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Maybe some people are infinitely incentivizable, because they can always figure out a way to do something useful with the money.

Bill Gates for instance, although his model seems to be give it all away to good causes he believes can accomplish good. Elon still seems to believe more in his own capabilities to accomplish worthwhile things with it.

I expect he too has a little txt file somewhere on his desktop, with various amounts as milestones to unlock the next project.

Maybe at $22 billion he can afford to start asteroid mining and in orbit construction or something that would top his current accomplishments.
Not sure what you mean. Those statements aren't contradictory.

Clinton campaign paid for the report but wasn't involved in it's production. Pretty standard for opposition research.
Important to remember that these “one of the biggest $x in $y” where $y is a country with a population under 10 million means that the statement encompasses many entities which are just a half-dozen people in a small office somewhere.

I know nothing about the particular hosting provider in question.
I'm not sure they would even need to have known (add a big fat disclaimer to test results and be done with it)
If the money comes with conditions, the recipient should comply or say "no thanks". There's no reason why this shouldn't apply to a philanthropic context.
More to the point, contracts need to be written so that the likeness of an actor remains in their control -- or else movie stars will be "performing" while still alive, and not being compensated.

This is akin to a book contract not defining "out of print". First we'll need contracts, then maybe we'll get laws.
I agree with this, on Twitter and Facebook I will very often repost stuff, but on Instagram I never do. However, I do think it's hard to get noticed on Instagram (if that's what you want), due to the lack of native sharing, likes are on someone else's feed and often don't even get a follow from a popular share.
Isn't it a matter of speed rather than mass? If the xenon is ejected faster than the escape velocity, it seems like it would get off Earth's gravity.

In fact I think it would have to be roughly twice the escape velocity since the spacecraft is already going near it in one direction. According to Wikipedia[1] the exhaust velocity of an ion thruster is between 20 to 50 km/s when the Earth escape velocity is 11km/s [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity

so I would assume most of it is lost in space
Maybe I got you wrong, but infoteam.ch are the guys who wrote the blog-post, so your link is to their product they are describing, and not one by the provider? How does that again explain the angry response?

AFAIK there is no mention or link to the provider, I guess since they don't want to make enemies just yet (and lose hosting while doing so). But I am willing to speculate that they are looking for another provider just now :)
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3dsmax comes with lots of content though I guess?
A personal favorite feature on federation vessels.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Bussard_collector
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> anything comparable between American tech companies selling stuff in Europe to European companies selling stuff all over the world

Many european companies are located in their countries of origin where they cannot dodge certain taxes on revenue, profit, employees salaries/pensions, environment, local taxes and so on.

OTOH the famous tech companies use extremely aggressive tax avoidance schemes (e.g. the Double Irish and so on).
Not very insightful. Looks more like an ad than anything else.
But I was only paying for the hitman officer!
I'd love to see a captain Kirk, Spock or McCoy again digitally tacked on actors who really know how to act at the character. While not the same I really liked the cross-overs like Generations, Relics or Unification. Perhaps they can or will make an appearance in Star Trek Discovery. As William Shatner is still living, he could act the same way as the actress who acted Rachel in the new Bladerunner. Who is the better Kirk, the Kirk alternate Chris Pine or the digitally recreated Kirk played by Shatner?
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It's very strange that they don't say which countries are causing the problem.

Also, probably adjusting the clock will fix the time, at least for a few days. The clock will get a small delay each day but it will not magically guess that the wrong frequency was enabled for a long time.
Surely there must already exist some legal protections? I seem to recall certain professional (football? basketball?) players successfully suing EA Games over unauthorized use of their likeness.
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Ah, the race-car example is bringing back memories!

In the early days of Macromedia Flash, I wanted to build a GTA I clone. I didn't know about trigonometric functions yet, so I had a line of height 1, width 0 that I rotated around one of its ends at a fixed angular velocity while the user pressed the left and right arrow keys.

Then I read the height and width of the rotated object and added it to the x and y coordinates of the car, respectively.

For some reason, trigonometry is treated pretty late in Swiss schools (often only during the Matura, where students are 16-20y/o). I never understood this, since understanding trig can be really useful in a lot of everyday situations.
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I'm not surprised it works flawlessly with SFR FTTH. The traffic shaping I noticed only happens in the areas where SFR outsources the ADSL termination to Axione, which is the case where I live (near La Rochelle).
For whoever was wondering who this provider is: according to whois-nslookup-mxtoolbox_arin_lookup, the server hosting infoteam.ch is provided by metanet (metanet.ch)

Not trying to ruin their business, but they should consider handling issues like this one properly.
Yes, please go underground.

The last thing we need are swarms of vehicles filling our skies.
If I read https://www.wired.com/2012/09/how-can-airlines-reduce-fuel-c... correctly, for intra-continential flights the cost is something like $1/10kg.

Assuming a delta of 50kg that's $5 between a light person and a heavy person, which is far less than the price of the ticket.

The enforcement scheme (setting up scales, getting complaints about being weighed, etc) has its own cost.

That's not to say that weight isn't a factor. Samoa Air charges by weight: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/02/samoa-air-pay-... . I believe there is a wider range of weight in Samoa and the fuel costs are higher.
Wouldn't an easy solution be to allow making "retweets off" as default for following other users? I do that manually for many accounts that I follow.
Probably because the cancels were followed up by aggressive sales calls that mentioned the issue. A quote from the article:

"The no-shows were accompanied by an OpenTable inquiry about Tavern’s 'sagging sales,' with a renewed attempt to convince them to switch."
You're right. The article I read was more business oriented and used both terms, and I didn't notice.
currently infoteam.ch seems to be hosted on METANET (metanet.ch). Is there anyone who can deny or confirm that this is the provider they don't want to mention?

source: nslookup infoteam.ch; whois 80.74.143.113
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScmJvmzDcG0

John Oliver did a special about forensic science. The skit at the end is hilarious.
Now imagine if this bad "science" actually led to people being sentenced to death: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire
Don't have exact URL, but google 'windowserver high CPU'. Fixing windowserver fixed FF too.
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When you have a corpus to learn, how do you do it?

Drill through each section and get it in details then move on?

Skim the whole thing in iteratively more depth?

Personally I’m the latter. I find that circumscribing the whole thing upfront is crucial to making good decisions on what to focus on, and what it means for the whole.
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It is applied to consumption. Some, most often necessities are taxed less which lessens the burden for poorer people.
Instead of dismissing my statement you could at least try to come up with one counter example. Every time I see "VAT is regressive" nonsense it's always based on misunderstanding. Yes, investments are not taxed but that's ok, if a rich person makes 20% a year from investment then they have 20% more money to be taxed once they engage in consumption (hence linear algebra remark). It really is about basic math to realize VAT isn't regressive but proportional (and even slightly progressive as necessities are taxed at lower % in many countries).

You can make consumption based taxed more progressive by taxing luxury goods at higher rate (which already many European countries are doing) as well.
> What are some important webpack features that you lose by using a Makefile like this?

Transparent cross-platform usage, specifically on Windows. Yes, you can set up Make on Windows, but it's not really the norm, especially for web developers.
See Ken McLeod's Fall Revolution series for some really thought provoking angles on the ultimate end of this.
I can recommend the movie "The Congress" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) - it deals with an actress who sells off the right to her digital likeness.
@TomMarius et al.: True. 'Continental Europe' is just meant to exclude the UK and Ireland for obvious reasons.

But what constitutes 'speaking English'?
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf
Nostalgia kicks in and memories of playing StarCraft on Dial-Up return... I miss how simple the web was back then... AOL, MSN, not even Google was mainstream yet I don't think haha

Also for those wondering:

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Artanis
If you're concerned about that, pull it back one step, and go "sure, I'll confirm in an e-email". And watch lots of excuses for why the request suddenly isn't essential anyway.

The point is that if you don't create a paper trail, you risk being set up as a fall guy for much worse than being fired. They know it, and you know it, and your safest way out is to make sure that they know that you know that they're asking you to do something inappropriate and that you're smart enough to ensure there's evidence implicating them if they force the issue.

If they get angry or keep making those kind of requests it's a good reason to look for another job anyway, before they find a way of pinning something else on you.
There doesn't seem to be any problem with either totally free or paid services. The potential problem is with business models that are free in financial terms but instead rely on some form of data or advertising for their source of revenue.
I agree with the sentiment but it's not always possible.

In the case of airlines, sometimes you have no choice but to go with a particular carrier because there is no other carrier who will take you to your destination with seats available that meet your schedule.

You also wouldn't know of these practices until much after you have already paid for your ticket, by which time your booking is already in the hands of a few hundred other "trusted third party" employees.
I'm not talking about on-orbit servicing though. Failure recovery is done all the time with most satellites. The operator just needs some time to determine the nature of the problem, possibly doing some workaround. With a low flying satellite you don't have much time for that.
>Surely there must already exist some legal protections?

Almost certainly, I think there are companies whose entire business is to handle the image of dead celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, but should there be?

An actor or athlete's performance is a creative act, and could reasonably be considered intellectual property, but their appearance is an act of nature. Why should that have any special legal protection?
In the future we may see likenesses of actors perform again after they're dead.

That's such an important distinction. It's true that an actor's appearance is one of their most memorable traits, but its not the sum of their accomplishments. Acting is a skill.

I'm not and never have been an actor, but I was impressed with Wil Wheaton, when he detailed on his blog how he prepared for auditions, the choices he would make about how to approach a particular scene. That level of thought, and experience will be lost forever when an actor dies.

With technology, we may see the likeness of a particular actor again, but we'll never again see their particular like.
I have had the same experience with LEDs. If they make it past the first few months they'll keep running for years. I assume it's a QA issue.
Things were a lot simpler back in the day.

When Bela Lugosi died during filming of 'Plan 9 from outer space', Ed Wood simply had some other actor step in for him, even though there's no likeness whatsoever. (Then again, who looked like Bela Lugosi except Bela Lugosi...)
A real blast from the past, I used this reference to implement ray tracing in java. Was it fast? Not really, was it fun? Yes!
That's amazing. I wish we could pump coldness from vents in the ground to cool down Queensland over the summer.
Angry DB Admin who left the company and a way to revenge later.
>(fuchsia, etc...)

Of all the reasons, I doubt they're working on fuchsia as a GPL license workaround.
"scheme web framework", except there are multiple scheme implementations and variants. I don't understand why the word scheme is even used, each scheme is basically a silo.
Not all emotional responses are necessarily bad. The problem I have with most forms of social media is most encourage short posts, which almost always is devoid of thoughtfulness, which then begets responses of similar kind. This is why I personally think Twitter is such a terrible platform.
Those services will have to obtain an opt-in for users and can't deny services based on opt-in, yes.

Essentially the GDPR makes such a business model almost unsustainable. IMO rightfully so.
I don't think there is a good summary, it hasn't been settled yet. The (rather lengthy) discussion is like with everything on -hackers mailing list - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160812231527.GA...
I am not really sure Free Speech (or lack of Free Speech) had anything to do with what happened to Ignaz. It looks to me that he was allowed to say whatever he wanted to say and was driven insane by people not believing what he was saying.
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I see two possibilities in this scenario:

1. The employee was a smart criminal. They knew how risky (but profitable to the company) this was and got hugely compensated for it.

2. The employee was dumb or gave into bullying by management and took this risk for free.
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Deutsche Telekom is actually doing this on purpose here in Germany in order to extract money from service providers. Hetzner has documented this here: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en
But it was double-grade fabric.
Even some networks with retweeting don't suffer this as much.

Most of my mastodon feed is posts, a retweet(boost) is probably one in 50 on a normal day, spiking to maybe one in 10.

It might be a cultural problem on twitter (maybe some mastodon communities have similar problems...)
Why do you believe them without any evidence to (or against) their claims? For all we know there could be a direct verbal request from a manager.
Yes, this is related (not the author of the cited article but I know him well).

There were also several precursor experimental studies funded by ESA, one of which [1] can be found in the same conf. proceeding.

[1] http://erps.spacegrant.org/uploads/images/images/iepc_articl...
Yeah they've stoked CEO payouts and golden parachutes and stock dividends just as much as they've stoked transportation. If corporations need government money to be forward-looking then I want some of that profit coming back to the government, not just going out to the investor class.
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It may be related to the target platform for Instagram and Snapchat being mobile devices. Copy-pasting on mobile tends to be more cumbersome, and the slightest impediment to the UX can have a significant effect on how many times it occurs.
After learning what they do I am even surprised the author did extra mile to fix the issue this way. I would probably just go with some CDN.
Also see Dual Photography from SIGGRAPH 2005:

https://youtu.be/p5_tpq5ejFQ
This is more than just for vehicles.

What I'd hope is that it would bring down the cost of ground source heat pumps.
If there was a method to fight such abusive patent trolls, I would immediately donate!

It is the exploitation of a bug in the government source code, and it should be fixed..
> Who on earth runs a DB written in Java on windows?

There still are lots of Windows-only shops.
Sortof. But with a few caveats. 1) most computer viruses don't randomly vary, and thus don't have a learning effect, miss unlimited heredity. 2) they are not physical life, so the relevance is not the same as their chemical counterparts.
There’s absolutely nothing illegal about paying for oppo research, and there doesn’t look to be anything illegal about the research itself, so I’m not sure what you’re suggesting.
> The last thing we need are swarms of vehicles filling our skies.

But they'll work as great as Google's automatic translation, so there's nothing to worry about!
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ISS is at 150km and needs costly refueling, right? Wouldn’t that be the most interesting applicaton in terms of cost savings?
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The older Philips LED bulbs were very high quality. Dimmable, no flicker, power factor corrected. Here's a youtube teardown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKAub54sLU Compare the internal circuitry with the youtube video you linked to. Yours were a cheaper design. No wonder the bulbs failed so quickly.

Nowadays Philips seem to be selling both a higher quality and a lower quality bulb in each wattage.

To me the purchase price isn't an issue. I have a few places where I run bulbs 15 or 20 hrs a day. So moving from 60 W to 10 W in those locations made an incredible cost savings. Where I am in the USA, a 1 W load on continuously costs $1/yr. So saving 50 W in a location that's on about 80% of the time saves me $40/yr in electricity. For just one bulb.
I would not be surprised if Twitter is one day regarded as a poster child for the dangers of blindly optimizing for engagement. I'm sure all their features do increase engagement, at least in the short term. They wouldn't release them otherwise. But it is a sort of engagement that burns out users and ultimately sends them away.
>That level of thought, and experience will be lost forever when an actor dies.

That's probably been said about a lot of things, but automation inevitably consumes every inefficient human endeavor. The first phase was physical automation, the second is mental and intellectual automation, and the final will be creative. It's only a matter of time until the style of an actor will be modeled and replicated along with their appearance.
> This seems orthogonal though. Just because a runtime uses reified generics, doesn't mean that it has to provide reflection on them.

It's not completely orthogonal as erased generics are annoying/problematic when the language does provide reflection/RTTI.

So you've got 4 (reification x reflection) states 3 of which are fine:

* if you have erasure and no reflection (Haskell) you're fine: you don't have runtime types but they don't matter/are inaccessible

* if you have reification and reflection (C#, C++/RTTI) you're fine: you can access runtime types and have them

* if you have reification and no reflection (Rust, C++/noRTTI) you're fine: you can specialise & discard types at runtime

* if you have erasure and reflection (Java) you're fucked: you can access types at runtime, but many aren't here anymore

> From a layman's perspective it seems that Haskell could be implemented with either an erased or a reified generics model under the hood, without changing the public surface of the language. But is there something that type erasure enables that reified generics does not?

A simpler implementation.
I like using trigonometric functions for other things beyond rotations.

For instance, a cropped sine ( [-pi/2,3pi/2] ), remapped to [0,1] in both axes is very handy as a smooth-step function.

Another range ( [0, pi] ) is very convincing as a screen flash.
Not to mention necessary to solve a lot of intermediate steps in Further (intermediate, advanced and research) Mathematics.

Maybe it's possible to learn about sines and cosines from Euler's identity up and forget about triangles altogether. This would enable you to do calculus, statistics, etc. But there's some value to teaching the theory of triangles as a beginner's introduction to pure mathematics (and hence the beauty in mathematics).

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What follows has to do with triangles, but is mostly offtopic.

One of the clearest memories of my childhood, somewhere between ages 8 and 10, is a German-made (but dubbed into my language) TV educational show that had men in togas walking around Classical Greek ruins and dramatizing some scenes -- Diogenes and Alexander and so on. But what has sticked in my mind and still burns red hot was Pythagoras and his mates, crouched and drawing lines in the sand. After Pythagoras explains his hypothenuse theorem, someone interjects:

"But this holds for all triangles?"

"All triangles. All triangles that have ever been drawn -- and all triangles that will never be drawn."

A sufficiently powerful brain scanning device probably can find this line somewhere inside my skull. It got me in big trouble: I'm not particularly intelligent, let alone disciplined, but I'm slogging through a Masters in mathematics, maybe dreaming about a PhD in physics because... I don't know. It's like when ghetto kids see some violent scene right in front of them and 20 years later their criminals. It sticks with you.
thanks for the feedback.

I've heard in the past about my "w/" and "&" misuse (apart from my pitiful grammar) but I haven't released it can put people off. I'm sorry.
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It's 51% including the UK and Ireland. Also included are places like Norway, The Netherlands and Denmark. So even if in 2/3rds of the countries having a fluent conversation in English is hard or impossible with most inhabitants still the majority of the people that live in Europe speak it well enough.

I think even less people speak Spanish in the US while about 1/3rd of the country used to be Spanish and the rest of the continent bar Canada speaks it.
I find your point regarding Quake 3 counter to my experience, as the game ran just fine at release on my then-current Pentium 3 machine running at 500 Mhz.
What is the intent of using "xir" against the author's wishes if not to provoke an emotional response, then? The author is very clearly identified as "he". I can only conclude that you are trying to start a flame war.

I'd report your comment to the moderators but I don't know how.
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