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by eganist 4y ago
The conflict statement for the paper submitted is thick, and also buried at the end of the discussion rather than conspicuously presented up front lol > The University of California, Los Angeles, owns a U.S. patent (6,274,119) entitled “
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by eganist 4y ago
Notable: no direct reference to "conflict" or related terms in the original paper, but the conflict statement comes at the end of the discussion: > The University of California, Los Angeles, owns a U.S. patent (6,274,119) entit
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by eganist 4y ago
> But in the 70s, voters voted themselves a massive permanent tax break that's even bigger for corporations. When an individual buy a property the tax basis gets reset and recalculated. Not if the property is held in an LLC. So Disn
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> I am reading through a thread on how to scale a company, and one of the points is replace generalists with specialists. How can a generalist optimise for a long term career? Pick up the management and leadership skills (including thing
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> What does upset me is a simple fact: No one contacted me about this. > Not Bello herself, not the staff at LitHub, not the journalist who wrote the Gawker piece and not even any of the readers of that piece. While I clearly found it
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Their peak looks like it was 128.6 in 2009, and they're at their lowest since 1993. https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/japan-population I do think the WPR's projection is a little weird though. They
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by eganist 4y ago
Would it be better to editorialize and say "Please, stop disabling pinch-to-zoom" instead? Or would that be too specific? I still thought it had to do with the Zoom product even with the case change.
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> one scratch on window from some tungsten carbide. Checks out. Tungsten Carbide and Corundum (sapphire watch crystals, the hardest watch crystal in use) have the same Mohs hardness of 9 and will scratch each other. And I'd guess th
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by eganist 4y ago
> The court works on their opinions in public silence for months, what "hot take" court opinions are you talking about? The subject of public discourse at this hour. https://www.politico.com/news/2022&#x2F
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by eganist 4y ago
I'm not at all surprised. Though I wonder if the risk of leaks going forward might act as a normalizing force on "hot take" court opinions (in either direction). I'm looking forward to a post-leak Supreme Court, at least
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by eganist 4y ago
The main topic may be a bit more heated and less aligned with typical discussions on HN, but as a DC resident and security/policy wonk I found the details of the breach of the Supreme Court's veil to be much more fascinating. Main
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> Hi I'm Brett and I run http://bulletpitch.xyz (a newsletter that reports on startups.)We are looking for a freelancer to build a website and college students who would like to be ambassadors! Freelancers or seeking suc
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by eganist 4y ago
> For example, there is no text style "pizza" emoji. https://i.imgur.com/S101VQD.png Stock in Windows 10. I'm not sure how, but so far, the ones that didn't work were zero-width-joined.
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Colorfle 4 6/6 X X X X X X Y X X G G X G G X G G G My average color accuracy was 91.8%! --- I didn't enjoy this, though that might be because I've never been strong on the creative side. I think a few things could've mad
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by eganist 4y ago
I guess my point was moreso that legal agreements sprung upon you post-purchase could make for a useful escape hatch. If you want to use the product, shrug. But if you suddenly don't, then hey, there's a potential exit.
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> The purchase is completed before he gets it home and finds new conditions being imposed. That the part that I question about being legal. My experience (IANAL and I don't know the specific laws here): you can return the product i
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> Honestly, this looks like spam. Flag it. I think your comment is valuable too, but if you think it's spam, flag it.
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> The problem even with the paradox is that you can define "intolerant" as anything you want I'm having a hard time understanding this given how fixed the definition of "intolerance of intolerance" is. Can you he
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So far, the one that sticks out in my spam bin is Nordstrom https://i.imgur.com/DA8njVs.png (I changed the numbers around, but the point stands)
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by eganist 5y ago
Found: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31057193 Thanks, vouched even though I'm not sure your claim about "every major player" being out is correct ( https://money.cnn.com/quote/share
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by eganist 5y ago
> How can you still write nonsense like this: "Musk used massive government subsidies to produce a small number of luxury electric cars for wealthy people"? Technically still correct even if the intent was to use the wider mar
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by eganist 5y ago
> It's so odd to see Musk become a boogeyman for the political left. I'm hard pressed to name a single individual that's doing more to combat global warming than Musk is via fleet electrification. I have no opinion on the
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by eganist 5y ago
Virginia is ranked 35th in deaths per 100 million miles (0.96), and it's not as if people don't drive either, as it's ranked 12th in miles driven. Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, New York all log more miles driven and less people d
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by eganist 5y ago
Ironically, the fact that it's not playing out as a major dust-up in public will probably only further contribute to conspiratorial thinking in re: the Israeli gov't.
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Wikipedia suggests it's the use of Litz wire rather than solid wire in the making of radio tuning coils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lear#Radio_engineer
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by eganist 5y ago
Virginia as a whole has some pretty absurdly pro police laws, at least re: driving. The lesser of either 20 over the speed limit or any speed over ~80~ 85 miles an hour (thanks jmisavage) in Virginia is a misdemeanor, and at least one auto
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by eganist 5y ago
Down from a jury verdict of $136.9m, to be clear, on grounds that the initial judgment was excessive. Not sure I agree with that conclusion and would prefer to see companies permitting systemic racism absolutely thrashed in civil court not
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appreciation would've be meaningless if they'd been spending it for operations (as is their wont).
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Also very much out of left field. If this is as common as claimed, only one example would've been needed (and more examples could've been sourced with less controversial contexts). The second example: 1. isn't verified (&quot
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by eganist 5y ago
> But rounding up a mob because someone holds an opinion is not what Popper is describing. It is much closer to hunting down heretics. Neither was I. Nor do I think Paul should be "rounded up" either. Just that I believe his mo

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