Even in its Google incarnation, it could federate with any server that implemented the protocol (much like email) - you didn't even need to touch Google's servers. The UI was only one implementation. Of course, UI was the hardest part of designing something like that and probably failing that is what killed it.

The police are told that there's a hostage situation. Why would the hostage-taker come out and get shot, when it's just as easy to send a hostage? The information clearly implied that there were innocent victims there.

Apart from being a bloody mess and having a horrible UI, in what way was Google/Apache Wave even "distributed"? At least in its Google incarnation, it seemed to require centralized servers and maintenance.

The idea of a centralized service for building social networks is intrinsically defective. Social networks should be distributed, with no single point of failure or control, no single point to monetize users, and no single point to compromise privacy. What we need if we really care about privacy and individual control is some combination of web-of-trust, digital signatures, blockchain, and peer to peer networking.

So tell us please, how does one "manage the exceptions" when an assailant on meth is charging you with a knife and the taser doesn't stop him? Offer him a leaflet while singing Kumbaya?

See https://slashdot.org/comments.... funny enough American Libertarians are actually old time Liberals with their belief in economic freedom, unluckily there has been so much propaganda over the 20th century that terms have changed with the current belief that Stalinism equals socialism and somehow the modern capitalist is not authoritarian.

I will say this for this particular launch, with all those strap on SRBs, that rocket got up and went when it left the launch pad. The Falcons and other launches I've watched lately kind of lazily climbed off the pad. This one looked like an Estes rocket in comparison.
Otherwise, I agree with your general sentiment. Even the quality of the in-flight video wasn't as good as Space-X and we didn't get to see the staging.

Have people never heard of prettyprint and sed ? Or is this an organizing (function/procedure/module) conflict?

Libertarian-ism was a leftist philosophy before the right wingers hopped on the bandwagon. Leftism is about empowering the people, getting rid of government, or at least making it as local as possible whereas rightism is about empowering the aristocracy, or now a days the rich.
From https://www.urbandictionary.co...

Not an oxymoron. In fact, the term "libertarian" was first used by a French anarcho-communist back in 1857 to describe himself (an anarchist). The modern term libertarianism (economic freedoms) was originally called liberalism. The term "libertarian" describes liberty (thus, the term is also used to describe metaphysical liberty within philosophy and metaphysics), and the term socialism describes a society in which wealth is fairly distributed. Thus, it is neither a literal nor a practical contradiction.

A libertarian socialist would argue that a society based on such huge disparities of wealth is unfree. If you wish to enter into employment, you choose first and take orders later (as with liberal democracy). Libertarian socialists believe in voluntary association and economic democracy. This will allow the individual to reach his/her full potential.

The most famous example of successful libertarian socialism is the anarcho-syndicalist experiment in Spain during to Spanish Civil War, which was eventually destroyed by Communists and Fascists (see Orwell' "Homage to Catalonia" for excellent first hand reportage of this). At its peak, the anarchist union (CNT) had one million members.

Although sharing much of (if not all of) the Marxist analysis of capitalism, lib socialists vehemently oppose state socialism, especially the authoritarian socialism of Lenin, Trotsky, Mao and, more recently, the socialism of Hugo Chavez. The modern dispute between the two schools of socialism began in the First International, in which Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin bitterly argued over the road socialists should take. This dispute has continued ever since, with many Marxist regimes imprisoning, murdering (Russia), and exiling (Cuba) anarchists.
Modern advocates of libertarian socialism include linguist Noam Chomsky, historian and playwright Howard Zinn, and the Industrial Workers of the World ("One Big Union"), and the International Workers Association (of which the Spanish CNT is its largest affiliate).

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Basically libertarian-ism that empowers the people rather then libertarian-ism that empowers the rich.

Straight away this proposal looks like it was designed to attract Silicon Valley VCs. What they're proposing to do is create automated farms with very little labour, more than likely at less than a 10:1 ratio. That's the sweet spot for startups: Disrupt an existing business model by reducing the number of workers needed by at least 90% then you can disrupt the market by having lower labour costs, i.e. put tens of thousands of people out of work.

Currently, no machine can pick crops like agricultural workers can: It's skilled labour.

Where's our Internet2? :P

And your point would be what, exactly? To launch a payload that can go on a moderately-sized rocket on the most capable rocket ever made, just to you would find it more "cool", for some reason?

        The interesting and important end of the rocket is in the nose, not the tail.

Being successful requires:

1. Finding a group of people facing a similar problem with skills to contribute.
2. Demonstrating enough value to them to justify their effort.

These are both really (!) hard things to do. The software market is fairly crowded these days, so demonstrating you can beat existing offerings is hard. And although the Internet allows people to search fairly well, finding people facing similar problems is still really hard. It's not like you can show up on forums of a similar product, pitch your idea for a different thing, and expect to be well received.

Realistically, don't start a software project if you're unwilling to be the only one working on it.

(Personally I'm trying to build a decent native code Windows command prompt, and I can't believe others really think CMD is wonderful, or that managed environments are fun to use given their performance, or that sitting on emulation layers is a great way to interact with an OS. But the set of people who are passionate and skilled enough to act isn't that big, and they don't all hang out in the same place, so I'm still the only contributor, and I don't expect that to change imminently.)

I just don't see the point of this. People can grow microgreens enough to feed their families in window sills... I'd be more interested in yams or other calorie dense options like that.

I can't believe they would delete a user ID for posting that video. It is so funny and not bad.

Google Wave failed. Apache Wave is also dead as of Jan. 2018.

Signing up new AIM account before AOL shut it down required phone numbers for validations.

On the app store, are you looking at the India-only version?
Relevant link: https://m.hello.com/en/downloa...

Worse, it's probably an app with an HTML/Javascript based UI. Good luck distracting people at work, if it's not available on PC.

We don't need another language, and compiler design pretty much peaked in the 70's. Try to build a community of interested volunteers, but if nobody is interested, that might be a clue that your idea isn't valuable enough to anyone except yourself.

Kansas City it creates issues; NYC charges a local income tax to address the issues. Bedroom communities always create issues, but when they are in a different state the natural corrective forces are lost. St. Louis is a good example of how things get screwed up.

Really?

Again?

I thought we were Pastis.

Lots of people still do. Even if you close them, Yahoo! and Verizon still have your datas. :(

How about some ransomware that encrypts all my porn files until I finish doing my taxes?

That's true, Australia, Canada and New Zealand all got bombed back to the stone age during WWII.
The modern environment movement probably started with Silent Spring questioning the honesty of the chemical companies, which was published in '62.

I don't know that you will ever fix this problem top/down. The problem is one of demand. Poor people prefer low cost staple foods. It is also true that we don't have much of a cooking culture in all poor communities in this day and age.. possibly providing a supply of fresh foods would generate or tap some unmet demand in those communities but... I'm just not confident of that. Might be better to just cut ag subsidies.

They will ban your account if you post this kind of video!

If they're in the minority so that they need affirmative action in the Senate, they're not "mainstream".

Well, as you can see from the House, which does have proportional representation, they don't need "affirmative action".

And conservatives and classical liberals would do even better if Democrats weren't so profoundly corrupt and corporatist.

Straight from the Virginian's, err... South Carolinian, I mean... South Californian's mouth.

We settled that, "we can leave and be better off without the union," debate 160 years ago - and it cost us hundreds of thousands of lost American lives. Only a completely desperate state with a suicide wish would put that on themselves because it would likely be just as bad for everyone the second time around.

And I'd rather not have to have a passport to go to Disneyland or Huntington Beach...

Yeah, you think ole Zuck didn’t have some very, very juicy tidbits on at least a few of those legislators and their staffers? Ha.

And of course you want to see California's power trained: you're a Republican

I'm an independent and a classical liberal.

Democracy: an idea so good

Democracy isn't a single form of government, it simply describes all forms of government where the power somehow derives from the people. That encompasses everything from democratic socialism and fascism to minarchism and anarchism. Many forms of democratic government are corrupt, evil and destructive.

Among the many forms of democracy there are, there is only one form of democracy that I actually care for, and that is a classically liberal democracy with small government and free markets.

That only applies to cars who wear boots.

I do believe they were talking about pure LED farms. No windows. No light conduits. Easier to just cover the building with solar cells and produce just the frequencies of light you need specialized for each plant.

First of all, correlation != causation. There's a reason most coastal states in the US are blue - geographic advantage. Just like the rest of human history, states with coastlines control the ports - the trade lifelines into the continental US. They leech off of the rest of the country by taking their cut (like the Silk Road port merchants of old screwed over others for centuries), then tell us how much being liberal leads to being more successful.

Like I've posted before, move liberals inland 100 miles and see just how liberal they remain over time without the extra "coastal city cash/cut" to fund their ideals.