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If the US had functioning regulators, they might require Wink to let you update the device's server

Yes, you are free to pay a lawyer and sue to attempt to invalidate a patent using your blog as evidence of prior art. Of course whichever side can afford it, will bury the other side in motions and discovery requests until they win.

Altered name of story, actually:”Paypall pulls out of Pornhub”

Here is a swiss manufacturer. A run-of-the-mill company with $1/2 billion in annual sales in a high margin, high tech area.

https://www.maxongroup.com/maxon/view/content/product-overvi...

I tried to cheat this exact same way with a test on the the Newton–Raphson method. My program even showed intermediate values so I could show my work.

The professor still got me, I wound up memorizing it because the effort it to write and debug the program.

You do that by increasing the physical size of the components

Your comment reminds me of Peter Thiel's 2x2 matrix of opptimistic/pessimistic x definte/indefinite

The US in the 50's and early 60's was definitely optimistic - everything is getting better soon because <nuclear|space|laser>

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140924171143-103827-zero-to...

The interesting thing about the black box is that it is square to the frame of the image and slightly skew to the text boxes in the original intelligence product. This indicates the image posted is not simply a camera phone snap posted directly to Twitter, the image was edited before it was posted

I was surprised to see how low the gross margin is on their subscription business, it has only recently broken above 50%. The cost of revenue for their subscription business includes licensing the music in their workouts, and the costs to operate their NYC and London studio.

I was also surprised to see the margins on the bike itself are about the same as on the subscription business. They have room to lower the price of the bikes to get more customers hooked on that sweet, sweet recurring subscription revenue.

I am friend of Mark Bartel and helped him a little with the "wire trees" that he custom molds. I made many suggestions along the lines: "Why don't you just..."

He constitutionally can't - he is the definition of uncompromising. I don't play guitar, but I want to buy one of his amps because of how it is made. Take a look at this:

https://guitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bartel-amplifi...

And every one is exactly the same because he writes and then follows explicit directions for making every connection.

I agree the amps are art. Compare the Bartel amp to this

https://www.designboom.com/art/leonardo-ulian-technological-...

- cool, but they don’t work

Check out the build quality of Bartel Amps. Mark Bartel has been hand making every part of the amps he designed for over 20 years. He is an EE who makes product decisions based on science - not marketing

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxpP0IugJqZ/?igshid=1gns8qkaz6ou...

The history of the Spanish Conquistadors successful search for physical gold in the new world has been written and it is a period of inflation in Spain. Instead of focusing on bringing back real wealth from the new world (coffee, chocolate, tomatoes, potatoes), they brought back useless yellow metal that just caused inflation.

The idea is to match the money supply to the real wealth in the economy. I don't disagree with your assertion that we are seeing a decoupling of money from real wealth, but the gold standard is no guarantee against inflation - or worse, deflation.

The article you cite references a study that looked at mass shootings from 2006-2016, I am sure Las Vegas shootings and other more recent ones would changes the statistis. It also breaks down shootings into a category called "public" - which is the one most people are interested in. Non-black perpetrators committed 70% of these public shootings

Your idea is similar to MA gun license requirements - you need two non-relatives to sign your application before you submit it to your local police to decide if you meet the requirements to hold a gun license

Yes, the only thing the Mass laws do is stop gun deaths "caused by negligence, suicide, or accident" and justifiable homicides - self defense or police shootings

> Possession of rifles and shotguns

This specifically does not mention handguns. Handguns have much narrower exemptions: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXX/Cha...

IANAL but a starter pistol with no ammo is probably ok, but hey, it is only 2 1/2 years in jail if you are convicted.

(edit - fixed typo)

IANAL but you should read the actual law, not a summary even when it is from the state:

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXX/Cha...

I am a Mass resident and know not to mess with Mass gun laws - they carry a minimum of 2 1/2 years in jail.

Total coincidence - MA has the lowest gun death rate at <1/3 the national average and <1/6 some of the most dangerous states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...

Do NOT fly into Massachusetts with a gun. To have a gun in MA you must have a MA gun license

Cornelius Vanderbilt's story is amazing. He quit school at the age of 11 to work on his father's ferry in New York Harbor. At 16 he started his own ferry moving freight and passengers between Staten Island and Manhattan. He built his fortune by investing in steamships and later railroads

My theory is the discontinuation of large scale DDT spraying. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s in the northeast of the US I would see maybe 1 tick a summer and I never saw an eagle or a hawk. Now I see plenty of both. Maybe we could resume DDT spraying for a year or two and knock the ticks back

Right, like Freedom units. The temperature is 74F, the F is for freedom

I was a Make magazine subscriber since the second year and gave several gift subscriptions. I contributed a couple of small (unpaid) pieces to the magazine, and was an exhibitor (also unpaid) multiple times at the NYC Maker Faire. I thoroughly enjoyed the Maker Faire set-up days and thought they made exhibiting worthwhile. It was like having a back-stage pass to the Oscars of Makerdom - all the stars were there and happy to talk shop. I knew I was creating free content for them that they were profiting from but thought I was getting a fair deal.

My subscription lapsed just about every year for some glitch or another and they were unable to convert any of the gift subscriptions which should have been very easy sales.

My opinion about supporting Make Media changed after the RealSexyCyborg incident in the winter of 2017:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kassycho/a-male-ceo-has...

Bunnie Haung (who I met at a Maker Faire set-up day) vouched for her and Dale still persisted in slandering her. I let my subscription lapse and quit going to the NYC Maker Faire. 2017 was the Maker Faire highest attendance and has been declining since then.

It looks like a 10Y-3M inversion has predicted each of the last 3 recessions by about a year with no false positives in the last 35 year.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=o4ro

Of course maybe this time is different...

The 10y-3m has been 1:1 preceding the last 3 recessions by about a year:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=o3LQ

Yeah, just a flukey 30 years:

https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1132310100222177282/photo/1

There is a well researched book about this whole project:

https://www.amazon.com/Taking-K-129-Russian-Operation-Histor...

I think the de facto standard for creating API docs based on code is to use https://swagger.io/

This article is nonsense. Off the top of my head: Accenture, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, and M&M/Mars have corporate headquarters in the suburbs around Washington. Not such a big deal now, but AOL also through off quite a bit of wealth for a while.

A "more right" solution would have been to implement a "stick pusher" system to make it obvious to the pilot what was going on. But that would have required pilot training and punctured the illusion that the plane can be flown by any pilot who has flown any 737 made since the 1960's