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I don't think there's any chance of the war lasting more than a year or so longer than it did absent nuclear bombing. The US was preparing for a full-scale invasion. That invasion would have succeeded, albeit at great cost. No matter how stubborn the Japanese were about not surrendering, there was simply no way they could mount an effective long-term defense.

Your counterfactual about North Korea seems rather weak. You seem to assume that we'd drop The Bomb and then the war would be won and we'd all go home. But it probably wouldn't have won the war. The Chinese would have been happy to keep on fighting even with nuclear bombardment. All it would have done would be to greatly widen the scope of the war and turn a small proxy war into a general WWIII.

As for the rest, those brutal proxy conflicts were still way better than direct conflicts between great powers, especially a potential large-scale nuclear conflict.
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Cache that has most of the images:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140930151228/http://www.alterna...

(Original site exceeded its traffic quota and was suspended)
The ability to go west was well understood and already successful by other Europeans by then, namely the various Norse colonizations.

Columbus lucked out to have the political will to make his colonies work, mainly via the brutal large-scale warfare against the natives Isabella and others were more than willing to fund, largely to acquire natural resources and for further empire building.

SpaceX doesn't even have the ability to go. Comparing Columbus's low hanging fruit to Mars colonization is pretty unconvincing, especially on the economic front where colonization of the Americas was deeply profitable almost instantly, while Mars would be a welfare state.
How sure are we that there's no petroleum on Mars? If Mars contained any sort of life at one point or another the likelihood of fossil fuels is there, correct?
The problem with downvoting (in reference to HK and Reddit) is that it is over used. On both sites the downvote is used to indicate both "I disagree" but also "this is spam/troll/unconstructive."

So on both sites you can articulate something very well, but if it is unpopular then it will be hidden (Reddit) or dead (HK). That seems, to me, like that isn't why hiding/removing was implemented (more for spam/troll/unconstructive).

What both communities need is a up arrow (agree), down arrow (disagree), and a flag button (troll/spam/unconstructive). You then stop hiding on unpopular opinions, and instead only hide flagged ones (e.g. if flag > (agree + disagree) then hide).

You can try to stop people using flag as "super-downvote" by making it so that after you flag a post you cannot either agree OR disagree with it, and additionally you cannot reply to it (effectively making you choose, to either "disagree" or flag, and since "disagree" is public and flag is private you're more encouraged to "disagree" than flag).

Further to this instead of giving people a literal count of "karma" (e.g. 10,000 karma) you give them a pie chart with % of popular, controversial, and removed comments (e.g. 30%, 68%, 2%).

Essentially the goal is to remove all downsides to saying unpopular things, but to keep some of the downsides of saying trolly/spam/unconstructive things. Which will create a better back and forward dialog.
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Reading that comment made me really wish someone paid him to do that. Otherwise that was just too pathetic.
"you hereby agree to be bound by Matchstick’s mandatory and automatic software upgrade mechanism to upgrade the trial version of the SDK to the production version of the SDK"

That's unusually peremptory for mozilla. I don't get why it's necessary, either.
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will chime in, but I don't think there should be any increase in incremental build times just because you're using a sandbox.
And then revised the rules to allow anyone to do it. Apple rules regarding app design and development and what's allowed and what isn't are fluid. That was a pretty over the top decision though.
you forgot that behind all those are financial firms like Goldman Sachs.

without their fake money schemes Facebook for example would only have it's revenue money, which is pretty lower than all the investment money they have.
"I don't feel constrained by a free software operating system."

I appreciate the sentiment, but there's a substantial difference between "constrained to" and "constrained by".
(Edit: I don't know if this necessarily applies to Matchstick, or what Mozilla's relationship to Matchstick even is, but the following does apply to Firefox itself.)

Mozilla is building an open-source sandbox for HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions, and is working with Adobe to build a Content Decryption Module that will run inside that sandbox. This will allow Firefox users, if they choose, to consume DRM'd content, while also limiting the power of the DRM'd black box, ensuring that it can't fingerprint or run amok on user systems.

More details:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challen...

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eme/basics/
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This is a legitimate question, so I don't think downvotes are warranted. Elon Musk may want to live on Mars (and in fact I have at least one friend who would abandon everything and take a one-way ticket to Mars in a heartbeat), but the sentiment expressed here of using a Martian population as insurance against an Earthborne cataclysm requires a functioning, self-sufficient civilization composed of more than just a cadre of explorers and thrill-seekers.

You'll need to find a way entice doctors, farmers, miners, and other specialized professions to leave everything behind and consign themselves to death on a dark and barren rock. Historically, colonists have been motivated to such lengths for religious and political reasons. For example, perhaps libertarians will flock to Mars for freedom from oppressive governments. (Hey Bioshock developers: hint hint.)
I actually wondered briefly if it were a Markov text generator, but maybe this rules that idea out.
> To step outside of software for a second, what happens when (e.g.) George Lucas decides that the "special edition" version of Star Wars is the 'real one' and replaces all cloud copies of Star Wars with the special edition version?

Yes, this is huge. The cloud is making our culture ephemeral.

Just yesterday I was playing Escape Velocity Nova, a video game back from 2002. It's an excellent game, and since its initial release, people made tons of mods to it. I heard that Eve Online pretty much copied their story.

I'm pretty sure that if this game was made in a "cloud version", as a service and not a downloadable product, I wouldn't be able to play it today. I couldn't enjoy the story, I couldn't live through experiences that influenced the gaming culture ten years ago. It wouldn't make any economical sense for current copyright owners to maintain such abandonware. It would just disappear into oblivion, like most SaaS startups do after a year.
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A win for them (Icahn and Andreessen) is measured by their wallet not about the societal impact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal#Fields_Medals_by_A...

Affiliation upon appointment of Field's Medal:

Harvard: 3
MIT: 2
Chicago: 0

Chicago does list a lot of medalists of different sorts on their page, but their affiliation is questionable at best.
I don't know what you mean by "validity". I am absolutely certain that applications of all the "standard" fields (real, complex, algebra) can be found. They aren't bad things to learn.

I'm just suggesting that from what I've seen, the other fields I listed are more commonly useful. Everyone I know, across pure and especially applied math has used probability and linear algebra. Lots of people haven't used complex analysis or algebra ever, except on the qual.
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Cyclists are far less dangerous than cars. 3000lb car at 30 mph vs 200lb cyclist+bike at 15 mph is 30x less momentum to be transferred. Not to mention a cyclist hitting something is as likely to be injured as the recipient.

Cyclists should behave well, but they are not worthy of traffic enforcement because they are nowhere near as dangerous. Police enforcement should be focused on the most dangerous road users.

Further, many of the poor behaviors you see are a result of cyclists trying to navigate safely for themselves in the absence of good infrastructure. Good cycling behavior is easy when you have separated cycle lanes and clear signals and signage.

It's not that cyclists "want to be treated as road vehicles", but rather that's how the law treats them. I would much rather have my own separated, protected lane and signals than have to mix with motor vehicle traffic.
This is why I don't play modern games: the big houses seem to be hell bent on "realism", not catching on that we've been in the uncanny valley for over a decade and are not getting out. A computer can't simulate the experience of going for a walk, and it's a colossal waste of talent and dollars trying to get closer.

Those pictures aren't realistic in the sense that they're ever going to fool anyone. The game videos (linked above by buro9) are beautiful though. But that's because of the art, not high-fidelity rocks.
For people designing Mars missions, the distinction between solar radiation and cosmic radiation is really, really, really important. (In fact, CMEs often decrease cosmic radiation.)
Awesome! This also reminds me of the Twillio fund that Danielle ran from MatterMark.
How about we enforce the laws proportional to the danger each road user poses to those around them?
I choose how wealth is distributed every time I make a purchase. As do you.
Agreed completely. If we can make a livable colony on Mars, surely we can make a livable colony on Earth even after the full effects of climate change have occurred.

The major threat of climate change is not to things so expansive as atmospheric viability, but only to present geography and weather cycles. There will still be breathable oxygen in the atmosphere, there will still be water, animals, and vegetation on the surface. As dystopic as a post-climate-change world may look, it undoubtedly looks better than Mars.

This is probably even true after massive nuclear winters, etc. I don't think there's anything humans can do that would so disadvantage Earth as to make another planet in our solar system better suited to human life. The only thing that may require external planetary colonization would be an extinction-scale geological or astronomical event (i.e., something totally outside of human control).
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"You may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of any software or software components of the Matchstick software including the Matchstick SDK software."

...said the makers of a supposedly open software/hardware device.

The Free Software movement needs a mechanism for dealing with heretics.

I propose a holiday. Let's call it "Punch Free-software/hardware Posers in the Face Day". The inaugural event should be held on 9/30/2016. More than enough time for everyone to get the memo. Then if they get punched, it's their fault.
Would you say this is true for most cases of success, or primarily for extreme cases of success? I can imagine that winning the "startup lottery" has much to do with fortunate market timing and circumstances, but can the same be said of a small business owner, CPA partner, doctor, etc.?
Yes it would be nice if the browser prompted more suspicion in those cases when a self-signed cert changes than when one is simply used for the first time. (Theoretically the changing of a regular CA-signed cert shouldn't prompt any suspicion, but I wonder...)
But the thing is, most things that we say will "wipe us off the planet" actually leave Earth still more habitable than Mars is today.

Exactly right, how this escapes people I am unsure. The absolute worst climate predictions, asteroid impacts or seismic events wouldn't be nearly as hard to recover from than trying to get to and then live for a single day on Mars.
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I maintain the package manager for the Dart language. This question comes up all of the time. The problem is that these libraries may interact at runtime:

* A gets a value from its version of C.
* It passes that to your app.
* Your app gives it to B.
* B gives it to its incompatible version of C.

Haskell may handle this scenario differently because of its type system, but in Dart, this would cause lots of user problems.
anyone tested it yet? I mean, you can't put an unpatched shell scripted site in HN right after a new CVE and TELL us its a shell script... right???
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PayPal will probably be eaten by Visa (if it can pass anti-trust criticism, not easy).

Visa has a $134 billion market cap and is the payments juggernaut globally. I'd bet on them at least attempting to acquire PayPal.

To put Visa in perspective, their profit for 2013 was roughly 60% greater than Alibaba's.
Yesod is infamous for being breakage prone. In fact the author now only supports users installing yesod via stackage rather than Hackage, because stackage forces globally coherent fixed versions for every package in stackage. (Basically that every package should be build able together). If you're doing application dev (rather than lib dev), stackage will help.

Or use snap, I've never had build hell with snap. But if yesod works for you, awesome! :-)
Why not do the same thing on earth without all this rocket stuff?
I'm a little bewildered by this as well... it didn't sound like a joke, but I may be missing it. Perhaps this is a reference to the higher undergraduate student/faculty ratio, and the greater difficulty in getting access to faculty at the undergrad level?

I'm not sure what departments would be considered weak at Berkeley - according to the National Research Council, Berkeley has the most graduate departments in the top 10 of any university. Then again… Berkeley and elite private research universities tend to have similar numbers of grad students, and of course access to professors is much higher for PhD students than undergrads.

Berkeley has a lot of problems, largely stemming from having a very large number of undergraduates (and a higher percentage of low income students) than most private elite research institutions (there are substantial social benefits to this as well), but quality of faculty is probably Berkeley's strongest suit.
I think it was Saramago who said "Either we are blind or we are mad," sending people into space rather than fixing problems here. Humanity should face its mistakes.
If you call up developer support and ask if a particular thing you want to do complies with their rules, they won't give you an answer.

I tried to do this when I was implementing subscription payments within my app. There are two ways to do subscriptions on iOS, and I wanted to know which one I was supposed to use for my app. The support rep I spoke to said I should go ahead and implement one of them and submit it, and that was the only way to find out.

Turns out I chose the wrong method, and had to re-do a whole bunch of work, which could have been avoided if they'd just give me a straight answer. At least I finally got it accepted - I feel terribly sorry for this guy.
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Actually, most smart bombs (JDAMs) are just old, dumb bombs with a new "tail kit" containing a GPS and guidance electronics.
Yesod is a very challenging project to build. I'm not a user of it so I can't speak from personal experience, but the common understanding seems to be that the particular constellation of Yesod packages together hover very close to unbuildable. They are also all together quite large and rely on a lot of compilation-time tricks (template haskell) which can increase build time.

I think it's unfortunate that Yesod gets billed as the premiere web framework for Haskell because it does require some extra work to get compiled.

In fact, the entire Stackage ("stable hackage") project, I believe, was originally developed in order to get some tooling which would allow Yesod to be consistently built. If you think you're going to be primarily using Yesod then I suggest you switch to Stackage [0]. Stackage prevents install issues by building the entire Stackage group together periodically to ensure that there are no build problems. The downside is that Stackage is partial and slow to track Hackage.

You may want to try Happstack: http://happstack.com/page/view-page-slug/9/happstack-lite-tu...

[0] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Stackage
Of course I patched it, and I'm not using bash in the first place https://github.com/bouk/gonerics/blob/master/cgi.sh
So, Musk is doing PR for the new Chris Nolan movie, now? I don't remember seeing it in the trailers for Interstellar, but did the rockets have the SpaceX logo on them?

"to ensure humanity's future"
This guy...unbelievable.
Awesome footage. I wasn't aware of the scale of this protest.
My only nitpick, if that drone malfunctions (or the batteries run out) and falls down, it'll kill someone.
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If workarounds like these are common in the use of Go then leaving it out of the language was a mistake. The argument that generics comes at a complexity cost is nonsense: unless used it has no cost, the code would look like code does today. The complexity added by NOT having generics in a strictly typed language is enormous (as these examples show).
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There are enough places on Earth that was can barely manage to survive without major supporting infrastructure. Those places have the benefit of a breathable atmosphere and Earth gravity. Mars has a far more brutal climate (with a more elliptic orbit creating a more dramatic range through the Martian year), no breathable air, and a weaker gravity.

The weak gravity is the real killer, colonists bones would decay, the calcium would leach into the bloodstream causing serious health issues. Muscles would atrophy. The colonists' sense of balance and motion, evolved to Earth gravity, would be constantly disorienting. Low gravity has a lot of negative health effects.

Mars also has nothing like the Van Allen belt, it's bombarded with radiation that colonists would constantly need to be shielded from.

Mar's atmosphere is poisonous to humans, and has a much lower atmospheric pressure, so colonists would need to have a constant protective bubble protecting them from the world they were on.

Mars hasn't got liquid water. There is water there, but it would require a lot of energy to get it to the point of being usable.

Energy is another issue. Solar energy could provide some energy, though it'd be massively expensive to get enough arrays to support a colony with the required infrastructure. In theory they could create some kind of nuclear energy plant, though the logistics of transporting that to Mars and maintaining it are staggering.

The psychological impact of taking an animal evolved to live in Earth conditions and put them in a completely inhospitable environment deeply dependent on a very complex and expensive infrastructure, with disorienting gravity, health decay, very limited variety in food, and other likely spartan living conditions a Mars colony would be completely hellish for most.

There may be ways to manage these problems, but the millions of dollars spent per colonist to get them there along with the millions spent per colonist to sustain them are a pretty serious impediment. A colony would need to ultimately be economically independent to make it worthwhile. Mars has some resources that might be valuable to Earth, but whether they'd be viable to support a colony needing such an expensive infrastructure to survive isn't a guarantee. Would humanity be willing to pour trillions upon trillions into a Mars experiment in the hope that the experiment might work?
This isn't machine-readable, for a start - I can't see what your package actually depends on without reading through your postinstall script. I also can't write a script to convert it automatically to a .deb or a NixOS package or whatever else, because I can't figure out what its dependencies are. I can't easily say "I want this package and all its dependencies on a DVD".
Growth.

Day in and day out.

It’s what we think about.

Asking ourselves, do we have the right people? Do they have the skills? How do we show them the ropes?

Well, if you’re like most teams you don’t necessarily have the exact mix of people to work on Growth. Fair enough, It’s not like these people are easy to come by. They have a rare mix of marketing and product know-how that isn’t taught in the classroom.

Read more: http://www.referralsaasquatch.com/4-skills-needed-work-growt...
That's exactly what can happen. Cabal endeavors to prevent multiple versions of a package from being installed simultaneously, but as this post mentioned Cabal does not maintain global consistency so if you do multiple independent installs in the same database then you can wind up with this problem.

In particular this is, for whatever reason, a frequently occurring problem with the `bytestring` library. There are a lot of SO questions related to figuring out why the compiler is rejecting the use of a ByteString type even though it appears it should work... but that's because the compiler error is eliding the package version difference.
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Most advanced paywall companies have a feature that enable premium content publishers to make exceptions to the paywall for referral links. Yes, they want subscribers. But they still want to drive traffic from social sharing.
I hope so, but I doubt this will happen, thanks to business users.

When you run a company, you don't want your graphics stuff to tinker around software and talk about freedom or whatever. You want them to get their job done, to make one graphic after another, to fulfil contracts. You need to pay for the software anyway, and as long as you have cashflow you can pay for the "services" (if you can't, you have bigger problems).

So, like always, companies will trade off freedom for convenience. The rest will have to follow, and the world will be worse off.
I wish the URL could include a hash of the content so it could be used for verification for uploading and downloading the files. It could be handy for error checking and security checks.
Yeah. I will probably never touch yesod again after what it put me through.
The purpose of the home screen is to have a screen to constantly return to, as a home for the device. This is a pull-down app launcher. You have to swipe down to access it, and it's accessible from any view/page, not just a single screen that you return to when exiting applications.

So no, it's not related to being a home screen at all. The fact that a home screen also launches apps does not make it a home screen.
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Your postscript seems to confirm GP's point. b^)
"Power" is relative; it's very hard to put values with different types (where the set of types is not known in advance) into a list with SML, except by manually re-implementing the equivalent of Go's interfaces.
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https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
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As someone who has tried to compile pandoc from source, I welcome this.