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You mean their own design software? You are mistaken. Ponoko provides templates of their default material sizes, and that's about all that's required. Oh, you also need to use the correct color path to indicate between engrave and cut passes.

Either way, clearly you're already calculating this value for billing, no? Or are you just using laser run-time for the bill, and estimating that based on the user's guesstimated path length?
> thriving Lunar and perhaps asteroid belt mining by now

What useful stuff can we mine from the moon or from asteroids?
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Is the strawman the only argument fallacy people on the Internet know? I will not try to out-strawman your strawman, but I will just say, that you've misunderstood my example. You are still focusing on the material output and treating immaterial work as secondary.

I was saying, that the total output of the economy is both from physical production and knowledge work. In fact, most of the "first world's" recent growth was knowledge work. Thinking that it grows and shrinks proportionally with only tentatively related inputs is wrong.

And secondly, sustainable exponential growth in a finite world is impossible in the long term. This is undebatable. However, we just might push the long term far enough for it to be irrelevant.
"like the T, which will identify the long-awaited Second Avenue line, scheduled to open at the end of 2016, which has been in the works since 1919."

End of 2016 would be amazing. I think Wikipedia says 2025.
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Did you mean "Henry M. Boettinger"? http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/2/14/AT&T-Arc...
The article states the numbers: year-over-year, for the six month period of January to June: 252 (2014); versus 327 (2015, +75). It continues: "In an average year, there are 500, according to the Centre for Suicide Prevention."

Curious about the larger context; do global oil prices represents the primary factor, for the mass oilpatch layoffs? Does the recession represent a temporary boom/bust cycle? Heart goes out to those affected.
Partly I think it's an artifact of editing a long rambling speech into the final YouTube video. Sometimes if you cut out a sentence or a word, the result is a choppy transition. And despite what the article says, they really do have to compete for attention. There's a whole list of other videos people could be watching right there, so if they lose the audience's attention for a second, they might just leave.
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Looks neat.

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More likely they just want to be seen as hip and serving their customers as a single unit isn't going to going to let you run your house fully during an outage and buying multiple units to support a power user typical wattage need and who else besides those types are buying into this?

It might be good for time shifting expensive electrical rates but where in America is that going to happen?

I don't think they see value in home storage of power, first off the amount stored is way way WAY too minuscule if you look at it from a grid perspective. If you wanted efficient, safe, and reliable, battery storage the utility or an independent would be better off setting up a dedicated facility for it. Even if just a series of boxes at the front of a subdivision/apartment complex the manageability goes up a lot.

tl;dr utility company just riding the cool wave as it really doesn't benefit their consumers. far better options than relying on small storage spread across private homes
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10575953 (1740 points, 21 days ago, 330 comments)
Lets assume that CEO can fuck up so bad that it will bancrupt a company.

Star CEO has 0,1% chance of fuck up/year.
Good CEO has 0,2% chance.
And completely mediocre would be about 0,4%.

Hire three mediocre dudes to CEO the company so that they are always deciding on everything together. You have now 0,064% yearly chance of bancrupty, while you can easily pay them just 300k each.

It seems like high CEO pay is often a result of CEO holding the company as hostage. Not not necessarily conciously, but from shareowners point of view. Distribute the risk of bad moves and you should get OK performance cheaply.
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There are loopholes everywhere, and Facebook is not paying corporate tax anywhere including the UK and other places. It is not only the USA.
Solar doesn't replace base line generation unless you can get the power where its needed and as you are not generating power from panels over the majority of a day it means you must get it from someone who is generating it
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Doubtful. ESPN is not synonomous with Sports. People may be becoming aware of the amount of their cable bill being sent to ESPN, but there are two problems blocking change. 1) They (the cable subscriber) can't do shit about it, they either accept the whole packege or not. 2) Why would the cable companies go for it anyway, I'm sure they know they can get more by forcing HGTV lovers to pay for ESPN, and ESPN lovers forced to pay for HGTV.

Also, let's say this author is right, ESPN dies a slow death. How does that stop sports? ESPN doesn't have much (of the main sports) on it anyway. Sports games are on other networks. NFL - CBS,FOX. MLB - FOX,TBS. Soccer - NBC. NHL - NBC.

I'm sure the sports that are on ESPN can find an home elsewhere. I'm not sure the dog shows are raking in huge TV money from ESPN that some PETS CHANNEL can't cover.
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I never have understood why we pay for cable channels to then watch ads on them. They should be able to make some decent money just on the ads.
The first few episodes of My Drunk Kitchen have excellent comedic timing, but after that it turns into a specimen of the type in the article.
It is almost as though the SEC does not want anyone to use crowdfunding other than scammers.
Not necessarily broken, but certainly outdated. What do you think about spam, encryption, attachment sizes?

Imagine being able to publish your email address online without worrying about spam; even in your profile you've been forced to obfuscate your own a little. Or to know that every message you send can only be read by the recipient and nobody in-between - without having to explain PGP to non-techs. Or being able to send a 50-100MB file without resorting to third party or public hosting - any of those features would be a bonus, in my view.

Not broken, but can be improved, don't you think?
They don't really need to, Verisign (for .com) and ICANN (for gTLDs) provide access to the zone files.
> I'm waiting for the NoHTML, NoCSS and NoJS equivalents

Jade, SASS, and CoffeeScript? :D
Even better. Most of the so called "cash pile" is hard at work.
What if you need to communicate an error reason with your status code? E.G. distinguishing between Forbidden because you don't have some permission and forbidden because you're not friends with some user.
Sleep disorders are notorious for bringing on mental problems as well, including (but not limited to) severe depression. Meanwhile depression can cause sleep issues all by itself.

Teasing out cause and effect for patients like this must be a nightmare.
So I have to create my own templates for atom feeds?
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> > Asymmetric encryption

> ...doesn't protect against everything.

But it does protect against the exact threat model you proposed.

> Defense in depth would be using cryto while requiring a physical connection.

> Consider, for example, the people that made ATM shims that captured the card data while recording the PIN being entered on the keypad.

How about you consider it?

Building a facade to intercept physical communications is very much on par with building increasingly large, awkward, and expensive antennas in terms of difficulty barriers (especially if you need enough polish to blend in). I'm a ham, I would know. I'm not sure why you are so insistent on drawing the line between these two particular techniques.

> A card that requires an electrical or inductive connection isn't going to leak everything over the radio.

Are you familiar with the distinction between near-field and far-field? Because both RFID and smartcards span that distinction while you just tried to draw a line down the middle.

> A smartcard is fine - my argument is against RFID.

Many (most?) smartcards communicate over RF. Your argument (and my rebuttal) was about

> Adding radio as a primary component in a security system

not the RFID technology in particular. So do you or don't you think RF communication in a security device is an inherent problem in and of itself?
You mistyped "Again, like real life.", its supposed to be an emacs analogy. Then again emacs is life, so transitively...
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I also like the model of paying for the sports we want. I don't mind paying $50 a year to watch all MLS games and I can watch them on any device.
I found the animated show to be unwatchable, but really enjoy the manga. Probably because it was very easy to plow through the less interesting parts quickly.
I wonder if it's a coincidence that the X-matters crowd happens to be a bunch of teens going Soros agenda.
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Alternately the SEC just recognizes that "crowdfunding" a corporation is just exactly what IPOs were supposed to be for and doesn't feel super happy about having to write the loop holes to their own regulations.
Looks like a bunch of good points held together by diatribe. S&W is a good book. The list of errata would be more helpful without the ranting.

Example: Prescriptive grammar didn't rely so much on evidence. That's a truism that (a) doesn't tell us much about E.B. White's personal character flaws ("arrogance"), and (b) leaves us awfully starry-eyed and idealistic about the downsides of descriptive grammar. Who knows what they'll say about us in fifty years?
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Here is my prediction for 2016 : the bubble of bubbles is about to pop !
With my students, I do both poetry and manipulative rhetoric (marketing, politics, etc.); they are less exclusive than you may think.
And that was only yesterday...
For baseball at least, the same points are valid for each area's RSN (regional sports network). MASN (Maryland / DC / VA area) gets something like $8-12 per subscriber. YES (NY Yankees network) I'm sure is able to charge even more.

This has allowed MLB teams to spend a great deal of money in the past 5-10 years as teams have signed ever-more-lucrative television rights deals with FoxSports and others. If non-cable media packages are luring more and more cable subscribers (HBO, Hulu+, SlingTV, Netflix, etc) the pool of non-sports watching people subsidizing these networks shrinks - this will force either prices to rise for actual sports watching customers, or it'll lower revenues for teams.

Rumor has it that MLB has been trying to push the RSNs to accept universal MLB.tv access for all regional markets, this at least makes the costs explicit - $100-140/season for each subscriber.
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That's likely true with anything else in your life. I love to cook, I'm much better than people who doesn't cook but I'm worse than anyone who dedicates 4-8 hours a day every day.

But I don't care, I enjoy it so I keep doing it. Do you not enjoy chess enough to play it without needing another reason?
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(Just in case it's not obvious: Click the yellow link to see the animated visualization.)

Each debris has a different color. What does it mean?

Do the page download all the initial data and make a simulation or it download the positions periodically?

There is a ring at high altitude. What is it's origin? Geocentric satellites? (I think there is another ring at medium altitude, but I'm not sure.)

Does this show the satellites that are currently in use or only the unuseful debris? Can you add a button to show/hide them?
Or generate and store excess energy during the day. I think the current challenge is that current energy storage solutions do not scale to the size of power plants?
The development of science is rooted in the works of Aristotle, Galileo, Bacon, and Newton. In order to succeed in the West it had to break the stranglehold of Christianity on the intellectual scene (thanks to Aquinas).

Further, science has nothing to do with religion in general, and the Moslem religion in particular. On the contrary, Islam is radically opposed to reason, and the few science-minded intellectuals, inspired by Ancient Greek texts, that lived undr Islam rule a thousand years ago were persecuted whenever they attempted to uphold reason over faith.

Parts of the growth of mathematics in the West, from time of the Renaissance, was inspired by the rediscovery of Ancient Greek texts. The Western mathematicians who looked at what Moslems had done with this were mostly revulsed, especially by their bad transaltions, and hence returned to the study of the original texts and problems, such as the Diophantine equations.
Salary is about priority #97 when legitimately considering becoming an astronaut.
>astronauts assigned to a mission can make money through public speaking

As somebody who knows many current and former astronauts (lived a stone's throw from JSC for 20+ years)... I can assure you that astronauts picking up money for appearances is fairly uncommon. A majority are incredibly low-profile, publicity-wise. If they show up to an event to speak, it's almost always because they personally feel compelled to advocate for research, education, the space program in general, etc.
Can you prevent Google from showing your ad if your site is the first organic result anyway?
I don't get how this was such a last-minute, all-nighters-all-round thing. Would it really have been so bad to take 4 weeks and do it properly?
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We (kingandmcgaw.com) have seen plenty of examples that suggest Googlebot tries to discover pages that might exist (as distinct from crawling interlinking pages).

This includes navigating the URL structure (in finding blah.com/one/two/three.html there may be attempts to /one/two and /one) and password-protected admins which are not linked to from anywhere (we suspect Analytics or toolbars are telling Google these pages exist). As a result, Googlebot generates a bunch of false positives in our error logs.
Really? Everyone knows with a little bit of research that The Climate Summits are a bunch of ridiculous hoaxes.

Climate has been changing for 4.5 billion years: http://www.itia.ntua.gr/en/docinfo/1181/, so enough with this scaremongering.

And everyone who has studied electrical engineering for real, knows that you are always going to need base stations running on fossil fuel or nuclear energy because solar/wind power is unpredictable.

The ones who benefit out of this is the companies you do the huge installations and then increase the prices on utility bills because "practically+scientifically" alternative powers sources are not cost efficient.

Especially the wind power is useless, if you don't have base stations running on coal/nuclear energy to cover for energy variations.

But in the end, the serfs buy it thinking the climate will be saved while the corporations just get richer.

Get some reality checks here:
http://www.thegwpf.com/reality-check-2500-new-coal-plants-wi...

Lastly, even Germany who had pledged to stop burning coal, votes not to do it: http://www.thegwpf.com/reality-check-2500-new-coal-plants-wi...

and pays Denmark to disable wind turbines:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-01/german-win...

Conclusion: Solar/Wind energy exist only through subsidies:utility bills increases->your tax money getting burned.
No facts, only that it's relatively easy to implement such a system. Add to this the fear that the other party may have implemented a doomsday device, and it becomes easy to rationalize the need for such a device.

I would even argue the operators in nuclear bunkers are already part of a doomsday device if they have orders to automatically launch an attack if their country has been struck by nuclear weapons.
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If your identity is that sensitive keep a standard public key that is used by default, but for services where you might want your identity to not be linked to other accounts/places/activities have a separate key for each and specified where to use it in you SSH config (or by naming with the -i parameter on each ssh call).
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There are lots of people who would do it for free. I'm sure even the pool of qualified applicants is much larger than the available positions.
I think we have hit peak-computersavvy.

I remember how "old people" (now over 50) have had a hard time learning computers back in the 90s. "Kids these days" just don't see computers as an awesome tool that needs to be mastered and are not socialized to fight with a config.sys to play the game.
I’m surprised that the article doesn’t mention Ze Frank, since he was the originator of this style of speech in online videos, or at least very influential in popularising it.
Author here,

The debris is coloured to match the descriptive text.

Each years data is loaded when the user gets to that part of the visualisation.

The ring you see is indeed all of the satellites in geosynchronous orbit. You can also see the orbits of many of the GNSS satellites in medium Earth orbit if you stare hard enough for long enough!

This shows all objects (functioning and debris) in orbit at the time in question.
That's one weakly written policy. I wonder if they even get around to looking into the complaint for the small-spending business. The policy does not obligate them to do so.
Even the day storing may not be option, my home town chennai got a record rain in last one month with almost no sun for most of the days. Also the only thing that helped people are fossil fuel which is Candle and LPG stoves. The regular coal based thermal power was not there due to shutdown of plant as well as tranmission lines. LPG stove made people stay on first and second floor for two weeks with no need to come down.
> modern programmers should use the work of their predecessors when creating solutions

But they have to be careful.

Ten years ago, every web dev I knew did PHP and 99% of them didn't make use of the work their predecessors. Everyone reinvented the wheel.

Since the rise of node.js packet managers like npm became big and every web dev is like "don't reinvent the wheel, use whats already available". Now I see many projects that switched their "home-grown-solution" problems for "dependency hell" problems.
I think a summary might be that:

1. ESPN historically was making way more money than they should due to bundling.

2. ESPN is passing along a large percentage of this money to the sports teams in the form of media rights (aka they pay the NFL teams to show Monday Night Football).

3. ESPN is now on a downward path due to people opting out of bundles.

4. Sports teams will make less money overall after this shakes out as ESPN artificially bid up the market.
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I'm an advocate for solar. I just want to see an honest analysis of the whole question, what does a clean global grid look like? Anyone seen such a thing? If we really switched over to solar power, we'd need storage to handle :

- daily load variations (example, CA ISO "duck graph"[1])

- seasonal load variations (example, Seattle has 16 hours of sunlight in summer, and 8 in winter. It's overcast for weeks at a time in winter).

- unusual events, from extended weather patterns to volcanic eruptions.

Five nines (99.999%) is 5 minutes/year of downtime. What does it cost to guarantee at least that, given the variations in sun (or wind) and the fact that the grid absolutely, positively, needs to supply current for any need that gets switched on, anytime, regardless of the weather?

Tony Seba's big handwave is that the "god parity" happens in 2020 where photovoltaic is cheaper than transmission costs, so even if fossil fuel cost zero, it would cost more than rooftop PV. Ta-da!

Ok, for what percent of the population does that give you how many nines? What's the complete story that handles conditions in Seattle, London, and really most of Europe?

Tony also likes to refer to Molten Salt Solar as "baseload". Bullshit that's just short-term load following. Useful, yes! Complete solution, no. Or can it be extended? Where can I find an honest analysis?

Yeah I've heard the other handwaves: flow batteries! existing pumped water storage! add wind to the portfolio! supeconducting transmission from deserts! LiIon manufacuturing learning curve! etc... But we need numbers, not enthusiasm.

[1] http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/21/utilities-cry-fowl-over-...
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It seems to me that the "death of ESPN" is more evidence of the death of the cable TV model than the death of sports.
I can get quality streams of any NFL game online without much searching. Almost all the sites have donation buttons.

Sure, I'd pay the NFL $99 for the Sunday ticket package. Take DirecTV out of the picture. That's only a couple bucks per week.