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by scythe 3y ago
IANAL, but it's my understanding that courts like to stick to what they know. Apple's arguments about iOS security are rooted in abstruse technical concepts that a judge probably prefers to avoid ruling on directly, while Google&#
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Epic v. Apple did find some limitations to Apple's policies, but also found that Epic specifically didn't prove the abuse of monopoly power they wanted to. https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/12/226676
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>If teenagers are to be protected here, it is up to US legislation to create a law that prevents the undesired behavior. The Sherman Antitrust Act is broad and vague. It's practical definition depends on common-law precedent. While
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As you can see it was flagged off the front page (not by me) and it involves people with controversial opinions. So this tends to invite people who participate for the wrong reasons. At the time I wrote that comment, the only other post in
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Articles like this are always a struggle between my feeling that this kind of abuse is horrible and my belief that HN should not be the place to air these sorts of grievances.
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2023 Atlantic hurricane season ranks fourth for most named storms in a year(noaa.gov)
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Discoverability doesn't always have to be so fast. As long as the word eventually gets around, maybe a slower kind of discovery could be good for some communities. There's also boardreader.com for finding small communities, althou
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The simple explanation is that the "Free Palestine" posters just post more. If you look at Internet posts, you'll find a lot of people talking about being vegan, even though vegans are vanishingly rare in real life. Practical
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It's a setback, but it's a pretty big one, since the whole lineage is now considered nonviable due to OxO replacing another important gene. So you have to go back and implement the gene somewhere else, or do what they talked about
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Lithium deposits come in various grades and have different associated costs for extraction. The famous deposits in Bolivia are considered cheap to exploit. The geothermal brines in England as well. Other rock sources might be harder.
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I think that his political bloviating (to put it mildly) is best explained by Matt Levine's theory, that he wants to expand Tesla's appeal to conservatives. Getting plugged by Ramaswamy at the last Republican debate to cheers from
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Most animals are more dangerous when they are in what they perceive as "their territory" versus the field. A dog that is very timid on walks might jump on visitors to their house; bees that fiercely defend their hives will rarely
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Aluminum's corrosion resistance is decent, but it's particularly weak to alkali, and cement is alkaline. So.
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Aluminum is generally much more expensive than other construction materials, but less obviously, it has practically no fatigue limit, meaning a structure made of aluminum will eventually fail under repeated loads.
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In principle, sure. Lake Mead is in a warm enough location that it never freezes over (which could pose some difficulty for other lake-floated solar) and the intense heat and low humidity mean that quelling evaporation could be very benefic
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Stainless steel contains a necessary 12% (often more, usually 18%) chromium, which is relatively scarce from a building materials perspective. Already 85% of available chromium is used for stainless steel; many other metals are primarily su
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Also in Japan, there has been an increasing use of aluminum (!) in construction, since it will generally be melted and re-used after the structure is no longer useful. https://www.acsa-arch.org/chapter/toyo-itos-second-
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CFRP rebar has been developed with a much longer lifespan. However, it is currently considered non-economical, possibly because design lifespans are not long. Aramid FRP has been considered for rebar as well; glass fibers are attacked by ce
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Heat exchangers are almost never solid-state. Convection is just way better. But the cooling element is solid-state.
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>It got me thinking of can someone mass produce simple pipes pre-filled with electrical wiring This comment gave me the idea that you could just run the electrical wiring through another piece of bamboo, since it's hollow and about
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OS X is derived from NeXTSTEP, first released in 1989 and based on 4.3BSD-Tahoe. Meanwhile, this was updated to 4.3BSD-Reno and ported to the x86 as 386BSD, from which NetBSD was forked in early 1993; it was subsequently reorganized to beco
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One moderately frustrating thing about using FreeBSD is that it's always been treated as sort of a second-class citizen by GNOME, and therefore Gtk, and therefore most of the Linux ecosystem which depends on Gtk. So probably the most p
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Yeah, I didn't check to consider that the specific potential energy (10 km times g = 100 kJ/kg) is actually much larger than the specific kinetic energy (200 m/s squared over two = 20 kJ/kg) so my idea of pre-charging th
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>Even in flight, large aircraft will burn a lot of their fuel during ascent. I've been wondering if this offers any escape. Suppose that you have a power supply from the ground during the initial acceleration, and the final cruising
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Singapore overlooks the strait of Malacca, the key gateway by sea between India and China. It has been a strategic trading port for centuries. The cost of shipping goods there is correspondingly low — ships go there anyway. Consequently, it
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The hot phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War has been going on for one year and nine months.
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A clever abuse of terms to match my own, I guess. UV generates localized molecular excited states, particularly in double bonds. The process is basically similar to ionization even though electrons are not actually ejected. These excited bo
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I am a medical physicist. I know how the MRI works. The goal of the MRI machine is to make the patient's body emit radio waves, which are then measured. Obviously there is some RF going on! (This corresponds to a spatial Fourier tran
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I have a proposal for anyone who wants to go digging on Google. In order to simplify this whole nonionizing EM radiation cancer debate, it would be awfully nice if we could identify a subpopulation of people exposed to very high levels of n
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San Francisco only has three times the density of LA because "Los Angeles" includes a bunch of uninhabited mountains. If you use a more detailed measurement, the densities are similar. Anyway, fair is fair. San Francisco has to de

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