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Most US government agencies don't have discretionary money to spend. That means that you can have the greatest idea in the world, and still may not be able to find a buyer.

Selling to the government usually entails one of three things:

1) You can sell a commodity by being a registered vendor, e.g. through the GSA. GSA registered vendors have usually agreed to prices up front, which eliminates some of the red tape. But this doesn't seem to match your situation.

2) You can find an announced opportunity. In other words, the government is telling you that it wants something. You can then write a proposal to sell it that thing. These opportunities are normally advertised in FedBizOps. They are openly competed. The catch here is that you have to be able to provide what the government tells you it wants. You can't tell it what it should buy.

3) You can respond to a SBIR, BAA, or other R&D award announcement, for instance from NASA, the NIH, the CDC, etc. This seems to fit your situation most closely. However, as with #2, these announcements are generally tailored; they are intended to produce a final product or prototype, which performs some function that the agency already wants. If they don't want what you have, you're out of luck. But unlike FedBizOps announcements, they are often more open-ended, and hence more suited to new ideas or technologies.

You can also play the long game: develop some neat tech, and then try to build support for it within government, which then leads to an opportunity like #2 or #3. This entails a lot of behind-the-scenes politicking, which is what (for instance) large defense contractors are good at. It may entail lobbying Congress, or getting your tech in front of generals, admirals, or senior agency management, and then being able to wait a few years until the next appropriation cycle (or two or three) rolls around. For obvious reasons, this is difficult for startups and small businesses to pull off, especially if you don't already have personal connections to the agency you are selling to. Successful small businesses that sell to government are often started by people who have these ties already in place when they start.
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SVGs can contain JavaScript, so this proposal opens up quite a number of possibilities :)
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It is; then the following day the opposite is news.

(Just like the affect of dark chocolate/red wine on cancer risk.)
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I think the issue there is risk. Specifically, what is the likelihood of success if I attempt to migrate / change / remove X system?

I can't understate the complexity and intricacies. Imagine legally defining all possible medical transactions, then writing software thats compatible with those legal agreements, then running it, changing the agreements, and adding features over 50 years. While the systems being interacted with also mutate.

And all of this being done haphazardly and uniquely because there's no one in control of the entire process (Medic-are/aid aside).

I'm hard pressed to think of a messier computing system in aggregate. I'd guess even the financial system is more rigidly defined, has fewer players, and doesn't have to map with as high fidelity to real life.

ACA provided a fair number of incentives and penalties, re: actual vs industry standard overhead. And it caused change, but there were a lot of failures.
The Fermi paradox does require colonization. Part of the assumption is exponential growth because you're colonizing every star system within X light years and then building up civilization to the point where it can send out another set of colonizers to everything within X light years of that.

The point was that the galaxy should be filled with whomever figured out how to colonize distant star systems, even if it takes a 10,000 years for a colony world to get to the point where it can send out the next wave of interstellar colonizers, that's a drop in the bucket for a galaxy that is billions of years old.
It just takes one weirdo civilization that decides to put up Ozymandias-style monuments to themselves everywhere- they don't even need to do it themselves. They can fire off a few Von Neumann probes and let them do the work to carve Mount Rushmores into every rocky body they can find.

It's not much weirder than things humans get up to, and if spacefaring civilizations that can build such probes are common at all (even if short-lived), you might expect at least one of them to have initiated such a project and been successful enough to have built a giant "we wuz here" radioactive pyramid on the moon. Evidently, none of them did- and depending on how many there were, this is either unsurprising or deeply unlikely.
The difference these days is that with the death of Dennard scaling and Moore's law there's a place now for customized hardware. You really can beat Intel and even NVidia now for specialized workloads with FPGAs. Of course you'd be even better with an ASIC which is why we're leaning that way.
I've submitted an application but I do have a question:

If I were to change gears (Say, go from one business idea to another), should I re-apply with the different idea?
No, no one cares about those HW problems. To break RSA keys you need 0 error correction. You only need >2000 entangled qbits, and they either produce a correct result or not.

For other calculations you might need error correction, but this leads to nowhere with current technology.
What the Chinese did was groundbreaking.
That GIF is incredibly misleading. It's not about hiding the app from home screen, it's about uninstalling it and not having it run in the background.
Could you provide a link?

What if the people who slept less happened to be from the working class who lead a more active life? And the ones who slept 8-9 were those of an older age group who might not be taking care of their lifestyle.
Assuming success. Which has a pretty atrocious probability from what I saw (see above reply).
To me the Fermi Paradox isn't really a paradox it is framework for thinking about the problem. This research fits into that framework and provides an interesting new argument that the great filter is more likely to be in our past rather than our future.
Seems like a shrewd move to me, bringing this "in-house" just like they added their own image hosting to replace Imgur. A bunch of the more focused subreddits now have "join our IRC/Slack/Discord" instructions, and Reddit would really rather those users stay in their sphere instead of heading off to a competitor product.
I'm not sure time-to-change is all that relevant; it didn't take 100 years for the eggplant emoji to come to mean "penis"
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My point: the consumers are powerless. Whether doctors are individually powerful or only powerful as a member of an organization is entirely tangential, except in that the consumer is even less powerful in the second case.

EDIT: I now have two people providing evidence that actually reinforces my core point in order to argue with me about a synechdoche. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
> of bill I get hit with for having a cup of coffee with them. So, I'd like to believe that at some point, given the current environment in which people are paying for insurance but can't afford to go to the doctor, that we'll see providers realize they are losing out on revenue opportunities by not actually serving their customers.

The customers from which the providers drive revenue are the ones who can afford to go to the doctor. The ones who can't (even if they pay for insurance) are ones providers wouldn't be getting revenue by serving.
Next up: changing the words in the Declaration of Independence from "Indian Savages" to "Native Americans".

Of course, people have already rewritten "Huck Finn" to remove the word that I dare not even type.
In general, software design/development is a completely different set of skills then sysadmin/devops.

They do overlap when you need to actually deploy your app.
Some apps can't be disabled. The t-mobile application for instance.
> time spent practicing is the just about the only factor that counts for behavioural therapies

When using age as the predictor I'd imagine time spent practicing is the latent metric actually being measured. You can't have 10 years of experience at age 25. That said it seems silly to use age when time spent practicing is a readily observable value.
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That's a pretty different phenomenon that probably usually occurs much more slowly and not at the whim of a small number of powerful people/organizations.
Also European consumer protection laws make it very hard to enforce binding arbitration clauses in contracts.
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I take it this only works for web dev? Might want to specify that.
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But how do we know which base number system they're using!?
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If you're interested in cross origin information leaks and defenses against them (including Cross Origin Read Blocking), I highly recommend this short 7 page summary by Artur Janc and Mike West from Google:

https://www.arturjanc.com/cross-origin-infoleaks.pdf
Because the most worrisome injuries would have been psychological.
This is specific to the field of public health software:

Step 1: Figure out what group might want to pay money for this.

In this case, options might be orgs like the UN in Geneva, CDC in Atlanta, NGOs in Washington DC, people give give money to NGOs on the US West Coast, or specific NGOs supporting the region most affected by the disease in question.

Research, funding and staff organization tends to follow specific diseases. So you need to learn about the world of the disease you are targeting. You need to find out who cares about eradicating that disease and talk to them directly.

2. Figure out if any of those groups actually have money to give you for this work

NGOs are involved in thousands of these kinds of projects, from tiny one-off research projects to larger co-ordinated efforts. You need to meet some of the actual people working in this area, see what the state of the art is, see who is funding research, etc. Some diseases get tons of funding (Polio, HIV, etc) and some get almost none.

3. Convince one of these groups that you have the expertise to solve the problem. Your public health background could help here.

This can be done best by first building contacts and convincing someone let you do a proof-of-concept. But this is going to be hard if you have few contacts or in the field already.

Conferences about the specific disease you want to target can be a good way to network. Talk to the people who pay the research bills. They go to tons of these conferences.

4. Failing that, join or work with a small consulting group that already has existing contracts with NGOs/Government and is looking to expand into a new area

This is a great option and probably your best bet. Many of these consulting companies are really small and work on personal trust. But it still requires finding out who does work in the field and making some contacts.

5. After all this, see if any of these groups are even able to budget for this work

You'll quickly learn some hard truths of public health software:

* Most of the problems are organizational (not technical) and not easy to solve

* People are really busy and change jobs frequently. Turnover (due to unstable funding, etc) is a big problem.

* The world is overflowing with prototype solutions that half work and no one remembers they exist or how to use them.

* Solutions that work great on your computer might fail completely in the field running on a 486 with a radio internet connection.

You might find out that a solution like you imagine already exists and just needs someone to come in and help run it or improve it. Maybe that's a quicker way to help.
the very notable difference is that when you make software for a company, you're creating something thats supposed to be used by other people and getting paid in return. if you sell someone a crappy homemade mattress, and charge them 4 weeks at $80/hr, you've basically committed fraud.

if I make a mattress, or a mug, or a shirt, or a skateboard for my own use and it turns out badly - i've learned something and probably enjoyed myself.
Things developers “love” hearing from non-technical managers
If instead of a circular orbit you just went for an arc with a really high apoapsis you could probably burn a little fuel to reduce the forward momentum to zero, and then proceed to slowly plummet back to earth... which then means you need a really big heat shield as that gravitational potential energy turns back into kinetic and you smack into the atmosphere at a ridiculous velocity. Scratch that, too much Kerbal.
As a provider, if you do this you're putting yourself at massive risk. A patient could at any point (maybe you annoyed them that day) decide to request reimbursement from their insurance for your past sessions with them. That would probably trigger an audit, and could get you kicked off the insurance panel — and worse, be on the hook to pay back the insurance company for every cash payment you took that should have been covered.
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A Dyson swarm essentially attempts to completely surround a star with solar panels. Infrared wavelengths would then be uncontrollably radiated out into space by the overheating solar panels.
The only thing a copycat needs is that manufacturers be allowed to install it as the default app store, without ruining their relation with Google.

Once that happens, copy cats will pay manufacturers to preinstall, leading to customers, leading to developers who want to tap that still uncrowded market. And once multiple app stores bootstrap, a price war is inevitable - margins of 30% would be undefendable since they would be passed on to the consumer who would switch to a cheaper app store.

It's very clear why Google would want to prevent such a race.
My company ran into this time and again, trying to get our browser pre-installed by the manufacturer only to loose the deal last minute as Google would threaten to withhold device certification if there is a different browser pre-installed (beside Google Chrome).

Google is a big bully and if you try to compete with them in an area they care about, they will use their market dominance to keep your product out. They have been deserving that fine for a long time.
I'm with you. Inventing emoji has gone way beyond the charter of the Unicode Consortium.

One ginormous problem of inventing and adding emoji is there is no credible end to the process. The numeric range of code points will be filled up and then what?
One of the best binary analysis I've read. However, I stopped after "Inserting NOP instructions".
This may be being handled off to us. I just got appts for both a nutritionists and a sleep specialist, and the clinics explicitly asked ME to find out if it is covered, mumbling something about the particular insurer (blue shield of AL) requiring it
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> - Finland has 45 firearms per 100 people (3rd highest in the world) yet is was ranked the safest country in the world.

I wonder what the ratio between hunting and handguns are...
Try out / read about biphasic sleep schedule. It relies on the fact that not all stages of sleep are equally resting to our bodies. And by taking multiple naps, you are likely to increase the duration of the "better" stages of your sleep. This allows you to be equally / more rested using lesser number of hours.

Note: This may not be good for you if you are NOT able to maintain the schedule so do keep that in mind!
Spent my college years and early 20's in Seattle helping throw parties at a variety of underground/DIY-ish venues (including ETG, two other loft spaces down Pike/Pine from ETG, and The Monkey Loft back when it was literally Brian's loft with his bedroom in it before he remodeled it and turned it into a licensed space). There's definitely a stark difference in vibe compared to larger and/or legal venues, and even a noticeable contrast between The Monkey Loft's early years vs. it's legal years.

Something about those spaces feel more organic, more raw, more unfiltered. Everyone is more connected, the artists seem to have a much better time, the crowds are often more diverse and you'll hardly ever see someone staring into their phones taking videos. That doesn't mean that good shows don't exist in larger or legitimate venues, just that I'm often very discerning with which large venues I'm willing to go to.

/shrug
>Goldstein, Natalie (2009). Global Warming. Infobase Publishing. p. 53. "The last time acidification on this scale occurred (about 65 mya) it took more than 2 million years for corals and other marine organisms to recover; some scientists today believe, optimistically, that it could take tens of thousands of years for the ocean to regain the chemistry it had in preindustrial times."

In my opinion, this is the greatest threat to humanity of continuing to pump CO2 into the atmosphere.
In my experience even saying "here's a solution you've been considering to a problem that is a priority, just not your current top one" still gets you basically nowhere.
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You should google how language has always been affected and mutated by capitalism. You'd cry so hard you'd use enough kleenex to fill a dumpster. You might even have to take a break and go play frisbee or ping-pong or spend some time in a jacuzzi.
I just wonder if there's any chorded keyboard implemented as a smartphone bump case (with 4 buttons on the one side and one for the thumb on the other side, but maybe some other layout), so user can grip it with their hand and use for input.

Should be painful to learn (obviously), but then should beat on-screen keyboards because it won't require tapping (and even looking) at the screen at all.
Thanks for the technical feedback. If you have any content feedback, I'd like to hear that too.
> Nit pick: The point of the ride isn't to get 0 gravity.

Yeah, not to mention that this is actually an impossible goal. And if it's the weightlessness sensation you are after, just get a new vomit comet. You need an airplane for that, not a rocket.

> IT IS TO GO TO SPACE!

Yeah, you need a rocket for that. A very small one. Oh, you mean to stay in space? Yeah, now you need a pretty big one.
> Seems like someone at the Unicode Consortium accidentally downloaded a "free smiley pack" malware from the 2000's.

A 'free smiley pack' actually kinda describes where it came from. It was the standardization of symbols used by Japanese text networks. It's basically like if the ubiquitous vBulletin smilies had been standardized.

I don't think it can be deprecated, but it should probably follow the same rules as other Unicode symbols. It's bizarre how easily emojis are added to the standard in comparison to other symbols. Especially when there are serious problems with differing implementations of the standard.
Will we be able to report errors using the upcoming report-to header?
I didn't see a report mechanism listed, but like with hpkp and cors I would like those errors to.be reporteable
Zero competition?

OS/2, Linux, Apple, BeOS, etc.

Stifling innovation? How? The "web space" didnt even really exist.
This was more profound for me than the whole emoji issue:

“What the tech industry can’t obfuscate behind algorithms is often relegated to some form of infantilization, in which a distinct work-life balance has been replaced by free food, ping pong, and services that do your laundry or drive you to work. This puerility is internalized so profoundly that it extends to corporate hierarchies and the way essential tasks are discussed. Software engineers are often colloquially referred to as “rock stars” or “ninjas” in job postings, and childish jargon is pervasive.”
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I think the biggest driver of healthcare costs is the middle-men. All of the people who pad the bill, add fees, etc. The doctors who step into the O.R. for a minute and charge a fee[0]. They all add to feeding at the trough, so to speak..

[0]. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-sur...
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All aliens have ten fingers, duh!
This is immensely helpful, thank you!
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It helps if you know 14 nm fabrication isn't really 14 nm. The biggest culprits are electrolytic capacitors and the lipo batteries but the batteries are far away and the other components are cooled by the air headed into the fan so neither will actually reach anywhere near the temperature of the CPUs. Apple also doesn't skimp on components like this especially when it's a core and obvious part of optimizing for noise so I wouldn't expect it to have an appreciable impact on the lifespan of the device.
I'm sure this is very common, but note that there are well-documented cases of gleeful-hand-rubbing[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
Seems dubious. I mean, yes, we should try and maintain energy independence. I don't think we need coal for that.

Nor do I think we should necessarily just flat out drop coal. If there are avenues it makes sense to use, we should do so. However, it is a remarkably bad industry for all but the owners.
That was true about seven to ten years ago.
Thanks will give this a try
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Genuine question: what is the difference? In both cases you are just falling. Is the difference just an effect of atmospheric turbulence?
> My point: the consumers are powerless.

Yes, but that's a far cry from saying the doctors are powerful. They're not. They're powerless too.

> Whether doctors are individually powerful or only powerful as a member of an organization is entirely tangential.

Doctors are neither powerful as individuals nor as members of any organization. Despite common misconception, they have almost as little power as patients do.
I sell $1m+ pieces of equipment into large companies, not governments and the key is to network throughout the company and build a coalition of interested people for your product. For example, at one company I've worked with - I've spent loads of time talking to people with similar positions at each site they have and have run loads of demos for each of the groups.

Each of the groups pushes the need up to their local management, and the local management talks to corporate. A key factor in our success has been getting corporate to hear a similar message from multiple sites asking for our equipment.

It takes a really long time to make anything happen - often on the order of 2-3yr.
That is an awesome comic.
Yeah, such a tragedy for all those native emoji speakers
Thank you for mentioning that, it turns out that I do the exact same thing. It's true that if you look at tutorials online the hand position for the left hand is pretty insane to me: https://skambo.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Touch-Typing....

Do people actually type like that? My hand ends up in a very awkward position if I try to hit X (in qwerty, Q in dvorak) with my ring finger while it's trivial with my middle finger. Actually it's pretty funny because in the illustration above it does look like the hands are sprouting from somebody's chest!
Although not part of it, I remember the QE2 and had friends who were into the scene at the time. Punk, hardcore, and combat boots. Looking back, I missed out.