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DON'T PRESS THAT BUTTON.

The egress and early deletion fees on those "cheaper options" killed a company that I had to step in and save.

I found it interesting that, in some cultures, killing someone was not against the law of the land.

My understanding is that if you killed someone in ancient Rome, for instance, it was the duty of those nearest the dispute to either avenge the cowardly deed or acknowledge that the dead person had it coming.

The world is a brutal place sometimes.

When Fusion is on the front page, I like to take the opportunity to mention the Fusion reactor I have designed.

The device will cycle between a hot dense implosion (similar to NIF) and a cold, rotating cloud, at a very high frequency in a large Penning trap.

I have more information at my website, http://www.DDproFusion.com

If things go well, I should begin building the first prototype in a few months. I just acquired the main magnet, an old permanent magnet MRI machine, that will provide the field for the giant Penning trap.

I have contemplated a style of 3d printing a tall building using many small robots similar to kiva robots. Robots would be free to move on a large flat concrete building site. As the building is built, the robots would move around under it adding concrete or other building materials at various points and pushing upward. Multiple robots would be able to work simultaneously and build in parallel on a very large structure without a bottleneck like a single gantry moving around.

I've got something even faster for small buildings, but this would still be good for very large ones.

I wonder how much worthless stuff we'll have in the future because a cosmic ray happened to destroy the only copy of a vital key somewhere.

I'm just wondering how this type of thing effects businesses that have an external presence, but also have an app just to make things nicer for apple users...

Does Netflix have to pay %30 of their subscription fee if someone downloads the netflix app? I highly doubt that.

I'm genuinely curious because I know nothing about the apple ecosystem. I don't own any apple devices, yet I inherited an app that was removed from the app store. A bunch of my customers want it back but I haven't had much success yet.

I recently built the Murfie music service app for SONOS.

You can go to a web page served by any SONOS device and tell it a url to treat as a music service. Code up a SOAP service there and you'll be able to do anything that any other music service does.

I'd never done anything with SOAP before, so there was a bit of a learning curve, but once I got over that hurdle most of the other coding was fairly easy. Their developer portal explains basically all of the things you can do.

Getting the service approved was the hardest part.

You've reached your limit of free...

Awesome :(

I understand that Nicola Tesla was a big fan of finding resonances and singularities. Fun stuff happens when you find them.

It's an attack I've contemplated. If you started sending a whole bunch of plain text Tiananmen Square remembrance stuff you'd very quickly have China cracking down on whatever it was.

Exactly! Write the best, simplest, acceptable working code you can, and then put a comment in there that if someone has an issue with it, they are welcome to improve it...

if (.1 + .1 != .2): reason = "we can't have nice things."

Everything can be going fine for a long time, and then cloud costs kill your business.

This happened to Murfie a couple of years ago, and that's why I had to step in to try to fix things. I'm still trying, and there are still challenges, but I won't allow landlords and cloud costs to disrupt things again.

Haha, made great use of the NEM Blockchain.

Sent "f*_this_s*coin_to_the_ground" to everyone that had more than about $10 worth of NEM.

It was highly satisfying to use their own network to message people about the dishonesty of the developers after they tried to censor me on every other platform.

So, does someone have a docker image that I can throw at a vps somewhere that will take over the job of email for my domains, and will also push notifications to my android phone?

Edit: I also need it to do OAuth :)

Great insight here. I wonder how changing culture could effect reasoning ability in the future. Perhaps there are critical aspects that might be important to protect or eliminate in order to avoid a return to feral nature.

Could this be one of the great filters that we, as a species, still need to pass?

When I drink, I tend to see it as a type of deep ancestor worship.

Some ancient parts of the brain, such as those that control breathing, are resistant to disruption because when they cease to function, you die. Others, like sex drive or hunger, are more resistant because they needed to function in all of your ancestors or you wouldn't be here. Thus these ancient structures must be robust, and that robustness has evolved over millions of years.

Alcohol selectively disrupts the more recent and and less robust parts of my brain. It brings instincts won at great cost to my ancestors over generations, forward to help guide my actions.

Thanks, this has been happening to me as well.

Stopping when you've finished the small task you set is a tough one for me. If I feel like I'm getting things done I want to keep going. This means I work until I can't make any more progress and give up.

If I stop after the task is done, I'll be finishing on a success rather than a failure.

I'd be controlling the tracker, and only allow peers for each piece of media if that client actually owned the item.

Schrodinger's scam... Keeping people guessing makes the pumps and dumps bigger.

Good time to grab all the git repos I guess... I've been planning to fork this to create a cheap, secure distribution system for users who own media through my service ever since it came out.

The idea was that I'd control the list of peers that it could connect to, and all the peers would be verified, authorized, owners of the media being shared.

The whole goal is to create a wide spread distribution system without having to pay a cloud provider, and to make the service as cheap as possible for the users.

I was thinking about this when the lava firehose was going in Hawaii. I imagined a big metal shell that you could rotate under it to make a bunch of giant house sized domes really fast.

I hadn't really thought about the possibility of malicious contents being written to a clipboard after the fact. There goes another item on the huge pile of things that might seem ok on the surface, but can completely F you.

Interesting document with some attitude. Chapter 21 seems applicable to much more than just flying. It has some good advice for decision making in general.

Wait til the city finds out he's been building a shed without a permit, permission from the neighbors, an architect to oversee the project, etc...

I wish I could still feel good about crypto.

Perhaps you should look at why people become anti-crypto. Most of us have had bad experiences with it and have decided that the problems outweigh the benefits.

I still think it's an interesting experiment, but I won't invest another cent in it.

This matches perfectly with my current best theory of intelligence. When an idea or situation arises, communication between different ?stakeholders? allows a more complete understanding of the situation to form.

This is the pattern I see everywhere, from organizations and teams, Generational/Adversarial networks, and even my own internal thought processes. Effective communication by entities with different perspectives amplify reality, and dampen unfounded speculation, while exploring a broad solution space.

Thank you. I do agree that peer review must be done, but it's almost too simple.

None of the parts of my proposed prototype are very interesting or controversial. I'm not using extreme magnetic fields, or exotic materials or new physics. Nothing about the device requires more than highschool physics and geometry to understand.

With a new arrangement, this novel solution to contain and collide ions falls out.

It's a gedanken that just needs to be built because the basic idea is less involved than some homework I've had.

Here's the main idea in the style of a highschool homework assignment:

Draw a point on a piece of paper. How many unique circles you can draw that pass through that point?

Each of those circles represents the cyclotron trajectory of a single deuterium ion in my device.

There's basically nothing to write about until an experiment is built.

I need some "marketing neutrons" as Michel Laberge of General Fusion put it (https://youtu.be/2m9kC1yRnLQ?t=639).

What I saw seemed to be referencing the dollar values in the accounts, not the BTC directly. Everything I saw was in a foreign language, so I could be totally wrong.

People who aren't aware of the distinction, might be confused why they don't have as many dollars as they used to.

Maybe I will if that's what it takes.

Our society has serious problems when it allows a single person to be a bottleneck on something like this.

A better society might allocate some existing resources to evaluate new ideas in parallel in case these ideas are actually, truly valuable.