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There were people around who had been writing Cocoa apps for years, some with 15+ years of experience going back to NeXT.

The iPhone SDK was very simple to pick up with that background because it was basically a simplified AppKit where you get a single tiny window instance.
US Freeway lanes are 3.7m wide in general. It's probably hard to move oversize loads during a large-scale evacuation.

On top of that, the Air Force has a less than an infinite supply of trucks and drivers. If you have more resources to move than logistical capacity then surely it makes sense to move the most value within the constraints.

At some point maybe a cannibalized, corroded F-22 fuselage is less valuable than whatever else the Air Force decided to put on a truck.
Even once destroyed it's still within the base that is presumably still guarded. Once out of the base on a flatbed the risks of losing any part of it are much greater.
>More than Internet the combination of internet and smartphones. Someone in Africa could get the advice of a doctor in the USA just with the push of a button

Not like they can afford that advice. Or that it would do them much without treatment. Outside of special upper class cases this just doesn't happen.

>People have access to the biggest encyclopedia thanks to a less than a pound item

Which they mainly use to settle BS quarrels about who did what, and to serve as a replacement from actually studying something...
MyWater ATM – demand for water is bigger than we can produce
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The main article says that several of these air frames were already cannibalized for parts. It also sounds like they were earlier models used for training and may have more wear than the rest of the fleet due to their proximity to the ocean.
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There was an state re-election campaign here in New South Wales, Australia 10 or 20 years ago run under the slogan

More to do but heading in the right direction

which was widely mocked for being particularly uninspiring. I still quote it all the time - hardly a week goes by when it can't be amusingly slipped into conversation hehe. (Usually to helpfully complete someone's attempt to describe the state of a situation they're working on.)
I mean, yeah? That seems perfectly reasonable given the options.
That is just what humanity needs, a over-awareness of rational behaving woman as a inherited condition.
So you are fine with always type in a long password/numbers in public? And sure nobody looks at you/films your typing?
Yes, exactly. Classified material remains protected and it's just a very very small portion of your fleet. Information has much higher price than the aircraft itself.
All the systems we have created only serve to foster feedback loops...
Or something "lighter" like H20 with mRuby?

https://h2o.examp1e.net/index.html
In Berlin, and in Germany in general, cash-only is the normality for most of the shops.

I thought it was a bad and inconvenient idea at the beginning, maybe I should rethink.
Never underestimate the fact that people also "go nuts." They might regret it later but a little late and a dollar short. It happens
idk, if the shelter can take the hit, then leave the plans there and come back. Otherwise drop fuel and break out the plasma cutter.

If these planes were so borked they couldn't be made airworthy then maybe putting new wings back on ins't that much extra considering you've risking the whole engine by leaving them behind.

but a moot point. I'm sure they will just build concrete hangers for next time.
Traffic proves there is a market, if there is a market, there is a acceptable pitch, if there is a acceptable pitch, there is a company, if there is a company, there might just be one day a product.
Not if you're busy evacuating actual functioning aircraft.
One of the founders of Copenhagen Suborbitals are the now infamous Peter Madsen

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jan/07/copenhagen-ki...
But in Europe there are several fighter programs. These include JAS 39 (from SAAB in Sweden), Eurofighter Typhoon (from BAE, Airbus and Leonardo; Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy), Raphael (from Dassault in France).

They are not strictly 100% European manufacture, I suppose, but could very well be.

There being several domestic European options, obtaining hardware from USA seems counter-productive. The F35 are very expensive, their quality seems supect, they are pushed through not on their technical merits but through political pressure (e.g. Norway), there are strings attached. All this is somewhat alarming. Also, any political guarantees attached to the purchase of the F35 are suspect, as this weeks promises may change next week - we all know the new administration is rather dynamic, in good and bad.

Could one buy a few for political reasons? Maybe, but maybe one or two would not be enough and with a larger block the cost becomes an issue.
That's the holy grail so why not try it? They can plant 2-3 and milk them while they can. Maybe one is discovered, quite a few boards are never replaced and so on.
Many Germans would be happy to leave the EU or at least the Euro if the German presence is such a burden to other countries.

The Euro benefits the 1%, but not the "common" (i.e. actually working) population.
That's pretty much how every OS is developed at least since QEMU was made. Why would you risk wrecking actual hardware with your toy OS and go through a code->compile->install->reboot cycle to test?
My first sentence does nothing of the sort. As I clearly state this kind of rhetoric will undermine any valid criticism of military spending. I have said nothing that should suggest to you my personal beliefs on the state of military spending.
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> Default, exit €, and then all of the above but worse?

Says who? The economists who did not even seen the financial crisis coming and were clamoring that the real estate market was solid and totally fine even as late as 2007??

Just wondering...
Unless I've read the figures wrong, a 100% estate tax could provide around 1/6th of government expenditure in the UK. This would be a meaningful amount of money.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-sta...
They buy Russian weapons and keep killing.
Russia will veto anything in the UN for them.
SA will in return do what Russia wants when it comes to OPEC.

So, what did we win? Scare the crap out of them or have the King choose a new person to take over after he's dead.
In a word, no. F-22s are huge. Time and trucks are limited.
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Here's a nice documentary about foreigners moving their startup to Shenzen, where they can have same-day prototypes built and go into production immediately: https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY
It is correct English grammar to say that an asset which has been damaged beyond economical repair has been "lost", this is used in the shipping and aviation industries all the time. "Hull loss" incident, "airframe loss", etc. See for example the delightyfully 1997-vintage-looking website of cargo loss:

http://www.cargolaw.com/gallery.html

Most commonly encountered when talking about an insured asset. In the case of military owned equipment, there is no insurance company, so the DoD takes the loss themselves.
I just read that story, amazing.

It reads like an awesome Root Cause Analysis ticket.
All state-of-the-art in Big Data from universities.
Spark from UC Berkeley.
Flink from TU Berlin.
HopsFS from KTH Stockholm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kiyosaki#Criticism_and_...
Statements now aren't worth that much. The person in charge should have thought of these things, at least someone should have. It's not like the hurricane happened in Colorado so at least shelters should have been hurricane proof.
The rethoric you cite is indeed somewhat demagogic, but the idea that "the consequence for defaulting is not getting any more loans" is disingenous.

Most countries in the world have had sovereign defaults, often several times throughout their history. See, for example, the map at https://katapult-magazin.de/en/artikel/artikel/fulltext/ston...

Spain defaulted 9 times, Portugal and Greece 6 times, Germany 5 times, the UK 4 times. They still get loans now.
This is untrue, Actors have a keypair and inbox POSTs are signed with that key to ensure authenticity. For boosts (Announce), mastodon uses a complex signing algorithm based on JSON-LD, and pleroma just re-requests the post from the original instance and uses that, discarding the relayed object.
Even we (the UK) can't (or least couldn't at the time) get access or permission to modify the source code on the F-35 and we (as a minor but only Level-1 project partner) partially build it.

IIRC the only country that can is Israel and they got a specific exemption.

Honestly I find the way our government rolls over to the US frustrating at times, As the customer we should hold a firmer line - flip side is though that arms deals are often a proxy for general diplomacy so we take it in the shorts on specific deals for long term advantages - It's all in the (great) game.
Was it disallowed for apple devs to do side hussles? Could someone from Apple been hired?
... except that they were, the aviation industry term for an aircraft that has been damaged beyond economical repair is "hull loss"

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=avi...
Yeah but how do you explain the decline?

Do the systemic problems that have always existed getting worse? New ones?
I would start with using screws/bolts instead of nails holding the wood to the foundation. It takes a lot to pull that loose. The other problem is the roof being lifted off from suction. I would bet that bolting it to the frame would stop a lot of that.

With relatively minor changes like that, an ordinary wood frame house should be considerably stronger.
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Actually the Belgian F-16s were probably produced in Belgium. There were 2 European production lines, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium, and Norway produced some parts and subsssemblies. Everybody understood the strategic importance of having redundant (and local) manufacturing capability, as well as the importance of sharing defense technology among allies.
> > Think of gdpr

> Yes, a highly popular measure inside Europe, even by tech people who are affected by it.

I beg to differ. 'Controversial' is more like it. There are some who are in favour of GDPR but there are also those - myself included - who consider it well-intentioned but badly executed.
Regardless... these guys had a LOT of warning.

Excuses don't seem credible.
I was tangentially involved in the Nexo II launch. Alexandru Csete (author of Gqrx) used my GNU Radio DVB-S2 transmitter code to send live HD video from the rocket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwSYv8eVQqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYF8Am-lt20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqwJu6cSBW4
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>Git(hub) integration

If I select a git command from a GUI, that's an explicit request by the user.

>app updater, package manager

If something legitimately requires background network activity, and security updates might qualify, it should go in Crontab. The system should have exactly one package manager, and apps should not re-implement their own.

>telemetrics

If I turn it on, I'll remember I turned it on.
The troika's handling of Greece was despicable, vengeful, irrational, and counterproductive.

> what would have been the alternative?

An early writedown of some debt and extension of other, enabling the economy to return to growth and service the remaining debt.

Re 1.: Pension funds and other institutional investors invest in equity and debt world wide, taking into account risk and return. Sometimes they make mistakes (or even not - sometimes the dice fall badly), and an investment goes sour. That's the market at work. In this case, however, European put massive amounts of money into Greece that were not used to prop up the economy, but to bail out investments by German and French banks. So, basically a transfer from the European tax payer to some banks.

2. It would make imports very expensive, but free up the domestic economy and make it more competitive.

"Optimum currency area" describes what's necessary for a currency union: homogeneity wrt external shocks (not the case in the EU), high factor mobility (limited in the EU, due to language/culture), or internal transfer payments.

In my view, Europe sat down for a nice dinner (10 years ago with the introduction of the Euro) in a restaurant and enjoyed it over a decade (with massive growth financed by cheap debt in many "peripheral" countries), and when the bill came (oops, we need these internal transfers now) - refused to pay. Shameful.
Unlike the courts, an abusive spouse or employer won't presume innocence. They will take your initial refusal to insert PIN/password as proof of guilt and coerce you into doing so.
Hell yeah, i have written so many emails to CIG (who run star citizen) trying to find out whats acceptable and what isnt (eg: i can let a pilot lock up 3-4 missiles by saying 'lock 3' but i cant let them lock up all missiles by just saying 'lock missiles'), is such a pain in the arse. Most of the time i end up speaking to someone who doesnt really know and just chooses the safest option.

Which honestly is what probably would happen from guidelines (sigh) - which will put me and my users back to where we were :P
It definitely does. I've practiced this a little myself and in louder environments you need a louder click. On the other hand, ambient noise can give rich information about close obstacles without yourself or that object needing to actively make any noise.
Yes. It's fanciful about the heights to which the human spirit can reach. She's the ultimate optimist, in my opinion. Plenty of hero stories are set in ultra-negative backgrounds, just to set the contrast.

I hope to God Rand's writing isn't gobbled up for its sex scenes, yikers!
I suspect this only applies to the SC Valley scene.

I'm pretty sure your side-projects will really help your chances almost everywhere outside of SV. We dont do whiteboad interviews where I work. We do short projects done as homework to access candidate abilities.

I've even seen some companies selling the fact that they don't do ridiculous whiteboard interviews as a pro to attract devs.

But, what do I know. I'll most likely never work at any of the 'cool', unicorn shops.
>But "handheld/miniaturised ladders" are not a thing

No, but there are tons of handled/miniaturised telescopic devices. Antennas in portable walkie talkies and radios are an obvious example, there are umbrellas like that, and tons of other things...
Yeah, she cited Nitschze in the forward to The Fountainhead. I recall she said his ideas were 'underdeveloped', hahaha!
That is what is supposed to happen though. If you have your own currency you have more control over your economic destiny. Greece's monetary policy was set by their creditors, and they were insolvent, that is a highly irregular situation for a country to be in. Instead of weakening their currency which at least brings in more foreign investment, they had to sell assets off, which serves nobody but their creditors.
Lots of people, specially Chinese. They can spend 1000$ for the real thing because they know it is real.

They go to Europe or US to buy original products, not selfies sticks of course, because if the stick does not work that well is not important. But they buy medicines, they buy iphones, they even buy cars.

If someone believe that something as easy to replicate like a stick should make him extremely rich, then he is going to have to face reality.
Not OP but futurist is a defined career path and futurism an academic discipline.
The title is clearly correct. When you get that message, you have already been silently opted in. You must then to read the instructions and opt yourself out.
All that stuff exists, you can get re-enforced roof and truss connections and hurricane ties to upgrade existing buildings.

The issue is as always cost, people operate on a "why spend the money it may never happen" risk model generally and are averse to dealing with a problem til it punches them (personally) in the face, I mean this isn't new, as a species we don't deal with things until it gets to the brink.

If you want a fascinating example of this in the general case read up on the Clean Air Act in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956
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here's a better analysis https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/why-hysteria...

this is the usual monthly forecast that gets dropped in the hope that, maybe this time, it'll be true. we had the italy, france, greece, chinese, spanish, portoguese, greece again articles in the last six or so month.

at some point people should realize there's a pattern of just yelling loom hoping it sticks and that most of those "articles" when their forecasts are tested are worse than a coin toss, because their core goal is bringing views, not being accurate.
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I am the lead developer for my startup with two other non-technical co-founders. What problems can I expect to arise ?
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I’ve been enjoying the use of Mastodon, though it’s not fully replaced Twitter for me. There’s a few TV/Movie & Video game related things I enjoy Twitter for.

While I’ve settled into two instances on Mastodon the one problem I’m finding is that you do kind of need multiple instances. Some instances, even with decent user bases, just don’t have the correlating activity. That or the user base skews to a time zone which can shift the discussion time.

The upside is being able to mute/block from the get go. This helps keep the federated timeline much more quiet. There’s a ton of bots & hashtag heavy people posting reblog kind of stuff. Things that aren’t really much value to a discussion so being able to just declutter that out has been helpful.
Thanks for the info, I didn't know that about him.

I've read his book, and the fundamental idea of looking at money differently is sound. I know I look at money very differently now than I did when I was young. I.e. I view it now as a tool rather than a scorecard.
72h is a lot of warning? It's not like they left everything behind. There was a large scale evacuation and a significant amount of hardware was moved without being lost. Do you have any indication that the evacuation was poorly planned or executed? Or that the base design was lacking?

I'm not offering excuses. Hell, I'm not even suggesting the base design was satisfactory or that this damage is acceptable. I am offering possible explanations for why this amount of hurricane damage was sustained and why these specific air frames were not in "nuclear hardened bunkers".

"I saw some bunkers somewhere" is a pretty poor excuse for criticism of a military installation's design, or anything really.
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Ask HN: How do you discriminate science and pop-science reads?
I like to read science, psychology and philosophy topics. But everytime I read the discussions here regarding a book in those fields, there is almost always someone claiming that it is just pop science and pushing you to "really read and learn deeper" instead of learning from that book. This is not really an issue, as it's true that sometimes I was able to learn more from other sources. But again, there is not always enough time or even willpower to step into a rabbit hole to learn something "deeply enough".

So my questions are: How do you decide that something is just "pop-science"? Where do you draw the line? For example, sometimes I only want to learn about an area well enough, say quantum physics for example; I don't really want to dig deep into all the text, but I was unable to read just a few articles without wondering if they are just "pop-science" or even worse, wrong knowledge.
Is there any way that works for you when you approach new territories like that?

P.S. English is not my first language so I hope what I wrote is clear enough.
I just think politics has never generated employment.

Organization and the real economy do.

I think planning more debt is a mistake, especially when they have a clear (or smart) way to spend it. (see corruption, mafia, bureaucracy etc...)
The issue isn't that it's MS. The issue is that it is opt-out, not opt-in. Has nothing to do with who's pulling the shenanigans.
Calls are something you can choose to not accept, but SMS is not..
It is much more economical that US keeps doing what it does better.
It's not inherently bad. Collecting telemetry on an opt-out basis, as opposed to opt-in, is.
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Let's not forget that the 5th place we briefly held was financed by the enormous unproductive deficit spending which is the root cause of our last 20 years of almost-no-growth. That was just growth on drugs, spending the future earnings of young and not-yet-born Italians to satisfy the greediness of voters at that time.
I don't recall Italian economy having failed in recent times.
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The Euro is, for all purposes, a foreign currency.

You are making the (in my opinion wrong) assumption that Greece default has been avoided instead of delayed.

There is no way Greece can pay that, the only difference is that the money is now owned to international institutions instead of French and German private banks.

You make also the assumption that a Greek government with it's own floating currency would follow a pro-cyclical fiscal policy, like the one force on them now, instead of a sane one.

1. I don't know anything about the Netherlands pension system, but I doubt is based in only private institutions. If they have a public system, the dutch pensioners could receive whatever the Netherlands decide through its democratic institutions, only constrained by the real resources available to the Netherlands. Of course, being an Euro country, that could be decided outside of Netherlands.

2. A country that works with its own floating currency don't need to borrow its own currency. So the problem would not be money.

The biggest problem for a Greece outside the Euro, would be that they are very dependent of imports. In order to fix that you have to develop an industry. In order to develop an industry you need investment and industrial policy. That's it: the opposite of what is being forcing now in Greece.
A minor mishap compared to a similar inadvertent weapons incident aboard USS Forrestal - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire
There's an annotated version of Lolita that might help you understand its richness [1].

FWIW, Wikipedia states (with source) that "Many authors consider it the greatest novel of the 20th century".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-7272...
The main difference is that with a small business you have an established product or service and a business model that's known to be working whereas a startup is all about developing a new product or service, finding product-market fit and a scalable business model that works for that.

So, a startup is a series of experiments with largely unknown outcomes while a small business - though still allowing for experiments and different approaches on a smaller scale - deals with more predictable outcomes.

That said, the question of "startup vs. small business" isn't a clear-cut dichotomy but often a continuum.

A small business offering a service can also experiment with addressing a particular market niche, for instance. This is a common theme for small / 1-person software consulting businesses.