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by mixmax 12y ago
It's easy to be snarky about nuclear weapons almost going off time and time again from the 50's to the 70's and maybe later, but when you look more closely it's actually an incredibly difficult design challenge. A nuclea
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The Thermodynamic Ice Bag(copsub.com)
135 points by mixmax 12y ago|7 comments
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by mixmax 12y ago
Gibbon’s thesis was that the Roman Empire fell prey to barbarian invasions because of a loss of virtue. The Romans became weak over time, outsourcing the defense of their empire to barbarian mercenaries who eventually took over. Gibbon saw
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by mixmax 12y ago
Here are some of the better subreddits in my opinion: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeaut
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by mixmax 12y ago
The problem isn't bad comments - it's the publishers that don't understand the medium. The article is a great example of how most newspapers and old publishing houses are barking up the wrong tree. It talks about using real n
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by mixmax 12y ago
yes it is, but they get their own filing date. Source: I have a few patents, and have done this.
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by mixmax 12y ago
That's where the crowdsourcing comes in :-) I'm sure there are young lawyers that would like to give some of these cases a try. Surely there must be someone with a conscience in that line of business. I could also imagine that com
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by mixmax 12y ago
be a bit more creative. It's known who the parent company is, so sue them. Since you're basically just suing for whatever you can get away with you should of course go for the mother ship.
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by mixmax 12y ago
This is why extortion works - if your enemy is more powerful than you chances are you will subdue. The mafia figured this out centuries ago. If you don't stand up to a bully, even if he is Goliath, he will keep on bullying.
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by mixmax 12y ago
It seems to me that the legal system in the US is largely broken, and that just about anyone can be sued if only you find the right grounds. Being sued and defending yourself is enormously expensive which is what patent trolls exploit. Why
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by mixmax 12y ago
From 1999 to 2003 I ran a startup where we had a digital signage solution with displays placed around Copenhagen that had a built-in OEM GPRS phone module. They ran a full TCP/IP stack, and were able to update the displays on demand. I
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The 1% license – a proposal(maximise.dk)
2 points by mixmax 12y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 12y ago
Submissions like this is the reason I frequent HN! A thorough well written and well researched article that point by point dissects an interesting event and comes to a surprising conclusion. If you come across other articles of this calibre
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by mixmax 12y ago
this is at best an anecdotal point, and seems more like something you just thought up. Is there any substance to this? Is crime in urban areas more prevalent because it is a shorter distance to walk for a potential mugger to get to a rich p
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by mixmax 12y ago
Are these factors so obvious? As an example poverty is most prevalent in rural areas according to this study: https://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd... Be careful of citing "ob
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by mixmax 12y ago
If the theory is true it could also account for the fact that violent crime is more abundant per capita in urban areas compared to rural areas since lead from gasoline will obviously be more abundant in cities with lots of cars per square m
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by mixmax 12y ago
If you want to look at it rationally you have to factor in the risks you are taking by selling it on the black market. These risk include: - How will you whitewash the money? Alternatively how will you spend them on the black market? You ca
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by mixmax 12y ago
In large production environments it's almost impossible to avoid bugs - and some of them are going to be nasty. What sets great and security conscious companies apart from the rest is how they deal with them. This is an examplary respo
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by mixmax 13y ago
Here's the question I always ask when the idea vs. execution debate comes up: Can you give me one single example of someone having sold an idea for a sizeable amount of money? I haven't heard any good answers yet.
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by mixmax 13y ago
[edit] - sillysaurus edited his comment slightly - I hope this rely still makes sense... I think your'e giving good reporters too little credit (note the good , which is unfortunately a minority). My experience is that these people ar
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by mixmax 13y ago
While I agree with your sentiment the real world isn't so simple. The primary qualification of a good reporter is access. Access to sources, access to documents, access to hints from people in power and access to confront and interview
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"Not invented here" syndrome is not unique to the IT world.(queue.acm.org)
1 points by mixmax 13y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 13y ago
The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping. To me and Occams razor that sounds more like a stuck key than the NSA ope
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by mixmax 13y ago
Yes probably - I've often seen acq as shorthand for acquisition in various notes and drafts over the years.
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by mixmax 13y ago
send me a mail if you have any questions - it's in my profile.
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by mixmax 13y ago
It's incredibly cheap, but you need to spend some time doing boat-things like painting fixing rust, etc. Timewise it's probably comparable to a house. I bought the boat in Holland for around $50.000 in cash and spent around $10.00
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by mixmax 13y ago
I live on a boat, which has quite a lot of similarities to this. I have even less livingspace than these houses, but I've managed to fit everything I need and more into it. The marina I live in has a clubhouse which is the social hub,
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Googles long-term strategy, and why they bought Boston Dynamics(maximise.dk)
3 points by mixmax 13y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 13y ago
I thin the point of the post is, as Louis Pasteure said it: " Luck favors the prepared mind "
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by mixmax 13y ago
Number 3 on the leader board[3] and yet banned from posting I'd say that this is actually a good thing. It proves that the moderators don't favor oldtimers and/or high-karma users: If you break the rules you get banned. No

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