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We have mach 3+ designs, but the issue is that there aren't many uses for them. The problem has moved from raw engine power and reducing shocks
It's very close, the only thing left to do is solve the Travelling Salesman problem in polynomial time.
Yeah, I don't get it either. I'm an anarchist, and would love to one day be able to renounce my citizenship and purposefully become stateless. Doing so requires significant financial resources though, and I doubt my family situation will ever allow it.

Still, discussion of that desire has led to many aggressive but interesting conversations on both right- and left-leaning platforms.
Can we go electric before it's too late?
Who knows how long they will continue to support the HTML view…
Agreed... I used to live off of the Phoenix light-rail in Tempe. When I had to go downtown, or to the airport, I was more likely to take it. It was more convenient and less expensive than dealing with parking, etc. Any other time, I'd be more inclined to drive.
I'm worried and it's given me cause of action to prepare for interviews at companies that I know pay more for SWEs than my current company.

To me, I see rising trends in terms of cost of healthcare, cost of buying a home, schooling for kids, kids themselves, caring for aging parents, etc. I just think "Damn, even with a salary that is way above median for the country, can I realistically reach all my goals in 'due time'?".

Right now I'm not sure if the answer to that question is yes, but I know that when looking at some of the salaries I see around there that grabbing a job at that salary can definitely ease my anxiety.

Preparing for SWE interviews is definitely a rat race, and I may need to move to a high COL area to earn these types of salaries, but it's a trade-off I'm willing to make to help ensure that I can reach the goals I've set for myself.
Can anyone expand on this inability to have investments outside of registered retirement plans?” I have never heard of this.
Maybe it's just me (I haven't actually read the book), but I don't see the guy on the cover as a wizard. He's holding a pair of dividers which I associate much more with a craftsman or study of geometry. I just assumed the clothing was a style I didn't understand.
"seriously, this is not my main account, please stop linking it to my main account or phone number or facebook account or suggesting it to ANYONE I might know in real life"

Their T&Cs prohibit having more than one account, so they would never implement this feature no matter how much sense it makes.
Why should engineers agree to work for a regular salary from you? Why wouldn't they hold out for ownership in your product venture?
He's also delighted to have been "mentioned in four books"
This is exactly what I've heard for some very senior (L8-10+) folks at Google: if you think of a product development team like a company, the Product Manager (PM) is the CEO, Tech Lead (TL) is CTO. If you have a Program Manager (PgM), they may act as COO.

In fact, when startups are acquired, this is often exactly how their C-suite ends up: CEO -> PM, CTO -> TL, COO -> PgM.
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When I was living and working outside the USA, I found the process quite simple and straight forward. As long as you didn't earn over 127k USD (limit has increased) you were fine and didn't have to pay any additional taxes. If you earned more you were entitled to all the write offs you would get in the US. It was basically just filing a 1040 and 1 other form. I never had to pay any additional taxes that I already payed in the country I was living and working.

I'm not sure why anyone would need a tax lawyer? The process is very simple and explained in detail on the IRS website.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/u-s-...
Nations don't have friends, they only have interests.

Being overly dependent on "America First, Always" technology doesn't serve the Canadian interests.
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OTOH, some of those same investors know that not all tricks are aimed at them, and some tricks are effective.

In this very thread, we have people who are hesitant to buy the car due to solvency concerns:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18222268

Car companies and rumors of solvency issues can often turn into real solvency issues due to the nature of the automotive business and the impact of rumors on sales.
It's a lot harder to quantify "ramp-up" for these models too, because they almost never have a bare starting point. E.g. CX-3 is (IIRC) based on the Mazda2 platform, so do you include the preceding Mazda2 ramp-up in the number?

Still it's the pro-Tesla person that's making the claim; the onus is on them to provide the numbers or if it's not a fair comparison, to avoid it (or clarify it).
Here is a study of 150,000 women in college.
https://www.aau.edu/key-issues/aau-climate-survey-sexual-ass...
The percentage reporting sexual assault is the close to the same. There is a 160 page addendum which attempts to address 3.) as one point of a lot of points.
It can just make Mach 2 with afterburners (supposedly).
Connecting this to Brexit is really distasteful and misleading.

The Roman Empire no longer had the will or material to support Britain and left them to their own devices against they’re will. They had no political or military systems in place to replace the Roman support.

None of this has any correlation with today.
> I know most people will think this is extremely irrational

I think that's perfectly reasonable. I find it hard to believe it would be "extremely irrational" to most people. Maybe I'm underestimating the extent to which money is fetishized in your culture (I presume the US).

Also, being able to save 2/3 of your net salary is... a ludicrously privileged position, underpaid or not.
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> Maybe "doesn't care" is accurate. "Shouldn't care" is a pretty ignorant statement.

AFAICT, the GP was stating a political/civics position. Are you literally saying that it's based on ignorance, or just that you disagree with the position?
The whole point here is to have more signal than noise, and it's usually successful. I made a similar comment a few years ago about another geography and got a similar response. It gave me pause.

Reflecting on it, the way dang and others handle these things is right, if you have a point, you can make it without making an insulting generalization and characterization.

If you don't, at the end of the day, whatever point you try to make is wiped by the visceral response.
>It’s already peaked and has started to decline. There’s a definite sense that questioning the radical left is less transgressive than it used to be.

It's interesting how asynchronous this kind of thing can be. To me, and I think many other people that have been overexposed to relentless criticism of the radical left for years now, it seems to be becoming unfashionable again. For me, that's because you can only deconstruct something so much before continued deconstruction becomes boring (and a convenient harbor for crypto-rightists) and before you start pining for some construction instead.

The pendulum swings (in a limited sense, that is; I feel more charity toward the radical left rather than some awakened sympathy for the right).
It’s almost as if the roles are a little bit different at each different company! I’ve worked places with a single person doing these roles, and places where they were separate people. Also worked places without someone doing them, and that situation is consistently awful.
> They can cover it with cash, issuing stock or a combination of the two.

They're convertible notes with a fixed conversion rate, Tesla doesn't get to decide on what the noteholder wants. If the stock price isn't high enough whoever is holding the notes will demand cash (cash that Tesla doesn't have).
Modula-2 already had co-routines in 1978.

Concurrent Pascal had them in 1976.

And there are plenty of other examples gaining digital dust.
It seems the only thing to fear is cessation of experience. Why bother?
> Totally agree, but just as important it works REALLY well for Discord! They're unlike Slack in that...

But they're just like slack in that they have a non free server code you can't run yourself, and a non free client binary you can't modify to work around the myriad UI frustrations, and use a non free protocol underneath that relies on free software people to write the integrations back into published, free, open specification protocols.
The direction of history is not always towards progress. One of the reasons why I think people felt like it was safe to make a protest vote for Brexit is because in general things have gone very well for the Western world for the last fifty years. It doesn't feel that risky to throw a wrench (spanner?) into the works.
This article seems to be saying that Tesla is in a good place because they build good, popular cars and electric vehicles are the future.

Maybe, I'm reading different news stories than the author, but I don't feel like those are criticisms of Tesla that I'm seeing anymore. Pretty much every current news story I'm seeing is either focusing on Tesla running out of money because their cars aren't profitable enough, or the fact that Elon's behavior on Twitter is hurting the company. The author addresses neither of these points.

Sure, maybe a few years ago I could get behind the idea that the Koch bothers are spending billions of dollars to try and suppress the electric car industry. But currently, pretty much every major car company has some sort of electric offering and many are making commitments to be fully electric in the near future. Even if the Koch's are spending money to hurt the electric car industry, it seems like they are fighting a losing battle.

Honestly, this whole article reads like a straw man argument.
The "manager" title makes it seem like it's more senior across the board. This perception influences their salaries.
> It makes me wonder how the men who have the focus and discipline to get in to those positions of power have not learned the discipline of controlling their sexual urges.

I think there might be (at least) two kinds of discipline: the discipline of doing and the discipline of not-doing. Does getting up early and putting in long hours running a business really use the same mental skills as not throwing your trash on the sidewalk or coming to a complete stop on the white line next to the red octagon? We might call these initiative discipline and reactive discipline: in one case, you go out and find the situation where you're supposed to do something, but in the second, the mountain comes to Muhammad, so to speak.
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Six years later, Star Citizen is still raking it in
They don't. However, they do reduce the ability of the target O/S of the port to claim that it isn't a clone of Linux. The top-level post was complaining that people don't consider non-Linux O/S, and then failed to offer compelling alternatives.
So basically, they're going to add a special department or office for computational sciences?
Armies are to protect people and national interests, not currency. I'd love to here more about your vision of a future without military, though.
I've found there's some status thing with 'product manager' (particularly at Google) and product managers will make sure you know the difference.

In practice I'm not sure how different they actually are. Typically when someone is desperate to say how much better/harder their title difference is it's because it's not really obvious otherwise.
To me, it's understanding how to think precisely enough about what you are trying to do.

Syntax comes pretty quickly, but it's the precision that is hard. So, for example, even writing a simple loop. Are you going to start at zero? Are you going to start at one? Should your loop condition be at the top of the loop, or at the bottom? Do you know what each of those implies about how many times the body of the loop will be executed? Do you check the termination condition with less than, equal to, or both? Are you sure the loop will terminate? Really sure? Do you know at what point any variables declared inside the loop are initialized, or re-initialized? Are you adjusting the loop variable inside the loop body in a way that is going to mess with the loop termination?

Programmers think of things like loop pre-conditions, post-conditions, and loop invariants to help them keep track of what they are doing, but beginners don't usually have tools like this that help them run the code in their heads while writing it to help ensure it will do what they intended.

As an example of just how easy this is to screw up, consider examples of unintended infinite loops:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_loop#Examples_of_unin...
Creationists, pretty much any religious heresy, various scientists who go against the prevailing, accepted scientific opinion...
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Yea one of the major up/downsides of being the PM is the buck usually stops at you. Priduct couldn’t deliver on its promises? PM is accountable. Product couldn’t sell? PM. Product getting bad press? PM. Product succeeds wildly? PM.
I'm not convinced that selling some of his SpaceX stock on the secondary market is difficult, or that selling some of his Tesla stocks would cause a rout, especially when the immediate consequence would be paying back the debt, thereby saving the company.

But I hope some experts (e.g. stock analysts) would comment on this scenario, I think it's interesting.
You got flagged, not banned. But if you keep rambling about readers' intelligence, it might yet happen.
Among the consequences of morally unfashionable speech is a rate-limit or ban on HN
On the contrary, the sort of attitude where you see others as disposable, as means to get what you want, and generally doing anything you think you can get away with, is precisely the sort of profile that rises to the top
When I was growing up, one of the arguments made for why the Soviet Union's people weren't free was the existence of an exit tax [0].

I'm curious if anyone has / shall sue the U.S. government on Constitutional grounds regarding these policies.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/28/archives/jews-ask-nixon-t...
You have to pay the US to stop being a citizen? I can understand a cost for filing, but that's a lot of money to opt out of your rights as a citizen.

I'm trying to think of equivalent items that one would do when opting out of citizenship that are equivalent to emptying out the health spending account when you quit a job to try and make your money back.
I dont understandy, Why doesn't instagram just come up with some negativity filter/heuristic? Once someone reports being harassed to instagram, they can activate the filter and block all messages/tagging with negative content in it, for any and all messages directed towards the target.
People that write these articles always fall into a few camps 1) they don't understand their tax position 2) they've received some extremely dodgy advice 3) they're trying to be 'clever' with their money or 4) are extremely wealthy and have very complicated finances and they're trying to dodge US taxes but retain the benefits of citizenship
As an aside, it really pisses me off to see your comments getting downvoted here. You're saying valuable, important things.

This is what a hostile environment looks like, guys.
I know two people who have been fired for saying things that are offensive but were innocently said. Meaning, they genuinely didn't understand that what they were saying was offensive to someone.

In one case, that person was upset and ashamed of themselves for having possibly caused distress of people they respected.

In another case, it caused them to dig their heels in to the opposite side of the debate.

In both cases, I can't help but think those were great opportunities to educate those people. Pull them to the side and patiently say, "Hey, what you said was offensive and hurtful and here is why...". I'm certain that the one who dug in their heels would've received that conversation in a more constructive way. As it was, firing that person for such a relatively minor offense created a new Republican.
And presumably that risk is already priced in to the stock. It's not as if investors will be caught be surprise.
And if we try to count the times their gaze lingered on a benign site, are we sure it was benign? Or was that an actual tumor and it was missed?
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How does Elixir's Phoenix framework compare for the shortcomings of Sinatra noted here?

Give Elixir's commitment to immutability and functional programming, I'm thinking it might be more explicit in some of the places Sinatra has implicit or inconsistent behavior.
This was very well put. And one of the hardest topics to navigate in an interview process: "how would you handle a case when peron X is failing to meet requirement Y or delivery date Z?

I freaking hate this question as there is no magic answer aside from "whatever it takes to minimize the overall negative impact of the outcome for the company/project/product"
> YouTube goes out of its way to replace iOS's fullscreen media viewer with a terrible one. Maybe they felt like they had to make it look like the desktop UI or they needed the quality / settings buttons

I think the reason they do this is because the standard media player allows for picture in picture and background playback.
Certainly was the case for me.

I was completely blown away at how often women around me were harassed.
I didn't see a reason for #metoo to be as loud as it was, until these stories started coming out.

My assumptions about most men having respect for women's basic rights was really misplaced.
Swatting should be considered very risky now. One guy got like 15 years in jail for Swatting. I don't understand how anyone can take the risk to do it
Yes, there are good quality mods out there. But they sit on top of mountains of shit. You can’t point to the top of shit mountain and say “see, look at how good it is”
Indeed. I've never needed a full game download just for a patch. Depending on the game and type of patch this is usually ~1GB.
Left wing and right wing groups I might add. The police and/or intelligence agencies spy on everything and everyone considered to be a threat to the State. Including possibly you, right now, reading this comment using those mass surveillance laws used to combat "terrorism".

And why they don't take any action against these groups you might ask? That's because some of these are _very_ useful in regard to controlling the populus (e.g. threat of violence leading to self-censorship) and enabling the removal of more and more liberties.

You might think that people managed to learn how ruthless, vile cretins like Hitler and Stalin actually got to their positions of power, and how they expanded them. But nope. We are just waiting for, and in some cases actively enabling, all that shit to happen all over again.

It is almost like human civilization keeps going round and round in a perpetuation of hate, abuse, vileness and misery. And it's so sad given the fact that we actually _have_ EVERYTHING we need to destroy this cycle once and for all.
Anyone who has eyes can see that there are lots of Tesla vehicles on the streets wherever there are lots of wealthy people. That has never been a question or something that headlines suggest. The problem is Tesla sells these cars for less than it costs to build them and have had trouble making enough of them with a build quality matching the luxury price tag. Short sellers will magically go away if Tesla can start to consistently make money by selling cars, until then nothing matters.

If you haven't read it already, don't waste time reading this article.
Supply and demand? My assumption is the less challenging a technical project becomes, the more supply of engineering talents can work on the project. There should be more generalists after all. And dynamics of supply and demand will determine if engineers will be able to "hold out for ownership".
> For a primarily phone-based application, this seems pretty weird to me.

You seem to be pretty out of the loop when it comes to Instagram's primary user group. Many teens/early 20s these days don't even have a computer, a smartphone is all they use. They're definitely accustomed to phone UIs.

> I use Instagram, however, the only "harassment" I receive is spam and occasional mentions from p_rn bots.

Don't generalize from a single datapoint, especially when that datapoint is not a representative sample at all.

> What I think that may be happening: There are a lot of people who are trying to leverage their message or themselves to a level of celebrity and they don't realize that this is one of the consequences of it (or that they refuse to accept it).

This is just straightforward victim blaming without even trying to understand what is actually going on.
My advice is be to be ludicrous. Ask for far more than you think you're worth. As most people undervalue themselves you'll often find companies saying yes, or at least negotiating down to more than you'd have asked for if you capped your wage raise to 20%.

If they hire you you'll then be faced with the feeling that you're out of your depth, overpaid, and incapable of doing the job you took, but that's a different set of problems.
Exactly true. You have no idea what a great PM looks like until you work with one.
> What happens if you don't pay?

I guess you'd be an illegal emigrant?

It's very disappointing to contrast how I now perceive the actions of the U.S. federal government with the view I was fed growing up in the 1970s.
> my wife and I frequently use VR for all sorts of things.

for what? you didn't give any examples except the demonstration of the existence of VR products and VR "stuff".
>
Gini coefficient of 1.0 means that a single person controls 100% of a country’s income/wealth, North Korea scores 0.86, the rather unequal United States scores 0.41 and bitcoin scores an astonishing 0.88.

This was a bizarre section, and I wanted to make some points about it:

1) The distribution of bitcoins among individuals is not known, any claim to the contrary is false. If you want to make estimates, include the massive uncertainties.

2) Assets do not have Gini coefficients, groups of people do. The distributions of helicopters or Google stock are also very unequal. If you care about wealth inequality among crypto hodlers you should measure that. Conflating the distribution of an asset with the distribution of wealth seems meant to confuse.

3) When bitcoins had 0 value they were much more unequally distributed than now. People starting to value them is the mechanism by which they get distributed. The process is gradual. The more people value them, the more value they accrue.
> No, exactly the opposite: a minority

Nonsense. In democratic republics, which are the norm in the West, the people pick their representatives and both the legislative and executive branches are determined by that vote.

It makes no sense to try to turn around the facts to pretend that democratic governments are not voted in by the majority but instead by a minority. That's absurd and has no bearing in reality.
> The last 50 years of aviation have produced fewer innovations than any single decade in the previous 50 years.

This is just plain wrong. You could also say that there's been almost no innovation in cars since the Model T, after all a car like that is a much larger jump a horse drawn carriage than the jump from a Model T to a Tesla Model S.

The huge amount of innovation has been in the likes of reducing cost, increasing safety etc. Now everyone can fly, only the rich could fly in the 50s and 60s.

> Versions of the B-737 and B-747 are still flying

Just because it has the same model number doesn't mean it's the same plane. Here's a comment of mine on that when it was discussed a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514161