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Fast forward to 2024, when Martin—an AI expert, game developer, and former postdoctoral associate at MIT—stumbled upon a bug in Storer's high school code while exploring what he believed was the optimal strategy for landing the module with maximum fuel efficiency—a technique known among Kerbal Space Program enthusiasts as the "suicide burn." This method involves falling freely to build up speed and then igniting the engines at the last possible moment to slow down just enough to touch down safely. He also tried another approach—a more gentle landing. |
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"I recently explored the optimal fuel burn schedule to land as gently as possible and with maximum remaining fuel," Martin wrote on his blog. "Surprisingly, the theoretical best strategy didn’t work. The game falsely thinks the lander doesn’t touch down on the surface when in fact it does. Digging in, I was amazed by the sophisticated physics and numerical computing in the game. Eventually I found a bug: a missing 'divide by two' that had seemingly gone unnoticed for nearly 55 years." |
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that is the original bug in the code. ouch. but you were 17. that's when i learned fucking php. shit happens. shut her down clancy, etc |
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BOSTON (WHDH) - The city of Boston was buzzing Friday — not only with Celtics excitement, but also because a swarm of bees took over a crosswalk light downtown. Around 15,000 bees followed their queen and congregated at the light at Essex and Chauncy streets. They buzzed around the intersection for hours. A beekeeper called by the city managed to get the queen bee into a designated hive box, with the hope that the rest of the bees would follow her in. He also scooped some bees into the box with his hands. Many passersby walked through the area Friday afternoon, oblivious to the fact that the insects were flying all over until they’d get within about 10 feet of the swarm. that second bee[r]was vastly superior, my favorite on my menu. and you poured it down the drain. please do call the police. they know me and they'll tell you it's legal tender [bitch] maybe a sandwich tomorrow morning i don't have a car, but bicycles are a great solution |
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dear corporate AI, why don't i have any money? i expect a full account |
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Some $325bn (£256bn) worth of assets were frozen by G7 countries, alongside the EU, following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The pot of assets is generating about $3bn a year in interest. Under the G7 plan, that $3bn will be used to pay off the annual interest on a $50bn loan for the Ukrainians, taken out on the international markets. The money is not expected to arrive until the end of the year but is seen as a longer-term solution to support Ukraine's war effort and economy. On the sidelines of the G7 summit, the US and Ukraine also signed a 10-year bilateral security deal, hailed by Kyiv as "historic". |
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hmmm, hom. 256, you see it, yes? G7 gatorade, mac chips dragon's here |
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futuresquarepushergirlfriend |
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lol. this is hilarious. nice job good hax |
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this is not the forum post you're waiting for |
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i did post my address? i think? i'm... does anyone have a sandwich... car... tomorrow? 10:30? moon rabbit? |
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i'm thirsty i'm still mad the "Owner" i pwnd in meatspace poured a good beer down the drain |
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beeschitzzzz |
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i really am thiursty how does venNo? wat money halp well. seltzer. |
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i a a a venmo thing thjirstr |
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i feel miserable |
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i'm thirsty motherfucker just poured the beer down the drain. that was the point where i had a hard time not decking that worm. |
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can someone who likes weed and unix and wizarding come over. or anyone. this stupid planet everything is so dumb. i work very hard and i have a pretty stellar skillset and i just want to be independent and have some friends. instead of having to spend months in agonizing heat fighting stupid fat boomers |
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it's pretty gobsmacking to feel like everyone around me has no more than a three second attention span. it's fucking lonely |
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i've quit cigarettes |
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on my 21st birthday i went out to an irish pub with dad and i was actually 21 but since i didn't have license [because my parents were dfgjhkfg] i just had a learner's permit paper slip, they would not give me a beer. i was not allowed food or fluids after that dinner, because the next day i had to get my wisdom teeth extracted. 21, no fun |
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anyways, i've been keeping track of all of this |
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i feel less miserable today. i walked around a bunch and dislodged a lawn sign about ice cream because i feel people have already had enough freaking ice cream. |
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Today 76°53° Mon 84°65° Tue 94°68° Wed 97°71° Natick 58°F More on weather.com Top stories Detroit News Rochester Hills splash pad shooter found dead; wounded victims include two boys 7 hours ago Marnie Munoz & Chad Livengood CNN Police search for motive after apparent ‘random’ shooting at Michigan recreation center wounds at least 9 2 hours ago Paradise Afshar, Sara Smart & Dalia Faheid WDIV ClickOnDetroit Mass shooting at Rochester Hills splash pad: 2 children, 7 adults shot 20 minutes ago Kayla Clarke Detroit Free Press Rochester Hills splash pad shooting: 9 injured, suspect dead 8 hours ago Jennifer Dixon Full Coverage Biden looks to Hollywood for a fundraising jolt 6 hours ago Will Weissert & Darlene Superville The New York Times At Biden Fund-Raiser, Hollywood and Democrats Let the Trump Attacks Fly 6 hours ago Adam Nagourney & Shawn McCreesh Hollywood Reporter President Biden and Barack Obama Rip Donald Trump During Starry L.A. Fundraiser 5 hours ago Chris Gardner Los Angeles Times Hollywood Biden fundraiser with Obama, Clooney is crucial for campaign 2 days ago Seema Mehta Full Coverage |
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can we please fix the aricebo dish? people are talking about mars mars mars, meanwhile we're leaving trash on the moon and the aricebo dish is such an incredibly inspiring thing to so many people, myself included. you can find the TLDR on this board somewhere |
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today i'm mad. i told my landlady she was a worm. she is. she's also a poop fart. |
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yeah, like... i am done with cigs i think, but i'm not quite out of the miasma yet. so let's smash a glass on the front porch. because you're texting me about power washing the porch as if i were not a rather mad wizard who has seen it fit to try and even quit cigs for you worms |
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the glass got cleaned up, so i'll smash a few more on the front porch, because -- clean that up too, bitches. you cleaned it up once, you'll clean it up again, because i fucking own you. i go ahead and do 90% of it in 30 seconds with a giant sweep broom simply do i don't cut my feet. the red hummus also seems to have cleaned itself off the garden shed window. miraculous this morning i managed to beat sleep paralysis and wake up consciously, deliberately, and observe the process as it happened. i'm out of dreaming, vaguely, but my body is still asleep and i feel the panic. of being completely restrained and pinned down. the standard urge is to trigger something akin to a myoclonic jerk -- where you're almost asleep, and then you suddenly lurch awake, as if you're about to fall and you suddenly freak and catch yourself. and instead of falling asleep, you're just djfkgfd kind of ruffled so i'm coming awake and i feel pinned down and the urge is to freak out and GRRRJFKHDG snap myself out of that like the hulk snapping off chains and iron cuffs but instead, meditation, i manage to hold my cool. i actually find, vaguely, the center of this tension. i go through standard meditative etc and gently loosen myself up and with most of my body asleep, i start to move my toes, stretch a little, until i have evolved into doing light yoga poses from my sleeping position with parts of my body still asleep. then i've the rest of my body still awake i eased off of weed end of yesterday, and checked in -- yes, my dreams are still just annoying boring shit for the most part. like a computer shuffling through stuff going on and sorting things out. if something actually matters, it'll bust through the weed haze and i'd rather stay out of the way and let it do its job. because weed is crucial to my meditative practices when awake i have actual abs for the first time in my life and i fucking love it. best shape of my life right now |
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"The Massachusetts 911 system has been restored," the agency announced on social media. "The public may now resume calling 911 for emergencies." |
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what else? so much ridiculous has happened, is happening. - i've reached a point with robot dancing down the sidewalk where i'm literally surfing the web on my phone while robot dancing and doing jump spins and it's like i am sitting atop a magic carpet and my body is just doing that as i'm reading the news and -- wait, stop, at a street corner. full stop and look all directions. cross as any normal person would. then resume being batshit. it's lovely - right as i was trolling the "owner" or, rather, moments before -- was that vladimir putin's daughter? and wife? that would explain the burly toughs behind me, and all the other weird shit. but the mom, she was a delight. switching between russian and english as easy as breathing. i gifted her with, what i hope, was a turkish lira. that would be especially appropriate. she left to use the restroom after that, and the conversation with this awkward 17 year old charming shy girl with braces went like: me: "you speak english, i presume?" she nods. "100% she says confidently." "oh yeah?" i reply. "well i speak english a hundred eleven percent" she's amused. i continue: "i can english OVER 9000" and she's giggling. then mom's back and they're off to their table and i'm alone at the bar and i indicate to the waitress i'm about to cause a small scene and send the "owner" out |
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it's hot out. i've never seen it this hot out. the planet is burning. it's a thermodynamics issue that i see some obvious engineering solutions to, but, as usual, i'm not in charge. yet |
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when are the black keys coming over? june 22 or something? |
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Louisiana’s decision to force public schools to display the Ten Commandments is the latest fallout from a spate of controversial rulings from the rightwing supermajority of the US supreme court which has opened up a Pandora’s box that is fueling efforts to turn America into a theocratic state. |
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"Never obey a command unless it also comes from within" --Bruce Lee |
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Google Pixel getting more descriptive overheating warnings Avatar for Abner Li Abner Li | Jun 21 2024 - 4:30 am PT 2 Comments At the moment, your Pixel shows a “Phone is getting warm” warning when it’s overheating. Google is working on more descriptive messages that don’t require navigating to an online support article for more information. That existing notification explains how “Some features are limited while phone cools down.” When you “Tap for more info,” Google explains how: “Your phone will automatically try to cool down. You can still use your phone, but it may run slower. Once your phone has cooled down, it will run normally.” Version 1.27.0.638152889 of Device Health Services reveals work on more descriptive warnings. First up is the “pre_emergency_notification” titled “Phone needs to cool down: You may experience slower performance. Try avoiding direct sunlight or close any battery-intensive apps.” The full “pre_emergency_dialog” does a better job explaining what the Pixel is doing: Pixel will try to cool your phone down by temporarily limiting: Performance speed Disabling 5G network, and more How to help cool down your phone: Try avoiding direct sunlight Put your phone in the open for airflow Close any battery-intensive apps such as videos, games, and the camera Once your phone cools down, it will run normally again Android Authority notes how pre-emergency is shown when your device hits 120.2 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius). An Adaptive Thermal service will measure the temperature of the battery at five-minute increments. At 125.6 degrees Fahrenheit (52 degrees Celsius), the “emergency” state is entered At 131 degrees Fahrenheit (55 degrees Celsius), a “pre_shutdown” dialog appears: “Phone will shut down in about 30 secs due to high temperature” |
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Wikimedia Commons/Katsuki A photo of the 2007 expansion of the Natick Mall days after the grand opening. The grocer is still paying rent and has a lease through 2037, according to servicer commentary in Morningstar’s database, but Putro said the space being dark is one bad sign for the property. Another is that 64 tenants at the mall have leases expiring in the next 12 months, making up about 25% of the square footage tied to the CMBS loan. The loan was underwritten at $40.9M in net cash flow, but the property produced $32.6M last year despite being 90% leased, Putro said in an email to Bisnow. The loan was originated in 2019 by Bank of America, according to Morningstar. "Cash flow is adequate to keep it from defaulting during the course of the loan, but refinancing it will likely be tricky," Putro said. Brookfield declined to comment on the mall or the loan. The mall was built in 1966 and most recently renovated in 2017. The mall was built by businessmen William Lane, Stephen Mugar and John Brennan. It began as a single-level, 600K SF building that connected the then-anchor tenants, Filene's Basement and Sears. In 1994, the original building was replaced by a two-level building in an effort to compete with the newer, larger malls in the area, MetroWest Daily News reported. In 2007, the mall was renamed the Natick Collection and expanded to include two new anchor tenants — a 100K SF Neiman Marcus and a 144K SF Nordstrom — and added more than 100 new storefronts, the New England Real Estate Journal reported. The 1.7M SF mall also has a Macy’s and more than 200 other stores, making it the largest mall in New England, ahead of the 1.4M SF South Shore Plaza in Braintree. The Boston Discovery Guide calls the Natick Mall a "mammoth upscale mall," and YouTuber FleaBitten Adventures described it as "huge!" in a 47-minute walking tour video. |
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For The Atlantic, James Hamblin wrote that these "stories of gray areas are exactly what [...] need to be told and discussed." "Even Ansari, the semi-ironic expert who authored a book on interpersonal communication [...] was seeing something totally different from his date, Grace", who felt coerced.[87] Ansari briefly receded from the public eye following the incident and resumed performing stand-up comedy in May 2018.[92] |
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the garage door is open. |
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The jury convicted the five men of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. In addition, the jury convicted Dallmann of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement. Dallmann faces a maximum penalty of 48 years in prison, while Courson, Garcia, Jaurequi and Huber each face a maximum of five years in prison, according to the Justice Department. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to federal prosecutors, when complaints from copyright owners and issues with payment service providers threatened to bring down the illegal outfit, the defendants “tried to disguise Jetflicks as an aviation entertainment company.” “The defendants operated Jetflicks, an illicit streaming service they used to distribute hundreds of thousands of stolen television episodes,” principal deputy assistant attorney general Nicole Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, said in a June 20 statement. “Their scheme generated millions of dollars in criminal profits, while causing copyright owners to lose out. These convictions underscore the Criminal Division’s commitment to protecting intellectual property rights by prosecuting digital piracy schemes and bringing offenders to justice.” Motion Picture Association SVP and global general counsel Karyn Temple called the verdict “a landmark victory for intellectual property rights.” “The Motion Picture Association applauds the Department of Justice for its successful prosecution of five individuals who brazenly and illegally profited by infringing upon copyrighted works belonging to ACE,” Temple said, referring to the Alliance for Creativity in Entertainment, a coalition of entertainment companies focused on combatting piracy. “The jury’s conviction underscores the criminal nature of these types of offenses and the significant harms caused to the creative industry and the tens of thousands of workers who earn a living from key industry roles, includin |
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g set designers, caterers, hair and makeup artists, and camera operators, to name a few.” According to federal prosecutors, a member of the original Jetflicks group, Darryl Julius Polo (aka “djppimp”), left to create a competing site called iStreamItAll, whose subscription plans had a monthly fee of $19.99. Like Jetflicks, iStreamItAll did not have permission to distribute the TV and movie content on the platform, officials said. In 2019, Polo pleaded guilty to criminal copyright and money laundering charges, according to the Justice Department. In 2020, he was sentenced to 57 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $1 million in “criminal proceeds.” |
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- i paid for my first laptop with a banner FTP site - i first heard aphex twin when someone uploaded isopropanol and bucephalus and such to my ratio FTP site - i was listening to love line with adam corolla during the week rockefella skank blew up. i think i actually taped it. i should find that. anyways, that's how i first heard fatboy slim - i played an mp3 in the computer lab and people were like, how did you do that? same as when i played fatboy slim from an everex freestyle or a diamond rio 500, but that had prodigy, yes, lots - then we get a cable modem and sell to all the local rich kids $5 a CD would you like 3D Studio Max? any requests i didn't have, my library grows. - since my library growing i know the music people want, interesting anyways, i've wizard'dddd to heck and back so much i've long since paid for all that high school nonsense. kind of strange to see someone doing it on a $millions scale with names i recognize whoopi flooz free godiva chocolate lol moby radios scanners ionosphere christian bounce tide whatever |
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fucking lol https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7404345/EIGHT-peop le-charged-running-largest-illegal-streaming-service-US.htm l According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, beginning as early as 2007, the five men — Kristopher Dallmann, Douglas Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Jaurequi and Peter Huber — operated the Jetflicks streaming service. The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services (including the Pirate Bay and Torrentz) for illegal copies of TV episodes, which they then downloaded and hosted on Jetflicks’ servers, according to federal prosecutors. The men were charged in 2019 with conspiring to violate federal criminal copyright law. The jury convicted the five men of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. In addition, the jury convicted Dallmann of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement. Dallmann faces a maximum penalty of 48 years in prison, while Courson, Garcia, Jaurequi and Huber each face a maximum of five years in prison, according to the Justice Department. A sentencing date has not yet been set. |
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Eight men charged with running the largest illegal streaming service in the US with more content than Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime COMBINED Indictment charges, Kristopher Dallmann, 36; Darryl Polo, 36; Douglas Courson, 59; Felipe Garcia, 37; Jared Edward Jaurequi, 38, and Peter Huber, 61 Yoany Vaillant, 38; and Luis Angel Villarino, 40, were also indicted on Tuesday They are all accused of running Jetflicks, a streaming site based in Las Vegas Polo left Jetflicks and created competing site called iStreamItAll, officials said Authorities claim the men conspired to violate federal criminal copyright law They allegedly ran two of largest unauthorized streaming services that resulted in loss of millions of dollars by TV shows and motion picture copyright owners At one point, Jetflicks claimed to have more than 183,200 TV episodes and iStreamItAll claimed to have 115,849 TV episodes and 10,511 individual movies By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 16:55 EDT, 28 August 2019 | Updated: 18:55 EDT, 28 August 2019 |
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the images of these people indicate that they do cocaine. what losers |
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Peter Huber had no conflicts and started from scratch. The Geodesic Network: 1987 Report on Competition in the Telephone Industry, later cited widely as "the massive Huber report," became a runaway bestseller for the Government Printing Office. The report brilliantly detailed how technologies of freedom were primed to crush old monopolies with disruptions at the network's "edge"—personal computers, software, devices—if policymakers would lean back. The 450-page, data-dense thesis was delivered to the DOJ in 11 months; weeks early, as that was all the time Huber needed to go from zero to the world's leading authority on perhaps the most complicated public policy issue yet invented. The world lost Peter, and a good fraction of our human capital, on January 8, 2021. He was 68—again ahead of schedule. Peter was the towering public intellectual of his generation. He explained the evolving internet to policymakers before there was a commercial internet and while the world was still bollixed in 19th-century regulation. The U.S. was relatively blessed to be abused by a private monopolist, where shards of light might glance and antitrust be launched, unlike the impenetrable state-owned PTT (Post, Telegraph, and Telephone) behemoths stifling Mexico, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Experts saw the problems, but Peter was the visionary who saw the future. And then tripped the light fantastic through time, space, and dense complexity! Huber explained and inspired in virtually every sentence. His 1995 Federal Telecom Law treatise (an exhaustive text, co-authored with Michael Kellogg and John Thorne) described phone regulation under the 1934 Communications Act thusly: "Telecom providers and regulators engage in an endless minuet that moves dancers in or out of the circle called 'common carriage.'" |
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He was not fooled, as have been so many scholars, by announced intentions or the gloss of a "public interest" standard. "To say that the FCC watched [AT&T] grow to these gargantuan proportions since 1934 without complaint would be incorrect," he elaborated in Law & Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm (1997). "The FCC's official mission since 1934 had been to protect telephone monopolists from 'inefficient' competition.'" He then elucidated how frequency use would be transformed: "Early in the next century…this dismal regulatory era will finally come to an end. Broadcast spectrum will be dezoned. Roseanne will have to compete for airtime with the more civil, uplifting, and profitable expressions of ordinary people talking on wireless phones." Today, nearly half of what was then the "TV Band" has been liberated, and the Huber Revolution has arrived—Facetime your friends on your smartphone to celebrate. Born a Canadian but reared in the Swiss Alps, Huber received his doctorate in engineering at MIT and became a professor at age 23; he was tenured at age 25. At age 30, while teaching thermodynamics at MIT, he received his law degree. Graduating first in his class from Harvard Law School, he was summa cum laude—an honor awarded so rarely he was the only recipient from 1975 through 1996. He then promptly ditched academia to become a serial visionary. Mastering telecommunications law was just one foray. In 1988, he published Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences, where he measured the costs of tort awards—measurement was the recurring method packed into his elegant policy poetry—and found great excess: closed municipal swimming pools, obstetricians fleeing whole counties in Mississippi, productive manufacturing pushed into oblivion. Too much safety was making us less safe. His work helped trigger a tort reform movement. |
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In Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom (1991), Huber took on the exploding use of dubious expert testimony. Federal rules to exclude "junk science" (a term Huber coined) were instituted under a new Daubert rule (a federal case Huber helped litigate). Professors would be required to carefully apply the facts of the case to accepted analytical models of their discipline. Under this rule, Nobel Laureates have (correctly) been tossed for presenting ad hoc theories. Experts got more serious. The law improved. In Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists, A Conservative Manifesto (1999), Huber again melded deep veins of science, economics, and law. Rising above the standard squabbles—in over 30 years of friendship I cannot once recall Peter discussing politics, conventionally defined—he delivered a blueprint for regulations as if people mattered. Peter sought the optimal mix of social coordination, intelligently targeting the magic of the market. "Wealth is green," he wrote. "Wealth, not poverty, supplies the means to conserve the wilderness." |
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rot in hell bitch your system < my system |
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