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It's not going to be in Mars orbit as there will be no insertion burn. It's a Mars flyby after which it will remain in solar orbit for the foreseeable future.
I think it hinges on whether the lightfield projection is as revolutionary as they say. All the other specs pale in comparison.
I share the concern that there's still nothing too publically accessible, but the device itself isn't completely under wraps. The journalist in the Rolling Stone article[0] viewed a few demos built between the ML team, including one with Sigur Ros that's got a very small clip on youtube[1]. I suspect building a demo of this kind of tech that's remotely as impressive viewed on a website or youtube video is challenging. If I'd built the device as marketed I'd be concerned about giving half-baked first impressions that disrupt the hype machine, even if the device itself isn't half-baked.

[0]https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro...
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLtDeonCAYE
I don't have a lot of sympathy for anyone who got burned by this. Anyone who is trading crypto knows that there is a lot of risk. Also, everyone who was paying attention knew that BCH was coming to Coinbase before the end of the year, since September. If you're acting like this is a big deal, put your big boy pants on and/or stop trading crypto.
> I also want to spend more time doing security research again, which should help pay the bills as a side effect.

I would have thought he would have savings from Adblock Plus deals.
doesn't that already exist for VR?
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Is there such a thing as vapor languages? I feel like crystal and elixir are vapor languages.
I knew there was a reason the media decided to make a big deal about a military video from 2004 yesterday. Pure distraction.
This is at least the second post on this topic in which logfromblammo has suggested that people perform criminal acts. (S)he earlier suggested keying cars and cutting tires.

Those are simply wrong and criminal.
The concept was tried with Windows 8; they had to go back to offering both desktop and touchscreen options. Based on my experiences using an iPad, iPhone, and a variety of mac laptops, I don't see how this could be practically different.

Touch interfaces take up too much space on lap/desktops, and desktop interfaces are inconvenient to the point of not working with touch.
"It's not ready yet."
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So completely fatigued. It is exhausting keeping up with everything, and on top of that, many issues are truly important, not merely in the realm of political junkie. What's depressing is that so much of what's going on right now feels like a waste of time; provide the means by which I can stay healthy and safe, and I'd much prefer to be thinking about a totally different set of policies.

The next time you are working, totally in the zone, or in a research meeting talking about fascinating new technology, or really doing anything of substance, just stop. And think about the fragile shit happening with policy changes and tweets. what. the. fuck.
Nice easter-egg when you shake your mouse over the first room at the top!
Thanks for the project idea!
> That's something that you should bring up with your local government. It is your local government that is blocking roll outs of FTTH.

That's definitely not true in my specific case, and probably isn't true all that often in the general case. Deploying FTTH to existing paying customers who already have halfway decent infrastructure doesn't have a very compelling short-term return on investment even when the local government is doing everything they can to encourage it.
You mean like Tokyo cabinet?
So, it wasn't fraud then? Disclaimer: I am not registered with any political party. I find their political machines to be in bad taste.

The GP is probably right, they would probably have impeached Clinton already if she had Russian ties like Trump and his cronies appear to have. And if the Dems controlled the congress, he would probably be gone already also. Seems like some equivalence there...I'm not sure how that is a whataboutism when I am pointing out that neither party is perfect...
A lot less than in a submarine or electrical reactor. Heck McMaster U has a swimming pool sized 5 MW.

There's no pressure vessel and a massive thermal inertia. Not child's play, but very safe.

The big issue is the waste.
I think the burden is going to fall squarely on iOS developers to make their apps usable with mouse and keyboard on the mac. Mac developers are probably not going to bother porting their UI to work on iOS though. Apps like Sketch App come to mind.
On the off chance that OP is site owner: this text is borderline unreadable on my phone. It's light light gray on a white background with thin font. I don't normally even notice low contrast color palettes, so my guess is this is pretty far beyond the threshold for comfortable reading.

Suggestion would be to darken the font some.
No one is suggesting wasm would replace all of the web.

We're just saying the developer and deployment optimization story would be vastly simplified without the JS/HTML/CSS stack.

Those of us who remember what development was like before "front-end" development as it is today know that story very well. The amount of undocumented, untested, and wonky code in the current web stack has always seemed ridiculous to us.

The problem with ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight, and OneClick was never about the developer story. It was about security and openness. WebAssembly solves both of those problems.

Open tools, pixel-perfect GUI design, compilers and debuggers, and strongly-typed languages would absolutely reduce the amount of HTML/JS/CSS in the world. It may not kill all of it, but it would put a sizable dent in it.
Because you can't render true black and rendering the world gives the developer more control over what the user sees.

I have no doubt that AR will power many "low end" gadgets like google-glass or snapchat's glasses, but for going full gargoyle mode, I imagine the ideal is a fully computer rendered landscape, even if it is mostly true to what you would see in the real world anyway (since it offers so much more power).
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Opt-out didn't actually opt-out of certain features of the ad deal. For example, YouTube's Up Next list contained risqué Sponsored videos at the top of the list. Prior to the deal they could be blocked. After the deal they couldn't, not even with AdBlock Extensions.
Blame the government. They sold the 3g spectrum frequencies to the phone companies at insane prices. The German consumers are still paying for it.
They don't need much more incentive to arrogate power; I don't think there is much hope in changing that calculus.

>Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.
I totally believe that it is possible he wanted to do that. Why not sell all of his LTC at $10? Why continue to focus his time and energy on it? There is only one reason, which is that it hadn't made him enough money yet. Now that it has, the idea that he will focus substantially all of his time on it to make it even better rings pretty hollow. Maybe he will do that instead of spending his tens of millions (or more) on other pursuits. Altruism is a pretty rare quality, financial motivation has an uncanny way of actually getting things done.
It sadly does feel like the pursuit of ideological/political purity, while admirable and good, has left us in a place with no practical ways forward towards actually converging into a single "best" system.
Despite the title of the article, I do not think this is about designing "one user experience" between mobile and desktop.

I think it's about consolidating the UIKIt and Cocoa frameworks, making it easier for developers to share code between platforms, but not necessarily creating a UI that's the same for both.
Well, they are, albeit slowly.

I am a contractor myself, and the law in this area is murky. But in the case of the gig economy it is being used as a tax and rights avoidance strategy, not honestly.

Uber have already lost at least one case in the UK in which drivers sought to be classified as employed.
You're just listing things that add small linear costs that are rounding errors in a ballpark estimate like this, and fixed costs that don't add anything because they're the same for two ports as twenty.

Do the actual math. Show me something with an aggregate cost of more than, say, $1/month/customer.

Especially using realistic numbers rather than the "10Gbps port for a hundred 100Mbps customers" ones I gave to make a point.
Why do touchscreen desktops suck? I'd be happy to touch the reply button below this input form instead of using the touchpad to move the cursor to there and click.

In other cases I'd use the touchpad (the cursor is more fine grained than my finger) but some touchscreen / some touchpad seems fine to me.

Fingerprints on a matte screen? Maybe that's a problem.
It's not even the hardware, it's the user interface. Touch interfaces are too large for desktops apps well, and desktops interfaces are too fiddly to be used with touch.
This book helped explain a lot to me. I used to think that going to the moon was magic, but a lot of the stuff, like the lander module and the AGC, are straightforward implementations of the next steps from building guided missles, which the team had previously worked on.

That said the fact that they had a priority-based multitasking operating system running well enough to handle data overload conditions while maintaining real-time control of a spacecraft landing on the moon, is still damn impressive.
I don't understand what he is talking about.
A very simple one-pass recursive regex matcher is trivial to write. I wrote the one for asterisk in 2003. No fancy CPS needed.

http://asteriskguru.com/archives/asterisk-dev-better-pattern...
Password sharing is a symptom of cable companies inability (or indifference) to innovate on either content or price. They are driving millions of people a year away from their services and the idea that cracking down on password sharing will bring people back to them is quite silly.

Speaking anecdotally, I cut the cord years ago and do have some shared password access that I use, but purely "because it's there". I got along fine without it and will continue to do so if this crackdown gets me.
I'm just thinking about the needs of my friends and family. I still recommend Windows to them, but the lack of a package manager is definitely an argument against Windows.
Tangerine did the same a few weeks back. Hate it.
This is an interesting way to try to figure out a way to value bitcoin based on a cost of a resource. The only thing I could think that might be another thing to consider is cost of moving money or the inability to do so.
That was my first reaction as well, but there is one article online by someone who's used the device. It sounds more mature than I assumed it'd be viewing this landing page [0]

[0]https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro...
Calling Uber a tax firm is akin to calling personal workout equipment a gym. Or calling a bed and breakfast a hotel. Don't get me wrong Uber should pay its fair share of taxes/fees, but bunching apples and oranges together for the sake of policy simplicity comes off as non-progressive in my view.
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I can only see a crackdown on this as resulting in inconvenience for paying customers. There are so many options for piracy that people will probably find another way to watch streams almost immediately.

I suspect that if you invited friends to sit on your couch and watch a broadcast with you, the content companies would claim that as piracy too, since your friends are not necessarily paying subscribers.
Oh, sure, you may be right about that for other languages. I was thinking in the context of the post, which discusses Ruby and Python.
"Market" is not a fancy word.
99% yes. Even worse, there are biking lanes on both sides so it is only a one way street for cars.
The reasons taxi licenses were used is because governments heavily regulated price. Those sorts of price controls distort or destroy the natural market.
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Somewhere there is a law enforcement organization that's drooling over the thought of automatically generating a list of suspected grow-ops by cross referencing power usage with marketing demographic information and automatically applying for a search warrant.

They'll probably stop doing it after they kick down the door of a day-care in a rich neighborhood and only find hot glue guns and those beads you fuse with an iron.
This is exactly what I want to happen. I recently saw an ad on some page and was concerned uBlock Origin had missed something. I was happy to discover it was just a self-hosted JPEG wrapped in an anchor tag to a legit affiliate site.
I'm pretty sure the batteries and motors are cooled by air (directly or not).
in some country they could import cadaster data. The licence, policy and quality of these differs from one country to another.
Is Gitlab CI/CD offline?
The reason why AWS isn't a threat is that AWS is a platform and doesn't have any screws to turn against Netflix - they can't raise prices to fight against Netflix because AWS hosts many other customers, and Netflix has a lot of choices when it comes to infrastructure.

On the other hand, Netflix's partnerships with movie studios is very one-sided one for them - there is no substitute for a blockbuster movie, so movie studios have a lot of leverage when talking to Netflix. Generally speaking, in this kind of relationship, the content providers will raise their prices to squeeze all profit out of the transaction with the customer. See also the difficulty with music streaming - the record industry has done the exact same thing already, the video industry is only a few years behind. Netflix saw the writing on the wall quite some time ago.
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I don't know about Switzerland, but in Germany the overnment sold the rights to the 3g frequency spectrum for insane prises (billions of euros). The companies are still trying to squeeze out a maximum ROI while they still (??) have exclusive rights to the spectrum.
Great to see another NoSQL DB on .NET landscape. In my UWP days I had to port LevelDB (https://github.com/maxpert/LevelDBWinRT shameless plug, it's available as nuget package too). But it only works on UWP this seems more robust and it can work on Xamarin.
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Gold doesn't claim to be a currency just as real as the Dollar.
This is just accelerationism. "Let's make ads terrible so people hate them, because I disagree with the fundamental concept of advertising".
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> Right now, there are not enough customers in the world to justify an investment to replace all Falcons with BFRs. They have an answer to that (however flawed), and that answer is simply "Mars".

I agree, they are taking on huge risk attempting something on the scale of BFR. It seems likely that development will take much longer than planned giving their competitors time to catch up.
It means as many things to as many people, and serves the same role in many discussions, as the word "God."
I wonder how many people would have no idea how big a VHS tape is.
Made firefox on Android crash after spending 20 seconds loading though
caveat: My basis of experience is in the US.

I think it is possible that the primary forces which will shape the general use/non-use of formal verification methods for smart contracts will be legal not technical. The distance from widespread adoption of formal use of smart contracts and the current state of the world is approximated by the distance between the widespread availability of legal council and the scarcity of people skilled in formal verification. It is easy for an ordinary individual to enter into an ordinary contractual agreement because lawyers are ubiquitous. It is difficult/impossible for an ordinary individual to enter into a smart contract because qualified practitioners are rare. The growth of qualified smart contract practitioners may be rapid until the point where is is deemed legal practice and becomes regulated as such. And if I were to bet, I would bet that it will be deemed legal practice once it comes on the radar of the legal system.
"We don't have the factory capacities at the moment, therefore your car is missing the back seat" is no better an excuse than "It's cheaper for us to leave out some parts, therefore your car is missing the back seat".

There is no such thing as "surplus bandwidth". How much bandwidth there is is as much the decision of the ISP as what gets prioritized or throttled. If you make it illegal to throttle below available bandwidth, they will simply reduce available bandwidth (or even simpler, fail to increase available bandwidth).

If there is more than one way to achieve the exact same result at exactly the same cost, it's completely pointless to make one of the ways illegal.
Can anyone recommend books on designing watch movements?

I'd like to build some scale models in acrylic/MDF using my university's laser cutter, working up to CAD for a MEMS mechanical movement. An art project.
Or just start a company and make money from your code. The code can still be open source and if you really want to write free software then just do it when you have enough money.
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I would find more ridiculous (or suspicious) someone carrying 2000€ in cash in this day and age for whatever reason, to be honest.

It is clearly a measure created to prevent tax evasion,
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this shows the extent to which the banking system has brainwashed us, when 2 people cant conduct a large transaction directly without an intermediary and it seeming 'suspicious'
Great for you, but until Uber I never experienced those things. Because of Uber, I experience them everywhere. I use Lyft exclusively when given the option, and cabs here and there as I travel. No matter what, I'm grateful to Uber for creating pressure across global markets to make the "typical experience" much closer to the "good experience" that you've been privileged to already have.
/r/SpaceX [0] is very very informative

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/
Crystal, I don't know, but how is Elixir vapor?
But Oculus actually has those products on the market, and unlike Magic Leap, it's not universally recognized as vapourware.
> incredibly burdensome to internet businesses looking to operate in multiple states (so all of them)

Not all of them. Just the ones that want to lay cable in that particular state. Most internet companies are only concerned with deploying physical infrastructure to a handful of data centers, and leaving the rest of the connectivity up to their ISPs. ISPs providing major backbone links would be subject to the hassle of different state regulations, but ISPs providing last-mile service only need to care about the laws of the states their particular customers reside in.
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How is it that addresses and phone numbers are not considered personal identifying information???

Forgetting for a moment the fact that with even a few data points on someone it is getting easier and easier to cross reference other data sources and de-anonymize almost anything - but address and phone numbers are so directly and easily tied to real people this seems like a massive oversight in current regulations on "personal identifying information".
What else could be done? lock up employees at work for a week while the market adjusts?

An email to everyone, a press release, a blog post stating this new feature will be available to everyone in x days at time T. That would be fair game.
Emulation is still a very hard problem in computer science. We may never get a proper xbox emulator. And more obscure consoles are doomed to be forgotten. Emulating Windows is a bit easier because it's on the same hardware, but it's still never going to be perfect.

That said, so what? It's cool that you can use Windows software on Linux. But even without that it's still a perfectly usable OS.
I notice they ask financial donations but not help with development. Since we are developers and not investors, we are much more capable of donating our time. What makes code contribution not useful (or irrelevant) in comparison to money in Crystal? It would increase “hours invested above donations”, but it's not a problem as their graph is trying to show.
Would be interesting to see how Apple tackles the problem; since other giants have failed badly on this. Microsoft is perfect example of over-promising and not getting traction.
Maybe they are waiting to ship on the same day that Ready Player One comes out :-)
They should spend less time registering meaningless trademarks, and more time just telling people what the hell it is they're selling.

This is an augmented reality device, yet it doesn't say that anywhere on the page.
On my phone, Google's bike routing happily sends me down a 35 MPH, 4 lane highway, crossing under a rail bridge where there is no shoulder.

It also presents an alternate route, but the traffic environment here isn't such that the route under the viaduct makes any sense.

(this is in small town usa)
Just remember that those who last tried to arbitrage energy costs (Iceland with Aluminium) went bankrupt

I'm also skeptical that the difficulty scales linearly, it might be that as it gets more difficult it won't be as linear (we are probably getting to this point)

Also, you're obtaining coins with mining but you also need to do that work again to spend the coin obtained (or pay the fees, which are climbing).
This is the second event involving BCH which is looking very "artificial" for the lack of a better word. About a month ago, BCH started an abrupt up-climb while the prices on BTC started to fall dramatically. BTC recovered soon after by hitting all-time highs while BCH prices fell pretty hard. Now we get these talks of insider trading at Coinbase. I don't have much stake in cryptocurrencies and I actually did not mind the BCH fork, hoping that the 2 cryptos can just co-exist. But from what I'm seeing now this has nothing to do with advancing Bitcoin and is just a money grab by Roger Ver.
Interesting if there is any research showing that reducing the cyclomatic complexity of one's code leads to speed-ups in development, better code readability etc.? I know it's kind of obvious, but still would be great to see the numbers and statistics.
XKCD had a really great illustration of that.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
> You have to solve a Google reCaptcha in order to register a new account.

Even in the world of the free uber-cyberpunk hacker, why is reCaptcha considered a warning sign?
Old fallacies that keep coming back.
I started writing a long comment about currencies, assets, rarity, and a few more things, but I realized it's pointless.

Please get some history books out and read about money. Read about ancient Rome and what problems rose when mad emperors decided to replace money with new coins out of the blue. Read about why and how the US dollar is not based on gold any more. Read about hyperinflation after WWII. Money is regulated to protect us from ourselves.

Now take a look at the war between BTC and BTH, at how the majority of miners are not willing to overcome technical issues and work together, the incredibly waste of energy and hardware, computing the nothing, and tell me: do you honestly think it's not history, repeating itself, just in another light?

Of course, there are always some who don't care, "get rich or die trying". I'm not one of these believers.
What a waste of time that was to read.