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NASA's SLS, which is having its first test flight in 2018, will launch with a Block I config with 2 SRB of 3,600,000 lbf each, 4 RS-25D/E shuttle engines at 512,300 lbf each for stage one and RL10B-2 for stage two at 24,800 lbf OR a stage two Block 1B config of 4 RL10's at 99,000 lbf. So about 9m lbf in its heaviest configuration. The Saturn V produced 7m lbf for comparison.

Boeing also has the Delta IV which uses the home grown RS-68 series engines. The Heavy configuration of this rocket has 2m lbf.

Only the Atlas series uses the Russian RD-180. ULA just ordered 20 more RD-180s at the cost of a great deal of political capital. Its assumed this is the last batch until the replacement BE-4 engine is ready.
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Actually, many clients will request this. The practice of winning a bid from another company and then just going and hiring the team that works on that project away from your competitor is far too common, and this helps stop it from happening.
I absolutely loved that book. I think the key is to not put it down... If you read it in a very short period of time, it's easier not to get mixed up.
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I think The Stormlight Archive should get a slight pass on the oddities of people, creatures and cultures. The Stormlight Archive is aiming to be an epic that is established in a world of disparate cultures and fantastic creatures.

The idea is that culture is very centric to an area and its peoples. Once you leave that area, even if it's only 2 or 3 days by carriage, you transition to a distinct cultural shift. It's as if England and Japan were only separated by 100 miles, but you hit Egypt, Germany, Nigeria, Romania and Mexico along the way. Thus you get a large homogeneous population with their status quo and beliefs alongside markedly different people intermixed.
I feel a bit like how a juror must feel when two expert witnesses are making opposing arguments...
You cannot implement features like fork() without kernel level support.

This is just one example.
if your doing that, I would recommend powershell DSC.
No. What good is all the functionality in the world if it's prohibitively difficult to use? Especially for something like a social network, where the value is directly related to how many people are on there, and who.
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Yeah, but that's not what's supposed to happen. They'd be more diligent if you looked younger.
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I've just bought the computer you have and have maxed it out as well. It does what I need, and it will last me for a few more years, but I don't know what I'll do when I need a new computer. I've always chosen Mac, and I have no idea where to look for a good, high-performance Windows laptop.
I was standing at the blackboard in front of the class. I've always been flaky on multiplication tables for some reason, and doing arithmetic in my head isn't my strongest suit.

That said I excelled in math throughout high school and college. It just goes to show that elementary math really has no bearing on the type of mindset one may have for "more complex", logic based math and computation.

Trust me -- since that experience of being humiliated in front of the best students in the math department at my college, I haven't forgotten what 9 times 7 is.
I don't like the term "dark patterns" because it's not something that non-technical users will recognize. Especially in conjunction with user interfaces, dark pattern sounds like a graphic design term. Something like "deceptive user interface" is clearer and actually expresses the sliminess of the intended design. Is there catchy name for "deceptive user interface"?

Also, who are the sociopaths designing and coding these deceptive user interfaces? Have they no empathy for their users?
> It also sends a signal to companies: there is a market for upgradable, repairable hardware.

I absolutely guarantee you that there simply are not enough of you to make hardware manufacturers cater to the upgradable/repairable market.

The only way upgradability/reparability will continue is if people like yourself form a non-profit or B Corp that makes open hardware that allows for it. The vast majority of people don't care.
I'm not sure he's saying they stayed later in the evening. I understood it as they longer at their job in the sense they changed their job after more months. But it is not that clear.
You tell people here this, they agree with you, and they go right back to watching it.

I had the experience of ... "commuting" between Montreal and Texas in the early '00s ( home was in Texas ) and at that time, TV was enough different that I finally saw it. I
knew it was there, but coming home, the television was beyond annoying.

And, of course, I set about finding television that wasn't that way. This means CSPAN, a handful of series in the mold of "The Sopranos" and a few documentaries now and again. Which is nice. But I have a feeling that if everybody does that, it'll collapse.

The "how" is like what Scott Adams talks about with Trump's use of Master Persuader technology. Throw in "The Hidden Persuaders" and the collected work of Marhsall Macluhan too.

Oh, and with vanishingly few exceptions, the popular Internet media are the same or in cases, worse. This site to the exception of course.
Thank you for doing this. I would have appreciated someone like you in high school.

I remember going to the "best" math teacher in my high school with a math question about my science fair project. He couldn't answer it. That was so demoralizing. I had already taught myself so much of the math and stats I needed to know for analyzing my project, so I only went to him out of desperation.

It would have been awesome to have a more advanced instructor available to talk with and learn from.

Thank you, your students appreciate you way more than you may know.
> If the Government could simply hand out American Dreams at the Bureau of American Dreams then why would anyone ever aim any higher? Why would anyone take a risk on anything or try to exceed expectations?

You hate some odd quote, yet I hate this constantly perpetuated myth regarding socialism.

Firstly, the most "driven" people aren't the wealthiest (though, it can occasionally be a side effect). The research scientist who forgoes money in some fortune 500 firm (or a more lucrative field of study) to instead focus on some obscure species of fauna? Probably way more driven than some sociopath focused on the bottom line.

Second, socialism isn't about handouts. It's about moving the ownership of production from the hands of one central figure to the hands of those actually managing the production. Usually, this would mean shifting ownership to the employee collective, not state ownership (a la communism).

It sounds like you might be making the mistake of equating "social democracy" (universal healthcare, social security, etc) with "socialism". Even if that's the case, I don't see the issue with helping my fellow man with basic health and well-being. It's pretty much the entire reason societies and nations were formed. We're advanced enough to offer it at this point.

Lastly, automation is happening. At remarkable speeds. As we automate more, there's less labor to do. Period. In 50, 100, maybe 150 years; there's not going to be an option. There's a very good chance there will only be work left for the innovators and dreamers (the "Star Trek" model, ascribed to by techno-utopianists), some day. Even if that's not the case, unemployment levels are going to grow, and it's not due to people being "lazy" or "non-driven".
You can always make something more abstract in Haskell. The challenging part is creating a good abstraction, but not going so abstract that only a few people in the world can understand your code.
To make a reasonable comparison to the United States, you'd have to lump a European country in with a third-world developing country to get the same level of racial and cultural heterogeneity. People always try to compare the US to Finland, when Finland has less population than New York City and the demographics of New Hampshire.

Tech companies hire abroad because it's cheap, not because there is a real skill deficit.
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I went to JC then a state school. I was able to work and pay as I went. Thus no loans. But I might not have as prestigious of a degree or as good an education as the OP.
It does seem very sudden.

They just launched a complete site re-design/re-write (which went pretty horrible) and according to their shows they just (weeks ago) moved to new offices.

The launch of the new website was absolutely horrible. Player often didn't work, comments broken, etc. and in retrospect the office move seems sub optimal as they did not appear to be happy with the new space they got.
This is a really good read. Thanks for the heads up.
For some reason, I read your comment as follows:

Exactly the same thing happened to me. Diablo II, around 6th grade, asking someone to dupe an item, he gave me his items, I left the game, he was upset. If I could wave a magic wand, I wouldn't change a thing.

I am reading the article and wondering why didn't they ask how many of these kids were actually bullying or trolling others online.
Good point. I guess I find it like a hybrid where you don't benefit from the cooperative side and don't achieve true preemption. I think either end would be better than keeping the middle ground.
It's not an either-or thing -- you need to elect both local representatives AND a president who is interested in change.

A president cannot single handedly pass these changes, but he or she DOES exercise considerable influence on the kinds of things congress passes via the ability to refuse to sign things that congress does pass, so a president interested in change is a vital part of the process.

Consider that Barrack Obama campaigned on health care reform, and a health care reform package was passed during his first term. It's not a coincidence that that happened, even though the package had to be introduced by congress -- the electoral mandate handed to a president necessarily informs the legislative pressures congressional members feel, be it to support such a mandate, or to obstruct it, depending on the political inclinations of their base.
Interesting. Longer passages and wordier math problems. Does this throw a monkey wrench into the recent efforts I have seen to apply AI to solve/ace the SAT or is this why I have seen those recent efforts. It seems like the old style would be easier, but maybe more context makes it easier?
Yes, the Penn Station story is certainly sad. At the same time, I think it's hard to say that the "urban renewal" leading to Lincoln Center wasn't a net positive.
Except that there are two bodies, one is just attached with an umbilical cord.
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I'm having a hard time relating this to the difficult of the 1991 SAT math section. I don't think back then we had either slopes of lines (#3) or systems of equations (#4). Then again, back then we had antonyms and analogies on the verbal section.
Something appears to be wrong with the phone question. I don't believe any of the answers. I still got it right by choosing the answer that was better than the others ... but I think it is a flawed question.
Government does not hold the money, though, it redistributes it again through contracts, credits, and payments.

All taxes are redistributive. If they weren't, they wouldn't need to exist--i.e. if private income is already paying for everything the country needs, there is no need to use taxes to move it around. But of course, private income is not already paying for everything the country needs.

Consider a basic function of a national government: self defense. Protecting the nation benefits all citizens. But not all citizens have the same amount of wealth and income. So any taxes that pay for national defense, even if applied with one flat rate to every person, will redistribute wealth. It will confer the benefits of national defense equally on a person who paid $1 in taxes and a person who paid $1,000 in taxes. Security is a form of wealth; the $1 payer got a better deal than the $1,000 payer.

So, the concept that taxes are bad if they redistribute wealth is flawed, because redistribution is the entire point of taxes. Instead, to critique tax policies, we need to be specific about the taxes and payments and outcomes.
Ben was the first person I met in the flesh in the Bay Area (we knew each other beforehand via efnet and a mutual open source project). He was the most brilliant reverse engineer / security researcher I've ever met, on a completely different level. He was also the connecting fabric between a diaspora of friends spread across the Bay Area and the web.

Ben, you will be missed.
There are geological reasons why the east village isn't built as high as other parts of Manhattan.
The difference when developing some interfaces like that can be whether you "consume" them yourself or not. Building something without a known user base/use case (where the idea was just 'that sounds cool') and supporting it forever can lead to _different_ design decisions compared to those where you go "Hhmmm...well if we build it this way it is really good/bad and we can use it easier."

Whatever you end up with, though, is definitely a "support forever" situation.
I find the wordier questions make it easier to work the problems in reverse, but maybe that's just me.
Either esc of q freed my cursor.
I can't find anywhere they provide the source code. Maybe it's on the disk img, but in any event it's going to be pretty difficult to get it working on ARM without the creators getting involved.

Also it seems like I've heard routing performance in OpenBSD isn't that great on ARM. It typically also has trouble using hardware accelerators that are commonly used on ARM routers to get faster routing performance, which is why a lot of people build them with beefier x86 machines. I don't have a lot of experience with it OpenBSD on ARM though, so someone who knows better please correct me if I'm wrong.
The thing is most people who are reading this are probably well out of practice for the SATs. I remember doing a lot of studying and taking courses outside of school to practice, practice, practice. Getting comfortable with these types of questions is very important.
Revenue =/= market cap
OpenBSD currently has little support for ARM - there's armish which runs primarily on some specific devices http://www.openbsd.org/armish.html and an unofficial armv7 port being worked on but not fully up to snuff http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html

So overall, not really.
> Is the employee who comes in at 7am and leaves at 7pm really a better person?

No, just a more easily exploited one.

I know the question was rhetorical. But I felt like answering it because you're absolutely right. Only in the US do you see people hold up themselves as better than others because they let their employer take advantage of them more.

I wonder if working longer than colleagues actually does improve your chance at promotion like so many claim? Or simply means they leave you in that role longer because you're cheaper/more productive?
I like Ballmer, fascinating guy. He cares.
As someone who has managed restaurants in the past and been solicited by sales people on a daily basis, I can honestly say this is one of the better pieces of advice. Between the hours of 2 and 4 are usually good times to sell restaurant managers/owners. Really want to increase your chances of speaking to a manager or owner, and having their attention, sit down, order lunch, once your order comes out only then ask your server if the manager is available and has time to speak for a minute. Be polite, even if the food or whatever you ordered sucked. Even if the manager doesn't have the authority, the fact you ordered and ate lunch there will increase your chances of getting a return call from the owner. If you have already eaten lunch or have other calls, at minimum order a drink and maybe a small appetizer or food to go for later. You may also go to their restaurants a few times before asking to speak. Grab a drink or whatever, take in the atmosphere during peak hours to get a feel for how they operate, who their clientele is, etc.. This will allow you to better tailor your pitch.
So the way Python does it is that it doesn't call back into the interpreter loop from the signal handler. That would be a really bad idea as you note, because the interpreter can call malloc and do all sorts of other stuff.

It queues your Python signal handling function, returns from the signal handler, and then runs it on the main loop at the next tick.

As far as I know this works fine. I wrote the same program in Python and it seems to work just fine, and have more functionality than the Go version. I guess one problem is that if you do a long blocking syscall on a tick in the main loop, your signal handler can be delayed indefinitely. There might be some hacks around this in the Python interpreter, but I don't recall offhand.
Why do you think that preventing children from ever getting their feelings hurt is a reasonable goal? Did getting tricked on a video game really traumatize you that much?
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Read the link. He was about to buy a business that, theoretically, would put the business in the greater than $250k range. Depending on the tax code, it wouldn't matter if his take-home was much lower.

The whole exercise of figuring out which class this guy is in is part of the point I was trying to make, really. Do I have to know his income to figure out how I feel about the guy?
The thing about NYC that may not be quite familiar to people from other US cities is that mass transit is pretty good. It may be the case in SF that if you want to work in SoMa your choices are living in SF proper or spending at least an hour to get to work with a large standard deviation, but in NYC you can live in Astoria (Queens) work in Midtown (Manhattan) and have a twenty-five minute pretty reliable commute.

So choosing to live in Manhattan is a luxury rather than a necessity for most people. That's one reason why I think keeping affordable apartments in Manhattan isn't the right thing to be optimizing for (though it may well be part of a larger picture).
Robert Axtell has done a lot of interesting work on agent-based modeling of economic systems [1]. He has a new book coming out this year about simulating national firm growth patterns based on his recent research [2], which could provide an ideological platform for experimenting with policy decisions. Agent-based modeling is relatively new and untrusted among economic policy makers, but if the success of these models is any indication we will see a shift toward a complex systems approach over the next few decades.

1: http://www.css.gmu.edu/~axtell/Rob/Research/Research.html

2: http://www.css.gmu.edu/~axtell/Rob/Research/Pages/Firms.html...
Here would be the supported ARM port for OpenBSD

ARM-based appliances (by Thecus, IO-DATA, and others) http://www.openbsd.org/armish.html

and not officially supported but being worked on

ARM-based devices, such as BeagleBone, BeagleBoard, PandaBoard ES, SABRE Lite, Nitrogen6x and Wandboard http://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html

one of the previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9482696
what is the "penn state story"?
> It's not impossible to get ahead in a socialist economy, it's just that the bar is raised for the lower classes.

Socialism is hinged upon making it harder for people to get ahead. If you get too far ahead, your gains are redistributed to those who you have left behind. By that definition, a pure Socialist system will ensure that nobody can ever get ahead of anybody else.

> I think you're hitting on a bigger problem with American culture, which is the "hard working" bias. Is the employee who comes in at 7am and leaves at 7pm really a better person?

Ask this a different way: is the athlete who comes to the gym at 7am and leaves at 7pm really a better athlete? The answer is, of course, yes. Sports are 100% meritocracies. You either perform, or you do not. The color of your skin, the disabilities you have, the socioeconomic status you grew up with; none of those things factor in. You can either perform better than the opposition, or you cannot. Full stop.

There are very few people that would dispute that, yet for everything outside of sports there's a subsection of the population that has convinced themselves that hard work somehow doesn't equal success. Maybe it's because it's harder for people to relate to entrepreneurial success than it is to relate to success in a sport because the metrics for sports are very well defined.

So if that's the case, to answer your question directly, we need to define the metric for success. In business, that's called profit. The hard working employee is a "better person" (your words) if their work results in greater profit for the company than the person coming in the bare minimum amount of time. If not, then yes, they're wasting their time just like the Athlete would be if their hard work didn't result in better performance in their sport.
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I don't get why this is choice answers? In 4 and 5 you could just try out the answers one by one.
that isnt true - i currently live in a 220 sqr foot apt in the lower east side
Ah, ok, sorry i think i misunderstood your note because i fixated too much on the term "analytics".

For what i will call "broadcast" events - such as your very valid tsunami, earthquake examples - sure it would be essential for those alerts to get out...But whether you're using a centralized or a decentralized approach shouldn't matter - assuming of course that one of the nodes of the decentralized method gets the needed input about the alert - in order to pass it on to the other peers of the decent. network. Much like email and websites, and to some degree mobile phone carriers, having a decentralized network does not necessarily prevent fast distribution of important/up-to-the-minute/broadcast information such as alerts. In fact, one might argue that having a decentralized approach might help with overall resilience. That being said, as much as i am a proponent of decentralized (and open) social networks, they have many non-trivial obstacles to contend with...but i do hope for one day to not have to exclusively depend on closed and centralized platforms like twitter et al.
If you've ever run an Open-Source project then you know that users do often increase the costs. They tend to ask questions which they expect to be answered for free even if it costs you time and time is money.
If they hadn't "built up", prices would be much higher than they are now.
They're not at all equivalent.

"I want to retire but I'm not going to because I am not willing to lower my standard of living to match what I will earn in retirement."

vs.

"My effective tax rate has increased and I can no longer afford my standard of living. I might as well retire now instead of in 5 years."
Clearly the community is a huge asset! This is some of the politest advocacy I've seen in an Open Source project. Thank you!
It's a combination of both. Initial signups is not sustainable, for sure, but there are some regular offers from a lot of bookies that are exploitable not for guaranteed profit, but "EV+" opportunities. This is where my consistent side income comes from.
Black bar?
I think the only confusing part of it is the sentence

> The number of phones that she has left to fix at the end of each day can be estimated with the equation

"Has left to fix" could be misinterpreted as meaning "she has to fix this many," instead of simply "how many remain."

If you understand that it's just saying "P is how many remain", then it's clear that the formula is simply saying that she started with 108, and she fixes 23 per day.
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