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Wow, I love this story. It raises so many intriguing issues in one small space.

First, while the FCC clearly has US authority over spectrum, how is it that its charter includes satellite launches? Or conversely, if they SpaceBees never turn on did they violate the license? And on what basis does the FCC get to evaluate the risk of other things in orbit, isn't that NORAD's job? And what if this had been a startup in Bangalore or Mumbai, would they be getting crap from the FCC for launching the very same satellites?

Now I understand the leverage the FCC can use with US based launch services, sort "Follow our rules and do what we say or we will have the FAA pull your launch permit." but that leverage doesn't really exist for foreign launch services. Heck the Russians might launch stuff like this just to irritate the FCC and tweak our noses.

And it raises a whole different set of questions about cubesats. How closely are they inspected at Integration time? Is is possible to create a cubesat that looks and smells like it is doing one mission but is actually doing a different mission? What happens when someone launches an orbital spy satellite network? Not the one you would expect taking pictures of people's back yards, but a collection of satellites with large lenses that are looking up and over at the things coming up from the ground. Imagine an ion engine powered small sat that works its way up to GEO and snaps pictures of all the satellites it can find and beams those images down to earth.

Let's say their quad systems stays under the weight of the typical cubesat limit of 1.33kg. That means they could launch 100,000+ satellites on a single F9 load. And while that would be silly (They would all be in a very similar orbit) it suggests how easily someone could (in theory) just "throw up" a covert microwave based communication network on a very small number of launches.

These are definitely 21st century sorts of problems :-).
Here are some interesting initiatives with interesting challenges:
https://www.khanacademy.org/resources/out-of-school-time-pro...

"Students who find themselves in prisons, jails, and correctional facilities have varied and intermittent educational backgrounds. Correctional facilities can use Khan Academy to support a variety of programs, including credit recovery, GED preparation, and adult continuing education. These facilities tend to be high-security environments with extremely limited Internet connectivity, if any.

Idaho Correctional Facilities - KA Lite, an offline version of Khan Academy, is impacting learners in the Idaho Department of Correction. The first 20 prisoners using Khan Academy exercises offline all passed the math portion of their GED course—the first time that had ever happened."

KA-Lite seems to be maintained by the Learning Equality organization:

https://learningequality.org/about/

"In the summer of 2012, our co-founder Jamie Alexandre was interning at Khan Academy when he and a fellow intern had the idea to bring Khan Academy offline using a low-cost Raspberry Pi."

https://learningequality.org/kolibri/
"Kolibri makes high quality education technology available in low-resource communities such as rural schools, refugee camps, orphanages, non-formal school systems, and prison systems."
Cool but not frozen?
If they want to operate in America, they'll have to care about what the FCC says. And since they're an American company, skirting around the FCC's approval could mean this startup is about to shutdown.
Perhaps because they aren't ready to announce what they're working on yet? Just one of a few examples I can think of why they don't owe you a reason.

It sucks that they're making you change your name and it's obviously inconvenient. They've at least offered some kind of compensation.

It looks like you lucked out that there's no activity or repositories linked to it that would break from the change.

This seems like a lot of fuss for nothing.
The problem is we are interested in lots of different levels, if you put a typical range you wont get the best people. If you put a high number out you get every nutter in town applying. As a result we dont publish a range.
The parent didn't actually say that.

They said that it should be up to them, as to whether they hire that person after a background check eg reveals something.

There are very obvious cases where it makes a lot of sense to screen people based on background checks (eg a daycare or school). Further to that point, every business operator is different and has different beliefs. One operator might be ok with hiring a previously convicted rapist. The next business owner might be a woman who was raped in the past and has a very different view on that for good reason.
My brain autocorrected it right back to what was intended on both the first and second readings :P
So called price-gouging is more of an inaction (failing to sell you the product you want at your preferred price) than an action.
I think you have a number of answers already, but saying "aside from org-mode" is throwing away too much. Many people do not leave Emacs purely because of org mode.

If you've used the Ipython notebook (i.e. Jupyter), realize that Org Mode had much of that capability before the notebook existed - and it works for many languages, as well as across languages (you can send the results of a python code block to a C++ code block). When I wanted to learn Haskell, keeping notes in Org Mode was great. I would put in a code block, and add notes on what the code would do. Any time later while reading my notes, I could interact with those code blocks and fiddle around with it to check that my understanding is correct. I then exported the file to HTML, and I now have very nicely formatted notes for Haskell (or C++, or whatever language you like).
> The fact that they are an American company doesn't matter

You are wrong. American companies are subject to American law, domestically and overseas. Moreover, there are international rules governing satellite orbits and communications. These rely on countries overseeing their satellites. That entire regulatory regime was circumvented by Swarm taking advantage of the FCC’s light-tough regulatory approach (with respect to satellites) and the Indian government’a similar trust in Swarm having gotten its paperwork in order before shipping its bird for deployment.
Seems like a stupid move? This is a pretty common pattern and we rarely ever hear of stories like this.
So they are working on an (updated?) internal blacklist of usernames IMHO. Seems annoying but not nefarious. I would shrug, take the offer, find a new username and move on.
Never mind the fact that he offered the drug for free to those in that 2000 group of people that couldn't afford it. People should read into why he really went to jail. The toxoplasmosis drug has very little to do with it and a lot of companies do the same with little repercussion.
It’s not really that difficult once you have worked on many, many different systems.
When I start a new job (on average less, and sometime much less, than every two years for the joy of all the people here that would never, ever hire me because I change jobs too much) I ask for a complete overview of the architecture in case of server side work and for the gui I just start digging in the code while waiting for the visual Studio installation.
Once I have visual studio / Idea I start immediately working on some high priority isolated work while continuing to explore how all the pieces fit together.
At this point I realise if there is something that is obscure or that I don’t understand and ask questions.
The important thing is probably to first try to understand how it works by yourself and only after some effort ask for clarifications.
Normally by the time I finish the first two-three bits of work I already have an idea of some improvement that can be done on a bigger scale to make the coding more productive (it’s easy to find, when you feel pain while implementing something it means that there is space for improvement).
At that point usually I start working on the smallest improvement that gives the biggest return in parallel while implementing the next required functionality.
At the end everyone wins.
The users will have the functionality requested because I implement it, although a bit more slowly compared to working only on that. I have the opportunity to play with the system improving it and I learn something new.
In my current job I’m quite lucky because in my role I’m dispatched to different teams that need help to deliver high priority releases. In this way I can work in different systems without changing job.
Why not grow the males to be for eating?
Interesting. What Italian word best maps to "concurrency"?
Sorry my mistake, I actually just didn't catch that you wanted the rates. All the age-brackets rates are: 18-39, $37. 40-49, $60. 50-59, $94. 60-69, $128.
> For someone called the "most hated man in America", he actually seemed like a nice person.

Not to be an ass, but many horrible people are skilled at manipulating an audience and crafting a particular persona. This man couldn't have defrauded his investors without a great degree of charisma and the ability to appear trustworthy and likable.
The fix isn't the hard part. It's the deployment and validation that can take time.

Pretty impressive.
If you’re in my management chain that’s easier said than done.
Doesn't that data go into your credit score?
This would be an interested DDOS attack for open source CI systems that check pull requests. Especially when combined with some sort of distributed network build cache like bazel, you could easily fill it the cache by making a few pull requests with this.
I hope they figure out how to productise Python properly, because these improvements on the margin while great don't really fix 30 second import times for a single library which is the current state of Python function apps. That's a Microsoft library too (pydocumentdb).
> with the potential to cause a few hundred million dollars or a few billion dollars in damage if they hit the wrong thing

I'm surprised you didn't mention how can they cause another extinction event.

They can't hit anything, these are too small and they will burn up in the atmosphere.
Chinese steel's gov't granted monopoly is apparently so efficient our private markets can't compete... a core support given there is long term capital investment horizons - which gov't monopolies can end up enabling. I'm not saying that always works out for the better, but there's something there in that if your viewpoint is long enough you can win in efficiency, be it steel in China, or Standard Oil in a largely unregulated industrial market.
> Just one of several examples why they don't owe you a reason.
Of course they don't owe me a reason; when does a corporation ever owe you a reason for most things it does? It doesn't stop us from asking for answers.

> These seems like a lot of fuss for nothing.

I wrote as much at the end of the post.
There was a recent Planet Money on the origin of the credit reporting agencies and the idea has always been to have a bidirectional flow of customer data. If a bank wants to opt out of contributing customer data they would also have no visibility into credit worthiness when making loans.
It might be the animation style, though it's not that different from Bojack Horseman, which I like a lot.

Maybe it's the pose of the characters. For example, the hand wave of the white ladybird feels unnatural, somehow.
It's probably going to be more than the US contribution of $50 billion in 1994 ($85 billion in 2018 dollars), but I think it would have to exceed $200 billion in real dollars to match the total real cost of the ISS.

https://www.space.com/9435-international-space-station-worth...

Still, at > 2 times the real original estimated cost, it's a good example of why we should go high instead of low when it comes to estimates.

I'm also curious how much it would cost to build out the same capacity via airport construction/expansion. If we're at more than double the cost running rail lines through the central valley, imagine how much building another LAX, SFO, SAN, etc... would be.
;) This seems like magic at first glance but actually, it's not too much of a leap when you know how. In fact, there's a step by step guide on how to do something similar here:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/scripting-languages-for...

Hopefully, that'll give you some clues into understanding the magic behind this!
to be more specific bitcoin mining is not driving up your GPU pricing (bitcoin has been uneconomical on GPUs for years, since the advent of dedicated purpose hashing ASICs), but it's ethereum mining and other cryptocurrencies that can still be mined on GPUs that are influencing the price.
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I like it for the electronics and hacking - like I said I've got an Amateur Extra class license and a 2x1 call sign, and I have literally NEVER keyed up - not even once.
I live a few miles from the 120th meridian in PST, and I enjoy astronomy. So let's just avoid DST completely, please. Don't know why anyone wants to live in DST all year, which is effectively just pretending you live 15 degrees to the east of where you are.

On the other hand, leap seconds can die in a fire. Let's only correct that once a century, because no one outside of astronomy cares about that level of astronomical accuracy.
Couldn't you just ask them in a somewhat nicer tone?

"Hey, you seem to keep asking me the same question in different ways. I feel like I've already provided the answer. But, you keep asking. So there must be some misunderstanding here. What is it I haven't provided you?"
>"The scientists found that the amount of air breathed out by their participants decreased more in women who regularly cleaned.

The study did not find any harmful effects comparable to those seen in women in the men they studied."

Then:

>"While the results appear dramatic, the researchers speculated chemicals in cleaning products irritate the fragile mucous membranes lining the lungs, which over time leads to lasting damage and “remodelling” of the airways."

http://www.thoracic.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/resour...
Poverty / living standards * Harshness of law & enforcement = level of misery.
I'm not sure how to feel about this. I know on the one hand that I feel communications in the US are an oligopopaly that hurts innovation and consumers. However, I'm not versed in whether satellite collision is a credible threat or merely an administrative hurdle to keep competition away from power-players.

I also assume pretty much everybody else who is so upset on this thread is also unaware of how satellites and debris are tracked nationally/internationally, so I'm confused why opinions are so black-and-white.
What will happen when more and more private organizations gain the ability to launch things into orbit? It's pretty damn intriguing but also a can of worms.
In many of the cases people think of when referring to price gouging in pharmaceuticals (such as Mylan with the EpiPen, Turing and Daraprim, or Valeant and a whole host of products) it was a positive action on behalf of the company, raising the prices by multiples. Regardless of one's feelings of whether this is legal, moral, or otherwise, calling price-gouging in these cases "more of an inaction" is a misrepresentation.
This is I suppose a quite wise choice given the preferences you have. Our insurance has lower deductible than yours ($250 for coverage period (not per instance), and lower max limit ($250k). We went with this after asking digital nomads what they would choose among a series of options. We have priced and might need to consider adding a higher max limit option though, thanks for letting us know.
So you are saying the US is the world's bully and we'd better get in line?
Me 4. Such an amazing piece of software. In some ways there's still no worthy replacement -- the lack of bullshit and the thoughtful integration of all the parts were quite remarkable.

I still remember the moment I figured out I could compare positions with if to make make an enemy follow you around the screen. I felt like a god!
We have some really cool stuff in the works in this area right now. An entirely new and revamped Python worker. Send me a DM on Twitter and happy to help (@jeffhollan)
Spree may be dead, but its successor Solidus (https://github.com/solidusio/solidus) is still seeing regular fixes and feature updates.
>but I'm not really sure I understand why a text editor would need all these things?

It doesn't. But thinking of Emacs as a text editor is like thinking of Firefox as a document displayer.

>Like, why do you want an HTTP client in your text editor when you already have wget, curl, nc, etc available in your shell?

There's a reason to prefer using these in Emacs over the shell. It is because Emacs is a better embodiment of the UNIX philosophy than the UNIX shell itself is:

>Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".

A lot of standard UNIX tools are laden with features. But well, that could be said of Emacs as well.

>Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program.

Emacs does this much better than the UNIX shell, in my experience. The level of consistency you see in the Emacs ecosystem just doesn't exist in UNIX. With UNIX, you really are feeling like you are gluing stuff together. With Emacs, it feels much more natural.
Now, I know hacker news is just full of retards from Reddit. I got down voted 4 points for posting merely that the URL-Agent is a string that can be filled with any value.

Here's a server log for proof, and down vote away, retards!

210.14.78.91 - - [09/Mar/2018:12:44:16 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 572 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 zgrab/0.x"
189.50.144.240 - - [09/Mar/2018:12:51:15 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 850 "-" "muhstik/1.0"
189.50.144.240 - - [09/Mar/2018:12:51:19 +0000] "GET /webdav HTTP/1.0" 404 1564 "-" "muhstik-scan/1.0"
172.104.164.143 - - [09/Mar/2018:13:36:14 +0000] "HEAD /.git/index HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "-" "Go-http-client/1.1"
That's a great way to get your satellites "accidentally" hit in retaliation
This is why I never clean.
Yep, clearly shows the value of a properly configured CI/CD pipeline.
The article refutes this definition of humanities and liberal arts and gives evidence to its refutations.
> India doesn't need the FCC's approval

AFAIK,
the FCC doesn't give launch approval, despite the fact that it's rules include space safety rules. OTOH, they do give permission to operate space-based commercial radio stations which are used in services operating in the US market.

India probably should apply reasonable space safety rules to avoid populating LEO with dangerous space junk, but FCC approval is orthogonal to that, and India breaking the rules isn't an issue.

> The fact that they are an American company doesn't matter. They did not violate any FCC regulations.

If they use the radios on those satellites for a service in the US, it will matter a lot. If they don't, it might not
What was the articles main point?
Isn't the logical solution to this prefixing user urls with something like /u/ or /user/? Off the top of my head I can think of reddit doing this but I suppose for github the downside of this is it would break a huge number of existing links. One of those slightly un-winnable situations unless you think of it from the start I suppose.
If you're going to leave the debate like you said you would, just do so. But don't reply to my comment with nothing but an irrelevant Wikipedia link - that's extremely dismissive. It's also intellectually insulting, because it presumes that the other party is so poorly informed that the mere mention of a dialectic phenomenon should be enough to enlighten them.

This is not whataboutism because I'm not excusing the diamond industry's behavior by distracting the conversation to irrelevant examples. Instead, I'm generalizing the diamond industry as part of a greater phenomenon to demonstrate that the problem isn't just the diamond industry, it's the way human beings are incentivized to operate with respect to status symbols in general.

Simply replying with that link tells me that you believe my points can be reduced - and similarly dismissed - simply by labeling them with whatever the term is for the (perceived) fault in the argument. That's about as constructive as saying something is an ad hominem without any effort to explain why, or to declare something is fake news without providing more information.

You're not debating in good faith. Moreover, what's the point? You must know you're not going to convince me with a low effort comment sending me to a Wikipedia page describing one of the many possible ways an argument can be fallacious. You didn't even both to explain why it applies (which, again, it doesn't). So why are you even bothering with this?
Geo-Blue has options for people with or without primary insurance. We actually just switched our company over to their more expensive plan that offers full health insurance globally.

Wouldn't most people need some kind of primary health plan, regardless, for standard healthcare visits?
He already is quite mature. The media brought him to the stage and he gave a little show. You should see one of his videos shutting down people like you who read 3 or 4 articles and formed an opinion based on that.
> It's the “right entity” because of the responsibility assigned to it by Congress.

I was not aware the US Congress has jurisdiction over the entire planet.
The US (and presumably other countries like Russia and China) has a pretty robust tracking network that keeps track of pretty much everything in orbit above a certain size. With that info and when the strike actually happened it's pretty easy to backtrack to determine the possible culprits.

http://www.stratcom.mil/Media/Factsheets/Factsheet-View/Arti...
I can see how the OP visualizes mining as wasteful. But it's easy to forget how much energy is consumed by resistive electrical heating.

Using British Columbia as an example, which until recently had very cheap electricity relative to North America as a whole, for many years a huge number of apartments, condos and houses were built with resistive electrical heating as the default option.

Laws of thermodynamics say that if a hashing ASIC isn't doing physical work, it's producing a huge amount of waste heat. The problem is that waste heat is being vented into the atmosphere rather than being used to heat offices, homes and warehouses. I know there's a few startups that have tried to produce cryptocurrency-mining waste heat appliances that can be installed in decentralized locations. Not sure how successful they have been.

If the waste heat can be used from October to April to heat offices, homes and other things that consume vast amounts of electricity via resistive heating (swimming pools, etc), it would accomplish both the function of hashing and heating.
I'm obviously talking about other satellites. Come on now.
They could even hash the number and it would STILL be more secure than storing the raw string in plaintext.
Why is a NodeJS dependency necessary? PHP can handle and route requests just fine. Modern PHP even comes with its own server.
Read this for starters: https://www.julian.com/learn/growth/intro

Unfortunately I don't think you'll be able to find shortcuts at any point, best to just start reading those books and blogs now while also making a great product. Good luck!
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