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Intellectual property and physical property are entirely different. Intellectual property can be shared/multiplied/given away indefinitely while still being retained by the origina…

"Only 8 months" tells you nothing of the conditions or prison population within which he will be placed. 8 months in solitary or in a maximum-security prison (where hard-core, repe…

Adding "tiananmen square" to "tank man" does return the photo as the 3rd result: tank man tiananmen square Also, the misspelled version of Tianenmen that I first used worked as wel…

Interesting modelling exercise but until we have physical evidence that this is occurring, and can calibrate the model to what degree, this is just an interesting hypothesis/story.…

Because its the new hotness.

Yes. Look up space diving. There have been old Popular Science (Popular Mechanics?) articles on it and speculation in the space community about a new sport if/when a space tether i…

I have personal experience with this type of situation. Twice we had excellent phone interviews for an onsite contractor position. Then, when the supposed person we interviewed sho…

I have never heard of that happening in _any_ real-world version of communism. Maybe you are thinking of an employee-owned company?

No, the actual previous owners of the were running access to the beach as a business. It was a road (driveway) they built and charged fees to use, not public.

That was a reference to Robert Heinlein's book, "Stranger in a Strange Land".

Of course you put supports under it. The point is the low amount of mass required.

I work at Nucor and know of several people who have done exactly this in the 20 years I've worked here. They started working in a entry level production position and worked their w…

This must be a new thing or only apply to certain states/cities. I've never saw this happen back when I was doing low wage work.

It's harder for 100 companies to collude undetected/unchallenged with no viable alternative than for 1-5 massive/politically-savvy companies to tweak results/ban users to fit their…

I believe the article has failed to realize that "self-reporting" evidence is weaker than actions, not stronger. If you listen to the Freakonomics podcast for any length of time, y…

According to the Outer Space Treaty (1967), which is still current international law and of which the USA is a signatory, the LAUNCHING STATE is the responsible party. The FCC is o…

Seems like a good way to end up dead right.

If isdigit() is the standard library function, that takes/checks a single character. However, parse_integer() takes a full string and parses until it reaches a null or newline. The…

Your interpretation, unknown due to lack of value, may be valid but is more likely incorrect. Historically, ideas take a long time (decades or more), before adoption. Some are simp…

Maybe it doesn't work for lenses but it seems it would work for mirrors: http://www.academia.edu/5185260/SUNBEAMS_FROM_SPACE_MIRRORS_...

I'm glad to see NASA astrophysicists are finally catching up with what plasma physicists have known since 1903 when Kristian Birkeland predicted exactly this. This phenomenon is kn…

It's not the speed that puts strain on the body, it's the _change_ in speed (i.e. acceleration). You are currently going ~67062 MPH around the sun and probably didn't notice. If yo…

If $4000/month won't pay his rent, he's (or maybe you) are living in the wrong country/region.

The Institute for Justice has been fighting this one for a while. I'm glad they were finally able to get the judge to see what was going on. (Full disclosure: I am a supporter of I…

To the best of my knowledge Common Lisp methods (CLOS) already allows the ability to do things such as your rendering co-ordinate transformation example already without requiring e…