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by xenadu02 3y ago
The comment I was replying to said this: > Also, more simply put, SCOTUS declining to review a case is a tacit (and somewhat weak) way for them to state, "the lower court is probably right about this [...]" I was refuting that
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That is what I was saying. If Congress wanted courts to be more "morally fair" they could decide what that means and remodel the courts to apply that new standard. And I think we both agree a great many things are issues Congress
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That's true. Aircraft that do not cross borders are only subject to the home country's laws. FWIW I'm very glad in the US we still allow experimental and home-built aircraft. That's how we got aircraft in the first place
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by xenadu02 3y ago
>> "the lower court is probably right about this and we don't think we need to get involved" > This seems circular. your last sentence IS what constitutes a worthy case (for the SCOTUS) No I was correcting the idea t
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by xenadu02 3y ago
This principle has been noted in both trial court opinions and by SCOTUS so I think it has relevance. Thats why I said it is a good issue to research.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I will only say there are two important legal issues to keep in mind in cases like this: 1. Every company is, in some respect or another, technically a monopolist with regard to its own products. Indeed if this were not true most would go o
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Indeed Congress could do much much more to make legal proceedings "morally fair". They could greatly expand the bench (aka have more judges) so cases get heard faster. They could create entirely new levels of legal proceedings by
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> Also, more simply put, SCOTUS declining to review a case is a tacit (and somewhat weak) way for them to state, "the lower court is probably right about this and we don't think we need to get involved". This is not the co
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I don't recall if it is just by handshake agreement or in an actual treaty but the country where the manufacturer of a plane operates is the one designated authority over that manufacturer. FAA issues Airworthiness directives and sets
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I was specifically referencing shared-billing scenarios which was just getting under way but has basically been knee-capped by the CPUC. The idea was that a homeowner's association (for condo owners) or apartment building owner could i
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Also remember things are not like the movies. Most gold is not found in large single chunks. It is found as tiny inclusions scattered within a larger piece of rock, sometimes put there by flash deposition deep in the crust (earthquake or wh
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> Catastrophic crash scenarios are not the only scenarios where data preservation is desirable. That's exactly why I said "In a malfunction scenario" in my comment. Modern aviation uses essentially a blameless post-mortem
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> Wholesale rates never go to $1/kwh. Why should you get paid more than what PG&E pays its suppliers? I believe CASIO's spot price cap on generation is in fact $1/kwh. This is only ever reached on a handful of peak sum
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Except the ACC calculation used in CA is absolute nonsense and deliberately uses monthly averaging so you don't get a fair cut. Utilities always want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to pay you almost nothing for power se
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The argument about privacy is a bit of a red-herring IMHO. The audio should be recorded for each flight plan (whether one segment or multiple) in its entirety. The system can automatically delete all recordings finished N or more hours ago
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by xenadu02 3y ago
On macOS you open the IOKit device and post/receive messages or use transfer buffers. Only one program can do that at once since the OS doesn't know anything about the protocol, but it works without a driver.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
It's not just about the discovery - though that won the Nobel Prize. You have to be able to reliably lay down sub-100nm thick layers of material. A tall order pre-1960s. You also need to develop separator films with the correctly sized
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Any arc source is vastly more destructive with DC. That makes switching and circuit protection more difficult/expensive. AC helps you because the voltage crosses zero twice every cycle so normal voltages don't tend to be sufficien
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by xenadu02 3y ago
This is true of most "inventions". The first person to think it up often can't put the idea to practical use or find any commercial success. Often material science or manufacturability isn't ready yet. Or the idea isn&#x
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by xenadu02 3y ago
You need lithium chemistry to be competitive and that requires nano level understanding of the anode/cathode crystal structure. That essentially requires quantum mechanics which wasn't even a thing during the two decades when stea
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by xenadu02 3y ago
No, Windows has a list of specific "generic device classes" where it will automatically load a generic driver. Mass storage and HID are the primary users of this. But if it doesn't fall into one of those buckets Windows just
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by xenadu02 3y ago
This is the original ASCII plist file format from NeXTSTEP. Foundation still supports reading these but not writing them.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I'm not sure how a single inverter failure could drive voltage high. Or how a varistor failure could cause a problem... The inverter has to perform a DC-AC conversion and has many more ways to fail safe than unsafe but I'm not say
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by xenadu02 3y ago
All useful hydro sites have been used at this point. There just aren't any places left to build large hydro dams. The ones being removed are all older facilities that mostly don't produce much power.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> Overvoltage is now routine in places where there's lots of PV installed in homes and not enough load nearby. Every solar inverter / microinverter manufactured in the past two decades (if not older) must monitor the grid volta
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> Isn’t that the bad part about this story? That someone with your laptop can reset it if you’ve not used ‘find my’? In the default state the Mac works the way people say they want it to work. It is not enrolled in Find My and Apple has
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Because most of us didn't think AOL was doing something illegal by blocking third party clients. AOL created the service and ran the servers. AOL was free to make it work however they liked. And we never tried to insist that AOL was le
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Because Lufthansa left a few hours late they arrived during a super busy arrival window. AFAIK ATC had nearly 30 planes already in the queue for landing with spacing for visual. To get Lufthansa in any sooner they'd need to send update
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by xenadu02 3y ago
You need only look at cellular carriers and the rampant social engineering going on that gets people's cell numbers (and thus SMS messages) diverted to understand that you can't give people an inch here or the entire system falls
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by xenadu02 3y ago
That choice already exists! If you don't enable Find My on your device then anyone can DFU it to a blank slate without issue. You must opt-in to this feature.

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