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Yeah, the system RAM requirement does seem a bit low. I mean 8 GB currently is basically just saying 'No you can't hook this up to that laptop which was designed for the day to day use of an average web surfing, Netflix watching, and video chatting individual.' I mean it should be basically a non-requirement for people working in computer graphics or interested in this for gaming.

And others of us would be in jail.

I am pretty sure that is completely false, from what I have read of the early space program, it sounds like it had a way of devouring lives.

"The Apollo 11 crew calculated they spent 2000 hours in simulators between their selection in January and their flight in July 1969." http://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-8-3.html

And the book makes numerous references to others at NASA working long hours too.

"Apollo had become intimately interwoven in the fabric of the waking hours of my life and often caused the remaining hours to be fewer than they should have been." http://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-7-1.html

"I'd be checking on alertness, especially among men who had been working long hours. Were they fatigued? Were they concentrating on the dials? Was there any unnecessary chit-chat going on?" http://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-6-3.html

We don't really have all the context of the message. For instance what was the event? (The launch of their first rocket might be classified as an even to Musk for all I know)

What was the message that was sent to prompt this reply? I mean he starts with 'That is no excuse' so he is clearly referring to an email sent to him and I am trusting about the general content of the email chain. But for all I know this guy just got up and left work when heard his child was being born as opposed to actually taking time off. While this is a completely invented narrative by me, it could be that it was that kind of action that can leave a lot of other people in the lurch is what there was no excuse for.

My point is simply that many people are reading things into the quote which do not seem to be explicitly stated, but are being treated as though they are.

I think the point is, that with this job, Musk want's people whose dream and life goal is the success of what the company is trying to do, and not to have a family or any such commonly accepted life goal.

I believe improving space travel is one of a handful of dreams/goals that there are potentially enough talented people out there, that one could find the people who want this to be their life as opposed to that of a more traditional role.

I know this may illicit the typical 'burn out is real' responses, and I know it is but I honestly don't think it occurs if you are a person with a singular passion and you are lucky enough to be pursuing it for your 'work'.

The NSA and those organization's aren't usually making the products like Google is they are usually contracting it out. It isn't the companies doing the work incarcerating people in either case, it is simply that when the user of the product being sold is the Government they have that power.

1030 mhz will give you some more info in regards to what is being sent to the aircraft.

Also even their language is phrased such as it says "16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars"

Note the inclusion of the word 'can' before produce. Making this statistic unreliable without further support.

Yes someone transferred the newspaper archives to digital copies at some point, as the article states.

"Hirst told the Guardian the digitisation of newspaper archives had been like “opening up a big box of candy”, allowing as it did Twain’s articles to be tracked down in a way that was not possible when archives were all on microfilm."

That works out to it taking about an hour to assemble and test, sounds reasonable to me.

At least based off the wage from 2012, allowing for an over 10% increase.

"At that salary, the wage ranges between $1.50 and $2.20 an hour, based on the exchange rate of 6.3 renminbi to the dollar." http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/the-ieconomy-ho...

I wouldn't call them 'random' guesses as they seem to be based on actual information to some degree. I also wouldn't call the end number pointless, it just doesn't mean what people who only read the headline might assume it means. I believe the article does a pretty good job explaining the caveats about other costs which are not taken into account. And the numbers are still useful for comparing against other product launches by apple. R&D for products is generally left out of the production cost, as it is a fixed price regardless of the number of units they produce, and therefore has no unit price, and is simply recouped over time (hopefully).

Over all its an interesting article I think, and while reading it I felt they were doing adequate cautioning of the reader to not go 'OMG Apple is gauging us even more' which the number really has no relevance to as you point out, however it does not mean the number is misleading or pointless.

You assume that is how he asked. I know he describes it as politely but he might consider a polite request as 'Please use the headset." Repeated, even after being told no, possibly with explanation that he can't understand him due to his accent instead of comment on the quality of the speaker phone.

My point isn't that either of these straw man situations happened, its that any of a wealth of possible scenarios are possible given the extremely vague details given by the interviewee it is easy to see many different interpretations by the parties involved as reasonable.

Keep in mind the black out wouldn't rule out any electric device that had batteries or capacitors as part of it. I had a smoke detector that made a slight humming, took me forever to figure out where it was coming from, and replace that smoke detector.

Or they could take that same amount of money away from things that aren't furthering knowledge of the universe and research that leads to new advancements that historically have had a rather impressive impact on the technology available to the average person.

You know like from military minded funding, hell that amount would barely make an impact there. Especially since more efficient safer nuclear power, which continued research into nuclear battery construction could potentially contribute to, could itself help provide a source of power to help slow climate change.

I parsed it as saying "in the original trilogy the only trained force-sensitive people we hear of are 3 human male and Yoda."

STOP, now a related thought about why one of them is unlikely to reproduce due to the limited female characters in the movie. "On top of that we have a brother and a sister."

But I can see how your reading of it would make sense, since it removes the potential count error I read it as having.

4 human male, I believe you forgot the Emperor. Also the Leah being force sensitive was eluded to.

He may well find girls icky he may want to marry a guy, a fictional character, or the toaster for all we know. Kids are weird like that.

Damn, this will definitely hurt the recruitment efforts of the dark side.

Still pretty nice when you mount it for GPS as there are a couple solutions that do just that. Two examples. http://www.theairdock.com/ http://www.tylt.com/vu-car/

They tried anti-depressants after 2 years of his condition persisting. Trying a single anti-depression med is a perfectly reasonable attempt at treating the issue if the information the doctors have lines up with depression. Even when the medication does not work it usually provides them with more information so the solutions they try get closer to something which will work hopefully.

The entire field of medicine is heuristic, basically making educated guesses as to what the collections of symptoms indicate. You try something see if it works, if it doesn't try something else based on the information available. When your patient is a young child, you have different problems gathering that information than with an adult, kids may not notice or know how to describe something that is wrong, and adults will often omit things they consider embarrassing.

As someone who has had anxiety and depression for the 12 years since I graduated high school, the doctors I have met have been nothing like the notion of doctors you have, and while I am sure there are doctors whose first priority is pushing pills characterizing doctors in general as such I do not believe to be accurate. I've seen physicians and psychiatrists both of which tried to gather as much information as they could asking questions and running tests before recommending any treatment or even really suggesting what was wrong with me. They would often recommend things like more exercise, less time in front of computers and sitting, and finding hobbies after all tests came back showing nothing abnormal with my body. Both seemed to agree it was probably not a physical malady with physicians eventually recommending psychiatrists and psychiatrists recommending psychologists. Every time after a couple months of therapy not working they would try another; they were very hesitant to recommend medication. When they did they would have me check in weekly to give them updates, always switching me off of it if I indicated any side effects or just that things hadn't gotten better after a period of time in which it should. Eventually I would give up and stop trying new treatments even though they indicated they had not exhausted all options. After a few years I would try again.

Only recently, after starting up this chain of diagnoses again about 8 months ago, did I find relief. The psychiatrist tried yet another therapy and two medications, which I had not been on before but were similar to the ones which had more positive effects previously. Both wound up having the same negative side effects. He then reluctantly tried a third, which was in a completely different class of meds, saying he tries his best not to prescribe it due to it having nasty withdrawal. Low and behold, 2 weeks in for the first time in 12 years I was feeling like I remember normal being on month 4 now and still feel great.

Different things work for different people because depression and many other things in the medical world are effectively a name for a collection of symptoms and not a specific malady. The doctors I have seen seem to recognize that and respect that, and generally seem to prefer non-medication based treatments when they have hope it would work.

Presumably because the person who posted the link to the blog post was not the person who wrote the blog post, and did not want to be getting Ask Hacker News style questions directed at him in response.

I also have had great experience with google customer service there was nearly no wait time and they replaced my phone for free after I broke it through a method entirely my own doing and was calling about mailing it in for a repair.

Ahhh well I never claimed to be clever or original. Unfortunately for me in Boston they have an 8.75 airport surcharge, and no sign of flat rates from my experience.

I thought something similar. In that I read this and immediately thought 'wow Uber came up with a way to cut into one of the Taxi systems cash cows even more' Now if they come up with something like cheaper rates when one end point of your trip is an airport they can take a cut of the other big one. It seems remarkably clever as an idea to hurt their competition, just enough evil to seem charming to me in this light.

They have the choice of dealing with shitfaced passengers mainly through the hours they choose to work, pretty much all of them accept that working from late evening to early morning that most of their fares will be people who have been drinking, and a portion of those will be shitfaced.

The saferide at schools I went to(large state schools) was limited to students who they deemed 'needed' it so if you stated you didn't feel safe, or that you were drunk they would provide a ride. If you were sober, felt safe, and were honest though they would not provide you with a ride. I know I tried at both schools I attended. Some of us would take more moral issue with lying to abuse a resource in way other than its intended purpose, than with getting drunk so we could use it honestly.

You can easily 'lie' to the breathalyzer to make yourself read as over the limit without drinking more also, so for me it is the same issue.

Most college campuses already do something similar with safe ride programs. Such programs are usually seen as a good thing, in my experience.

The amount of alcohol needed to be over the legal limit is actually remarkably small and Toronto and other major cities they might possibly do this promotion in aren't exactly known for cheap drinks. Based on that and the high probability that a person who goes out drinking in a major city will not venture too far from their residence, I expect that two drinks would usually be more expensive than a ride home.

Uber fucks up plenty of things that are worth taking issue with, it is my opinion that this is not one of those things. I think most people should see this as a morally positive promotion.

While using the millisecond length of things would be clever and would catch which copy it originated from while it remained secret that was how you were doing it. As soon as it was known it is not much harder for the person ripping the copy to shorten all the scenes by a random number of milliseconds than it is for them to blur the watermark.

I mean this could be a good addition to the current tech used in something like Cinavia, which is the most robust system I have seen and if not already doing it could easily identify individual sources. But the inaudible audio and steganography used in that system just seem much more of a pain to circumvent than using lengths of scenes as a serial number of sorts.

The edge case where it is expected that one would not understand a spoken response of "No, totally" is where the thing it was said in response to both was phrased such that a negative answer could be one of absolute agreement and where the previous thing said contained in it the word totally. This case could give the interpretation that while you more or less agree you would like the word totally omitted from your agreement.

Example(leveraged from jasallen's example in another post): Don't you totally want to eat the whole tub of ice cream?

As a spoken response in this edge case "No, totally"(yes I very much want to eat it all) would be indistinguishable from "No totally" (yes I want to eat it all, but I am not as enthusiastic about doing so as you are).

I am not certain that offering grammar corrections is very constructive.

Also if you read the article in the parent post you would notice that your second correction should be directed at it not me, as I accurately copy pasted that quotation.