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> Ariane 6 is expected to cost €75 million for 5 tonnes to GTO and €90 million for 11.5 tonnes. Falcon 9 costs $50 million for 5.5 tonnes to GTO (reusable) and $62 million for 8.3 tonnes (expendable)

Why would someone pay €75 million to launch 5 tonnes to GTO on the Ariane 6 when they can spend $62 million and get an extra 3.3 tonnes of capacity on the Falcon 9?

Based on your numbers, Falcon 9 is $9 million and $7.5 million per tonne. Ariane 6 is €15 million and €7.8 million, respectively. Given €1 is generally worth more than $1, and that the Ariane's prices are still just projections, your numbers don't paint the Arianes favorably.

> Falcon 9's excess capacity is usually left unused

Source? It's been a few years since I was in the launch industry, but even then piggyback slots on Falcon 9s were in heavy demand. Sufficiently so that a number of companies (e.g. Spaceflight [1]) cropped up to broker them.

[1] http://spaceflight.com
Great! Both you and the guy that you are originally challenging seem to agree that facts and truth matter. I also belong to the reality-based community. So what's the problem?

I think I'll do you the favor of not addressing most of the rest of your post, which seems a little... unfocused.
This guy completely (intentionally) misses the point to mislead the reader. He does nothing to address actual concerns of organic food enthusiasts like:

1. GMO food is a monopoly owned by a couple of megacorps who claim rights on the seeds of their food and charge farmers "royalties" for growing them, even if they themselves didn't plant them. This is exploitative, ethically dubious, and the result of intense lobby by the genetic engineering industry.

2. Conventional farming usually doesn't give a damn about soil erosion, crop rotation, or any kind of sustainability beyond year-over-year profits. This creates harmful environmental externalities that organic farms have to avoid in order to get their label. While some conventional farms might TRY to do SOME things better, organic foods must do all of them in order to be certified organic.

3. GMOs homogenize crop genetics and provide a vector for a dystopian future of agroblight, where one crop affliction could cause billions of people to starve.

4. The conventional farming industry makes every attempt to lie, mislead, and control the conversation through power and influence (e.g. this exact article). They have an incentive to discredit organic foods as tin-hat woo, to hire scientists to produce whatever kind of study they want, and to inject authors into the public conversation to shape people's perception of the industry. While organic foods companies often resort to equally crappy measures (scare mongering), the end is considerably less bad than the harms of conventional farming as we know it today.
I recommend against getting job offers as a method of forcing your current employer to pay you more. If it works, then you just became a liability and at the next convenient opportunity you will be first out the door.

Go find a new job when you're ready to leave, then leave.
Tariffs lead to market inefficiency and failures. I’m only voicing statistical likelihood. People also largely vote based on the economy - which is itself its own falsehood, but beside the point.

The thing I would like to see is Trump, the extremist right wing, and Russian influence driven from power.

Unfortunately, this guy is also the slippery character that always chickens out before he meets his fate. Someone will eventually convince him tariffs will push him out of power and he’ll reneg. He is the pathological case that leads the self balancing system to destruction.
The JS garbage collector would be unlikely to work for Go since Go allows pointers into the middle of an object and JS doesn't.
All I know is that the last time I installed Windows 10, I still had to edit the registry for it to find DejaVu Sans Mono.

If that has changed recently, that's fantastic!
1. Data points. Data points. Data points. Go through and document, line by line, what you have done this year. Translate each line item into approximate value created for the company, whether in dollars or resources freed up. Chances are your manager will need to get any bump or promotion cleared with the powers above him, so make it easy by providing as much data as possible.

2. Make a sort of mental script that goes over the data points from item 1 and why all those make you worth what you are seeking. Practice it. Not only will it help you articulate your ideas more clearly, it will also help calm you down a bit. Salary discussions and negotiations can be intimidating.

3. Have a vision for what you can continue to add to the company, after you have received the raise/promotion you are seeking. Is there a specific project you can lead, team members you can mentor, etc. Demonstrate that you have a vision for yourself in the future at the company, to go with (hopefully) a strong list of achievements that have already added value.
Ensemble: Tame your Composer packages
Updating is easy, the tooling built around OSM takes care of all of it.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim is an OK geocoder, definitely worth trying out at least. Though the pay services will definitely be better.
Wall St rises as Microsoft gains, lifts tech stocks
Lockheed 3D printing titanium space parts using garage sized printer
Ideally, go and interview at other companies, get an idea of the market, you may even unintentionally find something you're interested in.
Not really? Almost everything (except V8 support and some experiments and a few minor (by code size) exceptions) regarding WASM is written in Rust, there are libraries like yew[0], Rust compiler has excellent support... And I'm not really sure what does it have to do with embedability, because Rust shouldn't restrict anything; at the same time, you don't really embed JVM into Python most of the time, rather the other way around.

[0] https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew
I hope not.

The subset of native (for example, x86) assembly that is equivalent to webassembly is already perfectly secure. You just limit the native assembly to pure computations without any system calls. It will also always be significantly faster than webassembly. When it comes to the security of system calls, then both webassembly and native assembly needs to make sure that whatever platform-calls that are available are secure. webassembly have no benefits over native assembly when it comes to this.

Also, I doubt that it will gain as much popularity as some people predict. asm.js (the "original" webassembly) has been available for quite a long time already (and the technology behind it have existed for very very long), and if it were going to create a flood of developers targeting it instead of using javascript, then I think it would have happened by now. Inertia when it comes to development tools should not be underestimated and I doubt that all of the web developers who have invested in becoming javascript "experts" want to see the ecosystem change and see all of their "experience" and "expertise" become worthless.
Sure, and H2S poisoning is rather diabolical. In that exposure nukes odor receptors quickly, so victims don't realize that they're receiving fatal doses.
I wish this was open source.
Except that was exactly one of the goals of the CLR, hence Managed C++, followed by C++/CLI.

Microsoft's original plan for CLR was to replace the complete Windows stack with .NET, they just failed to do, because not only they had to deal with technical issues, there were the internal wars from WinDev making sure that would never happen, hence the Longhorn failure, followed by the same ideas reborned as COM on Vista, rebooted as WinRT/UAP/UWP a couple of years later.

Microsoft even had something like LLVM, done on top of the CLR, called Phoenix. It just never came out of MSR into production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(compiler_framework)

https://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/Phoenix-Compiler-Framewor...

Also, GraalVM will happily consume LLVM bitcode.
> In reality, a business can't always afford to hire someone at the minimum wage.

The needs of business do not supercede the needs of human beings. If a business cannot operate without virtual slave labor, the business should not exist.

> Your "argument" is just a caricatured strawman that has no basis in reality.

As is yours. Businesses regularly have costs which they cannot turn a profit on, but the work must be done, so it gets done.
Don’t they also fund unemployment benefits with payroll taxes? In that case, Uber drivers will have to pay at least one side of those, if not both like they do with SS and Medicare deductions.
Ask for more responsibility. Put your manager on the spot and get them to tell you how you can take the next step in your career. But you need to be ready to actually do it. Just asking for more than a cost-of-living bump for no particular reason is not likely to get you much unless you are underpaid significantly (from HR's perspective) for the position you are in.
Does anyone know why they are building it in a seemingly less populated/ prosperous province?
Why would you want to be paid fairly? Aim to get paid what you want - not what some group of people decide is "fair". If you don't get what you want, that's not the end of the world, just gives you goals to strive for.
I don't believe it is accurate to say that nothing happened in the Sony case. They were sued by state governments, the FTC, and faced class action lawsuits. They also incurred the cost of recalling the affected CDs.
"The stinking reddish liquid turned out to be sewage that penetrated the sarcophagus through a small crack and completely flooded it from the inside."

http://earth-chronicles.com/science/the-first-details-of-the...
The American surveillance state feeds a global assassination and propaganda program, and seeks total information domination.

The Chinese program is about homeland security and domestic stability.

I am completely and entirely correct.
I think you're mixing up concepts. Discrimination is not required for constructive dismissal. A 35% wage cut is de-factor "you're fired, but we'll re-hire you at this lower rate" and is likely to make you eligible for unemployment as a result, as it's clearly a substantial modification to the employment contract between the two parties.
Isn't it strange how the probabilistic motivation of Occam's razor loses its foundation when applied to a Theory of Everything? Simple is beautiful, that's all I've got.
Lol that the hero quote is just by the founder
You should look at TCP over DNS. It has some uses.

Now SQL over DNS TXT values, that would be nice!
> The intent is not to add generics to Go at this time, but rather to show people what a complete proposal would look like.

Yeah, that's there specifically to be pointed to for all the people that say "generics would be easy to add to the language, just do it"
> I don't want to eat food that has been sprayed with chemicals over and over again to kill the various predators to that plant.

That would be a good reason to consider conventional. Both organic and conventional farms use pesticides. But, by restricting themselves to only pesticides that a program within the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has deemed are sufficiently "natural" (not safe, not effective, not environmentally friendly, just natural), they're often limited to using chemicals that are less specific, don't break down as well, or rinse off more easily than the best available options.

Less specific means they're more capable of harming you (and wildlife in general) instead of just the target species. Breaking down less well means they're more likely to remain in the food. And rinsing away more easily means that they're more likely to pollute the soil and groundwater, and also that they may need more frequent application.

The crux of the problem is, the basic idea behind organic standards tacitly bans engineering. And by banning engineering, you ban all engineering, including engineering things to be safer, cleaner, or more effective.

I don't want to get into whether our current standards governing the safety of agrichemicals are perfect or not. What I want to suggest is that the USDA Organic program doesn't effectively improve on that situation. Conventional and organic products both have to meet the same bottom line. By introducing an additional restriction that has nothing to do with safety, though, organic farming hasn't self-imposed a higher minimum standard. It's unnecessarily self-imposed a lower maximum standard.
That is correct. I’ve recently had a chat with a friend who used to be a manager, and according to him managers are very well aware that people do that. You may end up getting flagged for it.
That is not a dumb question at all. Running your own servers gives you control over your DNS, your cache and where it is directed upstream.
It's a distinct category of human powered vehicle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile
I'm hesitant to look at this a problem of "either answer the question verbally" OR "document the solution for later reference" because people and teams have the capability to discuss problems face-to-face, distill that answer and create documentation based on that collaboration at a later time or date-like during a sprint review.

In fact, I think many in this profession do exactly that: issue is brought up, solutions are discussed either via chat or ad hoc, a solution is found, and documentation is created around those discussions.

Nor do I think this is an issue of asking the same questions repeatedly when it could have been answered once.

What is presented here is a simple enough scenario where someone asks for help, and I do what is in my means to render aid. Adding additional variables or considerations to the equation that weren't proffered as elements of the initial problem isn't an entirely helpful tactic to the discussion.
> Part-time retail workers pledge their loyalty to Walmart from 9-13 and to Best Buy from 18-22.

It's extremely common to not have fixed shifts. You ask for hours, and you get what you get. It's really not that different from accepting individual driving jobs.
Hacker News has assured me repeatedly that this is an imaginary technology that cannot possibly work, so I assume this must be fake news.
We need a new model for tech journalism
I am using more or less the instructions from switch2osm https://switch2osm.org/manually-building-a-tile-server-18-04... however for a Centos 7 server (we use Centos in my organization).

This results in having a tile server that generates & serves raster tiles using:

* carto to generate a proper stylesheet

* mapnik to create the tiles

* apache with the mod_tile module to serve the tiles

* renderd to be used as a bridge between apache/mod_tile and mapnik

* Postgres/PostGIS as a database to host the data

The actual data is an OpenStreetMap pbf file downloaded from http://download.geofabrik.de/ which is inserted to the database through osm2pgsql.

The above are used for the raster tile server only.

In addition to this, I am using geoserver (http://geoserver.org/) which is a Java web app (runs in tomcat) that is used to view/edit and (mainly) serve geospatial data. What I usually do is that when I need to display a new shape (shp) file I use shp2pgsql to insert it to a table in my PostGIS database (using something like this shp2pgsql -s SRID SHAPEFILE.shp SCHEMA.TABLE | psql -h HOST -d DATABASE -U USER) also another good tool is ogr2ogr which can convert between various formats (it also supports kml, for example ogr2ogr -f "PGDump" koko.sql test.kml).

After the shp file is inserted to the database, I can create a datasource for this dataset from GeoServer and publish this dataset to the web (i.e the dataset will have a URL of the form http://1.2.3.4:8080/geoserver/Dataset/wms); it can then be consumed by client applications (in javascipt) using leaflet or openlayers. Notice that GeoServer can easily publish various file formats for example an SHP directly (you don't need to insert it to the PostGIS; this is something I do for better control of my datasources).

PostGIS is the component that supports the vector tiles (http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/extensions/vectorti...) so I want to integrate it the OpenStreetMap data that is hosted in my PostGIS (which is used for the raster tiles); I haven't found the time yet though.

I think it's a great setup and it works great for the needs of the organization I work for; actually, I like it so much that I want (for a long time) to write a rather comprehensive tutorial on how to set ip up along with some notes on how to do various PostGIS things but I don't know when (and if) I'll find the time for something so large :/
Paywall work-around: https://t.co/jZyOpZbbtD
"Parking garages are much superior to flat parking lots, especially if you put them underground, underneath the buildings in question. Keep the eyesores hidden."

Indeed. A lot of this sort of infrastructure can and should be built below-ground. Parking garages, warehouses/storage, utilities, the works.

"Going further, it would be beneficial to abolish megastores and return to more human-sized retail outlets."

Not sure if I follow. Megastores are nice as one-stop shops, reducing the need to drive around town to get everything.

I am in favor of making them more modularized/sectionalized, such that they can be rearranged vertically (whether above-ground or below-ground) and reduce the horizontal footprint. Their similarly-sprawling parking lots also can and should be replaced with underground parking garages.
No, they definitely marketed it as a lifestyle, i.e. having no boss, working whenever you want and wherever you want, etc. etc. Go watch some of their earlier (or even current) commercials.
geo-indexing is different from geo-sharding, search indexes normally have geo-indexing, but it is still one big index handles every single search. The alternative(geohash) is mentioned in article, which has high distortion around earth poles.
"However, many consumers believe that the Organic label means ... This is not true."

He is correctly stating that consumers erroneously believe the label means. But the sentence is brilliantly constructed that the final words left me with the sense that it is a statement about organic food, not consumer's misunderstanding of the label:

"... the food has superior nutrition and is safer, especially in regard to pesticide residues. This is not true."
1. Have you defined your value statement? What qualities you bring to the table, and what you have developed over the previous year that make you more impactful and invaluable at your current company. That is your starting point for discussing a raise.

2. Determine what would make you feel good (i.e., a what salary increase would make you feel short changed and resentful, and what would make you feel good and valued and fairly compensated). Take that number and use that as your baseline.

If what comes in is under that threshold (at which you feel fairly compensated), you can discuss the raise again with the manager and how you feel it doesn't reflect your increased value. If this does not bring your salary to the lower end of your fair-compensation threshold, it's time to look for a new job. Otherwise, unless you're able to not let it bother you too much (I can't do this), resentment builds and it's best to look for an exit.
To me this is a major reason why the reusable launchers were not developed in Europe. The concept was being studied but never gained traction.

One of the reason might have been vanity but if you look at it with the view point of a CEO from a European firm, reusability was a risky gamble:

1) In order to keep your manufacturing quality, one needs to produce a new rocket every two or three months. Beyond that, the people manufacturing it losses knowledge and unless quality assurance is increased a lot, you will losses quality.

2) EU was doing around 12 launches a year, and that was by being very cheap. You could plan on increasing the market share but that starts being difficult as a lot of what remains cannot use a European launcher for political reasons.

3) For the sake of the argument, let say cheaper price double the market share, that leaves 24 launches a year. Based on a manufacturing of 6 launchers a year, this leaves 4 launches per rocket. And that is with very optimistic numbers (doubling of marketshare, no issue with reusability).

4) If you look at the numbers from SpaceX, 4 launches per rocket is where the reusability starts making sense. But ideally, you want more.
5) The Airbus people have shareholders to account to, not a CEO who does not care risking going banqueroute while pursuing a dream to go on Mars.

So yeah, doable but much more difficult than in a market with better access to investment and to huge cash cows named NASA and DoD
Faire enough, it just looks quite different when going into local consumer shops and what is available to buy on premises.

So I wonder where they are being bought from, is everyone getting them from Amazon?!
> http://www.chinedufn.com/dual-quaternion-shader-explained/

Offset curve deformations blow dual quaternion's out of the water for rigging!
Applicants can be denied unemployment benefits if the reason for their unemployment is their fault, such as not showing up to work, poor work performance, tardiness, resignation, etc. Employers' unemployment premiums rise in proportion to the number of former employees they have that qualify for unemployment benefits.

Hence why it's important for employers to document the reasons for terminating someone, as it will result in more people being denied for unemployment insurance (if it was their fault) and employer saves money on their premiums.
Pesticide industry shill has "an ethical problem" with eating organic due to the tactics used by that industry. Is this satire?
Less edge cases mean it's less likely to break if we discover a new particle or something else unexpected
You will never see Western journalists go after their own surveillance state even though it is far more extensive and aggressive than China. What's really strange is they accuse China of doing things like exporting compromised telcom equipment -- things that we now know that the NSA actually does. (See eg NSA interception of outbound Cisco routers.) Given this very particular blindspot you really do have to wonder who they think they're fooling.
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we just launched im 21 and would love your feedback.

im hapy to answer any questions about starting an e-commerce or your own product
For more brain melting, here's a roadmap for learning React in 2018, React and associated tech is what, 20 years old?

Here's what that looks like: https://github.com/adam-golab/react-developer-roadmap

Then consider maths, how long and how many people have been contributing to that field?
This is good advice.

Also, never let people who pay you tell you what is fair. You only talk about what you think you're worth, and what they are willing to pay -- if there's overlap then great, otherwise no cigar.

And final point to OP of thread

> How can I come up with what is a fair raise?

You search inside your soul and find a number that below which you'll feel bad (resentful/undervalued/cheated/etc) and above which you'll feel good (well-compensated/proud/valued/etc). That is the number you aim for
It looks like you completely missed the point of non-governmental entities abiding by the principle of free speech:

> Free speech relates to the government punishing or silencing people for what they say.

Versus:

> Free speech is a concept relating to the ability to articulate and express an opinion without fear of censorship or retaliation.
I always think it might have turned out better if the US hadn't tried to land a man on the moon. Instead if the goal had been to place a space station in permanent orbit around the moon. The USSR would have also been capable of this (even using Soyuz technology), leading to a permanent manned presence from both sides, and inevitable incremental development of the technology to keep people there.