It looked interesting - is it really $400 a month for access to the course, or is there some other way to just take the course without some kind of certificate?
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Another co-worker is the one who put together proto-repl for Atom so you'll see a lot of similar functionality in the two. I still use Atom and proto-repl just because I've been too lazy to get familiar with VSCode. But when James has demoed the debugger functionality in his VSCode plugin it looks great.
Has this been superseded by a new policy?
There are plenty of people that can make this exact choice. I'll work extra hours on occasion when my job is willing to allow us overtime, but not requiring it. Admittedly it's generally my stove broke and I need X dollars to replace it, not me donating the money.
I've never traded futures, but I've seen with the amount of leverage that options provide makes the story quite believable (easy was probably not what the prior commenter meant).
If you had bought out of the money puts with a near term expiration for an index like SPY and it dropped 10%, you could be talking 80-1000 times return depending on how far out of the money and how close to expiration.
Disclaimer: I do not recommend out of the money options trading for anything other than pure gambling on money you couldn't care less about losing.
It has been really hard for us to open source things lately - our last project took more than a year. I did find it on this page: https://github.com/nasa/earthdata-search. We are still working on open sourcing a couple more of our projects.
We've been told one of NASA's recent goals is to significantly improve the open source process so hopefully we'll see more of the current projects become open source.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329286
You made two assumptions that I would not, which make me believe we should continue to pursue manned exploration.
1) We have 5 billion years to figure this out.
There are many ways in which humanity could be wiped out on Earth, not just the death of the sun. Also I remember Elon Musk had a counterpoint to this as well that it's not a given that technology will always move forward. We need to exploit this chance while we have the capability.
2) The cost difference between a manned and unmanned mission are 1000 to 1.
That may be true for some missions, but I can't imagine that is anywhere near true for something like science missions for a station in low Earth orbit like the ISS. I would be interested in knowing what the actual cost differences are.