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Here is a link to Gass' patent portfolio: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/stephen-f-gass Notice that the vast majority of his patents have to do with various aspects of "active…

>Gass also has a PhD in physics and was the person who designed and engineered the product. So what? That doesn't make him NOT an attorney. There's nothing that says a PhD and prod…

Airbus is a threat, but they have a huge obstacle Boeing doesn't: they don't build planes in the US except for the A319-320-321. Any defense contract won with an Airbus airframe as…

That far north is definitely outside the central valley. Once you travel north out of Redding, you're climbing up into the mountains, and it's 60 miles of that before you get to Sh…

SpaceX will never have an IPO because being publicly traded means ceding a certain degree of control. The founders' goal is to make life multiplanetary, and the typical goal of ran…

Firearm and ammunition manufacturers are already not culpable for people getting shot. Your argument would be better made comparing Comma 3X hardware + OpenPilot software to someth…

Like any public utility, there's a huge cost to get the infrastructure in place because there is... well... a CITY in the way. The immense capital outlay is generally worth it for …

Lustvig is a crackpot. https://anthonycolpo.com/sweet-stupidity-part-2-the-bitter-t... His understanding of what happens to fructose in the liver is fundamentally incorrect.

Problem is, both sides of the ideological spectrum have spent 100+ years studiously ignoring the actual basis for rights in the US--- Natural Rights theory--- in favor of more "mal…

$10/gal gasoline is not the answer, because it's a regressive tax that just prices the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder out of the transportation they need to get to work. It als…

Comparatively cheap because you're just handing off magnet links, but when you're serving millions of unique visitors daily, it all adds up.

lol, step 1 destroys the entire stock market!

The other problem with increased complexity is that the more intricate your mechanism is, the more prone to failure due to wear or contamination it becomes. A security measure is o…

Yeah, it's a bit of a tautology. It amounts to "complex problem solving tools tend to converge with existing tools for addressing similar complex problems as their level of complex…

A) I think this is one of those jokes that has enough of a core of truth that it isn't entirely a joke. Murphy's Law is likewise a joke, but it speaks to a core facet of reality, s…

Yeah, there's still value in Amazon reviews despite the noise. If you take the time to just sit there and read through them one by one, you can definitely learn things about the pr…

>Let's just say the country isn't new to food safety scandals... Yeah, just because I can't taste the melamine they used to water down the milk doesn't mean I want to drink melamin…

>we should mandate some form of this technology so we don't waste foundary output on throw-away parts (planned obsolescence). That's not planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence …

"living charismatic leader the enemy can't seem to catch" has much greater recruitment value than "dead leader martyred, but we'll keep fighting".

I used to work in intelligence. "Secrecy creep" has long been a serious problem inside DoD. How information get classified has largely been left up to low level federal bureaucrats…

No one is saying they shouldn't make money. It is our right to gripe about it when they do so in an annoying or obnoxious manner. We might even abandon the platform if the advertis…

"rare" != "unique" I have a stack of old laptops 2 feet high, and my old Dell that frayed at the strain relief is the only one whose cable crapped out.

On the list of most marginally relevant edge cases, I think "beach proof design" ranks pretty high.