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Comment Re:Vague accusations from one of Trump's people (Score 1) 330

Yeah, this -
> Obama Administration members used unmasking on political figures
is by definition impossible. There's no reason to unmask if you already know who the colluding scumbag is. So that didn't happen.
So stupid to make up lies that are that logically inconsistent.

Comment Re:Turn the power off (Score 1) 213

Yah, you can either just short out the end turns on a three phase linear synchronous motor and get drag proportional to speed or you can have a secondary set of magnets dragging past aluminium fins, or likely both. Both surprisingly effective braking methods, and not magic.

to try at home, get a NeFeB magnet, a half inch aluminum plate, and try to move one past the other.

Comment Genealogies across multiple systems (Score 1) 109

You can always compute nested sets from adjacent lists like people are suggesting if the entire adjacent list is on one cloud or system, but you can lose a whole branch if you lose a link instead of only losing that one link if one supplier is non-conforming or offline. It's not fake or fluff, it's error minimizing.

Democrats

DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com) 801

An anonymous reader writes: After FBI Director James Comey recommended not to indict Hillary Clinton for her email misconduct yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday that the Justice Department has decided not to pursue charges against Hillary Clinton or her aids and that the department will close the investigation into her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. "Late this afternoon, I met with FBI Director James Comey and career prosecutors and agents who conducted the investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email system during her time as Secretary of State," Lynch said in a statement on Wednesday. "I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, year-long investigation be closed and that no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation."

Comment sarcastic meta-epistemology (Score 1) 470

The modern epistemic culture of research, like all cultures, is the apex of the form and cannot be improved upon &tc. From this glorious pinnacle surely there could be no blind spots, epistemological or actual. Everything I see through the perfect lens of the culture I belong to belongs to the culture I belong to, from which even an illiterate buffoon could extrapolate .... a swan.

Comment Re:Thanks Apple (Score 4, Informative) 553

What you just described - making a new product by slightly altering an existing one - happens in the food world all the time with no legal issues at all.
What you didn't describe but probably intended to - copying a bread recipe - also happens all the time with no legal issues at all. When either of these things happen, the baker is thrilled. Some of them actually publish books helping you infringe on their own products!
In short, your metaphor fails to map to the primary event in every way possible. Please stick to car metaphors in the future. It's traditional.

Comment Re:You are asking the wrong question (Score 4, Insightful) 284

Everybody thinks they know what restaurants do.
This is why so many otherwise smart people get into the restaurant business and then fail.

Forget the word restaurant.
Instead, think highly competitive, low volume, high mix, low margin, short lead-time manufacturing.
Think highly perishable inventory.

Accurate inventory, accurate predictions of future demand, and data driven product design make all the difference between success and failure.

Data collection and analysis is what really successful restaurants do. Or did you really think it was like Top Chef?

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