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by jbri 13y ago
I think you parsed that line wrong. I read it as: > I don't class it as a 'lie' to quietly favour "crowds flowing in a safe manner" over "the quickest route". It's a well-formed statement, not a dangling comparative.
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by jbri 13y ago
The ISS is pressurized to match Earth at sea level (it's designed for long-term habitation), and the pressurized modules are built to withstand that pressure. Making a spacesuit that could handle the same pressure would require it to be muc
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by jbri 13y ago
The problem is that the vast amount of computer software doesn't contain an inventive step. The vast majority of software development is taking existing, well-understood techniques and solutions, and applying them to an equally-well-underst
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by jbri 13y ago
Anecdotally, as someone who wears (prescription) glasses 24/7 already, I haven't noticed anything like this. It might be worth mentioning that the authors of "health books" generally tend to be more concerned with selling more books than th
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by jbri 14y ago
OnLive[1], which is what was being talked about, is literally streaming video to you of a game that's running in a datacenter somewhere. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive
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by jbri 14y ago
There's also some nice-to-have information on the dashboard, which is why the dashboard is placed where the driver can easily see it. Having your speedometer on a HUD instead of a dashboard does not make someone incapable of paying attentio
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by jbri 14y ago
The comments clear it up a little - a coin flip breaks tied bids, and you're looking for an amount that would let you win even in the worst case. So you'd need to be able to pay 34/round to only allow your opponent two plays. It's worthwhil
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by jbri 14y ago
If they did, you can bet people would stir up trouble by just wandering through a parking lot locking everyone out of their cars. The better fix would be a substantial cooldown (maybe a minute's worth) after inputting a failed code, which w
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by jbri 14y ago
"Moved the business to Ireland" doesn't (usually) mean that business has actually moved - operating as a subsidiary of a holding company in Ireland is almost always a pure tax dodge.
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by jbri 14y ago
An alternative is to add a duck, or something else gratuitously out of place.
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by jbri 14y ago
Being granted an automatic visa that allows you to be in the country is not the same as sneaking in while avoiding customs and immigration.
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by jbri 14y ago
If you tried to go to Iceland (or any other nation in the world) without having first received permission, then yes you could expect to be given the boot. That's what a "visa" is. If you're only staying for a short period and your own natio
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by jbri 14y ago
This would discourage legitimate patent suits, while not particularly hurting one-patent shell companies.
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by jbri 14y ago
Everything we "know" about the inside of a black hole is speculation - there is no way we can observe what's going on inside. That said, from just inside the black hole - what is "down"? Towards the singularity? Does that even make sense wh
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by jbri 14y ago
It is still moving in a straight line. Large amounts of gravity tend to distort spacetime, such that a "straight line" appears bent to a distant observer. It's the same phenomenon as what causes gravitational lensing.
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by jbri 14y ago
How much gravitational force does the Sun exert on you? Do you feel any of it? A constant gravitational field doesn't change anything - everything is accelerating the same amount, in the same direction. What can cause problems is the diffe
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by jbri 14y ago
A security issue is a security issue, regardless of how severe it is. If MS had come out and said "We're working on fixing it, but we don't think it's a critical vulnerability" - that would be understandable. What needs to be called out is
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by jbri 14y ago
What browser are you using, and what websites are you visiting? Because one of the two is the cause of your slowing-to-a-crawl, and if you want to vote with your wallet you should start with that before throwing away the entire web ecosyste
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by jbri 14y ago
It gets a little more interesting when you're promising tangible rewards in addition to completing the project. For instance, if I say "$50 will get you a T-Shirt", it seems reasonable to me that I am contractually obligated to give you a T
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by jbri 14y ago
A filter doesn't need to be perfect to be worthwhile - just to pull some made-up numbers out of nowhere, if 1/100 options are worth investigating, and your filter gives you true positives 70% of the time and false positives 30% of the time,
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by jbri 14y ago
Mice breed fast and die quick, which lets you run a lot of trials much faster than you could in humans or primates. They're also "close enough" that most treatments will have similar effects in both - most treatments that work in mice but n
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by jbri 14y ago
This brings to mind an old adage about eggs and baskets. More seriously, adding extra components to a mission means many more man-hours designing, testing and vetting the extra functionality, and also adds a boatload of extra weight, which
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by jbri 14y ago
Unless you're purely serving static content, network bandwidth is not going to be your bottleck. That's not really the point though, since the big motivator for SSDs isn't bandwidth, it's latency.
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by jbri 14y ago
For massive blockbusters they do find a negative effect, the positive impact is mainly for lesser-publicized movies without the massive advertising budget funneled into them. It's always hard to tell with statistics, but I don't think it's
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by jbri 14y ago
The reason is that it's a possessive apostrophe, not a contraction.
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by jbri 14y ago
There's opportunity cost in using it for yourself instead of selling the use of it to other people.
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by jbri 14y ago
It is an example to show that a monetary payment is not always sufficient to repair any harm caused. For another example, you could consider the case where a company has lost a dominant market position due to libel and slander from a compet
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by jbri 14y ago
Is this intended to be punitive (as suggested by your "devastating amount" phrase), or is it indented to make-whole the injured party? If industrial espionage sets back a company's R&D by a decade, you can't fix that with money. Throwin
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by jbri 14y ago
I haven't used colemak, but I suspect this isn't really a problem if you're going to do a full-transition and not use qwerty at all. But if you have to switch between two layouts regularly then you definitely want something completely-disti
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by jbri 14y ago
So it should be fine to break the law and commit any sort of crime against a company, and the only penalty should be giving them make-up money after the fact?

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