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by kbutler 8y ago
So it was a nitpick. Here's another: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Sweden/oil_production/ The U.S. Energy Information Administration says Sweden has produced 8.4 thousand barrels per day since 2010. Tiny,
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by kbutler 8y ago
What is your motivation for this? Are you asserting that buying oil from Sweden will somehow reverse Norway's independence? Or that we should punish Sweden for having had the union with Norway? Seems a long grudge to carry for a hundre
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by kbutler 8y ago
This was covered extensively over 25 years ago, including the classic comment by Linus that "In fact the /whole/ linux kernel is much smaller than the 386-dependent things in [the existing microkernel] mach". https:&#x2
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by kbutler 8y ago
It's interesting how the gnu project narrative of "we did all the work, the kernel was 'just the missing piece'" has propagated. The gnu project worked on a kernel - Hurd. It has been "in active development&quo
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by kbutler 8y ago
For a while, computer monitors were limited by the HDTV specs, but a computer monitor usually has better specs - often resolution, refresh rate, display lag, connectivity options, etc.
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by kbutler 8y ago
From the page you linked: "Market consequences ... U.S. treasury bonds, which had been the subject of the downgrade, actually rose in price and the dollar gained in value against the Euro and the British pound, indicating a general fl
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by kbutler 8y ago
It's just a flesh wound!
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by kbutler 8y ago
Because people addicted to drugs are well-known for making good, long-term decisions.
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by kbutler 8y ago
I should have included previous "milking spiders" for venom. https://www.terminix.com/blog/science-nature/milking-spiders... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJ_sVwVhpQ
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by kbutler 8y ago
It needs to be a "tagsonomy" - associate similar traits rather than a strict hierarchy...
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by kbutler 8y ago
> Milk is what you get when milking an animal. No, sometimes you get venom. https://www.jobmonkey.com/uniquejobs/snake-milker/
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by kbutler 8y ago
> Of course it also serves the public to encourage inventors by giving them a limited exclusive use. Yes. > But primarily when instigated the purpose is a mutual benefit that is best embodied by education of the public arena as to the
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by kbutler 8y ago
> If people can't use the disclosures then the system serves virtually no purpose. That's not quite true - although disclosure is an often argued benefit of the patent system, there are very few inventions that cannot be copied
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by kbutler 8y ago
The problems with patents as prior art for new inventions are manifold: - The common advice is for practitioners to avoid learning about existing patents, because this knowledge increases liability in case you are found to infringe. This
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by kbutler 8y ago
There's a common myth that companies have "a fiduciary duty" to make as much money as possible (especially short-term), but this has no basis in law in the US. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court&#x2F
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by kbutler 8y ago
And with the returns from that money "we just gave" Bezos, we can fund many times that. And if "we" don't get that return? Bezos doesn't get that money. The winning localities and companies offered $2 billion
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by kbutler 8y ago
No, I'm just saying that the subject is more important than the writing. I don't think the author is advocating a particular viewpoint, but I think the author wants us to seek understanding, and that includes discussion. The penul
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by kbutler 8y ago
Yes, every article that describes progress and a good situation has an obligatory disclaimer that problems remain. Articles describing problems do not generally have a recognition of progress made. Recognizing that the world is a much bette
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by kbutler 8y ago
The origin of this thread was NY Times emphasis on doom and gloom. The reason is that it sells, even if the world as a whole is getting better. For your specific points: Yes, it looks like overall insect populations are down (and more than
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by kbutler 8y ago
"on virtually all of the key dimensions of human material well-being—poverty, literacy, health, freedom, and education—the world is an extraordinarily better place than it was just a couple of centuries ago." https://ww
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by kbutler 8y ago
VirtualBox is a user program that starts operating system programs.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Yes, "the point of this story is to make the experience human", so that we can feel and discuss "the morality and merits of warfare". Discussion of the writing itself, divorced from the actual substance, would be "a
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by kbutler 8y ago
If you have an SSD, the only moving parts would be the fan, and that's replaceable. It's largely laptop-style components anyway. It should be more durable than a laptop (hinge, keyboard, display, and trackpad are laptop failure po
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by kbutler 8y ago
Skeumorphism: "Steve pushed very hard to have everything–the felt-cloth table, the game chips–look like they would in real life,” says another former Apple designer. https://www.fastcompany.com/1670760/will-apples-
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by kbutler 8y ago
I think nobody knew what being a media company in the internet age meant. For another example, see AOL/Time-Warner. Being a media company was perceived (and compensated) as more valuable than a tech company. Just the opposite of the pe
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by kbutler 8y ago
"Ocean acidification is killing [phytoplankton]..." Or promoting them... https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/42231559/Inc... "We show that under eutrophic conditions, productivity may do
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by kbutler 8y ago
That's right, anti-immigration sentiment, nationalists, and neo-nazis are unique to the US. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/09/10/right-wi... Brexit, chemnitz riots - those are all Ame
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by kbutler 8y ago
And apples are not oranges, but they are both fruit.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Because of the conflict between the public interest in allowing copying facts and the misappropriation doctrine, that doctrine is generally limited to "hot news", and citing the source is generally sufficient even there. The artic
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by kbutler 8y ago
That's one definition. From google define, a second definition is: "a vehicle typically ridden as a recreation, consisting of a footboard mounted on two wheels and a long steering handle, propelled by resting one foot on the foot

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