That sounds suspiciously like proudly admitting to being a patent troll.
It is actual a form of oligarchy. All the big tech firms build patent portfolios, and then sign cross licensing agreements. So they are free to innovate. But individuals and small companies are locked out, and are likely to step on a legal landmine no matter what they do.
In America, the proportion of wealth going to labor has been falling, and the proportion going to owners of capital has been climbing. A naive person might think this means it is smart to invest in factories and equipment. But this is wrong. Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft all have very few hard assets. The "capital" that is richly rewarded by our economic system is mostly intellectual property.
Do you have a dog? If you throw a stick and tell the dog to fetch, would you be upset if it refused?
This is the same. DoD built GPS, and they told the Europeans not to build a parallel system. The Europeans didn't do what they were told.
So DoD threw a hissy fit, and had the FCC ban the use of Galileo signals within the US. Does the FCC have the authority to do this, since the devices are only receiving and not transmitting? That isn't clear, but it was not challenged.
Many phones disable Galileo in software. So they use the extra signals when outside US territory, but disable it within US territory. So just a software patch should be enough to enable the extra accuracy.
If a country believes that war is likely or inevitable, it is better to hide their capability so enemies are unprepared.
If a country is primarily interested in deterring war, it is better to advertise new capabilities so enemies are intimidated.
Historically, America has tended to follow the first strategy, and keeps new developments secret.
Most of America's adversaries have tended to follow the second strategy. During the Cold War, Russia often tried to look stronger than they really were. Today, China does the same.
The problem with bounds checking on variable data is that it's slow.
Sure, but 90% of the time, it doesn't matter if it is slow because it is not in an "hot" inner loop.
So just profile your code, and turn the bounds check off for hot spots. Then look at those hot spots carefully to make sure there is no error in the indexing that could allow an overflow.
You could get 90% of the safety for 10% of the cost.
There is a an important key point here, any language that can do what C/C++ do will have those same problems
This is not necessarily true. There are times when you want an unbounded pointer that can access any arbitrary address, but in C, pointers are unbounded by default. It would be safer to require a specific keyword to create an unbounded pointer, so it is clear to both the writer and the reader that it is intentional. This would lead to safer code, with no decrease in capability.
Zirconium sits right below titanium in the periodic table, and shares many properties, including high strength and resistance to corrosion.
Just below Zirconium is Hafnium, which has one of the biggest neutron cross sections. Hafnium is used as a neutron absorber, and hafnium salts can be used as a neutron poison to quickly shutdown thorium salt reactors in an emergency.
They have zero interest in having a constructive discussion with Zuck. They just want him to show up so they can shit all over him while grandstanding on TV. Why should he volunteer to accept their abuse?
My first assumption would be an escrow account, where the money would not be released to the creator until something was shipped.
The point of the funding is to pay for the development and manufacturing of the product. If they don't get the money till after the product ships, then that completely defeats the purpose.
Fusion reactors are still generating neutrons.. activation is still a problem.
Most of the neutrons are absorbed by the lithium blanket. The lithium splits into helium-4 and tritium. The tritium is collected and fed back into the reactor.
Most structural parts exposed to thermal neutrons are made of zirconium, which has a very small neutron cross-section.
There is some problems with neutron activation from a fusion reactor, but way less than with fission reactors. There is no danger of a "meltdown" or any other catastrophic failure. The biggest concern is a tritium leak, but tritium isn't very dangerous, dissipates rapidly, doesn't bioaccumulate, and has a half-life of only 12 years.
Would I be willing to live next to a fusion reactor? Sure.
... New Yorkers opposed to new jobs! Gee what a surprise.
Perhaps some people are mad about that, but many others are just mad about the tax subsidies.
Why should Amazon get a special sweetheart tax deal? In the eyes of the law, Amazon Inc. and Maggie's Pie Shop should be treated exactly the same. The government should not be favoring one over the other.
Ideologically, I am about as far as you can get from Ms Ocasio-Cortez, but attacking her because she isn't rich enough to afford two homes is really taking the low road.
But I agree that Russia did NATO a big favor by flipping over their hole cards. We likely learned a lot about where their jammers are located, and how they work. We also got some practice working around the jamming.
In the 2016 presidential election there were two candidates in favor of corporate welfare, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. Between the two of them, they got 94% of the vote.
There were two candidates opposed to corporate welfare, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. Between the two of them, they got 4% of the vote.
Bill De Blasio and Andrew Cuomo are offering up these subsidies precisely because they are popular and win votes.
It is not the best policy that wins. It is the best policy that fits on a bumper sticker.
Federal Government should tax these 'gifts' from states to companies at 50%.
No, the federal government should use the commerce clause to ban these incentive payments. They are a corruption of free markets, and are a Prisoner's Dilemma. Cities feel obligated to pay up because other cities are doing the same, but we would all be collectively better off if nobody did it. Preventing this kind of destructive race to the bottom is exactly what the commerce clause was designed to prevent.
The incentives are also, arguably, a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. Why should Amazon get a sweetheart tax deal that is denied to other businesses?
Much of the rationale for these subsidies is that they "create jobs", which is mostly nonsense. NYC and DC already have very low unemployment, and even lower for people with the skills that Amazon desires. They also have limited housing, limiting the ability of new workers to move in. So Amazon will just suck workers from other companies, rather than creating net new employment, and some of those companies, deprived of their ability to find the workers they need, will move away.
If we would just quit doing business with huge corporations...
It is not so easy to "just quit doing business" with a monopoly, which is the whole point of anti-trust laws. They apply when normal markets fail.
And if we would just stop reelecting their puppets into congress...
When people step into a voting booth, they have other concerns than just their cable company. Comcast and other telecoms are generally supported by Republicans, while content providers are generally supported by Democrats. These stances are not based on principle, but just on where the donations come from.
Switching your vote from one candidate to the other is just switching one set of problems for another.
I will die wondering why people disagree with that.
Nobody is disagreeing, because you didn't actually say anything meaningful.
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That sounds suspiciously like proudly admitting to being a patent troll.
It is actual a form of oligarchy. All the big tech firms build patent portfolios, and then sign cross licensing agreements. So they are free to innovate. But individuals and small companies are locked out, and are likely to step on a legal landmine no matter what they do.
In America, the proportion of wealth going to labor has been falling, and the proportion going to owners of capital has been climbing. A naive person might think this means it is smart to invest in factories and equipment. But this is wrong. Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft all have very few hard assets. The "capital" that is richly rewarded by our economic system is mostly intellectual property.
If so, how can they patent it?
Did you read the patent?
Did you read the claims section?
Do you have experience reading dense legalese?
Do you have subject matter expertise?
If the answer to any of these questions is "no", then the patent likely isn't what you think it is.
Disclaimer: I didn't read the patent.
Why would they care?
Do you have a dog? If you throw a stick and tell the dog to fetch, would you be upset if it refused?
This is the same. DoD built GPS, and they told the Europeans not to build a parallel system. The Europeans didn't do what they were told.
So DoD threw a hissy fit, and had the FCC ban the use of Galileo signals within the US. Does the FCC have the authority to do this, since the devices are only receiving and not transmitting? That isn't clear, but it was not challenged.
Many phones disable Galileo in software. So they use the extra signals when outside US territory, but disable it within US territory. So just a software patch should be enough to enable the extra accuracy.
If a country believes that war is likely or inevitable, it is better to hide their capability so enemies are unprepared.
If a country is primarily interested in deterring war, it is better to advertise new capabilities so enemies are intimidated.
Historically, America has tended to follow the first strategy, and keeps new developments secret.
Most of America's adversaries have tended to follow the second strategy. During the Cold War, Russia often tried to look stronger than they really were. Today, China does the same.
The problem with bounds checking on variable data is that it's slow.
Sure, but 90% of the time, it doesn't matter if it is slow because it is not in an "hot" inner loop.
So just profile your code, and turn the bounds check off for hot spots. Then look at those hot spots carefully to make sure there is no error in the indexing that could allow an overflow.
You could get 90% of the safety for 10% of the cost.
There is a an important key point here, any language that can do what C/C++ do will have those same problems
This is not necessarily true. There are times when you want an unbounded pointer that can access any arbitrary address, but in C, pointers are unbounded by default. It would be safer to require a specific keyword to create an unbounded pointer, so it is clear to both the writer and the reader that it is intentional. This would lead to safer code, with no decrease in capability.
Cities make these deals because they bring in revenue.
Why do you believe that Amazon will bring in more revenue than the businesses that are displaced?
How much will Amazon and its employees generate for the city versus Maggie's?
Stupid comparison. The only important metric is the revenue, PER EMPLOYEE, which would be roughly the same.
If it was my neighborhood, I would prefer the pie shop. Nevertheless, it should be left to the market, not to bureaucratic whim.
Zirconium isn't a common structural metal.
Of course not. It is heavy and expensive. It is only used where low neutron cross section is important.
Presumably it would have to be alloyed
Yes, most commonly with tin and niobium. Sometimes with chromium, nickel, or iron.
then you have to concern yourself with the cross section of the alloying parts as well.
Indeed. Most zirconium alloys are 95% or more zirconium for this reason.
More info here: Zirconium Alloys
Zirconium sits right below titanium in the periodic table, and shares many properties, including high strength and resistance to corrosion.
Just below Zirconium is Hafnium, which has one of the biggest neutron cross sections. Hafnium is used as a neutron absorber, and hafnium salts can be used as a neutron poison to quickly shutdown thorium salt reactors in an emergency.
They have zero interest in having a constructive discussion with Zuck. They just want him to show up so they can shit all over him while grandstanding on TV. Why should he volunteer to accept their abuse?
My first assumption would be an escrow account, where the money would not be released to the creator until something was shipped.
The point of the funding is to pay for the development and manufacturing of the product. If they don't get the money till after the product ships, then that completely defeats the purpose.
Fusion reactors are still generating neutrons.. activation is still a problem.
Most of the neutrons are absorbed by the lithium blanket. The lithium splits into helium-4 and tritium. The tritium is collected and fed back into the reactor.
Most structural parts exposed to thermal neutrons are made of zirconium, which has a very small neutron cross-section.
There is some problems with neutron activation from a fusion reactor, but way less than with fission reactors. There is no danger of a "meltdown" or any other catastrophic failure. The biggest concern is a tritium leak, but tritium isn't very dangerous, dissipates rapidly, doesn't bioaccumulate, and has a half-life of only 12 years.
Would I be willing to live next to a fusion reactor? Sure.
... New Yorkers opposed to new jobs! Gee what a surprise.
Perhaps some people are mad about that, but many others are just mad about the tax subsidies.
Why should Amazon get a special sweetheart tax deal? In the eyes of the law, Amazon Inc. and Maggie's Pie Shop should be treated exactly the same. The government should not be favoring one over the other.
NYC and Albany keeps electing Blue
For 19 years, from 1994 to 2013, NYC had a Republican mayor.
Ideologically, I am about as far as you can get from Ms Ocasio-Cortez, but attacking her because she isn't rich enough to afford two homes is really taking the low road.
She has spoken out about against the Amazon tax subsidy, so at least I agree with her about that.
Jill Stein and Gary Johnson were candidate with problems.
Hillary and Donald were also candidates with problems.
In a real war, they would have their jammers HARMed.
HARM = High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile
But I agree that Russia did NATO a big favor by flipping over their hole cards. We likely learned a lot about where their jammers are located, and how they work. We also got some practice working around the jamming.
Thanks Russia!
You will see an inundation of posts defending this guy and how he didn't do anything wrong and it is all the swat teams fault.
Nobody is defending him. What he did was clearly wrong.
But what the SWAT team did was also clearly wrong. They gunned down an innocent person based on nothing but an anonymous phone call.
The prank caller isn't the only one who should be going to prison.
How many of these court cases have to be won by rights holders until you entitled gayme tards stop stealing.
These court cases affect only a tiny fraction of a percent, and only the dumb ones.
Just offshore your server, and register the domain with a fake name or a shell corp in the Cayman Islands. How hard is that?
Run for Senate. Seriously.
You don't understand politics.
In the 2016 presidential election there were two candidates in favor of corporate welfare, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. Between the two of them, they got 94% of the vote.
There were two candidates opposed to corporate welfare, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. Between the two of them, they got 4% of the vote.
Bill De Blasio and Andrew Cuomo are offering up these subsidies precisely because they are popular and win votes.
It is not the best policy that wins. It is the best policy that fits on a bumper sticker.
Federal Government should tax these 'gifts' from states to companies at 50%.
No, the federal government should use the commerce clause to ban these incentive payments. They are a corruption of free markets, and are a Prisoner's Dilemma. Cities feel obligated to pay up because other cities are doing the same, but we would all be collectively better off if nobody did it. Preventing this kind of destructive race to the bottom is exactly what the commerce clause was designed to prevent.
The incentives are also, arguably, a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. Why should Amazon get a sweetheart tax deal that is denied to other businesses?
Much of the rationale for these subsidies is that they "create jobs", which is mostly nonsense. NYC and DC already have very low unemployment, and even lower for people with the skills that Amazon desires. They also have limited housing, limiting the ability of new workers to move in. So Amazon will just suck workers from other companies, rather than creating net new employment, and some of those companies, deprived of their ability to find the workers they need, will move away.
And since when is a wholesale/logistics company considered tech?
Amazon makes most of their profit on AWS. They are primarily a cloud-services company. The retailing is just a side business.
Also, Northern Virginia and Long Island are nearly 300 miles apart. They are not both going to be hit by one storm.
It is only cheaper than Suez because the Egyptians charge exorbitant transit fees. An oil tanker pays a transit fee of about $400k.
The elephant in the room with EVs is that they become economically unfeasible to keep on the road once the battery pack sufficiently degrades.
Bullcrap. The first Prius went on sale in 1997, and many of them have more than 300k miles. They are mostly still running fine.
If we would just quit doing business with huge corporations ...
It is not so easy to "just quit doing business" with a monopoly, which is the whole point of anti-trust laws. They apply when normal markets fail.
And if we would just stop reelecting their puppets into congress ...
When people step into a voting booth, they have other concerns than just their cable company. Comcast and other telecoms are generally supported by Republicans, while content providers are generally supported by Democrats. These stances are not based on principle, but just on where the donations come from.
Switching your vote from one candidate to the other is just switching one set of problems for another.
I will die wondering why people disagree with that.
Nobody is disagreeing, because you didn't actually say anything meaningful.