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ISRU methane fuel for starship is going to be eventually done on earth (and mars) for carbon neutral starship / superheavy launches.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201200...

TL;DNR: If you take methane out of the atmosphere and you put it back in the atmosphere, the carbon footprint is neutral.
Voter turnout is extremely correlated with income (https://econofact.org/voting-and-income). The more likely explanation is that the Republican party is afraid that more poor people who currently can't afford to vote will suddenly have the resources to do so.
You can't fight politics with tech, because politics win every time. Some of the things you listed don't make much sense when people are angry enough to spill into the streets to protest.

For example,

> - Combatting disinformation and/or processing data, about police abuse for example

There's already a lot of transparency on police brutality; we even have civilian oversight groups dedicated to this, but they have either been taken over by cop-friendly leaderships or they have no power to do anything.

> - Mobile panic button?

And who will come to help? Police? No, they will beat your ass for revealing your location. Protestors? No, they are too busy protesting to check their phones 24/7. Just look all the people with their hands up and chanting; their eyes are all on the police who may beat them at any time.

> - Mindfulness/mental health assistance for people trying to cope

There may be people who are depressed, but people are angry enough to be outside and protesting. Those who are clinically depressed need actual professional help, an app will not do that. Plus there are already a lot of these types of apps in the stores already, none of which replaces an actual professional

... and in any case, the government can shut any of these solutions down if they truly wanted. I think the most direct, practical way to helping with current events is to either, or all:

- Join the protestors in the streets, see the issues at hand with your own eyes instead of from media spin.

- Get in touch with your coworkers, an existing union, or start a tech union underground. Organize a walk-out, to join the protestors. White collar jobs can cause some real financial pressure and bring politicians to their knees for the cause (like how some workers at fast food restaurants refused to cook for cops during the protests).

They (literally) fight for our rights, we should get serious about what we can do too.
Not even close. Org-mode is much more complex and has way more features.
I understand that, but it's not false that looting may end up in shooting.

What he said it's still true, it doesn't need to be censored.

People looting might escalate into a fight with police and shooting may happen.

I don't think looting justifies shooting, but I do think it may escalate to that, it's a messy situation.

I think it's irresponsible to suggest looting shouldn't have consequences.
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This is good website to track the location of starlink satellites near you: https://findstarlink.com/
IMO, if your platform grows past a certain scale, it should be treated as common carrier and you shouldn't be allowed to do that.

I wonder what happened to antitrust law enforcement in USA.
IIRC it has to do with how easy/hard it is to get said ID. The claim is that IDs in the US are much more difficult to get for some demographics than others due to time/monetary costs and/or the difficulty of acquiring the required documents, so requiring an ID to vote would mean that otherwise eligible voters may be prevented from voting.

Some other countries have a nationally issued ID that citizens are given for little or no cost. In those cases, voter ID laws would be much less controversial. I don't know whether this is the case for all countries where voter ID laws are not controversial.
Thanks. That's an embarrassing oversight on my part.

Pharma definitely has done anti-competitive stuff. But I'm not seeing a connection to the customer pricing we're talking about.

Even so, I vaguely remember something about price discrimination, so care has to be taken when doing market segmentation. Or I could just be making it all up.

Thanks again for correcting me.
> How did the persons become worse because of the gun control laws? Because that's what your message implies

No, it doesn't.

> that said rise in violent crimes is related to enacting gun control

The person did not become worse but rather found the chance to attack someone who could not defend themselves because they did not have a gun.
"Chinese made" is still a meme. But now there is nothing made anywhere except of China, so it's kinda moot point.
There's a Wired article from almost fifteen years ago taking the piss out of fMRI.
I'm so excited for Starlink! As a solo founder I do all of my support, but I like to frequently go off-roading and camping outside of cell service. I have a satellite messenger for critical things, but it still leaves me feeling quite anxious to go on extended trips. If I can toss a starlink dish in a briefcase and get fast affordable internet in the Sierra's, life will be good.
I always had horrible experience with thunderbird and any amount > 500 emails.

Thunderbird would start do it's things (moving emails for example) then freeze for a while and then all of a sudden stop in the middle of the operation complaining that it's a lot of work and asking me if I want to continue.

It's enraging every time. More so if you consider that IMAP is not transactional afaik.
> STEM (technical) degree from top 15 unis in the US

Don’t bother applying if you went to Cornell, Rice, UCLA, Berkeley, Georgetown, CMU, Georgia Tech, UWA, etc.
Twitter put a big sticker on it. FB could do the same. Put it behind a click-this-to-see-bad-stuff warning thing. Provide context, etc. The option is not a binary between completely hide/silence/ignore the "most powerful man in the world" or support and just enable him even more.
1. All Tier1 ISP have mtu of at least 4470 since forever. 2. Most Tier1 ISP have 9000 ip mtu for a long time.
Why did they lie? They feared you would kick them out? The horror of that conversation? You are ofc not responsible for the formula but... The most productive approach is probably to beg you for mercy at your feet?
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Revolut founders are from CIS countries (Russia and Ukraine). It quite common for high-school graduates from post-Soviet countries to participate in STEM Olympics as the medal can open the doors to best tech schools without entrance exam.

It not so hard as it sounds. I get the two medals on Physics when I was in school, so did plenty of my classmates.

I guess by that time they were targeting mainly CIS developers as they have and R&D in Moscow.
>> I honestly don’t understand how this ignorant of a comment still gets on HN. What y’all are talking about is “The Internet” where all the trash and racist are free to make whatever content they want.

Oh, the irony.

Racism is protected speech. Hate is protected speech. You seem not to understand free speech so you want it suppressed - it sounds a lot like the Inquisition in good ol' times.
Namecheap have been solid for me for several years now.
I thought Tesla used the same physical battery pack but used software to limit how much you got.

In return you get way better battery life because there’s loads of excess capacity in the battery compared to nameplate capacity
Bill Stealey was an instructor pilot in the Air Force, whence came the experience that enabled him to vet MicroProse's military flight sims for verisimilitude.

Jimmy Maher's Digital Antiquarian has a long article [1] on the origins of MicroProse, including background on both founders, Stealey and Meier. It's a great story, and he tells it well - strong recommend, if you have any interest in the subject.

[1] https://www.filfre.net/2015/03/microproses-simulation-indust...
I agree that solar and wind have disadvantages, and they can't be used to cover 100% of the energy demand, but they are available right now, whereas controlled fusion has been "10-30 years away" for the last 60 (?) years.
Your objection seems to be based on an implicit assumption that the drones would ride for free. I don't see any reason to believe it would happen that way. What public transit agency would ever agree to that?

To me, it seems like a more reasonable assumption is that the drone operators would pay the transit agencies money. Since the buses are already going on those routes, the marginal cost for the transit agency should be nearly zero, so it should be easy to make a profit.

So this seems like a good way for transit agencies to increase their funding with little downside.
And as a result, the system is a total success so far.

Without any kind of specifications or design meetings beyond a 5 minute chat here and there.
Amphetamines ;)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7661838/

Of course, their use has been blamed for other issues, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_Farm_incident
He had to do it because of contractual obligations, obviously. He's probably on garden-leave now. Standard procedure for resignations in a big security-aware company (which I hope FB is) is to immediately suspend all access and escort out of the building. You can always ask him to come back to help with stuff later, as a visitor.

So in the end, firing him after he resigned like this would be counterproductive: you don't gain any organizational advantage and you're actually inviting trouble from the media.
That's how you read it because that's what they said. Not sure why the original reply felt the need to add "stupid" as "So people love it" makes the same point. Mister Gotcha is probably replying implicitly to the addition of 'stupid' to make a point. Except now that they've stuck their stakes in the ground and are getting defensive, let the pedantic internet slap-fight commence
LISP routing again, poor re-implementation.
This is an excellent point and one I had not considered.

I'm generally anti-intervention but do strongly support the notion of driving diversity-of-business within markets. A common measure of market concentration is a sum of squares of market-share percentages (see: https://www.justice.gov/atr/herfindahl-hirschman-index). I'm not sure exactly what to do about this right now but I would suspect Amazon is a huge percentage of the distribution-to-the-home market so should be looked at closely. Their position could be good if they provide excellent Covid policies/procedures (and would be much worse to have a large diversity of participants with poor Covid P&Ps), but could be quite bad if people got scared of Amazon and effectively shutdown-by-virtue-of-disuse a large percentage of the distribution infrastructure in the US...
I agree with you. In my opinion, it seemed he was extremely likely to win reelection, before covid19 struck. Now, I think those odds have been diminished; the degree to which, though, I am not sure.
My understanding is that the objective is to suppress the spread enough so that the healthcare system doesn’t get overwhelmed while at the same time not have harder restrictions than that people can live with them for a long time, many months and most likely a couple of years. The virus ain’t going anywhere, at least until we have a vaccine. Considering it’s a relative to some viruses that causes common colds, it’s not a given there will be any vaccines.
I think one of them ended up teaching at the college :)
Great site. Sound like someone fun to work with. Most equipment operators have a firm, empirical grasp of "angle of repose" and similar; he could explain the governing math with physical demonstrations.
Human-like in capability, not in goals. Ability to do AI research and craft paperclips are both human abilities. If the AI has human-like goals then there's very little need to worry.
i suspect the cost to refurbish a shuttle + tank + boosters is more than the start-to-finish cost of a brand new Falcon9 let alone re-flying a recovered Falcon9.
HN seems to be the last resort to get Google to help :/
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> But what if you have worked for a company for 10 years and you think management is really great?

This is exactly why they say material non-public information. This is not material. It is your opinion, and you can trade on it during applicable trading windows.

My public company has trading blackout windows close to earnings reports forbidding everyone from trading, non-public information or not. Outside those, you’re still not allowed to trade if you are in possession of material non-public information. If you are an executive, that basically means all the time which is why they’re required to file scheduled sales long in advance. It doesn’t matter if you “do not use it” for your trades — that’s not going to hold up with the SEC.

> You can be guilty of insider trading for not buying something that you'd otherwise have done, too.

This doesn’t sound legitimate.
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>The undertones of the original comment Trump is echoing imply differently.

That wouldn't be removing just "language that incites or facilitates serious violence" but also "language that has undertones that echo inciting or facilitating serious violence".
180K total comp or yearly before-taxes salary or ...?
If his job description did include censorship policy, good for him to resign. Otherwise he is throwing rocks up the wrong tree for 5 minutes of fame.
But how does it compare to Nix and Guix? On first look it seems like it brings very little infrastructure, which may well be an advantage.

Can you somehow provide pre-built binaries?
Eyeball networks don't though. In fact, a decent number (at least in the US) still run PPPoE, shaving off even more.
If GM went bankrupt and Tesla acquired them, they could get rid of the dead weight you mentioned, dismantle the consumer dealership network, close obsolete union factories, default on pensions, etc.

Most of what would be left is the brand (mostly worthless, except stuff like Chevy trucks and Camero), and the engineering / IP. That might let them expand into more body styles more quickly.

They could also take over GMC’s fleet contracts, and the financing divisions loan servicing. Those are pretty lucrative.

Having said that, I doubt it makes sense, or would go well. Union busting and stealing pensions would severely damage the Tesla brand, and I don’t think they could do any of that stuff outside bankruptcy proceedings. If they could, GM would have already done much of it.

Also, trying to integrate a car company with a completely different business model and tons of legacy baggage is probably riskier than continuing down the path Tesla is on.
I would also not be surprised if they paid the inventors as little as they can get away with and ended up with more “income” than they pass along.
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It seems like Squarespace has an AI powered chatbot on HN, too.
Shout out to office365 for being a piece of crap when it comes to IMAP.

If you launch something like fetchmail or imapsync at it, it will close the connection in the middle of the sync because you're doing something nasty in his opinion.

Last time I switched jobs and had to download 18+ GB of emails it took me days to download them all off office 365, and I was to run it in a while true loop in screen. Luckily I didn't wait for the last day to start downloading my emails.
I'm not familiar with the nature of crime in either Germany or Poland. Do either country have widespread gun ownership like the United States does?

In the United States when you look at the data that is posted in my previous comment you will see that the vast majority of police shootings involve an armed suspect.

However even if you only look at data on unarmed suspects I highly suspect that the US has a higher per capita rate than either Germany or Poland.
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I had an iPhone for work and it basically solidified the fact that Apple products are low quality.

I didn't see any benefits at all. Only annoyances.

I don't actually believe your story the way you told it. Was her Android a 50 dollar piece of Chinese junk or Samsung? Only way I could believe it.
Well what were they arrested for, exactly? I mean even if charges weren't filed and even if there was only the thread of violence and not actual violence, police still must have cause to arrest you, and I haven't heard an explanation that isn't very well debunked by the live video. They even ask, and nobody answers them.
One could imagine you could sign up just by opting in on your navigation app.

However, I think practically speaking, I don't want the roof of my car damaged, so there would have to be some capital cost to create some kind of roof protector landing pad thing. So that might limit adoption.

On the other hand, if I drove a pickup truck, I wouldn't care. I would opt in without any changes to my vehicle. I would just need to make sure the bed is empty.
Apart from the most obvious examples, I would also consider Cloudflare's new registry service.

It's cheap, at-cost, and they support a lot of the new TLDs like .io which is also a lot cheaper.
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As someone who lives in the mountains of Puerto Rico and has to rely on "unlimited" cell phone coverage that data caps me and satellite internet that also has data caps.... I can't wait until starlink is up and running and we may have an option for high speed, low latency, internet for us who hate cities and love nature :)
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I'm curious what the level of risk actually is. The earth is struck by many small meteorites every day. We don't know how many, but based on how many are observed, it's probably on the order of 10/day. The last person struck by a meteorite was Ann Hodges in 1954. She was only bruised, since, like most people at any given time, she was protected by a roof. A woman named Lottie Williams was struck by part of a Delta rocket in 1997 and was also uninjured. The chance of hitting someone is tiny and even then, it's not necessarily fatal or even serious. And wouldn't SpaceX be able to de-orbit the satellites over unpopulated areas, except in rare cases where there was some sort of loss of command?

Maybe living in a world where a trip to the grocery store can have fatal consequences has warped mysense of risk, but this doesn't seem worth worrying about.
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The "AI" bit is for investors.
I wish, but weed is very difficult to find around here ;)

The car is provided by the restaurant, and it's large scale corporate customers so no tips.

I make enough money to survive, a chance to make people happy and get free food. I've been doing this for several months now.
>I guess by that time they were targeting mainly CIS developers as they have and R&D in Moscow.

That job was posted last month...
Plenty of people can afford new cars, just not necessarily expensive ones. The average price of a new vehicle in the united states is around 35k, but the average price of an electric vehicle is closer to 50k.

If you want the average person to be buying an EV, the price needs to come down.

It should also be mentioned that loan terms for new vehicles are insane right now which is partially why the average price of new cars is so high - GM is offering 84 month, 0% loans on its trucks - today!
Red flag here. You should take a marketing class.
I'm kinda bummed Starlink is not going to lead to cheaper consumer internet and replace cable internet. Sounds like it is mainly for rural areas which is great but I hoped it was going to bunny hop fiber.
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How is it possible to be very certain that he is in fact insincere?
Oh I'm not advocating for it, I'm just saying that'd be the argument. I think avoiding a new L3 transition ever again is well worth the tradeoff.
Something I've noticed in both website builders and theme buying is that it is very hard to separate the incredible stock photography from the overall style of the site.

The common experience seems to be picking what you think is the "perfect" theme only to find that it's really dependent upon having thousands of dollars of high-end photos taken.

It seems like an unsolved problem.
Your comparison is the definition of a false equivalence fallacy. And words have meaning, and the fact that many people in US don't understand what the fascism means is not a reason to stop using the term. This simply shows the need for education.
> Have you ever lived in a country that has a well functioning, nonviolent Police? E.g. somewhere in Europe?

I know for a fact that the police in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Balkan countries is extremely shitty. You do not need an armed police in order for them to be violent.
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People with this level of income could also manage to support 3 or 4 others with UBI. Not saying one person making a moral stand is bad, but economically hundreds of thousands of FAANGers could make a humongous impact.
They did break into the phone. So Apple completely failed.

Weird narrative here.
TransferWise is lovely, but it is not legally a bank.
Hmm, my school uses office365 for its email, and I've managed to successfully hook it up to offlineimap for my email. I think the only real "special" thing that I had to do was have it use my email address (i.e. user@university.edu) as my username to authenticate with.

The relevant section of my .offlineimaprc (trimmed for brevity, edited for privacy):

[Repository remote]
type = IMAP
remotehost = outlook.office365.com
remoteuser = "user@university.edu"
remoteport = 993
All scientific realism and other criticisms aside—I thought Gravity did a pretty good job with essentially what you described as the setting of the film.

Mostly spent focusing on pretty cramped quarters in a capsule. They figured out some ways to introduce drama. I think what might be the most stunning would be some of the exterior footage. I wonder whether that would introduce some sort of barrier-breaking in the mind when watching a film taking place above the earth knowing that the earth in the film is real footage in "real time" and not stock or CGI.
What happens when random people owe you money (split bills, taxis, etc.)? How is it better for AML/KYC if they have to repay in cash instead of by bank transfer?
To me it is, but employers don't care for that. They just refuse to hire. (I regularly sleep around 3am, I am total night owl)
Typically alternative keyboard layouts are installed as a mapping at the operating system level, I don't think the author is proposing a keyboard with that hardware layout. And most modern OS's allow for switching key maps on the fly with little effort.

I worked in a lab with a guy who typed exclusively in Dvorak and there was no issue with pair programming along side him nor for him to get his key map on shared workstations.
The onboard charger is going from 240 VAC to pack level. That's a somewhat secondary use case in terms of peak load, and has nothing to do with getting up to speed or regeneration, so they don't spend much resources on it.

The main inverter is going between motor voltage and pack voltage, and depending on the car can handle regeneration at upwards of 60 kW (Teslas) to 265 kW (Porsche Taycan).

The cable that is putting 30 kW into the battery? It's the same one that's designed to conduct 80-110 kW from battery to motor in your Leaf.
Heh, I don't think Europeans get to get their tails up given that they are the world kings and queens of criticizing everybody else in the world.