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Comment Re:Well Shite (Score 1) 107

On top of what others have said, in most states companies can legally fire people for any reason or no reason at all, outside of a limited number of protected classes (race, gender, age, religion, stuff like that). They can fire you because they don't like the color of your pants.

Aside from that, the other protected category would be to protect people from retaliation for reporting illegal behavior (whistle blowing), reporting harassment, union organizing, reporting safety concerns, discussing workplace conditions. But that's when the *company* does illegal behavior, not when you/your husband committed a crime.

Comment Re:Ummm, no! (Score 2) 45

Someone can still patent one of those designs, and all they have to show is they were the first one to file the patent in order to use it against them.

The public disclosures on the website constitute prior art, which would make patents filed by other parties based on those ideas (designs) invalid.

In some countries, there's a grace period (6-12 months) that would also allow the original author to file a patent after the initial disclosure, although that's more legally precarious than just filing a patent immediately. But in either case, it would prevent anyone *else* from filing a patent on that specific design.

(IANAL)

Comment Re:Chinese study about the Sars-Cov-2 (Score 2) 49

HIV and Herpes are highly persistent because they write themselves into your DNA so they never really go away, or go dormant to avoid detection. That's not the case for SARS-CoV-2, although MHC-I blocking does make things nastier to deal with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Disclaimer: I'm not a medical scientist either.

Comment Re:He expects Starship's first flight tests to orb (Score 1) 81

The only thing wrong has been the timelines. A lot of them are 5-10 years behind schedule but will happen sooner or later.

If I were to pick some claims that are closer to the "won't happen in the next 50 years" mark, I'd go with 1) having a million people on Mars / terraforming Mars, 2) replaying memories using Neuralink

Comment Re:I hate how poorly people are informed on this.. (Score 4, Informative) 89

SARS-CoV-2 is a newer form of SARS-CoV, but there's obviously some big differences in terms of lethality and asymptomatic spread.

We did take SARS seriously. It died out. Nobody is being infected with the original SARS. The problem is that we never prepared for "SARS 2" or for that matter, any sort of pandemic caused by a novel virus (novel influenza, Ebola-2, etc). I'm definitely splitting hairs a bit here, but we broadly need investment in infectious disease research and pandemic preparedness, not just for SARS-CoV-like viruses specifically.

Comment Re:No streaming from the cloud? (Score 1) 40

The rule appears to be https://developer.apple.com/ap... which applies to "mirror of specific software or services rather than a generic mirror of the host device". It would not apply to streaming video.

(a) The app must only connect to a user-owned host device that is a personal computer or dedicated game console owned by the user, and both the host device and client must be connected on a local and LAN-based network.

So that rules out the major cloud gaming services, although it might allow for services like Shadow where you rent a full Windows VM.

Comment Re:Problem with VR is that the real world remains (Score 1) 214

Working around real-life objects is also one of its biggest limitations. It works well for ARG style games but not so much for fantasy where you're trying to create something completely different. The "huh, this space ship bridge is laid out exactly like my living room" has a certain novelty factor that will probably wear off pretty quickly.

I'd still be excited to see what kinds of games can be done in AR, which will probably be quite different from traditional games. Although I'm not getting on board until it moves past this silly "hold your phone up and look through a tiny window into the AR world" gimmick.

The ideal would be to have an XR system that can be used for both AR and VR, where you could completely replace your field of view or only partially (e.g. covering with a blindfold/visor). In practice it's not likely they could make it compact enough.

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