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by elektromekatron 11y ago
If they were around today, I suspect Marx would see much of open source as communist and Lenin wouldn't, but then communism has a few definitions, and the one you are latching on to is state communism, which isn't even communism b
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I know that this will annoy some people, and believe me, I mean this with a very small 'c', however I think that the open source movement is far and away the most successful communist experiment in history.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I think Douglas had a point here. “Douglas said…Books are sharks,” Gaiman told a packed audience at the Royal Geographical Society in London. “I must have looked baffled because he he looked very pleased with himself. And he carried on w
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Just for Volkswagen - 11m vehicles. Average price of new car is around $35,000 So, for this recall, we are talking a list price of over 350 billion dollars. And that is just from what we know of VW.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Ad networks at the moment seem to mostly provide the service of showing me pictures of things I have bought, just in case I forgot that I already own them.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Hello, there's a fairly warm little proxy war going down right now in Ukraine and an increase in Russian forces in Syria. The 80's were the nice hopeful bit.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
How about Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, the closest nuclear plant to the epicenter, which remained almost undamaged after the 14 meter seawall kept out the tsunami. edit - also, if you design for tsunami, the two-punch scenario is your desig
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
The structure stood up fine, we know how to build for that, it was the placement of the air fed diesel generators in a floodable basement that screwed Fukashima.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
From my understanding the dump was started from financial companies that had loads of oil sitting around in tankers and the Saudis then followed and met the price, but didn't set it.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
He also says - "The disaster could have been forseen and prevented. As in the Chernobyl case, it was a human, not technology, that was mainly responsible for the disaster." I'd say his stance is pretty nuanced and more to d
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I understand that they have currently secured a de-facto exclusive distribution right for the US market from the FDA. Ok, it isn't classic IP, but it has the same effect and as far as I understand it is transferable property, as otherw
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
The fall didn't immediately follow people being assholes, it followed politicians saying they might do something about people being assholes.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
So you could be in favor of nationalisation, by way of making it common property, of the IP that supports his business, but not nationalisation of the business itself.
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Vanishing Canada: Why we’re all losers in Ottawa’s war on data(macleans.ca)
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
On that logic, murderers would be better if they killed everyone, as then murder would not be sustainable.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
You're already paying for the jails. If you want to pay less for the jails, provide free college in jail. If you don't want taxes on the other hand, you have no prisoners to worry about educating anyway, as you have no jails. Or f
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Battery packs at the end of a link are not a bad plan though, as they bring down the peak required on the link and so can actually be cheaper than a fatter cable.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
One thing to consider, is that given rate of change approaches zero as velocity approaches c, what does motion mean when there is no time for it to happen in, either as things moving or bumping?
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
"Impossible, most economists would say. In any market—and especially in a state devoted to the free market, like Texas—makers won’t provide a product or service at a negative cost. Yet this could only have happened in Texas, which (no
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Everything going through it plus some noise.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
It was a response to the original comment of - I'm not going to call him a liar, because that presumes malice. He was wrong and irresponsible in his defaming statement. - which I still think merits sarcasm. I could have done better h
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Well, without going down the road of trying to find plausible probabilities for imaginary scenarios it is difficult to chip away at either hypothesis, given we do not have a variety of different earths to test on.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Contents of Moby Dick => Ahab's leg.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
My, how gracious of you.
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
"All my comment served to do, was concisely articulate the issue of the preceding contexts, which is self-evident when reworded to be less generic" I doubt you could concisely articulate anything if your preceding contexts depen
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
Actually, it is the kid himself is who is saying it. http://mic.com/articles/125400/texas-police-officer-to-ahmed... Now given you are getting all high and mighty bandying around terms like defamation, you going
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
“The committee is confident that it has the tools it needs to raise short-term interest rates when it becomes appropriate to do so,” Fed chair Janet Yellen told Congress earlier this year, adding, “and to maintain reasonable control of the
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
It's about time. (sorry)
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
"What are you doing out?" "Walking," said Leonard Mead. "Walking!" "Just walking," he said simply, but his face felt cold. "Walking, just walking, walking?" "Yes, sir." &quo
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by elektromekatron 11y ago
I used to use the bench power supplies to fire nails across the classroom with a coil. This wasn't for a project, I was just bored.

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