URSpider94

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by URSpider94 5y ago
This reminds me of Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon”. One of the themes, and I have no idea if it really happened, is that mathematicians worked with the Allied armed forces to bury the signals of their future actions. They end up doing thi
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Private companies have the ultimate decision of what speech they allow on their platforms. This has always been true. The right of free speech includes also the right to not speak - no private platform can be compelled to publish speech tha
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Courts have generally held that the paramount first-amendment right is the right NOT to speak. The government can't force Facebook to let other people commandeer its megaphone. This has been clearly decided in caselaw that the judge qu
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by URSpider94 5y ago
In that case, the troll can almost always just drop the suit and then you have no claim against them.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
There's a ton of asymmetry that makes this not work. One, patent trolls are "non-practicing entities". They don't build anything, or do anything other than sue people, so you can t sue them for infringement of patents. T
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by URSpider94 5y ago
It actually doesn't matter if SparkFun designs chips. They do buy them, and re-sell them in devices. Patent law continues to apply to all downstream implementations of a product, until the claim is "exhausted" by a license. S
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by URSpider94 5y ago
The patent holder didn't receive their patent by accident. It was reviewed by an examiner in the patent office. Patent examiners are skilled technical researchers who are trained to comprehend the matter they are examining. Once a pate
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by URSpider94 5y ago
If a startup issued RSU’s, then every vesting event would trigger income tax in that year, which employees would have to pay out of pocket, else they would be forced to sell their illiquid pre-IPO non-preferred shares in some secondary mark
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by URSpider94 5y ago
This article is wrong in some significant ways. If you buy out incentive stock options (ISO’s) within 90 days of leaving, then that’s not a taxable event. You will not end up paying regular income tax on the paper profit. That’s a large poi
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Investment banks are the underwriters. They do in fact buy the IPO shares from the company and re-sell them, but the mark-up for that resale is on a commission basis, customarily 6%. It’s not like they are buying the shares at price x and t
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by URSpider94 5y ago
A SPAC is basically a vampire company that is publicly traded, but which has no operating business. Its sole purpose is to merge with another company, usually a private company, by expending its founding capital to buy the target. After the
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by URSpider94 5y ago
That’s not accurate at all. Investment banks rarely participate in fund raising rounds. They don’t usually hold a stake in the company at all. The way they make money is typically by charging a 6% commission on the shares that are floated i
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by URSpider94 5y ago
When a Tile device associates to another device that detects it, that device has to send a network packet to the cloud that says that it found a Tile with a certain serial number. That’s using your network/your bandwidth to transmit pr
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by URSpider94 5y ago
I think OP means “at Amazon”.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
You mean, besides the appeal, what is the appeal? As an artist and a musician, you can have access to close approximations of sounds that would require a warehouse full of amps and dozens of pedals, costing tens of thousands of dollars - al
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by URSpider94 5y ago
There is no reason why this would run at “MP3 quality”, given that it would be a really bad idea to compress the audio data before running it through an algorithm. I would expect it’s at minimum CD quality, and perhaps better, depending on
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by URSpider94 5y ago
In general, Putin seems to be willing to invest on the side of any strongman, to support their ultimate right to take any action to put down their opposition.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
LoRA isn’t a “proprietary” standard. It’s open to everyone to use. It operates at 900 mMHz, though, so the point is that your average WiFi or Bluetooth device can’t transmit or receive it. That 900 MHz spectrum is unlicensed, so buy a dev k
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Two cameras, plus as-of-yet unknown human vision to synthesize depth info correctly for arbitrary scenes, plus the ability to articulate side by side by 8-10 inches, plus a very efficient liquid coating plus cleaning mechanism (blinking), p
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by URSpider94 5y ago
My guess is that Starlink is what made Loon throw in the towel. Who needs an emergency network made of balloons when there will be a 24/7 network spanning the globe made of satellites?
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by URSpider94 5y ago
It goes back further than that, at least to the prosecution of organized crime syndicates in the early part of the 20th century. Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion, after all.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Im not sure I follow. You’re suggesting that the government should somehow get involved to levy taxes on companies based on subjective criteria, like how big they are, and then … fund startups to compete with them? We already have a Small B
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by URSpider94 5y ago
This is spot-on from my perspective. The comment I’ll add is that a true Principal is different in kind, not just in experience or knowledge, from a very senior developer. A Principal embraces the interdisciplinary nature of their role. The
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Here's the point, and I'll lay my cards on the table as being more progressive in the political spectrum. Progressives, by and large, don't actually care that our tax money goes to help a lot of other people. We actually like
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by URSpider94 5y ago
The F-150 has a battery that’s between 50% and 100% bigger than the battery in the Ioniq 5.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Lightning is their new EV branding for the F-150. These trucks will come in everything from low-end fleet trim to $90k Lariat versions. With the equivalent of a generator under the hood that can run a construction site worth of tools for th
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by URSpider94 5y ago
The contracts that dealerships have with the manufacturers would most likely prevent direct sales. It’s still illegal in some states, but even in the ones where it’s legal, the dealers would sue them for massive damages if they try to inval
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by URSpider94 5y ago
I definitely don't think we should ignore or minimize the contributions of rural Americans. I do think we need to do a better job of making the costs associated with rural life more explicit. This is a big deal in California, where peo
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by URSpider94 5y ago
It's not meaningful because the question here is not whether the algorithm reduces overall bias. The question is whether the algorithm introduces unwanted bias into the presentation of people's posts, with no ability for them to o
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by URSpider94 5y ago
I would love to see the data, but from the data I have seen, the data conflict with the popular (populist) narrative. A lot of people in America seem to believe that the hardworking "real Americans" in the middle of the country ar

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