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I put some money on Trump at 11:1 so I'm estimating the probability at higher than that. Scott Adams has a mildly entertaining series of blog posts on why he thinks he'll win. Roughly that he's good at persuasion techniques. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/128552964506/the-outsider-expla...

One reason I think he may do it is that he's spoken out against the carried interest exemption for hedge funds. It seems obviously fair that hedge fundies should pay as much or more as doctors and nurses and the like but the mainstream politicians don't touch it because they want the campaign contributions and are scared of them funding their opponents instead. I'm hypothesising that the voters are fed up with their representatives being bought by wealthy special interests.
Does anyone know if its full genome has been sequenced?
Why is Bernie Sanders unelectable, as opposed to all of the Republican candidates? Just because that's the story the media tells?
Why is making voting mandatory* a less desirable outcome?

*Or as I prefer to say, "equal cost voting choice", ie. that it takes just as much time and effort to not vote (go to polling place, accept ballot and void it) as it does to vote.
You should be convincing people to care, not to avoid voting.

Besides, voting isn't supposed to be the place where you disenfranchise yourself. People who really care should run for office. ("Representative government" and all that.)
But they neglected to mention there are a record 93 million working age adults in the US not working.
That's 29% of of the population. Cheerleading the race to the bottom.
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It's all done in GNU Octave, which is mostly compatible with MATLAB.
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> First, there's the "me too" effect. If colleges pay football players, other athletes will want to be paid. They'll ask, "What makes football special?" and they'll have a point.

What makes it special is that it's what more people will pay to see. There's more demand for it and so athletes should be paid more to play it. I would imagine college basketball players will also rightfully demand large compensation to play.

> Then we'll run into some unhappy truths regarding sports. For example: If colleges base compensation on revenue, the wage gap between male and female athletes will be massive

This gulf is already massive in professional sports, but I never hear anyone complaining about it. It's fairly well understood that men's college basketball is more popular than women's college basketball for example (at least by any metric that I can think of), and salaries will probably reflect that.

> Then there's the problem of mixing sports and education. If these athletes are paid, do they still have to attend classes? Do they have to get good grades? Are they given scholarships in addition to monetary compensation?

No, players who are paid will be employees of the university and will receive a salary and benefits. They will not be students. Perhaps there could be a mechanism in place to allow for some players to receive a scholarship in lieu of payment if they choose to (with the caveat being that they need to be admitted to the University under the same criteria as other non-athlete students), but in reality most of these players in top D1 programs are there to play football or basketball, not to go to class.

> Can athletes switch colleges if another school will pay them more?

Why not?

> It seems to me that most of these problems would be solved by creating a minor league separate from college. If people are so attached to college names, then the colleges can sell naming rights.

I agree, and that's basically what this will be. These sports teams will be discrete entities affiliated with the University, but their players will not be students.
I doubt it borrowed from Y! Pipes in particular. There is a category of server software called the "integration engine" that has been around for a while. The purpose of it is to integrate multiple third party vendor systems, so you aren't locked in to one vendor for everything. You see it a lot in industries that use software but aren't about software like health care or finance.
I realise this is probably the way the web is going, but I personally really struggle with this sort of presentation. The content is great, it looks lovely, the actual infographics are very clear, and unlike lots of sites, it actually scrolls very, very smoothly.

But it makes it _so_ hard to bookmark something in your mind, or to skip back to something, or to view an infographic in the context of the next or previous paragraph, or any number of things that have been easy to do with text and images for thousands of years. Trying to change the text size in the hope that you can just view more text breaks everything.

I find it really affects my overall comprehension of a piece, and the speed with which I can get through it. Given the universally positive comments elsewhere, I assume my brain is just wired for the dark ages.
You didn't read the article. His point is that the purpose of a library is knowledge-sharing (and to your point, the expense of a library is for the greater good of knowledge-sharing). Since the purpose of file-sharing is knowledge-sharing, then they are similar in nature.
I don't think they'll produce their own ISA. They have an architectural license from ARM, so why bother.

But, Intel doesn't exactly produce chips that are helpful to Apple. Since Apple switch, Intel has gotten rid of third-party chipsets. This removed a lot of customization options and basically made life easier for Intel since they produce a fixed set of chips and you have to take them. Also, Intel's market differentiation of chip features probably doesn't help.

Apple wants to provide a custom experience, and Apple building their own PC-class ARM chips will allow that.

[edit: also Intel's paying people to produce Macbook Air clones probably didn't help]
I disagree. I think it's pretty clear that Google fiber is an attempt to create demand for faster residential connections and provide a model for ISPs to do it.

If Google wanted to come at Comcast, they'd be gearing up a lot faster than they are. At this point Google Fiber is mostly FttPR-Fiber to the Press Release. And also, I don't think any of the first several Google Fiber locations were even in Comcast territory. So far AT&T and TWC have been their competitors.

They want to create demand because Google loves remote computing and loves internet consumption.

Google is providing a model for the ISPs by forcing local communities to deregulate their ISP franchising system. Before Google Fiber, each town or state would take a pound of flesh from the new company trying to lay down a network. Google made the cities bend over backwards.
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Four extended disillusionment arguments.

Your lack of representation argument can be extended to "captured" demographics. Lets say 99% of teachers vote for party X, which is actually pretty accurate. Then party X has no need whatsoever to represent the needs of teachers because they're guaranteed all the votes no matter what they do in office. Likewise no teachers vote for party Y by the definition of being a captured demographic. That means party Y has no need to represent teachers because there is no reward. Or rephrased, a captured demographic will not be represented because one party has no negative consequences, and the other has no positive consequences.

Its not so much an effect of voting as it is primary nomination effect. Also voting isn't necessarily the most important support, the PACs providing election funding are the most important form of support.

Many people are members of captive demographics, meaning they are un-represented. Teachers, blacks, anti-abortion, feminists, more or less every orientation other than straight... When you cross off all of them, there's not much actual representing going on, for something calling itself a representative government.

One reason I often don't vote is the only minimal impact I can make due to extreme gerrymandering is to protest the system. Here's one non-vote proclaiming I'm not represented. I think the stats showing 4/5 of the population feel UN-represented are if anything an understatement of the facts. Probably less than 5% of the population are represented at this time, the rest of the voters are just ill informed.

Another reason not to vote that you missed, voting is kind of an opiate of the masses to let them think they can provide input, which of course they cannot. Once you understand that, its pointless. Participating in voting is like people looking for religious enlightenment in opiates, you can delude yourself but it doesn't really accomplish anything. Whats in it for me to knowingly delude myself?

The final reason not to vote is rebellion. Blind irrational faith in the election system is as close to an established state secular religion we have. Not voting is as rebellious as being the only guy without tattoos or the only guy without body piercings. Not voting is religious apostasy. I'm about as likely to start voting as I am to throw stones at known adulterers or own a Canadian as a biblical slave.

There are other reasons like pragmatically the results of voting are bad governments, but thats a long debate.
>And if a company with as much experience and expertise as Intel misses their ship dates, what on earth makes Apple think they can do better?

A decade of shipping millions of products that depend on very complicated supply chains on time and to great profit?
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/11/13/intel...

> In June, Bryant said Intel had designed 15 custom CPUs in 2013 for different customers, including Facebook and eBay. More than double that amount was in the pipeline for 2014, she said.

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/13/intel-rolls-out-custom-chip-th...

> Intel announced an exclusive Haswell processor designed specifically for Amazon Thursday during AWS re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas. Amazon said the new processors are the backbone of its new EC2 instances in Amazon Web Services.

> Intel’s senior vice president and general manager Diane Bryant took to the stage during Amazon vice president and CTO Werner Vogels’s keynote to drop the news. Bryant didn’t share a lot of details, but she said that both Intel and Amazon engineers collaborated on the chip to make sure its built to handle Amazon’s vast cloud infrastructure.
Did we read the same article? Vogl's argument seemed to rest on :

- These houses are residential properties.

- People are using them as commercial properties (offices, under the guise of 'live/work spaces')

- No one is stopping it, Zoning is not enforced there (because 'it's a poor neighborhood'), but zoning is enforced in wealthier areas (Johnson County).

The rest of the stuff you mention is true too. But I don't think it's the "entirety of her case" -- it's support for the case. "They commute to work instead of living in the office", for instance, is strong evidence that the property is commercial, not residential in nature.

This seems like a cut-and-dry zoning violation, that's being ignored because the area is "poor". I don't think she's being destructive, she's just asking for fair and equal treatment.
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no audio without video support?
I think part of it is that they can charge content owners/distributors (cable networks) more money with higher subscriber numbers. It's why I can pay $69/mo for 100/10 internet service from Comcast but for $99/mo I get 80 channels of cable plus HBO on top of internet service. If I were to buy only cable TV, that same package would not cost just $40/mo but they'd rather have me boosting their cable sub numbers than just paying them for a data pipe so they heavily discount the price.
Filter this response based on my being a pen tester, not a Unix/Linux admin - I'm much better at finding vulnerabilities and shortcomings than I am at coming up with a really good solution to them :). That's also why I can't give you a worthwhile answer about an auditing setup - I could tell you which ones I'm not super fond of, but I've never run the auditing side of things on Unix/Linux systems.

The challenge I've run into with the group permission is that because there's only the owning group for the file/directory, there are basically two options:

1 - Leave the content owned by the primary group of the service account which also owns the file, and make support staff members of that group. This has the side effect of giving those support personnel access to just about everything else that group can get to, even if they don't need it.

2 - Create a new group that's just for delegating permissions for whatever content needs to be secured, and add both the service account and the users. This is analogous to using the new group as a quasi-ACL, IMO. It works, but quickly leads to group sprawl, and most of the Unix/Linux admins I've worked with are loathe to do it for this reason.

A secondary challenge with #2 is that larger organizations will usually have group membership controlled by some sort of administrative team. So getting the group membership changed is a much bigger headache than the filesystem object owner modifying the ACL on their own content.
Most of my jobs came through networking-- and it's yielded some incredible opportunities.

Not as cheesy as it sounds. You'd be surprised at the friends & contacts you can build up by regularly attending local meet-ups, workshops, civic & social organizations. I'm not a social butterfly by nature. But I do enjoy good conversations with smart people.

First step, get out of your own bubble.
Nice concept. Everyone would want to know about companies, but wiki is just too much to read. Your clean UI UI makes it very easier to read company story, team etc. I liked the icons on the map (y). Good stuff guys
I think there is a cost. Maybe in an anarchic society, they would pay for a security company, but they can't afford to pay for both public security (taxes for the police) and private security. Since they are forced to pay for the police anyway and can't afford both, it makes sense to use their services even if they believe they are inferior.

Or perhaps they are trained in the use of deadly firearms and believe they can protect themselves from crime using that but they live in a country that prohibits firearm use.

The point is, sometimes we can't act as if we already live in utopia. To reach utopia we have to get there from a place that exists in reality, not from a fantasy ideal world.
Printers also use DRM resulting in ridiculous ink costs or people that treat printers as disposable items. Even some water filtration systems have started to use DRM.
const/let in particular does not prevent optimization. You just need to use "use strict" in order to use them.
It isn't broken on touchpad for me.

That said, if I'm being honest, it's fairly unpleasant to use on a desktop with a mouse. It scrolls you to the top after it loads (which is after the rest of the page), and behaves differently than the computer normally does...

I would recommend doing away with it.
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I agree they would be pretty happy to have apartments. But even they wouldn't be happy to be kicked out of their current place now so that in two years some entirely different people could have 1-bedroom apartments on the land where they once lived. And that's not even considering the current owners or all the neighbors. Your friends are likely to be new arrivals, and so have little connection to the people around them. But for many people living out there, those are their childhood homes, and their neighbors are important parts of their lives.

Personally, I also think a lot of land west of Twin Peaks is underutilized. But I think it's important for people not to be glib about the fact that a lot of the people living there think it's just fine, and that even for those who want something different we're talking about incredibly disruptive and expensive change.
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Yup and their human rights and pollution records are excellent, too :) 


People forget that civic leadership is a requirement for running a country. Just like managers have to "herd cats," politicians have to herd a more diverse group of roles. I'm not trying to garnish sympathy for politicians, I just want to point out that their requirements are not easily translated from any one field, such as real estate, engineering, business leadership, chemistry, etc.

Also, their decisions are constantly compromises. Most people cringe when they have to compromise b/t two things such as cost and quality. Politicians typically compromise b/t about ten things like: legacy, human rights, quality of life, cost, reputation, longevity, state of relationships at local, county, state, region, national and international level, etc, etc. They even have to compromise against themselves in order to stay in power. It would make me completely ill to have nearly all of my decisions play out with a near 10% net efficiency :)
And my fees are $14k per annum. My debt will be about $70k upon graduation (living expenses etc.).

For three years of existence, I think that's pretty reasonable. I finished my first year with $1500 still in the bank and I lived in expensive accommodation.

Huddersfield is building a new $40m law school this year. It recently built a $20m business school and is debt free.

But my real point was that one-to-one tutoring is not the same as attending classes.
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Yahoo put up a fight but backed down when threatened with an infinitely large fine. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o... They also released 1,500 pages of secret-court filings. http://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/97238899258/shedding-ligh...
I agree, making information as widely available and accessible as possible can only be a net positive for a society in the long run. It would be interesting if business models shifted more towards crowdfunding.
I generally don't gamble, that's why I didn't bet any money on this race, or any other. In fact, I don't even know where/how one would place such a bet.

You are right, talk is cheap and I am just shooting my mouth here, like everyone here.
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Is this Apache's equivalent of Microsoft's BizTalk?
Smooth scrolling is already implemented correctly in the browser. Your implementation is just a hack that hijacks the normal behaviour a user is accustomed to and just gives back a version that just feels wrong to interact with, even without performance issues.
Cool. I originally saw this on PH http://enboard.co/frontend/ .. was it called 'Beaqn.in' before?
Just remove it entirely already, it's nearly unusable on my desktop now, and it was bad before.
How are they great for fixing yourself? They're specifically engineered to be completely unserviceable by a regular consumer.

Yes you can watch a Youtube video and figure out how to take them apart, Apple's devices have to be serviced by someone after all, but a ton of money, thought, time, and effort go into designing methods and hardware for obscuring the typical consumer's ability to dig into an Apple devices.

I've taken my Mac Mini apart multiple times, an impossible task without buying an iFixIt kit first. The reason I took the computer apart was to stuff a second hard drive into the machine. I had to remove every single component of the machine in order to access the hard drive. It was a huge pain in the ass just to add a second hard drive. Good luck doing that to a Macbook.

My Thinkpad features a single screw that lets me access the hard drive caddy. The product doesn't suffer at all from providing this feature and it gives me the ability to upgrade my machine as I see fit.
Any useful comparison of libraries to file sharing ends at believing both are just places where Stuff Is and you can go and get it for free. It's to our collective benefit that libraries are much more than that.
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I find the psychology of voting fascinating. Most people are unwilling to vote for a third-party/longshot candidate, as their vote would be "wasted", despite the fact that their single vote is guaranteed not to matter. I think the driving motivation for most is the desire to be on the winning team, or if you're in the wrong county/state, to be able to say you fought the good fight for your side. In other words, despite the secret ballot, people vote more for reasons of in-group signaling than attempting to influence policy.

As you say, the 50ish percent we do get is impressive. If we really care about turnout (and disincentivizing some of the shadier techniques campaigns use to manipulate turnout), we should turn Voting Day into a national holiday and a mandatory duty (perhaps with an opt-out "I choose to abstain" for true protest votes, but the point is that you still have to show up or mail your ballot, period.)
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Part of the controversy is the concern that classified information may not have been stored securely, but another concern is that Clinton may have deleted emails which legally must be preserved (the federal records act).

Compare with the 2013 IRS controversy, which could not be properly investigated because Lois Lerner's hard drive had been erased.
>People have voted with their wallets

Uber is clearly a better service than your average taxi experience. But we also don't know the true price, since most drivers are skirting insurance requirements and the like.

It is difficult for me to imagine how a service like taxis can integrate a middle man like Uber, which everyone assumes will be massively profitable, compensate the drivers fairly and be cheaper than the current system. The math doesn't add up.
This is an entirely misleading garbage statistic.

This statistic only relates to the rather small Kansas City Missouri public school district which only contains an estimated 17,500 students.

The author is misleading readers to believe that this statistic relates to all the schools in a relatively large US City named "Kansas City."

Per wikipedia:

In fact, there are portions of Kansas City, Missouri, where children attend 14 other "suburban" districts. In other words, the Kansas City District comprises the oldest parts of the city and is not contiguous with the boundaries of the city of Kansas City, Missouri.

So if we look up the total demographic of students that live in that same small geographic footprint I'd wager to say its not much higher than 9% white. (although that information is proving much more difficult to find)

As bachmeier comments - there is much more to the story.
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Green states received a larger proportion of Electoral votes compared to their actual turnout. Red states received less.

Wish I could read these maps, but I'm red-green color blind (like 8% of men). Please consider using different colors or some additional indicator to show this information.