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by dctoedt 2y ago
> Dang has said before that HN is not for bots or AI generated content. I have a feeling that he meant something akin to spam, not to AI-assisted comments addressed to specific points.
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> Doing this in the paid legal advice realm We're on the same page: I can't imagine giving paid legal advice without doing the usual research and citing the usual cases, for no other reason than to confirm what I think I kn
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> I’m a lawyer and I would not be comfortable doing this outside of perhaps the message board context. Why is that? I flatter myself that it provides useful content for readers, and there's approximately zero chance that it could
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> Nevermind that if this were put to some kind of national popular vote it would pass overwhelmingly. But it's typical of big industry groups to try to block any kind of regulatory- or legislative action that inhibits them from do
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> Anyone with knowledge who can expand this or explain what exactly is "arbitrary", "capricious" or "abuse of discretion"? I'm a lawyer. Here's a summary from Perplexity.ai, which comports well w
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> In my experience people understand perfectly well but assume that you are ex-military. When I use phonetic alphabet on the phone, I preface it by saying, "Let me spell it in 'airline pilot': ...." (But yes, I lear
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> they do not use liquid sodium. They are PWRs. Rickover would spin in his grave. Except for the early days of the (one-off) USS Seawolf, before its liquid-sodium reactor was replaced by a LWR. But yes, the KOG would surely come roarin
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Jerome Lemelson (in?)famously filed many, many patent applications for what he later asserted was bar-code technology, and sued many companies for allegedly infringing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_H._Lemels
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Wikipedia's recap indicates compelling evidence of medieval origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin#Scientific_ana...
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> How about being imploded like a submarine CEO? What I've read over the years is that when a submarine implodes from external pressure, the implosion happens SO fast that the human occupants are never aware of it. [0] That sounds
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CyberCommand might be able to do something like the Navy nuclear-propulsion program: Enlisted "nukes" get enlistment bonuses and (if they "re-up" after their initial six-year enlistment) fairly-decent "STAR" re
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by dctoedt 2y ago
The Navy has Seaman-to-Admiral-21, a modernized version of the NESEP (or MESEP for Marines) program. If selected, you go to college while on active duty, more or less like NROTC midshipmen, with full pay and allowances and up to $10K per ye
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Point taken; I edited my comment.
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Brings to mind the infamous comment about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 EDIT: As noted below by @cole-k, the situations aren't the same, because the parent comment here is talking about approximati
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> it was political theater, and essentially a coup That's an interesting relabeling of what would normally be regarded as simply the gathering, vetting, and reporting of evidence — some reliable, some not — in accordance with esta
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> And if he isn't "annoying Steve" now he will be known as that soon enough :) I once heard a guy — named Ed — who responded to a query about something with, "Well, I'm special ." You can guess how he was
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And Evelyn (as in, e.g., Waugh, who pronounced it EEV-lin).
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> Dropping normal bombs on it is highly identifiable and attributable, and not very damaging. Also, a normal bomber or cruise missile might actually get shot down. Submariners would like a word.
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> We refer to all the objects in the room (or anywhere else) whether the baby understands them or not. And that helps the baby enormously; I remember reading that the more words that infants hear, the more their brains develop. But we
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by dctoedt 2y ago
I hadn't thought about my CompuServe ID in many years and wasn't sure I remembered it, but Google-searching it revealed exactly one hit, with three mentions, the first being from January 1990, when I uploaded something: "EMAC
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Stupid question, posed but apparently not answered in TFA: What if a small black hole approached a person, or even came into contact? Would we see it as, say, someone's arm suddenly falling off for no apparent reason? Or would the size
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> A closer analogy would be saying the Ph.D candidate must be issued the degree unless a randomly chosen undergraduate can show the research wasn't sufficiently novel. That's not correct: Patent examiners are hired for thei
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by dctoedt 2y ago
Inactive patent lawyer here (these days my practice is in other areas). 1. This bill doesn't appear to address Alice/Mayo unpatentability under 35 USC § 101. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress&#x2F
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> If every company takes this data and is like "we want to pay at the 95th percentile" It's thought by some that this is how CEO compensation has gone up so much: Corporate boards of directors have compensation committee
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> In the South China Sea for instance all countries apart from Thailand have been colonies of Western countries. And that's relevant, why? I mean, the present-day United States used to be colonies of Great Britain, France, Spain,
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> why do we care about a body of water on the other side of the planet? Just how close geographically must a body of water be for us to care about it? Or might there be other criteria?
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The article doesn't mention the Dancing Raisins TV commercial for California raisins — when I first saw it in 1986 I almost fell off the couch laughing. (But as Heinlein's Manny O'Kelly-Davis put it, it's a funny-once.)
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Sounds like Admiral Rickover's management principles. [0] [0] https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm
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My understanding of MMT (unburdened by any formal econ training) is that government spending financed by debt in that government's own currency is OK if and only if the society has — or can quickly enough build — sufficient product
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> Violent crime should be virtually non-existent in America. The fact we have it at a much greater rate than other developed countries is a flaw in our people and culture, not our economy. What's your proposed solution? The Purita

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