jonathlee

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by jonathlee 5y ago
Intellectual property and physical property are entirely different. Intellectual property can be shared/multiplied/given away indefinitely while still being retained by the originator while physical property cannot. After copyrig
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by jonathlee 5y ago
"Only 8 months" tells you nothing of the conditions or prison population within which he will be placed. 8 months in solitary or in a maximum-security prison (where hard-core, repeat-offender murderers and rapists are) is much ha
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by jonathlee 5y ago
Adding "tiananmen square" to "tank man" does return the photo as the 3rd result: tank man tiananmen square Also, the misspelled version of Tianenmen that I first used worked as well.
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by jonathlee 5y ago
Interesting modelling exercise but until we have physical evidence that this is occurring, and can calibrate the model to what degree, this is just an interesting hypothesis/story. Models are always subject to the GIGO and built-in-as
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by jonathlee 6y ago
Because its the new hotness.
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by jonathlee 6y ago
Yes. Look up space diving. There have been old Popular Science (Popular Mechanics?) articles on it and speculation in the space community about a new sport if/when a space tether is possible.
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by jonathlee 7y ago
I have personal experience with this type of situation. Twice we had excellent phone interviews for an onsite contractor position. Then, when the supposed person we interviewed showed up, they turned out not to be able to do the work (not
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by jonathlee 7y ago
I have never heard of that happening in _any_ real-world version of communism. Maybe you are thinking of an employee-owned company?
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by jonathlee 7y ago
No, the actual previous owners of the were running access to the beach as a business. It was a road (driveway) they built and charged fees to use, not public.
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by jonathlee 7y ago
That was a reference to Robert Heinlein's book, "Stranger in a Strange Land".
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by jonathlee 7y ago
Of course you put supports under it. The point is the low amount of mass required.
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by jonathlee 7y ago
I work at Nucor and know of several people who have done exactly this in the 20 years I've worked here. They started working in a entry level production position and worked their way up to department manager, division manager/VP,
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by jonathlee 8y ago
This must be a new thing or only apply to certain states/cities. I've never saw this happen back when I was doing low wage work.
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by jonathlee 8y ago
It's harder for 100 companies to collude undetected/unchallenged with no viable alternative than for 1-5 massive/politically-savvy companies to tweak results/ban users to fit their political biases. The larger a company
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by jonathlee 8y ago
I believe the article has failed to realize that "self-reporting" evidence is weaker than actions, not stronger. If you listen to the Freakonomics podcast for any length of time, you would realize that the weakest, most likely to
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by jonathlee 8y ago
According to the Outer Space Treaty (1967), which is still current international law and of which the USA is a signatory, the LAUNCHING STATE is the responsible party. The FCC is overstepping its bounds here. This is just a company doing w
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by jonathlee 9y ago
Seems like a good way to end up dead right.
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by jonathlee 11y ago
If isdigit() is the standard library function, that takes/checks a single character. However, parse_integer() takes a full string and parses until it reaches a null or newline. The first character could definitely be a valid digit but
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by jonathlee 12y ago
Your interpretation, unknown due to lack of value, may be valid but is more likely incorrect. Historically, ideas take a long time (decades or more), before adoption. Some are simply not marketed on a wide scale, little exposure causing l
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by jonathlee 13y ago
Maybe it doesn't work for lenses but it seems it would work for mirrors: http://www.academia.edu/5185260/SUNBEAMS_FROM_SPACE_MIRRORS_...
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by jonathlee 13y ago
I'm glad to see NASA astrophysicists are finally catching up with what plasma physicists have known since 1903 when Kristian Birkeland predicted exactly this. This phenomenon is known as "Birkeland Currents" ( http:/&#x2
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by jonathlee 13y ago
It's not the speed that puts strain on the body, it's the _change_ in speed (i.e. acceleration). You are currently going ~67062 MPH around the sun and probably didn't notice. If you suddenly slowed down to 4000 MPH around t
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by jonathlee 14y ago
If $4000/month won't pay his rent, he's (or maybe you) are living in the wrong country/region.
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by jonathlee 14y ago
The Institute for Justice has been fighting this one for a while. I'm glad they were finally able to get the judge to see what was going on. (Full disclosure: I am a supporter of IJ.)
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by jonathlee 14y ago
To the best of my knowledge Common Lisp methods (CLOS) already allows the ability to do things such as your rendering co-ordinate transformation example already without requiring extraneous abstract method definitions. Generic functions and
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by jonathlee 14y ago
I think the templating library you are looking for is cl-mustache. I am using it currently for a SQL template engine in one of my internal work projects.
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by jonathlee 14y ago
That sense is just as nonsensical. Would you also say that people in the 19th century were "addicted to coal" and "addicted to whale oil" and that people before that were "addicted to wood fires"? Oil is just the latest, most economical en
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by jonathlee 14y ago
What an incredibly slanted article.
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by jonathlee 14y ago
Based on the wording of the article, it seems that the satellite is in the wrong orbit not because of the fault with the first stage but because the second stage wasn't allowed to make a correction burn due to NASA rules.
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by jonathlee 15y ago
The Governor's comment about red license plates being used, then green once the technology is ready for the general public reminds me of the old regulations that were put in place when automobiles were just beginning to spread. Anyone driv

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