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> Spanning the galaxy would take hundreds of thousands of years, if not longer. There'd be next to no contact between earth and settlements more than a few light years away.

Yeah, but they'd exist, which they don't right now.

> We currently have exponentially more wealth than anytime in history, yet most of it is being hoarded by a small percent of the population.

The "wealth" of today's billionaires exists almost entirely on paper. Even if Michael Dell has a huge house and a private jet and you don't, he doesn't spend most of his billions on himself. He uses it to own shares in his company. And the company uses it to make computers.

We have more wealth in the hands of corporations than at any time before in history, and there are some serious issues with that, but it isn't that they're somehow hoarding resources. Apple having a mountain of cash in an offshore subsidiary isn't why you can't afford housing -- that money is just somebody else's debt, not an actual consumption of resources.

And if you can make fusion work, it's the opposite. It doesn't matter if some people make a lot of money from it because the only way people will buy it is if it's better than the existing alternatives, which would imply that it's better than the existing alternatives. Which means you get cheaper electricity or less climate change or both. All they get is a pile of green paper they're probably never even going to spend all of.
Timescript: The only scripting language with time travel support
Keyperhinha + Voidtools Everything + Autohotkey to override windows 10 protected bindings like win+s or simple win etc. I also always replace the start menu with classic start menu.
>> Curd Process - Boil whole milk, let it cool down a bit, and add some older curd, let it sit overnight in your oven with the light on.

I learned recently that curdling milk can be achieved in many different ways: the easiest way is to leave it out of the fridge overnight (unless it's long-life). Especially in a warm environment the lactobacili in the milk itself and in the air will do their job and you'll have curdled milk in the morning. I'm guessing that's probably how the first dairy products were made, though I wouldn't want to speculate about the tastes of the first person to try curdled milk.

Another way is to add some acid like vinegar or lemon. Lactobacili that curdle the milk naturally actually release lactic acid: fermentation is the same kind of anaerobic respiration that happens in our muscles when they're not getting enough energy from oxygen alone. In our case, it's our body burning the sugars in our fat to create lactic acid. The lactobacili in the milk eat lactose and turn it into lactic acid. It seems that this acid production is at least partly responsible for the curdling of milk.

Another common way is to use, er, whey- the byproduct of milk fermentation. Some traditional cheeses (e.g. Greek mizithra and anthotyros) are made by keeping some of the whey in previous batches to ferment new batches.

Yet another way is to use a bacterial culture especially meant to ferment milk, like kefir (please: it's pronounced keh-FEER; not like Donald Sutherland's son). In fact, I learned all this because I started making kefir at home and I got to the point I'm making cheese. It turns out- you can use kefir to make butter also, although I haen't tried it and I don't know the process well enough to describe it.

Finally, there is of course the use of rennet, which is an enzyme found in the er, I think fourth stomach of ruminants, and that's used mainly in cheese making (especially for hard cheeses, it's the stuff that gives yellow cheese curds their texture).

Anyway, fermentation -as in milk curdling, wine brewing, sourdough making etc- is cool.
"In the end, it was education, freedom and efficiency that allowed the west to beat out totalitarian governments."

What about the massive catastrophe that killed off tens of millions in the Soviet Union and devastated the country, while the US was left completely unscathed by comparison?

In many ways education in the Soviet Union was far ahead of the United States, particularly in mathematics.

Women were also far more equal to men in the Soviet Union, so in a way this is an example where there was more freedom in the Soviet Union than in the United States, since the roles for women in the US were far more restrictive and curtailed their potential to a far greater degree. The US was also one of the last countries in the world to outlaw slavery, and the lack of freedom that black people were suffered under segregation in the US had no equal in the Soviet Union at the time (though the USSR also had their own racism and discrimination against Jewish people).

The USSR suffered not just from a lack of freedom, but crucially from the concentration of power in to the hands of a highly paranoid and ruthless elite and secret police who killed tens of millions of their own citizens, along with a callousness towards the deaths of millions more in the redistribution of resources and the overhaul of society in a race towards modernization.

The USSR also had to face the efforts of a far wealthier and equally paranoid adversary that was determined to see it fail.

If there had been cooperation and mutual aid instead, if the USSR had suffered no worse than the US during WW2, and if it hadn't been saddled with bloodthirsty paranoid tyrants for leaders, the outcome might have been quite different.
Colonising other planets is a lousy idea; at the very best you could at massive expense colonise Mars, but it would be (a) almost certainly worse than Earth and (b) only s doubling of our resources.

Orbital habitats, formed by disassembling the moon, on the other hand, can give us vastly more habitable area than available on Earth, and the environment can be engineered to be better than Earth ever was.

Recently I’ve become convo bed that other planets don’t have much of a role to play in our future except as a source of raw materials.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824178
The average turnover is a little over 2 years at BigTechCo so half of the people never see that 4year total compensation.
The Vedic literature clearly says each universe is an atom and innumerable come out of the nostrils of the Divine Person Visnu. The multiverse is a natural paradigm. Srimad Bhagavatam is very precise because its perfect knowledge.
ISWYDT...
Yeah, so much of it is made up just so stories, and those stories usually flatter the ruling class. It’s fashionable for CEOs to work out, so of course there’s a story about how it’s evolutionary biology reason that makes people smarter or whatever. That article was pretty short on experimental evidence.
Could be a hardware product. Shipping hardware early is a nightmare.
Swift I'm not familiar with Swift personally, but given what you've laid out; it's language agnostic.

You've committed a lot time to it.. A lot of us have ideas of somthing simular, but we get busy... This is the time to cut and run.

Are you currently employeyed ? (no need to give who).

How much time did you commit to this, kinda cool piece that is expected a lot of time!

As I said before, I have 100 questions!

Full disclosure: I'm a cpp heart with a current role in cs
>>is bleak, bleak stuff

Is the movement so narcissistic that the very existence of the people already living there is not even noticed? Is this hypothetical country a place where you ruthlessly steal from the original people to make a state where private property is the only right? Because "bleak" is the exact word that describes the lives of the millions of people who don't even show up on libertarian radar.

And "hypothetical"is the right word because there were taxes and regulation form America's earliest beginnings. And, fortunately, it protected more rights than just property. Indeed, the founding fathers intentionally _removed_ the word "property" from the original phrase "life liberty and the pursuit of property"

If there are any analogies to North America, it would either be the Puritans who had shockingly strict ideological requirements on their members or plantation owners who lived by laws completely different than their slaves. Because we know these libertarian colonists are not going to be building their own log cabins or personally work "their" land. Startups are those bootstrapped farms and self built log cabins. Likewise space exploration. But colonialism, when it isn't simply theft, is rent seeking and always at best zero-sum-gain.

>not let the plot of a video game limit our social innovation

"Bioshock" is apparently a necessary comparison because its plot is clearly more accurately known North American history evidently.
What does 'extreme' mean in this context?
> It's the mindset that it's somehow okay to pay employees very small fractions of what they are really worth.

The employee decides what they are “really worth” when they accept, reject, or negotiate an offer. His rejection of the check offered him was his doing precisely that.

That’s not an issue with companies, that is an attribute of human free association and free, consensual dealing in general.

If you offer services at $100/hour but I know I can sell those services for $1000/hour (with my involvement) and you voluntarily accept $100/hour and agree to work for me, I have turned opportunity into profit, and have exploited no one. Sales and marketing and connections to people in specialty markets have a value, too!

(Correspondingly, the hypothetical “you” in this example may have not been able to get or generate more than $100/hour alone. Sometimes the sum is greater than the parts, and the assembly is itself a value-generating activity.)

But ultimately this story illustrates very well that the final arbiter of what price a person places on their time and effort is themself. No one can force you to accept a certain wage, and, as was demonstrated, you can always tell a billionaire to go stuff it.

Seems to have worked out pretty well for OP in the end, even without the CIA-vendor equity.
The Nuts Reply (2012)
I had to laugh at the commit message of the single commit in the repo:

FINISHED THE LANGUAGE, NOW TIME TO CHECK IT INTO VERSION CONTROL

Cool idea, though, like something out of a sci-fi novel. :)
GNU people will happy use and welcome contribution under both permissive and copyleft licenses.

BSD ideology will only accept permissive licenses. Anything less pure is unwelcome.
Something I have been wondering about since this all started.

Where did all the airplanes now being leased to fill the holes left by taking the 738Max8 out of the shedules come from?

It is amazing to me that there was that much available capacity?

Are those airplanes in general older and possibly less safe?
Wouldn't that sort of counter your argument that traditional foods would have discovered the dangers over the ages? Traditional foods could have caused cancer and not been detected, according to your own argument.
There's a book by Tony Hsieh (Zappos founder) called Delivering Happiness.

Near the end, he talks about three types of "happiness."

The first is pleasure. It's from food, fun, or other external experiences. While it can bring temporary happiness, you will always be looking for the next fix.

The second is happiness from passion, such as a hobby or working at your startup. You can go for years without success and still feel happy. However eventually you'll need some type of progress to keep going.

The third type is happiness from purpose. Think of it as working towards something bigger than yourself. This type of happiness can last a lifetime, even if all you do is sacrifice for it.
I don't think airport infra was the reason, unless maybe they wanted to preserve the low clearance for operating to airports without proper facilities?

One reason was probably that it is technically difficult to fit larger gear as they would not fit in the 737 wheel wells. Or something related to increased height...

But in fact it seems the nose gear was actually lengthened somewhat for MAX, but I guess that was not enough. The MAX 10 will also have longer main gear - it will be telescoping so it fits into existing wheel wells. (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX)
Depends on the company. "Big company" isn't one company, or one position. I absolutely believe it. At the big company I worked for, it took weeks just to get all your accounts enabled. Releases were planned months in advance. At every startup I worked at, I personally deployed our software more in the first week than the big company's ops team deployed our software in all the years I was there. You learn a lot from that. Not so much from waiting for the ops team to find time in their schedule for you.
Google has an ATM printing money in the basement. Startups do not.
Well, this assumes that the x %ile in smaller markets is interchangeable with the x %ile in the more expensive ones like SF, Seattle, NYC, Boston. But I know lots of people from cities like St. Louis who live in these much bigger tech cities because if you’re in the higher range in comp. for your years of experience, it’s just a much better deal being in the more expensive city. So I would guess that in these smaller cities, you will miss a lot of the top 10-20% developers
When I was 24 I was a broke college kid who couldn't get a real job and just had his first child. Then the invasion of Iraq happened and I was deployed to Kuwait. About 50 of us came over together and they basically separated the smart people from the rest of us. The smart people were given engineering or analytics positions. I was put on operations which was considered a dumb person's job.

Some context is in order. This unit was/is the 2-star command that runs communications for CENTCOM. We were supporting a network of around 270,000 users at that time due to the surge into Iraq in 2004 and the stand up of the transitional government. That is about the size of Bank of America, the entire company with all its branch locations and total employees. I was the night tech lead of operations of communications over all of it. That was my first time in management as a young staff sergeant. This was an incredible eye-opener for me, but its not a mark of success. I didn't get paid more because of the severity of my decisions or the size of the organization.

Now I'm just some software developer at a big corporate company assigned to a team that struggles to get copy/paste right. When I want to work on software that's vaguely interesting I contribute to open source.

My reflection from all of this is that people often evaluate themselves, and their perspectives of success, using faulty metrics. If you were a fresh 2 week hire on Instagram before they were gobbled up by Facebook are you suddenly a successful software genius due to a magical windfall? In my world as a front-end developer people often consider themselves experts and pat themselves on the back for stringing a few statements together like magic glue over a monster framework that they don't really need but does all the work for them. I don't really consider that a mark of success either and am often a social pariah as a result. If you really, I mean this seriously, really wanted to be rich and financially super successful then why are you spending your time writing software?

For me, personally, I measure success in the problems I solve that other people find value in, which is a large motivation for my contributions to open source. It isn't a number that comes with bragging rights or some form of vanity. Instead, its just something to do or take pride in.
There’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

I can say as someone older than they were at the time that there was an element of wishful thinking about many of the founders I worked with, and even more so for some that I met in passing.

Charismatic people who are deluding themselves just bring others along for the ride. They may not even know they’re being dishonest. People who have a way with words can be sucked in by their own words just as much as others can.
Safari would have been released as free software if KHTML was GPL.
I think you're not giving the meritocracy at MIT enough credit. I went to a state university.
The author of this article (friend of mine) noticed the same point. See footnote 1:

https://reasonandliberty.com/articles/obamacare
Ignoring all the indicators that's been mentioned (acing all interviews, right pedigree, etc.)

- Solid results too show
- Fantastic references

I know a lot of younger guys have these pipe dreams of sacrificing their youth, going to the best university, studying years for interviews, and looking / being the "perfect" candidate come interview time, without actually having built anything of substance.

Sure - you will probably land some sweet positions, but there's no way in hell you'll get hired as a CTO without anything real to show - unless it's a 3-piece student startup.

Yes, there are exceptions. There are young people that land very nice positions, but they're almost always both smart and experienced.

I think the roadmap look pretty boring, but it's what it is. Read, build, analyze, and understand. Have vision, and get good. If someones gonna hire you to design / build / develop their product, then you need to be able to lead and deliver. Hard work, experience, and good networking skills.
IRC is not a great place for a rich exchange of ideas. I did learn a bunch on it -- but I could have done so elsewhere.
Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents
I like the Elad Gil take on this issue: at big companies, you can have more /impact/, for the reasons you state.

At small companies, you have more control. That's in the high-growth handbook. :)
Git is one of those once-a-decade technologies that's compicated, user un-friendly, takes months to master and is absolutely worth it.
Freenode has orders more than 200 users online, yet alone registered users.

I imagine the crowd that tend to use instant messaging don't see the same appeal with threaded message boards. Different medium, for better or worse.
In my experience it’s the team more than the size/lifecycle of the firm. I’ve worked on teams hitting on all cylinders in large and small companies. Similarly I’ve had bad teams in those environments and all sizes in between.
Interactive Map of Public Employee Jobs and Salary Data
Murdered. They forked it in a way that couldn't be upstreamed (they waited a year and change before releasing source, when doing so releasing it as undocumented garbage), and made their contributions in a way that allowed it to be closed.
If ... if ... if ... might

3 ifs and one might. Let's see: If my grandmother was male and if she was catholic, she might be the pope. I only had to use two ifs to get to that one.

I'm really not sure what your point is.

Are you seriously arguing that overall there was more freedom in the USSR than in America? I just want to be totally sure I get where you are coming from. Because my post was the general freedom as in the literal definition of it: "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint"
Proof of concept:

https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/
> Reminds me of the Dixie Chicks getting blacklisted for opposing the Iraq war.

You forgot the blacklisting during the red scare and mccarthyism. And that's relatively tame when you look back on history.

Tens of thousands of loyalists were forcibly deported after the american revolution.

Thousands of captured black soldiers were summarily tortured and killed in the civil war.

Thousands of chinese were lynched in pogroms in the late 1800s at the height of the yellow peril hysteria.

Up to 2 million mexicans ( most of them mexican americans ) were ethnically cleansed in the 1930s ( partly due to the great depression and partly due animosity from the zimmerman telegram during ww1 ).

Japanese american internment.

Vietnamese americans and immigrants being attacked and killed during and after the vietnam war.

The muslim and sikh americans who were attacked and killed after 9/11.

And we haven't even touched upon the genocidal extermination of the natives.

It's a good thing we have the best PR to spin the most ludicrous lies because the truth is as ugly as anything in human history. We are only one major war from reverting back to uncivilized brutes that we have been for much of our history.
Is this real or just hype?

We have been so inundated with promises I don't know what to believe.
Yes, since 1958 with the Soviet T-1.
It may also be that the big pile of folks here with experience in startups have done the math and can argue that working a startup isn't the best way to maximize the outcome of your time.

HN doesn't just have to be a "startups are the best" echo chamber.
I don’t think it’s crazy to say that a line of code written at Google will, risk adjusted and averaged across all lines of code written at Google, create more value for society than the risk adjusted and averaged line of code at a random startup.

But in startups averages don’t matter as much - it has power-law style returns, so if you happen to work at an insanely valuable startup those lines of code might be 1,000x as valuable as the average line of code written at Google.

Ergo, if you can/want to play the odds with those kind of risks you go to a startup, even knowing the risk adjusted value is lower (loving your work also matters, and some prefer startups - myself included). If you want a sure thing you go to Google.
I think Quicksilver is the one that started the trend that has persisted for the last 16 years or so — and that trend certainly increased with Spotlight’s introduction with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in 2005 — although as mentioned below, LaunchBar predates it by 6 or 7 years. But Quicksilver really introduced (as far as I remember) the UI that most other modern launchers still use, and that Spotlight later “stole” — which is to do the search in the middle of the desktop.

LaunchBar is probably the OG, but I think most of what has come since (including LB, which remains excellent), was influenced by Quicksilver in the early aughts.
Let's take a moment to consider the fact that apparently the MCAS uses input from only one of the two AoA sensors on a 737 MAX and swaps which one it takes the data from after each flight. I can't grasp how everyone involved could fail to realize that this statistically makes it less safe than only having one sensor.

I don't know how much the systemic issues that clearly compromised the design of the plane extend to the design of the capsule, but trivals errors seem to be very possible.
Not quite the same thing, but the Blizzard game Overwatch is scripted in a state-machine based visual language called "Statescript" that has some similarities to this.
It isn't pedantry, though. People talk about 'real' food, but they don't really have an idea of what that means except that it 'feels' real. I think this goes a long way to show that 'real' food is a meaningless statement, and we should stop using it... it doesn't mean we are pedantic.
If Earth spent a tiny fraction of the annual fossil subsidy, which is in the $US Trillions, on this stuff we'd have it knocked out in no time.