statement sounds unintuitive and generally the opposite of what I'd expect

SkyAtWork | 12 years ago | on: Hyperloop

The Florida highway through the Keys dates to the 1930s and the NYC Catskill aqueduct to roughly 1916 - those are certainly great projects but aren't the last fifty.

Largely agree with the rest of your comment though :)

SkyAtWork | 13 years ago | on: HBO: Game of Thrones Piracy is a Compliment, Doesn’t Hurt Sales

When the show is initially airing, HBO would rather you subscribe to the cable channel, since the cable company pays them much more than Netflix or Hulu would.

When the season ends, HBO would rather you buy the DVD / Bluray, since the sale of those discs pays them much more than Netflix or Hulu would.

It's certainly possible that one of the digital vendors could offer HBO enough money to change their mind there, but it's a fairly daunting check to write.

SkyAtWork | 13 years ago | on: Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France

We talk a lot about disrupting businesses here; there's a reasonable number of folks in the audience who want to do this to health care. Likely no deeper than that, but understanding the entrenched solutions in a market can be valuable if that's your plan.

SkyAtWork | 13 years ago | on: Why my startup failed

I'm sure there's an audience for which that's true, but it would seem like that's an edge case of people who prefer to overpay for nostalgia purposes if they could get the same product cheaper and more conveniently. Wine is often a luxury good though, so I'm probably underestimating the people who are willing to be snooty about it :)
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