mcculley

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   by mcculley 3y ago

   Good point. I just don't want them to look like my AirPods or people near me might think that I am ignoring them. I would rather they look like hearing aids.
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   by mcculley 3y ago

   I have a hearing deficit and am looking forward to more options in this space. But I will be surprised if Apple ever sells anything that can be discreetly worn. They seem to enjoy making products serve as advertisements. (I use my iPhone an
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   by mcculley 3y ago

   I don't know that we will be able to tell the difference. I know animals can suffer. Suffering is not limited to what we consider intelligent. I have no idea where that line is. I do not see why the capacity to suffer should be depende
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   by mcculley 3y ago

   Blade Runner was vague about how much of a replicant was synthetic. My interpretation was that they were biological. We are at the cusp of creating life forms that can suffer (biological and digital). It will be irrelevant if they are made
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   by mcculley 3y ago

   > Most people around here buy enough battery or generators to keep the power on. This is a surprising assertion to me. How can “most people” afford batteries and generators?
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   by mcculley 3y ago

   Certainly, if the transaction takes place in a jurisdiction where it applies.
7. 547.▲
   by mcculley 3y ago

   Indeed. An artist should set the price of a piece sold with these costs in mind.
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   by mcculley 3y ago

   >> Basically rent seeking behavior, expecting perpetual payment for work completed in the past (aka passive income) > Sounds like most SaaS companies. Most SaaS companies have perpetually recurring costs of their own (e.g., storage
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   by mcculley 4y ago

   Right. It was not my understanding that they "planned to actually make orbit". This is why I used the same words they used, "orbital altitude".
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I agree with you. The only information I had is the words they used.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I am happy that they had a partial success. I remain unconvinced that it was a success as defined by other things they said.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I am not disputing that this is progress. It is an admirable effort. I am happy for them. I interpreted literally the words they used about the plan for today's launch.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I thought they were very clear on how they defined "success". This is progress, and admirable, but not a success according to their previous statements.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Sounds like he moved the goalpost.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    > "Success was defined as the rocket leaving the launchpad." I am confused. Everything I read before the launch said that it was intended to reach orbital altitude and make it around the Earth.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I also will not upload a proprietary document to this service. But mine and many other organizations do upload proprietary documents into third-party clouds (e.g., Azure, Google).
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    There is a whole process for it in many states that I know of (e.g., https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/drivers/id/child_id.html ).
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    I am very familiar with Citizens and while I am pleased to see reform of it, I don't see how the changes made end up with correctly priced risk. The continued existence of Citizens is proof that the risk is not priced correctly or priv
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    And what most don't realize is that cars will float and then sink. They will float and lose traction, becoming immobile, then they start taking on water and sink back down, ruined.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    My assessment as a 51 year old native Floridian is that, "a lot of retirees who bought beach houses will be disappointed" is fundamental to the problem. Our economy is based on 30-year financial instruments. Largely nobody is ince
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    It is not the first time the FBI has warned about this (see [0] for example, or do a Google search with date filters). This is the Denver field office maximizing Twitter engagement by repeating themselves. (Maybe that is not a fair way to v
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    There really are different prison systems. A lot of white collar crime is under Federal jurisdiction. Most violent crimes are state crimes.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    In polite company it is considered rude to suggest that there was more than one Matrix movie.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Maybe there is gamesmanship around best seller lists?
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Which means no library can depend on it, pushing memory management responsibilities into calling code.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    The last time this topic came up for me, I asked a related question about getting a dumb monitor without branding and got many helpful answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31708936
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    The degree of secrecy also tells you how much of an owner you would be.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Indeed. I live in Florida which has set precedent. The game theory is clear to me. If the other guy is a threat at all, I must kill him as he could do the same to me and just claim to have been scared.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    > If the thief drew a gun they should have withdrawn. This presupposes there was a safe place to withdraw to.
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    by mcculley 4y ago

    Good point!