JFFalcon | 6 years ago | on: Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis
I think that was referring to 12-17 year olds.
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JFFalcon | 6 years ago | on: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
The new Reddit desktop site has a good solution for that - each comment draws a bar down the side of its children, which you can click on to collapse the paarent. You collapse any level of parent comment without havign to scroll back up.
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: Heathrow Airport fined £120K for serious failings in data protection practices
My company does the same with PGP Desktop.
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: First Ring System Around Asteroid (2014)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium#Planet... claims the limit of hydrostatic equilibrium for rocky bodies is ~400-500km, so probably not.
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: Can Beethoven send takedown requests?
I believe that copyright only refers to creative works. Technology would be covered by patents. See also trademarks as the third kind of intellectual property.
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: Amazon Dark Patterns
Why wouldn't you expect a subscription to auto-renew?
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about
Yes, perhaps these will be reclassified as satellites and moons will have to be large enough to form spheres under their own gravity. That would mean that Mars would have no moons though.
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: The Logic Puzzle You Can Only Solve with Your Brightest Friend
If either of you guesses wrong, you both die.
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: How much is time wrong around the world? (2014)
> It would of course be harder to count using your fingers.
No necessarily. 4 fingers * 3 knuckles per finger make 12, so you can count in base-12 using only 1 hand. I think the Sumerians (?) used that * 5 fingers on the other hand to count in base-60, resulting in our base-60 time system.
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles
Searching for 'China internet percentage' shows several sites claiming ~50%, so double the ratio to ~0.5, or 10 times less than the USA.
JFFalcon | 7 years ago | on: YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon
Maybe they should have just let people upload audio files with a title card, rather than fragment the service into another app. Would have fixed the bandwidth/battery problem and kept the interface, network, etc.
JFFalcon | 8 years ago | on: Boycotting Amazon
Generally, the goal of a boycott isn't to force a company to shut down, it's to force them to change their ways to end the boycott.
JFFalcon | 8 years ago | on: Google bans cryptocurrency ads
Agreed. I'm amazed the comment got such a negative reaction. I can't think of anyone I know who would be happy about being called a chick, however casually.
JFFalcon | 8 years ago | on: A Spectator Who Threw a Wrench in the Waymo/Uber Lawsuit
Maybe because then you could pick on small patents that a competitor isn't really using to hit them for 6k/60k a pop? Of course, that would only work if they have several dodgy patents, so you argue they should just be more careful.
Disclaimer: I'm just speculating and know nothing about patent law.
JFFalcon | 8 years ago | on: Hello, world: this is WikiTribune
> A story about Syria might be filed under "America's foreign engagements" and a story about decaying highways could be filed under "Tracking America's infrastructure quality and infrastructure projects".
I'd like to point out that this is meant to be a global news source so the fact that America is involved would hardly be the most significant aspect of a story about Syria.
JFFalcon | 8 years ago | on: TileDB: Storing massive dense and sparse multi-dimensional array data
The Learn More section has a very nice description of the concepts. The compression page [0] seems to say that they group each attribute for a fragment together and then apply compression.
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