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The Black Mirror series is worth watching, although they seem to focus mostly on 'digital consciousness'. The USS Callister episode is not only gripping but very funny too. So many great episodes though - hard to pick a real standout although I would have to say if I had to San Junipero is one of the best things I have ever watched.

Then there's the really cheesy old "so bad it's good" stuff, for example:
- When Worlds Collide (1951)
- The People That Time Forgot (1977)
- Swamp Thing (1982)

Have you seen the original War of the Worlds?

Then there is the Alien franchise, Aliens (Alien 2) being my personal favourite - Bill Paxton is sooo funny in that and of course it's directed by James Cameron. Some other great actors like Michael Biehn too.

Have you watched the series Firefly? Also the (related) movie Serenity.

There is soooo much great stuff out there!
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It seems to me you're the one conflating the baby of art with the bathwater of copyright.
>The Wall Street Journal and other sources, including our own, had suggested that Zuma failed to separate from the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket following successful first stage separation, at which point it potentially fell back to Earth and was lost in the ocean.

They're really downplaying how bad their coverage was, it really feels like people love to watch Space X fail. For example:

WSJ Headline: "U.S. Spy Satellite Believed Lost After SpaceX Mission Fails"

TC Headline: "SpaceX apparently lost the classified Zuma payload from latest launch"
Is the public really that vigilant here? It might actually be news to most that Disney is primarily responsible for long copyrights in the first place.
I agree that fatalities can be expected to rise as miles driven rise, however these two data points are not so closely linked. For example, driving ten miles in western Kansas on I-70 at midday is not the same as driving ten miles in a metropolitan area filled with shopping centers, with the sun low on the horizon ahead of you and a dirty windshield.

There are many, many variables which complicate the study of traffic safety and my hat is off to any traffic engineers able to deliver meaningful results. It does happen, but it's far more complicated than tracking per capita miles driven (not that you were making this specific argument, just pointing out the obvious).
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Wow, I'm impressed that the average IQ of Scott's readership is so high (at least if you use SAT as a proxy for IQ).
The Outer Space Treaty forbids, among other things, the placing of weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit. Conventional weapons are fair game though, which has led to plenty of speculation on kinetic bombardment approaches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
They will have to come up with a real business model. You know, where they give people something they want in exchange for money.

The horror!

You know advertising is just another business model right? They have to give advertisers something they want in exchange for money. If they can't do that, they don't get money. It's a business.
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Nukes in orbit would be obvious unless you shielded the absolute crap out of them, and shielding is heavy. Besides, if you get caught with a nuke in orbit, you're in real trouble, and the benefit is...?

A secret satellite though? Oh the possibilities! The big problem with satellite surveillance is that people can figure out where your bird is, and simply you know... avoid it. Granted you can't hide large buildings, but you can predict when it will fly over and hide your troop numbers, mobile launch systems, etc.

How do you avoid a satellite you have no tracking data on? Of course, that would require some really impressive optical, radar, and thermal stealth tech, but that's quite plausible.

Of course if you were really paranoid, then maybe you'd think this isn't a satellite, but a satellite killer. I doubt it, and there are proven options to kill satellites from the ground, but it's possible.
Anyone like these reviews? They are useless. Where I'm at now on a scale of 1 to 5, the company makes it impossible to get anywhere near a 4, let alone a 5. You could probably die working yourself to death on the job and still only be a 3.
Oh I love Forbidden Planet! Great choice!
Man that hurts. Strength to you.
I was dating this girl with a very young daughter. We were gonna go out on a date, so the daughter went with my ex's brother and sister. The sister knew how to drive, the brother was 16 years old and didn't know how to drive. So he ended up driving somehow, hoping to get some practice. He lost control driving on a straight highway with no traffic in either direction, hit a light pole, and the daughter (not wearing a seatbelt) went head-first into the back of the seat. Traumatic brain injury+coma, eventually she was let go off of life support and passed away.

I've always felt that, if I were capable of really hurting someone, it would be that brother. I still feel really angry about it, x years later.

Anyway, I can't imagine what that brother and sister are feeling about all this, even x years later. I don't understand why it would make me happier if I knew they were suffering from it. But at least this story helps me feel guilty about feeling that way.
And all of you saying "same here" because your children are so precious, you all swore off driving cars, right? Because other people's children are precious?
Have any chemicals been ingested accidentally since 1940? Sure!

Are trained chemists with PhDs in the subject working with complex synthesis and dangerous chemicals in the habit, from 1929 to present day, of putting those things in their mouths? Awwww heck no.

And 1940 is near the point we cracked the atom... we knew oodles about dangerous chemical and safe handling practices. Accidents will happen, but the (speculative) fiction we are discussing here is Albert Hoffman intentionally eating LSD and lying about it :)

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Saccharin, the oldest artificial sweetener, was accidentally discovered in 1879 by researcher Constantine Fahlberg -- Fahlberg was working with coal, and had no PhD AFAICT.

Cyclamate was discovered in 1937 at the University of Illinois by graduate student Michael Sveda. Sveda was working in the lab on the synthesis of anti-fever medication. He put his cigarette down on the lab bench, and, when he put it back in his mouth, he discovered the sweet taste of cyclamate -- a student, smoking in his messy lab

Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company. Schlatter had synthesized aspartame as an intermediate step in generating a tetrapeptide of the hormone gastrin, for use in assessing an anti-ulcer drug candidate.[65] He discovered its sweet taste when he licked his finger, which had become contaminated with aspartame, to lift up a piece of paper -- an actual chemist, but working with something with a well known composition and known to be relatively harmless
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I wondered when fravia would make an appearance.

+ORC got me into programming too. Great days cracking winzip and defeating parental controls :-)
> At SpaceX, investigators say they spotted workers using tools that weren’t specified in a manual.

Could you imagine being so micromanaged that you'd literally need the Federal Government to change a manual to approve a tool you need?
Yes, I am. At a minimum, I suspect it stays for AMP content that's in the carousel area of search results. I wouldn't be surprised if it stayed on all AMP results.

I read the post top to bottom and it never mentions anything but changing the url. It doesn't say that top AMP banner thing is going away.
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Any discussion of Uniqueness or Linear types deserves a shoutout to Pony, which like Rust is built around the principle but in a really delightful way.
I was always taught in school that it was Amerigo. I've never even heard of Amerike until now.
>"Nothing changed"

I disagree. The most important thing that has changed and is applicable here is that technology makes it absolutely feasible to prevent "crime exists". At least the really bad ones.

The only things preventing it are: big brother scare mongering, privacy "concerns" and funding.

E.g. you could near-eliminate car accidents due to drunk driving with a tech solution. Same goes for gang violence, domestic abuse and bathroom rapes. Just stick a camera in every stall, street corner and household room. Oh and send police if the view gets obstructed or the camera damaged. A while of that and people getting caught, and they'll quickly learn to not do it. Problem solved.
My own perception of fair would be that copyright expires 25 years after creation, or 20 years after publication, whichever comes first. If any of the creators are alive at that time and still own the copyright, they may extend by 10 years if no other creator objects.

If you create a copyrightable work and die the next day, and your executor manages to get it published the next year, your estate owns the copyrights for the next 20. That is enough time for any child sired by a male author on the day he died to be supported by his estate until it becomes an adult. It also provides a reasonable 5 year window to get something published before later publication is punished by a shortened copyright term. Still-living creators will, of course, be able to deny that a work was actually finished--and therefore started the 25-year clock--until just before the day the first copy is made available for sale--which starts the 20-year clock--so that would pretty much just be enforceable on posthumous publications and on bizarre edicts from eccentric or reclusive creators who try to exert too much control over how other people may enjoy their work.

And it allows for a work still profitable after 20 years to squeeze a little more out. I think the extension may encourage corporations that commission works for hire to support their successful creators for 20 years so that they will not object to the extension.

Works-for-hire, by the way, would have all the individual humans and the corporation as the creators, and the default would be tenancy-in-common, with the humans temporarily assigning their interest to the corporation in exchange for a regular salary. (I think the current works-for-hire system encourages immortal corporations to use up and throw away their human talent.) So if the corporation stops making the payments, the creators regain their full interest in the work, according to the size of their contribution defined by the work-for-hire agreement, if one exists, or an equal share if not. So the only reason to fire a creator would be if the profits from the works they create aren't sufficient to pay their salary, at which time they get their (lesser) share of the profits instead.

A session musician, for instance, might be hired by a record label to get a 4% share of every recorded music track, and assign that interest to the company in exchange for salary of $1200 every week working in the home studio and $1800 every week spent touring. If the tracks that musician played on bring in more than $2.34M, the company should keep them as salaried employees indefinitely. Otherwise, they could fire them as an employee and just pay out their 4% until the copyright term runs out.
Unoriginal, unfunny article peddling the same tired old crypto tropes.

At least put some effort into it like the "Pyramid Scheme" [1] post or similar.

[1]: http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/11/28/write-your-next-ethere...
States and city laws define exactly where the boundary is and how it is different based different activities. Say you have a fence vs you don't have a fence, or say sidewalks are on your property, but city will maintain them, and you shouldn't block them.

Usually if trash is put on the street by the curb, it is not on your private property and can be taken and inspected. There would have to make an explicit law I think to protect it. But what if the police follow the trash truck to the dump, does it extend there as well?

That's why things should be shredded and some intelligence agencies have their own incinerators and so on.
Unless is a planned sale from a long back, then he could be ok
Get your dad a snowblower (cheap) or hire someone to do it (more expensive but also cheap). It's even cheaper if you find a teenager whose just trying to make some extra cash, you can find them on Facebook groups really easily.

Yes I'm fucking judgement because I got hit by a fucking car due to some asshat not shoveling their sidewalk. Also there was an issue a few years ago with kids having to wait for the bus in the middle of the road. They started fining people after that incident, $100 a day.

To be clear, its really ok to be judgement when people's lives are at stake.
Yep, the Clooney version was a bit hit and miss IMHO. I really am not a fan of Natascha McElhone's style of acting, but I thought Jeremy Davies was brilliant as Snow.
As far as I can tell, Munger is the one who really popularized the notion of mental models, so this is a must-read.

For anyone not in the know, Munger is Warren Buffett's business partner. The basic idea is to collect an interdisciplinary checklist of different paradigms for viewing the world, and then run through that checklist and apply each mode of thinking to whatever tough problem you're working through.

HN readers probably already know all of this, but I just love this approach to thinking and wanted to share the wealth :)
A little girl cycled of the pavement a while ago, just as I was passing, good brakes and no traffic from the other side. Very close call and I have not yet gotten over it yet, nightmares and daily thoughts about it. I am pretty sure her mom also remembers it vividly. Kids can be totally unpredictable like that and how it all ends is hugely dependent on circumstance.
And that interpretation is so obvious that you have to wonder if the satellite really is some classified new reentry vehicle, and the decision to publicly announce its loss is designed to make adversaries devote resources to looking for a super-stealth satellite that isn't there.
...and if you bookmark that URL for later, it'll simply be titled, "Status". Thanks Google.
The US is certainly too big for some things. But it's definitely not a good argument when we're talking about urban & suburban street design. How big the US is or isn't, means nothing when we're talking about how best to lay out a 5 mile by 5 mile plot of land for a town.
Sweden's traffic fatality rate (3.5 / 10^9 vehicle km; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...) is roughly comparable to that of Massachusetts (3.25 / 10^9 v. km; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...). (Sorry, I couldn't find pedestrian numbers.) On the other hand, the Czech Republic is worse than South Carolina.
Well, as a counterexample, I have been withdrawing to bank account from Coinbase for a couple weeks now with zero problems.
Surveillance case studies in urban environment have shown to decrease crime rates and more importantly violent crimes. Under the proper circumstances this type of citywide surveillance can be a benefit to modern societies.
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I dont know enough about the Falcon, but who is responsible for creating the separation process or mechanism from the second stage of the rocket? I assumed it would be SpaceX's?
There's plenty that could've been done to prevent this. Most basic and simple would be to institute a traffic law culture in which the driver does get blame by default for hurting a pedestrian so they have pedestrians on their mind every single minute they control their car.
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"Rodding". OF course, hauling a few tons of tungsten up there is going to be a giant pain.
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You don't think the benefits that automobiles brought to the world are worth more than "2nd greatest engineering blunder"?
I've always found it interesting that the Ottomans financed Piri Reis, who created one of the greatest surviving maps of that era, but the Ottomans were such minor players on the truly global front. I'm not aware of any attempts by them to colonize the 'new world'. Maybe after Piri reported in they felt it was not worth their time? Or they likely had larger domestic problems to deal with..
>So, what are the chances we have more than N nukes in orbit, where N > 0? I've always wondered.

Legally speaking, 0, since the Outer Space Treaty forbids placing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in orbit, and all spacefaring nations so far have signed. Even if the military kept things under wraps, I'm not so sure that stationing nukes in orbit would provide a significant advantage, as you would only be able to strike a particular target when it rotates under your orbit, which means you can hit a target only twice a day at fairly specific times, while ICBMs can be launched at any time. In addition, modern ICBMs have flight times on the order of 30 minutes ([0], [1]), so satellites aren't going to be reaching a target much faster.

Edit: forgot to address another point

>They should be detectable, but on the other hand there are so many satellites that it'd be hard to index them all.

We already track more than half a million pieces of space debris, with 20,000 of those larger than a softball ([2]), so I'd imagine a "secret" satellite wouldn't stay secret for long.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile#Flight_phases
[1]: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/12028/is-it-correct-that-it-takes-approx-30-minutes-for-an-icbm-to-reach-russia
[2]: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html
Typing this from Fedora running on retina MBP. Everything other than the camera works out of the box and has been a pleasant experience for the limited amount of time i have had this setup. Linux install is running from an external SSD connected through USB3 so OS X is untouched. I don't notice any performance issues with this setup, none of my workloads are disk heavy. External monitors requiring different scaling than the desktop might need some setup.

EDIT: No experience with touchbar equipped models
I wonder if the rocket was recycled like previous SpaceX rockets?
https://latechnews.org/spacex-launches-bulgariasat-1-recycle...
> If you didn't know radio existed, the whole thing would sound like a bunch of pseudoscientific hokum.

I have never looked at it from that angle. Very interesting thought!
Kindly also read this article before deciding -- [http://www.catonmat.net/blog/browserling-cameroon/]. I know the current article seems a bit tone-deaf but judging him on that alone wouldn't be fair.
Indeed the civil engineer who allowed such an egregious speed limit is at fault here.
To me, the fact that 'nothing happened' was a very much the point

Maybe nothing grand, but it's pretty hard to stomach movies that don't go anywhere at all. I come away wondering, what is the point? Why are you telling me this story?

There is no major turnaround and everything is all better moment. You learn to live

That's still 'something happened' and/or 'the movie went somewhere', and is acceptable.
Primarily because people tend to complain only about issues. I've both funded and withdrawn from bitcoin on several occasions, no issues at all, always quick.

We're talking millions of users with significant money at stake, when things go wrong it turns to vitriol very quickly (and there is a lot of room for user error, too). You don't see others catch as much flak because nobody is even close to the size of Coinbase, but there are similar issue threads for e.g. gemini out there.
>Remembering only the anger of God in the Old Testament is a common, but incomplete reading. There is also grace there.

If someone murders another person, we don't immediately start to list out their virtues (He donated to the poor, he was a good father etc.) It is not enough for God to have done "good things", he must also have not done "bad things".

The bar for an omnipotent, all-powerful God should be higher than it is for a fallible human being, but you appear to have lowered it.
i heard the engine rattling, and its not the only plane in the terminal.

on a serious note, i already knew they didnt have their facts strait, and it was clear they were going to paint the article with some sort of rhetoric.

i'm sure you enjoyed the article and it has good content, but it wasn't for me and i moved on.
I have a cousin in law enforcement, so yes I can, but it’s still maddening. The formula is essentially: a problem arises. Everyone covers their asses with red tape, and new rules and regulations are born, and never die. It’s a classic, yet very difficult-to-manage bureaupathology. The alternative is just that a friend of someone in power makes the tools.
>NSA or whoever essentially burned money without getting any more powerful.

If you are an American that was your money. It's not good to simply burn it up.
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On this launch it was Northrup Grumman that built the mechanism that connected to the 2nd stage.
>Plenty of harmful things are done with C and C++ but no one is saying we should deactivate native apps written in unsafe languages

Isn't that exactly what a lot of people have been saying ever since Rust started taking off? Every time there's a security vulnerability, someone suggests rewriting the program in Rust, if not some other safe program.
What a nasty little comment. No, we did not all swear off cars, but we will do our damnest to drive slow in areas where children are known to be about, keep our vehicles in top shape so that when you need to swerve or do an emergency stop there are as few variables in the equation as possible, will not do drugs, will not drink and will keep our eyes on the fucking road.

By your standard we should all jump off the nearest bridge for living our lives in a way that we can not guarantee that something bad will ever happen to children, our own or someone else´s.

Attempting to guilt trip people for taking part in society is pretty low.
I found an emulator here https://github.com/stella-emu/stella, I'll see if it's not too hard to pull the audio code out.
Making a phonecall is a lot easier than changing City law

Of course, they are out doing the sidewalk of city property, they have really nice machinery too.
And the problem with that was identified by Lord Acton in 1887 (https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165acton.html): "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Your technocrats may be noble, but they are also human. Give them enough power and they will swiftly lose their nobility.
America may be made of up people with anncestry from all over the world, but we have a very homogenous culture. The only major differences are urban, suburuban and rural, but rural people in California are pretty similar to rural people in Virigina.
No, it wasn't. It was core B1043, which had not been previously launched. It was originally intended for a NASA mission but Zuma swiped it. See https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/cores#wiki_b1043
> even the typical line of cars parked along the side of the road - obscuring view of the sidewalk and giving pedestrians a false sense of security

There are so many intersections in San Francisco where cars are allowed to park right on the corner, completely obscuring your vision as you go to make a turn, and making it a leap of faith whether or not you'll get hit. The best you can do is slowly edge out and hope that other cars see you.

Poorly designed systems like this infuriate me almost as much as people who will happily give the system a pass and then demonize individuals who mess up because of it.