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Emily Lakdawalla wrote a great timeline here. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/what-to...

The best shots won't be for a while, but hopefully the team received some informative images today or tonight and will be able to share them at tomorrow's press conference. As she notes, there is a chance that the first downloads will miss Ultima Thule entirely. The encounter was just that difficult.

As for LORRI and Ralph, can't we call them both "primary?" Only Ralph produces color images, so most color shots of Pluto are Ralph's (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/639/the-frozen-canyon...).

LORRI has higher resolution, which is why some of the most stunning shots of Pluto are black and white (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/652/plutos-majestic-m...).

Some images were produced by "painting" Ralph's colors onto LORRI's high resolution features (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/699/pluto-dazzles-in-...).

> The teachers union in Massachusetts made all the teachers sign liability waivers and arbitration waivers if a lawsuit happens.

Wait what? I thought the union was supposed to at least pretend to look out for the teachers' interests.

Seems like more of the same. He'll be a hands-off board member. The board will continue letting Elon do whatever he wants, including the occasional Twitter meltdown.

I also appreciated one of the first replies: "Didn't hear many complaints about robots on way up"

I gather this was Falcon 9's first EELV-certified mission, but to call it its first national security mission is quite the overstatement. Falcon 9s have already launched an NRO spy satellite, the Air Force X-37B, and the mysterious Zuma.

With a trillion dollar deficit, what could go wrong?

As far as I can tell, nobody creates new code for PostgreSQL 9, but we drag it along because nobody's ported the needed code to PostgreSQL 11. At the official PostgreSQL web site, their documentation is actively maintained and available for PostgreSQL 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 10.6, and 11.1 -- because they can't decide to give up on the old code. PostgreSQL is like the zombie of relational databases -- the dead just keep walking on.

> When I buy a new house I wouldn’t sign a contract for an unknown amount of finished rooms within the agreed upon timeframe and budget either.

You hope you don't. But halfway into construction, everyone might realize the blueprints attached to that contract don't cover some detail you really need. Then if you want that done, you'll have to pay extra. That's why change orders are so common in construction.

I wonder: if I sell something on Amazon and make it an Amazon-exclusive brand, will I find it easier to keep counterfeit knockoffs out of their inventory?

Windows 7? I thought Windows Vista was the highly successful recruiting tool for the Windows XP Fan Club.

So what? I'm sure Microsoft is happy they could win over a critic like that.

I'm twice their age and I don't either. What consequences do you refer to?

Is it "wokeness" or just ambition? When I was 19 I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I'm pretty sure being yet another cog in a 30,000-employee machine was not high on the list.

I'm in Chicago, so $22 is almost the cost of a medium deep dish pizza, and I can stretch that to almost a week of dinners if it's just me.

A couple of footnotes: 1. Pizza is absurdly cheap, even for takeout food. I don't really understand how that works. 2. I prefer takeout over paying for delivery, which saves a lot. My favorite pizza places are in walking distance.

It's a little less expensive, but I wouldn't call it "far" less expensive unless you're prepared to stick to the lowest-cost ingredients like rice and beans.

Even in context, I think saying 'technology' as a shorthand for 'the particular technology Google is selling' is sloppy and lazy.

But then I've long thought that about the whole 'technology sector' shorthand. As if construction, agriculture, manufacturing, medicine, etc. were not technologies.

TL;DR: try not to suck.

Seriously, if you're committing mistakes 1, 3, and 4, then your multi-page website is going to be awful, too. "SPA or not SPA" is far down the list of questions you need to be asking yourself.

"'It secures HTTP requests and responses' wasn't deemed a sufficient answer when asked what an SSL certificate was in a technical interview for a front-end role."

I think I have to take the inteviewer's side there. Or I would at least ask a follow-up question.

Also in the legislative branch.

Yeah, the US spends more on socialized medicine than anyone. Most of it goes through Medicare.

We are far too well paid to be called scientists.

Sounds more like Luigi Zingales, who is about as far from Marx as you can get.

Raise your hand if you've ever created an insert/update database trigger that explodes when that it sees that one bad value you've been investigating, just so you'll have a traceback that points to the offending code.

(Hopefully only in your development environment.)

From the detailed writeup (https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/10/advanced-medicine...):

"Inactivation of the Ctla4 gene in mice, performed in the laboratories of Arlene Sharpe and Tak Mak, confirmed and further substantiated its negative regulatory role, since these mice developed very severe autoimmune disease associated with proliferating T cells (Tivol et al., 1995; Waterhouse et al., 1995)."

"In the first-in-man study MDX-010 was given to 9 patients in a phase I clinical trial at a single dose of 3 mg/kg and a response was observed in some melanoma patients (Hodi et al., 2003). The same year complete regression was reported in another trial in some treated melanoma patients, while severe autoimmune side effects were also observed (Phan et al., 2003)."

So I wouldn't take it "just in case" like a daily multivitamin. Plus, monoclonal antibodies are expensive!

That's from back in February but more recently others have been saying similar things:

https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/28/17911372/there-are-too-man...

You may be confusing the original rejected settlement (no CEO ban) with the complaint that the SEC filed on Thursday (yes CEO ban). The latter is more painful than the settlement offer. It has to be, or there's no incentive to settle.

Insider trading is a lot harder to prove.

Second-to-last paragraph really makes the article:

> And their departure, despite its suddenness, does require some perspective. Both Instagram founders stayed on for six years after being acquired — much longer than entrepreneurs usually do after selling their company and long after they had received their full payout in stock.

Dog Bites Man After Unusually Long Delay

That was my first question and I was disappointed the article didn't address it. How can we call a material "strong" if it can't even hold itself together without such extraordinary help from its environment?