Beta Bionics and others are trying to solve this issue. An automated pancreas. FDA process is slow & expensive though.
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datamingle commented on Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners cloudimperiumgames.com/bl... · Posted by u/doener
It's interesting reading this thread as one of the founders of Star Sonata, a space MMO that launched in 2004. Star Citizen has a lot of hype and a lot of money, but people seem to hate the game/results. Our players for the most part love our game and keep playing and subscribing even after more than a decade, but I can't for the life of me get the marketing right, so have been unable to bring in new players in any kind of numbers. I just wish 1% of the players who paid for Star Citizen even knew about Star Sonata.
For a while back in 2007-ish Google ads were working really well and bringing in paying players at about $35 cost to acquire each and they were worth more than $200 over their lifetime, but something changed almost over night and Google ads got more competitive and almost no amount of money would bring people in. I'm sitting here with a game that people like and will pay for but can't figure out anymore how to acquire them.
Pay a Twitch.tv streamer who plays similar games to play your game?
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Holy shit. If the following qoute is to be believed, it's almost certainly the Saudis backing it since I don't know who else has that kind of money and also considering the Saudis hit the 5% investment mark which requires you to announce it at the perfect moment. Shit, with tsla dropping back down now and elon being quit, i think it helps the case more that it is them because I would want them to have the full opportunity to buy as much stock now while it is below 420$ before the buyout is confirmed.
"Musk previously talked with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund about a take-private deal, said one of the people. Saudi's Public Investment Fund bought a 3 percent to 5 percent stake in the electric car maker, The Financial Times reported earlier this week. It isn't yet known whether Saudi's Public Investment Fund has agreed to commit money to the transaction."
Temasek (Singapore sovereign fund) have the money to get involved if they want.
datamingle commented on Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Security wi-fi.org/news-events/new... · Posted by u/nikolay
If I understood everything, you have to be a Wi-Fi Alliance member in order to develop/contribute/vote on all things WiFi. The smallest membership that allows you to participate is US$7,500/year for 2018 (next year it’ll be $7,725/year). And that’s only for small businesses and they won’t have all voting rights. The actual membership is a whopping US$15,000/year ($450 more next year).
It disgusts me to see that in order to improve something that a crapton of people use daily to protect them self, that’s currently broken, you’d have to pay. I didn’t see any mention that individuals can become members on the website of the Wi-Fi Alliance seems to be only businesses can participate.
I’d be alright with some open-source implementation instead.
/rant
Seems like it would encounter same problem earlier in Wifi history
"Early 802.11 products suffered from interoperability problems because the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) had no provision for testing equipment for compliance with its standards."
datamingle commented on States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/uptown
> Grover Norquist, president of the anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, said in a statement, "Today the Supreme Court said yes -- you can be taxed by politicians you do not elect and who act knowing you are powerless to object."
That doesn't follow. The people being taxed are the people living in that state, and their representatives are enacting that tax. As usually Norquist is making up BS to scare people.
Think of it from the perspective of the business selling goods. Then the quote makes more sense.
Does that 40B translate into more innovation or production from him? I don't think so.
There is no way Bezos could pursue Blue Origin as fast as he has without being having multiple Billions of net worth. Rockets are expensive and extremely risky.
So your premise is incorrect.
I'm a Brit. I am the MD of a small IT company. I have two partners and 20 employees. We started in 2000. We turn over about £1.5Mpa. We sell our services to people and organisations. Our backups are now smaller these days (thanks to GDPR).
I understand that because you are outside the EU you might feel like a target but that is not the point of GDPR. There is no way on earth that the EU as a whole has looked on your company/project or whatever and decided to screw you.
Have a look at the first few paras of this: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX... after it says "Whereas". Does the language look a little familiar? Do the sentiments look strangely familiar in some way?
GDPR is not about destroying people's livelihoods. It is about protecting basic, fundamental rights that say 30 years ago we never knew needed to exist.
After all the knee jerk reactions have calmed down a bit, you may find that you personally have benefited in some way from EU regs. If you find that, then I suggest you fight tooth and nail for similar to be enacted at home. I'll be the first to thank you for that.
How do you handle developer computers with possible client data on them, even semi-anonymized? Or when communicating issues on the live server, you might transfer client information to other stake holders to debug issue. Are you tracking that communication. Where does the communication data reside, perhaps on a server outside of the EU?
There is a lot of complications that arise if you think about the second order/third order consequences of the law.
Amazon's beauty contest did seem completely counterintuitive to me. People with skin in the game are always in the know of things. Even if Amazon had not massively advertised its move cities and states would have worked hard to bring them to their shores. I did not understand why ordinary public had to be drawn into it.
Your average joe is always going to oppose a disruption in his otherwise mundane and lazy life.
Apple's strategy is much smarter let the cities secretly do a peacock dance, cut some real under the table secret tax deals and move somewhere else.
Marketing, that is how it works.
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