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Experimentation principles from Deliveroo, a Europe-headquartered delivery marketplace

That hasn't happened in the United Kingdom with the NHS

In the 1900s, people used to think the mind (and body, in a way) worked like a steam engine. In part, the steam engine was used as the analogy because that was the nearest and most technologically advanced input/output closed system that was available. (And, importantly, that most people could grasp and talk about.)

Hence colloquialisms like I need to "let off steam" or "I am under so much pressure".

It turned out to be an analogy that was so far removed from reality, it was useless.

I wonder if we are making the same mistake with computers as we know them today?

"I really just need to reset and reboot, y'know."

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I think Apple's HomeKit deserves a mention here.

www.littleflocker.com is down and my app is unable to update... I hope this means my $14.99 won't be going down the pan. It would be a shame to see Little Flocker cease, too.

I recommend the book Monetizing Innovation. It'll equip you well to talk about and think about pricing and value.

In my opinion, the hardest part of the problem is getting away from the psychology that pricing "uncomfortably high" is somehow cheating people. It isn't - your product is more often than not more valuable than the sum of its parts.

I recommend the book "Monetizing Innovation". It won't give you an answer, but it will equip you to understand value and think about pricing.

I know this doesn't apply to you, but thought others would find it interesting: in the U.K. the employer owns the rights to your inventions during employment, per the Employment Act, unless explicitly written otherwise.

Define a poor choice.

Would that be a job that circumstantially for all intents and purposes requires you to sit down for 8+ hours a day. Is that a poor choice? Would that take away my healthcare subsidy?

Is playing American Football, or kickboxing a similarly poor choice?

Would - and here's where I get facetious in a hope of highlighting the issue with the way you raise your choices/free healthcare point - knowingly continuing the pregnancy of a child with Downs Syndrome be regarded as a poor choice?

Finally, who decides?

Should minors be able to purchase alcohol unfettered and untaxed?

Do you accept it as a compromise for a state subsidised healthcare system?

"I want free/subsidised healthcare" and "I want to gradually erode my health without realising it OR incredibly cheaply OR because in helpless to not do so" are normally incompatible.

It probably won't fall short of the expectations of people who matter.

There's approx 30m votes to declare - only 1m has so far. It is early

From Wikipedia:

The Serious Organised Crime Agency claimed that "90% of all €500 notes sold in the UK are in the hands of organised

crime", revealed during an eight-month analysis. Seems like the mere existence of the 500 euro notes and those stupid enough to use them presents a pretty good profiling opportunity.

this group of folks we're calling Government is trying to prevent us from being allowed to have secrets and whisper to each other.

Is that you, Bush Jnr?

If we assume that when Mondo raised from their investors a year ago - £2m for around 20-30% (assumed) of the company (http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/30/mondo-gets-passionate/), how do you feel about the £1m valuation on 3.3% today?

That's interesting; shouldn't cost-of-input, income, expenditure measures all equal the same amount?

Why are so few people questioning the regulators, too? I cannot conceive that it is that easy to fool them.

I was agreeing with you; I took your response to be one to a sentiment in this thread that 'Greek people are lazy'

I think it is unfair and lazy to characterise a people that way.

There is, however, deep structural or cultural issues that causes Greece to have such a massive tax gap: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2013/cr13155.pdf.

People may well be working hard, but a significant enough number of people are not contributing enough to the state, yet are demanding (by voting) ever more from it, and leaders seemed to have always been relaxed about it (I can't find the source again, but I remember reading that there is even a significant tax cap in the civil service itself).

Unless you are getting into a business that would require constant specialist legal/compliance consultancy, and assuming it is for regular start-up type legal advice along the lines of what you've listed, that's absolutely outrageous - stay clear of the shyster.

A good way to think about may be this: if you were to raise an angel round of $100,000, how much of a stake would you be selling: is that in proportion to what the lawyer is asking for?

When answering that question, I would also keep in mind: (1) is the lawyer's advice going to open up as much opportunity value as the angel coming on board ($1 != $1), and how much of a stake it would indirectly cost you if you were to simply raise an angel round and pay the lawyer money instead (which shouldn't be a huge amount; the kind of work you cited sounds like junior level work not much more than tailoring off the shelf agreements).

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"It isn't you I don't trust - it's all the other drivers out there!"

It looks weird, but this is what a well prepared witness is meant to do in a deposition situation: answer only what is asked, if you don't know what is being asked, dig in. If you don't completely recall, then you don't recall.

http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/dec11/managing3.asp

Rotatable sued us and immediately asked for $75,000 to go away. We refused. And we fought. It’s Rackspace policy to not pay off patent trolls, even if it costs us more to fight. Eventually Rotatable offered to just walk away – but we refused again. Just as we promised last year, we challenged the patent and the USPTO invalidated it.

This is an excellent strategy and will pay dividends to RackSpace in the long term: what minor patent trolls will touch them now?

Yes, and followed up 5 times.

It took CloudFlare 5 weeks to even respond to one of our DMCA takedown notices, let alone take action (which would simply include passing the DMCA notice onto the origin hosting provider).

It is very frustrating - CloudFlare is used to protect a number of warez and file sharing forums and websites, but we struggle to get hold of the origin host information and have to go through CloudFlare who clearly are not geared up to deal with it.

I don't think one extraordinary data point shows anything, actually.