Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

2016-10-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Yes that’s the ticket. The one thing is – if you use the same scripts / software etc that you develop to analyse this client’s data to do anything similar for another client (or then proceed to sell such software as a product) – well, there be dragons. --srs On 19/10/16, 11:50 PM, "silklist

Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

2016-10-19 Thread Bhaskar Dasgupta
Happy to be corrected but I've used client data quite happily to provide additional services back to them. If I aggregate the data and flog it to others then I need permission > On 19 Oct 2016, at 13:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > My bet is that any IP the company

Re: [silk] revolutions: industrial, atomic, etc.

2016-10-19 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Dave Long wrote: > Does anyone have over/under odds on the expected level of > inter-ideological violence this century, compared with, say, 1914-1989?\ > Hitler famously asked the Governor of Paris, "Brennt Paris?" (Is Paris burning?)

[silk] revolutions: industrial, atomic, etc.

2016-10-19 Thread Dave Long
2) Fewer people will need to work to do the "important stuff" ... 3) This will cause a change in ideology. Until now, we've had a dominant notion that we need people to work. ... When we humans developed tools to help with housework, our standards for cleanliness rose. As automation takes

Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

2016-10-19 Thread Heather Madrone
Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: On 19/10/16 06:50, Bhaskar Dasgupta wrote: only issue is, how much will you get paid to just walk around? If we want to take an example, see the wages of waiters…without minimum wage floors, its impossible to survive. flip side, who will pay for it? the average joe or

Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

2016-10-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
My bet is that any IP the company derives by making use of client data – even for testing purposes – will very likely meet with a successful claim from the customer’s IP / copyright attorneys. Operational metrics are what the approval extends to. NOT new product development based on those

Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

2016-10-19 Thread Bhaskar Dasgupta
The data belongs to the customer but the supplier has approval to use that data. For operational metrics. What I suggested was to make that into a product instead of just a stupid sla operational report. Jai ho > On 19 Oct 2016, at 06:51, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >

Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

2016-10-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Depends on price points. Out in the middle east, fewer people needed to work period – all the important stuff, right from building houses and hauling away trash to keeping the banks running were done by people falling on the scale between immigrant (labourer), skilled immigrant (person of

Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

2016-10-19 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 19/10/16 06:50, Bhaskar Dasgupta wrote: > only issue is, how much will you get paid to just walk around? If we > want to take an example, see the wages of waiters…without minimum > wage floors, its impossible to survive. flip side, who will pay for > it? the average joe or mango man will have