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by throwaway3627 7y ago
It's a different situation. Samsung is a big company, whereas the lightbulb vendors are fly-by-night resellers/contract manufacturers that don't care about patents. The patent holder goes after the biggest fish because Target
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
I live in a van in the Valley, have an engineering degree from a top school, bankruptcy, student loan debt over me I can never hope to repay but cannot hold a job. No drugs, no smoking, no drinking, no sanitation issues, and no hanging out
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Gotcha crony vampiric cannibal capitalism at it's finest.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
I'm surprised almost no one is also talking about the 2010 Boeing subcontractor Ducommun 737 NG (-600/700/800/900) critical structural elements deficiencies scandal and coverup Al Jazeera exposed. Several passengers hav
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
I deleted all of my Stack accounts several months ago. Not all, but the vast majority of programmers on there exude too much ego, self-centeredness, know-it-allitry, unreasonableness, are too petty and/or are too unpleasant to make me
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
For every lifestyle decision, there are always potential risks and potential benefits. For example, people who run excessively tend to lose fast-twitch/bulk muscle mass and wear their hips, knees and ankles faster than most people. F
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Fixing iron oxidation is great, my old VW would appreciate it, but I don't see how it helps much... and I'm sure marine coatings have a long history and a lot of technology invested. Wouldn't a systematically-better approach
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Another dimension to consider is that some people perform well at some specific things, but not all nonspecific things. And also that performance varies with situation-to-situation and self-perception varies with mood/time. In reality,
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Trump is off the left side of the graph where actual ability is epsilon (~0) while perceived ability is 100.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
You know a platform doesn't care about security if either: a. They don't do end-to-end integrity and non-repudiation (not signed hashes of files, not just https, not just hashes, but signed archives/files that can be verified
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Where the heck is the link to the calculator?
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Wasn't there a similar program long-ago in the US where the FBI/DOJ/USDC diverted first-time offenders into working with US-CERT instead of Aaron Swartzing them?
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Boeing doesn't care much about what's ethical, it does what's cheapest/easiest (remember the Ducommun structural parts scandal of 2010?). That's the job of the regulator: to enforce protections and be another layer
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
This is regulatory capture that corporate-political plutocracy brings. I hope Nader sues the pants off them in his goddaughter's memory.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Makes you wonder if some rogue device/adapter/charger could deliver malware (sploit/trickery) to it before or after it's booted from the host.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
That's some cool enginerding discovered by gindrenigne. AvE, bigclivedotcom and EEVblog would be proud!
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Interesting. I was in the Paradise Camp Fire, and tens of thousands of trees have since been cutdown. Most of the trees (pines) survived because they evolved with fire, but I doubt any are still alive because they're rarely allowed to
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
The House of Commons could use this tech, a barber and a tailor.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
We also studied the War of 1812. It was a crushing, symbolic defeat in battle for the fledgling nation, although it didn't make much difference in total.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
It is because they aren't subscribed to The History Guy on YT. ;)
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Try looking it up in search engines first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Effect_on_electroni... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays...
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Four decades Bay Area native here. Yes, unless the salary more than makes up for the extremely-unbalanced cost of living. Housing and everything in SF is obscenely expensive. It's been this way for many years, but still people try to m
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Cosmic Ray Update: New Results from the Moon(spaceweatherarchive.com)
55 points by throwaway3627 7y ago|23 comments
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Modern music has no memory, therefore there's no nostalgia. I look at it not as a problem of elitism, ranking or "good ol days" of genres, which would be comparing apples and oranges, but a matter of having good taste applies
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
1. Playola 2. Most people don't have good taste 3. A bewildering abundance of platforms, delivery methods, genres and performers As nonprofit stations go, KCSM 91.1 FM ain't bad.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
I remember Amigas were still sold in specialty independent stores in the late 90's.
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
"Jerk" isn't a quality of people, but a maladaptive pattern of negative behavior that often harms the morale and well-being of others. It's a choice of interaction patterns. It's possible to be brilliant, honestly c
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
At workplaces without civility, jerks are often rewarded if they deliver results, and management tolerates them because they make them look good. OTOH, not separating out punishment of the brilliance from the jerk is an equally-damaging lac
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Dunning-Kruger
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by throwaway3627 7y ago
Yep. The incompetents can now use "jerk" to paint anyone who GTD, while the second-stringers can ease-back and do a whole lot of nothing.

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