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961.
by garmaine 6y ago
Public domain means no IP applies. Patents are only one kind of IP. There’s also copyrights, trademarks, etc.
962.
by garmaine 6y ago
Patents have expired. That doesn't make it public domain.
963.
by garmaine 6y ago
Are you sure of that? Many of them are done by the same people.
964.
by garmaine 6y ago
Disrupting calls? What is this horseshit. He is accused of framing dissidents to set them up for trumped up charges of paedo and terrorism. Why isn’t that the headline?
965.
by garmaine 6y ago
Maybe a yellow sleeve?
966.
by garmaine 6y ago
I don’t think he realizes every financial market is “driven by bots” (HFT) these days.
967.
by garmaine 6y ago
But it’s tidally locked, so life near the terminus (but just over the horizon) could feed of the energy of the star while being shielded by the planet itself. Kinda like hydrothermal vents.
968.
by garmaine 6y ago
Right, so it’s more like one of the little villages inside of Disneyland—toon town, Tomorrowland, etc.
969.
by garmaine 6y ago
This IS my field, and I can make that claim. The Starship is designed to operate as a reusable, in-situ refutable vehicle in the regime of <4km/s delta-V trajectories. That is sufficient to get anywhere through staging, using other
970.
by garmaine 6y ago
We are within a century of achieving that capability. The SpaceX Starship is sufficient to expand into the galaxy, even if just by the slow pace of island-hopping through the Oort cloud. We just need to achieve an in-space capability for St
971.
by garmaine 6y ago
I know damn well what it means. It is inconceivable that we are visits by intelligent alien beings that Hoover up rednecks to do some anal probes without leaving any kind of evidence of their presence or method of transport into the system.
972.
by garmaine 6y ago
This line of reasoning never made sense to me. The speed of light prevents there from being calamities that can wipe out an entire star-faring civilization at once. Once intelligent life has spread throughout a region of space beyond a few
973.
by garmaine 6y ago
Is there life in the universe? Almost certainly. Is there intelligent, technological life in our galaxy? Maybe. Have we been visited by aliens? Inconceivable.
974.
by garmaine 6y ago
Start with a description of what you want to build.
975.
by garmaine 6y ago
At higher temperatures, you mean.
976.
by garmaine 6y ago
Americans aren’t given a free choice thanks to their two-party system.
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by garmaine 6y ago
No, it’s how ignorant newscasters read a teleprompter. Nobody familiar with the distro says it that way.
978.
by garmaine 6y ago
Seems like the problem is in the standards process here...
979.
by garmaine 6y ago
Modern cryptographic tools are very purposefully “one tool, one use.” That’s part of the design and security model.
980.
by garmaine 6y ago
39% renewable, which is actually higher than I expected. I said renewable and opportunistic power capture. The latter is a large proportion of mining because it is effectively free income. There are a lot of places in the world where excess
981.
by garmaine 6y ago
Except that this isn’t true. Bitcoin currently uses 80-90% renewable sources or opportunistic power capture, which is effectively zero-carbon. The incentives of bitcoin mining drive this, since carbon-neutral energy sources have lower margi
982.
by garmaine 6y ago
I'm not sure what a pfovkt is. Bubonic plague CAN be spread by (fleas on) mice or rats. But historically it was not, at least not in Europe. The most recent outbreaks in Europe in the 19th century were carried by lice. We know this for
983.
by garmaine 6y ago
Some people (like me) find rats and mice to be cute. And FYI, rats did NOT cause the Black Death. That was the theory at the time, but it hasn't held up to scrutiny. We are now fairly certain it was human lice. Both the outbreak patt
984.
by garmaine 6y ago
Yeah but you'll have to hunt for and fix the code wherever it is on every disk, which could be subtly or completely different between applications. "Recalculate track 9" is a simple program that would have worked on any Weste
985.
by garmaine 6y ago
Not really. The PSX copy protection, for example, couldn’t be written by standard CD-R writers.
986.
by garmaine 6y ago
Wouldn’t this be trivial to defeat once you know how it works though? Make a bit-for-bit copy, then overwrite track 9 with the new obfuscated lengths.
987.
by garmaine 6y ago
Nothing of consequence here. They’re just pledging to support the European rocket jobs program, which is aspirational to maybe match Falcon 9 performance 10+ years from now, at which point it will be hopelessly out of date. There’s nothing
988.
by garmaine 6y ago
Materials science has improved tremendously since the 50’s. Surely a carbon fiber structure would get better performance and/or a larger safety envelope?
989.
by garmaine 6y ago
Some airman has the most awesome job ever.
990.
by garmaine 6y ago
The laws cover “financial transactions”, full stop.

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