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by matthewmcg 4y ago
Amusing but probably irrelevant: the sailing yacht racing handicapping calculations mentioned are almost certainly under the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) system[0]. This system is "zero based" in its own way. A sailboa
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Has there been a change in Baratzza? The Virtuoso I bought a decade ago is built like a tank and has replacement parts available for consumables. The one weakness it has is the plastic ring that holds the upper burr set. This appears to be
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
Right came here to make the same point. The first lawsuit alluded to in the blog post title resulted in an important holding that source code can be protected free expression.
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
We're going to be seeing a lot more of W037 (Warning: injury from remote controlled or automatic vehicles) soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7010#/media/File:ISO_7010_...
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
Interestingly, the Act was amended in 2010 to also ban box office futures, something Hollywood lobbyists had slipped into the bill. I’m sure there’s a joke to be made about cutting onions and Hollywood tearjerkers…
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Of course. But along the way someone took it from the computer nerds and put it up on a beer nerd website....
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What’s most amazing to me (as somebody who’s tried more beer styles than operating systems) is that the comparison doesn’t really make use of actual beer styles. There’s just the suggestion that Amiga is now an “import” beer. It’s a good re
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
If your budget permits, I recommend getting an LG OLED in your desired size and a good AV receiver. Connect your preferred streaming box (we like the AppleTV) to the receiver and use the streaming box remote to control everything. We have t
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
This anecdote is memorably presented as an application of modular arithmetic (along with the behavior of Enigma machine rotors) in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon . See the discussion in this review of the book: https://www.ams.
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Or smack it with the side of a knife to crack the peel. It comes right off.
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
I think the point the parent is making is that when the rate of inflation is higher than the nominal rate of return from your investment, your investment has a negative real rate of return. To put it another way, if you're socking cash
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
If you can get good canned tomatoes (I like the Flora brand San Marzano D.O.P, about $5.50 for a 28oz can), this is a great 20 minute recipe that will usually beat any pre-made sauce: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes&#x2F
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Interestingly, some of the more effective environmental activist organizations are groups that started to protect the outdoor recreation activities of wealthy people. Trout Unlimited is a good example.
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I would say, if you're a clerk and you're working on this thing, you can just walk out. Make the kooks write it out themselves, longhand. You can still collect your 6 figure signing bonus from the law firm you go to work for.
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by matthewmcg 4y ago
In broadcast television maybe. But most of the larger markets were served by multiple competing daily papers. Those have largely disappeared or are under common ownership and limping along as branded outlets of a few conglomerates.
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by matthewmcg 5y ago
I strongly agree with the sentiment in the article, but the comma in the title seems misplaced. Edit: I think there's just a typo on the HN title. The original title showing on the website is "It's Still Stupidly, Ridiculousl
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by matthewmcg 5y ago
Update: some press coverage raising the same questions. The silly part about this is the filing deficiencies seem either inept or willful. Mr. Musk can certainly afford good securities lawyers to make the proper filings. A 13D is not tha
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by matthewmcg 5y ago
Interesting that he filed his >5% report on Schedule 13G rather than Schedule 13D, and has checked the box for the exemption in Rule 13d-1(c)[1]. This exemption requires that he "has not acquired the securities with any purpose, or
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by matthewmcg 5y ago
As others have noted, the tagging, auto flagging, etc. are great, and it provides a decent, cross-platform, web-based interface. Also, you can flexibly configure how it stores the actual documents. So at the end of the day if you don't
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I disagree. You're assuming that these purported behaviors would inevitably spread. It's also possible that they're just occurring or being observed within a small group due to the specific incentives and dynamics for that gr
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My constitutional law professor did some CRT scholarship in the 1980s and brought this perspective to our class* in an interesting way. The syllabus was pretty traditional, but he would add color, giving what he called "the conventiona
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by matthewmcg 5y ago
I have practiced law for more than ten years, attended some of the institutions mentioned, and have worked in and with firms that would be considered "elite." I don't recognize any of the phenomena described in this article.
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"CO2 acts as an acid and will bind to a base, whether in the liquid phase or on a solid surface. We have developed a process to bring air in contact with a base substrate that captures CO2 molecules while letting N2 and O2 molecules pa
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by matthewmcg 5y ago
This is very useful for vhf and uhf radio communications as well, which are normally* line of sight. In fact, the adsb-receiver[1] software package for setting up an aircraft tracking station includes a neat feature where you can use HeyWha
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by matthewmcg 5y ago
Pro tip/life hack: bring a small sack of sand to match the weight, but be ready to run if you misjudge.
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Nice one. You can hear the ATC advising steady winds in the 30s gusting to the mid 40s (knots).
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Who is allegedly telling the police they "cannot intervene"? And why would they say it?
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The critical information the troll is trying to protect are the license royalty terms. Patent trolling is (legal) extortion, and the last thing an extortionist wants is their settlement price to become public. The information asymmetry bene
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If you liked the movie, check out the book.
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by matthewmcg 5y ago
A nice variation on the “LA speed check story”[1]. Perhaps we can call this one “Shanwick Altitude Check.” [1]: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-tells-...

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