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OK, but we shouldn't forget that the real strength of democracy is not that we decide who governs us.

The real strength is that we can remove the people in power without violence.

If we examine this in the context of human history is a remarkable achievement.
CM Storm QuickFire TK[1]

I like that it is a very solid build, with a satisfying key press, backlit, and that it has a reduced width (so the mouse is not too far to the right), but at the same time has all the regular keys in the regular places (in the main keyboard section).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/CM-Storm-QuickFire-TK-Mechanical/dp/B0...
It is amazing to see how low open/click rates can be for such large email newsletter lists.

>"We had trouble even reaching 3k people out of those 200K subscribers."

My list isn't anywhere near 200K, but I've gone for trying to optimize the list for high open/click rates as opposed to just trying to get the subscriber count high.

Double opt-in is helpful in that you have to really want the newsletter and mean to sign up for it. It has also been a good exercise to remove people from the list who haven't engaged with it in the last 3-6 months.

Because the newsletter is just a list of links to content from the previous week, if subscribers aren't clicking through, then there is really no point in sending them the newsletter. Plus, I pay for sending the newsletter out, so wasting money sending it out to people who don't engage with it isn't something I want to do.
Sounds like a leaky abstraction. Easier to get started with maybe, but woe betide the legion of programmers who make assumptions based on the appearance of synchronous execution only to be left stranded when those assumptions don't hold.

Asynchronous execution isn't an unfortunate design choice to be papered over; better to make it as easy as possible to learn and work with.
When the event driven programming / promise hype started, I was like `Maybe $ exists thisConcept`
People voted for hope and change when they voted for Obama. They got more debt, more wars, more Guantanamo Bay, more electronic surveillance. Obama is more Bush than Bush can hope to be. The people had their say. They got the candidate they wanted. And the candidate broke every promise...
Apathy to a purposely broken, oppressive system is not "part of the problem." Parent knows their vote doesn't actually count for much - despite the Republican presidential shenanigans in the US, most politicians up for vote are already part of the machine that needs replacing.

I can't even begin to explain how frustrating it is to be blamed for "the problem" when I tell someone I don't plan to vote. In Philadelphia, it's "Democrat" vs "Democrat" - there hasn't been a serious Republican government in power in 50+ years - and while I tend to lean left, a lack of competition has left a trouble, corrupted government. In PA, we're presented with pre-vetted candidates to choose from. In national elections, if there were 1000 of me it wouldn't matter, our electoral votes go to the Democratic candidate and has since 1998.

Voting is a pointless waste of time for me. There isn't actually a candidate that thinks like I do, and even if there were, I hope they're in the pre-selected party. I don't find the least of evils to be anything but useless to any cause to have government be actually representative or "work for the people."
Yes, charging per repository is nothing short of predatory. It means that every scratch project and every prototype needs to be deleted - or paid for in perpetuity.

It's even worse for agencies and contractors, since for them changing projects often is a natural part of business.
> Well, the media are doing their work.

Maybe. My mom values security and social order above all else, much like most Americans. But she didn't get those values from the American media--she lived in Bangladesh until her late 30's.

> BTW why? "The only winning move is not to play"?

Because I'm quite happy with where the country is headed. Gay marriage is the law of the land, we've got Obamacare, we will probably have a woman President, and there is little real risk of overturning Roe. I think we are on the verge of real reform in the drug war. I'm not worried about a "V for Vendetta" future any more than I am worried about nuclear winter.
Just one oblique mention of climate change (in spite of its effect on precipitation and fire intensity). Also no mention of forestry management or agricultural depletion of acquifers. The editorial independence from News Corp. is going just as expected.
No one security solution is enough. While I also like Sucuri, it's Malware scanner tool missed a handful of infections on a recent clean up job. Microsoft Security (or whatever they're calling it now) actually found more (once I downloaded the site's files via FTP)

Moral of the story, don't rely on just a plugin, or a tutorial for your WP security.
> Is there a structure to mathematics which is independent of the human brain?

I would venture to say "no". I don't think humans will ever have no place in mathematics, because the problems we deem "important" are often relatively arbitrary. If a "post-human mathematician" starts spewing out thousands of pages of mathematics a second, all in a form only a computer can understand, no one will care. If a computer fells a tree in the woods, it doesn't make a sound.

I wouldn't discount the possibility, though, that a future "creative" computer manages to produce a proof indecipherable to humans of a theorem we care about, at which point I think there will be quite a perturbation in the mathematical community. If a computer proves the Riemann Hypothesis in such a way that no one can understand it, but it spits out a Coq document that everyone can load and verify, will people consider the problem solved?
"Levy says the folks at Coca-Cola thought about converting the vending machines to take a dime. But doubling the price was too much. They wanted something in between.

So they asked the U.S. Treasury to issue a 7.5-cent coin."
Yes but the fear is largely media induced and irrational. If it's rational to be afraid of terrorists, its rational to be afraid of doctors who kill more Americans by accident than terrorists have killed in North America and Europe combined since 9/11.
At least they fixed the invite interface so that you can search for someone by name or email address.

Previously you could only add a user to your org by knowing their GH username. I was always paranoid I was going to typo and release my code to some random user.
they do it because they think that we slaughter and torture an unthinkably large number of living beings in order to get a chicken bacon sandwich.

And this is a point of view that other people do not share, or that is not a problem for most people, and that often lead to the search for twisted, ilogical and even surrealist shorcuts to circunvent the problem.

... soy and lattices are living beings also (as the hundred of thousands of species of plants, fungi and insects that lived in the meadows that are now sterile soy plant highways and that we poisoned in order to get a tofu sandwich).
These are not at all requirements for a democracy. There is such a thing as an illiberal democracy, or "inverted totalitarianism" as it's also known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy
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Let's get very specific and logical. There's also the 'we' in the form of people who don't work in politics. I don't. Many others don't. 'We' all have functionally zero say in what happens politically unless we do something drastic like leave work and cause a commotion. There is a 'them' which is people who made a full-time career in politics or revolving-door in and out of it. That 'them' seem to think they can control how 'we' life our lives. Just because an outsider can become an insider by join a party and working hard to climb the ladder doesn't prevent them from being a special cadre. Just because there's complex forms of 'them' such as defense-sector, intelligence-sector, etc. doesn't mean I can't group all such political powers as 'them'. And though sometimes they do, they don't have to share a bloodline to be a 'them'. Their profession depends not on their own inventions (like ours does) but on controlling us. That makes them a them and us an us. It is that simple.

If you don't think these groups or patterns exist, I'd encourage you to meet some CIA agents. Or Washington defense contractors. Go get a job with them. Try joining them for a whole. You can practically smell the power-lust on them. The love of secrecy. The need to feel special. It's a profession where you don't have to make a profit or provide value for value. It's totally different at a glance. I haven't met many politicians outside of a handshake but I'd guess they're about the same.
Circumcision and transgender issues in one sentence? You like playing with fire, don't you :) .
> We actually have an even better example

Thing is that libertarianism, like communism, is an extreme ideology. A liberal economy is great and regulation is great, but they so far seem to work best when both are applied in moderation. So far, all attempts to significantly increase one or the other have failed. It is, of course, possible that they weren't taken far enough, and something happens at a point more extreme from the ones tried -- a change of trend -- but there it is reasonable to believe that this is not the case.

> analyzing historical macrotrends in of itself is useless because of a lack of policy-invariance

This applies to any ideology, especially the extreme ones. Like I said, it is in the clear interest of utopians to keep their dreams unrealized. What better way to do it than to disregard as invalid any form of approximation? This, too, is something we have seen over and over.

> You're echoing the old Methodenstreit debate all over again.

Historians are careful not to try to predict the future, but sometimes certain things can strike a familiar chord, especially when utopian ideologies are concerned.

But let me state my original point more clearly: Libertarianism has been tried to a similar extent as any extreme ideology ever has.

Whether you want to take that as "libertarianism, just like most other extreme ideologies, has never been tried" or as "libertarianism, like other extreme ideologies, has been approximated and failed" is up to you. Whether you find this satisfying or not as an objection to the ideology is up to, and it was not my intention to claim that we can predict the exact outcome of a full realization of libertarianism based on history. Personally, I don't need to, because I find libertarianism to be the morally repugnant brainchild born of pure intentions[1].

> but still ignoring barriers to voluntary relations

Because I studied history in grad school I can tell you with a relatively high degree of certainty that the greatest barriers to voluntary relations -- or, rather, the most economically significant barriers -- have rarely been legal (in fact, the ability of the state to effectively enforce its laws is rather new, and is far, far more recent than feudalism), but economic. I don't know if you can extrapolate from that to the future or not (historians are careful about extrapolation), but so far that has been the case.

It is true that certain groups of people have suffered terribly due to legal restrictions, but they (naturally) were never a majority. It is the majority (who are mostly poor or poor-ish) whose freedoms are restricted via economic means.

[1]: it is an ideology that effectively lets the rich keep all their power, but takes it away from the poor, whose power is in their numbers and in coming together to regulate, and thus somehow balance, the power of the rich; I favor letting anyone use their power equally, like in an anarchy or a social-democracy; I can accept libertarianism as possibly working well in some imagined, fresh-born society, a society of spherical cows, if you will, but not in our real-life society, in our real world
Walt Disney was extremely puritanical when it came to sex, but his animators were definitely not.

Much to Disney's dismay, the wrap party for Snow White was orgy-esque.[1]

[1] http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/bill-justice-on-the-snow...
Maybe because they could temporarily blind another firefighter if there was a gap in the smoke.
This should be the NSA's job, keeping us safe from all the corporate and foreign government cyber espionage that is completely out of control. In reality they don't give a shit because they like to free ride on top of all the other backdoors as well as the ones they create.
i love elixir actors / golang goroutines, since i don't have to give any special treatment to async operations.
> But what Canonical are doing is being so unclear about your obligations around their brand that it's impossible to know whether they'd consider a derivative an infringement of their rights.

Your responsibility is to abide by the terms of the license, and trademark law. It's not about what Canonical considers an infringement, but what the law considers infringement based on the interpretation of the license you implicitly agreed to and trademark law.
Bascially, it's the rather common idea that a computer may not reason in ways that are easily comprehensible to human minds. There's not much depth to the paper beyond that.
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I just meant that this should have been done a long time ago.
Right, which is why the GPs were such an undervalued cornerstone of the old fashioned medical system. They were the ones supposed to hold the big picture in mind, and to cousel their patients when the intervention of an specialist was needed.

Today, they have been turned into glorified technitians and the front end of a pipeline that leads to expensive and potentially unneed treatment. There's no wonder everything turns into hammers and nails when you keep busy your handymans holding the door open.
This article won't make sense if you're not from the area.

If you live in Greensboro, you need a car to be effective. The structure of the city (suburban sprawl with few boulevards) means that public transit is slow and unreliable.

Also, this is more than just a grocery store. It will be the anchor of a strip mall that has been decaying ever since the Winn-Dixie left. It is a way to organize and galvanize neighborhood members. It will provide good jobs to those in the area. These intangibles go far beyond the small profit the store will make.
Humans were evolved to survive in a razor-thin sliver of Earth's atmosphere and nowhere else. We aren't designed for and don't belong in deep space.

We should genetically engineer smart creatures that can fare better out there, creatures with enormous capacities for cancer resistance, stupefyingly impressive energy efficiency, and staggeringly long lifetimes. They don't need all of our gravity-influenced skeletal structure and musculature. The fact that we're air-breathers is a particularly worrisome liability for being a space-faring critter. Little holes in our tin can atmospheres can lead to explosively bad results.

I'd start with something closer to an octopus and then throw (even more) intelligence at it.
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It's a huge achievement that is nullified by the oligarchy that arises in any organized system (see: The Iron Law of Oligarchy).

This had led to a two party system in the US where both parties are nearly identical, save for some superficial differences, so that any notion of choice is an illusion.
I didn't imply that it did. A shortcoming of tax revenue has never stopped people from allocating money from it though.
I'm going to pass on JCL and Rexx. And Tcl. And PHP. And AppleScript (mostly). And VBA.

I'm going to assume this is mostly a joke.
Almost all of this paper is dedicated to discussing whether or not computers can be "creative". Then it mentions in passing that computer-discovered theorems may be long and impenetrable (even if they are profound).

I guess I was expecting some attempted concrete task definitions of creativity, such as "finds and proves statements with many useful implications and applications", and discussion of how well existing theorem provers do at those kinds of tasks. But instead of the "how might we achieve this, and what will change?" paper I was hoping for, this is more of an "are we special?" paper.
That list is largely FBI and domestic law enforcement, not CIA/NSA.
You'd obviously have to cut a lot more than just SS in order to pay for a reasonably-sized UBI (that's why I said "pay part of"). But in any case, SS is probably a bad example, since it's already just a cash transfer (albeit a regressive one). If you paid for "Social Security for all" by cutting Medicare and the rest of the welfare state, I think most libertarians would go for that.
I am not getting the service I care about. I am getting crapware.
The short answer is: launch costs and crap rockets.

Building a big ship, right now, means lifting lots of mass into orbit and assembling it there. That in itself will be stunningly expensive. But then you want to actually send it to Mars.

Earth orbit to Mars orbit costs about 6 km/s (see http://i.imgur.com/SqdzxzF.png), which is comparable to the 9.4 km/s needed to get from the surface of Earth to low earth orbit. Now, we are in space, which means we can use slow, efficient burns rather than the fuel-belching behemoths you need for a launch... but right now we're limited to inefficient chemical rockets, which means a hell of a lot of fuel.

The ISS masses about 400 tonnes. Assuming hydrazine as a fuel, with an isp of about 350, that means that the wet mass of your vehicle has to be (dry mass) * e^(deltav / isp9.8) = 400e3 e^(6000 / 350*9.8) = 2300 tonnes. So you'll need 1900 tonnes of fuel. That's 380 Falcon 9s full of rocket fuel. (Assuming my maths are right.)

So you try to make your spacecraft as small as possible. That way you don't need to carry the fuel needed to move the fuel. The rocket equation is a bummer.

(Of course, nuclear engines, are vastly more efficient, change all this. Shame we don't have any. If you were willing to wait long enough, an ion thruster with an ISP of 20000 would require only 12 tonnes of fuel. But you wouldn't live that long.)
That plot wasn't discovered from mass surveillance. That was where the FBI makes themselves look like they're solving terror plots by finding mentally unstable socially isolated people and providing all the resources and planning for a 'terror plot' they can then bust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0
Should now be fixed! The discussions appear on the top right :)
Then why are the only two in the world that bring in more money than they take in Japan? Surely people in other countries heavily depend on them.
The whole suckless organization is an absolutely fantastic entity. I'm not even sure who they are (over the course of nearly 20 years I've stumbled across most members of the major -nix subset-communities), but suckless's dedication to the UNIX "do one thing and do it right" ideal is so steadfast it blows my mind.

Anyways, yeah, dmenu and dwm just got it right. (Though I must admit I flirt with wmii these days). Every -nix'er owes it to him/herself to put 'exec dwm' into their .xinitrc for a few months. This analogy won't do it justice - but - the way your mind expands shifting over is comparable to the development mentality shift one gets when moving from procedural C to LISP or Smalltalk.
Maybe I am wrong, but I can't think a lot of examples of free trade improving a country.

By free trade I mean international trade without restrictions.

The modern examples like Japan, South Korea, China etc are very planned economies that protected their industrial base until it was fully developed.

If this observation is right, an interesting question would be: why "a super-majority of economists" says otherwise?.
Wow, that's a lot of money. Thanks for not taking it. (You didn't, right?)

Btw: still wearing my Torbit shirt sometimes ;)
Weird, I haven't seen this bug before. I do check the print preview before each print. I have had bugs before where if I rotated or scaled the geometry slightly everything suddenly started working.
A realistic near-term goal is to establish a space station at the earth-moon L1 point such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_Gateway_Platform

The answer to radiation is that you want 6 feet of rock, ideally all around you, but particularly between you and the sun on solar flares. That can be harvested from the moon or an easy asteroid.

A presence on the moon is a lot more realistic, and if commercially useful water can be found at the pole and converted to fuel, it would make it affordable to send astronauts to mars with radiation protection. At that point we would have extensive experience with "living off the land" in space and won't be doing it on a planet with toxic soil.
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Why would anyone in their right mind play a game that they're guaranteed to lose?
NodeJS: you needed 5% of your code to be async, so we made everything async so you get to write awkward async-but-not-really code for the other 95%, too. That's better, right?

At least that's how it's always felt when I've used it for anything non-trivial yet well within its typical set of use cases.
One should always do a clean install of Windows with a OEM disc when buy a new PC. You can avoid a lot of issues that way...
In a world where I find every time more difficult to pay for the medicines to combat the ailments that keep me from being useful to society, I happened to discover that socialist ideas do have a point here and there.

I fail to see how my personal experience is of any relevance to the issue.
Slight digression but I find it a bit odd they've used Safari in their screenshots.
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Whoa, didn't know that. Very interesting. Thanks!
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Additionally they could simply blind themselves with the glare from pointing a strong directional LED light towards dense smoke.
I love the Dell response: "We have top men working on it."
The NSA's job does entail keeping government communications secret and secure. So whole buildings of people do "give a shit" about stuff like this.
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I believe that Japan has historically had maybe not "high tariffs", but other protectionist policies: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/japan-the-forgott...

I think that Japan is an example of a very protectionist economy that built up internal, high tech factories and educated workforces. It's a counter-example to the free trade argument.
> You can't just say to not subsidize one way of life while demanding people subsidize another.

You absolutely can. And you absolutely should, if the one you say should not be subsidized has net social cost compared to the other.
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> My own feeling is that the issue at its root is societal in nature - how do you get people to care more about being right than about holding opinions that fit their narrative of the world, or their own ego? I'm not sure there's an answer to that.

You start by wanting to be correct, not right, and there is a difference.
Or buy "Signature Edition" from Microsoft

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It's hard for me to imagine a company as big as Dell making such a bone-headed blunder.