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Except totally unreasonable :)

Rockets that size cannot be launched anywhere near populated areas, so they'd have to launch from off-shore platforms; outside of Australia, USA and Russia there are no worthwhile destinations that can safely host on-shore rocket launch complexes for that class of rocket.

This poses quite complex logistical challenges that enthusiasts just love to handwave away. But there's even more to it: airspace needs to be closed on both launch and target sites.

Weather will lead to scrubbed flights as rockets have much tighter weather parameters than aeroplanes and are incapable of changing routes mid flight or divert to alternate airfields.

The most ridiculous part, however, is passenger logistics: every astronaut/cosmonaut/taikonaut wears pressure suits during ascend, since otherwise there's no way to breathe in case of a loss of cabin pressure once you're above 20km. Oxygen masks just won't do anymore at such heights.
This means passengers would need to wear and familiarise themselves with pressure suits, unless SpaceX can convince the FAA somehow that even fewer failure modes can be mitigated while still being safe for passengers...

Getting onto the rocket is another point that's far from trivial - one doesn't simply walk into Starship and pick a seat. The seats wouldn't be upright, so passengers would need to climb into them and be secured by personell. Not to mention the elevator ride and the long wait during fuelling (remember: SpaceX are the only ones who do "dry-loading", that is they only start fuelling once the passengers are on board).

So your 30 minute short trip from LA to Paris would in reality consist of a 1 hour drive to the port, followed by 1 hour check-in and a 1 hour boat ride to the off-shore launch facilities. Next you'd have at least 1 hour of boarding procedures (limited elevator space, pressure suit fitting, seating) followed by fuelling (maybe another hour?). So after about 5 hours or so you are finally clear for launch and arrive somewhere off the coast of France 30 minutes later. From there it's another hour for unloading, an hour to get to the coast and another two hours from the coast to Paris.

In total, best-case scenario travel time would be about 9½h - better than the 16h via plane (12h flight + 4h getting to-/from airport plus boarding time), but a far cry from Shotwell's "business meeting in Abu Dhabi in the morning and back in Vancouver for dinner".

The off-shore launch platform idea isn't mine, by the way - the concept was brought forward by SpaceX themselves and presented by Glenn Shotwell who said "the longest part of the ride is be the boat out and back" [1].

I'm highly sceptical of the idea - not because I think it's impossible, which it isn't - but because the logistics, regulatory conditions, and economics behind it just don't make sense. I could be wrong, of course, and stranger things happened, but realistically, the odds are very much against this ever going to happen[+].

[+] using Starship/Super Heavy as envisioned and developed today

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dar8P3r7GYA&feature=youtu.be...
Well, everything is connected - especially when it comes to injecting things into the blood stream consisting of bits of pieces of viruses and RNA. Is that even up for debate? and how is that fear mongering when it is just the most obvious truth?
I guess Raganwald's blog entry "To Grock a Mockinbird" is a reference to that book?

http://raganwald.com/2018/08/30/to-grok-a-mockingbird.html
>I don't see any problem in using ELO.

>it makes sense to show most profiles in similar normalized ELO ranges

Let me highlight (but not explicitly point out, so you may mentally connect the dots yourself) the exact problem with both of these statements:

Suppose the 'logic' of whatever meta-algorithm one implicitly presupposes as behind picking the desiderata for picking the appropriate algorithm to use for the problem as principally sound. Then, by extension WOLG, it NOWADAYS actually makes no sense at all to continue using ELO, because significantly better algorithms have long since come along. Two by now both ancient examples, check the first one for why & how ELO sucks even for its original intended usage, and check the second one for a tremendously improved version:

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/trueskill-r... (2005+)

* https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/trueski... (2018) (Citations: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1017946959272817486...)

Oh and, as one may guess, neither of these examples represents the State of the Art in this sector (Check the citations above for that.). Also, for more papers by the Microsoft Research group working on that project, check here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/trueskill-r...

Now that we've clarified that, I'd like to ask:

Do you still feel sure whether this seems like an appropriate class of algorithms to leverage for dating? Assuming of course that users want to find partners, as opposed to good opponents. Albeit:

One might speculate algorithmically supplying well-matching opponents instead of potential partners, while (mis)labeling them as more potentially likely compatible than by chance partners would make for a tremendously better—albeit highly amoral—repeat business model on part of the platforms, at least in the relative short-term, wouldn't you say?
Were the cross-connected circuits channelized or individual voice calls (ds0? I can’t remember from my wan days) or something else?
Wasted an opportunity to implement code that would detect and handle poison-pill messages. Those will happen in any system where queue is involved and there always needs to be an escape hatch to get rid of them. Deleting the queue is too extreme.
Why can you not just give macros enough meta-data so the reader-formatter knows what kind of formatting the form desire? Provided your lisp have macros of course...
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At least in Berlin, it was the same during the first lockdown: infections among younger people peaked one or two weeks earlier than among older people.

You can see this very well in the heatmap of cases by age group here: https://www.berlin.de/corona/lagebericht/desktop/corona.html...
Where is the just-released version? (The one linked in the submission is the original one from March)
Yup, the #1 used computerized control, but all the switching was still electromechanical, so it sounded like a typewriter factory, especially during busy-hour.

At night, traffic was often low enough that you could hear individual call setups and teardowns, each a cascade of relay actuations rippling from one part of the floor to another. The junctor relays in particular were oddly hefty and made a solid clack, twice per call setup if I recall correctly, once to prove the path by swinging it over it to a test point of some sort, and then again to actually connect it through. On rare occasion, you'd hear a triple-clack as the first path tested bad, an alternate was set up and tested good, and then connected through.

Moments after such a triple-clack, one of the teleprinters would spring to life, spitting out a trouble ticket indicating the failed circuit.

The #5, on the other hand, was completely electronic, time-division switching in the core. The only clicks were the individual line relays responsible for ringing and talk battery, and these were almost silent in comparison. You couldn't learn anything about the health of the machine by just standing in the middle of it and listening, and anyone in possession of a relay contact burnishing tool will tell you in no uncertain terms, that the #5 has no soul.
We tried this with Brazil. Result: They continued to remove forests and said "and if you don't pay anymore we will accelerate it". So, sounds good in theory, is not in good in practice.
Massive problem? That's news to me. But what do I know, I've only been writing Lisp for more than a decade.

On the other hand, the Clojure kids seem to reinvent programming badly while maligning other Lisps (see blog post), so maybe they do have a massive problem with trivial things like indentation.
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Get ready for 2% of your player base to make 50% of the support requests.
The main burden of proof would be how was something from likely so far away detected. Peer reviewed submissions in key journals is the usual standard for accepting something we aren't qualified to understand. That doesn't change just because we can draw grey android blobs.
I haven't live in SF since the mid-90s but what are the complaints? From my viewpoint it's easily in the top 10 places to live in the U.S, so unless people are coming from one of the other places or have a particular overwhelming interest like 'sunny weather all the time' I don't know what the complaints would actually be.
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You said anything about being racist? I'm implying your comment is ridiculous, because you've used being racially Chinese as a proxy for not being American, which is clearly not valid.
There goes Windows. Intel is probably gone too, if the Apple M1 chip eventually gets some serious competition from other cool ARM chips. And Linux get something similar to Apple's rosetta to emulate the Intel instruction set.
Yes, the demand wasn't there. The space shuttle had enormous LEO capacity, far exceeding actual needs. At least routine needs. As you say, two to three times a year...

AFAIK the final design of the heat shield did not allow for much shorter turnaround time than several weeks. It was necessary to inspect around 30 thousand tiles by "eye and hand" and those tiles were unique, so replacements had to be precision made. This is a system that just eats time of qualified people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_thermal_protecti...
They do by the way of an xsettingsdaemon (so not accessing directly) for security reasons. The obstacle instead is that they are self-contained, so they should not depend on the theme files outside their system. Hence, they will read what theme you are using and then inside their system look for a matching one.
This is a great explanation of "always those magical choke points where the past CRC is tossed" that parent poster is referencing.
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Haha, yeah I know what you mean. It also makes it hard to be a passenger in a car with an inattentive or distracted driver.
So the people / companies who would be hacked and have their data / systems destroyed are what? Acceptable collateral damage?
No, that's something completely different. The kernel is tainted when you load out of tree modules and only means they won't look at your bug reports. Lockdown mode is something similar to the Windows driver signing https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
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The PDF document we are discussing was published in March; A lot has changed since then.
Imagine if such an issue appeared in a non-techy-area, it could go unnoticed for years.
With zero data.

How about we drill a new hole in the head? Since everything is interconnected, it might do us good despite quite a few deaths from it.
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Something that I find interesting is that anti-cheats are needed when either 1) the input can be somehow enhanced (think fps aim hacks) or 2) more information than the player should have is being sent to client (think fog of war or wall hacks). That's hard to avoid in shooters, where you need that behind-the-scenes information to reduce perceived latency. But games that don't have that low-latency-hungry "twitch" element, like strategy games, turn-based, etc., can make do without information that would enable hacking (and they usually don't benefit from input hacking either). I'm currently working on a pvp strategy game that uses an exaggerated input delay as a game mechanic, which also gets rid of the need to send information that the player shouldn't have: ground-truth is computed server-side and after pruning and transforming according to each player's perception, streamed to the clients. That's unhackable in the game hacking sense.
Did the same. Was just not worth the risk of waiting until an issue gets fixed. Or if it even gets fixed.
I mean even in GTA 5 working perfectly, the overlay always had an issue of a missing mouse pointer.

Also Microsoft Store bought games do not work on Linux.

Well and in the end i just want to play my games.
And if i want to start modding, don't get me started on the hoops you have to jump through just to get a modded Skyrim with everything installed how you like it.
Which might also explain why they beat Covid faster and more effectively, on the other hand.
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I'm not sure that's particularly great for confidence. It will feel like a test, and they will feel dreadful if they don't find it. The whole process will be very stressful.
The author is clearly delusional and narcissitically unwell. This has no place here.
What are you talking about? Game makers are trying to make fun games for people to spend time on and enjoy
Could be I'm taking an overly rosy view of what they're up to.
Tell WordPress, Drupal (what's left of it anyway) and co who're storing HTML fragments, templates, and other markup as BLOBs "in the database".
I sometimes feel that stuff like this only exists to avoid awkward silences in code reviews.
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it may as well happen that lockdowns put selective pressure on the virus for higher virulence.

Anyway, the government bureaucrats are naturally go for simple short-term game like lockdowns without doing any complex long-term thinking (which for example would be the things like efficient preparation for the second wave and achieving herd immunity with minimal losses and minimizing the total losses).
I mean, you're talking about how you went shooting deadly firearms for fun on a family holiday, and then express disbelief that police would enter a suspects house with firearms drawn.

I'm not american but it seems pretty obvious to me why american police are trigger happy while in most other countries they are far less so.
Thank you very much for the link!

Dr. Kleppman also provides notes for that specific lecture [0]; they contain all the slides with the corresponding detailed text, which is really awesome!

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2021/ConcDisSys/dist-sys-n...
Two problems:

A) That is an extremely dangerous road to encourage law enforcement to go down. "Charged with" is not the same as a conviction, and resisting arrest is a broad category that can encompass a wide variety of behaviors. Police in most instances should judge danger based on the current information they have, based on who is actively presenting a threat -- not based on whether or not someone was charged with something in the past. I can go into more detail on that if you want, but... I don't really think it should be hard to figure out why that would be problematic.

B) Even ignoring the above point, your comment is exactly the kind of off-topic change I was warning about. This thread was started by someone claiming that Rebekah's whistleblowing was justified and that it was worth throwing financial aid her way because she was doing the right thing. It was followed by another commenter questioning why she deserved aid, and as evidence that she didn't, that commenter devolved into a personal attack over her previous criminal record. Now we're debating whether the police used excessive force and whether they should have been scared of her.

The thread is off topic. The point is, the police shouldn't have done a raid over a crime this minor in the first place. Rebekah's previous criminal record doesn't have anything to do with the severity of the crime that caused this raid. The conversation over how police should have acted during the raid is a distraction from the original point that this was not the kind of crime that warranted breaking down someone's door and pointing a gun at their family.

"battery against a police officer" in a completely separate case does not change that point. It's irrelevant information to what we're currently talking about.
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I don't know if it belongs to the same category; but I find distributed learning very interesting and related. It has been a trending topic in biomedical field. In an area you can't gather enough data ethically, distributed systems are key.

Example: https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/CCI.19.00047
YES! He worked third and we were there all night. He pointed those sounds out to us, it was so cool.
How is it posturing if Hacker News doesn't even notice something that's been publicly available on the site since March?
I use Dart every now and then and for me "straight from the '90s" is a benefit. I learned the language in about a day. IDE works great, no issues with autocomplete whatsoever (which is often an issue in "modern" languages).
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>Whatever happened to user agency?

When was it ever an expected thing with the likes of MS?
I'm hard-pressed to think of much examples where they haven't pushed themselves forward using anticompetitive market-practices when it made sense for em.
It is impressive and encouraging, but does not shorten the safety period. It may still come out in a year or two (or ten) that this increases the chance for some autoimmune disease in a problematic way, or causes some other problem.

The vaccine was created quickly, but as far as I understand we are now better at evaluating safety yet -- the 3-10 years safety study would still have been practiced if we weren't in the middle of a pandemic. The result of not enough testing can be fatal, see e.g. [0]

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/dengue-vaccine-fiasc...
True, but they are all available. The stdlib bytes packages is not loaded, and it's valid to use `string` as a variable name, I just tried.

But even if these names were not available, I don't think using `tpl` or `t` or `b` is what should be preferred.
Eh, I'd say it's relative. In my experience it isn't so different for the older generation, since they aren't as used to being so available/visible.

It's difficult to know how he would've felt about it, though.
Take a look at the data here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare - for example, the "Patients in hospital" data.

The UK's number of COVID-19 patients in hospital peaked at 19,500 in mid-April and fell to 800 by the start of September.

That's despite things like the 'eat out to help out' scheme that ran until the end of August.

Schools and colleges re-opened in September [1] and the government started "encouraging" workers back to offices [2] - and admittedly, by the end of September patients in hospital had only risen to 2,400.

But by mid-November we see the second wave peaking at 16,500 hospitalised. Today, as we come out of the second lockdown, there are still 15,000 patients in hospital.

The UK has not demonstrated that schools can safely be kept open.

Unfortunately, as the geniuses in government decided to reopen schools and universities and offices all at the same time, it's difficult to directly attribute the second wave to any single policy decision.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/schools-and-colleges-to-r...
[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53942542
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This won’t get passed anti cheats though.
Great question - probably three differences:
1) Syncthing is storage only - Diode has dDrive for storage, but also supports N other use cases as a true web3 backbone candidate (e.g. currently deployed: video streaming, VPN, decentralized web hosting, remote SSH, etc...)
2) Syncthing uses community relays/nodes without any incentive structure - it limits the scale of the network. Diode implements a relay incentive in proportion to the traffic handled (which is somewhat predicated on the QoS the relay is able to provide)
3) Syncthing is a closed system (an impact of #1), so it can't do things like link sharing, web viewers, etc... whereas Diode is able to provide all those things fully decentralized

There are certainly also specific UX/functionality differences on how the apps are implemented, but those are probably the macro considerations.
The tech is great, but aren’t China and Russia deploying more standard replication deficient viruses as vaccines? I think the real development time boost we saw here was that it was easy to get volunteers and easy to test effectiveness due to the huge number of cases.
What I read is that the measles vaccine attacks and resets immune memory - so the MMR vaccine seems to improve immune system function more than other vaccines or infection, but in fact this is an outcome of just stopping measles from hurting the immune system.
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Do you have a point? Because it sounds like you're suggesting regular insurance, which answers your original question.