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It's quite common for the trades to take place in an off-shore location. The dealers in NY aren't actually buying or selling shares - they are only making recommendations to broker…

Another way of stating it is that heat flows from hot->cold. You can't concentrate the light/heat from a blackbody source to more than the temperature of the source. So you can't f…

On HN we obey the 2nd law of thermodynamics

Do you want to fight it? Do your customers, shareholders, managers, investors want you to fight it? Or would you agree to buy MSFT's product if it included a promise not to sue you…

Sure, my office and showrooms are in New York, my factory is in Texas but my company is a brass plaque in Grand Cayman - so I'm not paying any taxes!

Presumably this was beaten into the comptrollers office with a cluebat over the sound of uhaul trucks emptying all the data centers that had been built in Texas

I wasted most of the early 90s doing that. We need 64 transputers to run this in real time, 1 year of PCB layout later = hey we can do this in 16 transputers and a Sparc. Cue anoth…

I have a patent on using gronkuiotis in a sentence - you're being sued for a squllion $$$. Of course if you have used "e-gronkuiotis cloud 2.0" we would have funded your innovation…

Then design courses and exams/projects so that team work is the way to do it right. They are paying to learn how to be engineers - the most important part of any engineering projec…

I always loved the way every engineering degree teaches you that the most important thing is that you must never work with another student, copy existing work or collaborate in any…

The L+N pins are insulated half way down so you can't touch any metal part that is in contact with the supply. The supply terminals are also covered by shutters so you can't put an…

Yes, a ring circuit you run a single wire around the room and back to the fuseboard. With a spur circuit you run a single wire to the furthest plug. In a typical room going back to…

You are probably too young to remember the days before MS Office domination. It's a good job that some of the stuff before Windows95 actually got printed out. ps. suppose Amazon de…

...queue scary advert voice .... You wouldn't borrow another person's car or wife - reading other people's books is theft.

He read his parents books! They had been licensed for the original purchasers use only - it's this sort of piracy that funds drug dealing and terrorism

Or pies?