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Er. I recommend not immediately pissing away $200K, but that's just me. If you're in your early 20's, a $200K investment could easily be $1M by your thirties.

Taking a $1M lump-sum means never having to work again. That's not to say you won't work again, or won't be productive again. But I'd feel really stupid if at some later date I had to take a job, just because I pissed away my capital.

You're using the word "incorporate" incorrectly, which was my original point. To incorporate means to start a corporation. Therefore, registering a sole-proprietorship is, by definition, not incorporation.

The more general term is "register", which applies to the three forms of business: sole-proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.

What you're thinking of is a business name registration. If you do business as your exact name, you don't need to register a name. If you make more than, $30k (I think), then you do need to register for a GST number.

Yeah, and stay away from this site, and reddit, and for the love of god, stay away from justin.tv.

It's very, very cool. I'm in Canada, and it felt like I was at that party.

I kept having the strange urge to talk directly to people like pg, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston, as if Justin were some kind of Telepresence bot, or medium. It's weird to think of him walking around, with all these "spirits" in his head.

The robot demo was fascinating, and I love the unscriptedness. I think I prefer that to an edited or scripted documentary. You can infer a lot from the raw data that wouldn't make it through the editorial process.

The downside is you may be competing with Google.

Satellites and warheads in LEO travel at similar altitudes and velocities.

What are these LEO warheads of which you speak? Does he really mean ballistic missiles? In that case the speeds are very different.

If you're in Canada, and you set up a sole proprietorship for your dad, then you didn't incorporate it. Corporations and sole proprietorships are mutually exclusive categories of companies. Setting up a sole proprietorship is as easy as going to a business kiosk and filling out some forms.

I love this thing! I can store all of my notes, ideas for articles, and business ideas in one HTML page. I can back it up or transfer it by copying a single file. Nice.

I love the picture of pg waving his finger from the back of the scooter. I half expected the next shot to be him pushing one of the other dudes, with his finger. The next shot should have been of said dude falling over as his CG moves outside the convex hull of his feet.

I finally got around to trying EC2 this weekend, and it's pretty slick. I just wanted a *nix box to try out SBCL threading. I love the convenience.

Anyone know off-hand what extended instruction set these machine instances offer? I.e. MMX? SSE? SSE2?

Overheard outside a former boss's office:

"We're not talking customer service, we're talking cunnilingus! Are they happy? I want you to make them happy!"

Sick, but true.

I find I can't work at a reasonable pace. Either I'm slacking off, and for all intents look like an incompetent retard, or else, I'm in crisis mode and will do whatever it takes. Unfortunately, after crisis mode, I'm burnt out for a week.

There's an amazing feeling of monastic purity to working no-holds-barred on a problem, though. It's simplifying. No life -- no worries! That and the adrenaline rush of looking into the abyss and then finding some way around, or over.

Sony claims that Qrio can respond to outside pushing, as here:

http://www.plyojump.com/movies/qrio/sdr-4x_recoverfromfall.mpg

Gah! Why do I keep double-posting? Someone please delete this.

> [...] Dexter appears to be treating each step as a discrete unit, where it has to attain balance at the end of one step before going on to the next step

I doubt that. I don't think that would qualify as dynamic balance. Remember, it's only been a couple of weeks since Dexter's first step -- he's walking quite well.

This is one of those situations where the approach bounds the eventual utility. There are a lot of non-dynamically balanced robots that would just blow the minds of researchers from 20 years ago, but they are still limited.

By solving the dynamic balance problem, even though to the untrained eye it may currently look less impressive than some other systems, there's no more ceiling to what it can do, dynamically (control-wise, not accounting for power density). All of the behaviours you mentioned can be implemented on top of this substrate.

If you had N overwritable "save-game" slots for the universe, what would you do differently?

Saving a game stores a re-loadable state of the universe. Let's say saving or loading a state takes less than a second to initiate, and is impossible to do accidentally.

Would you lie? Cheat? Kill? (You don't have to answer).

What if N is 1, 10, 100?

What if N is uncertain?

What if there's a probability, p, of load failure?

I heard a rumour that each instance is 6MB of source code, alone!

Can you tell us what kind of editor you're using to write Arc (and Arc code).

Is Arc suited to writing its own IDE?

Can you tell us what kind of editor you're using to write Arc (and Arc code).

Is Arc suited to writing its own IDE?

I think the problem is that there are a lot of very smart people who are good at talking and generating ideas, but not so good at implementation.

If they're not regularly "going dark", they may not have the focus to succeed at a startup.

Interesting. Perhaps they should be performing traffic analysis to see who's busy, and who's not?

I love to debate (reddit has saved my wife a regular earful), but I can't imagine surfing when I'm really "in the zone". I tend to do more directed documentation queries and explicitly avoid sites like reddit where I'm likely to become mired.

So yeah, for me posting frequency is inversely correlated with how busy I am. On the other hand, all of that reading, researching and debating generates a lot of new ideas.