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Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by yourapostasy »

snissn wrote: post #47
yourapostasy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WRT prices of contact lenses, I use an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner with plain saline (Ringer's will also work if that is cheaper in your area), then storing the contact lenses in my lens solution to disinfect. Far better comfort profile, for far longer, than I ever obtained following the manufacturer instructions of 20 seconds rubbing on each side, and 5 seconds rinsing on each side. The saline is half as much as…

dude just go to dailies

Can't yet, much as I'd like. :-( I require torics, and for some reason the many dailies we tried wouldn't stay in their "up" orientation. My optometrist said that in a year or two, he thinks some of the newer dailies in the development pipeline might address my experience, and we'll try dailies again at that time. Has something to do with the weighting of the lenses, I gathered from overhearing his conversation with one of his assistants, but the sudden, unpredictable blurring after blinking being a safety hazard was all the explanation I needed at the time.

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Post by wuschel »

gambiting wrote: post #112
grinich wrote: post #105

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The complication risk of modern LASIK is actually nearly identical to wearing contacts every day.

Sure. But halos seem pretty common - every person I know who got LASIK done in the past 10 years experiences got them to some extent, my dad almost had a nervous breakdown because for the first year after the surgery the halos were so bad he couldn't really drive at night - they sort of faded away with time but he said they were always there and in hindsight, he wouldn't have selected surgery.

Was is a particular technique or doctor? Just wondering re the quality of treatment.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by yourapostasy »

electrum wrote: post #94
yourapostasy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WRT prices of contact lenses, I use an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner with plain saline (Ringer's will also work if that is cheaper in your area), then storing the contact lenses in my lens solution to disinfect. Far better comfort profile, for far longer, than I ever obtained following the manufacturer instructions of 20 seconds rubbing on each side, and 5 seconds rinsing on each side. The saline is half as much as…

Get LASIK. Having perfect eyesight and not having to deal with contacts or glasses is worth every penny.

Presbyopia, and I depend upon both eyes for coding work, so monovision correction is not workable for me (I'd end up wearing glasses for a significant fraction of my waking hours anyways). I'm following the results of the IntraCor procedure, which so far are promising.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by golergka »

Everybody's quick to call this "bullying". How are all of you so sure that Costco didn't indeed steal intellectual property? Or the fact that small companies got sued before means that it were frivolous lawsuits - because, being small, they couldn't have possibly done anything bad like stealing IP?

I don't know anything about this issue, but at least I know I don't know it. What I don't understand is whether all the HN commentators get the idea that they know the situation good enough to jump to conclusions here.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by gmac »

BoysenberryPi wrote: post #75
BEEdwards wrote: post #59

> It is a legitimate tactic; even those who succumb to it don’t really begrudge the approach. Maybe I just haven't given up yet, but what the f*ck? This is not a legitimate tactic, this is LITERALLY everything wrong with our present system.

She isn't wrong about it being a legitimate tactic. You might not like it, it might make you a piece of shit for doing it, but it is a completely legitimate tactic.

'Legitimate' is too broad. Google defines it as: 1. conforming to the law or to rules. 2. able to be defended with logic or justification; valid.

Definition 1: maybe, although even that may be borderline, since these unsubstantiated suits sound pretty vexatious (IANAL).

Definition 2: no way that this is justifiable, or that this peculiarly broken aspect of the US legal system — where you pay your own costs even if you win — can be defended with logic.

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Post by wapz »

computator wrote: post #118
wapz wrote: post #85

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Yup they are so much more comfortable. If you are running low and only wear them around 12 hours, you can even clean them and wear them another day (definitely not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor).

> not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor I never found a technical explanation of why you shouldn't reuse dailies after overnight cleaning. I looked at papers, manufacturers' websites, and spoke to two ophthalmologists. Though not a safety issue, my own experience is that dailies are more fragile than long-term lenses. (Could this be deliberate?) They fit less comfortably after a week of reuse. Also, they…

My personal belief is that since they are made more fragile (I believe it's intentional), you risk the contact tearing while in your eye or not keeping the shape which could maybe cause a deformation to your cornea/eye(?) if used for a prolong time. I only think this because I always swam with my 2 week disposables in and my eye doctor got 'angry' when he saw my contacts were a little deformed from water exposure.

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Post by david-given »

lathiat wrote: post #114
jpwgarrison wrote: post #73

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Not the parent, but in my case - mild astigmatism - dailies are too big and floppy and don't stay put on my eye. 14 or 30 day are thicker and easier to put in. I use them rarely - just for skiing, and I end up using the 14 day ones once or twice and then throwing them away. But the daily ones are just mechanically awkward and uncomfortable.

Try different brands. My wife had the same problem when she went to an astigmatism lense they were too floppy and very difficult but persisted and changed brand/type (still dailies) and they're much better. Stuff is changing all the time

Yeah, I wear daily disposable contacts for doing LARP stuff where being hit over the head with rubber swords isn't uncommon, and I am increasingly astigmatic; my old optician was unable to find daily disposables that would correct the astigmatism [ * ], while my new optician could. (The new contacts are amazing.) It's totally worth keeping looking.

[ * ] Wearing lenses that correct for short-sightedness but not astigmatism is weird. I can see perfectly well, except that text is unreadable. Just text. I wonder if this is how dyslexics feel.

Additionally, I normally wear glasses, and whenever I put my lenses in my first thought is always 'wow, my feet are huge!'...

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Post by feintruled »

electrum wrote: post #94
yourapostasy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WRT prices of contact lenses, I use an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner with plain saline (Ringer's will also work if that is cheaper in your area), then storing the contact lenses in my lens solution to disinfect. Far better comfort profile, for far longer, than I ever obtained following the manufacturer instructions of 20 seconds rubbing on each side, and 5 seconds rinsing on each side. The saline is half as much as…

Get LASIK. Having perfect eyesight and not having to deal with contacts or glasses is worth every penny.

Amen, brother. I struggled with contacts for the longest time, ditching them and getting lasered was the biggest life upgrade I could've imagined. Small haloing at night is a tiny price to pay.

Everyone is different of course. My contacts were getting increasingly uncomfortable for me, so it made sense in my situation.

Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls

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Post by badestrand »

xupybd wrote: post #2

This shows everything wrong with IP today. There should be no place for legal bullying. Especially when it's as simple as crushing competitors under litigation costs.

For me this only shows the flaws of the law system, doesn't it? The real problem is that defending costs are so high for businesses. If this would be covered by the government or some insurance until the case is resolved, the small companies that got sued could have fought this to the end and only go down if they actually infringed the copyright.
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