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I've used a service from Free Map Tools for years that did this exact same thing. It was very accurate, but appears to have recently been taken down.

https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i-travel.htm

This is why as I look to the future that my two year old son will inherit as an adult, I'm going to make sure that he has a really solid grasp of philosophy. The cutting edge of today's technology and science are all digging deeply into age old philosophical questions that haven't seemed so relevant until recently. Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality in particular are going to beg us to answer questions about Ethics, the nature of Consciousness, and the nature of Reality.

* If you love life, then don't waste time, for time is what life is made of. - nindalf

I hear these kinds of statistics all the time and they are appalling, but I need to understand how they are measured in order to think about the best ways to fix the problem.

There are a lot of people in the US that have plenty of income, but little to no wealth. In other words, their expenses match up with their income. They rent a nice house, have a large loan on their car, some credit card debt, etc. There are a lot of reasonably well off people that have a negative net worth. Would anyone living paycheck to paycheck be considered as having zero wealth? That's half of America [0]. With only 20K in my 401k, I have more wealth than half of the country by that metric.

Also, since we don't have a wealth tax, nobody has to report their personal assets, so how are these numbers calculated?

On the flip side, if you try to measure inequality of income, instead of wealth, some of the wealthiest people on earth can have years of enormous losses that hardly affect their quality of life but would put them on the bottom of the income scale.

[0]http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secre...

If communism could just be boiled down to "laborers own the means of production" then what stops that from happening within capitalism?

What prevents people from banding together to create factories that they then work in, for example?

I understand the appeal of self learning physics for the sake of knowledge, but is there a market for self taught physicists in the same way that there is for self taught web devs?

I feel like you'd have to go through the university system. If not, what would that pathway look like?

I think that you inadvertently pointed to a piece of the puzzle that is pretty important, but retirement communities are a problem, not a solution.

The ideal city is habitable to people of all ages. I don't know if you can make it happen with a top down approach, because I think that it is cultural, but in some cultures the old people are involved in the lives of the young. They are active, they assist with childcare, they pass down old recipes, they bring multi-generational families together, etc.

Ushering the old off to separate communities to die sounds pretty miserable.

Disclaimer: I'm (hopefully) going to be old some day.

I've spent too many hours day dreaming about building a city from scratch in the middle of the country. An ideal spot would be around Wilson Lake in Kansas. It is almost equidistant from Denver, Oklahoma City (with a straight shot to Dallas) and Kansas City right in that sweet spot where high speed rail is more attractive than air travel. Bonus: there isn't an existing city there with existing governance.

I've always thought that if you are building a city from scratch, founding a University would be a great way to start. If you found it with strong programs in any or all of "architecture, ecology, economics, politics, technology, urban planning" then you get a major draw in that people studying these areas would be able to be instrumental in implementing them in a real way. When people are going to University is also one of the major pivot points in people's lives when they are willing to relocate.

It seems that a simple solution would be to cut out the ad networks. If the New York Times or The Economist just serve the ads themselves, rather than using a third party network wouldn't the ad blockers be unable to distinguish them from other content?

Sure they lose targeting, but physical media has existed for years based on ad revenue from companies that paid them directly for advertising. Even the tiniest local and university newspapers have gotten by with free distribution and paid ads for as long as I can remember.

So instead of 10k static 32x32 random images of cats for training data, why not do 10k frames of cat videos that add up to seeing the cat moving and interacting with the environment?

I agree that it is a niceness tax, and would go further and say that tipping has come to mean more about the person tipping, and less about the service you receive.

When a waiter (or Lyft driver) gets a poor tip, or no tip do they think, "I really should have provided better service to that customer", or do they think, "that guy is cheap."

I agree, the giant lie is the problem.

It has taken me a fair amount of travel; getting repeatedly lured in to tourist destinations based on the amazingly beautiful and serene photos of them to realize that it is all a lie and to try to plan my vacations around avoiding that lie. Two situations really stand out in my mind:

The first was at a tiger temple in Thailand, where the monks would run tourists through a photo assembly line of sorts. They would have all of the tigers out at specified times of the day in a controlled area, the tour bus arrives, everyone files out in a single file line, one monk takes your camera out of your hand while another leads you around to the various tigers that are setup in photogenic poses while the first snaps a photo with each of them, and then leads you out.

The second was at Antelope Canyon in Arizona. All of the tourists get loaded in to an off-road bus and driven to the entrance of the canyon. Because it is such a narrow and twisting path through the canyon, they are able to shove huge numbers of people through while allowing everyone to get the perfect shot. When I was there it was before Instagram, but the guides would go so far as tell everyone the proper f-stop and shutter speed to capture each photo correctly as they tossed dust up in to the rays of light piercing the canyon, or put sand up on a ledge to get the photos of it cascading off. Then they would hold each group back for a few minutes until the group ahead cleared out of the shot.

It was a cattle call in both experiences but the photos represent an experience completely unlike what actually happened. I have learned that when vacationing, you are much better off going to the "second rate" destination if you actually want to enjoy anything. Just a few miles from Antelope Canyon is another slot canyon called Water Holes Canyon that was only 70% as impressive as Antelope Canyon, but we were the only people there and could explore it however we wanted!

Once you know about the lie, it's easy enough to avoid, but sometimes the pull to get that shot is still strong. The picture of me with the tiger is pretty damn impressive!

I think that we all have areas where we don't know what we're doing. This is one of mine. With all the talk of how obvious/important/easy it is to have a failover in place in case this happens, I'm having trouble finding a good resource about setting up a redundant DNS. Running a droplet on Digital Ocean with Debian and Nginx.

A bit of feedback: you should have a link back to your dashboard on every page. That seems like the most important page to me as a user, but if I am changing my notification or account settings, there is no way back to that page.

I first saw Blendle from one of the HN "Who's hiring" threads while looking for jobs in Utrecht. It was right around the time that there were a ton of stories about intrusive/tracking ad networks, AdBlockers and Google's Contributor option came out.

It looked like you were one of the few out there actually building something that solves the "paying content creators for their work" problem that is the root of all the ad problems. Kudos to you. It would be cool if you combined your service with an ad blocker so that users could block ads and feel good about still giving the creators a way to get paid: join the network!

There are also plenty of children of wealthy families that essentially receive checks from their parents every month that they live on, in exchange for no real work responsibilities.

I would say that there's a fair sized wave of accomplishment coming out of this group. Has Zuckerberg ever had to have a real job?

They are both cherry picked groups, and have vastly different backgrounds that affect their level of productivity. Giving everyone $8,000 per year would have vastly different results for different people. It's hard to say what the net effect would be.

It says at the end what the four styles are: 1. Vincent Van Gogh 2. Pablo Picasso 3. Kiyoshi Yamashita 4. Katsushika Hokusai

I can't help but think that there is opportunity here. It seems like most cities have gone through a cycle where industry moved out of cities, a lot of those parts of town got converted in to very affordable housing, industrial lofts, etc. Then because of the cheap rents, artists and young people flocked to these areas and they became the hip parts of town.

Shouldn't office parks be easier to convert than industrial buildings?

What does "losing at skydiving" look like?

Especially since he has almost certainly seen Netflix ads, and proclaims himself to be a customer.

I've always read the "great filter" as some kind of mass extinction. I just think that the Fermi paradox gained popularity when everyone thought that both our travel speeds and our population would continue to grow exponentially, making space colonization both inevitable and necessary.

What if we (and every other intelligent life) just level off when we start reaching the limits of physics and the available resources within our own solar system?

1,400 light years/~45,000mph (the speed of New Horizons) = 23,844,146.8 years of travel time. I guess that wouldn't be impossible, but if you've got a ship that can last that long in interstellar space, then what do you need a planet for? Or for that matter, a star?

Can't interstellar travel just be impossible?

Your contact info isn't in your profile, so I'll reply here.

I am an American citizen hoping to move to Utrecht in the near future, and would like to ask you a few questions. Contact info is in my profile.

What if you took these same Neural Networks as they exist now, and tweaked the input and the parameters slightly. For the input, use individual frames of an hour long video of a leopard (in order), and instead of having it just identify whether or not there is a leopard, have it identify what in each image is the leopard, and have it try to predict the next frame.

It seems that this is more like the way that we learn to identify things. Then once we establish an understanding of a base class (big cat) we can apply that same model to new cats that we have never seen before with just a picture.

When I was in college I didn't even know what that conversation would sound like. I knew that I was supposed to go to office hours and start a relationship with my professors, but I pictured it as me standing in their doorway, not knowing what to say.

Hardcore History is all finished narrative. Where Dan Carlin really shines is taking facts from history, like body counts from ancient battles and making them visceral so that you can really feel how terrified people would have been if there city was being besieged by Mongols, or if you were a soldier in Stalin's army and were used as so much cannon fodder against the nazis.

If you are more interested in the primary sources, he's probably not for you, but if you want to feel history rather than just hear about it, then I highly recommend.

For me, the experience of reading drastically improves my take aways from the actual reading. I love my kindle, but actual paper books win every time (As long as I'm near my bookshelf). A lot of my time reading, is spent re-reading and eBooks haven't gotten that interface down yet. Sometimes I catch myself having zoned out 2, 3, 4 pages ago and being able to flip back and skim through to pick back up at the last part that I was fully cognizant of.

Sometimes I reach a point in the story that suddenly makes something that I read in chapter 3 or 4 much more important, it's way easier to leave one finger where I am and flip back to that pivotal moment (especially helpful if I had put the book down for a few weeks before picking it back up again).

Sometimes I'm having a conversation with my fiance later in the day or the week and something that I had read was really relevant to the conversation even if I didn't think that it was important enough at the time to highlight it. If I had read it in a physical book, I have an idea where it was physically and can usually find it in a couple of seconds by flipping through the pages. If I had read it on my kindle, then I just have to do a mediocre job of paraphrasing a beautiful turn of phrase.

As an expectant father of my firstborn, I still feel like I have a connection to what it was like to be a boy and I wonder how true this quote is: “Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing…A man can never understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.”