If golf, bowling, and baseball are sports . . .
hawk
Brown was shot because he escalated the situation to a "high risk arrest" by going for the cop's gun. Period.
We have no evidence that Brown was trying to take Wilson's gun, only the word of a cop who's been caught lying before. Cops know that "he was going for my gun" are magic words to justify themselves when they commit murders.
And of course it's irrevelvant whether Brown tried to get control of Wilson's gun earlier in the confrontation. Brown was not trying to do so when he was murdered, he was (according to the majority of witness testimony) attempting to surender.
Buy your coffee already roasted???
*yech*
hawk
>Not everybody's cats are as dumb as mine
Yes they are.
It is a Statistical Mystery as to how 99% of cats are it the bottom quartile of intelligence.
It may have to do with having a brain the size of a walnut . . .
hawk
> I can make an adapter for a Gillette razor if I
> wanted to without breaking any DMCA laws.
When I was in college, Safeway's generic/house brand used the same head.
I bought those, and pulled off the heads to snap on to the better handle . . .
(these were made with nice hard metal, unlike the bic disposables which would cut my face the first time I used them)
hawk
One of my partners bought one of these for the office.
Then we found reusable filter canisters that we could load with better coffee.
Then it broke.
Our staff makes better coffee without having to clean several of those a day.
hawk
Not just obvious, but prior art.
Just about any market does this; the change of price brings other players in, or causes them to leave.
I wrote code for a simulation in '95 or so that had the simulated merchants applying a quadratic equation to the amount that their sales missed the sell-out quantity. It was trivial to cause markets to clear, on just that one piece of information. (In fact, at one point, due to a coding error, the product was a "bad" rather than a "good"--and it still cleared at a negative price.
The algorithm for Uber would be trivial: once the wait time goes above or below its usual band, the price adjusts by some portion per time unit (e.g., 1%/minute) until the wait time is normal. Or include lagged time periods to damp oscillations.
This is just plain trivial. I, or any other computational economist, could sit around all day kicking out new algorithms for this.
It's really pretty simple: if you sell out to quickly, or can't service all your customers, raise your prices; if you have excess, lower them. Doing it by algorithm is nothing new; the trick to patentability would be to find an algorithm that not only hasn't been done before, but is actually better than the other trivially reachable algorithms.
I drove the demand in that model various ways, whether constant, sine waves, stochastic, saw tooth, and probably others I'm not recalling off-hand. A rather simple genetic algorithm rapidly converged in all cases. Mathematically, that method was probably mathematically equivalent to large classes, possibly all, other second order and lower and lower methods or solutions--and the method rather clearly could be extended to nth order . . . (second order methods tend to be sufficient for most things).
hawk
It's not the hyphens.
*ANYTHING* that cuts another vampire/zombie/werewolf book needs to be viewed as a goodthing . . .
hawk
The only people who call me at work are IT people in response to online tickets. Then I get an E-mail from the phone system that they called me and I have to look them up and send them an E-Mail politely reminding them that, as I explained in my ticket, IT doesn't seem to be capable of installing a phone at my desk and that they're better off emailing me. Not to mention the fact that all my voicemails go to a null number and the size of that mailbox will eventually crash the corporate phone system. I also sit in a location they are incapable of finding or accessing if they do actually find it. I mostly just submit tickets for the comedy value, once or twice a week. I'm over 40, so I suppose they were probably talking about me.
Francises/sequels: 4
New movie projects: 0
You will have many recoverable tape errors.