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Comment Re:This Donut Tastes Funny (Score 4, Insightful) 294

I assume it's the Ziroth video that's linked, I watched it yesterday. This is a little different than Theranos in that there's multiple companies involved, but yeah, fake it till you make it gone wrong once again. It sounds like at least at some point, Donut Labs genuinely believed that CT Coatings actually had a revolutionary battery tech, and would eventually be able to supply it to them, per leaked emails between the companies, and maybe the initial fakery by Donut was just trying to bridge the gap until CT Coatings delivered what they promised. However, it's also clear that as time went on, the aggressive fundraising by Donut from small investors for a product that they continued to have no proof even existed, and the continued false claims about what they actually had, became hugely problematic. Exactly who knew what when within Donut Labs and the other involved companies, and what legal thresholds may have been crossed, remains to be seen.

Comment Re:Damn, I'm old (Score 1) 91

I remember building a bunch of Cyrix boxes for in-house use at my second job out of uni. It was an interesting time for x86-compatible processors, it seemed like the x86-compatible ecosystem was going to expand with a whole bunch of manufacturers getting in on it, some with very different approaches (remember Transmeta?). Didn't really work out that way though.

Comment Zipline (Score 5, Interesting) 86

Do Zipline have a patent on their system or something? Otherwise I don't see why everybody doesn't just copy that. Keeping the drone quite high up and then winching the package to the ground avoids several of the issues seen in these videos - the drone stays too high up to blow stuff such as other packages around, also reducing the noise experienced at ground level, and winching the package down until the line goes slack ensures a soft landing. It seems like a totally superior way to do it.

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Journal Journal: Signal, Whatsapp, Telegraph 3

Is it just me or are these three platforms the arena of bad decision making in startup businesses? When somebody tries to lure me off of social media into one of these three platforms, alarm bells start ringing in my mind. If you're leading your business with communications on Signal or Whatsapp, just know that I for one will not be taking your business seriously.

Comment Well... (Score 1) 75

I've noticed a trend on Reddit these days, now when someone doesn't like your comment, they say it's an AI post as a way of dismissing it. It would be kind of handy at those times to be able to say "Ha, no - verified human!" I guess that may not outweigh the downsides though.

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