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"Makes me wonder what I'm not appreciating enough today."

I wonder that frequently for myself. I still regularly catch stuff post defacto that I feel stumped to have somehow missed at the time.
Something to be considered is that today's population is on average older than in 1968 and therefore there are more people vulnerable to respiratory illnesses than ever(*atleast before COVID19).
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Technical work is relatively easy to copy. But what Uber has and what the market reliably undervalues is how expensive it is to acquire customers. Furthermore they have an actually competent customer support team to deal with problems encountered while providing the service.
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Exactly, if a OEM or partner figured out how to solve self-driving; they would go to market first. I know people like to say its hard to build a market for drivers and passengers like Uber and Lyft; but if you solved self driving, then you should have a good price advantage to build a new market like Waymo is doing
> VERY high maintenance demands per mile compared to [...] automobiles, or even old automobiles.

Why? Isn't an automobile a superset of a bicycle in terms of parts? It has a frame, rubber tires, wheels with spokes, and gears (for the engine/transmission).
I live in Hawai'i. When Captain Cook first arrived would be a somewhat analogous event. A young teen at the time named Kamehameha knew that Cook's arrival was something monumental, spent all the time he could aboard the ship learning about these strange visitors, and then went on to conquer and unite all the islands into the Kingdom of Hawai'i.

Unless you happened to be present at the 0.01% of the area of Hawai'i that Cook visited, you would have had no idea that such creatures and such a world outside of the islands existed.
The balance idea is raised and rejected, but as I understand it it's a huge part. The issue isn't about humans balancing on the thing (as with the examples of canoes or horses that are already stable at rest), but rather that a bicycle _does not balance unless it is moving_, and moreover making it balance depends on the fact that it has steering – fix the front wheel in place and you can't ride it.

This is not intuitive, except with the benefit of hindsight.
What would you do if the local mafia showed up at your business and said "Nice little space/car company you got there, it would be a shame if something happened to it?"

Call it an act of cowardice, but all of the top companies are currying favor with governments, because cronyism is everywhere, and if you are not in the game, you are out of it.

Do you think SpaceX would have beat ULA, who literally had the Apollo moon landing astronauts badmouthing competitors in front of congress, if they had not curried favor?

China is an especially great example of this: Don't play ball, you lose. (e.g. Google leaves China). Play ball, and find yourself continually kow-towing to keep the goodies flowing, as Tim Cook travels every year to Beijing and stroking the hearts of the government or nationalists.

Until we end money in politics and ban the revolving door of lobbyists, we're not going to address the problem of contracts being handed out with questionable rationale.
My disagreement with these arguments is not around what gets prioritized. I disagree with the fundamental premise that we have to pick at all. Human civilization is not single threaded. We can absolutely colonize Mars while solving global warming. In fact I can even imagine ways in which colonizing Mars can help solve global warming.
I think that page would benefit to first more clearly define what a JavaScript Ninja is and why it's good for you to become one. Something along the lines:

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I love that it's two cents short of one million!
And without horses the firemen that might have prevented the Great Boston Fire of 1872 weren't able to move very quickly.
No offence, but the Toledo is in Spain. I would like to see a photo but I see the site blocks my EU IP entirely.
Verizon signed a contract with NYC in 2008 to pull fiber to New Yorkers by 2014 and I still can't get fiber here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. At this point I've really given up hope that I'll ever get fiber into the home on a reasonable time scale.
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Is it only right wing? The left elected AOC and gave Bernie a platform.
This article give us no evidence/proof/fact at all, only the affirmations of a 87-year-old general that could be affected by senility . I don't know that newspaper, I don't know it it's some kind of satirical newspaper or not (forgive me but "Yediot" sound me like "Idiot") (EDIT: I found this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yedioth_Ahronoth , it seems a regular newspaper), but, if it's the work of professional journalists they should interrogate themselves about the importance of their job it these times of fake news, avoiding to produce this kind of material, even for "clickbaiting" purposes.
There is value in recreation that gives you benefits, I agree, but there is also value in recreation for its own sake too. Expecting all of your hobbies to give you some benefit other than fun can lead to them all becoming "work".
Why RAFT is better? In other words, why do we need a concept of a leader?
For it to be demonstrably false for Bitcoin, you would have to demonstrate that it has ever been false.

Which you won't do, because you can't.
You're reading it wrong. Tailwind is pure css.
You have no idea. The Tinder ban applies to the entire fingerprint consisting of at least: phone number, Google/iCloud account (used with the app store), physical device. Then it creeps over, e.g. using another device and phone number but the same Google/iCloud account incorporates the first two into the banned fingerprint, using another phone number from the same physical device incorporates the phone number into the banned fingerprint. Discussions on Reddit claim that they use the WiFi SSID for fingerprinting as well. It's really creepy.
Another nail in the coffin of "self driving cars will be here very soon!"...
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Beautiful. You made me laugh.
Not OP, but they were bringing up a counterpoint to the "absolutely" destroys a nation. The counter example did not destroy the US, proving the original statement false.

Your third point also sounds like story-telling, or fitting a story to the evidence. Does that mean it is the only possible explanation for what occurred? If not, how can we determine which explanation is correct?
The dude was in charge of Israel's space and satellite divisions at least as recently as 2007 (source: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL11678080). I don't think he has to worry about money.
I suspect that transport for getting the necessary food and goods into town is almost all fossil fuel based (semi trucks and trains).
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"talent knows what talent is worth"

This is a pipe dream and quite conceited. Talent is worth what the market will pay for it. No escaping supply and demand. If you no longer need to be in the office, the labor pool is immensely expanded. Unless you think that all the smart people in the world were already working for SF employers.
Does something like Starlink prevent direct conflict, though?

Imagine a world where anyone can get unfettered internet access. Instead of the great Firewall of China, citizens can just access a starlink satellite. How does that help with spreading democractic ideals? How does protesting and information dissemination look different? What if citizens in Iran, Middle East, Myanmar, etc. could all do the same thing?

I hope Starlink is thinking about these Big questions.
It will probably run it, but better be prepared for a bumpy/glitchy experience: https://www.pcgamer.com/how-buggy-is-cyberpunk-2077-really/
Currently the beta is geo-locked to within about 35 miles of there address you signed up for it.

Elon has said multiple times it will work perfectly well on a yacht crossing the pacific, a moving train, etc., so we have to assume the "stay in one place" restriction will go away.

Country borders will be interesting though, I assume many want to tightly control how you communicate with sats.
I suspect you're trolling because your other comment implies that you don't know Tailwind at all.
Is there a general belief that San Francisco is a counter cultural place?
>Programming languages are in their core something like a craft.

Art has that too and programming is art to some extent. Art has a technology component too! Think about the hardware - in art that is called the medium which has its chemistry (materials highly depend on that), it's got tools and while the art process is analogous to the methodology of writing software, in art you have techniques and so on. While it is not a one to one relationship, if you're willing to stretch things a bit (solely for this exercise) you can see plenty of analogies. Your parent commenter has a very good point about context and your unwillingness to look further into it will keep you from seeing a wider picture. Sometimes it takes years to understand some fundamentals but in the end you still get people who disagree and the same goes in programming. Think about the enlightenment one gets when understand LISPs while others see it as a bunch of useless parentheses and so on. Art may be more fluid but so is software if you look at the bigger picture.
wmf was referring to last year's valuation of Uber's stake in ATG, hence "down round." Uber ATG was reportedly worth $7.5 billion April 2019 (giving Uber an ~$6 billion stake).

[https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-atg-raises-1-billion-fo...]
I'd pay extra $5 per month for a better voice.
Not to mention eastern Europe, South America, Asia, etc.
It’s because the primitive line-breaking algorithm used by browers, combined with the lack of hypenation in most cases, leads to a poor result, especially in narrow columns. Look up “greedy line breaking”.
The mimblewimble based cryptos (grin,beam) are using way better tech than ZCash.

Even Monero is better than ZCash.
Exactly what would be acceptable down time? I hate to say it, but tailwind is like having a crack addict at home to let you in. Just not at all reliable.
Recently I've been interviewing a bunch of programmers and most of them exhibited one pattern - while their code was good, when it came to edit it, in a f2f interview, they simply couldn't do it. They had access to googling the answer, they could ask questions and I tried to give hints to the answer. It's as if they didn't write it - it was most bizarre. So, no, will stick to the interviews as well.
>With my Windows machine I don't even need to check - of course it will.

Anecdote: I've bought games at launch that failed to boot. I've bought many games that required fiddling with settings (locales, drivers, etc.) to get them working. Linux is a more extreme afterthought but PC is also rarely a first-class citizen.
My first thought is that this has nothing to do with money and the truth is probably that some team wants nice metrics to show their bosses (see? zero critical vulnerabilities!).
OK, take Excel. It provided a way for a lot of non-programmers, who didn't want to become programmers, to program enough to get their work done. And that's great!

But if you look at a graph of the number of people employed as programmers, and you look for the point where that number started to decline because Excel made them unnecessary, well, you don't find it. Excel made simpler stuff available for simpler problems, but it didn't address bigger problems, and there were plenty of bigger problems to go around.

And when we talk about fundamentally improving programming, we aren't talking about improving it for those trying to solve Excel-level problems. (That's still worth doing! It's just not what we're talking about.)

So if you can create a new Excel for some area, it will take off. And that's great, for the people who can use it. It won't be all of programming, but it will be a paradigm shift for those who use it.

Will that be a paradigm shift for all of programming? Depends on how many people use it. My bet would be that there is no Excel-like shift (or no-code shift) in, say, the next 20 years, that will affect even 30% of what we currently recognize as programmers.

(If you introduce a great no-code thing, and 10% of current programmers shift to use it, and a ton of newcomers join them, that still only counts as 10% by my metric, in the same way that we don't really count Excel jockeys as professional programmers.)
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Hmm... the Bay Area in my experience is one of the less walkable parts of the United States I’ve visited.
While my own disposition accepts the assertion that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes (that would be a risk to their presence), this survey does not demonstrate that. This is about arrests and convictions for crimes, not commissions.
Perhaps negative brand loyalty, to be honest.
Not to mention, a ridiculously difficult problem that can't only be solved by technical breakthroughs, but also relies on legal and social advancements in order to see widespread adoption.
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> First we have tesla which already has a self driving car.

What 'self driving car'? I think you meant 'semi-autonomous cruise control' as there is no Tesla car that is fully 'self driving'.

As for Uber's situation, they had no chance. Mounted losses everywhere caused by the pandemic, government lockdowns and drivers who are now classified as Uber employees make the costs of it all unsustainable for them to justify keeping a 'self-driving unit'.

The only certain and sustainable long term players in this 'self-driving' or 'cruise control' game are Tesla and Comma.ai.
While I absolutely agree that defense contractor spending is an abhorrent waste of public funds, this is a bad take. Literally every company in this space (ISP's, and more so ISP's that utilize satellites) have used it as a platform to grift public funds. Examples include Lightsquared, Iridium, Globalstar, and the worst of all, DISH) SpaceX has significantly reduced the cost of building a satellite ISP but you need to consider the history here and the other players that have already cost American citizens a shitload of wasted money and resource.

If the FCC believed they should give assistance to SpaceX, it should have been in the form of access to the spectrum Charlie Ergen has been squatting over at DISH making the same promises SpaceX is doing right now. For those unaware of Ergan's history, the FCC for the first time decided to give a light wrist slap over setting up a constellation of fake shell corporations to bid on spectrum that included rural and small carrier subsidies. DISH has blown every build-out deadline and it's set back terrestrial carriers for years now. There were two they completely blew off that came due this year, and the only purpose they served was as an excuse to let the Sprint/TMUS merger happen, where previously TMUS had been calling out their business practices. I'm aware every Elon fanboy is going to wax poetic about how it won't be the same, but I'd caution you to consider SolarCity and what a public funds debacle that has been. There's a history of making big promises in areas and leaving a mess.

Running an ISP is an easy to understand business model, either be the only option in an area or provide better service (and/or price) then incumbents. As others in this thread have said, there's already a shitload of capital flowing around, so why should this capital come from the public. Why didn't Elon just run another 'Deposit $100 to get in line for Starlink!' As it stands most of the US is stuck with shit ISP's because of a lack of competition, and giving subsidies to incumbents (like Charter) are only going to enrich them and further entrench their monopolies.

SpaceX didn't launch this service as a practical or sensible business model for them, they already get paid to launch other telecommunications equipment into space, they are doing this to keep on the government, the public's tit.
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As a matter of fact the 21st century started prematurely in 1989 with the invention of the world wide web. It was officially inaugurated on NYE 2000, and has since been filled with all sorts of interesting things. 9/11, that started the 21st century's great fear, and security obsession. The 2008 financial crisis, started off the 21st century's fury at the fraudulent capitalist finance system. iPhone / android facilitated the 21st century's incessant protest. Trump and social media showed us some gaping holes in democracy, and the allowed an inherent fascism to reveal itself. COVID revealed to us problems of over population, easy travel and access to healthcare. And then? Clearly it's just the beginning, but there was no point when anything started or ended, other than the date. My only speculation is that the 21st century is as it is because of an appreciation for round numbers, and words like millennium. Or that we are definitely not base reality.
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My guess is that it's simply a tech challenge. Justifying text seems non-trivial, especially if hyphenation is used (which I believe is typically the case in print, otherwise you get huge spaces).

According to caniuse `text-align: justify` is still not widely supported [1]. At this point, with how long people have had to get used to non-justified text online, it probably wouldn't be commonly used even after it becomes widely supported.

The specs for the justify property illustrate some of the challenges in implementation [2].

[1] https://caniuse.com/css-text-justify

[2] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#text-justify-property
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I dunno, the profits are easier and risks lower to just license the tech. Sticking to your core copmentency so to speak.
He was literally in charge of Israel's space and satellite programs as recently as 2007 (https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL11678080). If what he says is true, this is exactly how'd you expect to hear about it: an old insider with nothing to lose who wants to tell the truth.

"gabrielblack", what national space agency did you lead to tell us so assuredly that he's lying?

All I know is that if I'm a reporter at the WSJ or NYTimes I'm not telling this story, because if it were true it would probably be your head.
I live in Seattle (south end of Ballard). I can jog to Discovery Park and be in forest surrounded by beach, or up to Carkeek and see tide pools and wetlands. I can be on a real hiking trailhead in less than an hour.

Camelback Mountain is half an hour from the center of Phoenix. Virginia Key Beach Park's walking trails are 20 minutes from downtown Miami. Lionel Hampton-Beecher Hills Park is about the same distance from Atlanta. You get the idea.

SF certainly has really nice nature close by, but it's not like other US cities are industrial wastelands.
> Traffic doesn't necessarily happen because there are too many cars on the freeway, but too many cars on the much more limited capacity streets which back up onto the freeways

That is true in the USA, which has absurdly short on and off ramps, but in my experience, many other countries around the world don't have this problem.

Canada, Australia and the UK all have much, MUCH longer on and off ramps, and traffic doesn't back up onto freeways. Freeways still clog up, however.
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Ha! I have been saying this for at least 2 years. I see no reason for them to be in the self driving space. That is not their forte. In fact not burning cash there will make them more flexible.
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>Is it only right wing?

That's what it said. I assumed they were talking about how bad economies led to people like Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, and since then maybe Thatcher and Reagan, also Putin, and more recently Brexit, Le May, Orban, the leaders of Poland, Brazil, Philippines, etc. Nobody's propaganda did all that. Bad economies and folks scared about change and their future did.

A very interesting book I read called "The Republican Brain" posited that people are born with a lot of their left/right thinking as part of their personalities, but that when the shit hits the fan a certain amount of left-thinking people will become more conservative.
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