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by egdod 7y ago
Everybody calls bourbon whiskey.
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by egdod 7y ago
This is how it works for standard-essential patents. Google FRAND licensing to read more.
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by egdod 7y ago
Spelling things correctly and trying not to look ignorant isn’t silliness.
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by egdod 7y ago
Tequila is not whisk(e)y. It’s fine, but it’s not the same thing.
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by egdod 7y ago
My understanding was that you’d need gamma radiation for the nucleus to even notice it. Lots of low energy photons isn’t the same as fewer high energy photons.
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by egdod 7y ago
Not even wrong.
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by egdod 7y ago
Super interesting. Comments like this are what keep me coming back to HN.
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by egdod 7y ago
It’s easy to be cynical when a megacompany does something that saves money while arguing that it has nothing to do with saving money.
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by egdod 7y ago
Home air compressors produce so little compressed air that they generally can’t even keep up with the needs of a small tool at 100% duty cycle.
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by egdod 7y ago
It’s so convenient when a single decision can: 1. Save the company money. 2. Virtue signal how woke the company is.
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by egdod 7y ago
Many of them might well have wound up programming anyway. And so this language has the potential to shunt them off into a likely dead-end language. Although, yes, it might be a “gateway drug” kind of thing where they wind up learning more m
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by egdod 7y ago
I’ve seen cases like this where the judges reverse the decision and adjust the scores later. The fact that that didn’t happen in this instance indicates that they agreed the pronunciation was acceptable. There’s really very little room for
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by egdod 7y ago
That’s why, not how. The how is interesting.
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by egdod 7y ago
There’s not a whole lot of room for discretion here though.
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by egdod 7y ago
Windows 7 was pretty good. Windows 10 is a mess.
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by egdod 7y ago
>for now Great!
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by egdod 7y ago
The fact that the racist Sarah Jeong still works there weighs against this theory. The Times is depressingly “woke.”
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by egdod 7y ago
It could if momentum isn’t conserved.
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by egdod 7y ago
Where’s Greta when we need her?
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by egdod 7y ago
As a general heuristic, sure. But that is hardly an airtight thing.
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by egdod 7y ago
That’s crazy. Maybe strawberries aren’t as easy to identify as I thought.
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by egdod 7y ago
> I'm curious if parents still admonish their kids not to eat wild mushrooms. Absolutely. Really, eating anything you find in the wild is risky unless you’re completely sure what it is. (Wild strawberries are pretty easy to identify
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by egdod 7y ago
Maybe they can solve the halting problem.
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by egdod 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_(equity)
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by egdod 7y ago
I was hoping for some weird time-bending effect from general relativity, but no, it’s just that the ages are within each other’s error bars.
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by egdod 7y ago
If it’s not ok to detain them, what are the border guards supposed to do? Release them into the country and just hope that they show up for their hearing?
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by egdod 7y ago
I’m intentionally misquoting Hanlon’s Razor.
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by egdod 7y ago
Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by politics.
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by egdod 7y ago
It’s a fair point. Where does the “reasonable expectation of privacy” end?
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by egdod 7y ago
We had plenty of good content (more, frankly) a decade or two ago when people just ran their own websites / blogs.

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