PorterDuff

It's probably best to view government as simply the largest corporation, and a monopoly at that.

I'm sitting at the ER right now wondering what sort of ads I'll get. Truth is you can't count on government to restrict itself so you have to buy your own privacy.

I take it that scarcely anyone here has written software for video switchers, routers, DVEs, linear editors, audio mixers, glue products, master control systems, character generators, etc. etc. Missing a RT schedule rarely results in death, but you'd think so given the attitude from the customer. That's a silly definition for it.

There's a whole world out there of hard real time, the world is not simply made up of streaming video and cell phones.

The cool thing on HN is you can get down voted for simply making that observation. It's a sign of the times I'm afraid.

""soft" real-time (e.g. games, or audio/video) "

Hah. Who sez that audio and video products have 'soft' real time? Go on now.

"I'm more curious about the state of that yurt in 5, 10, 15 years."

It's a good question and I've always wanted to see postmortems on alternative building methods generally. I suppose that we could always take on the Japanese philosophy of building homes anew every few decades.

'Round these parts, I'm afraid that a yurt would be crushed by the first real snowfall, but the build isn't in these parts so no harm, no foul.

Personally, I'd think twice about building over an old blackberry patch. There's a reason that the plants like that place and the word 'swamp' comes to mind. It's already hard enough to deal with moisture in a dwelling as it is.

In any case, it sure looks cool and I like the builder's spirit.

I'm always in favor of homebuilt OS projects, I've worked on several in-house OSs and they seem to have good ideas salted around them.

If it were me, I'd write an open source RTOS (yet another one) and cast around for clever notions to stick in the thing, for the mental exercise if nothing else. Perhaps carve out a niche in quality/safety and not so much in performance.

So who decides what the DJIA and S&P 500 stocks actually are? A random number generator?

lol. Good point. I would like to see everyone's list on what a 'skill' really means. It would make a good basis for a discussion.

a quick edit: It's a question that really began gnawing at my mind over the last few minutes. What is a skill?

To tell you the (highly likely) truth, I could probably take on the jobs the authors hold and do a perfectly acceptable professional job given a desk, a library, a phone, a web browser, and a five minute head start. Are they 'skilled'?

Perhaps the general hope is that we can replace all wealth due to manufacturing, resource extraction, food production, with that produced via internet advertising.

Both?

My guess is that the dividing line between 'Red' and 'Blue' is being renegotiated as we speak. The post-WWI political arguments, largely about economics, are being replaced by something new. Trump obviously has a good nose for these matters.

At least in the case of California, the web abounds with statistics showing net domestic outflow. My guess is that any population increase in CA is due to foreign nationals.

" indexing outperforms actively managed funds"

Most index funds are actively managed.

"huge marketing campaign advertising a car that doesn't exist"

Perhaps they are trying to gauge the likely success of the car before some final production decisions are made.

You do have to wonder how Tesla is going to survive the first surge of practical mass-market electric cars. They definitely are riding some sort of tiger while trying to build out marketshare, technology, infrastructure.

My money is on Toyota but would be thrilled to be wrong.

Trump's account is a beautiful example of how useless Twitter is.

Typically it goes...

Trump: CONGRATULATIONS ON FIREFIGHTERS FOR MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS FOR FIREFIGHTERS!

Followed by 1k responses of YAY TRUMP! and 50k responses of people vomiting up any old thing that's just as insulting as they can cook up. Why on Earth do people waste their time on this sort of thing? It has evolved from keyboard warriorhood to some sort of internet Tourette's.

/end old man rant.