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by rudyfink 6mo ago
Surprisingly, the article does not mention that Selfridge field in Michigan is named after Lieutenant Selfridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge_Air_National_Guard_B... .
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by rudyfink 8mo ago
African wild dogs use sneezes to "vote" to make decisions. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/284/1862/201...
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by rudyfink 1y ago
Obviously, it's a great outcome that it worked. But the alternative--"it could trigger a small explosion," JPL noted--would have been interesting too. A sort of in fire or in ice outcome. https://www.poetryfounda
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by rudyfink 2y ago
You are probably not overestimating. Generally, I would guess conferring with the client on the facts, briefing, preparing for a hearing, and arguing a hearing would be north of, at least, 25k, assuming a lower-end rate estimate in the $800
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by rudyfink 2y ago
What you said reminded me of this Royal Road ( https://www.royalroad.com/home ) website I came across. It is not physical publishing (at least I don't think so), but it is a large collection of different authors who rel
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by rudyfink 2y ago
That's cool. I admit hearing that story and thinking, "Is that how it happened? could a diver find it?" Apparently, they could! Great work on someone seeing it through.
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by rudyfink 3y ago
Also at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39727257 (48 comments), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39728973 (1 comment)
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by rudyfink 3y ago
I thought of this quote from the PBS documentary Commanding Heights LESZEK BALCEROWICZ, Finance Minister, Poland, 1989-1991: Just after breakthrough, there is a short period, a period of extraordinary politics. By definition, people are rea
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by rudyfink 3y ago
Feel free, my contact information is in my profile. "Back to school" in this case would, usually, mean law school, at least in the U.S. My sense is it is not uncommon for there to be a gap between undergraduate and law school.
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by rudyfink 3y ago
If you would like to reach out, I can probably answer some things for you. But, whether it is ultimately worth it or not, is a personal decision.
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by rudyfink 3y ago
I've always thought a website with sliders for mate preferences would be really helpful for folks. I get that it could get really complicated to do correctly, but even a fast and dirty version could be really interesting. Perhaps, it m
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by rudyfink 3y ago
1994 was still pretty early on for the web. This timeline of web browsers, which is very well done btw, illustrates the clients that were available at that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers .
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by rudyfink 3y ago
To be clear, I was not suggesting the intent was harm for harm's sake. I was suggesting that it was in the company's/businesses' interest to harm. I agree that, often, that interest is framed as making profit, but it c
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by rudyfink 3y ago
If by "reform" you mean weaken class actions, I would argue that is a bad idea. Larger businesses have already gone to great lengths to eliminate / curtail class actions. I'd argue that this weakening is the root cause o
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by rudyfink 3y ago
Preservation is one of the central problems of current copyright terms. By the time the term exhausts--in the U.S., now around 95 years for works for hire or life plus 75 years for author's works--the work may be completely lost. In
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by rudyfink 3y ago
Notably, from an announcement link in the comments ( https://global.sharp/corporate/news/230809-a.html ), the expected production of the 25.3 inch model is _only 500 a month_.
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by rudyfink 3y ago
If it isn't already a "law," one should be that the more complex a software system gets the more it tends towards control over user actions. There is probably a network-related corollary that in a networked software systems,
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by rudyfink 3y ago
If you're interested in more, this is a nice and short documentary (2014) on the Amen Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
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by rudyfink 3y ago
If anyone else was curious for more recent data, this 2021 article has the trends through 2019: https://thewhyaxis.substack.com/p/cops-still-take-more-stuff... . Its chart shows that burglary led from 2016-2018, but ass
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by rudyfink 3y ago
To save others the trip, the link simply states the term is a "[c]oordinative compound of anarcho- + tyranny." The link also adds that the term was coined by Samuel Francis, a columnist ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by rudyfink 3y ago
You can see the part where they open it up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJRWKCtKqo&t=1570s . My speculation: I'm no expert, but it looks like there are fragments of, at least, a bowl? Earlier in the feed
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by rudyfink 3y ago
Here are some news articles that have covered the raid: - https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/11/18... - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/
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by rudyfink 3y ago
>The biggest difference is that today, it never comes back around the dial - the dial is practically infinite. And the TV analyzes your dial-flipping to determine what channel to change you to / generates a channel you are more like
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by rudyfink 3y ago
Why do you think the company never took it to market past testing? And thank you for looking into this. I recall reading about experiments on the modified bacteria years ago, but then I forgot about it. Until I read your page, I had not re
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by rudyfink 3y ago
Huh, I did not know they were related to sulfonamides like that. If you (or someone else) might like a book that goes into the history of sulfonamides, I'd recommend "The Demon Under The Microscope" by Hager ( https:/&#
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by rudyfink 3y ago
That website--1990s text-only style--is a strong statement. I am not sure if it's a statement that "we're going to take over the world, get on board now" or "in hindsight, we'll say we should have spent more o
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by rudyfink 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it takes 5 years (or more) to both get a patent and litigate it though any appeal. FWIW, in the current U.S. system, my understanding is the time it takes to get the patent comes out of the 20 years, though
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by rudyfink 3y ago
I had the same result. This is the best photo/description I could find: https://www.hackster.io/news/sqfmi-s-franky-gets-a-blackberr... .
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by rudyfink 3y ago
It is more than the profit (as listed by Fortune) of about 260 companies in the Fortune 1000: https://fortune.com/ranking/fortune500/2022/search/ . In other words, Fortune lists about 260 companies in t
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by rudyfink 3y ago
And, if you do not, the opposite?

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