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ULA maintains a couple of technological advantages; they have some unique insertion steering and their hydrogen upper stage is particularly well-suited for Earth-escape missions.

However, SpaceX insertion is good enough for nearly every mission and they can make up for upper stage efficiency with brute force via Falcon Heavy--at a similar or better price point.

They also have a few paperwork advantages. Their vehicles have nuclear ratings, though SpaceX can certainly get that any time they want now. And they have demonstrated high reliability, which is important for uninsured billion-dollar payloads. Though it's getting harder to argue against F9.

An of course, they're owned by two major defense contractors with plenty of political clout.

But: their main advantage now is that they exist and are in the US and The Customer wants to maintain multiple options. Once Blue Origin comes online ULA's going to lose that one too, and will have to either figure out a way to make Vulcan price competitive, go on a crash course to develop a new competitive rocket (for which they're already too late), or lean on their relationship advantages and existing contracts to hang on for a while until at some point reality finally overcomes politics.

There's a lot of moving parts but they're not moving in a direction favorable to ULA, and given how hamstrung they are by their ownership structure I'd lean towards that last one.
The only way to avoid having to file American taxes as an American is to stop being one, to give up your citizenship. Doing so makes you pay a punitive exit tax on all you assets as if you had sold them.

Before going down that route, keep in mind that you are obliged to file taxes on your global earnings, but if your "foreign" earnings are taxed at a higher rate than they would in the US and that country has unilateral reciprocity agreements (most places you would be thinking of going would meet both criteria) and you don't have any US income, then you have to file but don't pay anything. If any of the previous points isn't met then you will have to pay the difference. Basically Americans always pay at least an American tax rate, no matter where they are.
$5 as in 20 quarters? wow when was that law written 1947?
I just use:

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> no one should be drawing any conclusions from the choice

But they ought to. ;-)
HN and Reddit are the places I read. Reddit is easy if you configure your homepage to stuff you like. JUST DON'T READ THE COMMENTS, and you have a curated list of things to read and catch up on. Much like twitter, facebook, youtube comments, etc most comment sections are a dumpster fire of recycled ideas, tribalism, and infighting.
But how is the stock market doing in this alternate universe?
Yes - 99% of support request/tickets is very polite.
The problem is that 1% of bad ones might cause such as stress to your support team that 99% of your customers end up suffering. So cut them fast and swiftly.
or get big widescreen monitors they are great
You'd be surprised, i'm not saying you definitely will but even if you cant, the perspective that comes from having another skill often provides an extremely valuable point of view.

There are people out there that provide a very specific service cutting kitchen worktops, explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux3EZhhYdZo

Its typically done with a jig and a router, its not that hard IMO, but a lot of kitchen fitters either cant do it well or hate doing it and they hire someone to do this (as well as other things like sink cut outs) and they get paid DAMN GOOD money to do that, especially if you can show up at a new housing development where you can bash out 30-100 homes as one job.

Personally, while i have no experience with CNC's, i know what they are and how they work and i reckon theres a way to make this job more efficient by having a CNC machine in the back of a van that can be setup to cut these joints. I've not tried this idea, but i may do it one day.

This is the kind of different persepective you can have from completely different skillsets and experiences that people who do the same thing day in day out for years just dont arrive at.
Tolerate Imperfection
We had that back in the 70's. It was called Citizen's Band radio.
That’s odd that was my exact learning example
We just wanted our donation to be a donation to patients and staff, not to the business side bottomline. Since n95 masks are practically fungible, it could have easily been credited or treated as a donation to patient bills (as we suggested) whether it be to divide among X random Covid patients or to a single person's ICU bill. The masks value was around $25,000, and who knows what multiple (3-25x ?) the hospital would charge to patients?

The fact is the hospitals gave us no path toward transferring that to patients and not their bottom line. We ended up selling most of our masks to hospitals for that reason, seeing it as the more moral option.
I nearly broke my neck reading this. But it was worth it.
What are effective ways to improve on this aspect?
If you don't like maintaining RSS feeds https://hckrnews.com is great as well
This.

Don't think in goals, think in consistent habits.

Don't think in weeks or months, think in years.

Most people will fail at everything that takes more than half a year to see success.

Losing weight, getting fit, learn a language, learn an instrument.
> I am going to get rude about it one of these days.

I doubt that strategy will be effective.
> Temperature control. I sleep with the AC set at 65, a fan and a BedJet device.

Do you have a thick blanket then? Or are you just covered with a thin bed sheet while the air around you is 65 degrees F (18 degrees C)? That sounds like it would be freezing.
While it looks weird written down, "winningest" feels lovely in the mouth
Using a text editor and command line does not mean no debuggers - it just means switching a window to get to one. vim+tmux+gdb/pdb.
“Expert” is a misused term, much like “exponential”.

I see the value of the press as being as much of an intelligence agency as the combined CIA, NSA, and FBI, but serving the electorate and investigating all those with power — politicians, police, military, religious, business, and so on — so that the electorate can make informed decisions.

I don’t know how to get there from here. Heck, I don’t even know if we’ve ever really been there, or if the press has always been comfortably manipulated by those with power.

But yeah, I assume genuine experts are part of the solution.
> Get enough sleep every...

All good advice. You missed one though: get your ass into shape. You need to be doing strenuous exercise. The difference this will make in life can not be explained, it can only be experienced... just like The Matrix if you will.
It’s true that beamforming itself is not new (there’s actually been rudimentary beamforming since 2G). But beams are getting small and targeted enough to support space division multiple access (same frequency can be used for many mobile stations in different locations). Also, 5G mobile stations themselves support beamforming, which is important for uplink bandwidth and power usage.
I think I need to go back to the office just to get a better separation between work and home. Working during the week I'm helping with kids and house stuff, and if I have nothing to do for a few hours on the weekend I'm dialling in to work to finish stuff off I should have done during the week. Its all becoming a blur and I'm not doing either role well.
Iteration speed is momentum. Waiting multiple minutes for code to compile or an environment to boot up kills the momentum, and it takes time to recollect the 7 +/- 2 things I was holding in my brain.
Also Hungary and Myanmar if wikipedia to be trusted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation

And there are talks in the air that other countries might follow the suit to buff up their state coffers - https://nomadcapitalist.com/2020/05/12/citizenship-based-tax...
I personally find multiple monitors to be very distracting, in fact I get headaches and dizziness when sitting with someone with 2 or more monitors. I'm so used to a single monitor that the fact the mouse cursor doesn't stop at the edge of the screen and goes on to the other one is extremely disorienting.
Now, I'm sure I could get used to 2 monitors, and I'm just stuck in my ways, but for my current workflow I don't see the benefit. I'm distracted enough as it is by emails/chats.
One day humans are gonna look back in abject horror at what the us military has done to the world with the full backing of american citizens.

The fact that the current democratic nominee is a complete hawk means we're only doubling down on this behavior. There's no democratic way out of this shithole of a country.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/024/574/Scr...
One thing the Test and Measurement industry is looking forward to, is being able to have extremely high bandwidth (wireless) connections between gear.

The idea is that with 5G you can combine your function generate with your oscilloscope to form a basic network analyser with the data travelling wireless between themselves and your computer. The throughput is high enough, and there wouldn't be any wires.
==Russiagate led to increased censhorship by social media companies out of being accused of hosting Russian bots.==

But they were hosting Russian (and other) bots. You’re premise seems to rely on the idea that there weren’t actually bots. We know they existed [1] and still exist [2]. A bonus report from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee [3].

==They weren't banning people as aggressively prior to Russiagate, however that whole frenzy led them to be a lot more proactive about banning than before.==

Correct. They didn’t do much to stop it before knowing it existed. Once they had evidence, they started banning. I’m not sure what point that proves.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/52...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/05/22/bot-a...

[3] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
It actually isn't.

An agreement with consideration is a contract. (Consideration means something of value is exchanged.)

However the agreement is made. It could be on the phone, text, smoke signals, anything. Though if it's denied later you may have a hard time proving the contract was made.

Usually an invoice is sent after an agreement. You have to pay those because you already made a contract to pay (written or not, formal or informal), and quite often an invoice provides formality that was lacking before, crystallising the expected amount. The act of paying it generally signifies final agreement to that amount.

For business contracts, often an invoice is the first time the buyer sees the exact amount the seller is expecting, because of details that weren't hashed out in advance (no need). For example per-hour freelancing can be like that; the buyer learns the number of hours the seller claims to have worked from the invoice.

But people dispute invoices all the time if they aren't expected or differ significantly from the amount expected.
Is probably more spread out instead of longer they need to know the difference
I'm the same. I keep bumping up on the max capacity of my .mp3 player despite finding which tasks would be better served to double up.
Don't buy them then? It's not like you can control most IoT today
HN isn't the kind of place for your closing comment. Also you replied to yourself by accident.

25% is indeed greater density than 10% and bicycles have two wheels but neither has anything to do with making "50% of global FF users are based in DACH " anywhere near an accurate statement.
Except the top level comment was doubting they ever spent 100k total in the history of their staging system. That’s not going to be true for AWS even with the nosebleed seats, is it?

And are you really going to run your entire staging environment in spot instances? What happens on peak days?
Calorie is a frustrating unit. When talking about food or exercise, usually we use the kilocalorie but just call it a calorie. I assume the previous poster was using the small calorie. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie.

So, that seems low to me. I would expect you to burn more than 10 kcal, but it seems the right order of magnitude at least.
> For what ...

It was a classic case of prisoner's dilemma: several powers solving a mini-max problem. What happens if I arm myself, what if I don't? Of course, the thorny question is what happens if I don't arm myself and my neighbor continues arming. But then, after arming and arming and arming for decades, at some point the question becomes what happens if I attack first vs what happens if my neighbor attacks first.

Unfortunately, in all these questions, when you contemplate the best outcome and the worst outcome, in 1914 history did not show any scary examples of really bad outcomes. All involved parties have been involved in various sorts of interborder conflicts where the worst outcome was not truly devastating. Russia had suffered a pretty bad naval defeat at the hands of the Japanese a few years back, France has lost some territories to Germany a few decades back, but all in all, all major European powers had experienced only success in their recent history.

Today, 100 years later, we have different answers to the same questions. Answers that will inevitably include nuclear holocaust. Does this mean we'll never see a major war again? I don't know what the future holds in store. I"m thankful that there was no major war during my lifetime, I can only hope there won't be one during my kids' lifetime.
The gin doesn't pick the bolls. It just created bigger fields and more work.
You've had better experiences than I, then. Most of my clients have been quite enjoyable to work with, and that's great. But the difficult customers that expect everything immediately... They are very resistant to caring about how much effort it takes on your part, or engaging in actual two-way conversation. They appear to be only focused on themselves, to a self-defeating degree.
It's not clear that points systems like this really select for optimal benefit, though. They tend to be biased toward the qualifications that are already well represented in the country.

Looking at immigrants I've met, yes, qualifications count for something, but sheer hustle and ambition can play a role as well, and often those propagate into the next generation too.

In hiring decisions, I was told to try to select for potential, not qualifications. Points systems are the classical "select for qualifications" move.
To clarify: when not raising interesting technical points, he does engage in overt trolling to test cancel culture limits, yes.

He has stated this in his Periscopes.
I really liked working with xdebug in my PHP days.

But in my experience JS debuggers (outside the browser and inside the IDE) were kinda brittle, probably because of all that bundling and compilation going on.
It sets a precedent for sure - but I can’t help but doubt when someone says “if anyone else is in charge - it will be disaster!”

Are conservationists only involved at the federal level? My own experience in CA is at least the opposite...
That's a good trade-off though, right? Podcasts during commute time are to fill the dead space.
One company I know of charged them enough to hire someone whose entire job was to politely tell them no.
Standard, base Haskell admits the following definition:

let f lst = lst
& map normalize
& filter (\x -> x > 0)
& average

Which is barely different from your second presentation. (EDIT: just in case you think I'm ass-pulling here, this is fairly idiomatic code that I'd certainly write in prod! See another comment I posted earlier this week...)
I'm not sure about more job opportunities in the future, remote work is going to accelerate jobs moving out to lower wage countries and put downward pressure on salaries here.
I wonder how much is people anticipating that a hammer is probably coming. In nearly all areas of North America and Europe, even the best managed countries are expecting some sort of economic downturn - and it's likely to spread and impact every industry eventually to some degree.

I know that I'm thinking that a bit. No one wants to be the easy pickings when the layoffs come rolling around.
Ballista Distributed Compute: One Year Later
Some IoT stuff already does[0]. According to the trusty people on the internet, you can remove these with your defrosters, and the SIM inside has unlimited data. Of course, approach this with proper scrutiny, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised since their entire business model is based on people not understanding how suction cups work.

[0]: https://barnacleparking.com/
Is there any service that will monitor MLS/others and look for houses and apartments in a price range, within a commute distance (by train or car or bus), and with internet access?

I think I'd pay for a service that did this.
Stasis is interesting. First, it makes sense that if they are in a local utilitarian optimum, they won't be changing much. Secondly, IIRC, Mond states they have plenty of inventions they haven't deployed, based on A/B testing. Not only does that imply people doing creative work inventing, but also that the status quo is not a static quo, and they'll happily introduce, say, new technically-complex pasttimes, as long as they clearly improve the metrics they're measuring. (I'll reread the book later today or tomorrow to see if memory serves. I don't think I've read it in this century.)

For personal and collective initiative and creativity, not only does someone have to write the feelies in the orthodox world, there are always the islands for people with too much initiative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513002

(Island life sounds a bit like Dante's first circle. The savage deliberately chooses not to go there. I think it a poor choice, but then again, if I had been Zhivago, I would emigrated to Paris with Tonya, saving a good deal of trouble.)

As far as consumerism goes, I will just remind you that we are discussing in the clear on an anglophone forum. Aren't we all supposed to line up behind the Washington Consensus that consumerism is the key to prosperity?
Unless they meant literally a calorie, not the more common large calorie or kilocalorie. In which case they'd be claiming that 1km ride burned ~10 calories, which is at least at the right order of magnitude. I weigh 73k, and according to my watch I burned 136 calories riding my bike for 6.4km yesterday, for an energy usage of 0.29 calories (not kilocalories) per gram-kilometer.
They underlying interview is pretty amazing, mostly not about this subject:
https://www.wired.com/story/bill-gates-on-covid-most-us-test...
The word everybody here is looking for is, "pedantry".
Rather than getting rude, get passive aggressive. Just drop off the calls and blame Comcast -- something that's more difficult to do in an in-person meeting.
Good guess. Near as I can tell, the sun's yellower at sunrise / sunset, and I can almost look at it during that time, so I imagine that selection bias is involved.
This is what I advocate for a long time.

On top of that the burden should be made equal by having the CEO participate when I am forced to, or to personally discusd with their lawyers.

In other words, a trial should be for the company a similar pain in the ass as it is for me.
I am planning to apply in 1.5 years on the 70-point system. I've had 70 points for the last half year, in January 2020 I will be at 65 points and in February 2021 I will be back at 70 points again.

I don't speak Japanese though, so there are a couple of things I'm curious about. For instance, it says "Either graduated from a Japanese university or completed a course of a Japanese graduate school" and I did a semester in a Japan university as an exchange student. But it was as an undergraduate, so I'm not sure if it counts. I'll be contacting the linked company in the article, thanks for the read!
Color is an ambiguous term, but most people interpret it as it is used in human visual perception. Under that definition, the author is wrong. Outside the atmosphere, it will be perceived as white, but here on Earth, it will vary from yellow to red. The environment that the person receiving the question can assume is the environment they are asked the question in. Therefore, the most popular answer of yellow is correct.
Operator Defined Next Generation Ran Architecture and Interfaces
I thought "<" was for "bra" and ">" for "ket", so "<>" for bra(c)kets?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra%E2%80%93ket_notation
> It's not always 100% about the money.
... for the employee
You're basically describing Sentinel for Terraform (https://www.hashicorp.com/sentinel/) or Datree for Kubernetes (https://www.datree.io). There are also a bunch of tools popping up in this space that focus on catching security issues rather than misconfigurations.
the US allows exclusion of foreign earned income up to a certain point (~$105k for 2019 filing year) under one of two scenarios:

- you spent over 330 full (midnight-midnight) days outside the US + its territories, with some important but clear exceptions for things like traveling

- you are a "bona fide" resident of another country; this involves an review by a US government official. typically these people pay taxes in another country, send their kids to school there, etc.
The whole "an hotel" nonsense?
What if there is no value per se? Sueing to cause a company like this to cease and desist would not pertain to your suggestion.
Diet is another big factor. Try to eat more vegetables, less carbs and less meat. Especially mid-day. If you don't like vegetables, figure out how to cook them better.
What has this to do with Hacker News?

I'd be glad if politics could stay away from HN. There are more than enough places to discuss them.
Hopefully that remains an option. I look at it like Smart TVs today. It's pretty much impossible to buy a TV that is not smart. If IoT takes off this will become the case with many other things imho.
The fairly popular `LambdaCase` extension gives

fib = \case
0 -> 0
[...]
One problem with Swiss immigration is that due to our treaties with the EU, we basically have to let in every Eurozone immigrant, which limits our leeway in immigration with the rest of the world.

Overall, I argue that those treaties are worth the price, and they are entirely fair considering what we want from the EU, but they are unfair in their treatment of Euro vs non-Euro immigrants.
Maybe we should not enable what happens after you get more than, say, $50 million. After you've bought a few really nice houses and given your kids the best education money can buy, all you're really doing with that money is imposing your will on others without that kind of money, and often without their say. Lobbying politicians, setting up foundations, etc., is usually a rich person telling others what they should do, rather than enabling individuals to do what they think is best. Maybe this is ok if rich people were really just always super intelligent, but I think it's clear that that's not necessarily true (luck (and sometimes even a bit of ruthlessness and lack of compassion) is big in getting rich). And people who are experts in one field can be clueless in other fields without realizing it. Just give the excess money to individuals, on the basis of need, and we'll probably see it used more efficiently.
YMMV. It does nothing for me (in terms of how I feel during the day or the quality of my sleep), although I do it because I enjoy sports and having better cardio and being stronger helps (and I look better).
Is this a video? An article? That link leads to a huge wall of cognitive overload. The title sounds interesting but I’d prefer a direct link to the meat of the matter if possible.
what is the size of your org and what is the average tenure there?

What is the ramp up time expected too?
Not much. The sun is a blackbody. (But if you discount blackbody radiation, instead of just trying to out-shine it, that's an interesting question.)
And topical, double points!