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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
I'm a massive Morris fan (so much so that I've read about this contraption before), and while I've only watched a few minutes of the documentary you linked, I do think that the interview style is different. It's not just
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
Does he hate cats? He's simply making his yard less attractive to cats in a way that does not harm his usage of his lawn. The cats don't get harmed other than getting wet, which they don't like.. but is pretty harmless. I act
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
I mean, I'm charging him with neither - I'm not advocating for his conviction, I'm just a dude commenting on an internet forum. There's much more evidence where that came from, but that statement cuts into the central pr
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
Adnan would talk Jay into borrowing the car and phone later in the day - he asked for the ride before he created the need for it.
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
It's really hard to answer that question without writing a couple thousand words about different things, honestly. Many (most?) of us in this thread have 10 or so hours of information about this case just from listening to Serial, so i
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
The state can appeal this decision, and I'd think they surely will do that. I don't know enough about law to know what their odds of succeeding would be. Beyond that? The evidence against him was a good deal less sketchy than Seri
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
You are correct, but the conservatives calling Facebook out on that are trying to tell everyone it is: > I believe they are acting in good faith and share some very deep, fundamental principles with people who believe in the principles o
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
I think the important part here is that (in your example), Joe in HR wrote an application that is important enough to be used but not important enough to be professionally rewritten in a "better" language . I don't really
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
Right. And the premise the used to explain his trip back to SF was, let's be honest, thin at best - I like me some travel, but even I won't fly transcon just to stay in a nice hotel room. This makes a lot more sense.
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
As a counterexample, I've gotten great service from very large companies by sending them private communication via social media (Facebook messages, for instance) - mostly because I really don't want to fill up my social media feed
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by sjm-lbm 10y ago
It's funny, I honestly had an entirely opposite reaction to that letter. It seems like a reasonable thing for the software developers to look at to confirm the systems were working as specified, but leaves me with a ton of questions ab
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
As an alternative point of view, I've always heard that HP calculators were killed by TI giving free calculators to schools - which lead to an entire generation that had no desire to learn RPN, even if it has some serious advantages in
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I follow the airline industry, and this offer is $600 million more than the most recent rumors ($2 billion even). I'd assume this accounts for a lot of the bump (and simple "the deal is further along than it was last week" pr
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I do generally agree with you, but I'm not really talking about engineering or physics, I'm talking about social acceptance. If - via engineering, physics, magic or whatever - sonic booms can be minimized to the point of being ind
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
At least one real-world test was conducted about how people acclimate to sonic booms[1] with an eye towards seeing how people would take SST airliners. It didn't go very well. In general, it seems that enough people do think it a hards
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I've found that they are great fun to play with groups of people, particularly when it is a group of people that remember playing the games when they were new. I, like you, have been mostly disappointed when it comes to playing them al
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
Verizon has been steadily selling off different FiOS (and landline) regions to a company called Frontier Communications (see http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/verizon-gets-approva... for a recent story
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I'm no economist, but with 0% interest rates and nonzero government bond rates banks have been able to do essentially this for years - get money for free, loan it to the government, call that a good day's work.
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
Well, I didn't mean "this is Apple's fault" as much as "serviceability problems traditionally associated with Apple devices are now common industry wide" - and are now hard to avoid even if you look at other br
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
The extra annoying part is that Apple's total lack of reputability is starting to spread to competing products - a lot of Android phones have dropped user-replaceable batteries, for instance, and a sizable amount of good Windows ultrab
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
BMW will get "youth drivers" exactly the same place it currently gets them: nowhere, because those people don't buy BMWs. BMW's goal in EVs is to hold on to the segment of the market that they have. Tesla's goal is
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
This is impressive in general, but particularly so in light of where they came from: http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-900-million-surface-...
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
To be honest, I think you are - to an extent - falling into the same trap that the managers fell into at Thiokol: namely, assuming that your view of the situation is complete and that input from other work groups can be disregarded. In real
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
On some Pixar movie (Ratatouille, I think), one of the DVD extras was a set of deleted scenes that happened to be the entire work of individual animators - basically they spent 18 months of their life working on that stubble, and the whol
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I'm all for a little conspiracy, but Renault themselves have little exposure in the US market to begin with. They have a strong relationship with Nissan - including sharing some (but not all) engine tech - but overall the US would seem
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
For what it's worth, I completely agree with you. My comment wasn't really meant to directly compare the two's accomplishments or contributions, just to point out that a lot of the popular criticism of Edison is somewhat unfa
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I'm far from an expert on all of the details, but I find it amusing how similar Edison was to Steve Jobs: both non-engineers that seemed to have enough technical intuition to facilitate an amazing amount of development within their o
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
They will still need a chassis/engine before they have a viable car, and there's been no real external indication of them either developing that in house or partnering with/purchasing someone that can provide that expertise.
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I haven't, but I might give it a watch.
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
The real complexity of the discussion comes from the unknown number of attacks that would be prevented with very mild pre-9/11 security measures. Earlier this year, I read The Looming Towers , an overview of various historical factors

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