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by WildUtah 12y ago
Neither FN (Le Pen) nor UKIP has any chance of winning power in their respective countries regardless of economic conditions. The local centers of wealth and power in each nation is committed to transnational politics and mass importation o
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Changing the Constitution requires 2/3rds of each house of Congress. [0] If there were such a strong majority for reform, the reform would already be law. [0] Amendments also require majority agreement in both houses of 3/4ths of
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by WildUtah 12y ago
My congressman raises $100k each cycle instead of the typical $1MM+ because the seat is so safe. He has connections that keep him safe in the primaries, too. But many congressmen can't feel that safe in primaries. And raising less mone
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Twenty years ago women were almost half of law students and rising. Lawyers knew that time alone would dissolve lack of diversity. And the diversity had arrived in the face of extreme open bias against women by incumbent lawyers from an age
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Socialism is the centralized control of the means of production. How much rich elites hoard surplus value by means of that centralized control is immaterial. Wealth redistribution is orthogonal to socialism or freedom. In fact, welfare poli
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by WildUtah 12y ago
You clearly are redefining security breach not to include severe and consequential types of security breaches. Social engineering attacks that allow accounts to be stolen are a big problem. Just because they can't be patched with a new
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by WildUtah 12y ago
It takes about three years to get a patent (in both the US and Europe, the two largest semiconductor markets) and a valid patent (one that is genuinely original and not obvious) is obsolete in cutting edge semiconductors within three years,
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Health care could hardly be any more socialized in the USA; it's been the most controlled industry in the country for decades. Changes from subsidized finance to tax finance under Obamacare are superficial and accomplish little. The ho
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"Apple has no significant history when it comes to security breaches." Seriously?! http://thefappening.rocks/
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by WildUtah 12y ago
It happened pretty consistently from 1980 to 2010, except the late 1990s. It's relaxed a little since 2010.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Funny that I've started to think of Apple's easily CNC'd aluminium as the standard instead of 6061. That Apple stuff is about as strong as wax, not even as tough as others' plastic shells. Sure looks good on my iPhone an
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by WildUtah 12y ago
If the Library of Congress is registering copyrights as proposed, then LOC has the database and the search terms will just be the work you propose to copy. It can be a simple service where you upload a few pages of text and LOC responds in
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Building a great search engine is still a hard research problem but building a search engine good enough to solve that problem is within the skills of any good fresh CS grad with a month to work on it.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
German -- especially in organic chemistry -- is one of the very last languages that still maintains dominance in the face of English in a major scientific discipline. So if German has some quality similar to English, that could still be par
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Frosty and Swandy are a waste for a wizard, especially because you have to #offer mountains of sacrifices to get the skills unlocked. Mbane enchanted is enough of a weapon on its own along with attack spells. And you can get dagger skill up
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by WildUtah 12y ago
An Expansive Camera in Nethack is the character '(', not a letter 'c'. A letter 'c' is a cockatrice or a pyrolisk; those are both quite dangerous so I suggest you learn to recognize them for your own good.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
National population density is irrelevant. US population is just as urban as Europe. The lower USA average mostly reflects the southwest deserts and Alaska where very little rural population exists. The low density of car-oriented US suburb
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by WildUtah 12y ago
And very, very few people in the civilized world outside the US and Canada need cars or car loans because most first world countries have efficient transit systems that work well and go everywhere.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"Whatever nz are trying to do with their foisting of rules upon people, it's not working." Based on funding and who advocates these laws, a substantial amount of advocates are supporting them in order to clear the roads to pr
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Look how well all those people are dressed, and in an era when a nice suit cost ten times what it does today in relation to incomes. What drove people to invest so much in looking nice and formal in public? I wonder if it was the same force
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Thank you for adding detail. In this case, the bureaucracy eventually overcame institutional resistance of the wealthiest professional Americans to reform of a system that limited doctors and thus vastly expanded their incomes. I expect tha
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Licensing practice is mostly at the state level (aside from certain DEA pharmacy regulations). States that promote licensing, liability, and practice regulations that encourage more pharmacists and nurse practitioners to practice more indep
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Hitler (Adenoid Hynckel) falls off a vehicle and arrested and humiliated by his own men in classic Charlie Chaplin style. It's a great hilarious movie but there's no dignity in it and there's certainly an empowerment fantasy
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Physicians per capita figures are misleading. The US figure reflects very long careers; late retirements; investment in large teams of trauma specialists due to high war, car crash, and gunshot wound rates; a high percentage of women physic
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by WildUtah 12y ago
There are a mountain of patents to block innovation in speech recognition. Dragon and many others are ready to knock down any kind of real innovative small company that has success.[0] SRI never had a chance in that market to make it alone
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by WildUtah 12y ago
If Lab B can find a part of the process of developing A's original idea that Lab A has documented without covering every possible detail and contingency, Lab B can document that step and apply to the patent office for a patent on it. S
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"The patent pools come before the standards. If your patent doesn't cover what's in the standard then nobody will use it, and if you're not one of the cool kids then nothing your patent covers will get put in the standar
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by WildUtah 12y ago
I agree. The classic talk on this subject is Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research." [0] I think there may be video online. [0] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Of course you can't use this compression technique without being sued. And that is the key reason software patents are really bad. You may hear a lot about trolls and grossly invalid obvious patents making millions in licensing and ext
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by WildUtah 12y ago
The usual technique is to claim the encoding technique, the decoding technique, and the data structures expressed by and expressing the technique. There's also equivalents and the doctrine of induced infringement. The patent courts and

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