The real issue is authentic versus simulated rough childhoods. Freemasons fucking up their kids to see how they behave and try to correct/program their behaviour based on the responses is more fucked than authentically fucked experience and the simulated experience doesn’t build true character. It’s only as good as the simulation and its parameters and behavioural engineering has a long way to go. Non-consensual behavioural engineering is worse than rape.
Good times may create weak men, but authentic experience is what develops real character growth and wisdom and NOT the kind of synthetic fraudulent experience that is all too often synthesised today. Synthetic experience is about as useful as tits on a bull.
There's good reason to believe that the technology is simply expensive and hard to manufacture, not that there's some giant conspiracy of patent trolls. And the use of "troll" here, when there's actually a product that's being made, is inaccurate. "Trolls" are companies that buy up dubious patents, don't actually make or invent anything, and sue everyone and hope that they settle instead of challenging the patent in court.
Every new generation of LCD and OLED has plenty of patents, and there are affordable products eventually. OLED in particular started out very expensive and now is everywhere.
Calling companies that hold a patent you find valuable and aren't distributing it's use how you personally see fit a "patent troll" isn't just inaccurate, it's an intentional mischaracterization for the purpose of eliciting a negative emotional response solely to spread your narrative. It cheapens the meaning and lowers any engagement to fight for the same cause when you realize it's a facade driven entirely by sour grapes and a lack of understanding of the patent system being criticized.
I guess it's okay here though, because [passionate story about side project idea using eink that could be tinkered on but never actually idealized into something].
That's bullshit though. People always make this claim but never with evidence or a source, or they provide a source that has either been retracted or simply states the same claim without evidence or citation.
That is essentially the entire idea behind patents. They get a limited time of control, the public benefits later. Like it or not, this is how the system is supposed to work.
"I don't like how the system works" and "I blame this company for working in the system" aren't really the same point though.
If the real problem is the first one, then implicitly there is a need to propose something that works better. And that is no obvious (but it's obviously not simple).
The original patents expired years ago (2016/2017?) and even before them EInk had some legal setbacks (Trekstor/OED). I remember buying a Plastic Logic device that used a different tech w/ similar output (OTFT substrate), and we've seen waves of technologies/companies come and go (Liquivista, Clearink, Mirasol, QR-LPD, DES, RLCD, etc.) so there isn't any shortage of competing technologies, it just turns out development/productization of new display technologies is massively expensive (EInk worked w/ Philips to get started and had to spend hundreds of millions ramping up production) and pretty thankless - Mary Lou Jepson had some interesting public discussions on the economics of new display tech when launching/running Pixel Qi.
I've heard that Eink is notoriously hard to work with and as an outsider looking in, their product development is frustratingly slow, but it's a public company (acquired by a Taiwanese company a long while back), and looking at their financials over recent years, their operating margins seem to be 10-15%, which I guess beats a lot of other display companies, but still doesn't seem so impressive vs other semi/tech companies. That no one's disrupted them over the past few decades I think speaks to how it's more than just an IP moat at play.
> I've heard that Eink is notoriously hard to work with
From whom? I asked someone who commented this on HN and the person replied saying that they had refused to help him debug his 3 display project. So yes, any display company is notoriously hard to work with if you're not buying a reasonable quantity of their product. It is like saying Samsung Displays is notoriously hard to work with as they're not helping my startup debug our problems where we've bought a grand total of 3 displays this year.
They seem to be pretty much the opposite of a patent troll, no? I mean, you and I may not like how aggressively they are approaching it, but they did develop the technology.
Overall you can argue they as a company would have done better to allow the tech to broaden and reap licensing fees, but you can't argue that it isn't their decision to make. Or, you can, but you aren't arguing against these guys but the system of IP laws in general.
Just been to Taiwan and Japan before. This form factor of e-ink display is super new. I believe it may well be made by one of the Taiwanese shops but badged by Sharp.
e-ink is a big deal in Taiwan right now. The prices should come down fairly steeply in the next year or two.
I saw bus stops with eink posters showing upcoming arrival times in some cities in Taiwan. Not the best choice because refresh is very slow and they are hard to see at night.
You think the problem is just the CEO and not the corporate culture or its complacency and arrogance and now confusion now that it's no longer the darling of Wall Street/The Nikkei? It's yet another Japanese zombie corporation that's lost its way.
Interesting article, but I think the issue is that we are at an inflection point in human history where there are particular groups trying to manufacture sociopaths.
There are certain cults (I speak specifically of freemasonry but there are many affiliates) that seem to make a thing of trying to manufacture sociopaths through the application of behavioural psychology and coercion to Stockholm syndrome victims into joining their agenda but also to induce sociopathic behaviour.
Those inducted are led to believe that they are on a righteous path, are part of a special few that have the true knowledge (while the rest of society are ignorant) and that the agenda is ultimately for a greater good. Of course this greater good is used as the justification for a tyranny of little people; pretty much like every other sociopathic agenda through history. The only difference is that this time it's happening on a scale that's unprecedented, it's the cause of much of the strangeness in politics and indeed within the media and is all about re-engineering the human condition.
I've long held the belief that trying to prevent something often manifests it for we focus our energy on it. These sociopaths suggest that the world is heading for catastrophe and that's part of their justification for breaking the system for their perceived greater good. I offer the suggestion that this is uncharted territory and I suspect those behaving despicably thinking they are working to a righteous agenda may well go to their graves realising they created a greater evil than humanity has ever known. But of course such sociopaths never believe THEY are the problem - it's always everyone else, right?
> Those inducted are led to believe that they are on a righteous path, are part of a special few that have the true knowledge (while the rest of society are ignorant) and that the agenda is ultimately for a greater good.
You reference cults in the paragraph above, but honestly this sounds like a generalized recruiting message from everything from corporations to militaries to organized religion.
Given that the tactics use by masons seem to be an interesting amalgamation of military tactics, corporate tactics and organized religious tactics your analysis is indeed spot on.
Agreed that cults are bad, but Freemasonry doesn’t[1] recruit people.
And they’re too busy arguing about what to serve at this week’s meeting to apply behavioral psychology to victims in order to recruit them into their agenda of (presumably) world domination.
Have you considered that perhaps your source of conspiracy theories (those red herring terms you use give it away) is doing it to you?
1. It sometimes happen but is widely frowned upon.
I'd suggest Freemasonry is just the interoperability layer. It's layer 3 cult-networking to allow disparate and traditionally incompatible cults to participate in an Open Conspiracy (as in H.G. Wells) fused with B.F. Skinner's Walden 2. I would have once suggested Walden Two was a farfetched work of fiction but it is apparent that the dystopia is all too real.
Have you considered the possibility that "Earthlings" is one data point among a very complex web of superficially opposing ideas/arguments that are actually all part of a coordinated agenda to try to fundamentally change your behaviour and psychology by messing with your emotions?
Go look up B.F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning (His book Walden 2 is a semi-fictional work that provides a pretty good approximation to the game that's afoot). I'm sure I'll get shot down for presenting a conspiracy, but once you open your eyes to Operant Conditioning, considering the possibility that power hungry groups haven't been using it is kind of like trying to imagine a world where people chose not to use the internet. The only difference is that applied behavioural psychology is more dangerous and powerful than the internet.
This game is happening quite pervasively and a lot of smart people have been coercively brainwashed into being passive if not active players in this process.
There are of course a litany of justifications used by those that do the brainwashing.
Or selling you products
Impossible burgers
Tofu.
It's like a coordinated agenda to stigmatize the internal combustion engine and promote renewable energy sources like solar and wind. You might just be in the prime demographics for both but a majority of the population isn't.
Nobody has stigmatized engines, people are trying to reduce emissions because the greatest body of knowledge we have access to (science) suggests we should.
