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> The resistance to change is stunning

If you ask a bunch of people who are analytically trained to ignore all the evidence in front of them you should expect this reaction. Especially if you tell them, to paraphrase, all they need to do is change their culture and all processes and everything will be rosy.

Pointing to books written by quality consultants isn't going to help your case much either I'm afraid.

Which is a shame. If you've ever been in an organisation that has this deep-seated view of quality it is quite an eye-opener. Of those that I am familiar with, only GE really were able to take it beyond manufacturing and definitely the only one where I saw it applied to software. It felt a little "religious cult"y at first but was pretty impressive nonetheless.

Your focus on Edwards Deming is a little unfortunate too, as I would expect that most people with an engineering bent will look at his work on SPC and, rightly, consider it inapplicable to software. It requires a high level of repetition to be valuable and software development doesn't have that.

His work on organisations could be applicable but it would require most companies to fundamentally change the way they approach almost everything. On the basis that it's not necessary to do this, I can only see it occurring if it became necessary. A special set of circumstances brought it to prevalence in manufacturing and by no means universally. If it happens to software I think it would need an equivalent set.
Can someone give me a rundown of how anyone expected anything different to come out of this? Polling at 0% isn't exactly fixed by a televised debate. Sanders is competing with Hillary on a fairly close scale and yet a lot of people still say he has no chance (though I definitely think he does at this point, but I'm not a US citizen so...), so what could possibly happen with Lessig?
I think the puzzle style in real-life rooms came from Japanese Flash games, starting with Crimson Room, but I may be biased since the real-life rooms I've played are run by Japanese/Asians.

(Are you aardwolf on eg24?)
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The people who purchase guns do not want to purchase these guns.

The people who want these guns to be sold are not the people who would buy them.
I live in Seattle, and traffic during rush hour here is a nightmare.

There are perhaps 5 key routes of getting in and out of downtown. Last summer, one of these was blocked by an accident [1], leading to a complete gridlock on the highway for five hours, and downtown traffic was taking roughly ~30 minutes to travel a block.

It would be relatively easy to cause five significant wrecks on each of these corridors. Rent a moving truck and crash it into several vehicles at high speed. Traffic would be so congested, it would take hours for emergency crews to get to the scene. If you did this during morning rush hour, I imagine you could shut down a lot of the city for the day.

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That was inevitable. It's a shame, too - he's not wrong, he's just underfunded and naive.
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It's a bunch of random MRA stuff dumped into a thread.

How is male circumcision linked to suicide?

How is workplace death linked to suicide?
> especially when upvoting also serves as an archival mechanism

Right - it's not even about _changing_ votes. Just an hour or so ago I accidentally upvoted the wrong submission (on mobile), so now that's stored in my "saved stories"; nothing I can do about it.
'do you really want to win that way?'

Oh, hell yes.
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They destroy doors (one's claws are scalpel-sharp and the scraping can be heard across the house) or carpet (I've had carpet destroyed by locking one out before and the crying is not quiet either) trying to get to their parents (the behavioral cues show that I'm a parent to them) due to some serious separation anxiety it seems, and they make frequent trips to the litter box or water bowl (male cats are known to get kidney disease oftentimes which results in excessive drinking and urination).
This is a really good one, but I think Neutral is pretty much the champion. http://neutralxe.net/esc/index.html
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I have been living under a rock (or a contract) for months and hardly look at 'who's hiring'.

Now I take a peek and there is a plethora of real actual non startup recruiters wanting to fill their boots.

I'm not complaining, just amazed. I do keep forgetting that HN has some serious leverage, and since I have never tried to raise money or live in SF the impact of HN's halo is pretty minor in my life. Seeing it in a way I am attuned to measure was a surprise. There is a lot of people who are desperate to find recruiters and not spamming but following the rules of the road - that's expensive in recruiter terms and they are swarming around in a well stocked pond.
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That's clear as mud.

On the more interesting side, I had no idea about the Chromebit. So now to find out how to get one since the page linked in the article is a "sign up to stay in loop". But after some more digging seems like it is already out, or maybe just previewed earlier this year to some bloggers?
Good cause but wrong candidate. Also hard to ask people to vote for you when you say you will quit after getting elected.
> But times are changing, says Conway. He believes a new generation of tech-savvy people, especially young parents, will embrace the hi-tech smart guns eventually, even overcoming the politics currently holding them back. "You cannot stop innovation. And this is an area where innovation is taking over...for technology and innovation, we have to ignore politics," he tells Stahl.

This seems like an awfully hand-wavy plan for taking on the most powerful special interest lobby in American politics, which happens to hate "smart guns" like poison.
Honestly, his plan never made sense.

Even if he somehow won the election, he still would not have the power to change congress (or the Citizen's United ruling) one bit.
This has gone beyond PR disaster theater and become an outlier. I've temporarily banned Michael's account until it is resolved.

Commenters here should be considering scenarios in which glee would not be a humane response to all this.
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Everyone gets mad at me when I say propaganda. But just take a step back for one moment to consider the preposterousness of this wealth inequality meme.

A San Franciscan has a cost of living index that is ten times higher than a resident of Flint Michigan for the same standard of living. Read that statement twice, then realize that the San Franciscan _must_ pay more than twice as much in taxes as a percentage of income just to afford the _same_ standard of living. The hypothetical San Franciscan working an identical job as the Michiganite will not be able to afford the same standard of living. In what world is this "equality"? This is the problem with drawing arbitrary numbers out of thin air and labeling one number "rich" and one number "poor".

Granted, all things diminish on a relative scale in the extremes. A billionaire is rich in San Franciso or Flint Michigan. But how about a millionaire? Who gets to decide to draw the line between them, the citizens of Flint or the citizens of San Francisco! If you just said popular vote you fail. The problem is again with scale, you can't have millions of people voting on the fate of a minority.

This is why a centralized Federal government will never be equitable or fair. The Federal must necessarily be subordinate to the State, and the State subordinate to the municipality.
I do not think there is a sweet spot, or better to say you cannot stop in the sweet spot. Once you start redistribution, it never stops growing. Governments use social welfare as a bribe for votes. Every election new and larger benefits are introduced to overcome the overly generous competition. Taxes goes higher with different forms. Government hires more and more people. The more nationalization you make the more taxes you collect. Investment, profit and culture of entrepreneurship diminishes So you deviate from the hypothetical sweet spot quite fast. What comes sure next is economical depression.
Yeah, ours had pickable combination locks. The staffer had no idea now we were going into places out of order, and it did take some of the fun out of the game. Then again, rooms where you have to find a combination to open a box to find another combination aren't very fun.
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We actually haven't been spun off quite yet. It was approved by the owners a few months ago, but we are still currently part of MLB.
> Chrome OS could just be a stripped-down android, and the world would be fine.

Well they'd only be fine if it were equally reliable and consistent, which is not a sure bet.
It's happening, but I think it will take quite a few generations for it to become and independent trait of its own.
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Here's a preso:

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I can't say I've used Ceylon much but I think Kotlin's syntax is much nicer and it's much easier to approach than Scala.
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"no plan to phase out Chrome OS"

does not explicitly refute

"speculation that Chrome OS will be folded into Android"

Especially since the original story stated that google was going to "combine the operating systems":

http://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabets-google-to-fold-chrome-...

Google could easily market the combined OS as "Chrome OS" rather than Android. In fact that might be a good idea if they're going to make the experience/distribution model more Google-led like it is with Chrome OS.
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You can do this in practice by simply increasing the cost parameters. Actually requiring this would be a fantastic way of authoring a spec that nobody uses in practice. The point of a password hashing function is not to simply produce the hardest possible hashes to crack — it's to do so given the resources the defender has available to allocate.
The problem with network latency is that it is bound by the speed of light.
I'm not sure Lessig expected anything different to come out of this. Sometimes people run to draw attention to some ideas, rather than because they think they have a realistic chance.

In other words, Lessig didn't need to win in order to win. (Whether he actually won, in the second sense, is a different question...)
It's reality. The surgeon's monthly gross paychecks will exceed the entire gross annual income of the auto mechanic.

I actually crunched some numbers so you can see exactly what I mean. The surgeon's going to make about $26,000 per month after taxes in Texas (picked somewhat arbitrarily as that's where I live). They're going to pay about $3400/month in loans. And if they got an $800k mortgage, their mortgage payment is going to be something like $4800/month.

Net income: $17800 (i.e., almost 4x their mortgage payment).

Now for the mechanic. Net income: $2400/month. Let's say he gets a $100k home. His payment is about $540/month. So he's got $1860/month left over (i.e., about 3.4 times his mortgage payment).

He's actually less equipped to handle any sort of financial duress than the surgeon, all while living a much more constrained and frugal lifestyle and occupying a house with literally one tenth of the value. The mechanic's situation is actually vastly more brittle than the surgeon's, as on top of all of this the surgeon also has drastically better job security.

Now, sure, you can cook up an example where the surgeon is stretched too thin (e.g., $3-4M home instead of a $1M home, or a collection of exotic sports cars, etc.). However, the fact that the surgeon was even capable of making those unwise purchases in the first place means that they cannot be lumped into the same financial category as the mechanic.
As far as I understand, at least per Lessig's team:

Dems said in order to participate in debate, you must poll 1% in three polls IN the six weeks prior to the debate. Depending on what polls were counted, Lessig either qualified or were one poll away from doing so.

Dems then “clarified” rules as being 1% in three polls AT LEAST six weeks prior to the debate.

HuffPo op-ed from Lessig's campaign manager: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-jarding/the-democrats-ha...
Lessig never wanted to be president; he wanted a podium. But you can't say that. If he indicated he wasn't serious about being president in any way, they never would have let him on stage.

That being said, I think it's shameful he hasn't endorsed Sanders. Lessig acts like he's the only one working on it. Whether or not you like Sanders, he is the only viable candidate whose core issue is overturning Citizens United. I realize Sanders is less known for that and more known for democratic socialism, which is probably Lessig's hesitation. However, it always bothered me how little Lessig acknowledged the only candidate on either side with any chance of initiating campaign finance reform. If he really cared about campaign finance reform, he'd be out stumping for Sanders rather than this "running for president" publicity stunt.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3icikb/we_are_larry_l...

His Reddit answer boils down to "Bernie's plan won't work but I won't say why. My plan will work but I won't say way."
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That's true of Sanders, too.
> Another basic argument Sanetti makes is that Americans like guns the way they were. "Guns of the Old West, they like them the way Davy Crockett used them...years ago," he says.

I'd be fine with capping weapons tech at 1830s flintlocks if it means giving up smart guns. I'm guessing Sanetti has something a little more modern.
Imagine if such a lease was enforceable (its not) - it would render all landlord tenant laws null and void!
I can see where you are coming from and I acknowledge that my comment was cleary meant to denigrate "the canon" of older Star Trek works.

You may be right, a new team of writers may be able to author a new show that adheres to these stories and still comes off as fresh and exciting.

To my mind, the Voyager series (which I did enjoy) was meant to do what you recommend: use exploration of new worlds as a way to introduce new storylines and, to some degree, to distance the show from the storylines of the past. While I enjoyed that show, I don't think it was entirely successful. Specifically, it didn't appear to generate enough interest to warrrant more films, which seem to be what keeps this series alive.

The last series, Enterprise, seemed to be trying to accomplish the same goal by going back into the past, before many of these storylines took place. To my mind, it was wholly unsuccessful. I watched every episode and felt unsatisfied after the majority of them.

In my opinion, the failure of the last two series to generate enough interest for more films was a big reason why the "reboot" idea is more attractive.
This is the third game that the author has dissected. The previous two are also very nice :)

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http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/03/10/deus-ex-human...
This is a great breakdown even for a novice who doesn't know much about how rendering engines typically function.

It gives me a new appreciation for games, the amount of work and creativity that goes into the final experience for the player.
Probably the same reason it's pretty easy to carry out an attack that causes mass casualties but we almost never see such things in the western world: because the existential threat is vastly overstated, and there's almost nobody who wants to actually do such things.
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Still memory requirements had nothing to do with ignoring safety, given what was already possible with Algol in 1961.
Or just taken out of context. Since both Android and Chrome OS run on Linux, a small userland, and a display server, maybe there is some effort within Google to bring these two more together to reduce maintenance cost.

Disclaimer: I don't know how much the code bases differ now.
By participating in the debate, presumably Lessig could have at least gotten his issue out there. As others pointed out months ago in reference to Sanders[1], a "win" wouldn't necessarily be getting the nomination, but in getting the nominee to endorse positions that they wouldn't have otherwise.

[1] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-president...
Look at the Boston Marathon bombings. 2 people armed with basic weapons and simple explosives pretty much ground Boston to a halt for several days.

I can think of a number of fairly simple mechanisms to shut down a city. I think the reason we don't see such attacks is that they are not sexy. Crashing planes into buildings or huge coordinated attacks on security forces are effective recruitment tools. Basic attacks on infrastructure or other soft targets, while incredibly effective, aren't very interesting.
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So a million cores still takes years. What would you consider infeasible, may I ask?

Also, you're wrong about bruteforcing the domain implying you can decrypt if not for ssl. If you bruteforce (for millions or billions), you won't get the same key. You'll get a key that shares the first 80 bits of its hash with the other key used. So you can use it to mitm or impersonate the site, but you can't use it passively to decrypt connections to the onion.
He could have at least gotten the chance to make it to the debate stage, spread knowledge of his issue and proposals, and gotten it absorbed by the other, more viable candidates.
Exactly. I would add: the only people who benefit are smart gun manufacturers and those who can sell the service of "unlocking" such weapons.
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Conway is certainly welcome to try to sell these guns, but given their unpopularity it's unclear what the market is -- unless he's relying on the government to require them by law. In which case the statement "for technology and innovation, we have to ignore politics," is not an accurate description of what he's doing.
The whole explicit point of capitalism is to rely on the selfish actions of others to generate greater wealth for all. Or put another way, to never rely on selfless action.
Has anyone looked at how these studies correlate with the Big Five personality traits? It seems to me that intelligent people are more conscientious but that could just be my bias.
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I get what you're saying but, is that really the case? Did he "win"? Most people around the debate didn't even know there were more than 2-3 candidates; if you tell them about Lessig they'll ask you if that's a country or a city.