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Fuel budget = magazine depth. It takes more missiles to shoot down missiles, does not favor defense. Every missile designed for intercept is one less missile in inventory for attack. Forcing missiles off course is going to become increasingly difficult as kill chain condenses, the more loop shift towards onboard sensors the more difficult to disrupt.

UAVs are potentially just larger missiles with more fuel and ability to out maneuver smaller missiles, made more difficult with addition maneuverability when biologic limitations removed. I imagine scenario converging to large performant UAVs with high performance envelopes trained to dodge anti air-missiles with relative impunity, shifting battle space to mutual air supremacy and race to destroy asset fastest. Essentially the end of hegemony via naval force projection.
That's a great point... I never got an opportunity to meet Cutler but I always looked out for him on campus.
I took a road trip through AZ in January and took a detour to Chandler to try out a fully autonomous Waymo ride. I worked on self-driving at Lyft and I have a comma two devkit installed in my car. I have to say it was actually pretty magical having a robot car glide up to me in the Walmart parking lot and then take me for a drive. It's one thing to read about the launch and a wholly other thing entirely to see a fully empty car slink up to you in a parking lot.

The ride is most likely being monitored remotely. I changed my destination back to the start location after traveling about 20 minutes and an attendant's voice came over the speaker and asked if everything was alright. I said it was fine, but was interested that they had a live team monitoring and able to step in for customer service like that.

I did have to wait 17 minutes for the Waymo to actually show up. This success was after 3 or 4 failed attempts to request a car, so if I actually lived in the area I would probably not even open the app to check the ETA. This point is largely moot, as it's pretty clear that strategically AZ is a testing ground rather than something Waymo expects to make any money doing.

I can't wait for the autonomous future. Best of luck to all the entrants in the competition. I just hope you are able to turn a profit before investor money dries up. We've been waiting on promises of this elusive future for nearly a decade now ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
SpaceX is way in the red on this right now. But I'm sure they've done the math on how much profit they can extract from the constellation in the long term.
Or 95% of mail. My daily route is front door -> mailbox -> trash -> front door.
Australia min latency from Singapore is still 125ms for me. Maybe it's lack of peering from my providers side but it's definitely an issue.
I believe that your understanding is correct: defn marks potential boundaries between "jit compiled" or even AOT compiled, and if you call a defn in a defn it will be fused.
>That the child-comment elaborates his thoughts into racist ramblings is frankly irrelevant to me

It should not be. We need to call these people out and put a stop to such behaviour.

Coming to your comments; "positive stereotypes" just earn a gentle laugh while "negative stereotypes" lead to racist behaviour with a disproportionate impact on the real world. They are not the same.
you would need to overcome an Occam's razored hypothesis like:

- management largely has asymmetry when it comes to remote knowledge worker output, especially high performers (contrast assembly line: easy to flag slackers)

- we don't have equity or input on direction (contrast worker cooperatives)

- and we're getting paid a lot of money to "hack" on problems (contrast e.g. whalers, dangerous as hell)

so yeah, i'm gonna let y'all rationalize all this, but i think it's just a great time to be a US computer laborer. won't last forever, but you can use your immense savings (you ARE saving, right?) for all that good stuff whenever you want or are forced out.
I think you are correct in your definition. But if you are many people use it incorrectly. It's thrown at most conservatives. While most conservatives find ethnic nationalism appalling. That said nationalism is appealing to a large percentage of conservatives.
Hi! I live on a major arterial in a major US city. We have buried utilities to my house, and my house was never wired for anything faster than what you can get on a phone line. Even though all six of my property-line adjacent neighbors (whose houses are in stone-throwing distance) have gigabit connections.

After 9 months and a call to the City Council, I finally got a quote from Comcast: $37,000 for copper. They laughed when I asked what it would cost for fiber.
DOCSIS 3 latency is 8ms in my experience; fiber is 1.5ms.
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Their 12000 satellites will have a total bandwidth of 240000 Gbps. I don't see how they get to a trillion dollars on that. A 100 Mbps stream being uploaded to one satellite and then relayed through others and finally download to and end user is going to use at least 200 Mbps of that total system bandwidth.

That puts an upper limit of 1.2 million worldwide simultaneous 100 Mbps streams, and that's probably being too generous. In a given region the limit is much smaller. The numbers I saw said 500k simultaneous 100 Mbps streams in the US.

Overselling can push those numbers up, but I don't think they can oversell enough to take them to a trillion dollar company.
Your comment was more informative to me than the article
Even though the individuals are humans, they are reading a script given to them by a soulless automaton (also made of humans, but the result of an inhuman optimisation process).

Those writing the script are taking advantage of your aversion to skip social graces when they decide what questions the low-ranking representative will ask you.

The only winning move is not to play. It's not the individual's fault, but neither is it fair on you to play along. Be polite, but direct, and don't play the game.
You mean the guy who stole a bunch of people's work for the first iphone jailbreak? Definitely not that guy!
Lol, the fact that they just went with IPv4 supports the theory that they know what they're doing.

I've read multiple tutorials on IPv6 and it's so complicated that I still can't grasp how it all works in my head. For some context, I've personally written an Ethernet IPv4 network stack with DHCP from scratch. I also worked on Ethernet switch firmware, coincidentally for SpaceX...
Maybe... or they are using metrics from above as drivers.

To create and monitor Jira ticket counts, there has the be Jira tickets for management to pay attention to and compare against other employees.

Maybe the employee is gaming the numbers... but there has to be a game to play - and this no different than basing performance reviews on bugs solved or LOC numbers.

management is probably looking at those numbers? Going to be people who change their focus to reflect that attention from above.
That generates an email, which you then have to send via MX records in the domain name system. Which pushes the "human-meaningful" part of the Zooko triangle onto another system. Now we're not having a conversation about git, but a conversation about DNS and email authentication (which has traded off decentralized).
Pre-1965 doesn't seem comparable for many reasons. Segregation is one, the economy is another, and the Vietnam War is yet another.
I'm honestly surprised to hear you accuse Ben of racism. What stances does he hold that lead you to that conclusion?
Take, alone, is an amazing unknown to me.
Pricing looks like $499 for hardware, $50 shipping and $99/mo for service.

I had trouble getting fast internet at a rural location and ended up going with T-Mobile Home Internet for $50/mo and no setup fee. They claim 50mbps but ours typically exceeds 100mbps with unlimited data so no complaints so far.

I’m not affiliated with either company, just interesting to see the new internet offerings available to rural homes.
Wouldn’t you be paying for time decay on any short positions?
Mine sometimes does. We also tend to refund recent payments liberally if, for example, someone who hasn't been using the app in a while asks to cancel just after they've renewed for another period.

Sure, it's a principle thing, treat our customers as we'd like to be treated ourselves. But it makes sense from a purely business point of view as well.

In return for giving up some small amount of subscription revenue by putting through a cancellation that was going to happen anyway a bit sooner, we generate positive sentiment. We often get a nice thank-you message back, with extra information about why someone was cancelling or hadn't been using the app recently.

We know for a fact that we have sometimes gained new customers from referrals by those people we helped out a little. Sometimes a former customer's situation changes again later and they come back to us, too.

And the reality is that particularly with online payment methods, there's also a small risk that someone will do a hostile chargeback without bothering to even try cancelling, particularly if they forgot about a subscription and changed their email address or something like that. Even if you've done nothing wrong and provide evidence accordingly, you have a good chance of losing a dispute anyway, and one way or another it ends up costing you more than it would have done to preemptively cancel a subscription that you knew wasn't being used for a long time.

This is from the perspective of a small business in a niche market, where there is definitely a sense of community and reputation does matter. We've met some of our customers in person, and there are many more mutual connections or friend-of-friend kinds of relationships that might be relevant one day. Maybe things work differently when you're running a huge business with a strong brand in a huge market; I've never done that, so I wouldn't know. But I honestly can't imagine why we'd want to run things any other way. There are few things more valuable to a business like ours than a good reputation in the community we cater for.
> Of all the missing children, less than 1% is non-family abductions.

How much of it is because stranger danger is false, and how much of it is because parents no longer let their children out of their sight? I am not making a statement, I am genuinely curious and I am asking a question hoping someone knows the answer. But I wonder if the reason so few children are harmed by strangers is that children's unsupervised interactions with strangers have now shrunk to almost nothing, so there is almost no opportunity for harm anymore.
GoodRx is not a method of payment. The pharmacy might decide it’s not worth doing business with goodRx for whatever reason, such as insufficient reimbursement or delayed payment.

And any business can refuse methods of payment, except cash in certain states and cities.
Uh, last time I checked we weren't able to do above-unity sustained fusion even at the mega-project level.

Source?
Wait until people learn about fish meds!

When in a hurry go to PetCo!
Not necessarily. If our scientific institutions are actually untrustworthy, then the public is correct to mistrust them, and acting to artificially increase public trust in them would be counterproductive.
You are being needlessly hostile in a way that is very confusing. You're asking if I think I'm "smarter than all of those people put together" when you are the person going against the status quo. Nuclear has been in use for decades providing significant portions of power in multiple countries throughout the world and waste is demonstrably a solved problem - solved by putting it in the ground.

Nuclear is extremely safe and clean. The passage of time will make it more so as we develop reactors that consume nuclear waste, better storage or nuclear technology, etc.
Indeed. It should be a requirement that it's as easy to unsubscribe to a service as it is to subscribe.
This is what the WOZX token plans to do. If you read what website and whitepaper, you will absolutely not get what they are trying to achieve. What i think they are doing is a marketplace for people to chip in to do renovations to improve energy efficiency and then dividends of the savings be vested back into those investors. It sounds like a good place, but ultimately seems too convoluted.
You really seem to have a way with words where, while the point of your original premise (i.e. lack of requirements, technical competence) is valid you have managed to bury that under completely unrelated negative and racist stereotyping.
I know its not good but this is not different from most companies. All of them force you to speak with a human to cancel. Its possible people hang up when they have to jump through hoops and some others will be uncomfortable cancelling with a human.
> I don't see why we need this so called baseline. It is an outdated concept pushed by the nuclear industry.

That’s a lie spread by the renewables lobby.

Of course, there is always a certain level of electricity generation that is needed as most people like to use their fridges, AC and computers 24/7.

And then you have things like traffic infrastructure, hospitals, gas stations which operate 24/7.

I don’t know about the US, but in Germany only 25% of the electricity is consumed by private households, 75% by industry, traffic and businesses.

The result is that in Germany the demand never goes below 50 GW and normally peaks at around 75-80 GW. The demand function pretty much oscillates like a sine function.
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It’s price discrimination. All the sellers, starting with the makers of the drug, are trying to ensure they can extract the maximum amount a seller is able to pay.

So you have to create all these rebates and introduce caveats to make the price obfuscated.
I think this is a romantic view. Small towns are, if anything, more corrupt as there are less people and less options. It’s a lot easier to get away with being blatantly corrupt in small town America, at least in my experience growing up in a southern adjacent smallish (~15k people) town.
Do you mean for canceling cable? Yeah, I’ve gotten many fully free months of cable in the past when trying to cancel.

Offering discounted or free months is a good sales tactic for them because the cost for them to keep you on is basically zero. Then they hope you will forget/ or lose the motivation to call back in six months to cancel and keep paying.

If you do actually leave, the chances of you coming back are approaching zero as far as they are concerned. Any good sales person will throw you a card just on that slim chance it will generate a commission in the future.
I'm interested in mounting it laying flat (no stand) to the top of a van. I don't expect it to work while on the move.

But do you think it would still work in a fixed configuration like that?

And how much do you think tree coverage would affect service?
Are gold and silver not assets? Why would everyone suddenly not want all the other assets and only want gold and silver?
They invented the technology. Enforcing their patent isn't an example of patent trolling.
show me the metric, i'll tell you the incentive, and show you the outcome
>It’s funny seeing people in this thread jumping right past the root cause and suggesting elaborate solutions like nuclear power.

The root cause is extreme weather events which will will get more of. Non-renewables are not affected by the wind and sun. Since we don't want to go extinct by pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere we are left with nuclear.

I don't understand how people can want to return to feudalism where land is the only way to extract energy from the sun. But given how NYC and SF treat workers perhaps I do.
It was a study conducted on Tinder
So Australian FinTech will definitely appreciate Starlink, then?
I just revoked the payment authorization in PayPal and the issue resolved itself.
This comment fails to mention that the beta versions are totally fucking broke in many ways and don't even do IMAP IDLE. There's a reason they are still in beta.
Now try cancelling SiriusXM...
IANAL but from what I've read anyone can refuse any kind of payment prior to the transaction happening, such as $100 bills or being cash only. (https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm)

I believe it's wide open, you could say only accept gold bars and feral chickens for instance.(https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/77001/can-i-accept...)

The argument is that me buying a sandwich for $10 could also be validly viewed as the sandwich shop buying a $10 bill from me with the currency of a sandwich. Thus the method of payment is as subject to variation as the product being exchanged.

The robust utility of cash and why this isn't usually done is that I can have two $10 banknotes, one crisp and well preserved and the other ragged, dogeared and blemished but for the sake of the transaction they are both worth exactly $10 without any negotiation. That's a fairly unique property of money, it doesn't lose value with wear and tear or defects.

Anyways, when it comes to accepted payments, vendors are given a lot of liberties
Actually the bulk of generation is from oil with 25% or so from renewables [1]. So our power prices is heavily influenced by oil prices.

Each island is also its own isolated electric grid, so reliability is not great and shifting renewables to other islands isn't possible currently. Unfortunately, the ocean is deep between the islands and connecting them would probably cost close to a billion dollars all in. A bit of a stretch for our small state.

[1] - https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/about-us/power-facts
Yeah, nothing is simple. My guess is that the stores were borderline in terms of viability and the $4/hr hike put them over the edge.

Still, it sucks that people lost their jobs this way. We need a system where politicians suffer real consequences for their actions. Not sure what this would look like, but it sounds good.

What we don't know is if the $4/hr hike caused employers to have to reduce worker hours, shift people to part-time basis, etc. Maybe that information will come out at some point.

Imagine a situation where you have 50 people making $12 per hour and you face an instant increase in labor costs to $16 per hour, or 33%.

That means the store has to INSTANTLY generate at least 33% more in profits (not sales, profits) in order to cover that increase. I don't know any business that can simply will a 33% increase in performance. This is where political thinking quickly becomes delusional. And, no, they are not sitting on fat margins that would allow absorbing such a thing.
Many young people have no memory of Enron. Instead of pointing fingers, it would be better if we presented them with historical facts. Because of fraudulent energy market manipulation, many thousands of people from around the world lost their jobs, homes and savings in the blink of an eye. Hopefully, we are not seeing a repeat of that fiasco, but if we are not vigilant, it could happen again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5qC1YGRMKI

You might also be interested to know that former Enron CEO, Jeff Skilling, is no longer in prison and was reported to be starting a digital energy marketplace.

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2020/06/05/former-e...
Hydro has very specific geographical requirements and in countries like Germany, all almost all potential for hydro power has already been put to use and yet it provides only a fraction of the electricity generation here.

Hydro only plays a large role world-wide in countries with low population densities such as Norway.
Sure, but not everything in life can be purchased through your Google or Apple accounts :)

I meant it’s a pipe dream, because many companies will put a lot of effort into paying sales people to try and retain your business. So I wish it was the case, but easy cancelation of a service without getting a talk from the sales department is a rare find.
Given tether makes up more than ~60% of the bitcoin liquidity I would argue otherwise...

https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin
Congrats on accelerating global climate change!
Ah, that must be famed "Beetlejuice(, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!)" technique.
Why not create a column in the user table named `jwt_id` which you store a random hex that is added to the JWT payload.

To logout the token just invalidate or change the `jwt_id`
Could be the whole thing is his everyday punctuation & grammar and it looks impeccable anyway.

As an aside, I always think his icon on the web browser looks a bit like the Texas flag.
"Your Starlink is assigned to a single cell. If you move your Starlink outside of its assigned cell, a satellite will not be scheduled to serve your Starlink and you will not receive internet. This is constrained by geometry and is not arbitrary geofencing."

I like how technical they still are. Probably a matte of time before they have to dumb-down everything there.
If you change your address to one in California, they expose the cancel option, because they have to by law:

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-unsubscribe-easily-from-WSJ-o...
Sometimes the merchant will tell the card is a virtual card and not allow it, but most of the times it works perfect
> only 33 percent of the population worked full time or more in 2016.

Source: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/05/01/only-1-in-3-...

> In 2018, the average account balance for Vanguard participants was $92,148; the median balance was $22,217. [emphasize added]

Source: https://pressroom.vanguard.com/nonindexed/Research-How-Ameri...

33% * %42 = ~14%. And while the number is debatable, depending on how we define "significant", only a portion of that 14% has significant wealth invested in the stock market.

I agree with the previous poster. The vast majority of Americans (including employed Americans) aren't invested in the stock market in any meaningful way.
>I am not sure that is how patents are supposed to work. Few people would object to eInk getting profits from their inventions. But the problem seems to be the strange ways eInk markets their products. It seems to be that they are not encouraging more companies to use their products an rather hold back their technology.

If eInk is really missing out on so much profit from the activities you describe, then a buyer might swoop in and put the company under new management. It's not the patent's fault.
The example I was replying to was internet service, though.
From Google’s epic study on successful teams:

But in each case, by the end of the day, everyone had spoken roughly the same amount. ‘‘As long as everyone got a chance to talk, the team did well,’’ Woolley said. ‘‘But if only one person or a small group spoke all the time, the collective intelligence declined.’’

And the long form nyt article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...
Saying solar is cheap when the sun shines is like saying coal is cheap at the mine.

You need electricity produced at the right time as well as the right place. I don't understand how people can get that producing electricity in the middle of the Sahara is useless, but producing it at 12pm on June 15th when you need it today isn't.
> why? i don't understand why medicine in US is not priced just like commodities

Because the drug manufacturers are trying to make everyone pay as much as they can afford, which means they need to create various methods of procuring the drug with various hurdles/trade offs so the final price is obfuscated. The rich / less price conscious end up paying more.

> In the US, medical insurance companies finance these pharma companies to keep highly inflated prices

This is not true in any way. Insurance companies regularly deny payment for brand name medications and usually only pay for cheaper generics.