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by mreome 8y ago
Who drove them to the airport, loaded their luggage, prepared the in-flight meals, fueled up the jet, and flew it?
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by mreome 8y ago
That would still be very difficult. You have to know what kind of plastic you have before you can work with it, some plastics off-gas dangerous vapors when cut for example, and they would need to test for chemical contamination before it co
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by mreome 8y ago
No, we haven't extensively tested it... but everyone who makes vacuum cleaners are telling us they won't clean up dog poop, and people who know about carpet cleaning in general are saying there are other better ways to clean it up
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by mreome 8y ago
I would argue that in the case of file-sharing that it's Trolling when the plaintiff is going after an individual who, when removed from the system of distribution, would have no real effect on the rate or availability of the copyright
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by mreome 8y ago
That is one of the criticisms of project's research. They only looked at the water column to a depth of 5m, while other studies have seen that the plastics disperse to depths of at least 100m.
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by mreome 8y ago
I would enthusiastically support research and testing on this solution. Many of the objections to clean-up in the open-ocean are not relevant here. The depths are very restricted, the ecosystems are more limited, the weather conditions less
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by mreome 8y ago
The article was not arguing for inaction, it was arguing that this particular solution is not viable and could cause more harm then good. Both due to negative environmental impacts and diverting funds and attention from more workable and
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by mreome 8y ago
Yes it was a strong claim, and I should clarify that I specifically meant impossible using a solution based on ultra-large-scale-infrastructure methods like this. The scales required to have a meaningful impact on the quantities of plastic
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by mreome 8y ago
In theory, yes. But it would also destroy all ocean life, with perhaps the very tiny exception of the ecosystems around deep-ocean thermal vents. But, as another post has explained that this isn't what the ocean-plastics are. They woul
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by mreome 8y ago
Worse, they will be paying to recycle (dispose of) it. Right now there are major issues and limitations in the processing of even the generally clean/sorted and re-usable plastics from residential collection. Some recycling facilitie
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by mreome 8y ago
The plastics are diffused, innumerable, and spread through-out the ecosystem in varying environmental conditions where solutions will have varying effectiveness and possible negative impacts on wildlife. I'm skeptical of our ability to
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by mreome 8y ago
... at least someone is trying to do something about the problem ... I really can not fathom this sentiment, which seems to be the primary counter-argument to virtually all criticism of this project (as well as to criticisms of many other
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by mreome 8y ago
Isn't that only a serious risk if you are using it as cloud storage as opposed to cloud backup? If you're using it for backup, your only risk is that you won't have a backup for some period of time during/after a shut-do
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by mreome 8y ago
Mandating the availability of parental control or oversight on Internet services accessible by children is perfectly within scope. Unless the parent is policing the child's behavior, all Internet services are accessible to them. Le
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by mreome 8y ago
I don’t think questions two and four are asking for a definition, but rather talking about classification based on established definitions within specific field of mathmatics. In that context the questions should be read to mean something l
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by mreome 8y ago
I wonder how many politicians only really have knowledge of politics, how many have an understanding of the Industries and Technologies they are regulating, and how many have any knowledge of what the reality of life is for their constitue
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by mreome 8y ago
Isn't the fact that you labeled this sentence as "non-sense," just because the sex of subject has changed, kind of suggesting that this can easily lead to a discussion on gender norms?
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by mreome 8y ago
Of course, there will be cases where you need to check some of the initial values regardless, but often you just care if the result is valid. From a defensive programming stand-point, if you don't expect any of those values to be zero,
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by mreome 8y ago
So... if I do: x = a/b + c/d + e/(f*g/h) I need to check: if(b == 0 || d == 0 || f == 0 || g == 0) rather then: if(isFinite(x)) Or whatever function/equality check is appropriate, or a try&#
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by mreome 8y ago
If division by zero is not undefined, yes. But how does this disagree with the assertion that it's mathematically inconsistent (as opposed to programmatically inconsistent)? If any case exists that leads to a logically false conclusion
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by mreome 8y ago
I agree. I think there is only really an issue when it is a monetary 'disincentive', i.e. it's a situation where the employee is effectively being paid less then what was expected based on the work-pay agreement (both in term
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by mreome 8y ago
The bare necessity here is food in general. An employee has to eat when on business trips, so they can't a avoid the issue. They either have to accept the financial loss, or accept the dietary change. There are of course alternatives t
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by mreome 8y ago
While I don't think this "forces" a vegetarian diet on the employees, it is placing the employees in a situation where their company is promoting a particular ideology/lifestyle/diet through financial motivation. Di
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by mreome 8y ago
Yahoo actually stopped being supported in Pidgin last year I believe; due to some major breaking changes in the protocol. I know what you mean though, it was weird when AIM shuttered, my account was old enough to vote. It is a strange thing
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by mreome 8y ago
I agree that battle has largely already been lost, I was just making the point that this ruling isn't going to significantly help brick-and-mortar retailers as they are in competition with large online retailers who are already undercu
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by mreome 8y ago
Further tightening the near-monopoly those companies have over the processing of legally required tax filings. They're the only real winners here. If is not possible for a small business owner or individual to realistically handle thei
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by mreome 8y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the logic here is that the company isn't paying the sales tax, the individual making the purchase is.The company is "simply" transferring that tax to the appropriate state government. Ex
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by mreome 8y ago
Except this isn't going to hurt the big online retailers undercutting local brick-and-mortar stores. Companies like Amazon have whole divisions that deal with sales tax (in the US and globally). They won't be happy about this ruli
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by mreome 8y ago
From The Article: "Yes, South Dakota, which prevailed in this decision, is currently exempting, from sales taxation, small businesses with $100,000 or less in state sales or fewer than 200 individual transactions." Unless I'm
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by mreome 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. As you say though, this will likely stop further domestic assembly operations from being established. It will be business as usual for the big players who do assembly in China, the rest will be encouraged to mo

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