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Physicists record “lifetime” of graphene qubits
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Yep. As I written in another sibling comment, there is a ceiling to what people would pay even if they love the idea of the device. And Apple has hit that ceiling.

I know people who can easily buy 10x iPhones for their entire family and part of their relatives -- and they refuse. These are people who can spend $50k and almost wouldn't notice and even they think the modern iPhones have taken the price too far.
Collective subjectivism does not lead to universal truth even closely. There is no universal truth, but only your personal experience and perception. This is true both for things which you see, and also for morality. In Wittgenstein’s world, your subjective morality is neither true nor false.
If you choose a rotary phone, do you still curse people with 8s and 9s in their number as you dial?
Like TCP/IP or HTTP, Blockchains are a specification.

You can easily change How HTTP works on your own server, as can the core devs on a blockchain project.

None of that actually matters until clients begin using the new features/blockchain software en masse, that's where the decentralized piece fits in
The Bay Area isn’t the only place that has experienced an economic boom, but it is definitely the one that has managed it the worst.
>On another note, besides C legacy (memcpy, printf, malloc, etc.), could you point me towards something that is not type safe in C++ (preferably post C++11)?

How about typedef's in general, what problem BOOST_STRONG_TYPEDEF solves (and its limitations)?
"have not dared try"

This mission wasn't difficult from an astro perspective, and was only moderately challenging from a satellite comms perspective.

It just wasn't that high on the priority list.
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That sounds in the ballpark these days. It's in the range on the nicer end but not a luxury apartment.
Making children work in sweatshops was legal... up until it wasn't. May I assume that every corporation and individual was obligated to work children in sweatshops up until it was made illegal?
A music streaming service provides me with hundreds of hours of entertainment for $120/yr, guaranteed.

If you include hardware costs I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on video games. The number of games I've spent more than 200 hours playing is in the single digits.
There are definitely a few non-crackpots interested in quantum microtubules, but it seems very far from mainstream.

It's conceivable that quantum effects could matter in some way on very small scales, and that doesn't really have anything to do with quantum mysticism.
Seconded. That is the proper contextualization for news out of CH.
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Magnum truly has the most beautiful/polished doc I've ever seen.

Even more impressive considering it's a C++ project.
Intentionally trying to spur discussion/debate on this because I would like to learn some counter points.

I personally don't believe in corporate taxes. I can't imagine that any reasonably sized corporation would voluntarily forego effort to lower their tax burden considering the relatively low cost of a few accountants / accounting software. Because of that, I prefer a system where only individuals pay taxes.

Now, skipping the fact that my suggestion requires most countries to rethink their individual/person tax code regarding income, property, etc and speaking in a largely hypothetical sense - would abandoning corporate taxes for personal taxes not be easier to ensure that money gets back to the government? As a person it's much harder for me to lower my "profits" in order to dodge taxes. But as a company I can make myself 'break even' or just below it pretty easily.

I'd like to hear counter points to this because normally when I ask my friends the responses I get are more along the lines of "corporations are evil" more than "could it even work economically".
The legal system should work to make ethical things legal and unethical things illegal.

This is legal. I can't fault them ethically for taking advantage.
They do not "sign in to their bank" like that.
I've had my 6S Plus now for 36 months and definitely don't need a change, though I do like the screens on the newer iPhones.

One interesting thing about the my phone is I managed to crack the screen on the 3 iPhones I had before, sometimes multiple times. I've put this one through hell and back and it just keeps going. I wonder if the build quality (not just features and performance) has been a factor in slowing upgrades...
Maybe the information asymmetry is part of the problem itself.
Banking system is centuries upon centuries of arbitraty constructs. It does not make sense from the ground up.
Maybe not the only factor, but it's definitely a very large factor.
You think that's crazy? Austin Texas has passed on, I think to date, since 2001-five transit improvement programs voted down by a majority of people who don't even use CapMetro to begin with (glares angrily at west Austin)-in addition to lots of other vitally needed city improvements like, new zoning ordinances-which the city punted on after five years of deliberation and planning, not to mention a good amount of money hiring 'consultants' to help City Council figure out how to write the plan they eventually abandoned (CodeNEXT)

Glares angrily again at West Austin

But hey, we have "bendy"/rapid-transit-style buses as of a couple of years ago that don't even use protected lanes, so at least we can fit more people on a gridlocked Guadalupe St during rush hour than normal buses. OH! And a toll lane on Mopac now that charges you based on how congested the "loop" is and is guaranteed to be just as congested as the non-toll lanes.

Austin Texas: A cautionary tale in applying chaos engineering to city planning.

Grinds teeth into powder
Yeah, my description would have been more along the lines of a long line of pretty generic suburban sprawl punctuated by a few walkable town centers, a university campus, and so forth. But mostly congested sprawl.
I'm of the same generation as you, and I'm not sure I agree. If this were true, I think we'd see this in other forms of media as well. A good counterexample would be the new Doctor Who series. That show is getting utterly eviscerated by longtime fans (of our generation mostly) that hate it BECAUSE they are pushing minority based plotpoints/storylines.

Putting on my subjective cap, I personally don't like the move towards such content. Nothing to do with the actual underlying messages (Samus has and probably always will be my favorite Nintendo character, and I actually don't mind the new Doctor), but rather the hamfisted, uninspired, force fed way it is delivered these days. If I were the audience this was targeted towards, I'd be fairly pissed as they are wrapping these good messages in a package that requires zero critical thinking.
I live in NYC but do not use the L, I assume this means the repairs are going to take 3 times as long as they are losing 5 days a week to work on them.
>Yep, it's definitely a message to Bitcoin insiders, but that's not a bad thing.

Adding more noise to the echo chamber certainly isn't a good thing. I'd be much more interested to hear about the problems surrounding the technology and how you envision them being solved. Most mining is centralized, no one actually uses it as currency, the entire thing is one big speculator market, etc.
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>Then again, I use them mostly for name brand goods.

Why not buy straight from the manufacturer for name brand goods? I’m guessing price or maybe the name brand products you buy the manufacturers don’t sell direct. If it’s the former, isn’t that a warning sign?
I don't believe GP is correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_toilet#International_Spa...
The amount of lobbying $ by Google alone leads me to really question whether anyone in Washington even rarely considers people complaining.
I still use my Lumia 650 as 2nd phone.

It runs the apps I care about, and keeps getting OS updates, unlike my Android devices.
Hm, I find monorepos are a natural in javascript land. There is allot less wiring afforded by a little meta-orchestration. This is especially helpful in the repos I've worked on.

But from reading the article, it seems like there are legitimate areas where they might not fit.
It would be surprising if Fuchsia followed linux by not having a stable ABI for drivers. Setting up a stable interface would make it easier for Google to label that "not my problem."
The easy answer is there's other factors at play but the biggest is that as much as the dream of the internet was that companies aren't run by the people that have that dream. There's also just additional challenges to running remote employees so companies default to in person because it's easier to monitor and meet with employees in person than remotely. Until they actually start having a hard time finding good enough talent willing to move to where the work is companies would prefer to just hire a slightly worse employee than deal with the additional hassle.
uh? Zebrafish aren't transparent. They are white and stripped in metallic blue. Am I missing something here?
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People already have multiple choices of reversible currencies.

The point is that it is useful to both have reversible, and irreversible currencies existing in the world at the same time.

That way people who want to use reversible currencies can use that, and people who instead prefer irreversible ones can use those.
I like that the thing people make fun of Alex Jones for the most is that "chemicals were turning the frogs gay!" ... and then that turned out to be effectively true.

EDIT: Sorry if you don't like this, but it's true. This isn't a defense of Jones's tactics or character, just that people make fun of him for an outlandish claim he was more or less right about.
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I would expect the HN crowd especially to see the economy as a technical system.

A fluid pipe line, perhaps. There are no ethics. Expect companies to do everything there allowed to. Disallow things you don't want them to do.

It's this easy.
Sure you can, just as we do with people.
I have installed doxygen on a handful of projects. In hindsight, it was a waste of time. No one reads generated codedoc, yet everyone just read the code.

Doxygen should be replaced with rendered comments in IDEs/code editors. That's the real solution.
Typically a premium is paid on top of the current stock price any time one company acquires another company, which is the scenario you describe.

>The target company's stock usually rises because the acquiring company has to pay a premium for the acquisition. The reason for the premium is that the shareholders of the target company, who need to approve the takeover, are unlikely to approve the acquisition unless the stock price is above the prevailing market price. If the takeover bid equates to a lower stock price than the current price of the target company, there's little incentive for the current owners of the target company to sell their shares to the acquiring company.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/203.asp

Granted, this isn't a scenario where majority of owners are "dumping" the stock on the open market, but rather a scenario where a buyer is snatching up a large share of the stock. So really it isn't about the amount of stock being transacted, but the reason for the transaction (sell pressure vs buy pressure).
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They're like small towns dude. Definitely not cities.
Note that the loophole has been closed (no one new can use it), and all companies that use it today will be done with it by 2020. It's not just Google, but many multinationals. A list of those that use it is on Wikipedia[0]. AirBnb being one of those that use it.

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The comments on this are cancer
Portland has almost as big of an issue with homelessness as sf and almost no tech to speak of.
I would argue "hard" is relative and every job has aspects that are "hard" or "easy" depending on the individual. While I appreciate this thread seed, to point to either set and label it seems arbitrary.
>A music streaming service provides me with hundreds of hours of entertainment for $120/yr, guaranteed.

And that music streaming service probably comes close to maxing out the entertainment most people can get from purchasing music, so for most people, music isn't really competing against games in their entertainment budget.
Why would a person voluntarily forego effort to lower their tax burden? People evade personal taxes all the time.
This is really it. Personally I don't think VC's care, and I don't think most managers really care either. If they could have such a high quality experience remotely, they'd be happy to hire remote talent. This takes dedication, self motivation and creativity on both the manager and the employee.

In person is much easier. There are shared experiences we can have. We can randomly bump into each other and have small reminder-type experiences. It's easier to get a sense of what kind of person we're working with, and that becomes an elevated sense of trust. This all matters and it's difficult to do remotely.

I've done both. I prefer onsite. Currently I'm remote and honestly it's a struggle, and regular onsite visits are a must to maintain those trust bonds.
Not sure who the target market is but IF your audience is developers then you can definitely sell something on the lines of training to create your own popular app and you can obviously use your app as an example and qualification.
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Well said. I haven't found a better way to transfer complex ideas than huddling around a whiteboard with a small group. A good slide deck will work too, but it takes time/effort to compile, and doesn't allow seamless Q&A.
Well, I'm not the author and I don't know if any of the guidelines were breached, but good point anyway about not complaining stupidly, sorry for that.
I used to think that this kind of system must be the future, but now I can only think of the greatly increased attack surface if my self-controlled car is not only taking directions from visual input and other sensors, but also all sorts of other unknown devices.
It would be interesting to read the top voted HN jokes, presumably they should be good if the bar is high.
Nonsense. I have just had my Tesla S 70D serviced, they loaned me a S P85 rear wheel drive. It was horrible. Just manoeuvring in a car park was difficult because the car couldn't grip the ice. Got my 70D back today, what a relief! Sticks to the road like glue unless you push it foolishly hard. Both cars, of course, have winter tyres (stud-less).
WebAssembly isn't a magic bullet. The UI toolkit is the browser (DOM/HTML/CSS) and that's where everything will live and die. Whether the app is executing JavaScript or WebAssembly ultimately doesn't matter that much.

Apple still has to provide a solid web browser for mobile internet and they don't seem to be too keen on that anymore. So I'm not sure where your optimism is coming from.

Also, no more annoying app updates? Web apps are even worse with no way to hold onto on old versions! You're updating every time you open the app. Are app updates really that annoying?
90% self employed? Woah? Were there virtually no companies?
Fair enough, but I was really just talking about safety when using public charging points, which implies smaller devices. Also, I was really talking about what I find acceptable. Other people's mileage may vary.
Not mutually exclusive
D) Unlike many states, California has the equivalent of a "citizen advocate" for someone who is involuntarily placed in a mental health facility.

This is good in that those without voice are not simply trampled over. This is bad in that you probably cannot hold someone long enough for effective treatment if they continuously express the desire to leave.
I wouldn't directly equate the quality of a product by how much time it kills for you. I've seen 90 minute films that enriched my life far more than games I've played for dozens of hours.
Statement 2 is not in regards to weapons systems. It is referencing things like self-driving cars.
You can see that if you include the next sentence.

"ou should regulate them based on how they perform. You run the experiments to see if the thing’s biased, or if it is likely to kill fewer people than a person. With self-driving cars, I think people kind of accept that now."
Speaking of significant political differences, NASA has been partnering with Russia and nobody seems to have a problem with that.
It's rhetoric, look it up.
Interesting - I've not spoken to anyone who is both pro-Brexit and pro-Scottish independence. A lot of my pro-Scottish independence friends are in favour of it as a means of getting closer ties to the EU (a la Republic of Ireland). Indeed, the main political party in Scotland is pro-independence but anti-Brexit. Polite request: would you mind giving your reasoning for this stance?
Are we not allowed to criticize cheating significant others? Politicians who lie to their constituents? People who cut in line? Maybe we should just make all these things illegal, since that's the line we're apparently drawing.

Just because something's legal doesn't mean it's ethical.
That's true, the government isn't actually made up of the people you vote for and are replaced every few years.

Now, replace "The longer-term sources/institutions" here or on Reddit with another colloquial term for the same and watch the violent reaction.
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I use the L every day and I'm mixed about it. The L is already the fastest and most on time train in the city. It going down would be a massive inconvenience for me, but I want the city to take steps to improving the subway infrastructure. Backing down now just to get some votes is just kicking the can down the road to another generation to deal with
Railroading people was legal too. So were many other heinous things. That should not stop people from expressing their distaste for certain "legal" practices.

What are we doing here, other than sharing opinions and arguments?
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> And that music streaming service probably comes close to maxing out the entertainment most people can get from purchasing music

There is a large population of concert goers, and large market for music merchandise and musical instruments.

I'd be surprised is music streaming services comprise 50% of the total music market, although they might be more than 50% of all recorded music.
There is an abundant body of evidence showing that coal is a highly polluting source of energy.
I don't want to sing the praises of CNSA's openness here. They have a history of keeping things secret until they work out, like the Soviets did. And probably there are failures we'll never hear about. But if they say they landed a probe on the far side of the Moon then there isn't reason to doubt them.