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10711.
by api 9y ago
Read the other posts in this thread. None of that would remain after tens to hundreds of millions of years.
10712.
by api 9y ago
It's harder in different ways. Mass production of any complex product comes with a whole set of challenges that are unique and different from what SpaceX is facing. It could be that Musk's style is better suited to SpaceX's s
10713.
by api 9y ago
A generation or two ago all the brightest minds in the world were working on ways to kill the most people as efficiently as possible. This is progress.
10714.
by api 9y ago
Once we have a real space industry I imagine there will be progress in areas like ion propulsion. You'll still need chemical rockets with >1 thrust/weight ratio to get off planetary bodies, but ion propulsion could be much bett
10715.
by api 9y ago
How much is this an artifact of better code optimization for x64 systems vs. PPC? Before Power9 I was under the impression that PPC was dead, and so never put any effort into optimizing anything for it. I imagine this is common.
10716.
by api 9y ago
A lot of those tabloid amateur videos are actually second and third hand copies of tabloid amateur videos created by bots. There's also a ton of bot-generated podcast spam on YouTube where bots will pull podcasts from feeds and then dr
10717.
by api 9y ago
Valuations are based on financial analysis, not how cool or ultimately important something is. A casino could be valued higher than a hospital. This is a very high valuation for such a capital-intensive high-risk company.
10718.
by api 9y ago
I was aware of the DC-X. It was tested in the 90s but it never went anywhere. Why didn't someone else do what SpaceX is now doing? They were too busy selling 70s tech and cashing checks. When I said 'first new thing in aerospace s
10719.
by api 9y ago
He's driven the first major innovation in space flight since the 70s.
10720.
by api 9y ago
Use "stdint.h" in all new code. I only use 'int' and 'long' for counters I know won't be that big, etc. I use stdint types for anything where I might care about the size.
10721.
by api 9y ago
Thou hast peepeth? I think it's clever. I don't think it matters that much as long as people can remember and spell it. Google wasn't a resonant name with anyone except math nerds.
10722.
by api 9y ago
Cells have membranes for a reason. Without a membrane every random chemical contaminant will enter the cell and disrupt its metabolic function. Your CPU has a case for a reason. It won't work very well if you pop it open and touch its
10723.
by api 9y ago
I never download "the app" because I know the privacy and security settings of my browser will not apply there and everything on my phone will get hoovered.
10724.
by api 9y ago
Then you have the whole adversarial network aspect. People will intentionally pollute the category system for purposes of advertising, propaganda, jokes, etc. Google bombing is basically a kind of semantic hijacking that happens already and
10725.
by api 9y ago
I have never seen "fake it till you make it" or it's close relative "stone soup" actually work long term.
10726.
by api 9y ago
In the end it all boils down to transistor relay logic. Doesn't mean you can't have abstraction. Also WASM. JS is fine for simpler stuff, but when you try to build something massive with a large team it gets unwieldy and bug prone
10727.
Ask HN: Non-JavaScript web front end development in 2018
6 points by api 9y ago|5 comments
10728.
by api 9y ago
I hear the claim pretty often that threads won't scale and that even modern OSes can't handle many threads. It makes me wonder if people are doing something different, since I've found that threads are fine.
10729.
by api 9y ago
You can make an argument that Texas is more liberal than New York. In which state can a working class person afford a home? Most "blue states" have major housing affordability problems. Given that economic equality is a major tene
10730.
by api 9y ago
I gave you a compensatory upvote because I agree with some of what you say in spite of mostly considering myself a liberal. People are too dogmatic about their political ideas and too unwilling to look at areas where their particular bran
10731.
by api 9y ago
Fix housing. Real estate hyperinflation is the problem in this state. Most of the other major problems are caused by real estate hyperinflation. * Take zoning away from local zoning boards or at least place limits on the power of NIMBYs a
10732.
by api 9y ago
Sure. My point was that with an extra 20 years of peak time taking time off from mid 20s until mid 30s would not be so devastating. You'd have a lot more time to make up for it later.
10733.
by api 9y ago
Wouldn't lengthening the human life span solve a lot of this? Or even lengthening our span of peak performance? What if we lived to an average of 90-110 and had peak performance until 70-80 instead of living to 70-80 with peak performa
10734.
by api 9y ago
It's easier to cut it in California?
10735.
by api 9y ago
Political corruption, totalitarianism.
10736.
by api 9y ago
California and Florida are indeed major homeless destinations due to climate, and California more so due to tolerance.
10737.
by api 9y ago
No data but I have similar anecdotes, and also have to point out that in the past 50 years or so a lot of the strongest political opposition to increased social programs has come from the working class. Most of the wealthy I've spoken
10738.
by api 9y ago
That is also a Red Queen's Race. It's a blinding focus on quarterly profits all the way up, and down.
10739.
by api 9y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread part of it is economic but part of it is also a macho business culture that views overwork as a status symbol. It's really bad in some professions. If we think engineers and tech businesspeople hav
10740.
by api 9y ago
No idea why you are being downvoted. A Red Queen's Race is exactly what's going on. Even without much currency inflation there is constant pressure for businesses to outgrow each other because... well... everyone else is doing it!

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