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by jccooper 9y ago
Unless they do something stupid like just draw block boxes over the real text, you don't. That's the purpose of redaction.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Patent law generally recognizes the option of the state to enforce compulsory licensing, though it's rarely exercised. Eminent domain may also be used to take patents. The modern approach seems to be to just let people find a way aroun
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by jccooper 9y ago
This sort of thing teaches people to exploit or ignore rather than report. Anyone who reports should be commended, even if they did real hacking (which using dev tools on a web browser is not.) Someone's going to probe your system; you
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by jccooper 9y ago
Even within the current framework, it shouldn't be hard to acquire an underground easement, by market or eminent domain. Shouldn't be very expensive, either. A deep underground tunnel means basically no diminution of property valu
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by jccooper 9y ago
Funny how it starts off making fun of clickbait mills name-dropping Tesla, and then proceeds to do the exact same thing.
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by jccooper 9y ago
I think Musk is taking the supervillan jokes a little too seriously. "AI", even though it has produced a number of useful and probably-useful techniques, still has yet to demonstrate anything near enough to intelligence to be dang
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by jccooper 9y ago
Sure, but what's important from college is not education, but credentials. The credit given for having a failed company on your resume is significantly less than for a BA of any sort.
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by jccooper 9y ago
> I love Stack Overflow's URLs. Here's an example: https://stackoverflow.com/users/6380/scott-hanselman While it is nice UI, it's probably SEO first. This ensures keywords in the URL while making
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by jccooper 9y ago
Not if you're selling your IPv4.
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by jccooper 9y ago
They're looking at experimenting with that on the payload-less Falcon Heavy test flight. For operational use, the payload penalty of the extra mass on a second stage is sufficiently high that it seems likely that only on FH flights (an
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by jccooper 9y ago
It's not a global problem but a local one. Locally increased salinity and temperature can be a problem. You can drop a whole bunch of hot brine in the middle of the ocean to little effect, but the same is not true of a mangrove swamp o
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by jccooper 9y ago
Well, you already know that the technique used is called a "force". There's a book that collects 202 versions; probably it's in there somewhere.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Well, the site it's on (The Players' Tribue) basically specializes in those.
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by jccooper 9y ago
In the NFL they've all gone to college, and the game selects for mental ability quite strongly. They'll tell you the locker room is not unlike any other professional workplace (except perhaps more fun and with more unity), and whi
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by jccooper 9y ago
Not productivity-enhancing: "A driverless or electric automobile is just a new type of car." Productivity-enhancing: "Word processing software didn't eliminate the need to type out documents but eliminated secretaries an
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by jccooper 9y ago
Really way past time for a program to study the "Ice Giants". They're basically unknown by modern standards.
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by jccooper 9y ago
True, but in this case they're intentionally trying to Osborne themselves.
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by jccooper 9y ago
Location essentially doesn't matter for polar orbits, other than for safety purposes. (Technically, most polar orbits are not quite 90 degrees, and thus get some benefit from the Earth's rotation, which is greater when closer to t
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by jccooper 9y ago
Martian regolith is believed to be fairly uniform across the planet, and this is backed by analysis at several widely-scattered locations. The dust is definitely well-mixed, but coarser parts are mostly of local origin and can vary, but bec
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by jccooper 10y ago
The fact that they're trying to chisel this customer out of a few grand suggests to me that host compensation must be a real cost center for AirBNB... which is actually worse than if it were just really bad customer service, because it
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by jccooper 10y ago
It's easy to confuse Blue Origin with other companies with paper plans, but they're the real deal. Besides having demonstrated clear competence with New Shepard (with an LH2 engine no less), the orbital version is well underway. T
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by jccooper 10y ago
> Does anybody have that? No. Because it's never been done before. We'll just have to wait and see. But: for this particular flight, SpaceX claims to have spent 4 months in refurb, and it seems to have been very thorough. Insid
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by jccooper 10y ago
Bezos's Blue Origin is on track to have a very similar system in a few years, and perhaps even better eventually with the possibility of a reusable second stage. ULA still has plenty of contracts and could compete if its parent compani
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by jccooper 10y ago
We use PayPal for a few scattered customers who have problems paying with a card and the occasional eBay sale, so I don't pay much attention to it. Whenever I see a PayPal horror story, I transfer all funds out of there to my bank. It&
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by jccooper 10y ago
"The laws on the books still exist for a good reason." That's... optimistic. Many laws were put in place to benefit other (incumbent) businesses, or in reaction to conditions that no longer hold, or due to ideas proven false
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by jccooper 10y ago
I'm not a heavy Twitter user so I must be missing something. How does a Twitter history make any difference to current usage? Do people actually dredge up and react to old tweets?
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by jccooper 10y ago
Thank you super much!
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by jccooper 10y ago
If a satellite has its own maneuvering capabilities, it can change its orbit (somewhat). These are mostly nanosats and cannot do that, so they'll stay in closely-related orbits. Spring-loaded separation from the launch vehicle will giv
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by jccooper 10y ago
Well, here's some data from a decent number of Tesla Model S in the wild: https://survey.pluginamerica.org/model-s/charts.php I'd say it looks like they behave rather well in general.
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by jccooper 10y ago
Taum Sauk, an artificial pumped storage facility which famously failed, was rebuilt to 3600 MW·h for $490 million. So that was like $136 per kwh capacity, though I think they didn't have to do much for the lower reservoir (which was bu

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