lighthouses

This means that if the two lighthouses are at opposite corners of a (square) room, for the most part no single sensor will ever pick up both lighthouses at once, no matter where the headset is in the room or how it is oriented.

An infinite number of Irrational Games studios are opening and closing at this moment, like lighthouses on an ever-expanding ocean.

Barnett and Block (2007) qualify these critiques by showing that private lighthouses are possible, but do not show up in the historical record.

Given that, Quoddy, Heceta, Neddick and Hatteras are all named after famous lighthouses.

Government tends to excel at things like air traffic control and lighthouses where there isn't much scope for competition and where competition may harm.

Nebula uses lighthouses instead of DNS for finding other nodes.

These include lighthouses, laws, national defense, clean air and water, a sustainable population of fish and game, and so forth.

The lighthouses seem to have a 90° sweep.

And yes we have some lighthouses, like every other country too.

I assume you then need two lighthouses so you can do triangulation and get the position of your sensor rather just the angle to the lighthouse.

Ocean going vessels don't shop for lighthouses at a corner store, and we don't have a municipal fund set aside to supply every child with popsicles.

Granted, programming languages have different characteristics as products than lighthouses or tv shows or telephones, but they do share things with them that we can learn from.

That Wikipedia link seems to support the claim that lighthouses actually failed to operate well without government intervention: "Eventually, all these rights were withdrawn or bought up by the authorities because the total light dues that had to be paid by ships were too high as a result of rent-seeking activities of these so-called private providers of lighthouses.

The reason people who hate lighthouses will back that contract even if they don't trust the criminal is that they have nothing to lose: they will only "lose" their bet if the criminal destroys the lighthouse, which is what they wanted all along so it's actually a win from their point of view.

For example, the 1909 Physics prize to Marconi/Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" or the 1912 Physics prize to Gustaf Dalen "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys".

Lighthouses are regularly used for navigation, so they need to have almost guaranteed up-time.