jimmyk

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by jimmyk 16y ago
You know that corporations are comprised of human beings, right? By forcing a corporation to do something, you are forcing human beings to do something.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
>The companies enjoy a relatively stable environment: roads, power grid, and security do to US soldiers willing to risk their lives. In my mind it's perfectly acceptable to make them play by certain rules. This line of reasoning can be
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Yes, I'm aware of sovereign immunity, but the government has waived it for certain circumstances through the Federal Tort Claims Act. Since I'm not a lawyer, I'm nowhere near qualified to say whether or not this would be included in that ex
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Yes, there is recourse. IANAL, but as far as my understanding goes, the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances includes the right to sue the government, or at least to file a suit against the government in court.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
It's possible that it's only 4 TB. If it's only processing text and it stores a character in two bytes, that means 2 trillion characters. At a generous 8 characters per word, that's 250 billion words. There are only 560,000 words in War and
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by jimmyk 16y ago
And if they continue on Palm's path, it will be vastly more open than Apple and even Android. You can get root access to the linux based OS on the pre by just downloading a program and punching in a code on the phone, both of which come str
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by jimmyk 16y ago
One consequence is that someone with specific life circumstances preventing her from leaving her job will now be able to do that to pursue something that might be better. Another consequence, and one that is unintended but virtually unpreve
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by jimmyk 16y ago
>onomatopoeia is not itself onomatopoeic. It would be very difficult to do that since onomatopoeia is a concept and concepts don't make sounds.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Well, in the United States at least, it is illegal to operate a drone unless you: A) have direct line of sight with the drone and B) can manually take over the drone at any time. This means you would need to have someone watching each drone
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by jimmyk 16y ago
I think it's a 4chan meme.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
>the law is the law Tell this to MLK Jr. Note: I am not comparing these teenagers to MLK Jr., I am just pointing out that this is a terrible principle.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
>In theory that's all very nice, in practice the power available for acceleration decreases as the cube of the distance. This is why any solar sail intended to move very quickly will open up somewhere closer to Mercury.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Companies that have non-public information about companies that they trade with are barred from using that information to trade stocks. For example if company B which manufactures bullets orders gunpowder from company G, and company B start
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by jimmyk 16y ago
As I said and Hilbert said in other places, this is about trends and tendencies. Not specific cases. As this discussion is about why women don't pursue careers in computer science as often as men, it is appropriate to speak in generalities.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
1: This is a social science, not a hard science. 2: Your ignorance of the science does not invalidate its existence. As an example of research that has been done, look up some of the works of Carol Gilligan. There are many others, but it's
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by jimmyk 16y ago
It seems that you are offended by some of his ideas. If this is the case, you will not give any of them the consideration they deserve. Perhaps this is his fault but it is not easy to write about touchy subjects in a way that will be non-of
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by jimmyk 16y ago
The father, apparently. "I prefer this to the alternative."
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Since nothing like https exists yet for public wireless networks, it could be made so that when the client connects and the access point sends the client its public key, the public key shows up (or preferably doesn't show up but can be made
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by jimmyk 16y ago
It would be great if that worked, but it's not like this is the first time corruption in government has been an issue and it's not the first time people have tried to get rid of it either. It comes back as soon as the public stops watching
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by jimmyk 16y ago
>Severely limiting the power of government would just let corporations run roughshod over us even more than they do now. I disagree, and offer this article as a source of several examples. The corporations currently have far more influe
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Yes, the two initial values in the sequence are 0 and 1.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
It's not just an old adage that power corrupts.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
This was touched on lightly in the article: "They lobby lawmakers to constrain the same free markets in which they originally achieved success."
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by jimmyk 16y ago
In a free market society, there would be no such thing as a powerful lawmaker. By saying that many politicians are incapable of resisting corruption, you are making an argument for severely limiting the power of the government.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Not exactly. Here, foot-pound refers to the energy of the bullet, which can be calculated by taking the dot product of the force and the distance, where the force and distance refer to how far the bullet could exert some force. Taking the d
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Well, a watt per square meter is a measure of irradiance, so I guess if you integrate that with respect to time you'd get joules per square meter. But I don't know if that gives you anything interesting.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
A foot pound is the amount of energy used when applying one pound of force over the distance of one foot (specifically, with the direction of the force being the same as the direction of movement). So, if you use one pound of force to move
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by jimmyk 16y ago
I don't know any details not given in the article, but one would think the Supreme Court would welcome the opportunity to rectify their previous decision on eminent domain. Or perhaps they're hoping everyone has forgotten that the land take
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by jimmyk 16y ago
I'm not certain anything could have been done differently. At least not at the late stage that the Fed had to act. Then again, I'm a programmer and not a central banker. I'm mainly complaining that the situation was allowed to get to the po
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by jimmyk 16y ago
I know how mandates work. I was just coming up short for a better word. You haven't really said anything I didn't already know, (possibly because you didn't think I understood the point, which is fine. I didn't do a good job saying what I m

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