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Venus has an induced magnetic field which while isn't as good as what we got on Earth, is better than what you have on Mars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Induced_ma...

Additionally the current theory is that if Venus will be sped up to below 56h per rotation it would regenerate it's intrinsic magnetic field which should be near earth levels.

And while Venus does have higher gravity than Mars, it's still lower than Earth's, and overall the delta V for venus insertion orbit is slightly lower than what you need for Mars.
That's kind of the point of the movie, that his "genetic inferiority" was as much a cultural construct as anything real.
I wasn't the one who said he is going to terraform it.
General Lee was a tactical genius. The only advantage the North had was numbers of bodies. The only northern general willing to blithely leverage that fact was Grant. Lincoln kept him in charge even though civilians were haranguing Lincoln to remove him because they were appalled by the high death toll.

Then, when Lee finally surrendered, Grant broke with the long standing human tradition of punishing the loser with war reparations. He had only three conditions of surrender, one of which was that the South would accept help from the North to rebuild.

His merciful position is credited with being the reason the US has only had one civil war. In most countries, the end of one civil war merely sows the bitter seeds for the start of the next.

Grant later became president.
Funnily enough I encountered something similar years ago on Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Never got to the bottom of it either.
That’s actually an awesome improvement already.

Maybe in a decade or so we can actually use translation software then to read newspaper articles in foreign languages.

Thanks for giving a context.
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It's part and parcel of the zero-sum game mentality. It's what drives Wall St.
He did kind of address this by saying "being multi-planetary is good in case of apocalyptic event"... it's about having an offsite backup.
While I agree fragmentation can be bad, YouTube is one area where I think this makes sense. What a gamer wants in an app is going to be very different to what someone seeking educational content is going to want.

Similarly, a kids app is very useful given how many kids are growing up using cheap tablets to stream videos, and I know from watching my nephews that the way they use YouTube is very different from how I use it.
If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like.

Right. And as what appears to be the loudest voice in this discussion, it's also my prerogative to advocate for what I believe to be a better allocation of resources.

Lets not pretend there is not competition for attention, capital and enthusiasm for vision based projects. That I advocate for one over another - in competition - is exactly what is supposed to happen.So, bring the merits of both and have the conversation.

Just saying yay this thing is credulous and doesn't actually evaluate what are possible futures.

In my case I advocate for Transhumanism and AGI as our solutions to his existential questions and promote those (as does Musk actually but to a lesser extent).
We've been doing this with multiple deployments (e.g. 1, half, all) and updating the deployments sequentially when the previous one looked good. (these are all fronted by one service).
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I agree --- Mars is a pit. It's a barren desert at the bottom of a great big hole.

Its biggest, and perhaps only, advantage is that it has an atmosphere, and gas is so much easier to deal with for ISRU than anything else, as you don't need to mine it: just open a valve and suck it in. I notice Musk's ISRU plan is to mine ice; I do wonder how he's going to do that, as it won't be easy.

But... you know what... if you can get to Mars, you can get anywhere.

If you can get to Mars, getting to the Moon is so trivial you might as well build and maintain a base there just to test the equipment.

If you can get to Mars, you can get to near-Earth asteroids with enough spare capacity to take a whole a mining plant in tow.

If you can get to Mars, Ceres is only 400 m/s further away. (And Ceres is interesting.)

If you can get to Mars, then the outer solar system is reachable (with preparation and some disposable boosters).

If you can get to Mars, anyone who can afford a IST ship can have a space station.

So, hell yes, let's go to Mars. (And I'll cheerfully wave goodbye to you from my ice-mining cometary habitat.)
Im not sure what comment you read as I mentioned they both have 0-days and that number of them dropped sharply due to SDL. The numbers available prove both. Even more true given attackers are focusing on common applications more than Windows itself. That's because they're easier to attack than Windows code.
> Even if person doesn't understand one set of abstractions such as pointers, it is likely that they excel at others such as recognizing perfect shade of color, musical composition or designing game levels. Instead of everyone trying to understand pointers, I think people should find their sweet spots, especially the one that they enjoy.

This sounds like the assumption that lack of predisposition to one field is correlated with skill in other fields (eg, "X is not a math person so he's likely to have some talent in lit or the arts). I thought I recalled reading that what evidence there is doesn't support this: and that in fact those who have a knack for, eg, math are more likely to be good at other fields too. (This of course isn't talking about time spent practicing each field, which is rivalrous, but we're talking about "inherent advantages" here).
The 30 km/s is speed relative to the Sun, at a half-way point between Earth and Mars.

Most of it, you would get for free, since the ship is launched from the Earth, which is already moving at ~30 km/s. The delta-v cost is much less then that.
If the only look into a company is that tech interview, and he or she will be someone you will have to work with on a day to day basis, and s/he is someone that just flat out refuses to accept that maybe his answer isn't the right one, would you want to work with someone like this 8 hours a day?

To be fair, I might have been that guy 10 years ago, and I was probably quite an annoying know it all co-worker then, but now, after close to 20 years in the industry, having worked in software that is used by millions, being a referenced author, honestly, no, I refuse outright to deal with bullshit like this. I don't expect everyone to think what I say is right (because it isn't) but to just dismiss it since it isn't THEIR answer, is a RED flag for me and I would prefer not to work there, no matter the offer.
Thanks for reminding me of the O(log(n)) algorithm. I had forgotten about it. Just added this algorithm to the lecture slides. I <3 the internet.

I start with the recursive algorithm because it follows directly from the definition F(n+2) = F(n) + F(n+1). I also think there's a big schism in programmers: between those that think recursively, and those that are of a more iterative bend. I'm in the former camp, probably owing to the fact that my first programming language was Scheme.
Yes, that's what I meant. If the break does not start automatically, I tend to forget to trigger it, whereas if the next pomodoro does start automatically, it may catch me in the middle of doing something else.
> The idea that not using these services stops them from getting your information is fanciful, because your friends and family have no problem giving your information.

The problem is that sometimes this information is incorrect and based on gossips. When would you know that it resulted in real life consequences, can fb sell this info to e.g. insurance companies?
To add another data point in support of Sam's comment, I think one can build a good understanding of entrepreneurship and how to increase the chances of success without having been a hugely successful founder. I joined VC four years ago because I wanted to learn more about early-stage startups before starting my own, and I ended up falling in love with the job. I've learned a ton about factors of success and failure over the last few years.

My belief is that there's a large chunk of building a company that I will never learn or understand without becoming a founder myself. Maybe that's 50% of success. However, for the other 50%, I can actually learn things better than many founders because they have a sample size of one or two or three startups that they have started, while I can look across fifty or a hundred companies that I am intimately involved in and analyze what is different between the ones that become huge and the ones that do not. I think this cross-sectional pattern matching is what makes a lot of VCs and investors sources of good advice (in some startup topics) even though they might not have built huge companies themselves.
Edge's JS engine (Chakra) has had the majority of itself open sourced (ChakraCore). Given how central the JS engine is to overall browser security, I wonder if that changes your suspicions at least a bit?
I said a lot of other things in that post which answers that question, before the one sentence you decided to reply to.
Do you think our space exploration efforts so far haven't improved life on Earth?
You can pressurize a chamber using the thin atmosphere, rather than being restricted to the gasses you bring with you.

You can use ISRU and atmosphere resource extraction to generate rocket fuel on the surface of mars, rather than being restricted to the rocket fuel you bring with you.

Ultimately, the answer is Mars has the necessary resources and when you look into the details just makes more sense and is easier.
> and is larger

Mars is much smaller than Earth. From Wikipedia: "Mars is less dense than Earth, having about 15% of Earth's volume and 11% of Earth's mass, resulting in about 38% of Earth's surface gravity."

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
> However, for many that need/want 40 hrs or more

You can still pay them hourly for 40 hours or more, you are just subject to wage and hour rules (including premium overtime.) You keep acting like this is a minimum pay for full-time employees in certain jobs, when it is, in fact, a minimum monthly salary to qualify for certain exemptions from wage and hour rules.
I just finished reading these books for what seems like the millionth time, and Mr. Musk hasn't even begun to answer the questions they raise. What is the legal structure going to be on the 1MM person colony? Who gets to go? What are the transplants allowed to do there? Who rules? Who do the rulers answer to? Are we going to Terraform Mars? If yes, under whose auspices and with what restrictions?

FTR: this is Elon Musk's show and I don't trust his ability to keep his pet project from turning into a corporate dystopia.

Edited to add: Guys, I'm not against Mars exploration and colonization at scale -- I just want us to put our best foot forward. That means not rushing the process, and doing it in a democratic and non-chaotic manner.
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Social status and prestige is all in our minds. You can code and be very respected in society if you act that way. The problem is that the type of work attracts (filters?) for introverted behavior. The folks that aren't going out and being flashy.
I'm amazed they had to go all the way to India to figure this out. But I'm often amazed at how little Google understand "social." The cynical side of me wonders if their misunderstanding is all intentional.
compared to signal, telegram can be used by android users without gapps (the telegram client can be installed via f-droid). as much as I would like to use signal, I can't.
I think this is a good rule. In the '90s I worked on a government contract where the company moved as many people as possible to salaried positions so they weren't covered by area wage and overtime provisions of the contract. We had people losing significant portions of their income when the company decided it could get away with the reclassification.

There's a lot of grey area in job classifications, and companies will run with it if you give them the chance. They have to, in fact, because the competition will.
where is that?
I used Twilight for month, but I found the red tint made my phone hard to read, so I kept disabling it. I still get the same 6-8 hours of sleep as I usually did. I may not be susceptible to the blue light impact on melatonin as I've been using screens from wake to sleep for over a decade.
Once there's any indication that terraforming Mars is possible, why wouldn't they do everything they can to cash in as well?
We don't need the permission and cooperation of every major world power to destroy the Earth's environment. In fact, it seems to be our default mode of operation.
> If you don't like it, then you're free to go do whatever it is you do like.

Well, maybe they like to shout "the King is naked". Or maybe they want the interest in space exploration to go towards what they think would be more realistic and/or reasonable plans.
WhatsApp is end to end encrypted. Facebook/WhatsApp can't see the contents of the messages. It's the best technology available at the moment - there are no non-toy systems that also scramble metadata.
One reasonable definition of 'colonizing' as distinct form 'exploring' is that colonists plan to die there.
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I don't think that lighting is going to be the difference between a viable and unviable non-terran colony.
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> For example, giving money to the Salvation Army is probably a net-negative effect on the world.

What?
Simple .gitconfig file builder in it's early stages for your criticism :)
Dear god... these things exist?! And are used regularly!?
Alot of people react negatively to overt emotional manipulation. Musk's live stream is called "Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species." The only actual information in his talk was about the new line of rockets he's building. Transportation is certainly Musk's specialty, but with the information given combined with what we already know about the man's companies, he cannot even begin to address the scope of the opening promise. Human colonization, in this context, is a bait-and-switch.
The craft's mass seems to be 15x that.
http://imgur.com/a/vwG1S

Maybe for course corrections where you need to fine tune the orbit a couple of mm/s here and there?

For unmanned missions it does make good sense as the mass doesn't grow so strongly if the trip time gets longer.
You're free to advocate for other things, but most of the critics aren't doing this, they're just shitting all over this idea and then making vague waves in the general direction of other ideas.

Further, why so much focus on this particular billionaire, who at least is focusing pretty hard on driving progress even if you don't agree on the precise direction, and ignoring all the ones just wasting it, or being actively counterproductive?

That's the part that really drives me nuts. A lot of wealthy people are doing things that are highly questionable or are outright destructive, but they don't get this much criticism.
You misunderstood what I was saying. I was not criticizing Elon Musk for working on this, it's a lot of fun and I imagine he's having the time of his life.

The discussion here is about the viability and importance of the goal of colonizing Mars. Elon is free to pursue any ideas and dreams, like everyone else. I was just offering my ideas about his ideas, and sometimes they oppose. Not everything has to be a circle jerk.

Yes, I work on DeployBot.com but I'm not pushing the agenda that humanity now needs to become "continuously deploying species" because that's what I enjoy.
I wonder if silicosis is a major concern on Mars (as it is for lunar colony considerations).
do you have any examples of scripts/examples where only specific layers of a network are being trained?
Not really. Im open to discuss any solution to a problem, from the most performant one to the most simple one (code wise) that does the job.

When someone says: Maybe you could use a binary tree. and the reply is: No, that is wrong, what you need is X, is a different thing.

Beste inverviews I had were always a give an take. I talked algorithms, data structures, etc but never with the interviewer having a one solution answer. Best interview questions are like:

Ok, we have this domain problem, what can you do about it? and then spend a couple hours on a whiteboard on a back and forth discussion about it, maybe you get it right, maybe you dont but have another idea, etc.
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I'm not sure I understand -- who's complaining?

To be clear, I can see why big companies prefer coding interviews (it's more "consistent" when interview feedbacks are boiled down to a score), but at the same time I'm not defending it because like many have said it's not a great measure of an engineer's capability. I'm looking at the problem from the employers' point of view.
Will HP really refund a 2 year old printer that got this security update?
In the USA and Canada, it is standard for the professor to stand at the board and present proofs of everything, but students are not expected to understand them. If you can learn the formulas and apply the techniques that are in the homework sets, you can pass the class.

I strongly question the value of having the professor recite proofs that the students do not really understand. However it is traditional to do that.

The first course where students are expected to write their own proofs varies. My personal experience was that the transition happened in third year courses aimed at math majors. So I began writing proofs in abstract algebra and real analysis. But not in my third year differential equations course that was required for engineering and physics majors.

When I was in grad school at Dartmouth, they introduced it earlier in a linear algebra course. I taught the last linear algebra course that did that, the next quarter they took proofs out of it.
My understanding is that there is some concern that as a civilization reaches a certain amount of technological capability, they run a higher risk of wiping themselves out. We've only had nuclear weapons for a few decades. Who knows what will happen in the next century. Similar threats may come from biological or AI arenas.

So, the advantage is that you build a completely separate civilization that is relatively immune to all these problems.

I would imagine that, after reaching the point of self-support, Mars inhabitants would focus more on securing their own existence, such as building underground.
It's still much larger than the moon.
Why would Amazon care if they damaged their reputation with Fedex and UPS? They can just do what UPS and Fedex do when it is too expensive to deliver a package somewhere -- turn it over to the USPS. Amazon is already using USPS to deliver packages on Sundays, which is win-win-win. Amazon wins, USPS wins, and the consumers win. Amazon's home delivery seems to work well where it's been rolled out, and I don't see competitive barriers to rolling it out elsewhere.

I think the article fails to cover a lot of areas where Amazon will have a competitive advantage over UPS and Fedex. First of all, Amazon will be vertically integrated. They can control the packaging. They can control which warehouses are used to store items. This could lead to better packing efficiency in delivery vehicles, and could make automated loading of vehicles easier. If you have a particular route that is usually 110% full or 40% full, you could either move more items to that warehouse or take some away. Plus, Amazon can incentivize cheaper shipping options dynamically. Will the marginal cost of this order be incredibly high because you'll need a second truck for a particular route? Discount one day shipping, or offer two day shipping to their work instead.

On top of all that, Amazon doesn't have unionized employees. That's a huge advantage when you are trying to reduce costs. Not only are their employees wages probably less, but they also don't have contracts that reduce planning ability, like fixed routes, etc.
TXR 151 is released now, and uses a stock 2-Clause BSD license again.

I made other changes, such as that for instance the license boxes in the Windows installer only have an "Acknowledge" button rather than "Agree". No mention is made anywhere that anyone has to agree to anything to use the software. A misleading diagnostic was also fixed in the program: if "txr --license" cannot find the LICENSE file it no longer falsely insinuates that the installation might be "unlicensed" (since there is no such licensing requirement that any copyright or license notice be present in executable images).
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Not arguing, just observing that acceleration does not seem to be explaining the issue.
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the Moon! ...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.
People from Europe colonized America because it's a beautiful continent, with great climate, a ton of gold and so on. Even if they didn't know that, that's what they were hoping for.

Elon on the other hand is trying to colonize a known deserted wasteland and propose it as a viable future home for humanity.
Jets also constantly lose weight while burning fuel. This results in airliners flying higher and more efficiently as the flight progresses. With batteries, you're kinda stuck with the weight.

And it's true that airliners take off with more weight than they are speced to land with. They have to dump fuel if landing before burning it off.
An-object-graph-as-a-CRDT is a really interesting concept. So far, I am not aware of any literature formalizing/studying it. I can only recall the recent CRDT JSON paper by Kleppmann et al, which is significantly less ambitious.
Is your approach documented?

While reading the announce, my first guess was some recursive per-field LWW, but you mentioned vector clocks. That is intriguing.
I've often thought about this... is it really possible to live forever? Or does entropy (along with other factors like the accelerating rate of expansion of the universe) demand that at some point it'll all come to an end, regardless of how smart our AI offspring eventually become?