I'd take it. Your "logical" conclusion is no different from abolishing patents altogether, minus a 20 year wait which, in the grand scheme of things, is pretty inconsequential.

One way to do this with SVN is pegged external directories. You tell basically tell svn to pull a directory from a different repository at a specific version. The information about which repository and version to check out is itself saved in svn, so doing a single "checkout this revision" will give you the entire codebase as it was at that time period. It's complicated, and manual, and time consuming, and it kinda sucks. But it does work.

In one of the Kasparov vs Deep Blue games, Deep Blue made a blunder due to a coding error (it didn't see any viable move but rather than resigning it simply picked a move at random). Kasparov was so convinced that the computer was confused by the play that he thought Deep Blue was looking 20+ moves ahead in the end game, a thought that terrified him. Kasparov won the game, but a lot of people say his confidence was so shaken by that one move that he played significantly differently the rest of the series.

To quote a great movie: "accident implies there's nobody to blame". I believe the person you are responding to would call the officer shooting himself in the foot a negligent shooting.

That's nice. What were they like 10 years ago? What will they be like 10 years from now? 20?

I'm not sure why you're modded funny. The relative sizes of the Earth/Moon system is a total anomaly, so much so that it is very very close to the point where you have to call them a double planet rather than a planet and moon.

WIC approved juice is required to be 100% juice. Full stop. Now, even 100% juice isn't particularly good for you, but the person I was replying to was decrying how hard it was to find juice that was "just actual juice".

No it isn't. Go to the juice isle. Look for things labeled "WIC approved". Done.

And this would be a lie. The only reason cell bills are high is because that is the price people are willing to pay.

To be equally pedantic: the meaning of words change over time, most especially when technical terms are adopted by the common population. When speaking of frequencies, transmissions, filtering, etc, broadband means exactly what you describe. When speaking of internet access, broadband means "high speed".

One of the biggest reasons a lot of people that use Google+ is that it's easier to keep posts relatively private. I don't need to have pictures of my kids published to everyone on the net, or tell everyone in the world when I'm on vacation, or have all kinds of crap out there for potential employers to find. Google+ makes it easy to post to a small (or large) group without posting publicly. Basing numbers on public posts is FUD, it's worse than meaningless, it's misleading.

What they are, admittedly awkwardly, trying to say is that the Fast Radio Burst was detected as it was happening, enabling follow up investigations to catch the immediate after effects. Previous such bursts were detected much later, too late to do any kind of follow up leading some to question if the events were even extra planetary.

Now now, we all know vacuum stabilization events travel out from their sources at the speed of light, if it were to happen it would be against the laws of physics to see it coming.

More interesting is one of the actual proposed explanations. A massive spinning magnetron gradually slowing down until centrifugal force can't keep it from collapsing into a black hole anymore. And when the source of the magnetic field suddenly gets cut off from the outside universe by being engulfed by the event horizon, the magnetic field has no where to go but... out. The most powerful magnetic field in the universe getting converted almost instantly to energy; creating a spark that lasts seconds and outputs more energy than the sun has in the past million years.

Actually it's not even that. It's 3D printed concrete forms, which are then shipped to the site, plumbed, wired, and filled with concrete.

Round trip to a satellite, 3ms. Hell, call it 15 if the angle is high. Then the satellite hops, which would take place at c with a microwave link, compared to .66c with fiber. Not to mention there are many fiber links that are anything but direct line. I could easily see such a system outperforming ground networks when it comes to latency. Now, congestion could be a problem obviously. It will have to be seen if they can put enough links into orbit cheaply enough to prevent issues.