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Comment: Re:This is why a flat tax will not work. (Score 1) 1064

by krlynch (#38975667) Attached to: The Zuckerberg Tax

Your bank balance doesn't appreciate; the bank pays you an income at a particular interest rate on the total value of your deposits that they hold. Stock dividends are similar - its a payment, not paper appreciation - and dividends are also taxed as income. Paper appreciation is different in kind from interest and dividend income.

Comment: Re:Wow, does that PR stunt even work anymore? (Score 4, Informative) 350

by krlynch (#38880183) Attached to: WikiLeaks To Ship Servers To Micronation of Sealand?

Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state.[5][6] Rather, the premises of diplomatic missions remain under the jurisdiction of the host state while being afforded special privileges (such as immunity from most local laws) by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission

Comment: Re:Remarkable (Score 2) 24

by krlynch (#38424960) Attached to: Fermilab's New Commercial Research Center

The US government didn't spend a penny on LHC? Really? A few seconds with your favorite search engine would have dispelled that myth.

In reality, the U.S. government has contributed over $600M to date in direct and in-kind contributions, with significant support for University and National Lab groups that participate in all aspects of construction, operations, and analysis.

Comment: Re:Catalyst or not? (Score 4, Interesting) 479

by krlynch (#37626740) Attached to: Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil?

The bigger problem is that Ni62 is the most tightly bound nucleus known, http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/nucbin2.html#c1 or http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/ Fusion or fission of Ni62 require an input of energy; they clearly aren't measuring spontaneous release of energy in a fusion event...

Comment: Re:Sources of error? (Score 2) 1088

by krlynch (#37486646) Attached to: CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos

You certainly CAN use GPS to synchronize clocks at the level of a few ns. While the GPS timing signals themselves are not accurate enough to form a stable timebase at this level, there are multiple methods which use GPS to implement time transfer between ground stations at much better than the 10ns level, when use in conjunction with an external high precision oscillator. See, for instance, http://tf.nist.gov/time/commonviewgps.htm or http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/tmas.cfm and the references therein.

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