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> Representative democracy isn't elective oligarchy.

It's kind of funny, because when I looked up the word oligarchy, I noticed that Wikipedia had an entry for the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy#United_States
It may take a long time, but the debate is 18 months long, more than enough for everybody to get on board on the issue.

It's ridiculous to believe that citizens have no business in important matters. If you're not deciding, you're not acting, and your voice doesn't matter at all.
Nice submarine PR for these new travel insurance companies, selling an old product with a new face.
Hey, just wanted to say I feel incredibly lucky our species has developed such diverse individuals! I think we need the Elon Musk and your brother types, as much as we need the more relaxed family oriented ones. I think it's a shame if our society develops a stigma either for one or the other type.
> 5) JavaScript loses popularity, MEAN stack loses popularity but alternatives aren't appearing, just more criticism of the javascript frameworks

I think, there will be alternatives. WebAssembly will let developers write client-side frameworks in C/C++, C#, Go, etc. Very likely, JS will start losing its popularity as the selling point "works both on client and server" will work for any language. However, I don't believe we can say goodbye to JS. At least, not in 2016.
I think it would be hard for central banks to control inflation well in this system. Japan has been trying hard for 20 years to trigger inflation through QE and related money-printing schemes, but it hasn't translated to inflation.

In Japan's case, inflation happened because of a sales-tax increase. Taxes are forced spending, and you can target heavy savers if you need to.

I think that just the levers of how much money to print and percent going to gov't could give a good amount of control though.

Some practical considerations though: How do you get the money to each person? Not everyone has a bank account. In a lot of countries (including US), there's no good single-identifier to find people either. Fraudsters could claim for other people, and the innocent people couldn't get their share. There's some logistics involved.

One small thing is that taxes have also been used a way of incentivising certain behaviour. Carbon taxes aren't about generating revenue but reducing pollution. How would that enter in this new system? Maybe Carbon...incentives? Kind of weird to implement I think
So I looked at the Corel Calc image thinking that was Excel that I was looking at. I think this is the point, they look so similar that to the untrained eye, someone can't tell it's not Office. This is crucial when promoting such a product making people think they are getting Office for $30.

I can never quite get my head around what constitutes a patent and what constitutes copyright infringement. To me this would fall under copyright infringement.

However, I do understand the patentable idea of workflow that makes the process of using a spreadsheet more efficient. This is generally as a result of research and development and as such, may be subject to what has been patented as a whole. The positioning of the elements are designed for optimal workflow which makes Office unique. Someone simply copying it without their own investment of research and development does give them an unfair competitive advantage (until they get sued and lose).
I wish you would explain more in detail or link some more reading. I find this interesting. I've always seen this reckless lending/printing money as something unsustainable but obviously I don't know much about the subject, it's hard to find decent reading material for the average person to understand.
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I've also seen them directly involved in affiliate toolbar installers and hosting "safe site"-style badges for sites that are pushing scamware/malware. Agree that AVG is not a security vendor.
@Nvidia: It would be awesome if we could get in contact with someone from Nvidia to push this further... anybody?
From the article: "The biggest problem with Auto Scaling Groups is that people assume that they are about auto scaling which they are not!"

Hmm... Then maybe the biggest problem with them is actually that they are misnamed?
Absolutely! But that doesn't need to be the app's job. It's the role of an orthogonal process, the monitoring or init daemon, to say "Hey, this process bailed. I should restart it."

That way all your app has to worry about is "Every time I get started, I should try and connect to my dependent services. If it doesn't work, bail."

And the monitoring process gets to worry about things like "I should retry X times before giving up. There need to be at least Y instances of this process running."
Federal law on radio and television

Against mass immigration

Financing and development of railway infrastructure

JAS 39 Gripen (Swedish fighter jet) procurement

Non-renewable energy tax

Fixed book price agreement

Foreign treaties

Hospitality industry VAT initiative

Gold reserves

And my 2 favorites...
Increase petrol station shop opening hours

Music lessons

Seems much more than just "public moral position" questions to me.
One more reason to encourage women to learn maths. If they don't care enough to compare prices, they just have to pay more. Incidentally, this could also explain why there is a women's aisle to begin with: women seem to be willing to pay more, so it makes sense to differentiate your products to allow women to pay more.
6000 years between unlevened and yeast bread seems along time. I would have expected naturally occurring yeast to have hastened this.
I think that's a question we would benefit greatly from answering, if we could.could markets are a powerful and useful thing. But, the longer we play this game the more gaps emerge where human and economic incentives do not meet eye to eye.

If it were just a question of funding it would be solvable.
I was with you up until this,

"A holistic approach to improving our health and well being would be preferable, at least incorporating nutrition, exercise and psychology."

I'm all for being healthy, getting good sleep,and exercise, but I dont want to go back to blaming cancer on personality types, or a lack of certain vitamins.

Those holistic cancer commercials on t.v. are irritating. Once you have cancer, all that holistic, clean living doesn't matter--unless I've been reading the wrong studies.

I'm getting to the age where my rate of cancer goes up. If I get it, I'll get the stats of my survival rate; then decide if I want to treat it conventionally. Holistic treatments are out for myself.

I used to wonder why Steve Jobs didn't run to conventional medicine the day he was told he had pancreatic cancer. After looking at the survival rates, I kinda understand why he looked for someting else. Pancreatic cancer has a low cure rate. I belive Steve Jobs was trying to invoke the placebo effect with all that eastern/holistic medicine b.s.? I do believe in the Placebo effect. I think every doctor out there would tell their patient, whatever you do--try to belive in its success rate!" I do think conventional medicine is the way to go, but believe you will get better. Don't scour the Internet. Just do the treatments, and believe you will get better. Drown out the talking heads. They don't know why we get this disease in most people, and they don't know exactly why we get better.

I'm not being flipped about cancer. I'm just wondering how I will handle the diagnosis/treatment--if I get it, or anyone close to me does.
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by the way,according the link cited by others(http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/27/10670346/china-passes-law...),“the new law does not require that companies operating in China hand over encryption keys”
why all the guys just believe what they want to believe?
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Thanks. I have updated my response to the general case.
From Scottish Natural Heritage "Naturally Scottish - Mosses and Liverworts":

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Can you point to a Swiss referendum campaign with a high level of debate? I've only closely followed one referendum campaign in Switzerland, I'll admit, but the level of debate in that one was quite low, even by the standards of a typical European election campaign. That was the 2014 referendum on whether to put quotas on Schengen-zone immigration [1]. It was basically the usual shouting match over immigration you'd expect anywhere, full of a lot of vitriol and not much in the way of rational debate or accurate statistics. The outcome was also what you'd expect anywhere else too, predictable more by demographics than argumentation: rural areas and less-educated people voted to restrict immigration, cities and the highly educated voted not to, so the final outcome depended mainly on voter turnout among each of those groups. Since getting your base as riled up as possible is a better way of getting turnout than rational debate, that's what both sides did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_immigration_referendum,_...
Oh, yes, also "robust".
I could run eight miles a day with full pack, eat only protein and vegetables, have the mental outlook of the Buddha--and yet still get cancer because...

Maybe, or maybe not. When you actually have cause to investigate this stuff deeply, as I have, it's surprising to discover how little is known about these kinds of things.

If you could take 100 people of similar age and health and had them all "run eight miles a day with full pack, eat only protein and vegetables, have the mental outlook of the Buddha", and 50 developed cancer and 50 didn't, little is known about why any given person would stay healthy and another would get sick.

As you wrote, cancer risk probably involves effects from many factors. However, I'm not sure how redirecting "billions" to, e.g., "psychological 'sciences'" serves to reduce the incidence of cancers that are essentially environmental in origin.

Having researched this topic in great depth, I'm now persuaded by the medical researchers like Bruce Lipton and Rudi Tanzi who assert, with solid scientific evidence, that psychology - particularly subconscious emotions - are a major factor in determining whether a person will develop or recover from serious illnesses like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, MS, ALS, etc.

Of course these ideas don't get much acceptance or affirmation from the majority of mainstream medical researchers, because, hey, everyone already knows that psychology and physiological health are totally independent, right?

It turns out we don't actually need to be redirecting "billions" to, e.g., "psychological 'sciences'".

It would suffice to let go of some of the unexamined assumptions and prejudices that prevail in the current research landscape, and pay some attention to the more open-minded researchers who are already investigating these things and coming up with promising findings.
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Uhh, the referendum talks about banning Private Banks from creating money. The Swiss National Bank will still have fractional reserves and will reserve the right to create physical and electronic money. So isn't that a good thing?

> If successful, the sovereign money bill would give the Swiss National Bank a monopoly on physical and electronic money creation, "while the decision concerning how new money is introduced into the economy would reside with the government," says Vollgeld.

> But over 90pc of money in circulation in Switzerland now exists in the form "electronic" cash created by private banks, rather than the central bank.

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>then immediately to start work at client's location in Cupertino or Seattle

Yep. They seem to favor cramming them into the nearest apartments (if possible in walking distance). It's probably optional, but your options are limited when you're getting paid dick, looking for housing in an area with higher cost of living and you're trying to send money home. I'm not saying it's not a comparatively good opportunity for them but they could be paid more fairly.
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> Harmony implementation is rather inefficient.

A lot of stuff have been fixed or improved from the original Harmony code over the years, performance-wise the android implementation of the core library and the openjdk implementation are now similar (openjdk has a few more intrinsics and makes a more liberal use of native methods).
To sidestep the argument, why is it bad to push wages down? American born babies push wages down too, so do local university graduates. Should those things be restricted too?

If all American workers earn less, then cost of living drops too and it's not much of a problem.
>>I'll look elsewhere for insight on the next cricis/opportunity.

Where?
It is more likely to kill almost all deposits. The bank wouldn't really profit from stored money so they will want fee for keeping money. Interesting experiment but I definitely wouldn't want it to happen in my country.
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The steering mechanisms on Masdas are the same as Mercedes.

That's an interesting point in more than one way. Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but Mercedes is a high-end car manufacturer while Mazda chiefly serves cars to the middle-class and in the case of the Mazda 2 - this generation's People's Car. By aggressively protecting designs then only the rich (well, Mercedes isn't super high-end but it's an aspirational brand) can adopt new technologies, which means the markets for new technologies are tied to the speed at which wealth increases (that includes the rate at which adoption at the high-end subsidises the cost at the low-end). It stunts the speed at which we advance collectively.
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And on that basis all modern consumer focused OS' are about as bad as each other, they all rely on cloud features which gather data about the user and hold it centrally.

It's why I'm so puzzled that people jump on MS specifically for this, Google have been doing all the same stuff for years and no-one seems to care.

That said on your lines that people wouldn't cross, I'm afraid I have not confidence in either of your examples. The US gov. has totured people for years, I see no reason to believe they wouldn't do it to family members if they thought it would meet their goals, and MS would exfiltrate data if provided an appropriately authorised requirement by the US government...
The point of UI/UX/HUI guidelines is to ensure consistency of applications' look&feel. Under detailed guidelines, two applications doing exactly the same thing should look exactly the same. If both Microsoft and Corel are aiming for an optimum spreadsheet, the UI of their applications should converge.
My first thought was that, to me, Cyrillic looks how I'd expect fake Latin characters to look. Clearly related, made of the same elements, but I don't recognize most of the characters...
It's a tragic topic to put to a referendum though, because I don't expect every random person to be an expert on the technical nuances of financial history.

That's true for nearly every subject. It's an argument against this referendum as much as it is against democracy in general.

Even representative democracy. Most people are certainly not experts at hiring executives. Seemingly even those whose job it is to hire and fire.
I don't think they're being hostile, I think they're providing features they think people want.

Personally I hate this kind of feature and try to actively avoid products which have it, however I feel I am in a minority of general consumers in that feeling.
>With H1B you are not tied to the same employer, you are free to leave the sponsoring employer and go elsewhere.

The solution is never that simple. Unfortunately for many of them they're butts to fill seats for signed contracts. They go out on 6+ month on-sites and live with several roommates working for the same company. They can't pick up and leave because they're not qualified enough or experienced enough.
Does that hold on 32-bit ARM CPUs with 1GB of RAM?
I hope that you're correct, as then you would expect the market to correct the mistake and drop the features, as they don't get used
I don't see why we would want to do that, from the point of view of maximum consumer good. Companies will try to make good interfaces even knowing they will be copied.
Hehe, what about playing a game in this container? :-) I mean it's a containerized gaming console, isn't it?
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It's a good illustration of the general point - progress is driven by how many independent eyeballs we can have looking at the problem. Any form of limiting access to knowledge or technology limits progress in that domain.
Actually Jobs prognosis had he not gone with alternative medicine was pretty good.

From a forbes article on the subject

"Jobs’ cancer had been discovered by chance during a CT scan in 2003 to look for kidney stones, during which doctors saw a “shadow” on his pancreas. Isaacson told CBS’ 60 Minutes last night that while the news was not good, the upside was that the form of pancreatic cancer from which Jobs suffered (a neuroendocrine islet tumor) was one of the 5% or so that are slow growing and most likely to be cured."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-jo...
> The trick seems to have been diving (10-10) by itself and falsely giving 1 as the answer rather than the infinity it is supposed to be

Most probably that's where the error is hidden, but it's not supposed to be
infinity. Never mistake such an invalid operation for one resulting in
a symbol. The operation is just invalid, there's nothing more to it.

For your intuition to build up a little on this, why not negative infinity?
This one matches just as well.

Arithmetics simply has no concept of infinity. You get this concept when you
move to set theory (count of natural numbers) or to calculus (limits), but not
on the arithmetics level.
It's not a binary option. It's possible to be anti-fractional reserve while not requiring 100% reserves for everything. Mutual credit economies, for example, require no backing store, giving all the advantages of fractional reserve, with no systemic risk.
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> But what I don't understand is why they're importing the full AWT API!

Some really old and completely unrelated non-awt classes depend on interfaces defined in java.awt. But in this case it simply seems a mass import.
I don't think that users are forced to keep the features on are they (definitely I had no problems disabling them when installin Win10)

On defaults I would prefer it to be opt-in but I know exactly why it isn't. Software vendors want you to use the features they develop so that you'll be more involved in their ecosystem, if they're off by default chances are you won't turn them on, which defeats the purpose.

Gotta say I don't see your resource point, do you have any evidence that these features have an appreciable impact on the average system?
I think code4startup is also stole idea from http://www.codingfounders.com/
It does not matter in idea it is matter to execution. I hope codeupstartup will remain free so that many users and student can benefit from it.
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And you think that's the only checkbox which controls info. being sent to google......

What about google now?
What about running the original android system in a container?
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Nope the debate is whether it's worse than other widely used alternatives.

If all mainstream OS' are doing a specific thing (gathering information about users to fuel certain features), why should MS face particular approbrium for doing the same?
"2) Bob takes out $900 loan from Bank X and deposits it in Bank Y"

If Bob takes cash from Bank X and deposits in Bank Y, Bank X has less cash, that movement is reflected in their balance and in their reserves.

If Bob makes and electronic transfer from Bank X to Bank Y, at the end of the day, Bank X and Y have to clear their balance with each other. As some people have moved money in the opposite direction, from Bank Y to Bank X, the balance could be compensated.

If for some reason, people only retire money from a bank without never making deposits, you have a bank run and it's an indicator of mistrust in that bank.
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How do you know about the "most countries"?
I am from Europe and while I won't call it Apple-centric, MacBooks are preffered there among the devs too.
> the HotSpot VM in OpenJDK is incredibly fast.

True, but only on x86.
See 3.4 in the paper, http://amasci.com/amateur/hand1.html#34 also figure 11b.

Yes, a proper "abrasion hologram" would have holo-pixels resembling little fresnel-lens cross-sections. The "hand drawn" version is simplified, and produces weird artifacts unless viewed perpendicular, and the reproduced image isn't too wide. Yet even so, we can create a 3D object in less than an hour via simple hand-scribed circles on soft plastic. Use an architect compass and an old CD case.

It's now appearing on vinyl, on Jack White Lazaretto album, also on recent re-release of classic 1976 "Rush 2112"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9gRPtkSOn0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNF9IWmFQE

Find lots at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60100E8F3572CEB1
I can't see how it would help - this kind of search involves almost no computation and a lot of memory/disk bandwidth.

People need to remember that FPGAs are not a magic bullet, especially not for throughput; they're better used for low-latency hardware interaction and things where you need cycle-deterministic behaviour.

Crypto is a far more interesting potential case.
> That would be awful, since ART is built for low-end devices and, well, Hotspot isn't.

That is plain Google FUD to not follow the Java standards.

There are lots of embedded devices, more constrained than Android phones, running commercial compliant JVMs like Atego, Jamaica, J9 among many others.

Also Sun/Oracle Hotspot implementations have existed since the J2ME and Embedded Java early days for devices with just a few hundred KBs, not a few hundred MB like Android.
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It's hard to have a debate when people take a purely ideological stand and have little understanding of the mechanics of the problem.

The immediate effect of 100% reserve is that commercial banks cease offering credit and instead start behaving like safe deposit boxes for people's money, offering negative interest. They effectively stop transforming savings in productive investments, saved money is simply extracted from circulation.

If it wants to prevent a major liquidity crunch, the central bank will flood the market with newly created money and keep the economy going. Just what we want, right ? But in doing so, it will effective take on the role of the commercial banks in deciding which areas of the economy are worthy of investment.

So instead of voting with your money and choosing a bank that is safe and makes prudent investments, everybody is forced to "save" at zero interest and empower the Central Bank (effectively, the state) to make investments on their behalf and decide the economic future. Worse still, any failure or bad investment is socialized through inflation and high interest to the whole of the population, since there is no longer any competition that prunes imprudent banks.

We are in fact moving away from market solutions and into a central planing utopia. Instead of punishing and bankrupting the speculators, we are putting them in charge.
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