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by Accujack 6y ago
It has to not only exist, but be obtainable. In any case, the important limit here is that financial firms are not supposed to allow hedge funds or other entities to assume short positions for more stock than exists, because if it becomes
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by Accujack 6y ago
The practice I'm referring to is "naked shorting" which has been illegal since 2008 in the US.
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by Accujack 6y ago
I'm personally of the opinion that it's limited choices. Banks have been merging and suppressing new entries to the business for decades. Around here, there are basically two large banks and a handful of credit unions.
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by Accujack 6y ago
Yes. If you read what the ultimate intent of the /r/wallstreetbets crowd is, they're not just trying to exercise the same right to make money off of the financial system that billionaires have. A year ago, the person that st
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by Accujack 6y ago
That trunk latch is there because of legislation introduced at the request of a couple who were kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Before then, you couldn't open a trunk from the inside. Nothing similar has happened with the
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by Accujack 6y ago
Not always. Also, a lot of water towers have alternative power sources they can use. More and more, solar panel arrays do this. They work very well despite the lack of constant power output because the water tower itself buffers the ne
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by Accujack 6y ago
Technically, it does, but it's difficult to run anything on microwatts of power generated by photovoltaic cells. A better standard fiber to premises standard would include a power connection, but that would greatly increase prices, too
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by Accujack 6y ago
I think it's mostly due to the change in the makeup of the average "engineering" employee in corporations today. There's a very heavy emphasis on computer hardware and software knowledge, and much less on mechanical en
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by Accujack 6y ago
Most people want there to be laws governing what can be done with aggregate personal data... whether it can be collected, whether it can be sold, what's allowed to be done with it. A person's right to be forgotten should include t
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by Accujack 6y ago
Right. The DMCA was written with the advice of the copyright holders' lawyers (and by them in some cases) and activists and others fought against it as hard as they could. Even in 1998, the US government was corrupted by money. It&#x
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by Accujack 6y ago
I was hoping it involved Guinness myself, or better yet Smithwick's. I'd be okay with multiple events like that.
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by Accujack 6y ago
The manufacturers are mostly run by people who were trained in "standard" corporate governance. This includes the ways to protect corporate revenue streams by suppressing (legally, of course) competition, delivering a range of pr
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by Accujack 6y ago
>Given what we've seen tonight, this could have easily turned into a putsch attempt No, not really. The US government isn't a dictatorship, and power is not held by a narrow few people. More importantly, the whole government i
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by Accujack 6y ago
>Newspapers has this power before. Correct, and it was recognized how important their role was, there were/are laws specifically covering what they could say about political subjects, whether they had to grant opposing views a platf
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by Accujack 6y ago
Expecting a talented software engineer to "upgrade" to become a manager of a development team makes exactly the same amount of sense as expecting a talented accountant to gain a bit more skill and suddenly become a lawyer.
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by Accujack 6y ago
There are existing laws that make that illegal/an invasion of privacy. There's no need to make a law about drones doing it, especially since it would be mostly unenforceable.
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by Accujack 6y ago
So all those government types using technologies like "gorgon stare" from aircraft and other aerial platforms aren't consequential?
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by Accujack 6y ago
Yes, but not entirely as a policy of the government. The industrial complex that was built up during world war II was unprecedented, and the post war boom enabled it to grow further, allowing for things like secondary supply chains, "r
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by Accujack 6y ago
Apple's ideal business model is very similar to the model employed for cloud based Internet services, save that they want it to apply to all computer hardware and software, not just those services that are a good fit for cloud hosting.
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by Accujack 6y ago
Mostly, at least the first run theaters. They were honestly not seeing good profits for a while, because they had to pay so much for films to the studios/distributors. Most of the chains in my area have gone under and won't reop
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by Accujack 6y ago
"Fans may initially be unhappy, but it’s easy to see a way it could work." Firefly, but with a new cast and an altered storyline? That wouldn't retain any of the fans of the original, and in fact Disney would be hated on endl
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by Accujack 6y ago
Amazing work, and really shows how amateur cryptographers can contribute to detective work. I especially like the software tools involved.
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by Accujack 6y ago
This is (at present) a standard progression in the life cycle of a corporation in the US. There are vanishingly few corporations left who practice a business model designed to span more than about 30 years. Most businesses today are found
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by Accujack 6y ago
Actually, the scale hasn't changed, either. It's just that we are more aware of the scale and complexity. It's not really incomprehensible either, you just have to adjust your expectations toward not knowing everything well
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by Accujack 6y ago
I'm thinking it's got abrasive material embedded in the outside of the chain links. I kind of doubt it's diamonds, because that wouldn't work too well for steel and other ferrous metals, but it might be CBN or similar.
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by Accujack 6y ago
It's also not true for some ships, depending on exactly what you're talking about. It isn't just being forced to support its own weight by a bubble that sinks ships... it's the force applied in the direction it's ap
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by Accujack 6y ago
Well put. I wish the article had more information about the chain itself. I've seen this done with diamond cutters on wire rope (like used for the Kursk) but not with chain. From the look of it, the chain has the outside of the lin
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by Accujack 6y ago
The equipment has never really been outdated. It's been updated as the telescope has operated, since the antenna itself hasn't needed updating. Computers and software included. Until this collapse, the management was actually ho
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I think it's "faith".
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by Accujack 6y ago
> It may just be the fact that it is on a cutting edge 5nm process with a SoC design. Yup. It's fast because it's got short distances to memory and everything else. Shorten the wire to memory cells and not only can you make

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