rplst8

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by rplst8 8y ago
Agree. Copyright and the patent system are leftover vestiges of monarchical rule.
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by rplst8 8y ago
I think we are just all over thinking this stuff. The purpose of the web is to share things with other people.
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by rplst8 8y ago
This should have a 2016 in the title.
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by rplst8 8y ago
I'm generally OK with commission based sales - if there are guarantees. There's very little due diligence on the part of the Realtor or real estate agent. They can't really be held responsible for anything related the to co
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by rplst8 8y ago
I'm guessing this is related to the "syntactic sugar" that generics use in Java? If so isn't this largely covered by the warnings from a decent IDE?
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by rplst8 8y ago
Common sense you say? We can't have that ruining our government-corporate oligopolies!
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by rplst8 8y ago
It's much worse than you think. Some states don't require regular safety inspections. I've seen some scary stuff on the road in those states.
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by rplst8 8y ago
And Accumulo.
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by rplst8 8y ago
Vaccinations in the third world? I heard a statistic that something like 70-80% of third world children have had at least some exposure to vaccines.
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by rplst8 8y ago
Honestly, traffic is already bad enough around here and good tech talent is really hard to find. I hope it doesn't happen.
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by rplst8 8y ago
Isn't the difference here that Federal courts can't create law, only rule on constitutional matters. Common law (state and local courts) can create "laws". There are some exceptions to this where federal laws have likely
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by rplst8 8y ago
The other part of this "cooked" term we're missing is that microwave energy (RF energy in the 300 MHz to 300 GHz band) only "cooks" things when there is enough energy at the excitation frequency of water molecules.
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by rplst8 8y ago
All dogs are animals, not all animals are dogs.
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by rplst8 8y ago
E-M radiation is NOT the same as ionizing radiation.
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by rplst8 8y ago
They have not changed. Well, same wolf, new clothes made by sheep. They persecute religious groups, Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist alike. They control their laborers, harvest organs from prisoners, and they've been occupying Tibet sin
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by rplst8 8y ago
Internet companies have protection under the law that they can't be held liable for what their users say. IMHO that protection brings with it a duty to allow people to speak freely on their platform. They can't eat their cake and
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by rplst8 8y ago
Security through "obscurity" is not security at all.
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by rplst8 8y ago
Yeah I work as a contractor in the DC metro area and it seems mostly business as usual for the large majority. Folks aren't getting paid, but they'll likely get back pay once it's resolved. Traffic on the highways and metro s
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by rplst8 8y ago
This is the part that people so easily forget. The power is truley in Congress' hands. That said, appropriations bills must originate in the House and the new speaker and flock of freshman Representatives haven't passed anything y
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by rplst8 8y ago
They don't have to do it this way. They call the packages Omnibus bills and its supposed to be some sort of way to make the process more efficient and strike deals. You get your pet project and I get mine. https://en.m.wikip
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by rplst8 8y ago
Yes, but this coupled with the fact they shut down things that don't otherwise really require a human to actively working proves that it's all just a political ploy.
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by rplst8 8y ago
The loudness wars started way before lossy compression was widespread. That said it could be worsening it.
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by rplst8 8y ago
If you don't think there is a huge difference between 140 and 150db then you don't understand decibels. I can most certainly tell the difference between 320kbps lossy and red book audio on well done recordings.
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by rplst8 8y ago
> cost cutting is the only way Not always. If you provide a value proposition that a cheaper offering does not, say speed, you can increase volume. Highway transportation will not likely get much faster, but high speed freight via rail
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by rplst8 8y ago
The way it works now is you rely on a third party to guarantee the property isn't owned by someone else, and then you buy insurance to protect the lender in case the third party screwed up.
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by rplst8 8y ago
There may be bacteria, but the venom is known to contain sphingomyelinase D which is an enzyme that causes cell death. That is what causes necrosis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxoscelism
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by rplst8 8y ago
Yeah it does... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxoscelism Sphingomyelinase D
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by rplst8 8y ago
I thought they had a hemotoxin in their venom like a viper that contains enzymes that break down red blood cells.
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by rplst8 8y ago
I have like 4 windows PCs, three laptops and a 5-6 year old desktop. Never an issue, ever.
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by rplst8 8y ago
I use standby/sleep all the time no issues.

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