Daniel_Newby

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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Indeed. That's why he was also protected by the FBI internal reviews that freed him, the prosecutors who know just how silly a bad fingerprint match will look in court, the compulsory defense lawyer and defense investigation budget, th
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
The article claims they deduced he was an international spy. But the article is a political hatchet job. It is entirely likely that "we put a lot of effort into investigating how he could have traveled" was ninja translated to &qu
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Excellent means that they went from a tiny sliver of evidence to someone who raised pretty much every red flag there is. And the excellent response was ... investigate harder. They did not drag him into a jail and torture a confession out o
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
> That's not very good, and that's horrifying as that could literally happen to any of us by nothing more than some bad luck. Try reading my comment again, you fucking dumbass. EVERY DETECTION METHOD HAS A FALSE POSITIVE RATE,
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Stop regurgutating that idiotic political spew. Start thinking for yourself or shut the fuck up. The FBI has no jurisdiction. Courts have jurisdiction. A single partial fingerprint would have been laughed out of the prosecutor's offi
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
What, exactly, is terrifying? The FBI did an excellent job of making connections between suspicious facts, the sort of connections that should have been made to prevent the 9-11 attacks. It is absurd to claim that this should not have happe
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Historically, collapsing banks simply collapse all at once. There is no incentive to slowly unveil a fraud. The depositors might kill you.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
It's the money handling that is regulated, not the Bitcoins. You can trade Bitcoins for anything except money without any licensing (in the U.S.). Apple wants out so people will not be carrying around irreplaceable wallets in their pho
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
> What I take from this story is that the financial law is so complex and unapproachable one can not reliably navigate it without landing in jail, even being a seasoned professional. Because this story was written by a liar and/or i
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
No, and it does not matter who you trust. Analog circuitry simply has too much inbound and outbound information leakage to be trustworthy. You must round it out with a mixing algorithm.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
That's madness or desperation. Sensible people ship bauxite as far as necessary to find cheap energy.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
That aluminum paper was right. Firstly, aluminum is originally made on-site at hydroelectric plants in inconvenient places. While it is energy intensive, nobody else is competing for that electricity. Cost = price of dam ÷ decades of alumin
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Somewhere I read that such a call triggers a fraud red alert.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Are you serious? The U.S. has successfully fought wars in the recent past. High ranking officers are routinely sacked when they lose touch of soldiering and their mission fails. The U.S. version of party political indoctrination is just a l
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Planes do not have to be painted. Bare aluminum is pretty corrosion resistant. Many airlines strip most of the paint to save weight.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0741 http://www.thorium.at/?page_id=4 I could not find many references, but I think clocks mainly make the instrument cheaper, or possible in the case of long-baseline satelli
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Gravity wave detectors get phase accuracy by comparing a photon to itself using an interferometer. SNR is improved by brightening the laser and averaging over more photons. The laser frequency is less important. It turns out there are some
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Build several identical clocks and watch the ensemble drift relative to each other. The lattice clock in this story has numerous clusters of atoms. They could fill only a few clusters and measure the performance relative to a good clock, th
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Indeed. The best existing atomic clocks need to be recalibrated if they are raised a few centimeters, owing to gravitational time dilation.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Psychiatric wards in the U.S. are for very short term stays by people who have extreme problems. They take people who are at major risk of causing harm, and patch them up just enough so that they can be thrown out. And even that is being sc
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Yale is a sort of a finishing school for the highest levels of electioneering. Having people leave to spend more time with their families is part of the game.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
"Indolence from marijuana use increases the unpurchased goods overhanging the interstate market."
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
What you wrote was the public school history book version. X gave Y reasons to do Z. The details of what happened are important. The Great Depression was not aww shucks bad luck, it was a self-inflicted wound. Many of the fixes tried were a
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Indeed. The bitterest thing is that cheap access to space would have flowed forth a river of money to tech companies in every voting district. They could have sold uncancellable payloads like it was going out of style, and instead they cruc
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Actually if you read the case, they say that growing the wheat was OK. Harvesting it was OK. Using it as fodder would have been OK. The unlawful act was threshing the wheat . Ambrose Bierce was a sunny optimist.
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Your comment omits one thing without which the reader cannot understand modern federal politics. At the same time automation was eliminating jobs at the highest rate in history, the federal government ran the money supply into the ground. T
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
> You basically have federal US laws outlawing anything having to do with marijuana, ... On the theory that growing hemp in your garden is "interstate commerce". The laws are unconstitutional. It's all just vote whoring by
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
The Air Force hijacked the Space Shuttle design process and forced it to deliver gigantic loads to polar orbit (a very tricky task). Then they abandoned the Shuttle, leaving it misdesigned for a nonexistent mission. Morton Thiokol is a soli
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
There are a lot of people who will vote for some regulation, and in Retardistan, D.C. that turns into total regulation to maximize the number of votes. You know, like "health care seems kind of screwed up" turned into "put an
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by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
A lot of things, like nonlinear control systems, can only be verified by Monte Carlo methods. Subsystem failure tolerance is difficult to handle by any existing theorem prover. The JSF software organization uses static analyzers heavily. Th

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