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by hbrav 5y ago
Man, the way bike paths, and even sidewalks, get treated in Canada is so frustrating. The city's instructions on shoveling your stretch sidewalk tell you that you must not shovel it I to the road... and then the city snowploughs come b
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by hbrav 5y ago
> All three of these groups routinely ignore laws This is a lot more common when the local traffic laws are kind of insane. It sounds from later in your post that you're thinking of a North American context. In the UK there's
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by hbrav 5y ago
It could be a sentiment rather than a statement of legal fact. Like "everyone has the right to free speech, healthcare, and three hot meals a day".
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by hbrav 5y ago
At least in the US, the Fair Lending Act imposes an explainability requirement on credit-granting decisions. If the UK has a similar act (I'd be surprised if it doesnty) I'd expect there to be some interesting challenges over this
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by hbrav 5y ago
Perhaps a previously un-noticed reason for Brooks' Law being true...
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by hbrav 5y ago
Dodge Ram 2500 - Sorry, but why the fuck is anyone with a DUI able to get insurance to drive a truck with a 6.4L engine?
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by hbrav 5y ago
Not really. Nothing is moving faster than the _local_ speed of light in the Schwarzchild metric.
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by hbrav 5y ago
It's often framed as that, but Ukraine didn't really have nuclear weapons at the dissolution of USSR. There were nuclear weapons located on its territory, but they were all controlled by military units that regarded themselves as
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by hbrav 5y ago
"Tachyon" literally means "speedy particle". It's used to refer to a particle traveling faster than the speed of light. Special relativity relates velocity to elapsed time for a particle, and the upshot of that is t
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by hbrav 5y ago
I'm not sure your outrage at the IRS is well-placed. The Taxpayer First Act prevents the IRS from developing a competing tax-filing service: https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...
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by hbrav 5y ago
I'm pretty confident I'm correctly picking up on sarcasm here. But if I understand correctly, that corner case isn't even "real". Suppose you were a drug dealer in a country that automatically handles tax, and most
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by hbrav 5y ago
Sounds like the key difference is they don't want people commuting by car.
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by hbrav 5y ago
I assume that is the mass of an unbound proton.
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by hbrav 5y ago
Why the hell would someone choose to refer to a second, unrelated, SLBM as 'Polaris'? This has the same energy as the professor who decided to write an exam question using small epsilon and large epsilon for different energies.
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by hbrav 5y ago
Reliably defeating ballistic missiles is already a huge challenge. Isn't this idea also interesting because it lets you kill ballistic missile warheads?
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by hbrav 5y ago
This: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
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by hbrav 5y ago
This probably depends on where you are using it. If I understand correctly, it tells an attacker that you have _something_ to hide, but gives no clue as to any metadata, such as the size of what you're hiding or how often it was update
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by hbrav 5y ago
I'm guessing you're gonna tell me the first company to make such earbuds was not Apple? I'm interested to know who it was. > Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to
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by hbrav 5y ago
It sounds like, in any future war involving Japan, we should expect to find soldiers hiding out in the jungle years later, still trying to log in to their email... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
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by hbrav 5y ago
Ah, the Jesse Litvack defence.
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by hbrav 5y ago
Serious answer (I am not a lawyer): partly because the threshold for libel is really high in the US. Partly because there is also some procedure for challenging credit reports. I'm going to try and find the blog post about it...
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by hbrav 5y ago
There really should be an investigatory process when credit is fraudulently taken out in someone else's name. How did the company get duped into making the loan? If the answer is something like "we treated an SSN as identification
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by hbrav 5y ago
I don't think I would want my vendor responding to a form like that anyway. I want them fixing the actual problem. The appropriate place to communicate the answers to those questions is on an issue tracking system. Filling out a differ
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by hbrav 5y ago
I'll note that in the UK eligibility to vote in local, national (and formerly EU) elections were different from each other. I assume the electoral register kept track of which criteria you met, and only sent you a polling card for the
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by hbrav 5y ago
Floppy disk? You were lucky. When I contacted HP they sent me a box of punch-cards... /s
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by hbrav 5y ago
You could probably make a Cayley glider at least! https://yorkshireairmuseum.org/exhibits/pre-world-war-ii-air...
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by hbrav 5y ago
Well first you'd have to teach him algebra, and even that would probably be impressive. Have you ever read Euclid's Elements? The notation is horrific, way harder to work with than modern algebra.
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by hbrav 5y ago
Copper _wire_ requires you to be able to draw wire, not just refine copper. I'm not sure if the ancient Greeks knew how to do that.
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by hbrav 5y ago
It's more likely that it's being used for fluid dynamics simulations. Lots of use for simulations when you can't test the weapon directly. And there's lot of legacy code written by a lot of legacy professors.
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by hbrav 5y ago
If you see "massive" in reference to an astronomical object, it usually means "having a lot of mass" rather than "being very big". Not always of course, and the latter usage is more likely in less specialized n

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