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But it is human nature to speculate, to have an opinion no matter how unfounded.

Personally, I think the chance of encountering another civilization is exactly [0,1]. Pending data to adjust that range.
> Markets serve the person with bargaining power. If doctors and drug companies have all the bargaining power -- and in the most important health care situations, they do -- why do you think a free-er market will give you a better deal?

Contrary to popular opinion, doctors have close to zero bargaining power in the US. That's why private practices have been rapidly shutting their doors over the last 10-15 years - they've been losing money, so they've had to sell their practices to large provider networks. But even those hospital networks don't have much bargaining power, which is why many of those have been going out of business and either shutting their doors or consolidating in the last 5-10 years.
Google provides a very limited set of tools for it, really only meant for devs of devices.

By your line of reasoning Google has apps that don't work when rooted, so therefore they shouldn't allow it at all.

And i'm not contradicting or refuting myself, there are (oversimplified) 2 system partitions on Android when setup this way. It's a tradeoff they made and you can read more about the pros and cons at [0].

This is getting a bit aggressive for my tastes so this is probably my last reply, but the point i was trying to make is that most of android is designed around the fact that /system is read only and doesn't change (which is also a nice security buffer), and /data is where all user data sits, and to "factory reset" they wipe /data and nothing else.

It's absolutely a trade off to have /system do double duty like that, but one that I think most people are more than happy with as the most common complaint about the system is that people can't delete "system" apps entirely. And creating a 3rd copy of those apps on /recovery so they could be deleted from /system and /user isn't really "solving" the problem, just moving it back a little, while using up a LOT more space on the user's device.

[0] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/ota/ab/ab_faqs
I enjoy watching thunderfoot's debunking videos on similar 'fake' tech, like the self-filling water bottle campaign, solar effin roadways, and of course hyperloop.
> Try it sometime for at least a month.

I choose life.
>> Emoji is a trash writing system

> No more trash than any other.

This isn't accurate. Writing systems excluding emoji are used to communicate linguistically. Emoji are not a linguistic phenomenon; they have semantics, but they have no syntax or pronunciation. That's why there's so much anxiety about the image a recipient sees matching the image you sent -- nobody cares if they send a message in one font and the recipient views it in a different font, because there is agreement on what an A is, what an f is, etc.

Compare the traditional Chinese character for "come", 來. This is a picture of a stalk of wheat, but people wanted to talk about coming, and they borrowed a word that sounded the same so they could write it down. "Wheat" was originally written this way too, but the concept of coming was so common that "wheat" was driven to a different character, 麥. This all works because the characters are being used to write a language rather than to free-associate based on some pictures which have no specified relationship to each other or anything else. Emoji do not fit in Unicode because they are not part of a writing system. They're a hack for sending image data without having to send the full image over the wire.

All languages are completely dependent on a set of words that have no semantic value at all, like the English word "of". Emoji do not support these, and if they did, they wouldn't be emoji.
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I actually have a girlfriend who got to enjoy various stages of the in-progress mattress, but we'll keep that in mind!
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>If Google "stopped licensing Android", most OEMs would fork it at least initiating.

Every OEM release of Android is forked so your statement doesn't make sense.

>Additionally, if Google were to move solely into the Pixel space, it would fail, overtaken by Samsung and other OEMs which know how to run a hardware business.

Google doesn't need to confine their OS to just Pixel devices. They can also work with any OEM that wants to ship the Google version of Android and GMS - (Nokia, Motorola, etc). Given a choice, consumers would easily choose a phone running Android with GMS over any other non iOS device. Furthermore, Google could also close source Android and not continue to give Samsung a free OS to cake their services on. The decline of Samsung as they scramble to make Tizen their only smartphone OS would be entertaining to watch.

>And without the big Android bully in the picture, it's likely new Linux-based OSes would find a place to flourish.

Yes, just like all of those desktop Linux distributions have flourished.

>You are forgetting there are dozens of manufacturers who all have large mobile phone businesses

You mean the same ones that can't write operating systems or secure their devices?
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And that's partly my point.

Does the doctor want to kill you? No, he or she wants to heal you and be paid well.

Does the claims analyst at the insurance company want customers to die? No, he or she wants to pay as little as possible while keeping you healthy.

And yet when both of these players are placed in the system we've constructed, the strictly dominating, logical strategies for both are sociopathic. And so they adjust their behavior in that direction.

I'm hopeful that pushing outcome-driven analytics onto the medical field will drive a lot of productive change. The whole reason we abstracted care choices from payment is that we couldn't answer the question, "How much is this procedure / test / consult worth to you?"

And without that, we're waving our hands in the air as to whether or not it makes sense to skip an MRI scan.
That’s for the US. Change the filter to Europe and you get 74% Android, which will go up towards 90% in some national markets.
> - Annual championships in wife-carrying, air-guitar, boot and phone throwing, sauna, cattle calling, swamp soccer, mosquito swatting, ant nest sitting, etc.

We stopped doing the sauna world championships after one guy died and another ended up in a coma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships#2010...
I'm sure that's intended as some sort of damning critique, but that's true of most assets in a portfolio. Real estate, commodities, stocks, currency, options, index funds, precious metals--all held in hopes of selling for a higher price.
And a tendency to meet at the market square every time somebody mentions the country.
Fortnite is another good example of this. It began as a zombie killer game that nobody played, but then they noticed all the money success and money that PUBG was getting, so they hacked together a Fortnite version of PUBG on a much smaller map with far fewer features (like vehicles).

Fortnite BR had very little beyond its core gameplay. There were few weapons and only a smattering of locations amidst a largely homogenous small island. But bit by bit, Epic added features, slowly, deliberately. They listened to their fans and made what they wanted as the game and the community progressed.

The result was one of the most successful, popular, and lucrative video games of all time.
Also first so I can introduce a Reaper and make sure no other civilization can advance too much
Im in the same boat, my current processor I got was an intel specifically for the high single thread speed (a few performance heavy single thread games), but honestly the bit of extra clock speed hasn't really done it for me. The improvement is marginal compared to the ability to scale across cores and I expect pretty much everything I use now to take advantage of it. These days I have so many more programs concurrently open/in operation compared to the past, many of which are now fully capable of each using multiple cores, and I can still see myself using more. While my system isn't a spring chicken anymore I still have run into full system utilization a lot sooner and more often than I ever expected when I built this.
My wife needed an MRI last year. The hospital quoted us $4000 as self-pay, but would knock it down to $2000 if we paid cash up front. This was late December, so we picked up insurance through the marketplace and she had the MRI done in January, billed to insurance at $250.

This still boggles my mind... I understand the insurance provider negotiates bulk rates, but we were paying up front, in cash, and were still quoted 8x the insurance price.
Indeed, seeing stuff like:

> "Facebook refuses to classify fake news as a violation of its rules"

used as a denunciation in a mainstream news site, is quite disturbing to read in 2018.
True. But silicon valley's left lean is a fact
The SNR to Mars is not great at the best of times. We no longer radiate a great deal of high-power analog signals, because those are not efficient. Space is noisy, digital signals look very much like noise, and radiating to space is not usually the most efficient thing to do if you can avoid it. Our chances of detecting our own planet even from the nearest star would be pretty minimal. Perhaps someone might be able to explain to me why we postulate being able to detect extrasolar aliens.
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Then why isn't Google allowed to not sell their software to others to use? Google doesn't want to let Amazon have the Play Store without following conditions, they should have that right.
We've been using jobdsl for years.

We've been moving away from people authoring jobdsl. Instead we have a custom format suited to our policies. We still use jobdsl for taking care of knowing the configuration details of all of the plugins we use.

We have a custom format for

- Decoupling server configuration (version, plugin versions) from build configuration. This is especially important because jobdsl regularly breaks compatibility. You can't just check your build description into your repo and live on a happy life.

- Reuse a lot of build steps across our different repos. We have a lot of common steps specific to use and we wanted to reduce our boiler plate.

I am looking into moving off of jobdsl to jjb. In theory, jjb supports generating for multiple plugin versions. As a step towards aligning two distinct build farms, we want our custom format supported on both. Unfortunately, our build farms are on different versions of plugins. I could have our tool support generating for different jobdsl versions but am instead looking at relying on jjb's ability to do this.
Since this is sub-orbital it won't be nearly as intense as reentry in something moving as fast as the Soyuz capsule.
Well to be clear, 38 years is my age :) But still, yes probably 10 more on you. I'm not referring to just punk concerts, though I grew up in a huge hardcore scene on the east coast. More about just letting go of this lifestyle, and doing something enjoyable for less.
95% of the time letting the user input a date string and validating it is best.
Lots of Apple users feel like the app store gives them a pretty strong case this is mostly true.

I kind of agree with them, actually.
> Obamacare was being drafted / the economy was in dire straits in 2009, the Obama administration had to make a choice about whether to radically streamline health care, but at the cost of killing employment in (at the time) the only growing sector of the United States.

The basic outline of healthcare reform that all the leading candidates in the Democratic side had signed on to well before the first of the 2008 privates had gained broad consensus among party elites well before that. It was not a reaction to conditions in 2009, unless there was a whole lot of parallel construction to cover up the Democratic Party’s access to a reliable crystal ball (an idea that the 2016 election would cast serious doubt on even if it was otherwise plausible.)
Yes, if I wake up too early it's better form to start the day than staying in bed another hour
I have the opposite problem. I'm an incurable night owl, despite having tried to shift. I thought I too would grow out of it, but I'm moving into my 30s next year and it's going stronger than ever. Such that the last time I tried to fix my schedule and be up at 0800 (by going to bed at 0100) I fainted at my desk and had to go nap, and return to staying up till 0400 and waking at 1130-1230. So it's hard for me to maintain any professional commitments before noon, which kind of sucks. Luckily my cofounders are very understanding and honestly kind of appreciate that I get a lot of work done between the end and the start of their day after we sync up.

That said, the time from 0000-0330 is amazing. For the same reasons people like to wake up really early (3+ hours before going to work), this time is (human, coworker and outdoor capitalist) distraction free, I can't run boring errands outside, so I can focus on creative work at home. It's great that it can double up as late-night partying/dating/gaming/social time. But other than maybe once-a-week for gaming, I use it for the others once a month or rarer.

There are some social costs however, besides the professional one mentioned earlier. I'm a complete corpse when trying to make morning weekend plans (breakfast/brunch, hikes, events). I get to be known as "that guy who only gets up at noon". Which makes me wonder, is waking up at 0400 so much more socially upstanding that going to bed at 0400 if I'm using my isolationist time mostly the same way? Waking up early is associated with discipline and diligence, staying up late is associated with childishness and immaturity and lack of discipline.

I't all just a trade-off. I suppose one can train for schedule flexibility, but I love my late nights.
As mentioned by mesozoic, that's not great for side sleeping, which I do probably 75% of the time. My current mattress also provides me more lumbar support in back sleeping vs sleeping on a hard surface which I've done before. It's simultaneously firmer but more filling than a standard mattress if that makes sense. Additionally for non-sleeping purposes the give is necessary.
I chose that number sort of arbitrarily to just mean "very very fast", but I see your point.
>Psychedelic is not a right category anyway. It is a label given by users based on perceived effects.

I mean, "analgesic" is a label based entirely on perceived effects, and it's one of the most common medical drug classes (by sale volume).
Thanks. I did post a few short comments.

Mattresses are something we do totally wrong. We could have much more ergonomic designs that were also affordable, washable, less bulky and recyclable.
Uh, it's not nonsense or garbage, for multiple reasons. The first and foremost is that just because the first version supported arrows and geometric shapes does not mean it couldn't have been invented as an encoding for writing systems. The second reason is that I actually read what it was created for. https://www.unicode.org/history/summary.html The purpose was to encode the characters used by written languages for expressing language in a legible form. This includes multiple forms of graphemes.

Apps already have ways to render mixed content. How do you think you can see both text and pictures next to each other? E-mail has supported this for decades. The linked article even explicitly mentions how different apps render different image sets for the same emojis.

We have different fonts for several reasons, and sometimes we do send entire fonts in order to render our messages correctly. What font you use, and how you choose to render graphemes, is completely up to the application. What I'm proposing is a more interoperable way of sharing mixed content, which people clearly already want to do.
They said for the purpose of colonization, but that is not actually required for the Fermi Paradox. As to why, that's impossible to say without speculating about alien psychologies. Just to know you aren't alone, because it's interesting to learn about others, to trade technology, philosophy, science, and media are all potential reasons. The big point is this wouldn't even have to be common. If just one alien civilization sent out a Bracewell probe a century but started back when the dinosaurs were around they could have launched a million probes by now.
Thank you, that's the one :).
Would you mind please posting more substantive comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think a lot of people get this. These "space tourist" companies don't have an end goal as space tourism. The problem with launch vehicle companies (launch PROVIDERS) is that they don't always have something to launch (provide). To sustain your company you need to launch often. Rather, to sustain the low price on your vehicle you need to launch often.

You also need to get to a high TRL for confidence from contractors. People are more willing to take risks than someone sending up $100m+ satellites or vehicles. Those successful human missions get you to a TRL 9 pretty quickly.

But many of these companies have much bigger aims than tourism. Tourism is part of it, but more like orbital hotels, lunar hotels, etc. Not a short trip. But also mining. There's A LOT of money in mining once the vehicles get cheap enough. Which they aren't if you're flying a few times a year (like how most things come down in price when you manufacture at scale).

Nit pick: The point of the ride isn't to get 0 gravity. IT IS TO GO TO SPACE! That has a value much higher than that 5k 0g rides. Sure, 0g is part of it, but that's not why ANYONE is buying a ticket.
I'm jealous. 4-6 hours of sleep is a good night for me, punctuated at least once or twice a week with days I never actually get to sleep; I just sort of lay there in bed from midnight until the sun comes up again, maybe drifting to a weird loopy half-conscious state for brief periods. The only things that can bring my sleep schedule in line with "normal" amounts is if I do hard physical labor for 8-12 hours during the day, have sex, or drink about two beers and read for a half hour before bed. Basically this has persisted my entire life - growing up I'd read half a dozen books a week at night when I was supposed to be in bed and couldn't fall asleep.

On those nights when sleep just isn't going to come, I've given up on trying; I'll just go find something to do. All-night programming is a pretty good fit, although I've also spent entire nights painting and putting down flooring, or tinkering in my shop.
I agree with your point about the producers being talented and most times the driving force behind these hits.

What really isn't that clear with these songs, and I believe that's why so many people dislike them (altough they agree they sound catchy) is because the performer of the song isn't necesarilly the creative force behind the song; as it was proven with the video of how the song "Middle" came to be. The girl that sings the song actually played little part in the creative process, and is part of the song because of her voice and probably looks.

A good comparison could be with Hollywood movies. No one can argue that they are extremely produced and market focused; so, when you hear a song by Katy Perry or by <replace_with_trendy_name> is the performer a good actor or a good director, or both?
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Not-for-profit insurances entities (e.g. Blue Cross Blue Shield) legally can't pocket (in any beneficial way) the savings.

Aside from that, there's a huge amount of undocumented knowledge in the field. Given its stability, people can still work 20-30 years for the same company.

Given there are always areas who need more people, I can't believe you'd rather have someone who knows nothing than the person with 20-30 years of experience (salary aside, admittedly).
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...which is where Google and Amazon both have very big facilities. AWS' us-west-2 is hosted out of there, for instance.

Anyone have any insight in to how they prep for/handle an event like this? Surely they have systems for physically managing this.
No, but you can fully disable it (and that's equivalent to uninstalling, and wasn't possible on windows).
In service by 2035, flying much earlier - certification, training, development and integration programs to run after flights of the production design, flights of early designs years before to work out the preprod kinks.
Good piece... I feel the underground dance music world has a greater arc of history and continuity to it as it evolves, where punk was more a moment in time that lots of people cherish, and a very specific genre and subculture.

Great book from 99 somewhat in the style of this punk article https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18756.Last_Night_a_DJ_Sa...
Groovy based declarative pipelines were also version-controlled, stable and repeatable.
With lots of regulation, red tape and time.

Try to find the small business guides for the target agencies: https://www.cdc.gov/contracts/cdc-and-small-business/index.h...
Blue Origin is more of a wild card than SpaceX - because they have Bezos backing them with his endless bank account, they don't have to release products day-to-day like SpaceX does to fund their more ambitious plans. This also means that the public doesn't get much in the way of feedback on how well BO's development efforts are going.

For the press, that means that it's really hard to judge whether BO's vehicles are vaporware or not, which fuels endless speculation. I personally happen to think that SpaceX's "ship something today" situation is good for their development process, but that may just be my software experience showing.
There are so many variables. For example, if they can't travel faster than the speed of light, they might not even think it's worth colonizing. They could also be on scales vastly different from our own, as microbes or as planets. We wouldn't even know what to look for in interstellar communications, let alone have the ability to make sense of anything they send. Our entire "search" has come with the assumption that alien life is going to communicate with radio waves, use sight (in the same range as our own), be similar in size to us, etc.
If you feel that going to sleep at 21:00 is impossible, then your lack of sleep might get worse in adulthood. But if you decide that getting enough sleep is more important than other things, then maybe you can go to sleep earlier despite social norms.
>It was a calculated risk that had a handsome payoff,

Yes, it payed off in marketshare, but severely limited the profitability of Android and being another major revenue stream for Google. I hope this decision makes them think twice about their strategy for Fuchsia because they seem to be using the Android model all over again. Google really needs to start operating like Apple for better or worse.
I had a nice solid 9h each night until having a child. I find I am actually more creative (uninhibited) when I get less sleep. My brain is firing too hard on perfectionism when I get a good sleep, where I can be a lot more creative and free flowing when I am sleep deprived. I don't implement or debug well in that state though, so my cycle tends to involve writing the code and debugging on better sleep nights and having my ideas and catching up on admin if I have a bad sleep.
Some good beer will definitely cause that after a while