Facemelters

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by Facemelters 3y ago
The internet pretty squarely falls under the Commerce Clause
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by Facemelters 3y ago
it's quite short, but it's a fundamental right
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by Facemelters 3y ago
486DX2/66 checking in
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by Facemelters 3y ago
Light fills the universe, but a telescope will be blinded if you shine a flashlight into it.
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by Facemelters 3y ago
No one knows if this version of events is true
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by Facemelters 8y ago
You've just made up a "liberal" Democrat boogeyman for your weird argument.
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by Facemelters 8y ago
Not entirely -- license revocation can happen for a number of reasons involving content. It just doesn't happen anymore.
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by Facemelters 8y ago
There is no obligation for a private company to provide a platform for another's speech. None. It is, in fact, antithetical to the concept of a "Marketplace of Ideas." In a marketplace, shitty/dangerous/offensive pr
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by Facemelters 8y ago
"least interacting" is the key here. Trillions are emitted by the source, and nearly zero impact anything along the way, so most of them make it through the planets, stars, etc. Occasionally one hits an atom of ice/water (dep
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by Facemelters 8y ago
This is what happens when engineers receive very little formal liberal arts education. Cringe.
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by Facemelters 8y ago
The irony of this comment is that part of his point is that you are at risk for missing his point in the absence of liberal arts education :) His point is that the liberal arts method of teaching critical thinking is designed to force the s
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by Facemelters 9y ago
Two things: (1) it's hard to get a warrant. This is a search warrant for the President's personal lawyer's office and covers privileged communications (obviously under the crime-fraud exception). The federal judge that signed
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by Facemelters 9y ago
depends on the destination / trajectory of the object. This object has almost zero chance of ever hitting anything, so it doesn't have to go through the super crazy sanitizing that the Curiosity rover did.
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by Facemelters 9y ago
Yes. The notice and comment period is intended to prevent arbitrary or capricious decisions by agencies.
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by Facemelters 9y ago
Good thing it would be almost impossible to attach personal liability to an employee of a corporation unless they intentionally designed the system to be unsafe with malicious intent.
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by Facemelters 9y ago
They are aggressive with ads because everyone is using ad blocker and no one clicks on ads. Content and infrastructure are not free. What do people expect to happen??
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by Facemelters 9y ago
I'm guessing it will optimize for dedicated bike paths since you shouldn't be riding your bike on the sidewalk.
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by Facemelters 10y ago
But the real question is: Did they allow themselves to pass through the same pub more than once? If I'm not mistaken, this is a computationally expensive operation, right? Traveling Salesman.
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Photographing the World's Secret Subterranean Spaces(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by Facemelters 10y ago|0 comments
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by Facemelters 10y ago
Typically the problem is that smaller publications don't have the luxury of hiring a copyeditor dedicated to catching these things. The economics of publishing require a certain volume, and generally it is hard to balance both the volu
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Can the world's worst traffic problem be solved?(popularmechanics.com)
2 points by Facemelters 10y ago|0 comments
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How the Commodore Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by Facemelters 11y ago|0 comments
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Email Is ‘Simple, Really,’ Explains 6-Minute Instructional Video from 1984(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by Facemelters 11y ago|0 comments
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The Legal Battle Behind Why You Recycle on Windows and Trash Things on OS X(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by Facemelters 11y ago|0 comments
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Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Terrifying Talking Robotic Head with Ringlets(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by Facemelters 11y ago|0 comments
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Why Jean-Luc Picard Didn't Carry a Wallet(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by Facemelters 11y ago|0 comments
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The hunt for the government's oldest computer(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by Facemelters 11y ago|0 comments
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This “Blizzard for the Ages” Headed for the East Coast Is the Real Deal(slate.com)
1 points by Facemelters 11y ago|0 comments
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Why do tourists love to rub the balls of Wall Street's charging bull statue?(atlasobscura.com)
4 points by Facemelters 11y ago|1 comments
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by Facemelters 11y ago
"By Christmas Eve, though, Kelly called down to the ground support team to report new problems with the plants. It seemed the high fan speed was drying out the crop too much, and Kelly said he thought they needed more water. He was tol

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