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by hsk 6y ago
Rules are decided by each state on its own. You can blame the constitution for deferring election procedures to each state. In PA, for example, the legislature (which is GOP I might add) forbid counting mail-in ballots until election day. T
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by hsk 6y ago
Each state's legislature decides that, so naturally states will differ on deadlines for when mail can arrive. Also, the count dragging on is because counting hasn't finished on the sheer quantity of mail-in ballots received before
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by hsk 8y ago
Because while matter cannot move faster than the speed of light the universe itself is allowed to expand faster than the speed of light. Think of the spacetime fabric stretching so fast light cannot cover the increased distance. The univers
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by hsk 9y ago
That's not the right way to look at it. People invest in an IPO in the first place because of the promise of liquidity down the line. If investors were told that they couldn't freely buy or sell shares after the first time it is s
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by hsk 11y ago
I haven't read the documentation, but I can respond to your questions given what you quoted. 1) It seems that way. Presumably, they will require affiliates to follow stricter rules. Even so, you would expect that these affiliates would
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by hsk 11y ago
You're overestimating the effectiveness of computers in taking in data and finding patterns. If you throw data naively at an algorithm, you'll get garbage. It's especially difficult to make sense out of trading data because o
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by hsk 11y ago
Because whether the spin is up or down when you observe it is completely random. Both observers at either end would believe they looked at it first without any other information, and the stream of bits would be completely random AND 100% co
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by hsk 11y ago
One aspect of inflation is that it is a tax on people who choose to hoard their money. Because inflation naturally makes every dollar worth less and less over time, you are forced to either spend it now or invest it somewhere that grows wit
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by hsk 11y ago
Everything has a gravitational field, but gravity is extremely weak, so you never notice it. Just imagine how a tiny fridge magnet can overcome the gravitational pull of the entire Earth. Scale down the Earth to the size of ordinary objects
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by hsk 11y ago
Correct. A safe observer far from the black hole will observe a singularity at the event horizon, but that is a coordinate singularity, not a true one. There is singularity at the event horizon for a falling observer. A falling observer wil
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by hsk 12y ago
To be fair, in SC1, maps played a HUGE role in balance. On Blue Storm, for example, Zergs used to have a multiple percentage point advantage over Terrans, but the map makers fixed that by adding a little space behind the minerals on the nat
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by hsk 12y ago
I think that's missing the point again. The point of a patent is so that the underlying technology is public. A patent system in fact does exactly what you suggest, which is to create a monopoly for a certain period of time so that the
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by hsk 12y ago
I think that's still not the point. A popular website's trade secret is not necessarily its source code. You can copy facebook's code from soup to nuts but you are not going to be nearly as successful. On the other hand, imag
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by hsk 12y ago
His point is that without the system of patents, inventors would never reveal anything to the public.
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by hsk 13y ago
The target particles in quantum teleportation are sort of a canvas on which to paint the properties of the original particles. After teleportation, the two entities will be indistinguishable. However, I do not think it means you are the sam