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Let's just talk in Quechua then, evidentiality is engraved in their grammar!(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages)
“Blursed” is a mix of blessed and cursed, it’s a sweet-n-sour style tension in a comment or picture that doesn’t resolve cleanly one way or the other, and from that it’s more interesting than a basic setup with a 180-degree twist ending that has a definite answer to whether it’s nice or nasty, wholesome or mean, kind or cruel, etc.

And because most of Reddit is young people with lots of time on their hands, looking for entertainment and pastime, content with no particular niche and with a twist that isn’t an explicit joke or reference, is widely engaging.
I'm far from the only one rinning a business atop AGPLv3 software :P

Amazon was the pioneer of SaaSifying AGPLv3 software.
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In Smalltalk, how would how would the consumer be given differing implementations of this "new" method? And wouldn't that just make the "new" method a factory?
They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO

It's really not that simple. An analogue in software would be "Ford could have just made a fully self-driving car."

MMOs are both technically hard and artistically hard, and even Blizzard has failed at making them in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_...
There is a lot of professional development during PhD too. Especially if you're at a well funded institution with enough prestige to have a lot of international collaboration. The resources are typically a lot more experimental and RnD focussed than you will find in many companies. Having done a masters I'd say the "learning" there is rote and the sort of thing you do in school. PhD what you learn is how to actually see through BS you otherwise took as "truth" on a masters, see the landscape of research at play, which ideas have merit, which don't, what's interesting and likely has large implications etc. The actual skills and exposure is something quite tricky to explain but unless you do research in a really big company, it might be a lot harder to develop those. Especially if you are an entry level technician, as most of the more senior positions are likely to be those with PhDs already. At least in biotech, software and hardware it's way more about industry career paths and RnD.
People aren't *goods!
You roll the dice and hope for the best. There's only so much you can do. Pick 2, cost, comfort, reliability
Well you’re not getting paid more when it’s on your free time.
I think Microsoft Access has a lot in common with Javascript. Both are Lovecraftian horrors that no sane person would (clean-sheet) design in their current form. Both derive their ubiquity from having been the only or nearly the only option in their domain. Javascript being the only way to write web-native programs and already there in the browser, and Access being the only database available to users without admin rights on their computers and already there in the Microsoft Office suite. Both are tragedies of opportunity cost for the history of computing by pre-empting or delaying the emergence of any replacement built on superior technical foundations.
Great project and write-up. I'm reminded of a couple other projects.

MC Hammer project for LLVM tests round-trip properties of the ARM assembler. http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Richard_Barton.pdf

Sandsifter x86 fuzzer. https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter https://youtu.be/KrksBdWcZgQ
>As of July 2016, the world had a capacity of 20 million standard shipping containers.

And if we could pack passengers into shipping containers, or even house them on freighters without refitting, we'd be great. But we can't, because people don't want to go from flying on airplanes to sitting on the floor of a cargo hold. So the build outs are still necessary. We need new ships.

>What kind of pollution matters, and where it's emitted also matters. More Sulfur, less CO2, etc

The goal is to cut down on all pollution.

>That's not the only option: battery weight is not an issue in ships; their consumption per tonne-kilometer is so low that solar can contribute a lot, et cetera.

It's still probably most efficient to just burn a clean fuel and then sequester the CO2.

All of which calls for even more build outs and refitting, in addition to even more pollution expended in pursuance of those activities.

>Letting perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the big reasons holding the world back

Which is exactly the reason that the very next line designates such a solution, "completely unworkable in today's world."
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> Because we know it's not the cleverest idea in the world and therefore we don't want to play that game.

This awfully sounds like:

"We know better"
"Hey Catalans, you guys don't really know what's good for you, so we are taking decisions on your behalf"

All your argument can only be explained from the right of conquest.
my background is in biotech and i've worked at a small handful of biotech startups in a scientific capacity.

here's my advice: unless you have friends who can set you up with the right VCs and ensure that they will be willing to overlook your lack of experience and IP, don't bother.

you're not going to get up to speed working in the lab on your own in any short amount of time. learning the theoretical stuff that you need to know won't take long, but you probably won't understand how to use the theory to make something novel until you've spent time in the lab. and you won't know how to vet the ideas of people with phds, either.

then there's the elephant in the room: risk. biotech is extremely risky because drug development is difficult even under ideal conditions. making "niche drugs" is even more difficult than making drugs for the mainstream because niche diseases won't have as much of the scientific background already researched when you sit down to try to come up with a useful therapy concept.

if you want to talk in more depth about the skills which are actually needed to get into the field in a scientific or a business capacity, i've advised someone who reached out to me here on HN about that exact topic in the past, and i'm more than happy to discuss it with you via email. check out my profile if you're interested.
Why should I assume someone is a rational actor? Why should I take the risk? I pay taxes for professionals who have taken training on how to handle these situations to take that risk. You might live in some nice friendly suburb, but when I saw my neighbor and asked her very politely if there was something she could do about her dog barking all night, her husband came out and threatened violence if I ever talked to his wife again. The cops are here to deal with people like that.
But for landings, it's totally a part of it. If there is a mentionable lateral velocity component, rocket will tip over on landing unless it's center of gravity is very low. It happened just once with SpaceX rocket though.
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Every time Intel has tried to more away from x86 (i960? Itanium? Maybe others...) they end up coming back. The years of backwards compatibility are a big selling point.
That depends on what you consider 'very little'. SC has had annual computer tournaments and research was published on it routinely. Few computer games see nearly as much money and effort put into developing AIs for them, yet the curve of progress was not exactly impressive.
You're pulling this moral relativism play. The point is that Blizzard is an American company, with a largely liberal employee base and has explicitly shown support for certain causes.

They should take a stand. You can't please everyone, so it might as well be those with the right values. And people who think that Muslims should be interred or that HK should cede all political freedom are wrong.
The HK situation left "political non-issue" territory long before Blizzard did anything.
Is there any way to use the service without a Google account?
Do you think there's demand for a motivation as a service non-profit?
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This scam is common in Europe as well. Something very similar happened to me in London where I was seemingly renting from a nice regular person who had a single well reviewed listing. Once I arrived I was met by some guy from a property company who said he "worked with" the lister and he was going to move us to some place better. He showed us a total dump with dilapidated Ikea junk. He basically threatened us with poor reviews/no refund when we didn't take it. Airbnb did literally nothing. I had to reach out to friend that works there to get traction.

Same thing happened in Florence to friends the following year. Luckily that time I had already bailed on Airbnb and got a hotel. But after I helped them look into it I found several instances of the photos/description from their well reviewed host used on other accounts.
I know Trump is in a world of his own, but most often the “lies” are not lies to the speaker or the speaker’s fans. For example Obama’s “if you like your plan you can keep it” regarding Obamacare. It turned out not to be 100% true. To Democrats he was well-intentioned and over-optimistic and couldn’t deliver his promise (probably due to Republican obstructionism) while Republicans had always considered that a lie.

If 50% of the country believes something is a lie and 50% believe it’s mostly true, is it really a lie? The truth is most political “lies” are only considered lies by the opposite party.
> That is so weird. The reason why we have DI and DI frameworks is because we are asked in requirements to make things configurable out-of-code (and at runtime), because someone wants to use a pretty UI or a config file of sorts to set up which behaviour is used to do $thing.

Which is ironic in regard of DI frameworks that rely on in-code annotations to wire dependencies, especially in compiled languages.

Let's not even get started with languages that do not allow ad-hoc object/value creation from external manifests directly, like Go.
I don't think this is apocalyptic. It's not that football would disappear, but professional football leagues would or they would be diminished. I don't know whether that has a significant negative impact on society.
It’s so bad that below master people shouldn’t really be doing too much micro during a fight because they’ll lose out on macro. Even in pro matches you see attention span issues and sometimes avoidance of too much micro to win. Really good Micro is going to win you any battle.
I was recently bit on my ring finger by my indoor house cat. Unbeknownst to me, people were messing with the poor guy all night during a party. I ended up being near him when he freaked out and bit (I am glad it wasn't someone else). Had to go to urgent care and was almost sent to the hospital for an IV drip because my coffee made it seem like I had a fever when they took my oral temp.

The DR reported the bite to the state, who forced a home investigation and vet checks on me. Even though it's no longer infected, my finger/hand still hurts and I expect it to for a long time. The whole thing cost me time away from work, prescriptions/medical stuff, and the cat's vet exam. 10/10 will never own a cat again, especially if I had kids in the house.
The relativistic corrections are cumulative (and, if I recall correctly, have opposite sign!). Without correcting for the shifts, it is my understanding that GPS would be degraded within minutes and useless in less than a day.

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5253894/
I don't think you understood his point. A player doesn't need to have seen a strategy before to react correctly to it. Sometimes a player will pull something completely unexpected out of a hat and lose, because the other guy reacted correctly thanks to his game experience. If you watch any high GM player stream half the time his reaction to what his (worse) opponent is doing is "WTF is this?" as he then proceeds to crush it. Alphastar cannot do that.
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I don’t know how anyone can buy the free speech argument from Facebook when they are extremely strict on any display of adult nudity...
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I'm really surprised that _this_ isn't a more popular take-away among Trump detractors, particularly with regard to things like privacy and government surveillance. "Finding the right balance between security and privacy" sounds a lot different depending on who's mouth it's coming out of and who controls the levers.
They should be dreading it. For an American company, or really any non-Chinese company to bow down to China's censorship regime is unacceptable. I hope Congress doesn't let the issue die. It's an increasing trend that will be harder to curtail the longer it persists.
>don't put censorship into the hands of powerful entities, being it facebook, or religious leaders.

Umm, one of the core principles of religion is providing a framework for mortality. I'd say it's exactly within the scope of religion.

The practical implication of giving religious leaders "too much power" is a cost of religious freedom.
So if I run a advocacy group in favor of asset forfeiture but don’t have money to pay Zuck, then what? Screw my advocacy group? You want folks with money to have “more free speech” and don’t see anything wrong with that?
I’ve never heard this and find it interesting. Do you have any reference material on this idea?
I would second this experience. We travel with our five kids and its sometimes impossible to find a hotel that can accommodate us. That said, I did experience a switcheroo in Chicago similar to the article. However that’s where the similarities end. The place was in the same neighborhood, it was comparable to the listing but the only catch was we were told not say Airbnb to anyone in the building but to say guests of xyz. I felt like a criminal but otherwise the place was very nice and the host was super-responsive even though it was clear he was running multiple properties. Another time in Chicago, the bath tub hardware was broken off when we arrived. My side hustle is house flipping so I fixed it for the owner and they were thankful. I would say the part I find most disturbing about what I see on Airbnb is the rise of “420 friendly” and the presence of cameras in every room. One place we stayed at had obvious cameras on the outside but then just as I’m about to go to sleep I look up at the ceiling and there’s another one in the chandelier above the bed. That’s just beyond ok. As for 420, I just have an issue that if I’m going to take my kids someplace that I’d want reasonable assurances that it’s clean but with cities like LA where there’s a huge number of 420 listings, I’d rather just pay for adjoining rooms in a hotel than take the chance. As far as being an investor in Airbnb, I think a lot of ink has been dedicated to how Airbnb is going to upend the hospitality industry. It’s clear at the beginning the hotels had no response, but I do see hotels adjusting their brands and as someone who uses both hotels and Airbnb’s I’m increasingly more likely to just stay in a hotel. The exceptions are when we vacation in groups... we visited Toronto this summer with family and it was absolutely awesome to have a giant house on the beach for about half of what we would have spent on hotel rooms if there even had been a hotel in the beaches neighborhood. I see a place for both styles of accommodation but given that Airbnb is likely more of a class of property among many rather than an upending of the entire industry, I think valuation is going to be a real challenge.
Avid gamers are probably already playing several games so it might be easier to lay of a few of those games and fill the empty space with the other games you are already playing.

To me the phone and computer are much more difficult to find a replacement for, if I were to boycott Apple. There's all the data tied up in iCloud, and there's a bunch of software on both the phone and computer that would have to be found alternatives for.

In short the sunk cost in games can be pretty deep, but not very wide. On computing platforms the sunk cost can be both deep and wide.
If only they could quickly get high quantities immediately, I'm sure they would switch in a heartbeat.
Yes that’s the one cited by NASA as well.

J. Cook, et al, "Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming," Environmental Research Letters Vol. 11 No. 4, (13 April 2016); DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002

Quotation from page 6: "The number of papers rejecting AGW [Anthropogenic, or human-caused, Global Warming] is a miniscule proportion of the published research, with the percentage slightly decreasing over time. Among papers expressing a position on AGW, an overwhelming percentage (97.2% based on self-ratings, 97.1% based on abstract ratings) endorses the scientific consensus on AGW.”
Not all of the western world; IME the USA is much more prudish about nudity than Europe, for example.
That quote is from the article, not Kierkegaard himself. There's a lenghy answer to your question here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierk...
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> These parts were designed to last the lifetime of the airframe

Can these be replaced? If they have the expected lifetime of the airframe they might not be serviceable. Out of curiosity: can these cracks be repaired other than replacing the part?
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I'm with you here. "Rock solid, fast, and small" is a better example of "less is more"

"Worse is better" implies lowered quality.
The article title is actually "Farmers fail in bid to sue German government over alleged climate change failures" - the opposite of what's implied by the HN link.
Imo, dependency injection frameworks are distinct to the concept of DI. They do not represent DI itself, which is just a design pattern.
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> If you aren't wielding the megaphone that is twitter/fb/youtube/whatever, then you are not going to be heard. That's just a fact at this point.

I disagree. This is only a blanket statement to be taken as fact.

Politicians have been doing town halls, focus groups, and public speeches for decades. Just because we suddenly have social media sites to project their voices to a mich larger audience doesn’t erase all of those. While spending on digital ads have gone up tremendously i’m sure, if we take them out of the equation, people will still be able to hear their candidates voices. Social media websites are not the be-all and end-all of political discourse.
It increases agressive behavior. Since "gamers" are primarily young males, being more agressive could lead to them "hurting" blizzard the only way they can; posting non-stop about it on social media, organizing protests, etc.
This seems to be the latest news on it:

> In August 2019, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s national health authorities, the World Health Organization, and the National Institutes of Health announced that they would stop using ZMapp, along with all other Ebola treatments except REGN-EB3 and mAb114, in their ongoing clinical trials, citing the higher mortality rates of patients not treated with REGN-EB3 and mAb114

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMapp#Use_during_the_2014%E2%8...

So seems it's just used in some cases today.
See the sibling comment on why helicopters differ from rockets/airplanes.

I think this is an issue of inertia/mass that doesn't exist so much for craft that gain and retain stability from their surroundings.

Of course, I could also be completely wrong.
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I don't think awareness that corporations are out for profit and not your friend is incompatible with pushing back on corporations who are curating an image of support for certain causes and are then acting in ways at odds with that image. In fact, I think it is necessary in order to understand how to push back. They are not your friend so they don't care about your disappointment, but they are out for profit so they do care about the things you can do to affect that: personally boycotting, organizing boycotts, spreading bad word of mouth, etc.

Maybe your perspective is that corporations shouldn't do this image curation thing, and yeah maybe so, but in a world where they do, it absolutely makes sense for individuals to push back on them when they are then hypocritical. Otherwise they get the benefits of standing for causes without taking on the risks inherent in doing so.
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Go ahead and e-mail me and we can chat about it. I've got some ideas for you.
What you said is a meaningful advtange.

Scrolling screen is a major action to gather info and control units.

If one can control near edge units without scrolling it gives more stable view and lower chance of making mistakes.
Yup, fraud like this is exactly what chargebacks are for. Companies don't listen to anything but money. AirBNB counts on you being a pushover and not disputing the charge. I don't understand this "Well they charged my credit card so there's nothing I can do!" attitude.
Yes, the point of the entire project was for the system to see if it can win.

If we have reached the point where to even risk a loss requires implementing artificial restraints on the AI...well...
The labor, insurance, and safety / regulatory certifications required of a low volume production aircraft.
About 10 years ago when I worked at Jagex, the creators of RuneScape, there was a sci-fi MMO project (basically sci-fi RuneScape) happening. I didn’t work on it, but a lot of people did, for 2-3 years. It was cancelled before release, I think because it just wasn’t fun enough. When you see a sunk cost like that or Titan (which notwithstanding the Overwatch pivot cannot have been cheap), you get a sense of how hard this is to get right.
> These people seem truly untouchable.

Without knowing details about AirBnB's corporate structure, I assume they don't have any subsidiaries or offices or employees in France. That makes it hard (but not impossible) to compel them to follow French law, or local laws in France.

The easier option is to write a law that compels payment processors to disallow payments to or from a company that does XYZ, then declare AirBNB has done XYZ and cut off their payments. It's certainly possible to rent an apartment in Paris and have all the payments done outside of France, but it removes a lot of people from both sides of the market.

The other option is to work through courts internationally, but that's very slow and costly for things that aren't capital crimes. You basically have to get your government's diplomats to make the US State department care to do the interfacing.
Well, I've written a few months ago that I don't want to give such a scummy platform them their 30%, regretfully I still did use them last month, so to put my money where my mouth is, I just deleted my airbnb account citing the article. https://www.airbnb.com/account-delete/reasons
Thank you for the insightful and illustrative calculations :)

What would happen if we were able to make it all the way up to space, vertically, but not gain any horizontal speed?
See also this old Microsoft Windows 95-era joke:

“32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.”
Code-first does this too, but based on a schema you define in your code and not in your DB.
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