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on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:17:05 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
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@phnt @kaia yeah, that's why companies die when they get too big, and why 5-person startups can outcompete billion dollar companies

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  @m0xEE @kaia @phnt removing state-enforced anti-competitive practices like copyrights and patents would already help a lot.
  
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  :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:39:21 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
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  > 5-person startups can outcompete billion dollar companies
  It used to be like that, but it looks like we're at a threshold, crossing which would mean that it would no longer be possible — for different reasons, anti-competitive practices — and the capacity to pursue them; and products themselves becoming too complex for it to be possible to be developed by a small group of people — to name a few.
  State actors could in theory chime in and deal with anti-competitive practices especially in the fields dominated by the so-called "big tech", but the way things are now, I won't have my hopes up. When I've been still reading Project Syndicate, I got the impressions that a lot (if not most) indeed think something like "Why would we do something about these companies? They seem to be able to continue to innovate",— and of course, reading this always made me a sad panda :marseysigh:
  
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 18:50:30 JST Sick Sun
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  @lain @m0xEE @kaia @phnt every state in the USA has a hundred nearly-worthless-except-keeping-competition-out credential requirements for a variety of jobs that a normal person could start in their home, preventing you from starting that business in your home. They often have plausible reasons but the effect is the same and it is always concentrated on businesses anyone could start with little to no capital, what a strange coincidence.
  
  check here for example, credentialing for interior decoration: https://www.rlps.com/2021/01/3-reasons-interior-designer-credentialing-matters/ I have actually seen the test for this and it doesn't match any of these bullet points. I have, professionally, seen the certifications for almost all these jobs in all states and they are a joke.
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    3 Reasons Interior Designer Credentialing Matters - RLPS
    
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    Interior designer credentialing reflects a commitment to the highest professional standards.
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  on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 01:47:53 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
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  @coolboymew @m0xEE @kaia @phnt the concept of patents itself is nonsense but even within the concept there’s so much bad stuff (like Amazon’s one-click-buy patent, or namco’s “play a game in the loading screen” patent)
  
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  cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 01:47:54 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @lain @m0xEE @kaia @phnt I remember some patents being absolute bullshit. There was an ad on Facebook I saw at some point for a watch. IIRC the company kept going on how they "patented the idea" of an accelerometer (was it?) on a watch and comments absolutely grilled them on how they just put two existing things together, it ain't innovative
  
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 01:48:47 JST Sick Sun
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  @lain @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew I am absolutely certain there was a commodore 64 game that let you play pong or something while the tape was loading.
  
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  on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 01:50:22 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
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  @sun @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew just a little million dollar fight for a few years in court should clear this all up
  
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 01:51:04 JST Sick Sun
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  @lain @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew how many patents in 1999 could have been voided simply by posting the patent on Slashdot before approving
  
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  @sun @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew what about this one? https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2888750A1
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    Faster than light travel
    
    Patent Applicant devises a method for travelling faster than Light utilizing Singularity dynamics.
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:00:11 JST Sick Sun
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  @lain @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew nobody seems to be able to explain away this one so it's just ignored https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
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    Craft using an inertial mass reduction device
    
    A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprises of an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The electrically charged outer resonant cavity wall and the electrically insulated inner resonant cavity wall form a resonant cavity. The microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the resonant cavity to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall.
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:01:46 JST Sick Sun
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  @lain @coolboymew @kaia @m0xEE @phnt why did the us navy patent a gravity dampening propulsion drive in 2016
  
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  cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:03:51 JST cool_boy_mew
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  @lain @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @sun Is there anyone in office that can actually understand this shit?
  
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  on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:03:51 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
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  @coolboymew @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @sun no, patenting does not involve checking if the claimed innovation actually works, only if it’s an innovation
  
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  on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:04:25 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
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  @sun @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew it is a mystery :itisamystery:
  
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:08:47 JST Sick Sun
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  @lain @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew here's one for swinging on a swing sideways https://patents.google.com/patent/US6368227B1/en
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    Method of swinging on a swing
    
    A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other.
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  on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:09:49 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
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  @sun @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew it’s innovative!
  
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  Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 02:11:55 JST Sick Sun
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  @lain @m0xEE @kaia @phnt @coolboymew I was at a wedding one time and after the wedding I was talking to the groom and he was telling me that he built an antigravity machine and that he was being harassed by government agents. I never got the chance to see his machine.
  
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