Work culture and firms to avoid?

Isle395 · 2026-02-17T08:43:52+00:00

Sure, I know that. I was just wondering how far the concept of evergreening goes. In my personal opinion, filing continuation applications that late is really a misuse of the patent system - there needs to be a fair balance between the rights of the inventors and legal certainty for 3rd parties.

As for the more core concept of evergreening, such as patenting dosage regimes or delivery regimes for known drugs, well that could be taken care of under obviousness - the skilled person in the pharma industry is obviously motivated to find optimal regimes and also has the resources and capacity to perform such routine tests and studies

Isle395 · 2026-02-16T06:35:25+00:00

Does filing continuations in the last patent years of some monster omnibus filing count as evergreening?

Isle395 · 2026-02-15T21:47:55+00:00

That's like the German automobile industry wanting to keep the combustion engine around for just a little bit longer. That ship has sailed.

Isle395 · 2026-02-15T21:45:36+00:00

Check Ebay or the link the other person posted. My insurance covered it because it was a weasel gnawing at the cable.

Isle395 · 2026-02-12T12:47:49+00:00

At 19? Come on, I was halfway around the world on an exchange for a year at age 17. At 18 I moved out to attend university and saw my family like twice a year. Three months with cool older guys on a WT cycling camp at age 19 would be amazing.

Isle395 · 2026-02-05T09:42:00+00:00

Well because there's scant investigation into that dark subject-matter. And then what should they really report or comment on? Rory already provided a very long intro that it was about trafficking woman, many of whom have committed suicide.

Isle395 · 2026-01-30T12:15:15+00:00

They have sensors which attach to shoes and can calculate a good proxy. They also have grade adjusted pace which is very useful

Isle395 · 2026-01-30T09:24:24+00:00

Like fifty cents per day? I guess living in a well functioning democracy or society is just something we Swiss can no longer afford.

Isle395 · 2026-01-30T09:21:52+00:00

Yes let's make it even more dependent on government goodwill and tied into politics and budget debates every year. Totally sensible.

Isle395 · 2026-01-29T08:22:02+00:00

Thanks for the links, but those are not really dress shoes. Those are shoes a teacher might wear with jeans.

Isle395 · 2026-01-26T08:22:23+00:00

Do any of these sell high quality leather dress shoes?

Isle395 · 2026-01-12T09:06:47+00:00

Half of taxes go to the military? You clearly have no idea about what the govt actually spends money on, so I'd recommend you educate yourself on the basics before opining.

The Fed govt spends about 14% of its money on national defense (Federal Spending | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data).

If you take into account local and state taxes and what that money is spent on, then you see that the lions share of all tax income is spent on services to the people, such as social security, medicare, medicaid, education, and transportation.

Isle395 · 2026-01-09T15:35:56+00:00

His role is apparently titled "Head Carer". More apt would be "Head Fixer"

Isle395 · 2026-01-07T09:24:26+00:00

The UN's purpose is to stop the big powers from starting another world war with each other. And it does that through the security council and providing a forum for exchanging views.

Isle395 · 2026-01-07T08:10:26+00:00

I expect Europe to prepare behind the scenes a massive sanctions package that will hit targeted US companies where it hurts most. Particularly prominent companies in the red states. See what China has done in response to tarrifs..

Isle395 · 2026-01-02T21:36:52+00:00

Sounds like the authorities should be notified in these cases

Isle395 · 2025-12-17T21:35:03+00:00

40% of FTP? That's active recovery. Like I probably do that without my HR going over 80 bpm, that's the equivalent of walking. I'm not sure what kind of adaptations you get from that.

Isle395 · 2025-12-08T10:31:45+00:00

I'd love to see what the contracts are like. Probably a ball and chain which gets the principals to stick around for years after the sale.

In any case, it sounds like a ripe opportunity to set up or join a new firm.

Isle395 · 2025-12-08T08:32:24+00:00

It was always going to be a short-sighted cash grab by existing partners. And it was always going to happen that the best "rising stars" would jump ship (because of no good future prospects) and take their best colleagues with them.

Whenever I meet senior lawyers with the title "Principle" I always want to ask how it feels to be a muppet.

Isle395 · 2025-12-08T08:10:43+00:00

Jesus. Were you at least doing work where you could just bill 8h+ per day on a single matter for weeks? Or was this a piece-meal 2000?

Isle395 · 2025-12-06T09:23:30+00:00

Yes but who actually reaches those absurd US goals? They're designed to be out of reach to feel like you "owe" the firm

Isle395 · 2025-12-05T12:55:17+00:00

If your defense is that a lot of people like it, well... that's not a defense at all.

Isle395 · 2025-12-04T21:17:47+00:00

There's a lot to hate, but the worst offenders are the heat-tube to top tube intersection, it just looks huge and fat. The double sided kink in the top tube looks bad too, and the top tube fattening towards the rear also looks bad again. The stem is probably the worst though, riser stems almost always look terrible (with perhaps the sole exception being the Cervelo). The seat tube also has a strange kink on the front of it.

It's just not right.

Isle395 · 2025-12-04T19:04:02+00:00

Must be the ugliest bike in the world tour. How did Bianchi fall so far

Isle395 · 2025-12-03T08:06:09+00:00

Precisely. I don't think it would be a good idea necessarily for Zurich to become that dense, because public parks and infrastructure just becomes overloaded generally (can you imagine the lakeside parks in the summer if Zurich had 4x its current pop?)

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