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On the other hand, the society does not have a $DEITY granted right to benefit from the creations of an author, material or immaterial.

The fact that in one case the creation is easily reproducible with almost zero marginal costs, speaks not of the inherent value of the original creation (that was presumably undisputed at the author's lifetime), but is mere opportunistic thinking from the perspective of the society.

How would you vote against that if you were on your deathbed? You can burn your house, but you cannot undo music or literature.

I come from a former Russian occupied country that has maybe left me a bit overprotective of private property. The notion of requisitioning property "for the good of The People" is deeply repulsive - a lot of families here, including mine, actually were liberated from their house, farm, land and personal freedoms by the "liberators". So maybe after some decades, I should leave more room for "The People".

Nothing stopping from renting out the house in your lifetime, only to leave it for your children once you cease to be.

That is kind of the point - why is the dad who wields a pencil going to have to leave his children in a worse position than a dad who wielded a hammer.

Lazy rich child A's dad built a house, which he and his children can benefit from for marginal costs (maintenance, taxes).

Lazy rich child B's dad wrote some music, which he and his children can benefit from for marginal costs (publishing, taxes).

I know - in one case it is a physical object, and in the other - immaterial. But both houses and music can offer enjoyment and can be benefited from financially, and thus have inherent value.

I am not sure if the notion of private property should depend on the continued existence of the original creator. When do we start requisitioning houses for the hommage of the original owner?

That seems really promising, especially configuring pipelines with API calls. Many wheels may be left uninvented.

Thank you for making your work available!

Looks like this could be useful for webhooks delivery, a problem our team is working on at the moment.

We have 100's of tenants, each of which could get their own stream with some delivery guarantees set. If one tenant's endpoint is down or another tenant fills the stream with 1M messages, it should not affect delivery rates of other tenants. Seems to fit the bill.

I see the HTTP output mentions some retries, but I guess these run as part of the delivery step, blocking this goroutine as opposed to rescheduling the message? Sometimes it takes hours for clients to restore their receiving systems and it would be great if messages for past N hours would still be delivered..

I had managed to instill into my brain that Webpack is the JS moving target du jour. I am blown away that it has already been "surpassed" before our team managed to even have a serious review of it. Parcel it is then.

That is a really good way to visualize that! Once you zoom out you can see the repeating patterns though..

Isaac Arthur made a compendium called Civilizations at the End of Time [1] that goes into this territory. This guy, in my opinion, goes above and beyond even your typical hard scifi. Can't recommend highly enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58yFf7aZsM&list=PLIIOUpOge0...

Perspectives can differ. One of the greatest soaring sites in Europe (Aspres in the French Alps) is fighting for survival against a solar farm. An irreplaceable loss, given the topology in the area. Which is also why a flat plateau at the top of a mountain is suitable for solar production. Economics wise of course a small bunch of glider pilots will not stand a chance against the inevitable economic needs of the area. So yes, a solar farm can be a land wart, depending on where you stand.

No panels visible here, but they are marching towards sacred ground: https://goo.gl/maps/8kagR6UNXXG2

Well worth a road trip! Best part is that Estonia is surprisingly small :)

Try shopping for a pair of prescription sunglasses. Cost me 600+ euros (EU) for a pair of decent shades, while my gf just picked some up for a tenth of that.

One of the happiest moments in my life was when I realised that speedo offers optical goggles. And even not trying to rip me off 10x. No more fumbling around at the pool.

Guy shuts down forum, goes through the nightmare letter dissecting each part as "good question" or "you should have this already" or "easy one". So what was his issue anyway?

I am going to wait for the Sandy Munro figures.

Estonia's corporate income tax is set at 20%: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/vat-customs/company-ta...

As for the budget share, a significant part of that is going to be govt-owned corporations that are used as cash-cows, for example the energy production / distribution monopolies, national lottery, Tallinn Port etc. Last month's news - this year they contributed 157MEUR dividends: https://www.aripaev.ee/uudised/2018/04/19/riik-votab-ettevot...

In the end, "regular" companies end up paying less than you imagine. I think it could be a sign that the policy is working - companies are investing into the future and "paying it forward". Or they are doing creative feats like taking out profits as loans to parent companies, which is also known to happen, specifically the big Scandinavian banks here.

Specifically for startups, it is going to make a big difference if you do not need to pay yearly corporate tax at an arbitrary date (in relation to your business) and can a) postpone this until profitability or b) never pay a dime if your idea never pans out. You can even steer your company towards an exit without ever having to think about it.

Many people I know personally only distribute as much profit as they need for themselves. It is not double taxed with personal income tax, so it is spending money already after paying the corporate tax. This has lead to a debate as to whether this actually constitutes "entrepreneur salary" with entrepreneurs therefore paying less taxes than employees (the salary taxes are much higher: http://palk.crew.ee).

That is why for a startup you can "essentially" forego thinking about it. When you do, you know you have made it :)

What is the source of this information? In Estonia corporate income tax is essentially 0% - all re-invested income is tax-free, you only pay taxes when you eventually decide to pay out dividends (or salary). Which can be years, decades or never.

Wonderful story!

There seems to be a healthy number of other pilots / aviation enthusiasts here, so I'll ask - did they really use the OVER & OUT in aviation phraseology back then? Modern aviation RT omits these, so I wonder if it is a journalistic addition.

Listening in I could not help but see parallels from Monty Python's Bridge of Death sketch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cV0tCphFMr8

Especially with the follow up question..

Also from the world of aviation, seems the captain had developed a classic case of get-there-itis. The symptoms are there, the prognosis is never good.

Learned something today, will research it. Thanks!

> She called Davidson on the house phone and told him that the hurricane was now a Category 3. He knew that already. She proposed the escape route to the south and a smooth sail on to San Juan. He rejected her suggestion.

I wonder if in the maritime world there is the equivalent of CRM (Cockpit Resource Management), as in aviation.

Too many lives were lost due to 1st officer never taking over command when the error in the commander's thinking had already become apparent or the entire aircraft was being flown, effectively, by a single infallible captain and not a team.

Lessons were learned decades ago and at least in a 1st world outfit I would like to believe that no 1st officer would hesitate to utter the words "I have control" when in such stress.

This is a dark pattern akin to booking.com, to create time pressure for you, not provide actual value.

If the latter were true, then sometimes it should say "You are the only one looking at this hotel. Take your time!"

But no. Travelling to the most obscure places across Asia I have NEVER seen anything but hordes people looking at my hotel in Kampong Cham. Probably different dates too.

I am willing to bet it is derived from /dev/urandom adjusted to the size of the establishment.

For those who do not get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

Genes are the data, epigenetics talks about the program instructions, notably proteins called transcription factors. The latter are of course also encoded for in genes.

The similarities to Von Neumann architecture are .. unsettling.

> Also, autonomy in the sky seems easier than autonomy on the ground.

This is debatable.

A car has only 1 degree of freedom. An aircraft typically has 3 degrees of freedom.

A car rests on solid ground. An aircraft is submerged in a fluid medium.

A ground vehicle can adjust it's speed to the conditions, if necessary slow down if confidence levels get lower, or even go backwards. An aircraft is typically subject to an aerodynamic envelope.

As for the sky being empty, take a look at this harrowing story of a biz jet encountering the wake turbulence of a A380. Airframe written off, crew earn their lifetime salary. Autopilot took 13 seconds to conk out.

https://avherald.com/h?article=4a5e80f3

Turns out modern aircraft following airways to a precision of mere meters has increased such incidences. In the olden days pilots where often a bit off the track. To simulate this sloppiness in flying rigor, a thing called SLOP has been conceived, for Strategic Lateral Offset Procedures.

A single pitot probe it seems, so no triple redundancy? Also cannot spot any angle of attack sensors or anti icing measures (perhaps electric?). I hope it has a BRS at least..

There are a lot of things in aviation written it blood. A lot of work hours sunk into inspecting the swiss cheese from every angle, until the light does not shine through. Not the most welcoming ground for "disruption".

Still, even the most modern autopilot will drop the controls to the pilot's lap almost routinely.

I agree. People talking about flying cars sound a lot like people demanding faster horses. Or flying horses.

I do not think the American dream of a private car scales too well to the future, be it with rubber wheels or tiny propellers. Especially given the population growth.

Instead, a brief visit to Singapore, for example, will convince anyone what the future of transportation looks like. A public transport system, enabling a lifestyle that makes cars redundant.

I think it being autonomous is integral to it being a "success". Energy density is still a major limitation and doing away with the pilot can be one way to make the numbers work economy wise. A flesh and bone pilot will come at a substantial weight penalty, effectively reducing the utility of this 2 seater by half.

As a licenced pilot myself, I am with you, however. Would not climb into this death trap as a self loading freight any time soon.

The docs state that creating tables is not supported, but I am unsure about the '[TEMPORARY]' part. In practice, it is not verboten, see below for 5.6:

  mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%gtid%';
  +---------------------------------+-----------+
  | Variable_name                   | Value     |
  +---------------------------------+-----------+
  | binlog_gtid_simple_recovery     | OFF       |
  | enforce_gtid_consistency        | ON        |
  | gtid_deployment_step            | OFF       |
  | gtid_executed                   |           |
  | gtid_mode                       | ON        |
  | gtid_next                       | AUTOMATIC |
  | gtid_owned                      |           |
  | gtid_purged                     |           |
  | simplified_binlog_gtid_recovery | OFF       |
  +---------------------------------+-----------+
  9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
  
  mysql> CREATE TABLE test AS SELECT 1;
  ERROR 1786 (HY000): CREATE TABLE ... SELECT is forbidden 
  when @@GLOBAL.ENFORCE_GTID_CONSISTENCY = 1.
  
  mysql> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE test AS SELECT 1;
  Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec)
  Records: 1  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

So perhaps it is still 'not supported', as in our experience it does indeed cause some issues, probably avoidable if you are willing to do dirty reads (READ COMMITTED).

I wonder if REPEATABLE READ is a good default anyway.

By destroyed I mean the data directory is wiped as a first step towards a full state transfer.

By the time we restored stable shell access to the nodes, after a lot of intermittent networking, all 3 nodes had indeed wiped themselves. The cluster was no more.

There may have been of course also something to do with SeveralNines CC that we were trialling at the time. Perhaps it was trying to do something hasty as you put it.

In any case, a lot of moving parts to understand fully.