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Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 32 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Cambridge University found that the steam engine was held back for ~40 years because of bad patents

https://archive.org/details/againstintellect0000bold

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  • [+] -6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    You mean 40 years of delay for the destruction of our biosphere?

    I'd call that a win.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    40 years of burning far more coal than necessary due to inefficient engines

    Whether the overall effect was positive or negative with respect to the biome, no clue

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yes, but also induced demand. More efficient engines means less coal per task, but more tasks, maybe so many more that total coal use increases.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    That's why I said we don't know the overall effect on the biome due to less efficient engines

    With how quickly we industrialized, my intuition is we were mining and burning it as fast as possible, but maybe more efficient engines could have let us mine and burn even more

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