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by burfog 7y ago
Is it really abiding the law and exercising it's legal right? If a company donates services to a campaign, that is considered donation-in-kind under FEC rules. An FEC filing must be made. Suppression of an opponent sure looks like dona
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by burfog 7y ago
How does this relate to the chirplet transform? Are we still lacking an inverse chirplet transform?
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At the Golden Gate Bridge there's no lane for manual payment so you pretty much have to have to travel north. Make your way back via Fresno and San Jose, going clockwise around the bay. I wonder what the traffic imbalance is.
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This wouldn't be possible if we were serious about stopping identity theft. The usage of inconsistent identity would trigger an alert, immediately dispatching law enforcement to deal with the problem. Most identity thieves would find t
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by burfog 7y ago
Oh come on. You're just dismissing it, seemingly with the assumption that we'd have manned aircraft dropping into tight aircraft parking spaces with all the grace of the very first SpaceX landing attempt. Obviously there is no rea
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by burfog 7y ago
I do have a strong culinary interest, but I'm also choosy. I try lots of things to discover what is best, and then I use what is best. Russet potatoes are the best for stew. The others have off flavors or don't soften as nicely. I
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by burfog 7y ago
This was said about recovering orbital rocket boosters, yet now SpaceX does it most of the time. Doing that for fighter jets is actually much easier. The speeds are much slower and the distance is much lower.
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by burfog 7y ago
He is correct about carrier aircraft requirements. The navy was forced to accept the JSF. As produced, the F-22 is obviously not a naval aircraft. The tail hook is single-use, the landing gear is not reinforced, and the more modern stuff fo
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by burfog 7y ago
Obama really really wanted to kill the F-22. I note that the F-22 was primarily produced in Georgia. That usually isn't a swing state and it doesn't have a lot of representatives in the US House of Representatives. The F-35 is pro
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by burfog 7y ago
STOVL can certainly be retrofitted the same way lots of things are: as an external pod. Guide the pilot into a suitable position above the landing area. (with visual indicators, much like those for a bombing run) Once the plane is in the ri
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by burfog 7y ago
With most of those, each type has a distinct use. Granny Smith apples are for baking, McIntosh apples are for eating fresh, Red Delicious apples are for decoration, and the rest serve no purpose. Russet potatoes are for baking, stew, and fr
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by burfog 7y ago
1. banning Epstein from all Trump properties due to Epstein's inappropriate behavior toward an underage girl 2. being the one acquaintance willing and eager to talk with the prosecutor for Epstein's first case, and thus enabling t
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by burfog 7y ago
It's not wrong. There is the standard for scientific proof, and then there is the standard for mathematical proof. If you abstain from sex, then you will not catch a disease while having sex. It's simple and reliable logic. It&#x2
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by burfog 7y ago
No, the article completely distorts the truth. It makes the order sound as if Trump is implementing a censored internet in the style of China. A less-biased article would describe the order as an attempt to reduce the political favoritism b
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by burfog 7y ago
Toilet paper should be measured by volume, not length. Both width and thickness of the sheets can vary. For both, larger is better. All three measurements interact together when forming a wad of paper. All three contribute to the size of th
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by burfog 7y ago
A funny thing is that "SJW" wasn't at all a pejorative. It is a self-selected name. The early usage was people proudly calling themselves SJWs. To now say that SJW is a perjorative is weird. Sure, many of the people using the
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by burfog 7y ago
The attitude against genetically enhanced food is purposely promoted in Europe. You could say the attitude is not organic. :-) It serves as a non-tariff trade barrier against the USA. Promoting this attitude serves the European agricultural
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by burfog 7y ago
Thank you for not having the Vera l. Ever since Vera came out, most free fonts have had that l. I can't stand it. I also appreciate having a real @ symbol, with a hole in the "a" and the back of the "a" separated fr
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by burfog 7y ago
Unicode killed it. They introduced a non-ASCII broken bar, and they made the ASCII bar explicitly non-broken. Fonts created in the Unicode era follow Unicode. I will never forgive Unicode for this abomination. By defining Unicode mappings,
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by burfog 7y ago
7 and Z have far less disruptive fixes. For 7, just make the top long and the slash slanty. Don't do that for 1. For Z, give the top a very slight curve, and optionally do the same for the bottom. That is, bend the middle of the line i
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by burfog 7y ago
Usually we vaguely mean both wealth and income when we speak of inequality, but in any case they are convertible. The high-wealth people aren't living on income. They are living on investments, which have taken a hit from the increased
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by burfog 7y ago
EZ80 processors are commonly available via the TI-84 Plus CE. It costs about the same as the MakerLisp CPU card, but you get a 16-bit 320x240 color screen and a Micro-USB port and a calculator keyboard. There is a freeware C compiler availa
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by burfog 7y ago
It's an opportunity to find more people like Ötzi the iceman. Move quickly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
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They can reflect enough light to melt cars: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23944679 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786723/London-skys... https://wonderfulengineering.
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by burfog 7y ago
What is there to say? It's kind of off-topic for Hacker News. If you want an article though, here you go: https://archive.is/NBgoi
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by burfog 7y ago
Pessimistic news is to keep your eyeballs glued to the screen. It's also an attempt to force a political outcome by manipulating you. Ignore it. Step away. Life is actually quite good now. Instability isn't always bad. It's h
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by burfog 7y ago
More than 10% of the posts on HN, including 100% of yours, are about climate change. Could you give it a rest please? There are dedicated climate change forums that you can go to.
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It might not be exactly political. We seem to get about a dozen articles per day on climate change and that just gets tiresome. Dedicated climate change blogs are elsewhere. When I look at the new articles just now, 3 out of 30 are obviousl
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The 99% Get a Bigger Raise – New data show much faster growth in wages(archive.is)
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If you close a video with too many compression artifacts, then you'll miss out on internet history. For example, Numa Numa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqd1Gvq-RBY

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