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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I’ve changed my mind and I’d like to disagree with my previous statement. You can’t pay people to care.

    Very good point. I worked for an employee owned company and I hated the work, but loved the atmosphere. There really was this sense of everyone there working together to make everyone better. I don’t think stock options can provide the same atmosphere, the employees need to have agency around leadership choices as well as the compensation that comes with it.










  • That doesn’t really have the same rigidity. There would be no guarantee for others that it would remain available to them as long as they adhere to those principles.

    Said another way, a bad faith actor could create a patent and make it available to FOS developers, but then turn around and sell that patent to someone who will charge those same developers.

    I suppose you could have a third legally binding document that stipulates the terms of use, but kinda wish it was just handled under the patent.






  • Not a lot of substance on the technology. We’ve had non permanent magnet motors since Nikola Tesla invented induction motors. They were one of the big driving forces behind making mains voltage 3phase AC.

    We also have switched reluctance motors which use a different operating mechanism than induction, but are still non permanent magnet motors.

    So did they just make a motor using one of these existing, well understood technologies? Or did they come up with something new? This article certainly doesn’t tell us.