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This is pretty light cargo relative to the weight of the ship. It's a few tons of rocket and thousands of tons of ship. I don't think it's going to matter to the ship if it shifts, the only risk is losing the rocket over the side.
If a one gram bullet hits a 100 kg Athlete what happens?

There are several orders of magnitude there.
I just checked the first page of your comments and there seems to be some strange examples of inane/non-constructive downvoting.

(I've seen threads where some of the wackiest, most inexplicable downvoting is going on, I almost wonder if it's the site deliberately trying to stir up activity/controversy.)

In this thread it's becoming quite pathetic and ridiculous that people are unable to explain or back up the point they have made when I ask, and yet I get downvoted. On every post. This one will be no exception. (Edit: and it wasn't.)

I assumed this was a serious place, and liked the idea of rules to keep a civil and theoretically high quality discussion, but the abuse of downvoting by infantile people just destroys it.
While I could some what see the reasoning behind accredited investor rules, I personally don't agree with them. If I can't spend the money I've earned how I want to it limits mobility and freedom on my part. If I want to invest in a startup, or invest in something like PeerStreet, it should be my right to lose (or gain) my money. I don't make 300k, nor do I have a million in assets, but as an engineer I make a decent pay check and have no dependents so why can't I throw my extra $ around how I want?
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by that single explanation, 12 blades would be even better...
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I'm actually already doing that... as I mention above, I try to eat a variety of foods that include leafy vegetables, and low-gl fruits... I avoid the aforementioned items as well. I've been taking mineral supplements for about a month now, and have added a fairly high count/diverse culture probiotic supplement as well.

I've also been parking at the ass-end of the parking lot wherever I go to make myself walk more.. though I live in Phoenix and "Summer Is Coming!" so not sure I will make it doing that through the summer. I try not to obsess over calories, just avoid certain things and make an effort to have some variety, etc.
I think you're overthinking this cultural convention. It's like talking to a Japanese person and saying, "How you ever thought about how bowing instead of shaking hands de-normalizes physical human contact?"
I don't think the parent posted here meant that passive investors could or couldn't buy up 50% or more of a total market.

I believe he meant that active fund managers may be able to get positions or create/use instruments that are not available to the general public.
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He's not a traitor because a subset of the things he leaked were actually legal. In fact, the legal stuff may be more damning for the government, since there's even less justification for the government to avoid transparency and accountability for things are are legal.

Say the CIA spied on, oh, I don't know, Toyota. And they got some good designs for a new engine or fuel injector or something. Legal, possibly? OK.. now what happens to that information? Let's they give it to Ford, but not GM. One could rightly ask "why?" Was it because somebody at the CIA owns Ford stock? Or did somebody receive some under the table kickbacks? Other??? The public has a right to demand accountability in regards to these things as well.

And never mind the fact that the State shouldn't be engaging in industrial espionage for economic benefit in the first place. If Ford wants to hire spies, let them hire their own spies.
I mean...I guess? I can see where this analogy is supposed to go, but I feel the author is dismissing how close corporate espionage toes the line between legal and illegal. Even if it's in a scummy manner, lawyers use the laws at hand to protect IP both offensively and defensively.

Finding business strategy is one thing. "Let's run through their service, deconstruct it, and see how we can make ours better than theirs." That's above board."Find a hole, pivot, take what you can." Pump the brakes there, sweetie.

Or maybe I'm just interpreting this wrong.
Correct. I had decided what I wanted to do with the time I have.
Yet another garbage solution from Microsoft that would be far less repulsive if they weren't actively working to cram it down your throat.
How are you going to sustain that schedule? I could do that perhaps for a week, not longer.
1. The donations will likely be in local currency (via mobile phone payments), but the charity needs to exchange dollars for local currency. So it helps somewhat with the exchange rate if the country is short on foreign currency, but I'd guess the scale is not nearly enough to have any significant effect.

2. It doesn't increase the amount of currency in the country as a whole. Locally, if the economy is doing better, perhaps people will charge more for jobs, but they also trade with other parts of the country so that would tend to keep prices stable (if not too isolated).
I grew up in the 80s and 90s (went to college in the early 90s, I remember well when Nirvana was new and Smells Like Teen Spirit was all over the place). I never liked 90s music that much, and prefer late-60s through early 80s music, even though it was either before I was born or I was too young at the time to know about it.

I'm sorry, in my opinion, music has just gotten a lot worse in quality over the years. And the other poster's post about ClearChannel taking over all the radio stations nationwide in the late 90s, I think, is good evidence that it's not just my biased opinion, the environment and the music industry has really changed for the worse. The industry was run in a very different manner back in the 70s and 80s, and it should be obvious that that's going to have a huge effect on the music.
However, it would appear that you cannot punish the lack of it anywhere....
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When shot with a rocket all the air leaks out of the steel barge.
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Basic income could just as likely increase productivity. Without the need to work, there is a greater incentive to automate jobs. People don't work crap jobs because they like to, they do it because they have to. Anyone who wants a higher standard of living than the basic income minimum can improve their skills while they're sustained by their safety net. Meanwhile, basic income puts more money in the pockets of consumers, creating more market opportunities, especially for the low-cost goods and services those consumers used to work to make.

Or maybe everything I've said is bullshit. Who knows? Only one thing is for sure: without experimentation, we only hurt ourselves in the long run.
I can understand your point but you're not just giving up comfort - you're giving up something we all consider a basic necessity: shelter. I'm willing to bet the end result of your work, whether you do it your way, or do it part time, will be the same. I don't want to come off condescending but the attitude (and it's not unique to you, I've seen many other people with a similar attitude) seems like that of someone who has been brainwashed by the SF/SV startup culture mythology.
This is a good point. Remember that the early "sea landing" experiments ended with the stage breaking up just from falling over into the water.
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> The reason why is that mesh vs mesh essentially should never be used in video games

Or, alternatively, the reason why mesh vs mesh is never used in video games is that it hasn't been solved well yet and we have to stick to simplified collision geometry and the resulting glitches we get in games?
The short answer to that is: No. The long answer is: Fuck no. (Sorry, just had to put that Stephen Fry joke in there!)

The whole point of the "historical context" that I, and the post I responded to, referred to is that "deism" served as a sort of "escape hatch" in that you could refer to yourself as a deist and usually avoid being persecuted as an unbeliever/heretic/atheist -- the latter of which I'd wager most of the deists actually were (for all practical purposes) even if the term might not have been invented then.

The deists were actually some of the most freethinking (i.e. non-conservative) people of their time.

EDIT: Wikipedia actually has a marvellous page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism . Incidentally the page also answered my question (for the US, at least): Apparently 0.02% of people in the US identified as deists in a survey conducted in 2001. Quite a few years ago to be sure, but I don't imagine it's grown a lot.
This would be huge. When researching, I couldn't believe sleeping in a vehicle was illegal. Building reasonable living accommodations -- no matter the size -- is absolutely something we must do for people.
Wireless is accurate for handsets, since you're not using a wire to exchange data, the communication is wireless.

Serverless is totally inaccurate for scripts uploaded ON a server. Since they are executed on a server. The scripts are executed and its result are potentially served from A SERVER. The fact that you don't manage it yourself doesn't change that.

That's an horrible example you are using to try to make your point, it just doesn't work.
Revealing legal but highly offensive/suspect behavior does not make one a traitor.
Not sure Python is simpler ... except maybe "easier" to move should-be-compile-time failures to run-time. :-)
You have given a fairly comprehensive explanation (here and in other comments) as to why it's unreasonable to be disturbed by the chanting and why it would be beneficial for SpaceX employees to be let chanting as they wish.

I don't think is enough or appropriate. A significant fraction of global viewership is disturbed and alienated by the chants. It might well be that they're having the wrong feelings for wrong reasons, but realistically they will not adapt, and SpaceX's actions will not change their attitude in this regard, and they will continue to feel alienated.

I would like to see this properly weighted and considered as a consequence. It's similar to many other situations where you believe that people with different religions and attitudes are offended for ultimately wrong reasons, but you still don't go casually provoking them or making them feel bad.
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I submitted mine on April 11th, and just received a rejection email.
Better luck to you though!
There are remarkably few freshwater lakes in the Atlantic Ocean.
Not applying to illegal hotel chains like the one you mentioned: AirBnB would have even more issues on hand if they mandated "you must accept all requests". That's probably a non starter for legitimate AirBnB hosts (not the people running a business).
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If you're dedicated and it's something you really want I don't think that's an impossible schedule to follow. 5 hours sleep, 8 hours in the office, dinner, 6 hours personal project. Do that Mon-Fri and relax on the recuperate on the weekend or do fewer hours in the evening and make up for that on the weekend.
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This is just an advert. Can we please stop supporting all of these "XYZ is Dead" articles with no real solutions provided and an obvious unlying financial agenda.
I don't think you need an address for a bank account from what I've seen and read places. I would just ask a friend to use their address anyways.
Christer Ericson and Gino van den Bergen both have solid and pretty accessible books on collision detection. Christer's Real Time Collision Detection, in particular, is really digestible in bits and pieces as needed for various applications (and he provides code for each example which rocks).
> I've never taken up the opportunity of food, shelter, or clothing offered by the city, because frankly I'm doing this on my own accord, so I can't speak to how that part of the system helps people get back on their feet.

I think you don't qualify as a homeless. You 're living in a van. There's a reason people prefer homes to a van. I can't fathom what is so pressing that makes you sleep in a van instead of moving to a much cheaper area.
If people choose to donate, isn't that just the market working?
As opposed to confronting reality and not being in denial?

We have a difference of opinion. I'd rather be told the truth than have someone showing sympathy which is of no use whatsoever.
I often hear this kind of claim. Do you have evidence? Because I just presented evidence that locks are awesome.
There's lots of tech jobs in those places, and places like those, even if it means throwing out your expectations and program in something like Java for a large corporation.
What you say is True. My comment explains why the shipping industry and regulatory bodies seem paranoid about shifting weights at sea. There are good reasons to be conservative about certain things and brook no exceptions.
I've called into radio stations to request songs. But I was a teenager, and this was somewhere around 1990.
"Then there are the legal and constitutional questions. The leaked documents show the disturbing ease with which an innocent civilian — American or not — can be added to the U.S. government’s main terrorist database, such as on the basis of a single “uncorroborated” Facebook or Twitter post. In a 2014 court filing, the government admitted that 469,000 people had been nominated in 2013 for inclusion in an additional government database of “known or suspected terrorists.” Only 4,900 were rejected. Presumption of innocence this is not. And although Osama bin Laden’s name was in a terrorist database long before he was killed, so too was the name Abdulrahman al-Awlaki — innocent, 16 years old, an American citizen and killed by a U.S. drone strike."
There are three legs to that stool: stable living situation, stable job, stable transportation. Without all three you can't get better.

There's a guy I know who runs a business employing homeless. His rule is he never fires anyone. He understands that without a home/transportation, it can be impossible to make it to work. That gives them one stable leg to try and build the rest of their life from.
> I have been harassed by cops, you feel extremely transient and embarrassed just to be alive at times. Sleeping in a van sucks too. Street noises keep you up, cramped for space, etc

Would moving into the woods and "living off the land" have been an option? Is this even legally possible anymore in the United States?

* Assuming you had solar-generated electricity and internet access.
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Could you name a suitable piece of land? There are not very many downrange from KSC. If you propose using a different launch site, note that launching over the ocean is a necessary safety precaution, unless you can find a large amount of very uninhabited land.
Why wouldn't I just let someone else figure out how to automate jobs? I've got my income. Let someone else figure that out.
Reposts are fine, especially when they haven't gotten much attention before.
This always cracks me up and I don't know why.
You seem open to questions so I'll ask :) I've always wondered -- if you're living in a van, and you don't like where you are (food is expensive, winter is coming, etc), why not just drive somewhere else?

I don't even mean across the country. I mean just 4 hours north or south or east. There are cheaper places to be in California than SF, aren't there? It seems you could spend the year driving up and down the coast as cost/weather permits. And I don't mean daily. The fuel costs would get prohibitive at some point...
Good points. I don't know if the Mexican one counts though. They're saying "Si, se puede" which I believe translates to something like "Yes we can". You can also hear that chanting alongside. It does not appear to be nationalism, except to the extent that it's Spanish chanting in US Congress.
I was unaware of - and totally flabbergasted by - the Birkenfeld case. His boss, who did not come forward at all, served 5 months probation and paid a $100 fine. Another extradited executive was not found guilty of anything. The tax evading client Birkenfeld helped (that was the basis for Birkenfeld's prosecution) paid a fine but served no jail time.

It's not that whistleblowers aren't receiving protections - it's that their prosecutions and punishments far outweigh those whose crimes are being exposed. It's absolutely mind-boggling.
Somewhat confusingly, pulse.cio.gov lists senate.gov as supporting HTTPS with an 'A' from SSL Labs. While that is of course technically correct, it doesn't tell the full story, since no actual content is served over HTTPS.

Would it be worth trying to update pulse.cio.gov to detect cases like this? That's non-trivial to do in a reliable automated fashion, but seems like it might be worth the effort?
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It only leaks out of the compartment that got punctured. The rest will keep it afloat.
That's less than what I have on my free dropbox account...
Having sufficient passive income so as to not have to work is wealth.
You mean rent-regulated. From your link: "Less than 2% of NYC apartments are rent-controlled".
When I try to make purchases online with debit card they often use address for verification and if it's incorrect the purchase fails. Not 100% sure it's necessary just to have a bank account though you may be right.
It is possible with good motivation and caffeine. It is not sustainable long-term but you should be able to get a good 4-8 years out of it while you are young and in good health. See: college students at high-workload universities.
Further, some empirical data would be nice. A few different configurations in different areas over a year would be a good start.

These may exist but I've not yet seen them.
Why should we care. I see no benfit in government funded rockets. I much rather see ESA buy launches on a competitive market. The should invest in innovative new missions instead of an ill fated attempted to beat comercial producers at rocket development.

Other then subsadising your own industry and for military reasons, their is no argument for making your own rockets. Both those are terrible arguments.
Please transfer all your money to me. As you say, it will not make you less wealthy.
how can you devote 100% of yourself (or as much as is possible) to something when so much of your cognitive resources are devoted to surviving day to day?

are you sure you've thought this through?
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For some time, iirc, it was about to be called Blas de Lezo.
you can easily do it if you have a bullshit dayjob, perhaps through no fault of your own (i.e. you work for a dysfunctional organization with tons of money and no direction)

in fact... it's probably one of the best ways to launch a bootstrapped company. it's both the motivation and the sustenance to do something meaningful with your career.

most people just surreptitiously look for a new job while on the clock, or dick around until the gravy train stops, but you can also just do your easy-ass dayjob and work on your startup at night until it's time to switch.
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More likely a combination of ignorance and bravado.

1) I rarely listen to music while coding, and some of those times will listen to the same song on repeat.

2) Boasting about overwork is often bravado. Working from 9am to 3am is not sustainable and often leads to burnout. Boasts that one does such regularly is a way of indicating that one is superhuman.

3) Definitely not unique to programming. As Alfréd Rényi said, "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems".

4) Patience is also not unique to programming.

5) I agree that domain knowledge for programming is mostly only known by programmers. And physicists know the difference between bosons and fermions. And biologists between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

6) I don't agree on the difference between the three. Rather, I use the historical meaning of "coder" to be the person who translates the algorithm into a program. Early on, these were low-skill positions, more skilled with punching cards than on algorithms development. This lives on in how scientific software development still uses the term "codes" to refer to programs or software.

7) Flow state is not unique to coding. (See how I didn't say 'programing' there? ;) )

8) Many fields of science will redo experiments because a single success may occur by chance.

9) This is something which I agree is more characteristic of programming. However, other notation systems are not immune. In the chemical notation I use, there is a difference between "CC.CC" and "CCC.C".

10) Hamming's "You and Your Research", http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html says it's more important to hang around first-class people who know the important problems in the field and are working on them.
Please replace the very slow Mac OS X pthread_mutex locks with the WTF::Lock implementation to benefit all applications. I can live with it still being 64 bytes and the scheduling being not completely fair. The OS X pthread mutexes are several times slower than Linux on the same hardware.