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by tzs 5d ago
The MP3 lawsuits were filed in the districts in which the defendants resided. Almost all of the 94 districts had MP3 sharing lawsuits. You are probably thinking of patents. For a long time the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) was by far the
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by tzs 5d ago
It is usage of plants that matters, not number of plants. Most of the new Chinese coal plants mostly have have low capacity factors. They are being built as backups and peakers rather than baseload, designed (or retrofitted in the case of e
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by tzs 5d ago
India emits 30% less total CO2 than the US and 84% less per capita than the US, and is massively expanding renewables. For their population even without the renewables they are using far less than their share of any fair way to allocate wha
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by tzs 6d ago
They are in the EU. The tariff is 27% so they aren't as numerous as they would be without it but there are still plenty. There will probably be a lot more starting next year since they are building a factory in the EU which is schedule
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by tzs 6d ago
You are right most of the time for English, but today that should be "Arrr! He be the sawbones". Spain had pirates too, but I don't speak Spanish so had to ask an LLM. It suggested that today in Spanish it would be "Él e
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by tzs 7d ago
Medieval law often just seem weird by modern standards. Another good example of medieval weirdness is animal trials [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial
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by tzs 7d ago
This seemed like it might have a point in there somewhere but it was hard to be sure when it was posted two days ago via a site that turns social media sequences of posts into more normal looking articles [1]. The original social media fo
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by tzs 7d ago
Geesh...it also behind a "Menu" button on desktop if the page is not wide enough. Here is the PDF they link to: https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_120/Agarwal%20...
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by tzs 7d ago
Oh, I see the problem. You clicked the "View e-book version" link. That goes to the publisher's store. As far as I know they never had a PDF, just a special web version. Click the book's title in the paragraph above that
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by tzs 7d ago
I see some discussion of which books are good for people with various levels of electronics knowledge. I'd like to add one that I've never seen mentioned here: Agarwal and Lang's "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electr
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by tzs 7d ago
From the article, starting in the next paragraph after the one your quote was in: > But what is the threat? In 1940 the danger of a German invasion of the UK was very real. But the chances of Russian tanks rolling up Whitehall are surely
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by tzs 7d ago
> One party does not have an indisputable claim on being ethical. No, but one party does have a disputable claim on being ethical. The other party doesn't even have a disputable claim any more.
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by tzs 7d ago
Singapore currently has around 13000 taxis and Tokyo has around 50000 so clearly a lot of people in those cities do not consider the non-car based public transportation to be perfect. Those are actual taxis. If we include services similar t
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by tzs 7d ago
Describing him just as a "a farmer" seems kind of ridiculous. Here has extensive business experience unrelated to his farm. From the Wikipedia page on him [1]: > Buffett was Corporate Vice President and Assistant to the Chairma
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by tzs 8d ago
> Amazon prompts me to create a passkey everytime I log in, even when I logged in with a passkey, because my passkeys live in Bitwarden rather than my OS or browser. I use 1Password and Amazon does not prompt me like that. However I do h
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by tzs 8d ago
The same way you share them now: sharing the account name and password and doing whatever you currently do to deal with any 2FA they occasionally toss in. If they also allow passkeys as an alternative form of login that doesn't need 2F
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by tzs 8d ago
You are assuming that social constructs are not real.
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by tzs 8d ago
> “Information wants to be free“ What about the rest of that quote?
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by tzs 8d ago
Nope. You are making one or both of these mistakes. (1) Overlooking that the same logic can lead to different outcomes depending on the premises to which the logic is applied. (2) Overlooking that real life is analog, not digital, and so th
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by tzs 9d ago
> I don't buy it. If people are using AI to make viruses and do gain of function research, certainly they can also be using AI to design new cures. What about lag? If I'm on team "I want to wipe out most of humanity with a
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by tzs 9d ago
Chevy Bolt had 238 miles range and was released to customers 6 months before the Model 3.
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by tzs 9d ago
> No statute defines "clean room RE" and there's basically no relevant litigation establishing case law. It doesn't really make sense for it to be in a statute or in case law. When you are a copyright infringement def
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by tzs 10d ago
Why would people say the Model 3 would never be mass produced? Nissan had been mass producing EVs for years before Tesla did, so it was obvious that mass produced EVs were viable. (Tesla started selling EVs before Nissan did, but those were
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by tzs 11d ago
From the description it sounds like it is talking about the war the Dani people in the Baliem Valley fought in that region. They did not keep written records but archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests it could have been going
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by tzs 11d ago
I do follow the news. I'm aware of his hush money trial, the case against him over Jan 6th, the illegal retention of classified documents, and the Georgia election interference case, The E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, and the New York civil
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by tzs 11d ago
> Like a ballet critic who has never taken a ballet class. In this case though it would be more like an inspector checking that the changes made to modify a building to house a ballet studio follow code has not taken a ballet class.
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by tzs 11d ago
This is 100% correct. Here are some useful links. This is an explanation of just how they got those ridiculous numbers like 35 years [1]. There is also often confusion of what he did and what hewas charged with. Here's a two part serie
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by tzs 11d ago
She has experience in the relevant areas. It is quite common for experience in X itself to be quite different from the experience that is useful in dealing with X in some different context. Most oncologists have no experience with actually
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by tzs 11d ago
None of those things you list that she has never done help in any meaningful way with understanding antitrust law.
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by tzs 11d ago
It wasn't clear to me if Comet is doing something that was purposefully built in or trained in to let it do things on Amazon, or if it was built/trained to try to do things on any website. From what the net tells me it is the latt

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