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by olympus 9y ago
Its possible, but the fact that they applied for a US license that was denied makes any actions taken by a foreign headquartered company look fishy. At the very least, the US based portion of the company is still responsible for following
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by olympus 9y ago
The FCC is charged with regulating communications of all distances, not just those crossing state lines. One of their primary missions is ensuring fair access to the wireless spectrum and keeping someone from jamming it and preventing othe
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by olympus 9y ago
Have you ever flown on a commercial plane? There are several parts of the US that you can't fly over because the USAF says you can't. They also control the GPS constellation and can turn it off at will or degrade the accuracy ho
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by olympus 9y ago
No it's not. As long as the satellite is behaving itself, it can fly over any country and will not be subject to any laws from that country. The Outer Space Treaty was set up in part to clarify issues like this (also to keep nukes out
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by olympus 9y ago
The short answer is that the Outer Space Treaty states that all commercial satellites are under the jurisdiction of the country in which the company exists, regardless of where they are launched. SpaceBees is a California based company, so
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by olympus 9y ago
You might enjoy reading Glory Season by David Brin. It's a scifi novel with pirates and a competitive version of Conway's Game of Life- it's not central to the plot, but I've forgotten the plot and still remember Life
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by olympus 9y ago
Just because the US does it doesn't make it right, and it doesn't make it any less concerning for the other countries in the region. Moral relativism isn't a good defense.
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by olympus 9y ago
"could have great implications for homelessness" Thinking like a politician, one of the implications might be- since we can count a car as a home, all the people living out of their cars aren't homeless anymore. With this hu
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by olympus 9y ago
It doesn't just disturb the US, but every country surrounding China that is dominated by the strongest power in the region. The weaker countries have no choice but to accept unfavorable trade deals, give up ocean territory away from w
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by olympus 9y ago
This is a sign that Xi Jinping wants to become a dictator, and it concerns other countries if a giant country like China with a massive military is controlled by a dictator with unlimited power. China has every right to have a large milita
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by olympus 9y ago
I know that you didn't go out and buy the iPhone just for this purpose, but dang, this might be the pinnacle of modern consumerism. "I have a spare smartphone to use for apps that I don't want on my main smartphone."
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by olympus 9y ago
Yeah, I meant something along the lines of using CRISPR or a future derivative to make a person genetically predisposed to having the fastest mind, most durable body, and best hand-eye coordination.
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by olympus 9y ago
Oh, look. Another great thing that graphene can do. I'm starting to think that I'll see genetically engineered pro athletes before I get to see graphene powered gadgets. And probably I'll see true human level AI before mass
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by olympus 9y ago
Air density does have an effect, but the density change from temps that we've seen in the last few years (say a 75 degree game vs an 80 degree game) is only going to get you a couple feet of ball travel. While it make a difference on
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by olympus 9y ago
Statistics is not the core of psychology, it is the core of having a publishable result. Psychologists want to do just enough statistics that they can claim to have a p-value<0.05 so they can get it into a journal. They don't care
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by olympus 9y ago
I'm not blaming the victim, most* of the purchasers are in on the scam- they think they can "stick it to big Google" and buy a product that they know isn't a real Chromecast and save $10 over the price of a real Chromeca
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by olympus 9y ago
On one hand, anyone can obviously see that this is clearly ripping off the Chromecast's looks (and trademarked logo). But on the other hand, anyone who buys this thinking they are getting a Chromecast obviously didn't read the de
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by olympus 9y ago
How do you feel if instead you got dolphins with tracking devices? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/uncle-sams-dol...
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by olympus 9y ago
It shouldn't take more than 1MB, but a "power user" with the stock Slack desktop client will probably see RAM usage of 1.5 GB[1]. So* GP was referencing the fact that currently the Slack desktop client is using >1GB and t
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by olympus 9y ago
Government censorship is no fun, but the best part about this article for me was learning that Xi Jinping is sometimes compared to Winnie the Pooh. The comparison picture is dead on. https://twitter.com/vinayak_jain/st
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by olympus 9y ago
Not to mention that if you rely on estimating pregnancy rates by taking birth rates and then shifting backwards nine months, you have lost three quarters of time, and thus there is no way to use this data to predict a recession even if preg
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by olympus 9y ago
The graph doesn't look like pregnancy rates precede recessions at all, it looks like they occur at the same time (and thus aren't good for prediction). What's going on is that we have a goofy rule for recessions that require
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by olympus 9y ago
Savings in the US are not quite disincentivised, but not actively encouraged. You're only taxed on interest, the principal in a savings account isn't taxed.
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by olympus 9y ago
His prediction would carry a lot more weight if he had written about it prior to the recession. A lot of people can say "I predicted that" after it happened, but those who have proof they can point to have a lot more credibility.
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by olympus 9y ago
I believe this works in the Netherlands because they have a robust pension system. Disincentivizing savings without having a good system in place for retirement would break a country in a single generation.
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by olympus 9y ago
It means a lot of extra space. You are duplicating installations of Chrome and Node for each Electron app that is installed, instead of having one install and each app using the common dependency. So yes, the developer gets complete contro
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by olympus 9y ago
There is self selection going on in the comments of just about every article. In general people with strong feelings are more likely to comment, and on the internet strong negative feelings seem to be more common (and especially in an arti
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by olympus 9y ago
I worry that they will somehow tie the functionality of the sensors to an internet connection somehow. I wonder how hard it will be to write an entire car firmware from scratch.
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by olympus 9y ago
My car of the future will have a very complicated hosts file. The manufacturer had better not try to break the self-driving features if I block the ads. If they do I volunteer to be the pedestrian that gets hit by a car with ad-block so I
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by olympus 9y ago
The ineffectiveness of the Norden is overstated, since that's the trendy thing to do right now. Admittedly, the Norden did not live up to its hype. Almost nothing performs as well in real life as it does under perfect conditions- this

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