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Anecdotally, VPNs are incredibly popular in Iran and the government hasn't had a great deal of success in blocking their usage. Unlike the Chinese GFW, the government entities in Iran that want to run a nationwide firewall are not able to attract the 'best and brightest' network engineers. The sort of Iranians who might be qualified to implement such are not living in Iran, they're living in Los Angeles and working for six-figure salaries in US dollars.
I would assume that if any such data set was made public that it would be anonymized.
I mean, Unreal Engine and CRYEngine are source-available if not open-source. I'm not sure that it's so far-fetched to call for the open-sourcing of game technology like engines.
Could go either way. If they are smart then they use any money raised in the IPO to create new products or services to grow the business. If they are stupid then they just take the existing customer base and figure out ways to extract more cash out of them by doing the things you mentioned.
Why not let evolution help you, just grow a huge number of the currently "minimal" cell, sequence them all, and then repeat the experiment by replicating any mutant with a smaller genome as the new "minimal" cell?
It's certainly a question worth pondering. I don't see why the default assumption should be that this app is a net good though.

I wonder too, if this app didn't exist, and they didn't let women travel at all, if their society would pay a cost that would eventually become untenable. Thus, while it's possible this would be bad in the short term (not demonstrated though) it's possible that it would also be good in the long term (also not demonstrated).

In my opinion, without really compelling evidence, we should opt not to participate in the subjegation of women.
question..how does spacex make revenue? or I might just google...
Thanks for these links. Never did drugs but as a teenager I once had pneumonia and a 104F fever. The night before I got treated I was seeing some of the more organic shaped form constants with "demonic" overtones. (I put that in quotes because I was aware, even at the time, that it was just random patterns not anything real.) The first night after I got antibiotics with a still bad but lesser fever, I saw geometric form constants with happier overtones such as 100s of penguins dancing on chessboards or hexagons. I didn't know at the time that it had a name, but I theorized at the time that what I was experiencing was "pure numeric" or "pure geometric" qualia - that is, part of my brain was generating the message of seeing numerous things or geometrically aligned things, and other parts of my brain were ad libbing what it was that was numerous or arranged that way.

(As for how I got to that state: I was in Marines Corps training and we had sick call, but they said sick call is not for a cold or the sniffles. So the first few days I toughed it out. Eventually I realized no this is more serious; every morning after that I turned up for sick call and got turned away "you just have a cold, f--k off." Since I didn't have a physical injury to point to I just got lectures about malingering, while I was passing out on my feet everywhere and coughing up quarts of green goop. Eventually I just refused to stand down from the sick call until they took me to the corpsman, where it turned out I had a bad case of pneumonia and a 104F fever. They gave me antibiotics and sent me back (walking, alone) to my barracks, did not even keep me for observation.)
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China and the USA should not be friends. China is committing mass genocide and is overall a horrible country. The USA definitely has some problems, but nowhere near the same level. Americans should encourage the USA to not be friendly toward China. Similarly, people in other countries should ask the same of their governments.

Of course, that doesn’t justify any racism or hatred toward individual Chinese people, especially immigrants who have had no role at all in causing this. It’s a moral obligation to be good to other people, and this includes making sure that other people do not commit genocide.
Ah, but this is indeed just us saying "hey, we don't see any monopoles anywhere, so let's simplify the equations to divB=0". The "full" equations have a divB={stuff that's perfectly symmetric to divE RHS}, and also a modified curlE term to make the "full" set of equations completely symmetric for electricity and magnetism. You can see these equations at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole
it would seem, its all about the smartphone interacting with facebook. I strongly suspect if you left your smartphone at home, and used a dumb phone, during your day then later checked your smartphone, or desktop browser, there would be very little evidence of FB creeping on you.
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Florida is popular retirement destination in US and comfort living cost there for 2 people is about $50K annual without taxes. Part of the high cost is that most people in our generation won’t have paid off their mortgage and monthly $1500 expense is expected just for that. Add on the top property taxes, high cost of medical, high cost of smart devices, phone plans, eating out even once a week - etc. If you have kids who are still dependent then you can easily add another significant chunk.
If purchased through the app and you were billed by the App Store (i.e. you were asked by iOS to use Touch ID/FaceID/Apple ID password) then yes.
A somewhat off-the-wall solution to this problem would be to require major versions to start at some arbitrary lower limit much greater than 1. For example, imagine every semantic version started at 123.0.0. It's less of a big deal to go from version 123 to 124 than it is to go from 1 to 2.
I didn't write fun, I wrote excitement. Taking drugs is fun, adventures are exciting.
Wow. That is a lot of effort being put for internet points.

That person seems to moderate a lot of communities too!
I understand the reservation about an IPO changing their motivations, but it seems like a pretty predictable path for a company that has raised >$600m.

It does not seem to me obviously better (for developers or their customers) for Unity to stay private or be acquired. Acquisition could threaten the cross-platform appeal and perpetual private state would not deliver a return to investors.

And I don't think there is an inherent threat to either the freemium model or a perversion of the roadmap. There seems to be real competition between game engines and the value the free offering provides is one of the easiest entry points to game development. This delivers a huge number of potential developers, which is the foundation that sustains the paying developers above it.

Somebody there told me once that their mission was to 'have half the world's creative content created in Unity', meaning not only video games, but films and presumably traditional CAD markets such as architecture and product design. If this is true, I think the real threat to developers irrespective of IPO is one of focus. Can Unity evolve the product for their core market, or will they become too horizontally committed and lose focus?

This is a place where the market could 'correct' a land grab strategy by driving the company to focus on the core business.
But how much is a zero(W) in the new RPF store?
It's more that you have something to start on.

We can tackle problems like building a Mars colony. We can make rockets, we can do life support, we can scout the area, calculate trajectories, figure out how to make rockets that land.

However, we can't do time travel because there's nothing to start on.
Aw, man. Some day we'll have this all figured out, but that day won't be soon.
Cyber war would be such a situation, after first strike.

Or before first strike, and attack from sources outside the country. In which case, seeing Russia go dark would be like an indication of cyber "missle" launch, but with probably milliseconds of early warning.

Makes me wonder if nations have or will have systems to try to detect when another nation is going offline and try to go offline themselves before damage can be done. Perhaps the best attacks will be launched from inside borders (imagine if one nation had hidden missle silos inside another nation's borders).

Then imagine if actual network problems were misinterpreted as a cyber "launch," and caused one nation to "launch" in response. Similar to ICBMs, there would be a window in which counterattacks could be launched, but it would be very, very small in comparison.
i saw an interesting solution to chinese "shilling" on 4chan recently, just post a bunch of words that get a site filtered automatically by the great firewall of china. like "tiananmen massacre" and the like. ofc it being 4chan i don't know how reliable that information is
Warning, unpopular opinion coming up. Bay area may have the critical mass for investors and technologists but I think we owe it to ourselves to have some diversity of thought and ambition. I am on the west coast but have avoided moving to bay area due to the lack of intellectual diversity. I know my venues are much more limited in some ways but my experiences and interactions are much richer in others (I know this because I have split my time 50/10/40 between bay area, new york and southern california for nearly a decade since 2010). Weather, access to money and talent are very strong and influential variables but to me, diversity of thought (and approach to capital) are more valuable. Clearly, this is anecdotal, so take it with a rock of salt.
The fuel is minimal part of the cost - putting 100ton of it into LEO even at $10K/kg is just $1B. And with BFR it will be even much cheaper than that.
I'm pretty sure you can find a group seeing the existence of a platform for managing X (replace with something you disagree with) the same provocation. Does that give them an licence to retaliate ?

How far do you go through the rabbit-hole of so called "provocation" before it's deemed "too much" ?
Mars One wasn't seriously aiming to colonize Mars. It was a glorified suicide mission. That isn't appealing to most people, especially compared to a trip round the moon you'd actually have a good chance of surviving.
Is your concern that an NSA agent will sneak into your house at night to download information the TV secretly stockpiled about how often you watched "HDMI 2"? I'm not able to think of any other "privacy concern" you could have with a non-networked TV. Without connecting to a network, it doesn't matter what software is running on it, it can't share any information with anyone but you. It's as innocuous as your microwave oven. If your microwave right now doesn't have a general purpose computer in it, the one you replace it with in 10 or 20 years probably will, even if all it's doing is running the clock and cooking timers. General purpose computers are so cheap that it makes less and less sense to use more purpose-specific hardware, yet it makes zero sense to give your microwave oven a shell for you to tinker with the software.
This is a cliche that gets wheeled out regularly but without much critical thought.

Google cancels stuff. A lot? Maybe but they have a lot of products.

But it's not without logic and it's much less likely to effect paid products and core services. How many parts of Docs/Drive have been cancelled? How many GCP components?

Next time someone is about to post another "Google cancels everything!" comment I hope they might pause and think whether it's plausible in this specific case. (And maybe pause to consider whether they are adding anything new to the debate or just repeating the same point that's been made a thousand times previously)
I very much doubt that. I certainly learned it in a physics undergraduate degree.
You're right, it takes a long time and is probably unsuited for a manned mission, but it has been done before and can be useful for getting supplies to a Mars base. https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/mission/timeline/mtaerobraking/
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>So a "rational" actor in economics seem (to me at least) to mean the typical selfish bastard who only acts to maximise their own profit outcome, no matter how its defined, and excludes a green warrior buying a good or chattel to NOT use it, or somebody buying it to give to charity, or buying it to round up another charge to get north of a shipping fee but its a nonce purchase and has no intent or purpose..

That's not true at all. Rational is defined as someone acting to maximise their utility (roughly satisfaction), which is capable of encompassing "a green warrior buying a good or chattel to NOT use it, or somebody buying it to give to charity, or buying it to round up another charge to get north of a shipping fee but its a nonce purchase and has no intent or purpose" perfectly fine.
There are so many things that are iffy but do not violate these.
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We can't know how many, but we know it's possible. For e-vote, i'm not sure it's possible. Hell, i can't tell with certainty my own laptop is clean.
"First, accept that the vast majority of people you want to hire are already employed and normally couldn't be bothered with your startup. The leftovers are either really unlucky or not worth hiring."

Hey, I'm not employed! Haven't had a full time job in almost a year. But it's mostly because working 10 hours a week on projects pays as well as a full time job.

If someone wants to hire me, I'll listen, but you probably have to offer double what I make working from home.
What if this is partly due to non-spenders downloading less apps?
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Google shut down support for Project Maven, which was just running code in their cloud at retail prices. If you can impose your morality in a way that prevents the defense of the constitution of the country in which your company is incorporated, I don't see what the issue is with imposing your morality on a dictatorial foreign government.
Google Cloud has a very different SLA and deprecation policy than the APIs for Google user-facing services. I have not seen a single feature deprecated or removed without replacement in Google Cloud during my usage over the last two years.
US public opinion. Why? Because Apple and Google are both American companies, and their respective stores are hosted in US.

If Saudis don't like it, they can roll their own, without our assistance, and without us profiting from any of it.
Thank you! I will make sure I check out each of them.
I guess this should have been expected after Putin's interview with Megyn Kelly

Disconnecting Iran from SWIFT[1], continuing use of export controls [2] even after the fall of Soviet Union etc have demonstrated that non-western powers may not have sufficient room to set foreign policy on their own.

This might improve that situation a little bit for current and future Russian governments

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-iran-sanctions-swift/swi...

[2] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/regulations/export-adminis...
Much too ambitious, especially with massive organizations (such as NASA) being unable to with much larger budgets and experience. Called it as a non-starter from the get-go. Good thing too, probably would have blown up on the pad and never left earth.

I think they could have got quite a bit of funding from crowd sourcing with lower ambitions, such as having a crowd-sourced satellite to go to Mars to conduct research. They could pay some external company to do a lot of the engineering and just act as a middle-man.

Like the cube sats, offer to take other people's research/commercial projects all the way to Mars and you have yourself a semi-viable investment project. For the backers, allow them time on the satellite, name stuff, something on the satellite that stores something personal to them (perhaps digitally and transmitting it back to earth with a massive time delay) - I think people would be interested.
I went to a planting a few years ago put on by this same group in Ann Arbor, MI at the Nichols Arboretum [0]. It was pretty inspiring to see a real living clone and hear David Milarch speak about the science and art of cloning these old growth trees. IIRC, the clones planted in Ann Arbor are from one of the Giant Sequoias at [1] in northern MI.

[0] http://sustainability.umich.edu/events/sequoia-planting
[1] https://www.michigan.org/property/lake-bluff-bird-sanctuary
For God's sake, STOP trying to re-implement my browser's interface with Javascript! I don't want you to "put in the effort" to make my URL bar, back/forward buttons, and tabs work the way they naturally do in my browser; that's what my browser is FOR! Even when the developer does put in the effort, the results are usually _just_ different enough in various subtle ways from the browser's native behviour as to be annoying.

Just build a normal website and let my browser do what it was built to do. The APIs that allow SPAs are great and useful. The Pixlr online photo editor has a good reason to be a SPA, and that works great for it. Your forum/email interface/management API would work better as a normal website.
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With senior engineers, you tell them what you do and ask them their opinion on it. Pay attention to their questions. Ask them what they think would improve the system. Pay attention to how they diagnose your system.
You and I evidently have different definitions of "decent programmer" then. It sounds like your standards are much lower.
Facebook actally has this too, at least in their mobile app.
It would be difficult to sequence millions/billions of cells to find the one with the shortest code. Also, a cell with minimal genetic code may not necessarily have the best survival skills, so it may die off if it's in the same setting as other ones.

You would need to deliver some sort of an evolutionary pressure to the cells to shed any unnecessary genetic material.
Hangouts. But chat and the new video solution are a fairly seamless transition. So seemless that I've used the new video call solution for months and not noticed its name yet.
That difficulty changes substabtially if you have rapidly reusable rockets.

The fuel itself is cheap, it's throwing away a rocket per launch that makes it infeasible.
While Reddit is indeed what you make of it and your experience heavily depends on the subs you're visiting, these days I see a lot of subs in decline - subs that are dedicated to niche topics and used to focus on meaningful discussion increasingly turn into a sea of pictures and memes, repeatedly quoting the same inside jokes, asking the same beginners' questions and recommending the same small set of products the community seems to have decided on.
I always wonder how grafting and budding were discovered.
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Wow! That is one big tree.
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I find it amazing that, even though Mars One looked so sketchy since the beginning, still 200,000 people applied for their program. That means that still many people dream about exploring space. If a solid project was launched, probably hundreds of millions of people would apply to travel and settle down on another planet. It makes me very hopeful.

Until a few years ago, medias were always very negative and described space exploration as a waste of money. But, it is getting a bit better. This may be thanks to Space X, the new race to the Moon (China), the landings on a comet (Europe) and an asteroid (Japan), the Indian mission on Mars, and so on.

Now, the project of replacing the ISS (end scheduled in 2020) with a permanent base on the Moon sounds more plausible (Moon Village).
> Say you suddenly open a wormhole and gravitational force pours though. This would violate conservation of gravity since now there is gravity when before there wasn't.

Note that you can replace "open a wormhole" by "suddenly introduce a mass" and this statement is the same. In practice, both "introducing a mass" and "opening a wormhole" cannot be done instantly unless you violate conservation of energy, and as Einstein told us, energy also introduces gravitational force. So as you're turning the wormhole on, you would see the gravitational field increasing slowly and in accordance with conservation of mass and energy. There's no additional "conservation of gravity".

> It's not about having the monopole, it's about creating just one of them, and not creating both at once.

Ah, but this is conservation of magnetic charge. In a world where magnetic monopoles exist, this follows directly from the "full" Maxwell's equations, just like electric charge conservation does. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations#Charge_con...

But the point is, we can't even create two magnetic monopoles in a way that conserves total magnetic charge. We literally need a new fundamental particle for this to happen.
That is a horrible racist argument. to imply that it’s arguable that 3,4,5 generation muslims living in South America are terrorist just because they are.

A quick look at your comments says you are not thou. The statement is missguided
Hey everyone!

I’m the creator of the website and a former member of the FRC team 1391 (2018 - lead programmer and driver).

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What we really need with respect to Saudi Arabia is a popular campaign similar to the one that was directed at South Africa in 1980s. Boycott everything they have a stake in. Push your government to embargo everything they buy or sell. They're in a much weaker position than SAR, too, in terms of what they need to import, so it'd be much more effective.