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by jccooper 9y ago
Trademark doesn't restrict description. It restricts, well, trade. This thread contains numerous references to Disney, an even more valuable trademark than Mickey Mouse, and there's nary a problem.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Except Bigelow is a well known alien crank. Occam's Razor suggests that it's a politician throwing a rich guy a bone for his pet fantasy (with taxpayer money, of course, though it's really the recognition rather than the mone
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by jccooper 9y ago
FH is (1) not big enough for economic Mars flights, and (2) cannot be fully reusable because it can't support a large enough upper stage.
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by jccooper 9y ago
He's doing expectation management. If he thought it would fail they wouldn't fly.
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by jccooper 9y ago
That's why it's informative.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Johnson Space Center in Houston has a Saturn V similarly displayed.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Social proof via reviews (of products, restaurants, anything) is a great idea if you can assume good intent. Back in the good ol' days of the Internet this seemed plausible for some reason, but now there's real money to be made an
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by jccooper 9y ago
I'm astonished a new entrant was able to make any dent at all. Mostly it's impossible for newer or smaller entries to break into the top. They must have some velocity weight that The Shed exploited. All the social review sites hav
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by jccooper 9y ago
This is a really great way to understand your customer. Think of it as analyzing product-market fit rather than support.
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by jccooper 9y ago
There are a number of subject/verb agreement issues ("All the process ... take place") and such but mostly it's an issue of odd clause construction and word choice, with some run-on sentences. For example: "Never de
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by jccooper 9y ago
Heck, they won't even quote you for Houston-Dallas. This is an improvement: they used to show a ridiculous two-day route connecting through San Antonio. Amtrak in Texas (and most of the rest of the country outside the NW corridor) is s
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by jccooper 9y ago
They had two on stage. One tall, one less-tall. That's the latter.
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by jccooper 9y ago
There's a major fire south of that, in the middle of the state. But not right there, so far as I know.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Whomever can occupy it. Outer Space Treaty prohibits national claims but not use for peaceful purposes. So if you sit on it, you own it.
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by jccooper 9y ago
That depends on the design. In Elon's original paper hyperloop the vehicles have an air bearing.
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by jccooper 9y ago
As the first step on the path to understanding, first consider: "in what fields do people get doctorates?" As a second step, consider for each of those "what industry will employ them?" If you step over to the non-STEM (
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by jccooper 9y ago
I haven't decided if "journalists" haven't embraced the fact that they're on the web yet or if they're trying not to link off site for SEO juice or just to keep people on their site.
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by jccooper 9y ago
$2M you may be able to get via debt if you have decent cash flow. If you have a relationship with a bank (and you should), go talk to them.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Whatever the case, it doesn't always work. Several rescuers in Houston were electrocuted as well, this after several days.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Like any hurricane: stay away from storm surge areas (anywhere coastal), and be in a well-built building.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Now known as DAL9862, leaving SJU. https://www.flightradar24.com/DAL9862/eec4325
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by jccooper 9y ago
No, paragraph 3 means it's the third iteration of their hardware. That's unrelated to the self-driving "levels".
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by jccooper 9y ago
You can remove the SIM card from a Tesla if you don't want it to phone home, and only connectivity functions are broken (obviously). This isn't a particularly satisfying solution, of course, but it's more recourse than I have
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by jccooper 9y ago
Only if it's Musk demanding quarterly earnings figures. SpaceX is privately held, with overwhelming control by Elon himself, and much of the rest by his friends. While eventually he might be diluted out of control by (very large amount
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by jccooper 9y ago
Payload shroud and other separation failures are actually one of the most common failure modes in orbital launch once past the early space age. It's easy to have problems with systems that you don't or cannot test before deploymen
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by jccooper 9y ago
Coastal areas of Texas are advised (and/or required) to evacuate in advance of a major hurricane hit. Galveston was uninhabitable after Ike and Bolivar Peninsula was literally completely destroyed. Those areas were evacuated, and Houst
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by jccooper 9y ago
Houston's a very large place, and while there's bad stuff going on in places, there are also large parts of the city--probably most of it--with no particular damage. I'm in the middle of it right now and know people and organ
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by jccooper 9y ago
While they did use their own simple DNN classifier (because they couldn't find one), it was treated as a black box for purposes of the attack. A more robust classifier (probably using multiple methods) would be more resistant to attack
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CloudFlare refuses to block service to pro-ISIS websites (2015)(ibtimes.co.uk)
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by jccooper 9y ago
The Tesla roof is not positioned against asphalt shingles and the cheapest panels you get. It's positioned against high-end roofs, some of which are outrageously expensive. People buying high-end roofing (hint: they're rich) are m

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