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Companies know how to but they decide not to invest this time

Cost increases exponentially for diminishing returns once you get into serious availability. For most businesses, the investment in moving from 99.9% to 99.99% or 99.99% to 99.999% uptime just isn't worth it - most customers are quite willing to "try again later" in practice, especially if you give them advance notice or have a regular maintenance slot.
Could we get a [1999] in the title please?
The reason I posted this article was that this is the second mathematician I've come across in two days to talk about the elegance and beauty of mathematics.

I wish I had seen some of this beauty from a younger age.

It goes to show how much the right teacher, especially early on, can have a profound impact on your life.
Apparently the author has just discovered standards.
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Not posting to disagree, necessarily, just to state my somewhat muddled thoughts and ask for your critique.

> Capital is savings is unconsumed income.

If you think of it that way you can pretty much equivocate capital and income tax. The way that they differ in reality is that subsistence laborers generally have no reason to pay capital tax. For the rich, capital tax is a huge proportion of their tax burden. Picture an heiress who does not earn a salary a day in her life. Modern trends of decreasing capital tax leads to effectively a regressive total tax structure. I think the author is essentially arguing for a more progressive tax, in a way that feels more "fair".
They too are moving operations to China:

https://consumerist.com/2010/08/31/sunglass-hut-to-customer-...
I find it weirder that people whining about that are usually not impaired by it for their dayjobs? I hear people shouting about wanting gpus and multicores and 16 gb and then that they are doing React dev on it as professional. What do you need that monster for when doing that dev? When I do 3d game dev, ML or image processing/recog I need something heavy (although... I really only need that locally for the first from that list). The rest I can do on mostly anything after 2009... Including React dev.
You had me at walls. I loathe the open office with every fiber of my being...
Interesting comment on being called fat. I'm a bit, shall we say, big boned. And I experienced two odd instances where a Chinese person I barely knew casually remarked how fat I was. It was otherwise a pleasant conversation and had me a bit confused. If a stranger said that to you in America, it would certainly be considered mean.
1 square meter of such roof would weight 4 tonnes (on Earth). 500 kg on Titan. That's quite a roof.
You can't just name a fallacy from the wiki 'List of Fallacies' and try and win an argument.

Social status in humans and other animals is a large part genetic. This is take as fact by many people. If you believe it's not you really need proof.

The original OP didn't need to provide proof as they took it as a given and was talking a different interesting premise.
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I agree. Most of mathematics is taught as calculations without motivation. If it was taught as the study of systems, and a toolbelt to understand the universe, more people would be passionate about it. All we can do is show the light to others.
Well no, with the hich capital concentrations we have now, most captial is inheritance and so cannot be counted as saved income of the individual that owns it. Further, saved wages merely seed capital accumulation, so that most capital comes from investment returns and not wages. So the critical question here is if investment is different frome wage work?
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Mars has way more sunlight (much closer to the sun and a much thinner atmosphere), which makes solar much easier. So equipment, supplies, and solar could be on the surface, and the radiation sensitive humans could be a few meters underground. As you mine for water you could dump the useless stuff on the surface and use the emptied space for living quarters.

Question is why live somewhere that's tougher than the top of MT Everest or either pole? Guess a population big enough to repopulate earth in case of an extinction level event would be a reasonable safeguard.
I can understand that.
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Thus solving the problem once and for all! https://youtu.be/0SYpUSjSgFg
Ask HN: How do you learn by doing?
Basically the title. I know the best way to learn some new programming language is by making something i am interested in, but every time i try this approach i feel my code is "hacked" together for example: I need something, i google how to do that something in X language, read the code and try to understand it and then just copy it.

After a while i feel like i have learned nothing or just so little that i lose interest.

Am i doing this wrong? What is your approach for learning something new?
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In the episode The Science of Humans at War[1] of the StarTalk podcast, around the 25 min mark, they ask the question of human modification, specially for the harsh environments of space, and claim that in almost every case it has been tried, an engineering solution has been found that is both cheaper and more practical than to directly modify humans.

[1]: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-science-hu...
Adapting doesn't necessarily mean assimilating -- it can be "code-switching" in a cultural sense.
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If it's free, the product is you
The only problem with this is that it would concentrate ownership of all industries in the hands of the government, eventually.
Looks great. Do you have any screenshots for the webmail? I couldn't find any on the site.
I couldn't make the maths work, so the atmosphere in the pictures was picked solely to make them look good.

The moon's far too small to hold an atmosphere for geological periods of time; in real life it'll all leak away into space. The reason why my model produced such a huge atmosphere was that the more air I added, the deeper the atmosphere got; but the further away from the surface the lower the gravity, so I ended up with diminishing returns. Once you're a lunar radius away from the surface your air weighs only half as much as it did on the surface, so now you need even more, which makes the atmosphere even thicker, which means the portion up high weighs even less...
Easier is the wrong word, you cannot just at a second pair of legs to a human as you would think from mechanical thinking. If you really want humans to live there you might have brains contained in an artifical container but adding some functionality to a complex organic system is hard, really hard. We may be able to do that in bacteria or yeast (and there these are billion dollar projects like the next-fuel incentives) but are not in multi-cellular organisms. Too many levels of control you have to cover, you do not only have to manage the status quo but also the embrional development and managment over 90+ years. And this with-out trials, at least if you are against human trials which would be massive and lead to thousand of dead trial persons. (I mean we are not able to do this in mice and even there every trial faces massive ethical opposition). Maybe in a hundred years (but who knows what will exist in a hundred years), everything else is blatant optimism.
I guess the boat system can be moved around the world to meet demand. Unlike a pipeline that might not get used again for another 10 years.

Still I think the numbers seem off for a boat dragging water in bags for 6 days to be cost effective.
Yeah. Protectionist trade policies are going to be great for software engineers. What was a bad investment in automation software when it replaced a $1/hour job starts looking like a good investment when it's a $15/hour job it's automating away.

We've already seen this with jobs that are impossible to outsource, like retail. That self-checkout machine may have been expensive to develop, but it's a lot cheaper than employees. (The machines aren't perfect, but one employee can now check out 10 customers simultaneously.)

In some ways, nothing will change in America. The jobs were already gone, so nobody is going to lose their job to a robot. That said, it's time to start coming up with a real plan for unemployment. We aren't taxing automation. We aren't considering a world where labor demand is less than labor supply. We have no plan for the future, and the future is not going to be coal mining and making cheap flip flops for Wal-Mart. We are going to have to fund basic income, or some sort of welfare system without a social stigma. (All the foreign investment driving up housing prices isn't helping either.)

Of course, we aren't immune either. Most software isn't actually needed; as we improve off-the-shelf software, custom software will be in lower demand. (Ever pay anyone to write you a custom image manipulation program? Nope. Photoshop is fine. Really not sure why we aren't "done" with HR databases or shopping carts yet.) And, of course, machine learning will help fill in the one-off customizations that are sometimes necessary. And, maybe it's going to start creating art, music, literature, and whatever else we consider "uniquely human". Pretty sure I'll be dead by then, but someone should probably start planning. You thought "peak oil" was a problem... but we're already past "peek labor".
> I'm a Christian (Latter-Day Saint) and also adhere to Buddhist precepts. I meditate two hours a day. I don't eat animals and regularly pick up litter in my neighborhood.

Very interesting, especially in a world where many people view religious practices as entirely mutually exclusive. As a Buddhist myself, good on you for doing this. Things need not be as black and white as some believe.
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True. I miss the days when people made a quick buck from sharing funny pictures of cats instead of appealing to tribal instincts.

As vacuous as fake news but a lot less divisive.*

* Well, unless you're not a cat person that is.
"Culture" goes way, way beyond "interesting food".
As far as I see you don't support Apple's native email push notifications, which is the exact reason I switched from Gmail to FastMail.

Are you planning to implement that feature?
# Shell

I applaud any effort for maximizing flow. However, in my particular case I run Linux and I'm not spending any time in a file explorer application for example. Issues like a screen "popping up" as described in the FAQ of https://www.ghostnoteapp.com/ are just not there because I prefer to run things from the shell.

# Syncing

I'm the kind of person who happily pays for services like https://www.insynchq.com/ (not affiliated) to be able to get something like Dropbox or Google Drive to my shell without loosing collaboration options.

# Text-level access to collaborative documents

If there would be cloud service that combines (1) online editing and collaboration with others, and (2) offline editing in a text-editor for myself, for spreadsheets, presentations, documents, etc. I would buy it in a heartbeat. An example is https://www.sharelatex.com/ (not affiliated) where people can edit online, but behind the screens there is Dropbox/Github integration.

# Window manager

Another way I organize my "dashboard" for a particular purpose is by using tmuxp.

# Browser

In the browser I use vimium (https://vimium.github.io/) and I've several profiles depending on the task at hand.

Probably you can summarize a lot of it as "not needing a mouse". If it requires a mouse it's difficult to let my muscle memory do the work for me.
depending on your needs 256gb ssd may be cramped.. would do the 512gb if you can... I've filled 256, but haven't had issue with 512.
My thoughts exactly, instead of adapting planets for our current form we should try to adapt humans for extraterrestrial environments.
We need to find a way to transfer our brains(or brain data) into a machine, then adapt this machine to the conditions of the planet. Easier said than done obviously, but colonizing Titan doesn't seem a very realistic option either. Besides flying humans safely to Titan we also need to fly enough technology for them to survive until proper housing can be built and to be able to harvest Titan's resources.
If you are wondering about jurisdiction, according to their FAQ they are in Switzerland, and according to geoip their servers are hosted by OVH in France.
Highlighting passages on kindles as you read is the most passive way I've come across. Review afterword
Seems hard to build, energy intensive, labor intensive, and materials intensive. Just land, start mining, and use the space left behind. Not to mention a few meter of earth is going to handle damage way better than a geodesic dome.
Hopefully we can develop some light materials for radiation protection. So we can have radiation-proof domes and suits on Mars.
Actually if you dig in the calculation techniques taught in primary school(Like multidigit addition/multiplication/ division), you would find some of them are actually quite clever ideas (O(log n) algorithms), but what almost all school do is to ask the student execute the algorithm like a computer, not how to come up with ideas like those...
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When you go to add your payment card, there is a barely noticeable dropdown box to select your plan, which defaults to the medium tier plan.

I just wanted to add the card and then go to another page to sign up for the very small $4 a month plan, but ended up being charged $17 immediately.

Love the service concept, love their FAQ and apparent expertise, but hate that they did that.
A great service, netherless.

There should be more independent email providers out there, not just google, ms,yahoo,apple and behemoths alike.
That will benefit ecosystem at large.
I run a personal wiki (that gets me version control) that I've written a bookmarklet for. It asks for the page to place the entry on (default is Bookmark), location on the page (top is default for Bookmark, bottom is default for others) and the entry (default is the title of the page I'm on). It then makes an entry on the page as a bullet entry so I can tell that it's a bookmark.

This allows me to quickly bookmark items and have some level of order to them as I'm saving them away.
If you've never purchased pressure-rated pipe, you'd be shocked at the cost of even a 6m piece of 1" PN20 pipe.
Haha, usually we hear this from smart guys who have been working for about 8 months...
I believe the level of inequality, and the level of social mobility (which is probably related to the magnitude of inequality), is more important than the existence of inequality.
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The fixation on IPOs seems more than fishy to me. Corporations that already exist would get to pay 100% tax free dividends, whereas corporations that IPO after the watershed moment give the unnamed percentage of dividends to the "Commons Capital Depository"? What about private companies? This would just create uncalculatable incentives. Corporations are already going far too much for war-chest over dividends as it is.

So why not at least tie it to estate taxation? It seems so obvious to me that Varoufakis not mentioning the possibility looks like him being all too careful to avoid stepping on certain feet.

Seize that percentage when they are passed on from someone who (maybe) earned the capital to someone who by definition did not. Convert shares to special "dividends taxed for CCD" shares if you don't want to repeat for each generation and/or you don't want to mess up voting. It would certainly create an imbalance between public corporations and privately held ones, but according to the usual anti-estate-tax arguments that is exactly what you want: don't split up the family farm. But share portfolios are inherently splittable. If the next AT&T or Standard Oil turns out to be a private company due to abuse of this imbalance, forced IPO beyond a certain size might be an emergency hatch option. But that is one of the few problems where i think it is perfectly reasonable to not put too much thought into before they happen.

I do however like the idea of something UBI-like that is not defined by needs (with all their inherent negotiability and the destructive bickering that comes with it) but directly by the capability of the underlying economy.

(edit: removed concrete numbers which i somehow thought were inside the original article, but which i only accidentally picked up from a peer comment)
Note that El Sisi was Egyptian military attache in Riyadh for a time (hint, hint).
While looking through I noticed this from the latest changelog post:

> Until the end of November, you can use the discount code NOVEMBERRAIN to get 50% off any Migadu plan, permanently. Offer is valid only for new upgrades.

$2 per month is pretty good, or it makes the 'standard' plan roughly the same as non-discounted 'mini'.

Not entirely sure yet where you enter this code so I sent them a question.

--edit

Very quick response from the team.

You have to upgrade once first, then apply the code via Account > Coupons. So, upgrade to a monthly mini, apply the code, then upgrade to the plan you're after (the initial $5 will be subtracted from a yearly code if you select one). The code should apparently remain active no matter what once it's applied.
well, a few meter of "titan"
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I think Westworld naming the next episode "The Well-Tempered Clavier" could, somehow, lead to a resurgence in interest in GEB -- lots of people on /r/westworld seem to be interested, for sure! (For one, I've heard that the show's creators have admitted that they are creatively indebted to the book in some ways.)
It wasn't a proposal -- it was a thought experiment.
>If every government said, "You, need to change what you are doing and start helping us get off of this planet," and changed laws and regulations to encourage or enforce this, it would happen.

Would't be better if they tried to "fix the planet" instead? Boring, I know. But much more easier and possible and most importantly, proper.
Firstly, if your macro does not typecheck, it means that executing it might result in a segfault or something similar, since macros are regular OCaml functions.
Secondly, if macro typechecks, then it is guaranteed to expand without errors, and I think that's a nice guarantee to have.
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That still means we have 500 years to find legitimate non-terrestrial life.
There is https://lobste.rs which is great (not a subreddit but it's very similar)
If there's a nuke war, anything nuke resistant would likely be directly targeted. After all last thing your enemy wants is for the earth to be repopulated by their enemy.
> 1. Lack of interest.

F-35 was a lot more important, what would we do if we had to stop interfering in the middle-east?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
The Emergence of Distributed Posix
Growing up in Canada I was always a big fan of multi-culturalism. However, I was very surprised at how much I have enjoyed mono-culturalism since I've moved to Japan (lived here about 8 years now).

As an immigrant, I have also chosen to try to join my adopted culture. I spend a great deal of time studying cultural practices. I wear traditional Japanese clothing most of the time in the summer (western clothes are better suited for winter, I have to say). I make traditional Japanese preserves, and live a traditional Japanese lifestyle (as much as my Japanese wife will let me, anyway...).

There are people here who are similarly interested in American culture. They want to learn about it and practice it and live it. My Canadian background makes me feel embarrassed to say it, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. While being able to experience outside cultures inside your own country is wonderful, also make sure to experience what makes your country great. Keep your culture and traditions alive, because they are important. There will be people from other countries who want to participate in that experience. Be sure to welcome them as well.
Now I am curious, What's the issue if the list price says that it is >$1?
Let's do X is not a proposal?
yeah, but it scales cubical. If you build your station 8 times as big and only need 2 times the material. So million people colonies become cheaper per person wise. Plus you might be able to grow algea in there.
I feel the same way as you.

But I don't know that my younger self had the maturity to see the deeper beauty. It was only starting college that I had the necessary complexity of thought (combined with wonderful professors).

It takes a while to develop a taste refined enough to perceive these things. In the meantime, rote memorizing your multiplication tables and polynomial expansions might be a necessary evil to have foundations strong enough to later support that kind of more abstract, artistic reasoning.

This goes for other fields too. You have to practice your chords to play Bach, and learn your conjugations to write a novel.
That's fantastic! C++ is totally the right call for that situation, React Native is mostly focused on Android and iOS it seems.

Do you have any articles about your experience developing Feem? I have a project underway that also targets Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux and I'd be curious to hear how you have things set up in terms of build systems, what was the most painful platform to work with, etc.
Android security in 2016 is a mess
I have returned/replaced almost 50% of items from Flipkart (Indian competitor of Amazon) because they sent me defective or broken packages. I have had a couple of packages that look like they were opened. I'd never shop there if it weren't for these 'exclusives' they have with companies. :/
No server NEEDS to go down for maintenance. You can avoid doing so for anything, at any scale, DB change, server updates, etc.

The problem is that a 0-downtime system, at a certain scale, is very costly to create and maintain. You need redundancy everywhere, load balancing everywhere, data replication, synchronization. Those are hard problems.

Basically you need to arrive to the level of being able to release the Netflix Chaos Monkey in prod to be sure it works even if part of your system is busy with the update, or just out of sync. This is certainly doable. It's also very expensive, requires a lot of time and many experts to work on the problem.

Putting a site on maintenance mode can be a middle ground you choose, because you don't want to invest that much just to avoid taking down you site for a little time once in a while.

Economics.

Of course, if you do choose the road of 0down time, you site will gain more than just availability, it will gain reliability as well, since those best practices serve both purposes.
Signup by invitation only, and having retired before it started I don't know anyone in it who I would feel comfortable asking for one.
Mistakes were made during the deploy of the new website to production. A failed website deploy is a bit more noticeable to the public than the failed deployment of an internal only system.
I signed up today. It's pretty slick.

http://imgur.com/a/Xt4CQ
> Would't be better if they tried to "fix the planet" instead?

It would be, but based on what I hear, it's too late. Also, you can't easily keep Earth from being hit by a giant meteor or a large CME that takes out all of our electronics and sends us back to the bronze age.
That's making a lot of assumptions though. For one thing, I think to become an interstellar species, we'll have to direct the evolution of Homo sapiens into some kind of Homo exteriores spatium sapiens. Radiation-hardened, very very long lived, happy to live together in very tight spaces, etc. Might look closer to giant cockroaches than hairless apes. It certainly seems we're a lot closer to the ability to do this (eg. CRISPR-Cas9) than colonize & move a moon.