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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s some combination of fair use and raw data not being copyrightable. My understanding is that only the creative expression that’s copyrighted, and not the actual words. So, if you distill out all of the creativity into something that’s
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s not just about criminal liability, but also civil. If one user of the site does something that harms another, it’s useful for the site to be able to show that one or both of the users were breaking the rules in an attempt to stay inno
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That sounds about right. I (vaguely) remember having to do some thermodynamics problems in BTUs and Rankine temperatures without converting to SI, but that was certainly the exception. Once I got into the engineering curriculum, we were al
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Do US kids in science class use the metric system? In general, yes. Though like everything else in the US education system, it’s really up to the local school boards. When I went through a couple of decades ago, we did almost everyth
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
In an odd way, the US is fully metricized: they’re one of the original signatories of the Treaty of the Metre, and redefined all of their legacy units in terms of SI ones [1]. SI units are used directly in the sciences and most products ha
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s a circle-packing model, which means there’s no overlap between the exclusion zones. A radius of 3 feet means you’re at least 3 feet away from the edge of anyone else’s circle. They are at the center of their circle, which is an addit
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’m not fluent enough in legalese, apparently. Is that $750-30k per infringer or $750-30k per copy? For a website, that’s a huge difference as every visitor initiates a new copying event. (As opposed to something like a printing press wh
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’m certainly not an expert in these things, but note that the first reason listed isn’t confusion with Zoom Video, it’s the lack of public disclosures. The rule 15c2-11 they refer to requires brokers to have those disclosures on file befor
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Zoom Inc. hasn’t filed any public information for 5 years; I assume that means things like quarterly financial reports. That seems like enough grounds for delisting to me, quite separately from possible confusion with Zoom Video.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The traditional april fool’s joke (on the internet) is fundamentally satire, which is notoriously hard to do well. It needs to be something plausible enough to get people to start reading, but be absurd enough that people know it’s not rea
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Ideally, at least for TCP applications, with perfect network congestion control, reduced bandwidth due to streaming should only degrade data rate, but never massively increase the latency Fundamentally, TCP is designed to get all the
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Presumably something could be devised that bolts to the now-empty seat rails and provides a way to secure small cargo. It's entirely possible such a solution wouldn't be cost-effective, though.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
An alternative view on this is to realize that being a non-judgemental sounding board often provides much greater value to your conversation partner than offering advice. I often find that people who are having trouble with something alrea
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The best advice I can come up with is that it’s something that can be actively trained, and that it doesn’t come suddenly. Set up a temporal and physical space for concentration, and commit to leaving it if you feel the need to be distract
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The classic engine is Inform, and a quick look in the manual says it can publish to a playable webpage: http://inform7.com/
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s a war on cryptography, not cryptocurrency. Governments have gotten addicted to being able to intercept communications and feel threatened by any technology that might prevent them from doing that. This leads to all the positive uses
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Practice. Get some data set and try to make a classifier according to the various techniques.
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> Don't look too deeply into the code samples for specifics though, they are a pastiche Your article here seems to avoid falling into this particular trap, but I consider this a problematic view for authors to hold. In software wr
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I assume that it means they’re spending rather than saving that discretionary income, and don’t have a buffer available of more than a single pay period (usually 2 weeks). That money may also be committed to long-term contracts with servic
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Indexing doesn’t have to be 1:1; the goal is to ensure some of the productivity gains go to the workforce, but that can be done while still allowing improvements to be a net benefit to the company.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There’s nothing that I could have personally done to affect any of the things you’ve listed here. For the vast majority of people, this is just some that’s happened and needs to be dealt with. Occasional devastating diseases have been par
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
One potential path here is: - Local and state governments provide bailout funds to suffering local businesses - Said governments issue new bonds to pay for this relief - Fed uses the recently-announced QE funds to buy the government bonds T
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
With entertainment venues being shuttered as “non-essential” at the same time as people are worried about both their health and livelihoods, there’s a very real risk of widespread morale problems as this crisis evolves.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
May I suggest putting a prominent example somewhere, perhaps in place of the black background of your splash page? I do my pleasure browsing on an iPad, and get a “Please use Chrome or Edge” message before I get to any visuals, which isn’t
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> In Rust it's also possible to copy values as a way to silence borrow checking errors, but this does add visual noise as copies have to be explicitly specified. This statement isn't quite accurate. Types that can be safely du
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
A lot of the practical billing annoyances would go away if the individual practitioners had to get paid by the hospital instead of directly by the patient’s insurance, like subcontractors in any other industry. As a patient, you should be
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That works out to 2000 micromorts, which compares to the accumulated baseline risk over 3 months of living: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Beyond the very basics necessary to extract some meaning from a second language, I’d be shocked if time invested in spaced-repetition drills of any design had better returns than reading the target language for pleasure.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There’s a third category here, and that’s functional skill. It’s quite a separate thing from either understanding or rote learning. They all feed into each other, of course, but the point I tried (and apparently failed) to make is that it
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
You changed the probability here from 10% to 90% by inverting the test.

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