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I guess it just hadn't been linked to human genes before.

Trademark, rather than a trade dress issue. https://www.greenbergglusker.com/publications/when-copycats-...

E-ink has had some improvements- I'm acquainted with the developers of this project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor

Refresh rate is only one component of the system- an integrated display controller can lower the latency, and of course, the choice of computer affects the speed as well. Their choice to go with USB-C Alt is a good idea.

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But chips today are much larger and are basically a cruise ship or an aircraft carrier- bigger with more work than a bike. https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software/

https://youtu.be/oE4cbIP5ieQ?si=h1I51dWw5w-OulVs

"Between digital economics and the wholesale embrace of King's Gillette's experiment in price shifting, we are entering an era when free will be seen as the norm, not an anomaly. How big a deal is that? Well, consider this analogy: In 1954, at the dawn of nuclear power, Lewis Strauss, head of the Atomic Energy Commission, promised that we were entering an age when electricity would be "too cheap to meter." Needless to say, that didn't happen, mostly because the risks of nuclear energy hugely increased its costs. But what if he'd been right? What if electricity had in fact become virtually free? The answer is that everything electricity touched—which is to say just about everything—would have been transformed. Rather than balance electricity against other energy sources, we'd use electricity for as many things as we could—we'd waste it, in fact, because it would be too cheap to worry about."

... What Mead understood is that a psychological switch should flip as things head toward zero. Even though they may never become entirely free, as the price drops there is great advantage to be had in treating them as if they were free. Not too cheap to meter, as Atomic Energy Commission chief Lewis Strauss said in a different context, but too cheap to matter. Indeed, the history of technological innovation has been marked by people spotting such price and performance trends and getting ahead of them."

My issue is that datacenter energy costs are being prioritized for commerce over residential use, so the average consumer is paying more for electricity, because a datacenter needs more electricity and they're getting tax breaks. Assuming this all improves efficiency for new products like automated robotics, there is a debatable benefit. Jevon's Paradox has no ceiling, except the environment, and people's 401ks.