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>> "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."

I am interested in hearing what people think about the claim that economic growth and growth in energy use are coupled. If the two quantities are coupled, how do you respond to arguments like this one? [0]

"Let me restate that important point. No matter what the technology, a sustained 2.3% energy growth rate would require us to produce as much energy as the entire sun within 1400 years. A word of warning: that power plant is going to run a little warm. Thermodynamics require that if we generated sun-comparable power on Earth, the surface of the Earth—being smaller than that of the sun—would have to be hotter than the surface of the sun!"

[0] http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
"If they'd come across the actual criminal and he'd behaved similarly (and lying by producing plausible ID, acceptable home address, etc) and then let the actual criminal go, that'd be terrible."

No it wouldn't. This happens all the time to white people. I had a friend who had numerous warrants and was let go by the police numerous times because he used his brother's name. The author is saying they only did this because he was black and I don't doubt that one bit.
I've used BigBlueSaw as well as some local makerspaces for my waterjet and lasercut needs in the past, and I've been happy with their services. Where does your business fit within that marketplace? Is your advantage pure cost (which I'm impressed with by the way, a $12 shipped part is ridiculous)
Aren't the miner incentives are only necessary if it's an open blockchain that requires public hashing power?

You can have a relatively smaller number of actors incentivized by other means on a network - e.g. organizations in an industry that validate transactions amongst each other.
Here is the actual study - it is an interesting read:
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001078145

In a nutshell; the LTE transmission cycles on and off on a regular cadence without sensing if the channel is clear. This tramples over the 802.11 frames and results in higher utilization of the medium than that which is claimed by Qualcomm
I went from Sparrow to Mailbox to Airmail. Sparrow was the best for its time. Mailbox had potential but was riddled with bugs. Airmail doesn't have the cleanest interface nor all the coolest features, but it's the best option I've found at the moment. For iOS I am still using Mailbox, but I guess now I have to use something else, will probably give the Gmail client a go.

One OSX client I've just found that I'm hoping does what I need: https://nylas.com/N1 It's open source.
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This is one of those articles I want to "save" in my hn account but I don't know how.
Ideas are cheap. The work to make a successful startup, that's the hard part. I have more ideas than I could ever possibly spin into companies, even if I were that sort of person - most of them I'm happy to give away entirely if it means they actually get implemented instead of forgotten. If I had an idea that I thought could change the world of finance for the better, then I would accept that I know bugger-all about finance and push that idea towards the nearest person who did know something. Not everything is about personal gain.
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First of all, Breivik himself stated he's not a Christian, claiming allegiance to Odin.

Second, if someone knew of his plans and didn't turn him in, they're guilty of complicity under current laws in most western countries.

Third, far-right groups are regularly 'punished' (ie. Prosecuted under various laws) for the actions of their members, even if it doesn't comprise all their members. As are gang members, etc...

Harboring, aiding and abetting criminals is punished in our society as a crime. Why not aiding and abetting extremism?
because there is only one and certain parts of it can be monetized to great affect? you can get licensed spectrum in a point to point fashion for the cost of a modest used car, in some places.
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The wire-management companies are racing to become content companies before their wire-management business becomes totally commoditized by net neutrality, content companies (Google), and municipalities (municipal fiber programs are gaining steam).

Verizon essentially ended their FiOS buildout once Ivan Seidenberg retired, in favor of putting all their investment into wireless. Why? Because they saw the writing on the wall: wires and fiber are infrastructure, and infrastructure always becomes a commodity.
Most of the usable spectrum is being wasted on stupid junk like navigation, military and police who are using ancient, inefficient technologies. The bandwidth-specific value we're getting from the ISM bands dwarf nearly all other uses.

There would suddenly appear to be huge amounts of available spectrum if the authorities would just yank bands from the most useless legacy allocations and auction them off.
Why isn't that a realistic or correct solution? If you're going to make that assertion, you need to back it up with an argument, otherwise you're simply offering an opinion. While that's all well and good, it's not really informative or a productive contribution to this discussion.

If the author could provide reasonable proof of who he was, what he was doing and his standing in the community, then there should be nothing wrong with letting him go, pending further investigation. Take his picture, if you like, but don't detain him any longer than absolutely necessary unless there's overwhelming probable cause to hold him. A vague description is hardly that.

Yes, I'm biased, I believe that having gainful employment in any of a number of fields does make one a tiny bit less suspicious and much more easily found if the investigation goes further.
Thank you russnewcomer! Trumpf are great, based on our experience (~10 years owning and operating several lasers) Mazak have proven to be really reliable and really low-cost in operating kW + maintenance. That's why we kept the Mazaks. Of course we are using a nesting program that's been leaving something close to 200-300 grams. per stainless steel sheet - and this is the core of our low cost.

We tried to explain it as much as possible and give a couple of rules that would save a lot of people from the high heat stuff. It looks that you know a lot regarding lasers and you are more than welcome to stay in touch!

Jim
That practice is called zero-rating, and the reason T-Mobile’s Music Freedom and Binge On initiatives have thus far escaped FCC scrutiny is likely twofold: The services included are not owned by T-Mobile, and T-Mobile is receiving no payment from the services to zero-rate their traffic.

If Verizon were to start a large-scale, first-party zero-rating scheme, I have to think there would be at least some calls for FCC action. And given that Wheeler’s FCC actually passed Title II, there is the real potential of an actual regulatory stick being wielded against Verizon.
>the network caps at 7 transactions a second (by design).

That's going to be changed fairly soon.

I suspect that a lot of people are just going to use the bitcoin blockchain out of inertia, just because it's easier to use a proven platform than something you build yourself.

Unless someone needs a feature that bitcoin doesn't provide, I don't see any competing blockchain taking its place.
you can't exactly go make more spectrum.
True, but decentralized databases (where all nodes are trusted) were already invented long before bitcoin came along. You do not need a blockchain if all actors are trusted.
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I didn't use Mailbox, but I think one of the key features is the snooze button, that makes an email disappear from your inbox and then reappear later. I think at the time Mailbox came out Google didn't offer that feature. The GMail webapp still doesn't have it but now Google Inbox does.
Check Karl Schroeder, you may find him a refreshing change. His first book is available to read online at his website http://karlschroeder.com

From what you mentioned, it sounds like his books may be right up your alley.
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Looks like this is the outcome of the 5 day long bard meeting. They got a "maybe" from Verizon and promised Mayer $110m so that she tries hard to close.
This is great, and the site is beautiful! I'll probably use it in the future for crafty/technical projects. A few questions:

1. I understand the cost is probably based on many factors, like bounding box size, laser time, and material, but it would be helpful to see a table of example items on the home page and their final costs (just to have a ballpark idea of what it would cost to make something of a given size/complexity). For the estimator/order form, why do I need to specify the bounding box size and path length myself? Shouldn't that be inferred from the drawings I upload? All that said, the prices are amazing!

2. Do you ship to the US? If so, does that cost extra?

3. Can you cut steel thinner than 1mm? It would be VERY useful to be able to make steel foil templates for reflow soldering. Such templates act as masks to control the application of solder, and they vary in thickness depending on the application but are most commonly 0.1mm to 0.2mm in thickness. Made by specialty firms, such templates can cost hundreds of dollars. A DIY option would be wonderful.

4. Can you make parts <50mm^2?

5. Your cut edges probably look great. It would be nice to see macro photos of some cut edges to know what sort of quality to expect.

6. What are the tolerances of cut parts?

7. Have you considered merging some of the pages, like the home page and the Discover page? Possibly the design guidelines page? I had to click around quite a bit to answer some other questions I had.
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I'll elaborate on their behalf: "That would be hard and expensive and we have money to make."
FYI, D3 4.0 is just around the corner and breaks the library into different components so you can just import the ones you need.
That's one, and most importantly, developing this kind of feature "auto-quoting" would raise our costs, and in turn the price. Hopefully, with more orders coming in, we will develop this too. Appreciate the feedback though!
Why wouldn't an MIT grad want to work flexible hours from anywhere in the world?
Seems like they have much smaller limits on part size compared to big blue saw. Seems like they are mostly targetting hobbyist/art stuff. 300mmx300mm is too large a limitation for bulk work.
This is essentially how cable TV packages are priced now, and most people believe that software apps will replace TV channels eventually, so yeah--it's believable that cable companies would try to do this.
Good idea. I was bummed out when Google Wave was cancelled, then happy when I found out how easy it was to run the derivative Apache Wave on my own server, then bummed again when friends and family did not want to use my Apache Wave instance because of the limited network effect (i.e, not enough people were using it).
Stick a pin in it
The D programming language anyone?
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Time to make an open-source replacement?
Kinda. Things like compilers increase software produced per hour but the total quantity of software demanded is open ended.
I'm starting to believe that any idea of "disrupting" communications via a private company should be culled in its infancy. Market can't do infrastructure. Most companies will do their utmost to lock you in, and then abandon the product as soon as it's even marginally more profitable to do something else. Doubly so with Internet startups, for which the barrier to exit is incredibly low.
How about where it says path length maybe provide the help hint actually show how you can get it from illustrator or inkscape or wherever else you think customers are working from. I've been using vector software for 15 years and I don't think I've ever looked at path length in properties. I'm in the info palette right now with a couple small paths selected, is a plugin required for that information?
Good to hear it's finally official. The Mac desktop app has been unusable for the past 6 months.
I had a bit spooky experience more or less 1 year ago. It was an emotionally intensive period, at certain moments my body was giving off reactions that I wasn't in control of. My mind wasn't completely detached from the situation I was in, but enough so I was just watching myself... doing things.

This experience made me think in what state my mind will be at later ages. I'm quite young now, and I've heard from so many people that at later ages one's thought process is not as fluid or creative as it is in youth. It made me think of all these moments of brillance I've had the pleasure of experiencing will vanish as I age. I'm speaking of arriving at solutions to problems without consciously thinking about them, like all of the sudden the solution just pops in your head and, comparing to the state that you are in, moments ago, having no clue what to do with the problem at hand, suddenly you precisely know what to do. I have done nothing to achieve or deserve this trait, but still, knowing that it will be taken away some time later and having no control over the process, is depressing.
Is there an option for "unpure" stainless steel? Haha... just kinda funny headline
Slow down a little bit. If people can't afford windows, they don't reasonably have enough money (where money is access to the economy rather than pieces of paper).

A simple thing to do to limit the unexpected economic consequences is to limit the size of the basic income. For example, give everyone $5 and you are unlikely to see any effects at all. Of course then the outcome isn't very interesting, but the basic mechanism isn't necessarily going to implode the economy.
I suspect that much is true. It does not follow that it would make you prefer a completely arbitrary system, where the leader could decide you dead at any time. Murdering people without process also pretty much rules out the "harmless activity" part, by every possible meaning of the word.
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> Who is getting hurt here ?

Businesses that wish to enter this market.
It's interesting how the article you linked mentions cheap capital has enabled consolidation. I was always under the impression that cheap capital would spawn a plethora of startups and new differentiation. I guess this system has two stable states...

Also, now more than ever, startups can enter the fabless market since TSMC and other foundries are open to even small customers. I think we may just be seeing a slowdown on new entries because the engineering cost, not just tool or IP cost, is monstrous for new chips (i.e. innovative features, not just coupling IP cores). Now I want to go research what portions of IC designs require the most time now. My hunches: formal requirements definition and analog design.
I think it approximates the pipe("|>") operator that you see in quite a few functional languages.
I'm sorry--but what do people really plan on doing with these if you can't get them any thicker than 3mm?
> ES6 includes support for Unicode regexps

Will it provide \X for example? (\X matches extended grapheme cluster.)

> am I missing any languages that do?

Swift is one notable example. It has built-in and simple enough grapheme handling.
Oh no, the unregulated spectrum is unregulated.

Not sure which side I am on. I don't like Verizon, but I don't really support heavy regulation.
What would an unemployed Finn do currently in that situation? Is their some sort of more generous housing assistance that would be replaced? It seems like the 800 Euro allotment would be enough for 2+ roommates or a couple to afford housing and minimal other expenses.
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wasn't it determined that these attacks were planned using SMS or other unencrypted forms of communication? i feel like i'm taking crazy pills.
Or better yet add them to the unlicensed pool.
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Same can be said about wine, micro brews, etc and is applicable only to your avg consumer. Those really invested in great coffee can dial things down to the region the bean was grown in.
I felt this coming given my experience using the Mailbox desktop app since it launched:

- Good experience, fairly regular releases, stability increasing with each one.

- Stagnation in releases, but app is in a fairly good working state.

- Out of the blue, big update comes in, application changes completely. For the worse, as it loses a bunch of features and is sporting a far less polished look and finish. I believe the new version is now an OS X native application as opposed to a webview.

- Frantic releases over the following weeks, killing some bugs but introducing more.

- Stagnation in releases, in its fairly broken state.

- This announcement.

From the outside, it looks like a case of an engineering team that decided it would rewrite the application from scratch in the native stack. Widely regarded as a bad idea. [1]

After numerous months spent burning money in refactoring and rebuilding features that already existed and worked, management pressure builds up, and they decide to release their "good enough" native version. After torturous weeks of back to back frantic releases to fix all of the complaints coming in, some factor or another (developer churn possibly) caused them to cease development and decide to sack the project altogether.

This is of course just speculation, a narrative I made up. That's how it looks like from the outside to me, but I'd like to hear from the developers inside, since I know they must be reading this thread.

I loved this application and I'm saddened to have to move away from it.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RewriteCodeFromScratch
I realized the difference, which is why I edited and added in those that support the proposal. Weird that your response is listed underneath the post you are quoting.

So, you should be immune to a negative response when you publicly state your support for a feature? People don't like how the feature is implemented and say as much. Like I said, it depends on how you define debate and I guess it doesn't match your definition. That's fine with me. But that doesn't mean I don't get to refer to it as a debate. I see it as a debate and if you disagree, that's fine with me as well.

People did debate during the proposal and as such things usually go, people will continue to do so. People had similar issues with flex and gradients. Note that the syntax for those were altered after they were implemented into browsers.
Being able to withstand extreme cold is one thing but is Mars atmosphere density enough to even turn the blades?
In High School, my English teacher had us write essays in a format that incorporated E-Prime, but I had no idea that it was actually called "E-Prime". In addition to not using forms of "to be," we followed the SEXI format. This meant that every body paragraph was composed of four parts: Statement, Explanation, eXample, and Interpretation (one web site lists this as Importance). I think that in short essays each SEXI paragraph also had to be four sentences long.

The combination of E-Prime and SEXI was a real challenge to write at first, but with practice I found that it led to really solid papers with greater clarity of thought. It was a tremendous help in writing my college senior thesis.

Unlike the article, I didn't try to use either form in my comment. :)
No broad statement about X represents all X. That's what a broad statement means.

Note that your reply here is basically "not all men!" A response that has been examined and found deeply lacking:

https://www.google.com/search?q=not+all+men
Everyone want to "fix" email, and replace it with some proprietary bullshit. Email isn't broken.
Thanks Tom!

1) This is what another user commented too - having some examples - we'll definitely create a few asap. And regarding the auto-estimation, developing an automated cost-estimating thing would really raise our costs. Let's hope lasergist becomes better and larger soon, and this is number one feature to be developed!

2. Yes we do at no extra cost. And it usually takes no more than a week to arrive to east coast.

3. This sounds like a great idea to try out. With our cutting lasers no, we cannot do this because of heat. But the engraving lasers might be able to do this easily. I'll get back to you about this.

4. Yes - but we wouldn't be very happy to say it nicely. The reason is that too small parts will fall from the honeycomb flatbed and will require some digging below...
It is no surprise, when one-product companies do other products they don't last for long.

Only reason why I still use Dropbox is their client for Mac and and simple web interface and some other small features. I don't understand why nobody else is able to do it...
Sounds like you had a bad experience. I enjoyed the app until recently switching to amazon primes unlimited photo uploads. The amazon photo app has a very similar feature set compared to Carousel, but seemingly worse performance on large collections.
Good question; I think you were going for funny, but you highlighted what they can and can't do there.

They build apps. So I'm sure sell you 90% of their code, but they can't re-code their brand name, repeat costumers and the staff that they seem to take some pride in.
> The Internet Tough Guys aside

> Am I free to go?

> Am I under arrest?

> Why am I being detained?

> I do not consent to searches or seizures. I will not answer further questions without the assistance of legal counsel.

I hate to break it to you, but that's a classic example of "Internet Tough Guy".
That comcast is part of this coalition is hilarious. My apartment building is flooded by xfinitywifi beacons, in addition to each subscribers private SSIDs. Why they insist on turning on this functionality even in urban environments boggles the mind.
I don't understand why people wouldn't be willing to make windows—to take your example—in exchange for pay, just as they do now. I might expect the prices of things to go up a little because the typical laborer's bargaining position would be closer (but still inferior) to that of the typical employer[1], but why would people stop wanting more money than they have/are getting?

[1] Specifically, their worst-case outcome in negotiating employment terms (i.e. failing to agree on terms and not getting the job, then not managing to get another offer fast enough) might improve from catastrophic to merely quite bad.
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I guess that's a pretty simplified Facebook rather than the 20m+ LOC actual
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how about Finland pays people to work instead of this? If you can't find a job, Finland pays you 800 a month to get to work on infrastructure projects.

In early Colonial America everyone had to help out in some way, or else they were denied food. I don't know why we never extended that idea.
So there is a lot of theoretical economic work on how to allocate limited rival resources like spectrum (and water). The consensus is that the efficient way to do it is auctions. I have quibbles with certain assumptions in that research,[1] but for stuff like cellular spectrum (where the owner can achieve extremely high utilization), auctioning to private companies is probably quite close to efficient. It would be more efficient if we got rid of restrictions on use and transfer.

Yes, that does mean that you end up with mega-corps providing your cellular service. But the same is true for say retail. Amazon will eat the whole industry. Physics as well as economics strongly favor mega-corps. Startups have advantages, but specific and narrow ones.

[1] See https://www.scribd.com/doc/292530059/Spectrum-Allocation-Loc...