yammajr

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Comment · 7 years ago
In December they acquired the name duck.com, maybe they'll do something with that. Right now it just redirects to duckduckgo.com
Comment · 7 years ago
Possibly because that would explain its rotation being the reverse of the other planets(except Venus). If it started rotating the same way as the other planets and were rotated 82 degrees, it would still be rotating in the same direction as the other planets, where as by rotating 98 degrees, the rotation is reversed.
Comment · 8 years ago
> A car isn't a necessity

If you happen to live in a city. If you live outside a big metro area, at least in the US, a car absolutely is a necessity.

Where I live, there are no buses, no cabs, no uber, nothing. I don't have children or need to haul large loads frequently, so I might be able to make it work, but it would be a HUGE quality of life hit, necessitating taking a different job nearer me which almost certainly wouldn't pay as well as what I make now, moving closer to work - if I can find anything that's nearby and reasonably priced - and/or spending large amounts of time walking/biking. If I did have children or other dependents, there's just no real way I could expect to not have a car.

Comment · 8 years ago
And Cannabis is regulated by the DEA and the FDA, being regulated by a federal agency hasn't stopped them from doing their own thing in the past, why should this be any different?
Comment · 8 years ago
maybe not removed, but they certainly did make breaking changes to the language. here are some of the most obvious

python 2:

  print "foo"   # foo
  3 / 5         # 0
  apply         # <built-in function apply>
python 3:

  print "foo"  # SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
  3 / 5        # 0.6
  apply        # NameError: name 'apply' is not defined
Comment · 8 years ago
Ceres considered a dwarf planed because it hasn't cleared the neighborhood around it's orbit, not because of it's size.

I don't think the suggestion is that this object is planet IX, it's that this object provides evidence that there may be some other planet IX out there.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
So, I'm not a lawyer, but the 10th Circuit ruling doesn't read like this is over to me, it reads like this may be a temporary reprieve for Zen magnets.

> As a result, the FDO is vacated, the Initial Decision is reinstated, and the matter is remanded to the Commission with directions to provide an impartial tribunal for Complaint Counsel’s appeal from the Initial Decision. In particular, the Commission is instructed to conduct the appellate review without the participation of Commissioner Adler.

The court found no issue with the decisions of the CPSC, but with one of the commissioners having made a decision prior to the decision making process. So yes, Zen can sell their magnets, but the CPSC should reconduct its review - and I don't see anywhere that suggests that given the same data they have today, they can't or won't make the same decision.

Comment · 8 years ago
IANAL, but I'm not sure that's exactly true. As far as I know, in 49 states (not Louisiana), if there's not a law about it we fall back on some system based on english common law.
Comment · 8 years ago
I made a new account about a week or so ago. Their new user form looks very much like you need an email to create an account, but you can just press continue without adding one, despite there being no indication of that. If I hadn't already known I didn't need an email, I would have either given them one or left the site and not returned, depending on how I felt giving them my email address.
Comment · 8 years ago
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