pacificmint

That’s an oft repeated myth, but it’s not quite true.

From an article by the EFF:

> The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide […] is very rare […]. Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...

Generally the idea is that historically there were frequent fires which kept the available fuel to a lower level.

Humans started fighting wildfires, and for decades we were pretty successful. That resulted in more fuel buildup then happened historically.

When those fire finally burn, they often burn hot enough to destroy trees that used to survive the fires.

I don’t know what the fuel levels were in this area specifically, but yes, it seems plausible that the brush might not have built up to today’s levels before.

As far as I know, the current satellites don’t have any lasers for satellite to satellite communication yet. That will come in later generations.

Building a satellite constellation with 42,000 satellites comes to mind.

This lawsuit isn’t being filed by drivers, according to the article it’s being filed by “the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with city attorneys of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego”.

I mean drivers may or may not prefer freelancing, and certainly Uber will say whatever supports their case, but I don’t think the State suing Uber proves what drivers want in any way.

> we are talking 19 launches per day […] isn't that completely impossible!??

The US uses over 20 million barrels of petroleum every single day. We have 44,000 airline flights every day.

I think 19 starship flights won’t even move the needle.

A reddit thread [1] collected 10 different angles of the explosion:

Angle 1: https://streamable.com/xmmoa7

Angle 2: https://streamable.com/nscx9m

Angle 3: https://streamable.com/zbjj5f

Angle 4: https://streamable.com/saoafz

Angle 5: https://streamable.com/4ga1vb

Angle 6: https://streamable.com/lmivb2

Angle 7: https://streamable.com/mcy82f

Angle 8: https://streamable.com/zg9oal

Angle 9: https://streamable.com/zykkj6

Angle 10: https://streamable.com/22e152

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/i3mb1v/large_bla...

It was Pepcon[1], not Tiokol. And yes, the smoke has the same brown/orange color that you see with nitrate explosions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster

My understanding is that:

Neither CSS nor HTML is turing complete.

The combination of CSS and HTML together is not quite turing complete either.

The combination of CSS and HTML plus an external source that repeated clicks the mouse is turing complete.

I could be remembering this wrong, however.

Another, fascinating way to look a it: The area they ruled (from England to Syria and Egypt) had never been under a unified rule before the Romans.

And it has never been under a unified rule again since the Romans.

If you consider how many different countries and cultures occupy that space today, it really puts the magnitude of their empire into perspective.

> In the US, the Chicago School of Thought says a company doesn't do anything wrong from a market position until customers are charged more

> In the EU, monopoly is gauged by how much choice and diversity is lost, even in the face of free product. I am very much aligned with the EU view of monopoly.

Interestingly the US used to have the EU viewpoint as well, until the 1970s. Robert Bork was one of the main people behind that.

For those interested in a deeper look at Antitrust in America, Planet Money had a great three part series on the topic [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/20/704426033/anti...

> the right to refuse service to anyone

If I remember correctly, then that is true in Nevada, but not in Atlantic City. There they have to let you play even if they suspect you of counting cards.

Of course that just means they will employ other means to prevent you from counting cards (larger shoes, continuous shuffling, etc).

They took that into consideration:

> People from Asian and black groups are at markedly increased risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19, and contrary to some prior speculation this is only partially attributable to pre-existing clinical risk factors or deprivation;

Because a lot of people will be dead by the time we get to ~70% immunity.

Had, not have. One fifth of New Yorker had the virus. (If that study is correct)

In other words, not all of those people that had a virus are currently infectious. Only the people that are currently actively infectious are the ones that need to be traced.

Presumably the cases are so low precisely because we have enacted these measures.

If we had not done that we'd probably look more like New York right now.

The more effective your measures are, the more it is going to look like they were unnecessary.

Or to reuse your metaphor: A campfire can turn into a wildfire really quickly. If we hadn't thrown the tsunami onto it when it was the size of a campfire, we might have gotten a wildfire burning down the whole state.

Translation of the German captions:

The number of hospitals that report that their ICU capacities as:

Blue: Has Free Capacities (639 currently)

Yellow: Some Contention (326 currently)

Red: Fully Utilized (41 currently)

Covid 19 patients in ICUs: 2453 (76% of which are on ventilators)

ICU beds reported by hospitals: 19,663 (58% in use currently)

> I don't think Signal could legally operate in the US with this act in place.

Of course they could operate. They would just have to backdoor their encryption. Which, presumably, is what this legislation wants to achieve.

They don't want a world with no chat apps, they want a world with chat apps they can listen to.

What Signal is saying in this blog post is that they would rather give up the US market than weaken their encryption. Which is worth saying, because it's probably not true for most other apps. Most corporations would not give up the US market, no matter what compromises they have to make.

Note that neither the article nor the headline mention a "Coronavirus shield". That's just the HN headline. In fact, the article never even mentions the Coronavirus at all.

The article headline is "Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3)"

Mods, maybe change it to that?

No, geostationary satellites actually are in a plane around the equator. That’s the only way geostationary orbit works. Otherwise they’d be moving with respect to the surface.

So they already are aligned and just need to be moved to a higher orbit.

That’s an oft repeated myth, but it’s not quite true, certainly not as broadly as stated.

From an article by the EFF:

> The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide […] is very rare […]. Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not....

Sure, but from the frame of reference of the human it’s not. If the human would travel at 99% of the speed of light, then time dilation would make it a lot less than 500 seconds.

If an object moves at the speed of light, Mathematically no time is passing.

> weigh less than the water they displace...

Well, they weigh exactly the same as the water they displace. :)

But I know what you mean. I think the cause is that we intuitively underestimate the weight of water. Probably because we normally deal with it in small amounts only. But water is pretty heavy.

NPR’s Throughline Podcast [1][2] had a whole episode on how the anti littering campaign was created. It’s well worth listening to.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757539617/the-litter-myth [2] Transcript: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

> if you don't defend your trademark, you lose it

That’s an oft repeated myth, but it’s not quite true, certainly not as broadly as stated.

From an article by the EFF:

> The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide […] is very rare […]. Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...

> thought to be 2hrs 30mins ahead of "sun" time

Spain is certainly ahead by a lot, but the 2:30 is for Galicia which is the westernmost tip of Spain (which is on the same longitude as Portugal, which is in a different time Zone).

For most of Spain it’s less, tough still a lot.

Here is a great map [1] that shows how much each place is offset vs solar time.

Spain is shifted pretty far, but some places are even further offset. Large parts of Russia and China, but also Alaska and Argentina.

Also, since the OP concerns Canada, worth noting that the map shows Canada being more shifted than the US, which I didn’t expect.

[1] https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-wrong-is-your-time-zone-15285708...

From the context, I’d guess it’s an “Ex Googler”, in other words a former google employee.

NPR had a good article about the discovery: "A Chemist Accidentally Creates A New Blue. Then What?" [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidenta...

> It really illustrates the adventurous attitude and boldness these astronauts.

I remember reading something years ago along the lines that the astronauts they would select for a hypothetical mars mission would be a totally different type than the Apollo astronauts.

The Apollo guys were more the cowboy and daredevil type, where for an 18 month space mission you’d need much more level head types.

Not sure if that was a thing NASA had already planned for, but it always made sense to me.