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Both Starlink and Starship were estimated to cost about $10B each.

Starlink: 12000 satellites * (250K to build + 250K to launch) plus a few hundred base stations, plus a few million terminals, plus...

Elon initially said that Starship woul cost $10B to develop, but that was for the carbon fiber version. Switching to stainless reduced that cost dramatically, but it's still a multi-billion dollar program.

As for rocket launches, they'll probably do about a dozen customer launches this year (plus a similar number of Starlink launches, but those don't provide revenue). The customer launches are sold for about $50M, so call it $25M of profit per to be generous. That's $300M of profit. That doesn't pay for multi-billion programs.
IANAL, but until someone posts the terms of employment for an Apple genius bar somewhere, everything is pure speculation.

You can be pretty much fired for any reason in any company, with or without cause. Apple probably isn't going to say anything. It could be as simple as the manager wanted to hire his best friend's son, and needed an open spot.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/new-langua....
Why do I need to log in to my display device?
Or they applied the policy exactly as they intended to. Some organizations simply enforce their policies without exception.
Agreed. Rolling your own login solution just to federate access to users seems really, really, unnecessary. There are a million other ways in AWS to accomplish the same task without writing any code, or leaving around a random lambda that will likely be forgotten in a few years.
I’ve recently browsing 4chan again (only few specific boards) and I have the feeling it’s the reverse: people there can state their opinions, totally disregarding how socially unacceptable it would be. Which means their alter-ego is probably the IRL one, which has to shut up a lot of thoughts to blend in society.
I don't think Jobs was so much opposed to geeks tinkering with their toys, rather he wanted a computer perceived as a solution providing tool for everyone, not as a problem in itself usable only by engineers.
I share many of your feelings toward Kotlin as a language. I've said a few times that Kotlin is the best JVM language, but that's it. Even if the Native and JS "ports" or whatever were well-polished, it's still exporting the limitations of Java with it. That's... not awesome.

But are there any other options for multiplatform besides JavaScript?

Also, for what it's worth, I love Rust. The lack of garbage collector is overkill for web backends, but I don't care. I spent years doing C++, so it doesn't bother me to think about some of those things. Even if it feels slower to develop in, it's a really great language IMO, and I love the feeling of "if it compiles, it probably works".
No Facebook, and therefore no oculus needed..
> I wish I, just a guy, could invest in companies like this with no vote stake.

How is this different from just buying stock?

Or are you referring to companies specifically that aren't public?
The appreciation of assets doesn't really change anything to the equation. You are still left with approximately the same % vs what you would own without wealth tax, whatever the growth rate you assume. Because the appreciation is taxed too.
I have two partitions for this very reason. One partition has all my development stuff, including work tools, second partition is on Windows and doesn't have anything remotely work related on it.
I don't think it'll have a meaningful adoption-limiting effect, and honestly, this is the most interesting dynamic of technology right now.

Voice recognition is an extremely solved problem. A lot of the hard part of the AI---the stuff that appeared impossible in the '80s---works consistently on Google, Alexa, and Siri. It just needs to know enough about you to make intelligent guesses at your intent.

... which means it needs access to all that big data the big company collected on you and users like you.

There are technologies that are owned by big companies that will leverage them for ecosystem lock-in. Want a neat personal assistant? Sure; just use your Google account. Want some untethered VR? No problem; just login via Facebook. And that's generally how things will be; you don't have to use it, but you'll be off the cutting edge if you don't.

Because ecosystems are where the money is, and cutting-edge tech costs money. That's the iron law of capitalism and technological progress.

(I'm still waiting for my Linux phone. Thought it might be shipped to me in 2020, but with COVID slowing down production, 2021 looks more likely. But at least I'll feel some moral superiority once I have the thing in my hands that other people already have if they just give up and buy into a big-data vendor's ecosystem. ;) )
1) Renouncing US citizenship is a small but growing trend.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/renouncing-us-citize...

2) The fact that the US created an exit tax is proof that is a growing problem.

The best case for this as a prediction can be made for this idea in the book "Sovereign Individual"

Even if you don't renounce, many wealthy people have second citizenships. Jim Rogers is the first wealthy person I heard really talk about this.
In places like apple doing password resets / account unlocks to allow data transfer, even if you do that for free on the clock, is very commonly prohibited off the clock and/or for "friends".

I actually had a case recently where someone lost reset to a google account. They ended up (THANKFULLY) somehow getting a password reset through an enterprise account admin who had the pull of a huge contract to help out. But I'm sure it was cleared and on the clock for the employee side to do this because I immediately thought - awesome! and also thought - damn, whoever can do these transfers has a TON of power if they ever went rouge.
Tracking bluetooth devices for urban insights >>> https://youtu.be/EUwpSHDHZAs?t=2002
Totally man, the path I had envisioned SBCs going was PCMCIA form factor and SD form factor. Imagine a PCMCIA computer with an SD slot to put your SD form factor computer into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE5ROl2YPbs
They don't. You can have stand alone accounts. All you need to do is follow a few things like a beer company, car comapny or some other faceless corp.

Job done. raise the noise floor.
It's almost like having access to a company's services is less essential than having a hand in your society's decision-making mechanism.
How are they trying to sell you a new phone every year when they just announced that iOS 14 supports all phones made since 2015?
> I can easily see a bright, curious person wasting a lot of time before realizing that the content is merely linguistic, not mathematical.

While I rarely find graphical methods useful for performing calculations, I do appreciate visual interpretations of how mathematical concepts work. I personally find that whenever I have to learn a new topic in math, good visualizations help me form an intuition regarding how things fit together, and can often be useful when reasoning about how to attack a problem (back-of-the-envelope sketch before a more rigorous calculation). For actually solving the problem, on paper or in code, I agree that a symbolic approach is superior.

I also think that purely linguistic improvements in math can have a positive effect: a mathematical notation that is easy to learn, understand, and use, will clearly make the math it represents more impactful. I can't find the exact quote at the moment, but I think it was Dirac who said something along the lines that "a good mathematical notation should make correct statements obvious and wrong statements impossible".
so here i am wondering if facebook would be challenged by a constant flood of anonymous [off graph] accounts constantly flooding in. how many 3card monte accounts per second would be required to keep the account verifier demon flooded
+1 - what's wrong with b-corps and what's better?
Hell, he could have been fired for providing a competing service (even if it was for free).
That's definitely an issue.

The good news is there's GitHub integration in the IDE so you can review code with type inference hints. And adding/removing the types (converting between the inlined hints and real text) is a hotkey away. I tend to treat it as a matter of experience and style, when to specify the types explicitly vs not. Quickly disabling the hints is also reachable via hotkeys and then it is often apparent when a type isn't immediately obvious.
SAML SSO setup is also one of the singlemost convoluted things most people need to do with AWS, but at least you only have to set it up once (per account).

It’s basically a little mini-nightmare, at least when integrating it into G Suite. Burns a big chunk of a day.
Definitely a commitment jump, and not always necessary. We ran our own data centers, off the topic of backups, and it was wild to me that they were so disaster proof. There were different power lines from different power companies coming in in case either of the power companies had an outage, and some giant diesel power generator that could last a long time while fully powering the data center.
This is a great response, thanks for sharing.

I think over-communicating actually is a trait that the most successful remote workers share. I like the accountability point you made as well: you don't want to send your boss an empty email at the end of the day. I think I'll give this a go.

Why do you think your performance dropped with WFH? Is it the social isolation bit?
I've been really interested in purchasing a VR platform but Oculus' Facebook integration has always been a dealbreaker for me.

What are the alternatives for a self-contained VR system? I don't want to have to plug into a PC.
Probably minimizing interaction with the unwashed masses.
Of course slip-ups happen, but then it should have involved more people, and should not have left this impression on the ex-employee, but rather the impression that HR didn't have his back (but at least were there as a second pair of eyes in the process). This sounds more like no oversight at all. Sure, we could be missing something.
I agree - we're in a terrible situation right now... So, how do we solve it and dig our way out of the hole?

I'm not suggesting that we can wish corruption away - I'm not even trying to imply that doing it will be easy. I just think it's the only way to return to sane governance. There are some ways we could increase voter representation like IRV & abolishing the electoral college. Increased representation makes it harder for crooks to stay in power, but even getting that through is a struggle (otherwise we would've done if when we realized it was better than what we have now).

And, in the meantime, we need to work with what we've got.
Low 7 figures to me would be between $1,000,000 and $3,000,000.

I don't think that I would call that "never need to work again" money. It's between 10 and 30 years of my salary.

A good lump sum to stash in the retirement fund. Maybe retire at 55 instead of 65, but definitely not "never need to work again" money.
Is the Phone Gap closed in 2020?
Well given those taxes are passed on to the middle class, and the fear is that a new tax will also be passed on to a middle class, I don't see any irony.

I even suggested that lowering taxes on the middle class and below while introducing a new tax on the rich would be the a method to prevent people from being concerned with the tax eventually impacting them. With all the 'tax the rich' rhetoric, why not include a 'and not the poor' as well?
This just isn't true.

Lets go through an analysis of this looking at a real word scenario, but ignoring Federal Income Tax since that wouldn't change the situation.

Assume you sell your company and earn $10M.

In CA, you're taxed at 13% right away, and so have $8.7M. Lets say you earn 3% returns each year. Modest but not great. You're taxed another 13% on that 3% by California, meaning you actually earn 2.61% returns. After 60 years, if you leave the money untouched and tax laws don't change, you'll have just under $41M.

If there was a state that had no income tax (say, Texas or Florida) and charged a .5% wealth tax, it would go like this. You'd have $9.95M after paying taxes when selling your business. After a year of investing at 3% returns, you'd have $10.248M, on which you'd be taxed .5%. After taxes, you'd have $10.197M. Do that for 60 years, and you'd end up with more than $43M

While PG says that "Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it", it hasn't. California state income tax is higher, and that is where Zuck, PG, Larry Paige, Brian Chesky and a bunch of other people live.
> But neither are useful.

Useful to whom? To the paleontologists?

In practice, paleontologists look at the passage of traits down evolutionary lineages regularly. You are correct in stating that the same features can develop independently, but that does not mean they do every time. I don't think the assertion that 'evolution is not linear at smaller scales' holds up to much scrutiny. Life as we know it results from the passage of traits encoded in genes, otherwise there would be no evolution; we would have basic unicellular life spontaneously arising from the primordial ooze over and over again Groundhog Day style.

> The fact that this critter had a particular shape of eye is not an indication that it passed that structure to later lifeforms.

In the parlance of the geosciences, depending on the context, we'd call this a suggestion rather than an indication, as there may be weaker evidence or credible alternative hypotheses. However depending on the scales of the time and speciation differences between the species under consideration it may be very strong evidence.

For example, it's highly unlikely that the presence of limbs in both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens is coincidental and Homo sapiens have limbs that evolved independently of Homo sapiens. This is very different than asserting that wings in both bats and birds are indications that one evolved from the other.
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>I don't think in absolutes.

But you speak in absolutes.

>If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America (edit: renounce citizenship) and ambitious people will never come here to begin with. America will no longer be the land of opportunity.

>But yes, it is a powerful disincentive due to the compounding nature of wealth taxes.

This compounding nature of wealth taxes is nonsense. It's a negative feedback loop not a positive one. Compound interest is powerful because it compounds on itself--it's a positive feedback loop. Comparing compound interest to a wealth tax is just flat out wrong.
thank you for advice! we'll consider it
Elon never sells stock. He borrows from the bank to support his lifestyle, and to exercise his stock options. He has billions of dollars in debt using his stock as collateral.
"- Explain why an NN with n nodes across multiple hidden layers can model a more complex structure than an NN with n nodes but only one hidden layer."

I'd be curious to hear your answer on that one.
Your sources don't seem to exclude warmer waters as a contributor to bleaching. From your first source "...recent scientific results show that increased nutrient levels can reduce the heat stress tolerance of corals..." So it seems that runoff + heat both contribute to coral bleaching.
Centralized food and energy production (and other things tbh, but these two stand out) is certainly a lot cheaper, but it's obvious it was not the right move.

If everyone had to maintain their local food/energy production at the county, neighbourhood or even household level, there would be much less waste and more responsibility (something a lot of people need).

Fewer out of season products means less waste and pollution, as well.
Hi. I'm from Brazil and I just started getting web development freelance jobs recently. I think one of the most important factors is to have a good polished English.
Check out the projects published on some platforms like Upwork or Freelancer.com. There's a lot of work on web dev like WordPress, PHP, JS.
There's also courses on how to get freelancing jobs. I took a good one at Skillshare which helped me a lot to get my first job.
Fukushima was built in the early 1970's from an early 1960's design. Nuclear power had barley started to be developed and then all development stopped. Of course there are many reasons for that, but if we had continued to develop new nuclear tech from the 70's till today, imagine how many extremely safe and inexpensive reactor concepts could have been developed.

This is, of course, a long and complicated topic, not very amenable to forum discussion. Maybe it was a good idea that nuclear power was not developed, not because it was physically dangerous, but because giving the human race that much more access to power/energy at that point in history may have had a bad outcome. We may have needed slow down the industrial revolution's exponential advance for a bit.
Emn - did this guy sign a release so that apple could release his records.

A lot of these types of complaints, they don't / won't sign a release allowing the employer to release their records.
Girard's theory also applies very well to mass culture movements for social and political change. Shameless plug: My book rests in large part upon his theories: https://www.nottotouchthesun.net/doorsinpoetryandhistory/
> or, would you prefer the following:

b←3 4⍴⍳12
+⌿b ⍝ maybe, don't know if numpy/J starts at 0 or 1 -- assuming 0

There's been a lot of APL related posts lately and I've been fascinated on how one would go about parsing it so...
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I always wonder about patterns of directly exposing s3. It always seems preferable to me to have that abstracted to a service that only handles file storage and retrieval. It burdens you with the application logic, but provides you the opportunity for portability and allows you tighter limits on s3 access.

I want to minimize the total number of accounts with AWS access, since a configuration error can expose so much.
I've had a burner FB account for years and have never had an issue. What's your source for this?
Not possible. I tried doing that once, and Facebook demanded I give them my phone number, which I obviously denied.
> this means Facebook directly gets to use your VR usage/purchases to market to you, and they will follow you around the web

Only if you use or log into your bogus FB account.
Yep: you cannot promise anything beyond your control.
> but if you believe the media uncritically you'd think that America is a hellhole with people dying on the streets from Covid-19

But, in reality, they're dying in their homes because Americans are too afraid of surprise hospital fees ruining their entire life.

> Our response was better than Europe's

Americans had the brunt of the European and Chinese outbreaks to observe, learn, and listen, but none of these things come easy to us, so we instead decided to sacrifice our non-remote workers.

Also, according to the ECDC, there have so far been 179,793 total deaths in the EU [1] vs 169,870 in the US [2]. In terms of cases 1 946 748 for the EU, 5,422,242 for the US. Keep in mind the population of the EU is roughly 40% larger than the US.

We could also probably start looking into food insecurity rates increasing, eviction rates increasing, widespread civil unrest, but, hey, why throw more tinder onto the fire? The response has been exceptional, but in a brutally American way.

[1] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/case...
This was fast! I only heard the news of a mutiny on a single base this morning.
> produce hardware as sustainable as possible

Thy don't.

It's not just that they wouldn't try to sell you a new device every year but they also would either provide or allow sustainable repairs.

Apple mainly replaces whole components, like the whole motherboard. But many of the damages which causes a motherboard repair with Apple can be fixed by "just" replacing some broken capacitors or some simple chip (simple as in not the GPU/CPU/RAM). Which might sound hard but is very doable/learnable e.g. look at some of Louis Rossmanns videos.

There are also frequently problems with Macs one the line of "if this fails this other thinks will fail too and you have to buy a new laptop instead of just living without xxx".

I think all their efforts about sustainable production are PR and trying to avoid/preclude regulations.
Or maybe the manager had a grudge against him... happens a lot.

This is a retail outlet afterall, far away from the culture of the mothership.
In the case of a wealth tax, the target not simply a "particular minority", but capital, which is very literally power itself. And it's increasingly clear that it really is too concentrated.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2020057pap...
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Well, there's stock when they IPO.

Beyond that, you may be thinking about becoming an accredited investor, but yeah, there are wealth requirements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor
The issue with such taxes is that they treat stuff like liquid assests which are subject to rapid change, like stocks, as the same as physical cash.

It also brings along the idea that the goverment taxes you when you: make the money, use the money, or even just keep the money. It's just another way to get more moeny even if it's not doing anything.

And with all taxes, it starts only effecting the top, but then they need more money and soon everyone but the poorest of the poor is paying more every month.
GOG is good if the game you want to play is on there - if you don't install GOG Galaxy.

You can download an executable installer from their website that is DRM free, can be installed offline, and you can keep a copy of forever.
They can verify them via their social network.

An account with no connections is HELLA suspicious.
Treatment != testing.
While I like how it feels and look, I really miss being able to have a try button. Like on swagger, I want to add test data and try it.
This is one of my favourite features when I explore APIs of other companies.
Sadly, we Americans look in horror at anything that might briefly inconvenience us. Heaven forbid we're prevented from going to Olive Garden, getting our hair done, and buying khakis. Which is why real lockdowns were never tried here, stay-at-home "suggestions" were not successful here, and we've become the epicenter.
The peeps at salesforce created this IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator - https://github.com/salesforce/policy_sentry
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Sorry but Switzerland is explicitly is not that good for wealthy and a lot of people are started leaving even 8 years ago.

For example, one of my partners literally hired ex-minister of finance to do taxes and even then they wasn't able to avoid various taxation penalties.
Don't you need to be at least 13 years of age to register a Facebook account?