WildUtah

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by WildUtah 12y ago
I liked your horrible pessimistic post, but I wonder about this: "require to be inside the galaxy, again to weaken certain types of radiation." What do we know about the kinds of radiation we encounter outside the galactic envelop
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"... in the U.S., courts rarely get technology straight-up wrong." Except, of course, the patent courts -- the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and their pet district courts in East Texas. In those courts the judges have a
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Foreign countries might or might not have freedom if the US were not subsidizing their security with expensive US military operations around the world. Some say the US screwed up so much under Bush it would have been better to loose the wo
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by WildUtah 12y ago
The top programs the Federal Government pays for are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the military. Everything else is in the small single digit percentages. If you're not fighting a war or retired, it's not a surprise
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by WildUtah 12y ago
In all the discussion about Silicon Valley and why no place else has been able to have quite so much success in high tech, subtle cultural issues can be underemphasized because they aren't easily quantified. This attitude toward freedo
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by WildUtah 12y ago
I think I speak for the rest of the world when I say that America should stop bossing around foreign companies and forcing them to turn over foreign personal data to American secret spy agencies.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Still tiny, moire pattern painful to read on non-retina Mac w/ Safari. I checked Chrome, too; it's clearly less awful but not good.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
A customs dog sniffed me out and his handler searched my bag in 2010. I had some chocolates infused with orange oil in my pack. She was satisfied but apparently you can't bring oranges into Mexico from the USA or vice versa. Since then
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"But how Uber could benefit from answering this fishing expedition?" It's an opportunity to establish publicly that your company won't be engaging in any of the kind of shenanigans that can cost you customers in a compet
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Chains stretch over time and use. Oil them well and often and they last longer. Measure your chain with an old style American ruler (with 'inches'). Twenty links should be exactly 10 'inches'. [0] If it's 1/8&q
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by WildUtah 12y ago
That's just abuse. I ride much more than 7000km per annum and never change gears. Also, it's the worn chain that wears down the gears; replace the chain more often the the gears will last many years.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Germany just gave a huge gift to ever DDR citizen by trading the Mark and the DDR Mark at 1:1. With a per person limit of a few thousand marks, it wasn't that expensive and really set the unification up to succeed with popular backing.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
That's a real potential problem, as is the lifetime impairment of childhood malnutrition. But I expect defectors from any regime to be the kind of entrepreneurial misfits that never quite fit in and demand their environment adapt to th
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by WildUtah 12y ago
There should be scholarships for a phalanx of Korean economists to go to Germany and study the world's best example. Maybe we'd get some new answers about what's going on with the old DDR's economic malaise, too.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
" cost a lot more than $500 billion to raise per capita GDP by ~7 fold." That's a good point, but remember that North Korea, in spite of being the most backward and poor nation on Earth, is full of Koreans. A strong creative
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Twenty-three slaves in the country? They should publish their names.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
I'm disappointed that the USA didn't get credit for the vast world historical illegal/undocumented immigration levels the government has been inviting for decades. Millions work for less than survival wages with no legal righ
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by WildUtah 12y ago
+1 includes Haskell -1 lacks LISP
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by WildUtah 12y ago
I think the proposal is to tunnel under the Japan Alps from the outskirts of the Kanto (where Tokyo is) to the outskirts of the Kansai and Osaka. The tunnel is mostly required because Japan's mountainous geography is not friendly to st
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Analysis of Erasure Code Patents(erasure-code-patents.xyz)
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by WildUtah 12y ago
I miss Ants from ants.aichallenge.org. That was a game.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Fretting. Under high lateral force and vibration, I get fretting and I hate it.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Could not access the site in Chrome. Just got the message "Tnx, we will notify you when new courses become available." No content available. Seems like it's premature to launch an announcement on HN when you're still inv
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"Vehicle sensors. Exceeding the speed limit, making an illegal turn, failure to maintain safe distance, littering or any other violation automatically relays infraction details to relevant government agency and ticket is automatically
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by WildUtah 12y ago
Clearly a win for Oracle would be a horrible disaster for the industry and freedom of speech. It would also be a huge relief and benefit to Android programmers once it forced Google to switch the platform to a less awful language.
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"and over two decades of well-documented abuses, nothing has changed." Fourteen years ago in Utah we overwhelmingly passed a citizens' ballot initiative to change the law put an end to seizure abuses. The standards of proof w
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by WildUtah 12y ago
You don't want a special purpose court with supposed experts running anything. We have a special purpose patent court with technically experienced experts and they're the ones with the agenda to destroy the startup and independent
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by WildUtah 12y ago
"The problem with this is that it assumes either a monopolistic seller or explicit or implicit collusion between sellers. Because if the market has vigorous competition then engaging in price discrimination will only drive the customer
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by WildUtah 12y ago
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 grants the head of the Food and Drug Administration authority to designate and remove illegal drugs from the schedules of controlled substances. The FDA can remove marijuana at any time and as long as t
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by WildUtah 12y ago
I want some sockpuppets just to upvote this more times.

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