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by rlanday 13y ago
I think the situation is basically that it’s allowed, but employers have to jump through probably more hoops than they should be required to to prove it’s fair. The Supreme Court ruled in 1971 in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. that Duke Power Co.
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by rlanday 13y ago
Anyone who describes GameCube as a failure without saying the same of the Xbox is either being intentionally dishonest or smoking crack. The GameCube wildly, wildly successful like the PlayStation 2, but it sold something like 22 million un
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by rlanday 13y ago
No, that’s not what the paper shows. The paper claims that there exists arbitrarily large primes prime pairs with a gap of less than 70 million, not that all primes are part of a prime pair. Your misinterpretation is equivalent to intep
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by rlanday 13y ago
Is Windows even using the same font? I think Windows prioritizes making the text look sharp over getting all the character strokes in the right place. OS X and Ubuntu look very similar except for the line spacing, and the lowercase ‘a’, whi
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by rlanday 14y ago
Facebook Hacker Cup had a similar problem: https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/problems.php?pid=53250625... I almost solved it; after screwing around for a while trying to record only one value for each square, I realized you need to store
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by rlanday 14y ago
As another University of Michigan student, this extreme enterpreneurial mindset seems incredibly arrogant to me. “I have nothing to learn from those more experienced than me, I can do everything by myself, and as a 20-year-old, I understand
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by rlanday 14y ago
I’ve heard that this was a concern when Graph Search was being developed, and that the query they used in testing to find people with crappy profile pics was “people who like Insane Clown Posse”.
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by rlanday 14y ago
H.264 is royalty-free for free web broadcast, so I don’t think YouTube has to pay a per-video or per-user fee. Google probably has to pay a fee per encoder, but that seems like a relatively minor cost. They probably also have to pay a decod
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by rlanday 14y ago
How do you explain Google trying to use Motorola’s H.264 patents they have FRAND obligations on to screw over the other H.264 licensees? Is it any surprise that Nokia’s not happy about this? http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/07/google
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by rlanday 14y ago
Doesn’t it seem kind of crooked/retarded that Google’s trying to screw people over trying to implement H.264, developed as an open standard, with patents they have FRAND obligations on, and at the same time they’re trying to promote the tec
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by rlanday 14y ago
Well, I guess it looks like they’re suppresing competition, but if Nokia’s correct that they own patents on VP8, then VP8 is patent encumbered and promoting it just creates fragmentation. This argument seems kind of tautological if Nokia’s
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by rlanday 14y ago
A Nokia spokesman is quoted in this article: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/nokia-comments-on-vp8-pat... as stating “Nokia believes that open and collaborative efforts for standardization are in the best interests of consumers, innova
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by rlanday 14y ago
It’s not really, if nearly all of your income is in the top income bracket getting taxed at that rate. And if most of your income isn’t in the top bracket, why earn that income at all if at least 91% is going to be stolen from you and the
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by rlanday 14y ago
I think the article you linked is a pretty reasonable interpretation. Google was claiming VP8 didn’t infringe any patents they didn’t own, which apparently wasn’t the case, and now they’re having to backpedal and say, “well, it did infringe
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by rlanday 14y ago
Wikipedia says: “Few USB devices made it to market until USB 1.1, released in August 1998, which fixed problems identified in 1.0, mostly relating to hubs. 1.1 was the earliest revision to be widely adopted.” The iMac G3 was released in Aug
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by rlanday 14y ago
You do realize that it was Apple that first shipped computers with USB to replace legacy ports, right?
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“For more information on levels of prociciency click here.”
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Yeah, it’s called an “overfull h-box” and occurs when TeX can’t find an acceptable way to justify the paragraph without stretching or shrinking the “glue” between words more than an acceptable amount. This happens more often in shorter line