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by abduhl 3y ago
Name the last large company to receive a bailout. This question is important to see where you draw the line on something being a “bailout.”
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by abduhl 3y ago
In what metric? SpaceX outshines them on launches. In fact, NASA has consistently outsourced design and construction to the private sector. The space shuttle? Privately built by Rockwell. Hubble? Lockheed. ISS module 1? Boeing.
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by abduhl 3y ago
This violates rule 1 by requiring a government institution to keep a private key: no change to how current regulations or laws work or to how current workstreams outside of the secondary backup system work (i.e., no change is required like
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by abduhl 3y ago
So you don't have a technical solution. Got it.
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by abduhl 3y ago
>> only accessible with a warrant from a judge What's your technical solution to this aspect? The solution must be "technologically trivial" which I take to mean implementable today or in the near future with no change
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by abduhl 3y ago
This is a strange comment to read since, as far as I recall, the only details that were ever really shared before the overall plan was killed due to its political backlash are that it would be merits-based considering age, ability to speak
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by abduhl 3y ago
This is a misunderstanding of the slideshow. As can be seen on slide 10, productivity is "Number of office actions / period of time" and slide 12 shows the breakdown of how production units are calculated from office actions
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by abduhl 3y ago
Your refutation is the equivalent of: Step 1 - Come up with a software idea and give it to a lawyer (let's not even get into how hard this step might be) Step 2 - ??? Step 3 - Patent There was nothing hostile in my reply. I just laid
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by abduhl 3y ago
Patent examiners are rated on office ACTIONS. Grants and denies both count as actions, although denials often take more effort (and complaints from the potential patentee).
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by abduhl 3y ago
Trump attempted to implement a points based system and was met with fierce resistance: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/05/17/key-facts... https://www.forbes.com/sites/st
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by abduhl 3y ago
How is it an odd retort? If you haven't obtained a patent then the likelihood that you've actually gone through the patent procurement process with the USPTO is extremely low on this website. It's hackernews, not patentexam
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by abduhl 3y ago
>> Patents are easy to get How many do you have? Patents are more difficult to obtain than HN gives credit and they cost a non-inconsequential amount of money too.
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by abduhl 3y ago
Guilty of a crime implies an actual judicial proceeding, not an administrative proceeding. Administrative proceedings occur under the powers of the executive branch alone.
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by abduhl 3y ago
Recall that Apple is appealing the decision of an agency, not a court. Staying an agency's decision until an actual court can review the agency's decision makes sense. An analogy: migrants seeking asylum in the USA should be per
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by abduhl 3y ago
Seems like Microsoft Excel is likely the single most important development in human history under this rubric.
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>> What this does is to insulate you from treble damages. This is a dangerous suggestion. Using advice of counsel as a defense to willful infringement is not always successful, and this would be especially true if counsel’s advice is
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by abduhl 3y ago
There is a huge difference between fast food fry cook, manager at the local Texas Roadhouse, and head chef at a 3 Michelin star restaurant. The claim was that the first was being made to sign a non-compete. Again, the only “fast food” level
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by abduhl 3y ago
You’re all over this thread making this statement about fast food workers having to sign noncompetes. I could find no stories of this practice happening currently, the most recent I could find is in 2016 and the article is about this practi
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by abduhl 3y ago
Ah yes the judge. Who decides when I see her? Do I just sit quietly in jail until then?
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by abduhl 3y ago
Who determines what is considered a race? Who decides what’s “racist”? Who decides when the “no racism” law is enforced? The best part about laws against wrongthink is that the things you’re not allowed to think or say are wrong by definiti
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by abduhl 3y ago
250k is the 92nd percentile of incomes in the US. You’re right that people have no concept of what real wealth is, but I don’t think it’s in the way you meant it.
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Washington soliciting feedback re: public risk from the use of "Engineer" title(surveymonkey.com)
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by abduhl 3y ago
Most people probably don't get these since they're not on the mailing list but there has been interest in this topic on hn before, notably from the Oregon traffic engineering lawsuit. The email states: The Washington State Board
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The plural of anecdote is data though
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The real problem is the assumption race or gender are not only accurate proxies for diversity of thought (they’re not), but that they’re actually better proxies than just looking for diversity of thought directly. You want more people from
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by abduhl 3y ago
What operating system did you type this post on? Apple is more than phones.
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Well if you want to really dig into the numbers here and get down to the gnat's ass of uselessness, Simington was confirmed with a 49-46 vote which means that less than 50% of the Senate agreed with him being on the Commission and henc
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by abduhl 3y ago
This is footprint. It’s unclear whether the full footprint was sunk to your depth. Regardless, that’s much closer than I anticipated it would be, which is pleasantly surprising. We can refine the estimate as well: surface soils probably mak
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by abduhl 3y ago
FYI most rocks come in at less than 3 tonnes per cubic meter, around 2.5-3. It’s quite rare for in situ rock to have a unit weight (density I guess?) higher than this. I don’t know where you’re getting this fun fact either. It’s very rare f
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by abduhl 3y ago
I’d disagree with this. The general rule in mining is “six inches of shotcrete will hold up the world.”

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