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True for the building itself, but is buying office space and warehouses a large part of setting up a new business? I'd have thought that market surveys, planning and negotiations, hiring the initial staff etc would dominate.
If the rewards of productivity increases accrue to capital, what is the incentive for labor to improve their productivity?
Me when? 1 year old me, 10 year old me... 60 year old me. Me who finds women fascinating, me who despises women after a bitter divorce? We are many different people one day to the next. Our brains are a dynamic process forever changing. There is no you. There is only you now, later you will be different.
I mean the argument for cryo basically goes "if, in 60 years, we discover how to revive frozen people, we'll probably wish we could go back and tell the people of 2016 to start freezing everybody who's dying right away. So since the only ways to avoid this outcome are total stagnation and mass extinctions that kill us _anyways_, we should probably allocate some money to doing that."
I won't claim that it's empirically proven to be harmful, obviously there are so many intricacies in every case. However, I don't think it's clear that it's an obvious boon for the country either.

S. Korea's development, for example, has shown that export oriented growth, where the margins between international prices and local labor costs are enjoyed by the exporters, is one of the most powerful ways for an economy to grow. Outsourcing, OTOH, is guaranteed to funnel those margins back to the multinational, with little but the pittance wages and some nominal tariffs left behind for the people of the country.
Generally, increasing automation requires some design changes, but you can start with the same basic design and end up with one focused on automation and another optimized for human asembly. So, it's a little more nuanced than you are suggesting.

PS: There are also at least demos of pick and place for through-hole components. But, I don't know how production ready they are. (Manufacturing PCBs is not my area.)
A striker cannot play in central defence, or vice versa

Sure they can. Perhaps not as well, but I bet a premier division striker will easily be able to play defense for a lower division team, and with a bit of experience could probably become really good. Hell I'm sure LeBron James could make a pretty decent soccer player if someone gave him some coaching and the right incentives.
> The real reason is that the space-time curvature does simply not provide a way for the light to go back. Same reason you can't go to the end of the universe if the universe would be a sphere.

Or the same reason you can't travel to yesterday - there are simply no directions in which to point yourself in order to get there.
I would be very surprised if Elon sells space X in the next ten years. Based on the book by ashlee at least.
As much as it pains me to say this: recruiters are probably willing to pay highest-dollar for access to that audience. So letting recruiters run ads on your product, or creating some sort of native-advertising platform for recruiters will likely mean the highest short-term revenue for you.

...it just might alienate all your users in the process.
> that's "economic activity"

True

> but it sure as hell isn't the productivity that GDP says it is

No, because GDP is just a measure of economic activity, not useful economic activity.
Thanks for all of your work Evan :)
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Humans do sexual reproduction. Many other living things don't play the sexual game, they do in fact produce copies of themselves who behave and look exactly as they do. I envy those civilized creatures. Their lives are much easier and more productive.
I'm curious about the actual job at hand and the piece which was so tangential and awful for the person. I've seen many jobs with pieces that simply don't make sense / may have made sense when the company was smaller. I've also seen people become very defensive when you try to break that job up to make more sense.
Thought provoking, I mostly agree with the following caveats:

I see the complete transparency of Bitcoin as a strength, it is certainly an antidote to the opacity of offshore / shell companies & tax dodging.

[2] & [3] they can't prevent payment using Bitcoins but one could be arrested after the fact and detained without computer access.

[3] This is why I said civil disobedience for [3]. Bitcoins are a public act.

National Currencies like sterling are not implicity bad and actual cash notes can be used for [2] but electronically Sterling et al. lack a lot of freedom.

[4] could be fees which currently dissallow national currency micro transactions, which have great utility for instance in a post advertising models & the micro-services revolution to come.

Snarky to say 'crypto-anarchist dream', crypto means something other than an abbreviation for cryptography in that context e.g. crypto-fascism - which many fear democracies are secretly becoming.

Bitcoin is not a dream it is a working implementation, usefully used daily.

With Open Bazaar now running, a free global market is enabled - without freedom markets are unfair and not proper capitalism. Adam Smith best points out the issues with crony capitalism & regulatory monopolies.

Bitcoin seems like healthy competition to me, national money is overly regulated in some ways and under regulated in others. Arguably to the benefit of the rich and powerful as most governments seem weak in the face of corruption by lobbying these days. Electronic (national currency) transactions are innefficient & overly costly, Bitcoin profoundly highlights this.

[1] Bitcoin is provably safe, the safety of ones possessions and computer is the current issue of the day. The UK & US government are promoting breaking encryption and making everyone unsafe.

It is good to have alternatives to help ensure regulatory over-reach can't happen as easily as it recently has.
I wonder how much money total they made just by scraping Slack tokens and reporting them to individual bounty programs?
I think most "believers" in cryopreservation would agree that it's a long shot. Even if restoration is theoretically possible, a lot of things need to line up for it to actually happen for an individual. But as you say, there's a significant difference between unlikely and impossible (which I'm going to assume is what was meant by praying to Zeus). The hard drive probably has rather better chances than the frozen brain though.
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Would nitrogen not? What about a vacuum then?
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"by giving users the ability to rate a scientific paper."

LOL! No. Ratings are nearly useless. By which I mean I don't know how I would incorporate ratings into my own research.

How do you keep a ratings system from being a proxy for popularity, rather than a measure of novelty or utility? How do you keep it from being easily gamed? Does a "5.2" for a 1995 paper have the same meaning as a "5.2" for a 2010 paper?

"You want peer recognition so why not go to your peers directly instead of a proxy like these publications"

Do tell me how. Post on my blog and hope people come across it?

Journals outsource marketing. Get rid of journals and something must replace that service, or I have to become a marketer.

"This system is a product of a bygone era .. relying on copyright"

You are mistaken. The system does not rely on copyright. The scientific publication system dates from the 1600s, dated from Oldenburg's 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Copyright dates from the 1700s, dated from the Statute of Anne.

The scientific publication system depends on reliable selection and curation. Its current form is dominated by large publishing companies which use copyright law for revenue generation, but that's only been true for the last few decades. Scientific publication also existed in the USSR even without copyright protection. (article 103(2) according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_Soviet_Un... gave "permission to reproduce published scientific, artistic, or literary works as excerpts (or even entirely) in scientific, critical, or educational publications").

"most of these papers were made with public funding so there shouldn’t be any copyright on it to begin with the copyright belongs to the public domain they payed for it."

I understand and sympathize with your argument. But in practice things aren't so clear cut. Rarely does the money come 100% from public sources. Is your argument that even 1 cent of public funding means the entire work product must be in the public domain?

Are you making the moral argument that copyright should to the funding source? Or is it limited only to public funding sources? For example, if 100% of the money for a project comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, then do you want the foundation to control the copyright the work product? What if it's 80% Gates and 20% public funded? Is it public domain then?

If 3 years of research was publicly funded, and resulted in paper, and 2 more years was privately funded by BigCorp., to analyze the data further, then must that additional two years also be in the public domain?

And on and on. Unless "1 cent => public domain always", then there's no clear line. Is that your argument?

(BTW, there is another clear line - work by a US government employee is in the public domain. A small percentage of the scientific papers are in the public domain because of that.)
imo best for that: The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind
If the business model of Elsevier/etc somehow collapses, I wonder how universities will make hiring decisions? They high fees of their journals are effectively a recruitment or candidate selection service paid by university libraries and serving departments when they hire faculty. Perhaps they'll have to revert to assessing applicants on their merits instead of such arbitrary metrics as the impact factor of a journal that they published their work in.
They're rated for 2.5 million hours.
How do people justify earning more than others?
That likely won't happen. Current SSD technology is quite limited in the number of writes, reducing the MTBF significantly.
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It is just wrong what they say, see my comment above for explanation.
From Go 1.5 version start, go compiler can compile packages as a shared library. Although this feature is limited, It is really welcome to share a binary package.
http://blog.ralch.com/tutorial/golang-sharing-libraries/
Just as an aside, you could try Zotero - I use it on my laptop and phone and it works pretty well for me. There is a dedicated app as well. https://www.zotero.org/
I'm pretty sure this doesn't make any sense. How are you explaining away spacetime?
What makes it especially stupid is that disease is a whack-a-mole term. We cure diseases but invent/discover new ones all the time.
> Maybe it's just fanciful and impractical, but I'd sort of hoped this would be the kind of decision that Go could take a stand against, in favor of incentivizing openness.

FWIW: This doesn't enable you to do anything you couldn't do before; it just makes it less annoying.
> In any case, what I am trying to say is that you seem too quick to pin the lack of performance in the "common workplace" on the individual,

Sorry, but no, not at all. I explicitly said "sometimes": "sometimes, low performance is low commitment or carelessness". My message since the beginning has been that, while not a great indicator, previous performance will at least have some correlation with future performance. Again, it's not great, but it's also not a random relationship.

I hope it goest without saying, you can and should try to have a deeper look at the context.
Identical usage to Instagram, then.

But yes, I agree, the similarity in app functionality suggests that the name derives/can be confused with Instagram as opposed to a telegram, and so there may well be merit in the C&D.
The point is, unlike with Bitcoin, people with Euros do not have any significant ideological opposition towards dollars, or acquire Euros because they believe it is superior to or will one day replace dollars.

> That's still good for the viability of the euro as a currency, because it can be easily exchanged for goods and services, even with a middleman.

So it's good for Bitcoin in exactly the same way that it's good for Dogecoin, and other popular alts.
Their hardware is integrated with many devices like googles Tango.
You need a human, not to fly it right now, but somebody has to reboot the software in flight ;) [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/f-35-radar-system-has-bug-that-requires-hard-reboot-in-flight/
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Gravity is not a function of matter, and proving that curved space-time is real is trivial. So not sure where you are going with that idea...
Nitrogen is pretty close to air, which is already 80% nitrogen. The gain would be minimal.

As for vacuum, it's harder to maintain, and wouldn't work anyway : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593997
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Torrent the papers. Why hasn't this been done?
Yeah, but paying money to new stuff which don't yet produce profit would make profits less, wouldn't it?
Yes, it has become less useful. I also read that they only server as a distributor, and that the review process was scaled down, or is nothing from their end. It really is a shame, since most of the research I do is for self-teaching, and sometimes whimsical, so I would never pay to start with. However, I have gone on from the whimsical to the serious, because I did read a free paper.
"Disk drives depend on the head floating on a cushion of air, they are not designed to operate in a vacuum"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_height
Teens are known to be rebellious and to like toeing the line

By making things more accessible and banal, you remove the urge to do it just to spite authority.

That simple argument justifies that teens who can sample alcohol at home are less likely to binge drink, and that kids who have ample access to sex ed and contraception are less likely to go and have sex both logistically and emotionally unprepared
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Dyson's spheres have low long term fuel efficiency. They are better off destroying the stars and burning their fuel in fusion reactors. At least with our current understanding of physics.

Also, a civilization could have dimantled Andromida Galaxy 2 million years ago and can't tell yet. For more distant objects the gap gets rather wide.
What is the most expensive object on Earth?
.doc instead of .html was a real possibility at some point. The horror! The horror! We'd be living in a pink & blue Information-disneyland, paying monthly fees to AOL and Microsoft, getting Cyberclippy to play our companies' jingles to non-premium users every 12 minutes.
Making the web just a second faster would be a big deal
Large power station alternators are hydrogen cooled.. that's right the whole alternator is filled with hydrogen. you have to monitor how close you get to the upper explosive limit.

at a tenth the windage and ten times the heat transfer capacity of air, the stator and rotor can be a hell a lot closer and magnetic coupling more efficient therefore massive savings in construction and more efficient energy conversion to electrical energy
They're only the same company in ownership; both operate independently of each other
To clarify the physics here a little:

The constant speed is actually the speed of a massless object through spacetime. It just so happens to be that photons have no mass. Also, going at high speed wouldn't make your life pass in slow motion to you. It would simply look that way to an observer who was moving vastly slower than you. The dilation in time is as a result of difference in relative velocities, rather than the speed of time changing.

This is also why the part about "go faster than the speed of light" doesn't make sense in physics. Motion is a four dimensional vector, with three points giving a point position, and the forth giving velocity through spacetime. Thus you wouldn't be travelling through "time" backwards, but through spacetime backwards.

Hope that helps. For more information, you may want to read up on the geometry of Minkowski spacetime.
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As a basic introduction which explains some of the actual maths going on, Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw is excellent.
At a flying height of <10nm.
Have there been attempts at dispersing the whole collection of papers through torrents or IPFS? The goal here is not to have a central location with a pretty web page but to make the content freely accessibly everywhere by anyone. Distributing it over thousands of nodes would achieve that goal.
I can see this being a serious issue on a personal level as well. In fact, it directly relates to the article, as this could be one of the things the newly awakened would struggle with.

I've considered cryonics for myself, but being relatively young still, I haven't looked into it too seriously. That said, if I did eventually go through with it and it did turn out to work, I could see feeling massive remorse for all the people I didn't convince (and financially support if necessary) to do the same. If I do decide to do it, I would certainly try to have my wife and children do the same, but what about my parents? Or my wife's parents? Our siblings? And then what if my kids only go along with to humour me, but their (future) families don't? Not to mention friends... In a sense you would feel like you let all those people die, because you knew of something they could do, but didn't do everything possible to see it happen.

Of course, even if that's how it felt after the fact, ex-ante it's far from a sure thing. Even the most optimistic likely see it as a significant long shot. And even if you were particularly confident, pushing freezing on everyone you know would basically make you the scientific equivalent of a religious zealot.

Still, more than just waking up having lost most or all of the people you know, you would be dealing with that, and the knowledge that their deaths were preventable. That would be tough.
The problem is nobody is going to read them. That's because the people who these scientists are targeting (other established academics, funding sources) choose to ignore the rest of the internet and only read the well known journals. This is almost exclusive to life sciences though. In CS, physics and other disciplines people just upload their preprints on arxiv and don't really bother about impact factors and such.
This is what they're (Infinit) are already doing, isn't it? I can see why they might be a little annoyed at the name Infinite, but it's not like infinite is an unreasonable name for Dropbox to pick for their project...
They charge $5000 if you want to make your article public access (i.e. they won't put it behind paywall). So that's a ballpark value of how much it costs +their profits.

Whatever they may claim their costs are, the money does not add meaningful contribution. The meaningful contribution (writing and reviewing) is done by scientists themselves, almost 100% independently of elsevier. Elsevier employs some senior editors who decide which reviewer gets to review which paper, and that's about their entire contribution to scientific process. The rest is their website costs, PR and fluff which is not relevant to the science itself.
Arguably, Oracle, Apple, and Microsoft all offer good reasons for why you want to ensure that founders maintain control. It certainly seems that tech companies perform best when under founder control.
Great marketing. I'd never heard of Infinit before. Now I have.

Can anyone describe to me how it differs from MaidSafe? http://maidsafe.net/
> Information is stored in a baby universe that separates from our own universe

I like this idea, but then it means that there is no universe but multiverses, yet these multiverses need to be part of a greater structure or container, right ? do we have clues that strongly suggest the multiverse theory ?
Thanks for reminding me. That was indeed an incredibly emotional moment for some reason – I remember it almost like a jolt of empathy.

(and now we shall drink and forget the present)
I have to admit the situation is a little funny, but Dropbox will probably have an easier time justifying their use of the word "Infinite" that Infinit justifying "Dropboxe".
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Yes, ZH can be a good source of info, but it has to have an amount of filtering and de-sensationalizing
Software engineering would probably be more of, well, more of engineering, and less of hacking, like all the other —thriving— fields of engineering, implying higher quality and more accountability.
Nothing too spicy. Just all the women I am friends with turned out to be bi or bi-curious. And their success rate with women is ... enviable.
Hydrogen escapes from any container you put it into. Normally it's contained in 70kg lead bottles(1kg of hydrogen per bottle), but all of it still evaporates within 3-4 weeks naturally(and as it does so, it makes the metal brittle).
>If you come from a math, statistics, or physics background you may have leaned that a Markov chain is a set of states that are sampled from a probability distribution.

That's a very weird way of putting it. A set of states sampled from a probability distribution is usually just called a 'sample' and has nothing to do with Markov or chains.

Really 'Markov chains' are called 'chains' because they represents an infinite sequence of states, which depend on each other.

And they're called 'Markov' because they have the 'Markov' property, which roughly states that the probability distribution for each state is completely determined by the previous state.
> "Due to Rent Control, S.F. Has 31,000 Vacant Housing Units As Frustrated Landlords Give Up"

Maybe this can be fixed by introducing the radical idea that artificial shortages created by greedy owners who want to drive prices up but can't is wrong and should be punished.
I predict that Mark Zuckerberg losing control would be exactly what would precipitate a MySpace-style decline.
BGAs are nearly impossible to hand solder. You can theoretically do it by flipping them upside down and soldering individual wires to each ball, but this is very difficult, unreliable, and harms signal integrity. It's completely unsuitable for production and even for prototyping it's basically never done.

Through hole components are commonly hand placed or hand soldered because there are only a few on the board, not enough to make machine placement/wave soldering cost effective. Additionally, some through hole components have shapes that make machine placement difficult.
Sadly, there isn't a quick answer to this. The shortest version I can think of is that there's a fixed limit on how fast something can travel. However, gravity is a distortion of space and time, and the more gravity you have, the faster you have to go to leave what you're starting from. Think of it like running on a treadmill - the faster the treadmill goes, the faster you have to run if you want to run off the end of it. At a certain point, the treadmill goes faster than you can run, and you cannot run off the end.

Past a certain point, the distortion of spacetime becomes so great that no speed attainable can overcome the effect of it dragging back. So even travelling at the speed of light, you couldn't go faster than the gravity treadmill speed pulling you back in.

For clarification - gravity is nothing like a treadmill. It just happens to work nicely as an analogy for this.
Considering that normal hard drives have regular in them, and regular air is over 78% nitrogen, I guess bumping it to 100% nitrogen wouldn't make any difference.
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Terrifically smart jab at Dropbox. If only more companies could take up this sort of attack, lawsuits would stop complicating life.