Agathos

Priscilla?

If you're arguing fair user, you've already lost. That's a matter of opinion so it has to go all the way to a jury verdict. That means there's no guarantee and even if you win, you have to pay a couple million for the billable hours. You want a defense that's so obvious, the judge will throw out any case against you on the first day.

Geocities was a lot more fun than what we have now.

I like these suggestions. It sounds like they are all suited to commenting legacy code.

realitygrill is probably thinking about the new SEAS campus that mxwsn mentioned. I think they started planning the campus around the time of that renaming.

See also Trump's tariffs. WTO roles forbid arbitrary tariffs, unless the government claims they are for the sale of "national security."

My condo association recently hired a structural engineer to find out about some of the half-assed shortcuts the builder took and now I almost wish I didn't know.

The only two people to use a launch escape system were Vladimir Titov and Gennady Strekalov. They were bruised but did not suffer spinal injuries. They were treated with cigarettes and vodka.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7K-ST_No._16L

Maybe it's poorly made and the blades will fall off after a month?

I'm pretty sure that product exists. I've heard of AvaTax; there may be others.

I typed "avatax vs" in Google and it autocompleted "taxjar", so there's another I guess.

Yes it would be nice if the states made it easier.

And does HBO still lease that technology from MLB Advanced Media? Strange to think a leader in this technology is spun off from a sport that took off back when "streaming" meant "watching the guy update the box score outside the telegraph office."

Obligatory link to the original tronc vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtwiWd1LTeg

I'm bored by roads.

At the very least, you need someone to bounce ideas off of. I used to think I was an introvert, until I went to grad school and tried living in my own head for months at a time.

I clicked on that link and I noticed that Darwin and Kraichnan both had institutional affiliations.

Maybe possible if you're paying your own way. Lots of newly-minted professors need those small grants to get their research going. Find one who can see you as a colleague and not as an ATM.

They did appeal, and the Supreme Court pretty much said they didn't want to look at this until a trial took place on the fair use question. Now that that's happened, I assume there will be another appeal to the Supreme Court.

Yours in calendrical heresy,

Reed Hastings

Someone pretty much always will. It's stupid.

During my 20s, I was in graduate school and I had no money. Now I'm in my 30s making good developer money, and while I have a mortgage I also have enough saved to pay it for a long time.

I also have no dependents, which is obviously the big difference maker.

"Fox News declares war on Facebook" would at least help toward restoring Facebook's image, at least among those who are most upset about Cambridge Analytica.

At exactly what resolution does it begin to make sense to encode a photograph as a PNG instead of a JPEG?

I think derefr was inferring (or imagining?) a subconscious need to defend certain decisions, even if C and C++ are not prerequisites.

As a post-structuralist, I generally approve of reading the author's stated intentions and responding, "Yes, well, that's one interpretation." :P

That might lead to better (or more challenging) questions, or they might find themselves obligated to answer 10 variations of "Questiony McQuestionFace." Online polls are weird.

> Participants were first asked whether they play an instrument (or actively sing). Those who responded positively were questioned about the number of years they practiced during four age intervals (ages 0–5 years, 6–11 years, 12–17 years, and 18 years until the time of measurement) and how many hours a week during each of those intervals they practiced. From these estimates, a sum-score estimate of the total hours played during their lifetime was calculated, with nonplayers receiving a score of zero.

I'm a lapsed clarinetist. It's been a few years. I wonder if I would have answered "no" to the first question, and been scored as someone with zero hours of practice. Yet I have a couple of thousand lifetime hours of practice.

(But no, most of that practice time did not really drill the skills measured by the SMDT.)

Whenever I see, "In case you missed it," I read it as, "Now you have to decide if checking for new tweets is worth re-reading a half dozen tweets you've already seen."

So far, the answer is usually yes. I follow a lot of good people and the fear of missing something is real. But it's not 100% yes and I don't think the trend line looks good for Twitter.

Exactly. Just to amuse myself, I spent a few minutes googling for materials that are "stronger than steel."

spider silk (a classic): https://www.npr.org/2017/01/14/509807212/spider-silk-is-stro...

bone: http://ipfactly.com/human-bone-is-stronger-than-steel/

a graphene sponge: https://www.materialstoday.com/mechanical-properties/news/sp...

carbon nanotubes: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2010/...

silica nanofibers (because carbon is old news): https://prescouter.com/2013/02/new-material-is-lighter-than-...

fiber-reinforced hydrogel: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/new-tougher-than-metal...

One starts to wonder if steel was ever all that strong. But I'm sure the real lesson is there are a lot of ways to measure strength.

Steel is the Worf of materials science.

Is it also the "culprit" for the 82 consecutive problem-free launches?

People leap straight for the heart surgery example as if to imply it justifies the lack of price transparency for routine medical procedures where the patient is fully conscious. Why is that?

After weeks of stamping out CRUD features to order, conducting an interview might be their only chance to hang out and talk about high performance computing for once.

Those paint color names are an AI success.