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Note that the 787 development costs included building multiple full-sized prototypes of a wide-body (read: price on the order of $225M per aircraft) and a moving vehicle production line — you can tour the Boeing plant at Everett and see fourteen Dreamliners lined up nose-to-tail at various stages of production, like 200 ton automobiles in a car plant. They also built a global supply chain, with over 50% of the components manufactured outside the USA (for WTO trade rules compliance — a side-effect of Boeing's ongoing trade war with Airbus; Airbus have had to do the same). With over 1200 orders to date (over 500 delivered) the 787 has only been available for 13 years: typical product life of a Boeing/Airbus airliner is 30 years, so they're looking at amortizing that $30Bn over roughly 2500-3000 airframes, and you should consider it as covering most of the manufacturing costs.

So the $30Bn sticker for the Dreamliner gets you not only a new wide-body airliner, but a whole new global airliner manufacturing supply chain (you bet they'll use it — or a development thereof — for the next airliner they design, too), and the capacity to punch them out like pick-up trucks.

This $33M funding round is to build a one-third scale flight demonstrator. Not an actual Boom airliner, or a Concorde equivalent, but something like like the HP.115 — a research aircraft with similar flight properties in some parts of the flight regime of the planned final aircraft, for test purposes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_HP.115

(Significant difference: the HP.115 was used to investigate low speed stability and handling of delta wings. The Boom XB-1 is to investigate supersonic low noise flight.)

It also lets them build up their engineering team to the point where they're actually able to get a full grasp of the magnitude of the problems they're facing.

But a real Boom supersonic transport? That's going to cost at a minimum multiple single-digit billions (even if they don't go all-out and budget for a production line and supply chain for 2000 units) to develop.
That Phenomena demo in the youtube video that you linked to is actually a very clever display of the infinite bob trick. It is just so convincing that it is, still, difficult to spot it.
I'm gonna address these point by point with opinions.

lower quality of healthcare

Not overall, but arguably yes for people with perfect healthcare plans at the moment. I think that everyone having 90% "rated" healthcare is better than a split of 0%/50%/100% by wealth bracket.

Increased government spending

Yes. Absolutely - you have to tax people the money that would otherwise go to insurers and spend it as an insurer. Since the US currently spends the highest proportion of GDP on healthcare for incredibly unequal healthcare you can decide for yourself whether even big government could manage to be less efficient.

Increased chances of corruption

No.

Creating a moral hazard of not working to earn what is consumed

Sure. It's a problem when there's zero cost involved in healthcare - something many systems struggle with. Often in european countries you'll see some kind of excess/copay so people have a little "skin in the game" before using the system. The UK uses waiting lists and gateway doctors (GPs) to assess need.

Rationing of healthcare on a basis of need, rather than wealth seems smarter to me from a population basis.

There are many healthcare systems, all have trade offs. Most of the first world is unconvinced that the current American system is optimal
Waiting for the inevitable HN critique about "voluntary work" and "why should anyone have the right to tell someone else to work less" without a complete understanding of what voluntary means in a world with massive structural inequalities.

Or as the anarchists say, "Work 50 hours or starve" isn't a choice, it's a threat.

(edit: nitpick misspelling)
Nice idea but iterm doesn't run on Linux. Shame.
The elephant in the room is that programming in English would be a huge step backwards. Modern programming languages are all about scalable, modular abstractions.

Natural language typically doesn't supply many sound abstractions. Everything you say is open to interpretation, as the many misunderstandings in this very thread clearly demonstrate...
I would like to see a pay per post model to access content from certain writers or certain collections. There is a lot of technical content shared on Medium that is really valuable, and most definitely worth paying for. I would much rather see the writers decide what of their content is worth charging for and what should be free versus Medium making this decision for the community.
>It is currently more profitable to have very large sums of capital itself (and invest this in other capital, financial instruments etc), than to work, no matter how hard you work.

Currently?

And why would "how hard you work" play any role?

A surgeon doing 20 hour shifts gets way untold times less money than e.g. Tim Cook or some absentee CEO -- as their pay, not as their returns from capital investments.

And let's not compare a miner who risks their life (and lungs) underground with some cushy executive.
These existing black cabs are so horribly polluting it's disgusting. I'm just glad to get all those old taxis off the road immediately.
It's not so hard to find it, it just it sounds too much as socialism.

There are all kind of possible ideas. Just the other day I read about, instead of taxing corporations, make that a minority percentage is owned by the society. Not without its problems, but sounds like it would line up some bad incentives that we see now in action.

At the end of the day, we always go back to who owns the means of production.

As is always the case with humans, change it's not going to happen until we are in real trouble. Maybe not even then.
> Specifically, Dropbox Update: Works in the background to check that you’re always using the latest version of the desktop application

Do not want.

Apple provides a Software Update mechanism for apps downloaded from the App Store. Use it.

If you can't do that because your app is too intrusive for App Store rules, poll your servers from the main Dropbox app like every other app does. Don't run a new background app.

Seriously, Dropbox, after the recent farrago with your Mac app, do you never, ever learn?
I live in America and my wife's family is from the UK. We aren't rich by any means but we bought a small house last year and when her family flew in they kept commenting on how big our house was. Our house is about as small as you can get without living in a trailer.

I'm a high school drop out and we each make less than the median nation income and I feel we are better off than if we lived in the UK. Though I admit life from 18 - 25 would have probably been less of a struggle there.
The average UK citizen hardly cares for any religion, much less have the protestant work ethic being pervasive.

In fact the Church of England if often jokingly called the closest thing a church has to atheism.

Don't conflate nominal state religions with actual ideas at play in citizen's heads...
A better format would specify the precision of integers so you can depend on it. Now you need to know the limitations of all implementations if you want to use it as an interchange format. It doesn't even mention the issue in the spec, even going as far as saying, "A number is very much like a C or Java number"[1], which is misleading to say the least. Your API written in C might work with a Java client, but if someone writes a JavaScript client, it will break.

I'm sure there is a ton of code out there that doesn't take this precision issue into account. It seems like Twitter ran into that issue at some point, because in their APIs they have both id and id_str (see [2]).

[1] http://www.json.org/

[2] https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/twitter-ids-json-and-sn...
Calvinism influenced the Netherlands a lot, I'm not really so much versed in Calvinism in America but if you want to compare I'd suggest starting there.

Even more interesting because I consider Netherlands the closest you get in Continental Europe to a Scandinavian country (socially/economically speaking).
I'm not a fan of this model (yet) either. It's a big reason why I haven't cycle-"automated" other services I use. But if there's an on-demand sales model available, I'd love to try it out as well. I enjoy good coffee, but I also drink lots of bad coffee - I'd go broke on coffee alone otherwise.
>lower quality of healthcare

On the very top end of healthcare? Maybe, but countries with public healthcare aren't doing too bad on that side either.
On average? The quality is insanely higher. Until budget gets cut because some dimwit thought it would be a good idea to stretch their resources thin.

>increased government spending

Covering everyone costs money, yes. But considering the amount of money that is already being invested by the US govt. into health care and the abysmally poor results it gives, it can't really be worse.

>increased chances of corruption

Very little. And it solves lobbying, doctors being paid by companies, etc. It's usually a net positive.

>creating a moral hazard of not working to earn what is consumed

Screw that. People have a right to live decently, even without earning it. That's why we made societies. That's why we keep elders alive, and not immediately send them off to the glue factory as soon as they retire, that's why we keep children and feed them and teach them until they're able to be a useful member of that society. In most sensible systems, their education is largely free too.
The budget and timeline strike me as wildly unrealistic, and the management quotes sound absurdly sanguine.

With that said, if they can pull off a 1/3 scale prototype with current funding as they claim they can, one nice ancillary benefit would be the kick to the ass of the Lockheed Martins of the world, for whom $33mm is a rounding error when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars on next-generation aviation platforms.
Generally speaking compiler will take C/C++/Go/whatever and produce assembly as output. The Assembler will produce take this output .asm/.s and produce some form of binary. The Linker will take these binaries and produce an executable you can run.

Note this is oversimplified (and in some cases wrong) but the general point is that when you call a "compiler" you're generally calling a high-level utility that ties a number of separate components together.
Can banks who lended them money, sue them?

Banks don't lend VCs money.
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This plant is for the TX5, an electric taxi.
Concorde ran into (a) the oil price shock of the 1970s (the price of fuel quadrupled overnight around the time manufacturing commenced), and (b) the airport security theatre of the immediate post-9/11 era (a 3 hour LHR-JFK flight is a whole lot less attractive if you add 2 hours of queuing at security checkpoints and another hour at immigration, when you can rent a seat on a bizjet for the same money and bypass both). But what killed Concorde was (c) the airframe hitting the 30 year point; it has been alleged that Airbus demanded outrageous amounts of money to keep updating its type certification for flight after that time. (Caveat: trying to find a citation for this online is ... vexing.)
That little word "capable" in there is pretty important. These new cars are plug-in hybrids, not pure electric.

What mileage does a taxi drive in one day? Say if the car could charge to 100% during the driver's lunch break, what range would it need to stay on electric all day?
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Have children.
I think you'll find if you record and compress a netflix 4k video, the resulting quality will be just fine, especially if you're recording it and compressing it later (rather than doing it realtime).

That's because, while it may have been compressed going over the wire, it's 4k and the quality is pretty stinkin' good.

what you don't do is try to simply recompress the signal that netflix is sending you, you uncompress and then compress.

At which point you're not "recompressing", what you're doing is compressing a stream that may not be as high quality as the original, uncompressed form, but it's a truckload better than sneaking into the theater and recording that way.
Things are a lot better now that you can do OSA scripting in JavaScript. I have a few OSA-JS scripts that are in my crontab. If I had to write AS rather than JS, I wouldn't bother.
AFAIK (although I could be wrong about this) the typical 'five' languages used at Google are not specifically for servers. I have heard they are Javascript, Java, Python, Go, and C++
Another thumbs up for backpacking and back-country camping with little amounts of gear. I load up on the "slim" packs of coffee for these trips. Looking forward for Sudden if I can ever buy it without a subscription.
Unfortunately, you can search code by file extension and phrase, and you can use advanced search to search for repository descriptions filtering by stars, but I don't believe you can do both at once.

For instance, searching for "flask" and limiting the results to >1000 stars returns only the 27 repositories with a matching description[0], but the code search returns over 4 million results, ignoring the stars parameter[1].

https://github.com/search?l=&q=flask+stars%3A%3E1000&ref=adv...

https://github.com/search?l=&q=flask+stars%3A%3E1000&ref=adv...
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The NHS in the UK seems to cost about $3,000/year/person. Admittedly, that probably needs to go up by $500-$1000 to provide a better service, but that seems to be comparable to federal spending in the US already?
Also catholic-raised, but from my understanding Calvino very strongly defended discipline and hard work over faith. In contrast, catholicism places a greater emphasis on... well, not sinning.
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What you describe about really winning/loosing is inequality. I generally think that inequality is bad for populations (you may disagree, but usually, those in favor of inequality are those on the right side of it)
Some people don't get to work on the right things. Hell, most people don't get to work on the right things, by virtue of not being born in the right social class, the right skin color, the right neighbourhood, the right family.
Sure! Here goes:

The App itself is boring old rails, with postgres (get me started on how much I like postgres and I will literally bore you to tears.) The original views were all haml and sass delivered via the asset pipeline. I sprinkled in angular here or there as the application grew.

Today, I'm slowly tearing away the angular. I've moved to webpack for JavaScript, and React for all new UIs. I've been really enjoying both the speed of development, and how solid everything feels.

Over time, I'm writing less and less ActiveRecord, and more and more sequel… still learning, but getting better.

The app is run on Heroku, and its been A++ would recommend to everyone.

The Calibre agent is node and websockets talking to Chrome®, theres other bits of ruby, and even some golang now.

I use terraform and ansible (although, the ansible may as well have been bash scripts) through a buildkite (https://buildkite.com — the best fucking CI service on the planet) pipeline. AMIs are built, shipped to different regions, then based on some config are rolled out.

Papertrail for logs - omg, logging! Essential. I run thousands of tests per day (I don't know this number off the top of my head, but its a lot)… and the nature of the internet is THERE IS ALWAYS FAILURE. Having logging at my fingertips has always made my job building Calibre easier. I think I pay $20 per month right now, and its the most important thing I pay for.

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Ok. Whew. Could probably keep going, but I'm not sure how much you wanna know. Happy to answer specific things though!

I do everything. No contractors. Although @fox has been recently helping me with my writing (her native language is Polish, and she writes waayyy better than me - and most others).
His point wasn't that Emacs has fewer features, his point was that many of those features are half-baked compared to the implementation provided by Sublime.

You give up a bit of flexibility for more stability and overall polish.

That seems like a fair point.
A lot of it boils down to making it easier for developers to work with each other, rather than any technological benefit.

The less magic that happens and the more code that is commonly used by all developers, the easier it is for others to read your code and understand what it does. Rob Pike and others have some interesting talks and blog posts on this
Medium STILL crashes Safari 9 on Mac. The only website that does this, for months and months. Congratulations guys, I don't know how you do it!
definitely agree, although i would say that podcasts are a lesser evil that youtube videos or articles.

- some channels or website tend to favour quantity over quality since they can get more ad revenue that way

- podcasts are generally more professional. not like youtube where its common to find 10 minutes of some person rambling to make a point that should have only taken 2

- you can fit in podcasts/audiobooks while you do other things, driving, doing chores etc.
> that's why DVD players can play any DVD, no matter who manufactured it

This is not entirely true though: a US-bought DVD player won't accept to play DVDs bought in China, Europe, Australia, etc.
cannot seems like a strong term.

They'd very likely try (hard), even if they eventually end up losing. Then try again a different way using a different approach, then again (etc). "Drown the opposition" in legal fees seems to be a commonly used tactic by larger (bullying) companies.
> if money was truly worshiped, why would discussing salary be taboo?

Perhaps worship isn't the right word- it's more akin to fetishization. The religious right does a similar thing with sex, with similar results.
Isn't it also true that in Scandinavia religion started losing ground earlier and faster than in the rest of the West? As far as I know, religion is barely relevant for most scandinavians (apart from the influence it has had on all western culture, of course), whereas it still greatly influences the worldview of most americans.

May be protestantism is the origin of this kind of work ethics, probably exacerbated by american history (colonising a new world, carving a new place for themselves in a barely-known land...).
Same, I've only seen two ads since they started rolling them out. The first time, you could report them as spam, so I did so. The second time, months after that, I reported it as offensive.

It might not make any difference, but I can say that compared to most people I know that use Instagram, I get almost no ads, the last one being three months ago.
In France, it's mostly the middle class and smaller companies that face a heavy tax burden. The really rich have a lot of ways to reduce their tax burden. It creates a system that disincentives creating a small company because of how tough it is. At a lower level, the welfare system sometimes create situation where people would lose money if they started a part time job instead of not having a job. So, there are some problems.

That said, I still feel that the system is better than the US system, there's less inequalities, less worry of disasters because you know that you'll be protected by the system and brilliant kids have a chance of getting a good education even if their parents are poor.
I visited the US for the first time while on honeymoon and a couple of friends we visited while over there asked how I was handling doing work while away, it was an eye-opening insight into American culture I'd never witnessed before but it was a good opportunity to explain work-life balance from a European pov though, I didn't hear any counter-arguments from that small sample, maybe someday it'll catch on.
if there are any farmers or lawyers here... I'm a hardware reverse engineer based in the EU that would looove to work on a tracktor :)
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Why are startups obsessed with subscriptions? Just sell me some coffee. Start an Amazon store and let them handle the logistics.
Really? That's great news, I only found information about the ancient one that was special-cased in dropbox. I can't even see mention of it on the 1Password website, but as there's a free trial it seems low risk.
Whats the comparison of sizes like ?

Really curious because if the next smaller house in size is a trailer then the UK sizes must be weirdly small.
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> ...which works very well in Western Europe, where you don't have to worry losing everything when you get ill, lose your job, etc.

but it doesn't. plenty of people here are fed up with what EU became (westernized soviet union with idiotic central panning out of touch with reality out there in member states on the inside, super-weak 'power' on the outside).

Swiss were clever (or lucky) enough to vote to NOT join EU and they thrive beyond what is anywhere in EU - smallish government, relatively little taxation, more freedom than rest of europe will ever experience. They have very generous social net for unemployment too.
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True, and they don't seem politically willing to ban diesels in London, given the government encouraged their purchase in the first place.
Umm, just ban Breitbart? Seems pretty simple! :)
Yeah I noticed the same thing.
Is it an american thing? Or maybe an age thing? As I was going through school a lot of this stuff (any right alignment, commas after dear sir, etc) were being dropped. The only one that sunk it was typing out full names for numbers, one and twenty-two instead of 1 and 22, but I only stick to that up to ten, not 1000 like I was taught.
That is one of the worst places, measurements of which are what has caused the EU to threaten to take London to court for pollution. It does vary from day to day depending on wind but is always pretty bad.
I'm not a great fan of The School of Life, but I like the mind behind it, Alain de Botton. Care to elaborate on what kind of undertone you see in their videos?
I believe you may be missing something. Even on a GPU there are synchronization points in some algorithms and data needs to be passed from one processor to another once you spill over the boundary of what can be held in the RAM.

Also, some parts of an algorithm may not be parallelizable at all.

GPU parallelization is only 'not difficult' if:

- all your data fits on a single GPU

- your code is embarassingly parallel

- for the total duration of one computation

Bonus if you do can use the output of one computation as the input of the next. In all other kinds of computations the usual bottle-necks apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
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which is kind of ironic because in a state of anarchy like subsistence farming you'd expect to work a lot more than 50 hours, and doing back-breaking manual labour at that.
Buses are also a big contributor, although these are gradually being replaced too.
WTF was wrong with Hangouts? Text, Video, SMS in one app... it's great.. yeah, I still need Google Voice installed to call out from my phone (that's the only really annoying thing with it)... You broke conversation merging by contact, and backtracked on other niceties. WTH do you need to release yet another app, when you already had a decent one... some of the UI/UX on desktop needs work, but it's great overall.