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Ankaios··on Live: ISS Spacewalk
They are in low-Earth orbit. Each orbit only takes about 90 minutes, and half of each is daytime and half is night. Since space walks are typically several hours long, they are typically half in night and half in daylight.
Ankaios··on A nonpartisan, independent review concludes U.S. Engaged in Torture After 9/11
Quite impressive and disturbing. I am glad to see the report. What I'd really like to see, though, are some indictments.
Ankaios··on Tesla Unveils New Finance Product
The government is not their sole customer, and SpaceX is not the government's sole supplier for any space-access service.
Ankaios··on Want to Help People? Just Give Them Money
Allowing the recipients to allocate the resources in the manner which they believe best benefits them.
Ankaios··on SEC Greenlights One Style Of Equity Crowdfunding For Startups
Since when has "investment" implied "security?" This is a textbook, bog-standard example of investment.
Ankaios··on Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project
FourSquare, but for photography (is that Instagram?)

It pains me to say this, but it might be Color.

Ankaios··on Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs If They Lose
What are the tax implications of reassignment? If I reassign a patent to a shell corporation, is it taxed? How would such a patent be valued?

If the transferred assets are taxed, that would introduce at least a modest loss for using a shell. Also, I would think that the valuation for tax purposes should be something like the value to be claimed in court, at least if the transfer occurs soon before a round of trolling. I can imagine a troll reassigning a patent to a shell, low-balling the value for tax purposes, and then inflating it when wielding the patent in court. In such cases the IRS and/or the court might be interested in the discrepancy.

Ankaios··on Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms
This doesn't detract from your point, but I thought I should correct something just because there are a lot of overseas readers here who might not be very familiar with the US Constitution:

The Constitution does not grant freedoms to citizens. Instead, it delegates specific powers from the citizens to the federal government.

Ankaios··on I like Gnome Shell
That's an 800+ line, system-wide file under the control of the package manager. Just because it's "easy" to hack it doesn't make it a good option.
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