Nutmog

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by Nutmog 11y ago
Wow - look at the arrogance here: "there are no worker protections to prevent companies from firing American workers, replacing them with H-1B’s, and even forcing them to train their replacements" Another name for "worker sho
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by Nutmog 11y ago
ACWST isn't an official timezone and only a few hundred people live there. http://www.howderfamily.com/blog/australias-weird-little-tim... Chatham Islands is a bit of a mystery. Again, almost nobody lives there bu
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by Nutmog 11y ago
That was a ridiculous decision. Perhaps they were hoping that if it did catch on, their company would be immortalized as the new Greenwich. Nevermind that they were only hurting the chances of an already extremely unlikely success. Reminds
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Those problems already exist and have presumably already been solved for people living in the "wrong" time zone, such as western China which is completely out of sync with the sun. So instead of having to get both the time zone an
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by Nutmog 11y ago
They're not proposing a new standard, they're proposing using UTC everywhere which is what lots of people already do. It's not a new standard, just removal of existing standards. That's just the time zones. I don't
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by Nutmog 11y ago
It's a pity that there isn't a ubiquitous way to communicate to programmers features that are at risk of being removed or at risk of causing incompatibility with other software. I don't mean some document you have to look up,
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by Nutmog 11y ago
If you can't find one with a specific policy on that issue, then aren't there any parties aiming to reform the 2-party bias of the electoral system so that minority voices can be heard at all?
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Actually, her heirs are the ones milking the system. They own the copyright and could put it in the public domain if they wanted. They've formed a foundation who's job is to monetize her works.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Just to make sure, do you always vote for parties that are opposed to long copyright terms? If you were eligible to vote and didn't do this, then you have yourself to blame. Politicians are ultimately accountable to their voters and wh
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I used to agree with you about the reusability of things. It's sad to throw away a powerful computer/camera/phone/etc just because the latest app doesn't work and it's too difficult to repurpose the old compone
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I'd call it a rate, not a speed. Speed is specifically distance per unit time, not energy per unit time.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
I think that usage is OK. It's like saying "40W of light". In this case, it tells us there's some RF energy and also that it's RF energy of the "50 kW" type.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Can you explain the physics of rotating mass savings being more important? The top of the wheel moves twice as fast as the bike, but the bottom of the wheel doesn't move at all so don't they balance out? The frame isn't stati
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by Nutmog 11y ago
All this fancy software and yet watching videos on the web is just as painful as it was 15 years ago if you don't have a fast enough connection. The download won't keep up with the play speed and they don't accommodate that n
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Why is "worse" not OK but "better" is? Neither can be perfect and both will be far better than nothing. Just making up some numbers, but if the Windows AV can detect 80% of viruses and Norton can detect 90%, then you&#x2
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by Nutmog 11y ago
You seem to be saying digital cameras aren't "real cameras". Can you define what makes a camera real? How will the difference be visible in the final pictures? Would a high resolution digital camera with a "film filter&q
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by Nutmog 11y ago
In the 2nd recording on that page, the caller identified himself as a former soldier with PTSD. That sounds like someone who made a decision to take a high risk of ruining his life - and it happened. If you can't accept suffering menta
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by Nutmog 11y ago
But if you had only been polite, would you have gone away feeling frustrated or ripped off? There's a reason people are rude to customer service staff - it's to vent their frustrations at the company that's causing them grief
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by Nutmog 11y ago
No because the human doesn't expect that he might be talking to a machine. If he knew there was a 50% chance it was a machine then he'd find ways to recognize it - like its inability to follow the conversation at all.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Do they have a history of making exceptions for themselves? If not, then you winning this bet will be quite a big deal - it'll show them as anti-competitive. They'd be forcing customers to use their AdSense product instead of jus
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by Nutmog 11y ago
For competition, it makes sense not to allow motors. But why is this also somehow taboo for recreational cyclists? That's something I never understood. They pay thousands for carbon fiber bikes and special wheels all to make pedaling e
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by Nutmog 11y ago
That's good news. I chose no-www because www seemed redundant and have been wondering if it's a problem. Turns out no, unless it's very big, which I don't expect my site to be (niche market, not a web app). It can even b
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Can you not just clone the shitty product so existing training is still useful? Do software companies enforce copyrights on things like the location of buttons and the names of menu items?
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by Nutmog 11y ago
"mark non-secure origins as non-secure." The name of that option seems to be chosen to apply a bit of pressure to anyone who sees it. Nothing wrong with that of course - it's our existing habits of trusting HTTP that are str
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by Nutmog 11y ago
It could well be. Though I suspect it's more of contrarianism in a minority of people. We also have man-on-the-moon deniers, etc. What surprises me about climate change is that they're somehow managed to show causality between one
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by Nutmog 11y ago
If you draw a free body diagram, weight is down and thrust is forward. Both force pass through the center of mass so they don't impart any moment to the rocket. So it has no tendency to fall over. They do impart a net horizontal force
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by Nutmog 11y ago
It's funny that most of the arguments people make for retaining old languages and writing systems are "so we can read old literature or perpetuate old cultures". Surely if everyone used the same language, that would have the
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by Nutmog 11y ago
You also get crime. That's probably the biggest factor pushing middle class people away from poor neighborhoods. Nevermind that the innocent poor people stuck in those neighborhoods have to suffer the crime.
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by Nutmog 11y ago
“Worryingly for digital publishers, there’s a trend towards ‘Facebook prosecutions’ – several people have been jailed in the past few months over what they have allegedly posted, or even shared, on the site.” Doesn't that just mean it&
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by Nutmog 11y ago
Isn't inequality just a polite word for jealousy? We're all peasants compared to some possible future generations 100 years in the future with all their cancer cures and Mars holidays.

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