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Comment Re:Unsurprising (Score 1) 111

But that deviation from the Newtonian predication wasn't measured until after Newton was dead. His gravitational theory was correct for all the data he had a the time. Its kind of unfair to him to say he was wrong. As a scientist you should stop at the simplest explanation that meets all observable data. Thats what he did

Comment Re:Seems strange to admit publicly. (Score 1) 107

No primary source suggests that the effect would be partisan—that's editorializing by Daring Fireball writer John Gruber. The GOP letter, which is somewhat internal to the RNC fundraising effort, simply provides an estimate of their own lost revenue.

If you're an unknown sender, you go into the bin. Simple as.

Comment Re:Doesn't Sound Bad (Score 2) 41

There used to be two big American Plane Manufactores:

McDonald Douglass and Boeing.

Boeing was known for meticulously engineering their planes and testing. Heck they basically invented SGML a markup language and precursor to XML just for documentation purposes.

McDonald Douglass was known for barely spending enough to keep their planes from crashing, then the flew too close to the sun with the DC10 and basically became functionally bankrupt.

Then they merged. Guess which culture won out? The slow careful expensive one that was proven to build quality products? Or the one that tried to build them as cheaply as possible?

Comment Re:Internet *cash* (Score 1) 241

I mean broken clocks are right twice a day and this guy just might be.
You could take crypto for high risk processing, I guess. then all the risk would be on the merchant's side and they couldn't blame the processor. Different risk, but still. No charge backs, but risk of hacks and all your money disappearing, yes. or at least money not converted back to USD immediatly. Oh and high barriers of risk for customers as well who have to convert currency to whatever dumb crytpo they choose and spend before hack. Would that be preferrable? Not sure, but They could try.

Comment Re:Problems with printing fire arms (Score 2) 100

For what it's worth, simply painting a normal gun to look like a toy has been attempted before, too. But I agree that conversions like this must be pretty spooky if you're in law enforcement. Still, toy gun form factors needn't be the only gimmick; consider the chaos a briefcase gun could unleash without scrutiny. The sky is the limit for designing concealed weapons if one is sufficiently imaginative and determined.

Comment Re:How can you be so stupid? (Score 0) 14

Yeah ok. I guess the scam makes sense now. I thought he might have been able to just keep the scamming to a minimum by selling Samsung with a cool gold sticker, but if he just took all the money and only made 1.3 million, I understand why he didn't stick to the low level scam. He made the right scummy choice. Its incredible that they bothered prosecuting him for 1.3 million.

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