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by waegawegawe 9y ago
The same could be said of much private medical information. Guessability, or someone else knowing the information, are not the controlling factors in what is considered private information.
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
Think about how large of a lens you're talking about. Even if it were one hundred meters across and was able to collect 100% of the sun's energy passing through it, the amount of energy produced would be utterly insignificant comp
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
-1 => "Not even wrong/conspiracy theory" Honestly, this isn't the sort of thing that needs to be fact-checked. It just needs to be tagged as being baseless. It's a little different than the types of things this s
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
That said, the earth's atmosphere has a mass of about five billion billion tons. For reference, as a species, we produce about ten billion tons of concrete each year. This is just to give a sense to the scale of effort involved in repl
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
You haven't been in many internet arguments about economics, then. There are a lot of us who think that various targeted types of regulation and government market participation can actually lead to better markets. I'm not sure it&
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
Quick Google searches indicate about three watts. To a first approximation, you are not concave when talking on a cell phone, so figure at most 1.5W travelling in your direction. Humans are definitely not opaque to radio, but let's sup
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Citation? I believe in general (at least in the US), it would be really unusual for a corporation to get a tax break for money that was never theirs. The chief factor in how corporations are taxed in the US
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
I did not get the sense that the author was ostracized. Rather, they were put off by other people's enthusiasm. "Am I the only one here who can see this job is crap?" I can totally understand that feeling being crazy-making,
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
This was my reaction too. Mike Rowe would probably look dimly upon the author's complaints. Sometimes, companies hire people to do unpleasant jobs, and convince them to do these jobs by paying them. But, it's tough to have that co
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
I think what you mean is, "why do so many high end laptops have thin, metal, unibody chassis?" But, when you ask the question that way, it kind of answers itself. People like metal, because it feels more high end than plastic. Uni
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
It's not really "strange." The chances of us ever going to a proportional system en masse are near zero. The chances of making extreme gerrymandering illegal are significantly better (the Supreme Court recently heard a case a
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by waegawegawe 9y ago
Well, you're criticizing him for only acquiring things and slapping his brand on them. But the criticism is leveled in the context of him investing in an unproven technology. It seems like your comment would be more apt if he were taki