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>the whole concept of "stealth" aircraft may be limited in the future thanks to ever increasing computation power and clever usage of existing radio waves

I have to disagree. Manufacturers will continue to build stealthy planes and drones, simply because it makes it harder to detect them. Yes, you may be able to detect a stealthy plane at, say, 100km, but using the same techniques you would be able to track a non-stealthy plane at 200km. Stealth isn't an end-all be-all tool that makes vehicles completely invincible, as the Bosnian shootdown of the F-117 showed, but it does make it harder, and I don't know of any technologies that could render it completely useless.
> So lifestyle choices are great and all, but please stop saying they're for the climate. They're insignificant, even if 100% implemented.

This is false.

> That’s why the late 2018 IPCC report stood out that reducing meat consumption by 90% is the single biggest way to reduce global warming. Some studies also show that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by over 75%. In this way, reducing your meat consumption is also a big step to stop not only deforestation but also global warming on a larger scale.

https://e-csr.net/definitions/what-is-definition-deforestati...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7

Or better yet: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2019/08/Fullreport-1... (search for "meat" and "diet")
Geology PhD here, caveat emptor:

If you don't find research compelling, then don't go for a PhD. It's not worth it on any front--you'll be broke, stressed and miserable for years and then quite possibly quit with little to show for it.

I think the concerns about a typical software engineering job not being interesting or allowing for intellectual growth or exploration are also overblown. Programming is pretty special in that there are a lot of different ways to do things, and the barrier to entry is incredibly low. If you're bored you can spend what work time you can get away with, and what personal time you have, and explore side channels or new approaches to optimizing parts of what you're already working on.

Interactive theorem proving is indeed cool, but it's not the only thing out there, and if working on it comes with a certain lifestyle that you find untenable, then don't feel bad about passing on it. There are lots of cool things to do, and plenty of other trains to be one of the first aboard--just keep a look out while you're doing whatever you end up doing.

Furthermore you can always go back and get a PhD unless other circumstances (i.e. kids and the need for a higher income) get in the way.

That being said, I got a PhD and it definitely made my life more interesting, but I'm a committed research scientist and would rather do nothing else, so there weren't a lot of other options for me.
You're right – so take your argument, and follow it to its logical conclusion.

Precisely because individuals act in the way you describe, change has to come from the top, ideally in the form of economic incentives. Make polluters pay, and the market will work out the rest. If you're worried about carbon taxes hurting the average Joe, well, just give the tax revenue back to the citizens – the competitive incentives still work regardless [0].

Getting this kind of legislation through requires putting pressure on politicians. And they would love nothing more than for us to continue bickering amongst ourselves about whether vegetarianism or plastic straw bans are the greater personal sacrifice.

[0] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/basics-carbon-fee-dividend/
Plumbers salaries close to that of doctors when student loans factored in (2011)
One tactic that seems like it will be very effective is to call or write your congressperson to let them know that you support H.R. 763. The bill has support from economists and scientists alike. It's designed not just to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to do it in a way that minimizes impact on the economy, and also provides an incentive for other countries to pass similar legislation (by imposing tariffs on imports from countries that don't).
I read through the resignation notices linked from OP, and this one seems to provide some more detail: https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6718/b...
Probably because they really are holding it wrong?
Taking a look at the data, it's not that damning. Our upward swing really started in 1995 and hasn't increased since. 2005 was an outlying year, and the rest really aren't that much of a big deal. No real upward swing since 95.

I will say our hurricane floor count is higher on average by 2-3. I have a hard time believing there were zero hurricanes some years. Meteorology and aeronautics really was useless before the 60s (compared to today). So, numbers before then are hard to take seriously and are probably understated.

Our 5 year average of storms is trending down (slightly) since 08 as well. 10 year average peaked in 05 and has dropped since 2012.

My grand point, hurricanes right now don't make good evidence for global warming. There are far better evidence points and general scientific knowledge about greenhouse gases. Using hurricane statistics is only going to lead to ammo for deniers as they don't pay attention to better evidence. Will hurricanes potentially intensify in both volume and strength? It's definitely possible if ocean temperatures rise on average. That's how hurricanes are "fueled". But right now, we don't have good evidence of that being a truth.
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>Now though I stick to brands such as COS, yes they do cost x5 or X10 what H&M costs, but the difference in the clothe is evident.

Yeah, but do they really last 5-10 times as long? If not, then from a purely economic point-of-view, they're not as good a deal. Spending 10x as much for something that lasts 2x as long really doesn't make economic sense: you can buy 2 of the cheaper thing and still spend 1/5 as much money.
Another Namespace collision with iZotope RX (a audio retouche tool).
Hippies are at least as greedy as anyone else.
The weakness in F-35's have been well known for a long time now.

They've been well known since that a F-117 was shot down in 1999 during the Serbia conflict. The actual event was mostly due to bad operational tactics on the American's side and a very lucky shot, but it did highlight that it was possible to detect stealth fighters using coldwar-era Soviet technology.

The problem is that the stealth is specifically geared towards XHF frequencies, which are the frequencies used in radar guided missiles.. which are the favored missiles for the USA.

However the planes lack the physical size and features necessary to completely absorb VHF radar. VHF lacks the resolution necessary for guided missiles and VHF radar stations must be very large, but it can be used to monitor air traffic over vast areas.

So if you detect a aircraft on VHF and then point your XHF radar at it and nothing shows up... Then you know you are dealing with a USA stealth fighter.

Stealth has been heavily oversold to the American public, but foreign governments are not so vulnerable to USA industrial-military propaganda.

This doesn't mean that stealth is worthless. It does dramatically reduce chances of detection, just doesn't make them invisible. They are still largely invulnerable to radar-guided missiles. The size of VHF radar arrays needed precludes their use on other aircaft.

So to make this sort of thing still requires a sophisticated network connecting large and easily found radar stations, which themselves can be targeted and disrupted in a combat environment. There is still major hurdles needed to solved before it would be possible to actually shoot down these aircraft with radar-guided missiles.

Also this technique doesn't work as well against aircraft the size of B-2 bomber.
Companies are worth what people are willing to to pay for them. Softbank was willing to pay an amount most others weren't. In that situation there are 2 options, take the lower price, or wait until the higher price is proved to be justified.

I don't know at what point we can decide that the vision fund isnt, well, visionary. As things stand though, if you have faith in Weworks business model, this seems like a reasonable move.

To be clear, I don't have any particular faith in that business model, but I don't have any money on the line either way.
AWS is a software company masquerading as a retail company.

Where it's different from those others is it's selling innovative software services to others.
> How is this comment relevant to WeWork? How has it "cheated"?

They borrowed short, lent long and then pretended it was as sustainable business. To their credit, they abundantly disclosed their shenanigans. (I haven't seen any evidence suggesting investors can reasonably claim fraud.) But they were playing fast and loose with basic economics.

At its core, sure, WeWork could have been a business. Its thesis, that office space should be treated as a service versus capital expense, is plausible. But there was so much garbage--the party-at-work hypothesis, thoughtless cross-selling, nepotism, consciousness nonsense, self-dealing, et cetera--that the value got diluted while the price was pumped.
Iranian-made cruise missiles seem super-cheap yet very effective. They also have lots of even-cheaper drones. The Houthi use them to attack oil installations and Patriot batteries.

I think the recent attack on the refinery with 18? Drones and 7 cruise missiles (3 fell short?) could be referred to as “bombardment”.
Not necessarily. You don't need marketing and sales people if you have a free-tier product that markets itself. Michael Stonebraker, the guy who took Postgres from academia and into the real world, talks about how he applies this with VoltDB

https://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebr...

Only on a tangent - it's an otherwise fascinating episode from a database wizard.
I would add another Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

A collection of (mostly) spoiler-free quotes to emphasise my point: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
Waiting for Stripe's new API that adds GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE functionality for your companies IPO.
At Yahoo (I joined via acquisition) we had a mass layoff a few months after our 1 year vesting cliff (so we were all interviewing and planning to leave). A few people already had offers in hand but hadn't given notice and were laid off. They were so excited. Meanwhile, the new grad got laid off and was blinking back tears.

It sucked. I left a month later and even though I told management I was looking they chose to keep me for a month and cut the kid who actually wanted to work there.
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Never realized there were so many ways to go about creating space for deep work. I see and use the Bimodal strategy most often, but I'm interested in how Rhythmic might work. Personally that last one, Journalistic, just seems like setting yourself up to never get anything done.
One possible ramification is that the so called "window" is about to close and as such, most companies will have a bit of a higher bar to IPO. "Good" companies might raise money at worse terms than otherwise. Backpressure could mean a harder environment to raise capital all the way back to early rounds. Or this is just a one time shitty governance company and things will keep going. You know, past results yada yada.
Recently the Chinese government ran a full-page ad in a national newspaper explaining "their view" of "the Hong Kong situation." The newspaper got a lot of flack for publishing the ad, but I think neither they nor the Chinese government did anything wrong. Because the sender of the ad was clearly identified people could judge for themselves. While the ad was propaganda it wasn't manipulative or underhanded.

But what is going on these days is that governments are engaging in propaganda where the identity of the sender is shrouded. For example Twitter accounts controlled by the Chinese state pretending to be common citizens. I think such propaganda is not ok and also that it is not only China and Russia doing it but also Western states and states that are supposed to be friendly to the West.
I love how the gitlab fanboys try to have it both ways.

When arguing why it’s better than alternatives, the talking point is that “it’s open-source!” But when it’s (rightfully) pointed out that this doesn’t leave much of a defensive moat, the open-source philosophy gets thrown under the bus.

Yes, yes...it’s “open core”. That just means that it’s 10% more difficult to clone and replicate the business. Mark my words: someday, Gitlab will do something to piss off the “community”, and this will quickly happen.
Wars happen due to material and ideological differences. If country A engages country B in a robot war and all the robots die, the humans and the differences will remain.
> Only if the question is "Is window.onbeforeunload reliable to track online/offline users?"

We're gonna have to disagree on this.

That's like me asking "how do I get to this restaurant", and you give me directions to the place that burned down a year ago without mentioning that. Useless, and infuriating when I drive a half hour to discover it.
Regardless of the long term trends toward populations moving toward the city, I don't see why most newly built suburban homes after 2025 wouldn't come with a Tesla (or competitor) solar roof.

The 20-50k that it would cost would just get absorbed into the mortgage and become an asset that would increase the value of the home - besides that, over the over a 30 year period, if you are able to capture even half that value in electricity savings, it becomes a no brainer as it would cost what a normal roof costs anyway.

There are also the benefits of more efficient energy transmission and resiliency of micro-grids as just bonuses.
We're talking about an office here, not a SS regiment.
The old system, whatever it was, incentivized bad mod behavior and ruined the experience.
That wasn't Groupon's problem. Cloudflare and Groupon have virtually nothing in common.
In finance no-one admits that they screwed up unless they have no choice, if at all.
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The smoking of cannabis on Rogen's show was a bold social statement, but he also demonstrated that he has no idea how to smoke cannabis. Personally I view Elon's action as a profound statement on why you shouldn't smoke cannabis.
I've never created an online account with Microsoft. I don't see any advantage in giving them my login information. It makes me mad every time I have to pixel hunt for the link that is way down in the corner and one shade darker than the background. Like people at Microsoft have to know this is absolute bullshit and yet they keep doing it.
Not the OP, but often times people coming out of PhDs don't have applicable engineering skills that are used to deliver actual products to actual people. Getting results to put into a publication and delivering a product that people rely on are two skillsets that have very little to do with one another.
Thanks for the reply and detailed explanation. I've been messing around with dashboards/signage just in a personal capacity (hobby/fun) which was what initially spawned my question.
The concepts behind some things like React will last. I have seen several incarnations of GUI event frameworks and once you learn one, it is easier to learn others.

That said, some technologies are fads that learning them for the sake of learning doesn't have a big payoff. I learned TCL at one job and have never used it again. There will always be things you learn for software development that proves to be dud. Get used to learning and be happy when something has long term success. It is vary hard to predict that the long term success will be.
If you like this concept, you might like https://clay.run which is spreadsheet + functions hosted in the cloud
It seems like you are agreeing with me? :)
I shopped at Uniqlo in Japan too, and it seems nearly identical to the stuff in the US (DC). The prices are slightly lower, and you can get it tax-free if you're a tourist, so I stocked up on some things while I was there.
Good point. But I guess the lesson for me is to have deadlines in the first place. At least it gives you a target.

I think, "go! go! go!"... and then fuck around with small details until I go broke. I need way more awareness of the big picture.

It's so hard to balance. I need a partner, but I've really isolated myself at this point :(
Time will tell, but I think the answer will depend on the situation. Sure, $1.5M is a lot, but it's able to deliver 400+kg of explosives at a distance of over 1000 km, while cruising at 800+kph at an altitude of 50m. I think any drone you design with those same parameters is going to cost about the same. Now, the re-usability is nice, but that isn't free. For instance, you need to either double the fuel capacity or cut the range in half, since you want your drone to be able to make the return trip. And now you have to worry about the reliability and maintainability of the engine and sensors. Plus, you have to think about survivability of your drone: how many sorties can you expect that drone to go on before it is shot down? Whether you want to use cruise missiles or drone swarms will depend on the increased cost to purchase and maintain drone vs. a cruise missile, and the odds that it will be shot down after dropping the bomb. In a low threat environment where you have air superiority you definitely want drones, but in a high threat environment where you need to penetrate an integrated air defense network, I'm not sure.
So much Neal Stepheson. REAMDE includes a MMORPG money laundering scheme as a centerpiece, Diamond Age sneaks in a tutorial on what Turing machines are.
I have 50,000+ points on Stack Overflow. Could be that I gamed the system, yes, but that would mean the system is rotten to the core. If that is the case, why are people so emotional about it?
There is a thing called "negativity bias", where negative experiences have a greater effect than positive ones. So reading negative reviews is actually the natural thing to do.

Should I want to game the system. I would definitely post negative reviews on my competitor's products. Safety-related issues, like some component catching fire would be ideal but even a seemingly well thought out disappointed review could be effective. With that in mind, I am also suspicious of negative reviews.

I don't know if that happens in real life. It's risky, and attacking all your competitors is a lot more work than paying for glowing reviews for your own products, but it is not like discrediting your competitors is a new thing.
My feelings are a bit more nuanced (and I don't generally hate people I don't know well enough as it's a waste of time).

I like the things he has done, I just don't like how he does things.
I don't buy your defeatism at all. The US certainly has the economic clout to make progress, and there's certainly a middle ground between doing nothing and expecting that every attempt to regulate externalities must be 100% effective and 100% enforced on every economic actor. At some (usually reasonably achievable) point, compliance becomes cheaper, or substitution occurs.
Huh? Those are lifestyle related. Transpo and electrical use are consumption, primarily of the middle and upper middle class and their preference to drive and live in sprawl rather than dense, city centric housing. Industrial uses refine petroleum/steel/copper, etc...for use in commercial goods that are then consumed by the middle and upper middle class. I agree with the meat deal (I never understood why people treat it like it's a major cause of GHG's, the most it contributes to flattening forests for farm land but usual AG does that too), but the categories you mentioned are either directly consumption or facilitate consumption.

Sure, they may require systemic changes, but certain people have to then get out of the way, like stop resisting things like traffic calming and bike lanes and dense housing development near their workplaces that allow people to change their consumption in the first place.
Once Spotify starts launching their own content, I'd expect the music studios to react how TV studios reacted to Netflix originals - jumping ship to their own services, draining Spotify's catalogue and USP.

I'm sure balkanisation will come to the music space eventually, as we've seen happen to Netflix and is in the process of happening to Steam (against the wishes of consumers, but publishers want their own subscription revenue streams), but given that space was unified with iTunes previously, there's more inertia with the one stop shop model.
Sauce plz
Off-topic: has anyone seen the new Catch-22 series on Hulu? Is it worth watching? I recently finished the book and happened to notice they made a miniseries of it!
No, gay rights and equal rights for minorities are admirable.

Advocating for adults to rape children, on the other hand, is reprehensible.

Your argument appears to be that there is no way to tell the difference between good things and bad things.

My counterargument is that there are ways to tell the difference. And that when you do, you'll conclude that adults raping children is one of the bad things.
Aside, doi.org is redirecting to crack/malware site "thesoftin.com" both @1.1.1.1 and @8.8.8.8 report the same cloudflare url for this malware site (104.26.9.237). I dunno if a cloudflare bug or a hostile takeover of doi.org
A solar panel for every house? Md. suburb to consider California-style mandate
It really is shocking how many marketing practices and how much of the sales mentality is stuck in the Glengarry Glen Ross era. Time for the lines between dev and, basically, the rest of the business to blur for good!
I used to trade all the instruments mentioned in the article.

It seems a little overblown to me. If you were setting up a new spreadsheet(!) you'd tend to call some counterparties and hear what they thought of how to value things. It's not something they'd keep secret from you, maybe you'd even get a free meal out of it. If course you still have to think for yourself whether what they said makes sense.

As for BS model, I think of it as a demo tool. Everyone knows the underlying assumptions are not met, but it still illustrates the so called stylised facts that people in social sciences tend to be fond of.
Good question but its a non starter. Do not look to college, people and phd to live a interesting life. It seems you have few options to explore so why not start exploring them before making a decision.

- look at job boards and see if you find interesting work, apply and see if you get in. You can always return to get your phd if that is not interesting.

- search on linkedin with people who are working in interesting jobs and have phd. Email them and talk about your question, people are normally eager to help.

I noticed that right now some of the AI and ML jobs do require PHD but it’s limited and by the time you finish it may become mainstream. Look into those options.

At the end you make your life interesting by figuring out yourself and not depending on job market or friends.

Last thing based on your words it looks like you enjoy people and want to leave student life then just get into one of the tech company as a researcher where you will get all of that.

Who knows may be that is not what you wanted after all, but atleast you will know.
I wonder if he'd had means, not a lot just a few thousand dollars, he would have been able to remain free.

Maybe moving completely out of the area, buying a used car cash and driving to another state entirely?

Somehow getting himself into Mexico and boarding a ship somewhere in south america or asia?

I wonder if these days with all the surveillance it really takes living in a cave to get away from law enforcement.
"Winning hearts and minds" isn't a bad thing on its own - NATO forces are objectively better than islamic extremists like ISIS and the Taliban - but acting like our military is wholly altruistic is naive at best and purposefully disingenuous at worst.