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NASA plans to change moon landings with Blue Origin's help(washingtonpost.com)
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I'm not in the industry. That said, it's my understanding that "front-running" as a term of art necessarily implies some sort of illegal behavior (at least in the US and European markets), but being clever with physics (
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… and once it’s used by multiple sites to uniquely identify you, it becomes a tracking cookie in (most of) the laws on the books. The law judges intent as well as technology.
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The Patent Fight That Could Take Apple Watches Off the Market(nytimes.com)
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I saw the 400 number in the abstract of the paper. And yes, terrible math on my part!
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Indeed. Clearly I shouldn’t do math in the morning! It seemed like an impossibly good number.
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> This presentation will demonstrate a feasible path for solid-state cells that possess a specific energy of greater than 400 Wh/kg to enable electric aircraft Wow!! Gasoline is 12 kWh/kg. Only 4x better! https://c
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Now that we're talking about kidney donation -- you might also consider becoming a blood donor! It's easy, and you get free tracking of cholesterol, blood pressure, and a battery of other blood tests when you do so. If you're
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Seriously. I used to have a microwave and oven stacked on top of each other. Both had an LCD, and so some horrible PMs somewhere presumably had entire sets of meetings to spec out the clock feature. The microwave would not function if the
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> Oh, you have to care about who owns the land in order to camp in the wilderness? Bummer. Downvoted because of the obnoxious tone of your comment. You could have made the same point in a more-engaging way. I've lived and camped i
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So much of RyanAir is indistinguishable from a scam... fees for on-site checkin combined with a 2-hour cutoff for online checkin; dark patterns pushing people towards double-paying for baggage fees; etc.
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This is great, and really helps tie together the pre-Colombian history I've read about to the here-and-now. How feasible would it be to build some sort of AR component? In particular, I'd love to be able to see your rendering for
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> It's a crime in the US to send a text message to someone in an automated way that they did not directly and concretely ask for. Doing so can result in heavy fines. I get so many spam SMS messages on my US number, despite periodi
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> Elon Musk owns a social media company that is pretty open about it's speech policies, whether you agree with them or not. How would you characterize that policy? Musk has claimed to be a “free speech absolutist” and perhaps he i
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It stopped in Shannon to refuel, since LCY is too short for commercial transatlantic hardware to take off with enough fuel. The customs clearance in Ireland was a smart way to take advantage of the stop to make things less painful in New Yo
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This is a dupe from last week, I think. A number of the threads here were discussed over there, including the particularly-interesting observation that concentrated salts are not that much of a concern if the (presumably-locally-consumed) w
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> Unfortunately, there is a class of people that work in tech that will bear the brunt of the ensuing corporate abuse: H-1B visa employees, whose immigration status is predicated on their ongoing employment. Their ability to hop from ab
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Looks like there are all sorts of adjustable massage table headrests on Amazon — perhaps one of them would do the trick?
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> 15 euros for a liter of beer? That's bloody ridiculous. Better cross Norway off your vacation list, then!
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Quite a lot of NeXT was ObjC (and ObjC++ -- eek!). Apple bought NeXT; the NeXT team begat Mac OS X; Mac OS X thus ended up being ObjC-heavy. When Apple build the iPhone, they used their Mac OS X know-how to build a new-but-familiar operatin
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> I have actually as productive is a chalkboard and a phone on a tripod, joining the phone to the VTC so people can see the chalkboard. I wish there was a better way to do that. You should check out Huddly Canvas -- it's a USB whi
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Wow that must have been fascinating. Did you end up learning a ton of emacs-fu along the way, or did it sorta start to just flow through you? If I were in either of your shoes (sandals?) in that situation, I’m sure I would be super frustrat
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This, in turn is a rewrite of history. There was a call for her to resign well before the end of Obama’s second term. In fact, it was a hot topic leading up to the 2014 midterms, since Obama had the Senate votes at that time to nominate who
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What were you typing for him?
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Perhaps this will help... https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/pull/2461
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How would you say you measure up in Europe? How about compared to Apple?
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How does your POI database compare to Google's?
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Telcos do pretty much the same -- US SIMs in China receive different Great Firewall treatment than Chinese SIMs, and I've seen some Chinese SIMs / phones on some cell networks in the US get routed back through the Great Firewall.
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I use `#####` as a sentinel for things that must not be committed, and have a git hook that checks my commits to ensure that marker is not present in the `+` side of a commit delta.
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From a scientific standpoint, nuclear fission is pretty much alchemy, right? I feel like we use the term to dismiss quacks, but changing one element into another is literally something we now know how to do. Lead (atomic number 82) isn’t ev

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