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I had the same thought. If the black hole were formed lived long enough to fall to the floor of whatever lab it was created in, it'd presumably basically bore its way to the center of the Earth, aggregating matter (and thus mass) as it went.

When it reached the center, I'd expect that its gravity well would pull the rest of Earth into the black hole, unless it somehow found itself in a vacuum large enough to not create a gravity well. That would presumably be a sphere the radius of the amount of core material that is equivalent to the mass of Mt Everest, plus whatever it accreted on its descent.

So really, the question is whether or not a black hole that we could create would be able to make it to the floor of the lab... the article sorta touches on this:

The gravitational pull of a few micrograms of matter, regardless of how it is arranged, is never dangerous; you wouldn’t get pulled inside out if you ate it. However, you wouldn’t get the chance, since any black hole that we could reasonably create would already be mid-explosion.
I know exactly how you feel. Really, I do.

How I cope:

- I hired a tax planner and MAXIMIZED the amount of money I'm saving.

- I tell myself that I'm an INVESTOR, first and and foremost and that my 'boring' job at the 'reactive' company with the 'B'-players is just a transition period. See: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/50a0b8a5e4b081ffff7918...

- Work on my own small projects at night

- I improve things at work (Built an integration framework, introduce sorely needed technologies, improve customer support documentation, rally people around improving certain "broken" areas).
Biases are turtles all the way down, one learns. The only “solution” I’ve found for myself is not to “correct” them, but to have a lot less conviction about my own correctness. Big error bars.
Economics, too: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/papers-in-economic...
>The fact that we can represent "color" as an RGB triple is purely an artifact of the ways our eyes are built.

I've thought a bit about this before and came to think, what if humanity disappeared and only our creations were left and they were discovered by an alien species but to them it would just look like the way we see the colonies of ants, the shell of shell fish, etc., that is to say just a pile of matter organized for housing, and the aliens were unable to percieve the fact that we have encoded vast amounts of knowledge in our artifacts. That would've been quite a cosmic tragedy.
> wouldn't it fall to the center of the earth, absorbing anything in its way

That would depend on how it was formed and what its state of motion was. If it were moving fast enough (where "fast enough" means anything above escape velocity at the Earth's surface, 11.2 km/s--and objects created in our particle accelerators travel at close to the speed of light), it would just fly off into space.

> wouldn't the earth fall into it?

Not any more quickly than the Earth would fall into the existing Mount Everest. If such a hole were sitting at the center of the Earth, it would gradually accrete matter from the Earth, yes, but it wouldn't just swallow the Earth all at once.
Probably, although nothing sitting at the forefront of my mind right this minute. Still, if anybody is looking for a startup idea, there are a few things you can use to help kickstart your thinking.

1. Look at pg's / yc's "RFS" (Request for Startup) posts.

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-requests-for-startups

2. Something I experimented with for a while, but eventually quit (much to my detriment, probably) is this: try to think up 10 ideas a day, every day. Write them down. Yeah, probably most of them will be shit, but if you're doing 10 ideas a day, you'll probably hit on something good just by the law of large numbers. The question, of course, is can you distinguish the good idea from the not-so-good ones?

3. Read the news, pay attention to what's going on around you, and keep asking "how could I apply some tech that I know something about, to help this situation"?

4. Doodle. Draw boxes and arrows and just try to connect things. Do this in conjunction with (3) above.

5. Here's one of my favorites: read about OLD tech. Go back in time. In tech, there's a strong and noticeable "what's old is new again" theme. Old ideas go out of vogue and come back into vogue in a slightly altered form. Look for some tech idea that was trendy 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years ago, and ask yourself if it could be revisited now and made more useful due to Moore's law, the Internet, "big data", whatever. Or, on a related note, sometimes ideas come out that are actually good ideas, but they fail because they were simply too early. The environment wasn't right, but maybe it is now. Find something that failed and see if conditions have changed enough to make that old, failed idea into a viable idea.

OK, here's a free startup idea for you... take everything I said above, add your own ideas to the mix, and then build a tool / service for helping people come up with startup ideas. Text mine old news articles, books, manuals, alongside current news articles and research papers (look at arXiv.org and other pre-print servers) and identify a way to extract useful startup ideas from that morass.
I'm not sure I get the point of this article. On the teacher example, of course we discriminate based on skill, no one's disputing that. I could not find a deeper point than discriminate by legitimate metrics but not by skin color, race, etc which is fairly obvious.
It will not fall to the center, it will orbit around center. Nothing can stop black hole, but it will retain momentum of whatever it will sink, so it will oscillate at smaller and smaller radius, until it will replace Earth.
In the US hospital bills are typically negotiable.
It's an old diatribe. Pre-Firefox Mozilla poured a lot of effort in the (complex and temperamental) Linux market, with little to show for it. Firefox was very much a Windows-first project and it paid off immensely.

Mozilla walk a tight rope.
> If the black hole were formed lived long enough to fall to the floor of whatever lab it was created in

Since the proposed method of creating the hole is to collide particles in an accelerator, we would expect the hole, when formed, to be moving the way particles created in an accelerator move, i.e., at close to the speed of light. So the hole would fly off into space, since it would be moving much, much faster than escape velocity. (Also, as the article notes, the hole would explode due to Hawking radiation soon after it was created.)

> unless it somehow found itself in a vacuum large enough to not create a gravity well

Not sure what you mean by this. The "gravity well" of the hole is the same whether it's surrounded by vacuum or matter. The only difference is what can possibly fall in.
In the US it's illegal for them to continue calling once you've made it clear you don't know who the person is, and it's grounds for suing.

3rd party debt collectors know just how easily they can be sued, so while they do push the envelope, if you demonstrate that you understand the laws, they'll back off quickly.
> (where "fast enough" means anything above escape velocity at the Earth's surface, 11.2 km/s--and objects created in our particle accelerators travel at close to the speed of light)

The net momentum of a collision in the LHC is 0 relative to the Earth.
Graphite stays solid at standard pressure up to 3900K (source: wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon) so you get ~3600K of ΔT from standard temperature of ~300K before you have to deal with a liquid or gas. Coupled with being denser than water (but having lower specific heat than liquid or solid water), my napkin is telling me you get about 10x the heat capacity in J/m³ with graphite instead of water.
> John Lilly has since given statements that he resigned because of Eich's stance of Proposition 8.

The tweets you link to do not say Lilly resigned because of Eich's stance on Prop 8. Lilly said, "this was not about political values but about leadership when confronted with a difficult conversation."
I initially liked my experience with the Drupal community.

One of the things that drove me away (5+ years ago), beyond the direction the project took around Drupal 6 [1], was being stuck on Drupal.org for development.

In 2009, GitHub already offered everything the community would need, but instead developers were stuck with (poorly) custom made solutions. Last time I checked, it was still the case.

[1]: http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/
There's a technical discussion of using graphite vs. aluminum vs. copper in this paper: http://flash.desy.de/sites2009/site_vuvfel/content/e403/e164...

And a comparison of graphite vs. water schemes here:
http://tesla.desy.de/new_pages/TESLA_Reports/2001/pdf_files/...
No, because at that mass it wouldn't be able to absorb anything faster than it would emit radiation.
Oh I thought that these were all going to be street level data from toll booth type things.
Yes, but they're a slave to the Wicksellian rate, which is a slave to...
It's hard to just "pick a project" and start contributing. You need a little bit of passion, excitement, or just plain need. Look at the tools that you already use and depend on and start there.

Odds are you know how to set them up, configure a few things, and the like. In most cases, a few pull requests to the docs are not just welcome but greatly appreciated.

(I've been managing projects since 2007 and participating since 2001.)
They control the reaction within the reactor, and in newer reactors can be used to regulate load. France & Germany do have a load following system in place for their nuclear reactors. It's not a simple matter of turning off a reactor, as this is a large maintenance task. Various mechanisms and regulations have been developed to handle load following for a Nuclear plant. There are still negatives to doing this, such as reduced efficiency, additional operator training, and additional wear on control, fuel and the plant. Positives likely outweigh the negatives, but the reactor must be designed to do load following and regulations need to be in place to ensure it is done safely. It is another thing to consider when talking about the cost of nuclear.
This is something that must be, and can be fixed.

One thing the story does not address is up front education. People are tragically under informed about the dangers of credit. Hence you see this problem combined with the other three horses of the credit apocalypse. Payday loans, medical expenses, credit cards. Informing people about the dangers of these upfront is critical. Especially because we have laws to protect people - bankruptcy exists for a reason.

Part of the problem is determine credit risk for underserved markets. Credit Scores are based mostly on what credit you already have, and even low information scores depend on utility bills, etc to determine credit worthiness. That makes the problem far worse because effective and relatively safe credit escape valves are unavailable to to those who really need it, because systems can not determine the difference between a mom down on her luck, and someone who really is just trying to get money for nothing.
That's not savings tho, we have defined terms we're using here.
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All judgements in favor of one person over another are discrimination. The problem is when discrimanation is for immaterial factors based on racial/gender attributes over those relevant to the environment.

In some ways a person's culture can play a large role vs. physical attributes in a given work environment. I think it comes down to making at least an effort to treat everyone fairly and not making broad assumptions.
That equation changes when you move to a sustainable society.

Much smaller residential plots in suburban/rural areas, cut out commuting by 60 plus percent by using Skype etc. Move to much smaller single passenger electric vehicles (300 pounds instead of 3000).

Switch to high-tech (or low tech) efficient ultra-local food production, like potato bags on every roof, a tilapia farm on every corner. Solar on every roof, transparent VAWT on every roof. Solar roadways. Ground-source heat pump and net zero airtight ventilated homes. Wide deployment of residential energy storage.

We can literally make society 5-10 times more efficient.

https://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage
Are there any legal ways of protecting yourself from this sort of data collection?
Yeah, you're in the wrong.

The problem is that you believe that your opinion is the politically neutral one, and it isn't. It's just that the Rust community aren't a bunch of libertarians, which stands out considering how much of the tech community are, and how wildly that skews their perspective.

From a point of view outside of the tech industry, the Rust community don't do anything remotely unusual. Even much of the tech industry, outside of the SV reality distortion field, do much the same thing. They just try to keep garbage from the outside world from infesting the community and interfering with the work. Everyone else does that - it's really the only way to get anything done, short of having a totally homogeneous work environment.

Of course, a lot of you guys would prefer a totally homogeneous community. If Mozilla or the Rust community put you off... no big deal. It's not like there aren't plenty of others around who are quite happy to work with the Rust community because of their policies.

> But beware if you happen to hold a differing opinion!

If you hold a "differing opinion", and choose to take that into the Rust community with you... what do you expect? Keep your rubbish to yourself, and there won't be a problem.
You can't create a mountain-sized black hole in a particle accelerator. At least not yet!
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People do say "你好" in formal, like "How do you do?" such as greet someone who just met for the first time. "Hello" is more like "嗨", casual greeting.

Having said that, learning spoken and writing English are hard for countries that have complete different language system such as Japanese and Chinese, Korean etc. Two reasons:

First, there’s no argument that they all have completely different style of writing and pronunciation. Nothing to piggyback on like Dutch or German. The English teacher in my school doesn't even speak good English, more like "Chinglish" as we mostly emphasize in writing. Many do write English well but have hard time communicate verbally. That’s a BIG problem.

The second thing is that the in the old days, kids don't get to learn English until in middle school. The best time to learn language is when one is still very young. It then becomes a second nature rather than a skills to master later in life. I think that it's different now. Kids are learning English early in school now. However, they don't get to practice outside of school.
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Here is a link to 64-bit Firefox 42 release:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/42.0/win64/
The point of the article is that using outrage and shame culture to resolve discrimination can be just as bad as acts of discrimination themselves. The act of shaming a person can make you feel you have done your 'good deed for the day', and allow you to unconsciously commit your own biases against others. The article suggests that instead of shaming or attacking biases we observe in others, we should reflect on ourselves first, and fix our own misdeeds and mistakes.

The entire article could be summarized from a verse in the (NKJV) Bible:

Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
You'd expect someone would mention Joomla already. But...
You tell a story about how you encountered debt collectors using you to look for someone else, then immediately say the easy way to avoid them is not to get into debt? Do you not see the obvious contradiction here?
You may be interested in these links. In essence, it takes very few locations to uniquely identify an individual.

I believe Ars was able to accurately track an Oakland city councilman using similar data. [3]

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512946/how-access-to-lo...

[2] http://www.wired.com/2013/03/anonymous-phone-location-data/

[3] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-you...
I wonder if you could convince cperciva (Tarsnap) to exploit Usenet as an encrypted block store (as a cheaper alternative to S3).

I suspect that if Tarsnap was over half of Usenet's traffic volume, it would start getting filtered.
Thanks for the links. I note that the graphite vs water scheme paper actually concludes that water cooling would be the preferred method.
If you're into games at all, I would highly recommend the Godot Game Engine (http://www.godotengine.org). They are very active on IRC and in the forums. If you have a question, you'll almost certainly get an answer. They are also are very welcoming of contributions.
As much as the causes at Chernobyl can be attributed to the poor quality of the systems installed and of incorrect safety procedures, it shows that bad things can indeed happen, simply saying that they were caused by incompetence doesn't prove nuclear power is safe. Likewise stating that "fewer than 50" died at Chernobyl, while possibly true (referring to the immediate area), is a severe understatement of the crisis. All european countries were forced to react, radioactive dust sent up into the air by the fires was carried across the continent and whole crops had to be destroyed. The low figure of consequential deaths is thanks to a large and costly effort to prevent further problems. Much like Fukushima. This article is reverse fear mongering and it is just as wrong, nuclear energy is without a doubt an incredible resource and the pros objectively outway the cons compared to fossil fuels, and the claim that the gap left open by insufficient adoption of renewable energy can be closed by nuclear in the meantime is a valid one, downplaying the dangers of nuclear however is not the correct way to move forward.
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This looks a lot like STRIPS planning http://www.primaryobjects.com/2015/11/06/artificial-intellig...

The Ceptre tutorial even has the classic example of moving blocks on a table. It's a different language than STRIPS (using PDDL), but seems a similar idea.
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It's an opinion piece.
Languages/dialects in Italy are complicated!

http://vgsitaliansig.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Language...

Many of them basically evolved from latin on their own, rather than from some kind of standard Italian. Standardization has come later, with TV/radio/travel spreading 'standard' Italian.

For fun, here's "Where did the guy go?" in Italian, followed by some sort of Venetian:

"Dov'e` andato il ragazzo?"

"Dove xeo nda' el toso?"
I do not. If I did, I would be building them.

The closest thing I think I had to what might be an interesting idea lately was a tool that automatically detected and translated Japanese text in videos. But it's technically way beyond my abilities, and I have no idea how I would actually make money at it if I could do it well at all, and if Google can't do it already, I definitely can't. I don't even know where Grimsby is.
When you update application.js, the hash of application.js itself will change as well. If you include the hash of application.js in its filename, I don't see the problem.

If you do not include the hash of application.js in its filename then I think the main problem is whoever decided to use hashes for some scripts but not for others.

That being said, I don't use gulp and all that stuff. It seems to me that some people get so caught up in technology that they

1) Reinvent the wheel a million times. I admit that make has its short comings but I think a similarly general build tool is the way to go. Look into tup, they know what's up.

2) Don't notice that they are sitting atop a tower of abstractions and that their tower is starting to become unstable.

3) Are pulling in massive amounts of scripts as dependencies to build something that could've been implemented with little to no scripting at all, and with their high bandwith workstations and latest computers and devices they don't notice the fact that while they are trying to reduce load times (which by itself is a worthy goal) the browsers of their visitors are crashing because rendering these websites take more ram than is available on many devices. Jesus, fuck!

So that was a bit of a rant. Sorry about that, I guess.
It is completely fair to distinguish "Internal Reprogrammability" from configurability with respect to Emacs. Emacs is vastly different than most systems that are highly configurable that you mention.
(could you clarify why you include the second link? Your second link is our article link.)

The comment that you mention mentions savings of "28ma" - could it really be so high? This is hard to believe, or hard to believe that it would translate the raspberry pi zero, as our article link says the idle is 50-70 mA (third photo caption on page) - so if true and the same for this board, disabling HDMI would reduce current by up to 56%! However, on the other hand that might not be true at all. Perhaps the A has a dedicated chip for HDMI, whereas this chip drives it directly; or perhaps the hearsay on current savings from the HDMI is simply wrong. I've submitted a version of this comment as a comment to the author's blog, since he's all set up to investigate. (I think the post is pending moderation.) Probably there will be 0 power savings.

EDIT: Thanks, author!
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Why not start contribute to Mozilla?

https://mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/
Is it steep? Passports are valid for 10 years. That's $16 per year. The price of 4 starbuckses is nothing compared to, say, one flight per year for the holidays.
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Medical debt doesn't go on credit reports, so generally speaking they don't really push since there's little teeth to bite with. I've had a LOT of debt on me, and I've dealt with many debt collectors, as well as someone with a ton of medical expenses - all I ever received was letters on those, as opposed to the aggressive calls related to other debts.
This guide is gorgeous; the choices made for fonts, styling, and formatting are just perfect. I wish more online documentation looked this good.
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simple he needs a hobby he has a passion for, took my dad years of contracting after retiring to realize he could be happy with his wood working hobby, oh and traveling.

it isn't so much not being useful but being idle with nothing to do which isn't the same thing
Minutes to the hour, I guess. I agree with the GP that the color choice was poor. Also the minute markers don't make them look very clock like.
I've been impressed with working on [syncthing][]. The team is very open to discuss anything that comes up, which makes it easier for me to tackle things.

I've also been impressed with the user experience of the product. Installation and configuration was much easier than I expected, and then it just runs!

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If you lose your job, the "shit you can't afford" can easily include food and rent.

And the trap is made of punitive fees with high rates of interest that soon make any initial borrowing a trivial part of the sum owed.

Anyone who thinks this can't happen to them is being naive. It can literally happen to anyone, including people who are currently independently wealthy millionaires.

All it takes is a major economic downturn and/or some bad investment choices.