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It's strange to explain the postive feelings that I and I'm sure many others have here about SpaceX. I mean people have been saying how great it is for a private company to do this but at the end of the day nearly every NASA launch has been built by a private company. Yet somehow SpaceX and in particular, Elon Musk, has managed to do a great job of capturing the public excitement. When I started noticing a lot of my non-tech friends are talking about space and science (thank you Brian Cox, CERN etc!) again it gives me hope for the future. Perhaps its a generation thing, many of us in our 20s never really had those electrifying moments like a moon landing. Something just makes makes people really really want to see SpaceX succeed. Though let's hope this eventually translates into real investment at government levels once again.
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Less per capita can still work out to more in absolute terms.
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Without presuming too much, it could be that their situation is a lot more than -$8k. Your money is probably a lost cause, to be honest.
Then stay in your ideological bubble, don't bother to talk with anybody who disagrees with you, and see how well that works out.
Free software in its current state is basically communism.
Did they sell 2-liters in 1940? A 2-liter costs less than a 20oz bottle in many cases.
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If nothing else, use this as a lesson not to do more work for a company that already owes you from a previous invoice.
At this point in world history, the money flow goes from me to my mom, I'm not going to accept any cash from her.
> but haven't hard a good explanation about why the economy would suffer so much if the ultra high frequency trading just wouldn't exist.

The short explanation is that the speed is a tool for managing risk (like most other market tools) and by removing it, you remove that ability. That risk must be priced into the market somewhere and that will be in the spread that everyone pays.

Will that be worse than what we currently have? Who knows, but what we have is working pretty well with regard to providing liquidity (it is cheaper and easier to get in more markets than ever before and the margins are as low as they have ever been on providing it), so why mess with something that has so few down sides?

> Surely there must be worse things than stock market computer systems being confused?

There are, but Bloomberg doesn't specialize in them, and they don't garner nearly the HN upvotes.
I've seen fundraising campaigns from the big charities (Oxfam, Unicef etc) where they put a price on different interventions. E.g. £5 buys a dose of medicine, £10 vaccinates a child, £50 buys a goat for a family, etc.

I've often found this sort of fundraising slightly off-putting because it implies that there is literally a line of people waiting to be vaccinated, and they're just waiting for your money before they can move on to the next child. I find this scenario hard to believe, and I think the over-simplification is patronising.

However you've described a situation where there literally was a line of people waiting for cataract operations, and your donation had an incredible impact on 20 people's lives.

It would be great if there were easier ways to donate money directly to people like you did. Donating money via huge organisations that employ hundreds of people in developed countries seems like an incredibly inefficient way of doing it.

To put it another way, I'm sure most people would rather pay for 20 cataract surgeries for 20 real people than 20 notional goats
There were other efforts involved. Actually, if you're curious, there's some good analysis of Southwest Airlines' success in a book I read recently: "From Good To Great" by Jim Collins
One branch that isn't covered here is joining a non-funded startup as the technical co-founder.
> Why is it that "markets" are in the focus of this?

Well, it is a Bloomberg article, so their subject matter might be skewed towards the market.
Inflating away the currency had no benefit for reparations.

The details are here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_reparations
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I wonder where this would stand if the app was used for cyber bullying or some kind of threat?

Side note, typo in the footer comment on the homepage. "creat" rather than "create".
But then it's not free. Just because most equity is worthless doesn't mean the work is done for free.
You are mixing up economical and personal benefits, here's what Linus has to say about this philosophy:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18419231

To me Ayn's philosophy fits perfectly to this graph, it all boils down to this: Is there anything to gain for me (or my loved ones.) Imo Ayn's one-liner captures the essence of this graph.

Edit: Of course loved ones or just 'a good feeling about yourself' are perfectly good reasons (the best?) to do something for someone else. This is not selflessness. Going to Africa to help children while every fiber in your body hates them, that is selflessness: the total disregard of what you yourself desire.
>> "Belgium has a slightly mad thing that they allow buses full of people without seat belts / standing to travel at 50 mph along the motorways."

I don't think that's specific to Belgium. Even when I was travelling to high school in the UK 8 years ago they would account for standing room when deciding how many buses were required. So you had a bus full of kids all seated and then standing from the front to the back without room to move and the bus going as fast as 60mph. I never really thought of the safety implications but looking back it seems very stupid.
It worked in this instance. Sometimes your boss is just a tool and you suffer the consequences.

I specifically advised my boss not to sell a certain hardware and software combination because it was problematic. In fact eventually the vendor dropped all support. But one of our sales guys got dollar signs in his eyes and sold it anyway to a customer of ours.

Sure enough I was regularly sent out to "do something" to fix it because the systems kept crashing. Finally my boss gave me one of those "if you don't fix it today, don't bother coming back to work tomorrow" ultimatums. What exactly am I supposed to do? Rewrite the network driver for this LAN card myself? That was my last day on the job.

I heard from a friend the company had to rip the entire network out and give a new one free to customer after he threatened to sue. I never did hear if the sales guy had to pay for it.
> I have to accept why scientists refuse reading my blog post

Or you could show some adaptability.
> because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means

https://xkcd.com/150/
I don't think anyone disagrees with the historical results around the Cyprus disaster.

What makes the debate interesting is Greece vs Cyprus discussions or now vs recently discussions. I'm not sure if there is much if any difference between Cyprus and Greece WRT BTC so that leaves any recent changes in the overall BTC scene, also not much. So the BTC focused greek situation should be very much like the historical cyprus event.

Very theoretical discussions about what people want or wish for are not relevant to recent/current events although they could be interesting in a very abstract, perhaps long term, sense.
And how much data is google allowed to store about us?

And why isn't the user allowed to specify the amount of bits that google store about us?

There are 7 billion people on this planet. If I allow google to store at most 32 bits about me, then at least that data cannot uniquely identify me (roughly speaking).
This might be a cultural thing, but I think everyone should help their close relatives with computer problems.

Sometimes when their relatives need help, people literally give up everything and live with them and help them with everything. Spending 20 minutes to sign them up for email is not the biggest investment.

Basically if you think of yourself and your family as one entity, it makes sense to minimize overall wasted time. Since you are most efficient at computer-related things, it makes sense to do those things for them.
Well, like commercial submarine it is one of the few forms of public transport yet to suffer a fatality :)

I am sure it will be safer than cars, and unlike a plane it cannot be redirected by hijackers. I'd be willing to bet a substantial amount at say, 2:1 that over the first 10 years of operation it will prove safer than planes in passenger deaths per trip taken.
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.com is easier to give to someone over the phone.

"firstlast, all one word, .com."

"first l a, all one word, dot s t ... It's a small country in central Africa ... No I've never been there ... f i r s t l a dot s t ... No there's no dot com at the end, just the s t.

<time passes>

<ring ring>

"Hello, Mr Last? Hi, it's Chad with Bank of the Past. Yeah, we're having some trouble with your loan application. ... Well, it seems that the email you gave isn't working for us. ... first@ f i r s t l a d o t s t dot com ... Oh? ... In central Africa? Is that where you're from? ... "
The pay doesn't have to be in cash. If you're joining as a co-founder and aren't offered at the very least a decent chunk of equity with a nominal non-zero value, then you probably should say no.
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True, but you still bet your future and work many many hours for no pay, and in some cases it never even gets seed funding, so you end up just wasting a ton of time, even though no one profited from your work.

Also it should be mentioned for young/inexperienced people, that you do this only if the equity is significant (don't join if they have 5 non technical founders, no product and offer you like 5%), and if the founders are not idiots, assholes and/or dodgy.
The bigger issue is bankruptcy. Creditors will look to sell any assets that can be monetized, and given the nature of the proceeding, the court will have a lot of discretion in allowing them to do so, much more so than a private purchaser.
I meant "nobody is buying anything" at a "macro" level. Of course the economy continues to chug, it's just not performing at its potential (ie. cheap capital, cheap labour is available and no one wants to use it).

Your second paragraph basically explains the debt deflationary spiral at the core of Keynes' economics.

I agree that speculative investment is a problem, but we are (in Europe / the U.S. is doing relatively fine) still talking about "unreasonably low growth" given levels of unemployment - people that are idle and want to work! An economy that isn't growing has become closer to zero sum: one persons gain is another's loss.

Given the historical strength of the rich at retaining and growing their relative share, this doesn't bode well for the masses. Depressions and recessions spark revolutions when they last too long.
I question things like "Improved Utility"

Sure things have more buttons now. But are they better?

A washing machine from the 60s lasted 20-30 years. A washing machine from the 2010s lasts 5-7 years.

(On the flip side, pretty much any car from 2010s will last 15 years, whereas a ford from the 60s might last 5)
Hey, I'm interested and have relevant tech and non-tech background in the space. My email is in my profile; couldn't find yours.
I think you're right and the biggest example of this is Bill Gates, he shouldn't have scrapped that much money in the first place...
I am surprised the tool doesn't do any color blind checking (ie putting red and green next to each other is generally not a good idea).
i have a one hour free for (early stage) startups.

and it's great. i give them all the input (i'm a consultant, so basically i talk smart) i can in one hour. hold nothing back. sometimes it's all they need. a push in the right direction. i don't want to sell them anything (yet). sometimes i don't hear back from them for months, years. sometimes never.

why do i do it:

reason 1) data - (in my case access to their google search console and google analytics). this helps me to adjust my benchmark of how i see the different verticals / businesses.

reason 2) leads over time

2a) most startups fail. the people move on. this is how i got a "foot in the door" to germanys biggest media-houses.

2b) some startups succeed. if they do, the usually come back to me. quite often for very different topics than the one we actually talked about.

reason 3) ideas

it's great to talk to people with a fresh perspective. it's a give and get. they learn something from me, most of the time i learn something from them.

all of this together is worth something. in my case: 1h of my time, 1h of their time. so is it really "1h free" well, more like "1h non monetary" but that doesn't sound as catchy!

is there a second-hour free? no

is there a one hour free for big companies? no, because it costs already lots of time to sell big companies anything.

is there a one hour free for assholes? no
Some time ago I participated in some Startup Accelerator.

Was part of Startup with really fast growing user base, but small amount of sales. What some investors really suggested to do with our database - is to sell it!

So companies can sell personal data (and they do it) not only when put up for sale, but at any time.
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Okay thanks. Very helpful. Are you able to send and receive group MMS's reliably on GV?
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Both my grandmothers are nurses who have given me and my parents remote medical advice for years. I actually really wish that I was better at remote computer support.
>and based on a few conversations with people in various finance companies this is far from isolated to myself and my company.

Exactly my point. You just like to pride yourself in how much you know and the 'proper way to do things'. If you dig deep enough to the core of the Earth, you will find a win98 machine, running Excel. How bad can it be, if the Earth runs on it?
Actually I just remove all of the default whitelist stuff when I first install it. Problem solved.

The whitelist did surprise me last time, though. I was baffled why gmail was working without me having to permanently allow it. Then I discovered the whitelist. Woah. What a dumb idea.
you should not need a VPN to anonymously connect to tor..

your ISP sees you connecting to tor, but they'd also see you connecting to a VPN, which is just as suspect.
"pee" and "poop" are like the base terms for those two things. With "piss" and "shit" being the crude terms, and "poo" or "wee" being the more childish terms. This is the most stupid conversation I've ever had on this website.
No, Max-Q is much earlier in the flight. They were very close to the end of the first stage burn.
This makes a lot of sense but I would argue that having access to their data no longer makes it an hour for free.

Data is a major currency.
Misses a huge point, if you're doing a startup with friends, typically you're all working for free.

Keep your day job, do some work on the side, retain all rights to your code. Make sure the person or people you're working with are equally dedicated. Have clauses that cut people out for non-delivery on their parts.

A startup is only 25% the code in my experience, it's the most critical part (unless you're selling vaporware) but it's just ahead of sales which then quickly takes over. Unless you're doing the facebook model (which I've never been able to grasp personally).
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I learned this the hard way in my early days of freelancing as a web developer. The main reason I think it's important not to work for free isn't the fact that you're not being compensated for your time (which of course sucks) but that your client doesn't actually feel comfortable giving you honest feedback about the work your producing because they know you're doing it for free.

So what happens is you end up with a sub-par delivery because the client often feels too guilty to look a gift horse in the mouth and you're not properly motivated to make it better than you might if you were being fairly compensated on top of it.
Well that was a bit pointless, the whole chart can be summed up as "No, but you may want to consider making an exception for a relative, a close friend, or a non-profit you support".
You can view communism in terms of "selfishness" like this too. Everyone selfishly wants bread and the only way they can get it is by contributing their labour.

I think "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" fits much better.

Everyone is contributing what they can for free to the common knowledge base and can use everyone else's stuff also for free. You can view it as "prestige" currency too, but that doesn't break the paradigm.
As a note of perspective, this comes from a graphic designer (Jessica Hische), and their work has an even greater tendency to be devalued by potential clients. Just spend a few minutes browsing the Clients from Hell tumblr to get an idea their typical business relations…

Many graphic designers consider a little free work in exchange for future work or references as a good way to get one’s foot in the door. This usually backfires.
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I wonder how hard it would be to cover all types of color blindness - red and green is only one possible issue with deuteranopia - there are other potential color combinations within that, and two other types of color blindness as well.
elaborated above.
You can have someone working for free (internships) or for $8/hour, but everything in between is illegal. So first of all this is stupid.

Two, nobody stays forever at $8/hr job with exception of very few. If you are unskilled worker looking for your first job ever, why would anyone hire you, if they can get experienced unskilled worker for the same minimal wage? I.e. I can get you fresh from high school flipping burgers for $8/hr or I can get someone with 5 years experience flipping burgers for the same $8/hr. Guess what, I will get someone with 5 years of experience instead of you with zero years experience for exactly the same price. I could hire you for $3/hr with zero experience, so you could get some on the job and finally land $8/hr job after some time. Or learn on the job how to run a cash register, work with others and treat customers, but instead - thanks to the minimal wage - you will spend that time trying to compete for jobs having zero experience with people who for the same price have plenty of it. Thank minimal wage for high unemployment rates among young (no experience). Before minimal wage was enacted unemployment rate among young was the lowest from all age groups. Now it is the highest. Minimal wage killed the concept of the "first job". For your first job you must be worth the minimal wage. If you aren't, there are no jobs for you.
I think the problem madaxe_again is underlying is that the 20m task often leads to the person assuming you're the culprit of any possible problem the computer might have in the future.

I still help friends and family with computer problems, but I try to avoid friends-of-friends and such.

By the way, the idea of considering myself and my family as a single unit is bizarre to me, unless you're talking about just the immediate relatives. Each branch of my family has at least two "sub-branches" who don't speak to each other :)
You are true, my ISP sees, that I connect to VPN. But they do not see anything else.
If the company goes under, you're not getting your invoices paid.
WRT max-Q its a meme that won't go away because the most "interesting" thing on the public PR timelines before the incident was max-q. However dynamic pressure drops off extremely quickly due to altitude (low air pressure) and max-Q was a good while before the incident, so it wasn't a direct issue. It could obviously be an indirect issue if something started to buckle a minute previous or shook loose and for whatever reason a minute later it burst, perhaps as pressure built up or something.

The other meme is there are or have been rockets or overall systems with flight profiles and designs that have unsurvivable portions of the flight. Or only extremely theoretically survivable. Think of the old shuttle system, for example. A RTLS abort was theoretically survivable, but lets be realistic here... However the space-x guys are extremely proud that they designed an overall system that has no unsurvivable by design flight portions, and also very proud that they did a test flight with a separation near max-q specifically to prove it would work just fine even at max-q...

One interesting problem with a structural failure at that speed is it could be hard computationally to tell the difference between some irrelevant pogo-ing or vibration vs 50 ms later half the rocket is flying sideways, at which point it might be unsurvivable. Bad car analogy is I can jump out of an airplane with a parachute at 100 MPH and all turns out just fine, but randomly getting tossed out of a 100 MPH car isn't going to likely end very well even if under ideal conditions its no big deal.
IANAL: If they're really going under then you probably aren't going to see a penny of that money. I would do what you can within reason. Make sure your claim is known if there are bankruptcy proceedings, but don't expect to be successful. $8k may be enough to be worth contacting a lawyer about.
People who were losing their shit over Y2K had no idea what normal life would become.
I've thought about that a lot - what do I take away from this?

I'm not sure there's anything I really could have done. I was working on 30 day terms (quite common), and I'd worked for them with quite prompt payment for over a year. I probably had ~12-15 paid invoices from them for similar amounts that were paid within 7-14 days of issue.

I stopped working for them upon the issuance of the second invoice in question - so I had two invoices outstanding at that point, 1 that was 15 days past issue (but not contractually due) and 1 just issued.

Do people in multi-invoice contracts really stop work until they have proof of remittance? I've never heard of such a thing - that sounds crazy to me.
Can someone please explain why this keeps being explained as 'earth's rotation is slowing down'?

Having a scheduled addition of the leap second only corrects an issue resulting from our timing being slightly off (by about 1 second every couple decades). Now, if the second had to be add in changing frequency... the changing in frequency would be a result of the earth's rotation changing... but even still that wouldn't be why the second itself is being added, is it?
A lot of things can be summed up in a boring way. That doesn't make the boring summaries the things.