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Not everyone should vote. This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but democracy only works with informed citizens. If you have a bunch of people that are not informed on the issue voting you're probably going to have an outcome that is awful. If you think politicians are bad now, just wait until the populists have the uninformed voting in high numbers (hey, that sounds familiar this year.)

To me, if you don't care enough to take time to vote as it is, you probably don't know the issues, and you probably shouldn't vote. Or maybe you do know the issues, and that's why you're not voting.

There are some cases where this is not true, such as someone having a weird shift; but that's what early voting is for, and that's why most states have legal paid time off for voting (up to 3 hours.) There's also mail-in ballots, absentee voting, etc. Democracy isn't always a good thing, to be frank; and it's undoubtedly why the U.S. was set up as a representative democracy rather than a pure democracy.
I love OCaml, but that's a really nice reshape of OCaml syntax! And apparently things will be interoperable. I am really curious to see where it goes.

EDIT: and they want to use and maintain compatibility with ppx. Great news
Apple should have bought Spotify instead of Beats. They have the money, they still could.

Spotify is such a far superior service, it works exactly as you'd expect it to, it has a free tier and a paid tier, it's basically as good as it gets for a music streaming service.
What a strange analogy. There's no scarcity to Kias at all; the car is built to command a particular price point. There's a huge surplus of drivable cars. That's not the case with SF real estate, even a little bit.
Shapeways just announced they got one.
Do you guys know what "increase" means? Seriously...
yea, open page, lag, see that it is facebook's usual bloat, task manager, kill firefox.exe process.
See the FAQ, as this is a fairly anticipated question. There's some benefits to having some token to separate let bindings and statements, so that the grammar is unambiguous, and it doesn't matter too much which token is used (monkey emoji anyone?) However, I think it may be possible to eliminate delimiters altogether eventually. Because we have the `refmt` program which can convert and beautify between two arbitrary versions of the syntax, we'll be able to automatically upgrade your code if we do find a way to eliminate delimiters unambiguously. Stay tuned.
Quick, someone patent using artificial intelligence to generate patentable ideas!
Yes. It's certainly possible, but not necessarily likely. I wouldn't necessarily expect to find instances of it, short of Sweeney Todd. But I would expect you to be able to find instances of infections, lice, etc.
So when are they going to get hit by lawsuits like the ones Microsoft got in the '90s?
Nope. Site still completely saturates a core, but only during scroll, not during idle.
Disabling the box shadow on .content-root fixes the performance bug (FF46.0).
If you don't think listening to the candidates is useful then I guess I can't help you.
As with anything financial, there's always a lot of grey. Litigation will get drug out, a fine will be levied, business will resume. DOJ probe is a CYA move by the feds.
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This is fascinating. I hope as we discover more about Europa, and with SpaceX as a potential launch partner, perhaps the proposed lander will get an accelerated schedule.
Looks like something related to repaints caused by a jquery scroll event http://i.imgur.com/mFL9ZYN.jpg
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Typical strategy for old dinosaurs. French post office is now trying to enter tons of unrelated market. Even Apple watch.
Which is why I install Unchecky on friends' and relatives' machines. It automatically unchecks all those default boxes and avoids not just Chrome but whole heaps of crapware...

https://unchecky.com/
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I've never heard of an actual bear attack either. But I still know that interacting with wild bears is a potentially dangerous situation. And I will certainly want that bear-repelling rock if there's a bear looking at me with murderous intent.
Pretty disappointed that they'd release something that butchers Firefox.
Ok, I think we understand each other. If you know of some study that shows the current voting population is representative of the total population, I would be interested in seeing it.
If you are interested in political participation one place to start would be state and local races - you are more likely to find unconventional candidates at those levels that don't fit neatly with either party.

I also find it much more plausible that a third party would make inroads at the state and local level and build momentum from there, rather than a third party candidate emerging out of nowhere and taking the presidency outright.
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I really wish the Music app would just act like my old iPod. I have some set of music available. It's categorized in different ways I can set. It plays music. Done.

Streaming? Just treat it as a playlist. Remember a song off a stream? Make that be like an adhoc playlist. Just let me mash a button and play music. Let me hit a button, and it remembers the current song. Want to let me pick a stream? Let me navigate just a few steps down a menu and pick something. Hit play. Music. Done.
1 CPU still pegged on firefox.

But otherwise, Reason looks very cool. A nice mashup of technologies to create something that certainly looks more useful than the status quo. I hope this takes off, but I think the biggest challenge nowadays, even for good technology, is finding an audience amidst a plethora of choices. Technology, as always, is a popularity contest.
Curious, because I'm not a mathematician: is it typical to say "proof" something versus "prove" something? I noticed you used that twice now. My brain keeps autocorrecting it, but I'm ignorant and would love to update my rules if needed. :)
Because it was an acquihire that had to integrate quickly into iTunes.

I'd imagine that integration of Beats into iTunes didn't start in earnest before the Beats acquisition was final, which was sometime Q4 2014? That gave essentially 6 months for the integration?

When you think about what's involved in that task, it's probably even more amazing that it even works as well as it does.
> If the experiment does nothing to advance this theory over any competitor, or vice versa, how can you say that it provides experimental support to the theory?

Non-contradiction of existing theories can be seen as a prerequisite for support. As a restricted affirmation of non-wrongness perhaps.
Am I understanding you correctly? Is the washington state GOVERMENT mailing out ballots with a "pro/con" booklet or are they being sent out by some poltical nonprofit that is just printing off the standard ballot. It would disgust me if it was the election board compiling an "unbiased" pros/cons booklet that is included with every ballot.
Will you stream or record the session?
It also doesn't even open in Edge.
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I've met plenty of people who don't vote for reasons of apathy. Especially in midterms.

I also have one friend who always casts a blank ballot, as a matter o principle.
That article is just the opinion of Richard Mawrey QC.

Here is the Electoral Fraud Review report from the Electoral Commission in 2014. Mawrey seems to strongly disagree with the findings of the report.

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file...
>Hyperloop transports less people than a single lane of highway

So what? Airplanes also transport fewer people than a highway. How many people travel by air between LA and SF right now per hour? Probably no more than the capacity of Hyperloop.

>But the point is the same, regardless of if we use Japan, Germany, France, Spain, etc: 10k people per hour, or more, is easily possible.

What makes you think 10k people per hour actually want slow train service between LA and SF, when they can just use their car, get there in about the same time, and then not have to rent a car at their destination?

>And with the cost you could maintain teslas for rental on a dedicated highway for many decades.

You're placing passenger capacity above speed. The whole point of Hyperloop is speed: it's faster than an airplane, without all the downsides of the airplane (terrorism, TSA, crashing, etc.) HSR is not, it's slow (esp. the way they'll build it in this country). Of course, Hyperloop doesn't have the advantage of not having to rent a car like driving yourself does, but it makes up for it with very high speed.
Usually chrome requires a service worker for notifications and I don't see one in this library. Anybody else get this working with chrome?
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According to quantum mechanics, if a simple quantum mechanical system interacts with a complex one, the complex one is thrown into a superposition of states that can have no meaningful interaction from then on.

Many worlds says that quantum mechanics is all that there is, and all observed consequences can be predicted from the assumption that we, ourselves, are complex quantum mechanical systems. The prediction is that we coexist with superpositions of ourselves doing different things and cannot meaningfully interact with them. This seems weird to us, but is exactly what the theory predicts.

Consider Schroedinger's cat. We ask whether the cat is both alive and dead before we open the box. This puzzles us because that is what quantum mechanics predicts and that seems weird. Multiple worlds says that quantum mechanics holds, it remains both alive and dead AFTER we open the box, and while it seems weird, there is no actual contradiction anywhere.

So mathematically simple. Weird consequences. In perfect accord with our best theories and best experiments.

By contrast the Copenhagen interpretation says that there is a collapse somewhere even though there is no experimental evidence for it, and we have no theory about how it might happen. And the pilot-wave interpretation says that our best theories notwithstanding, the universe is something different and weird in a different way.
The slowness in Firefox appears to be solely due to this:

@media (min-width: 1180px) {
body:not(.no-literate) .content-root {
background-color: #fdfcfc;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 780px 0 #fff, inset 781px 0 #e7e7e7, inset 790px 0 3px -10px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
box-shadow: inset 780px 0 #fff, inset 781px 0 #e7e7e7, inset 790px 0 3px -10px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);
}
}

Removing it in the Firefox style editor restores normal performance.

Edit: And they have commented out the box-shadow! Hah.
if this had come out five years ago i'd probably be all over it, but i think i'd rather just use rust at this point. different syntax but better safety and it's not like the ocaml ecosystem has a lot to offer
and occasional other breaking compiler bug fixes that are not really soundness fixes.
I can't affirm I know about patents, or why some company files a patent. I understand one or two things about translation technology though, and I'm trying to express why I think this is valuable for Google in the context of industrial translation.
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But I feel that that interpretation is unhelpful as a scientific theory, as it seems to make no testable predictions. In this view, what determines the split? Is there any action the observer can take that could theoretically affect the outcome? The article seems to imply that at least for the Bohmian model, the measured results have a correlation with the timing of the observer.
I would rather say it's OCaml with a different syntax than a 'standalone language'.
Let me deal with the crushing isolation. Give me the choice.
One of the worst lies perpetuated by the media is that the presidential election is the only one that really matters. There are so many elections that have a direct impact on your life that you can participate in – state, city, and county election. These are not generally very partisan. Sadly, local elections often don't have enough options simply because there aren't enough politicians standing for election.
The US won't be affected, neither would be Europe the rest of the world well....

It's all nice when we talk about organic food and about being ok with paying 10$ for couple of ecofriendly organic fair traded tomatoes but some one in India won't be able to afford that, heck many people in the US won't be able to afford them either.

Banning GMO's is all nice and dandy but all what we do is push farmers to produce "premium" crops that can be sold at 10 times the price while producing 1/4th of the amount which would leave allot of people hungry.

A framer doesn't care how many people he feeds he only cares about the button line if he can make more money by feeding less people with organic food the fact the some one will go hungry won't really be in that equation.
US voter turnout is low relative to many other modern democracies (much less compared to the ideal of 100% turnout) because the choices are poor because of the structure of the electoral system which supports only two viable parties at a time (which two has changed nationally twice in the history of the nation, and when things were more regional there were times when the two locally-viable parties included one of the national parties and one other, such as the Missouri Republican vs. Farmer-Labor period.) This is a fairly well-established effect of the electoral system, evidence through, among other things, comparative studies of modern democracies.

So, what is Vote.org's plan for dealing with this, which is the fundamental problem in keeping turnout low?
Async/await already needs to be transpiled in for most browsers, so Promises needing to be polyfilled seems like the least of your problems.
This might make sense if "cosmetology" wasn't an extremely broad category of services, many of which "dyes, bleaches, and chemicals" have nothing to do with.

These are the crazy assholes, after all, that shut down businesses that do nothing but cornrow braiding for lack of licenses.

As for "the spread of disease", they aren't back-alley abdominal surgeons. The only disease that runs any real risk of being spread are lice... and there's no need to license that. Licenses don't help prevent that. Nor does anyone need 1400 hours of training to know how to identify them, or how to clean combs and brushes.

Sloppy people with licenses will still spread them, careful/clean people without licenses will never spread them. Enforce health codes instead of insisting on licenses that just put large barriers of entry in front of people trying to make a living.
Fixed. Seems to be a box-shadow issue on FF. Sorry for the trouble...
I'd really like to try Backblaze, but I use a Windows Home Server 2011 Atom-based system as a makeshift NAS to store all of our family photos. The Backblaze Personal Backup installer fails with an error because it is considered a "Server Operating System". I'm currently using CrashPlan with this system.
promise-ring [1] is all you need for Node style callbacks. (Bluebird and a few other Promise augmenting libraries also have similar tools, but promise-ring is really all you need.)

Eventually, too, Node and Electron and Cordova and everything else will catch up to the fact that Promises are native in ES2015 and the APIs will eventually migrate.

But the thing about it is toi, async functions also return promises, so not every await require "Promise boilerplate", as you will presumably be using other async functions that produce their own promises.

[1] https://github.com/DavidAnson/promise-ring
When the time between releases is measured in years you better be sure that new features are somewhat stable before you ship, especially when customers take a long time to upgrade because of the support you offer them. We always have to make a judgement about when things are ready enough but it is much easier now than it was back then. Sometimes we guess wrong but with faster release cycles it is more possible to fix things so we don't have to be _quite_ so conservative. We can also ship things behind flags now (which is how we are experimenting with modules) and we can include things in Insider builds so you can try them without waiting for a full release.
We just discovered the same by disabling the media query which handles the shadow. Thank you very much for investigating.
I think you are speaking of anti-gmo as a culture vs. anti-gmo as science. It is like vegan's who adopt the diet for spiritual reasons vs. health reasons. The fact that some adopt a position or practice based on non scientific reasoning doesn't negate that scientific reasoning does exist for other facets of the subject.

IMHO, the "punch back firmly" attitude leads to reciprocation on both sides and a death spiral for any real dialogue.
What's your opinion on model train sets, or scale models of buildings?
I can confirm the same laggy behavior in FF 46. But, strangely, it works completely fine on FF 48 (dev edition) :S
It must be really hard for the Microsoft CEO. He's doing what he can to fix the problems that Steve Ballmer left, but it's extremely hard for him.
Let's discuss a world where mobility doesn't mean mind dedication. With the few VR/AR things popping all around, handling a truck might just be a pause after a 2 hour meeting in your virtual office.

Take that space time.
It's amazing how much better Spotify is at finding related music I also like. Pandora, Google Play, that thing in iTunes -- all annoying. The other ones find bands that sound like bands I like but are annoying. Spotify actually finds me stuff I'm glad to have discovered. The other ones just find annoying doppelgangers of my favorite music.

(To be fair, Pandora is better than the others, but dependent on genre. It does really well with classical music. With lots of electronica/electronica related music -- very annoying.)
It's an easy problem to solve, just have to make incentives for politicians to get more people to vote. Oregon made it an opt out state, and made all votes be mail in ballots.
Seems like an easy way to increase democracy.

You could also make it so any politician's terms relative to the populations voting for him.

If 50% of eligible voters vote for someone with 51% of the votes, they should only get 25.5% of the term.
This paper will be read by two of the authors in the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, EE380, http://ee380.stanford.edu. EE380 is a public lecture--anyone is welcome to attend or watch the live stream video. The talk video will be posted to YouTube the day following the presentation. For details, see the announcement at http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/160518.html.
reason : ocaml :: lfe : erlang might be an apter comparison. it adds a new syntax parser, but not a new language. from their docs:

> The OCaml compiler is organized into several stages, which are exposed as libraries. Reason replaces part of the compiler toolchain with a completely new syntax parser that is more approachable, while still fully compatible with the rest of the compiler. Reason also implements a new source printer which integrates into your IDE and the new custom REPL.
Edit: the page now works in FF.
I recently wrote about this, and how it can be solved using HTTP/2 and Service Workers: https://mariusgundersen.net/module-pusher/
The problem isn't to get the right answer. When you have a recipe that works reliably for a known set of conditions, you're not doing science any more - you're doing technology.

The problem is to work out which questions to ask next. The different interpretations should eventually diverge into edge cases - of curvature, of observable other universe, or of some other difference - where they no longer predict identical results.

An incomplete theory suggests at least some further distinctions are possible. They may or may not be possible with current interpretations. They may need a completely fresh interpretation. But the distinctions matter, and it's important to consider the different directions they point in.
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The variance in potency is negligible, especially when compared to the variance in potency of LSD doses. It is generally known amongst those taking mushrooms that 2 - 3 grams is within most people's comfort level. The real variance comes from how dry the mushrooms are - mushrooms that are more moist will be less potent. This is why a responsible mushroom grower will thoroughly dry their mushrooms before consuming them.
No. I make that typo all the time though. It's just that due to my accent I do not differentiate between "prove" and "proof" and always voice the words as "proof" so I always write "proof".
I've seen a lot of 'looks promising... can't make work or can't make economic' technologies over the years. Just the nature of the business. I'd hate for companies to stop trying tho. Technologies that seek to displace another older technology often have a long road ahead. Because no green field, the economics and performance has to beat the established technology before anything sees anything but niche applications.

I think it took ten years for NAND flash to start seriously chewing into the mass storage market
As I understand it, it is a "proof" that the ESSW paper does not disprove Bohmiam theory. As to whether ESSW really did disprove it in the first place, I agree with your point.
You're overstating the stability guarantees. The Rust project has formulated it as “hassle-free upgrades” which seems to imply that small, simple edits may be necessary when upgrading to a new Rust version.
Thanks for finding that out. We (Firefox) fixed a box shadow performance bug [1] in Firefox 47, which will be released on June 7th. It looks like this site is hitting that perf bug.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250947
Evidence can be excluded if it's not relevant (in the Bayesian sense), or unreliable. You might have some argument that the phone records don't make the conclusion sufficiently more likely to warrant admitting it. But the bar for relevance is not high.

Moreover, this is kind of what juries do best: inferring what people did from other things they did or didn't do. While juries are subject to a lot of biases, I think humans have a good statistical model of the behaviors of other humans.
When you say "when", do you mean depending when is the best time or making sure you, as a team, consistently do it? The latter is from my experience the hard part. It's hard to make sure that's part of the process as it's by necessity quite awhile after a feature has been released and no one is actively working on bugs related to it.

We've started to use automated scripts that identify "old" feature flags that are turned on to 100% that are still in the code base and treat them similar to bug tasks.
> One of the worst lies perpetuated by the media is that the presidential election is the only one that really matters.

The problems with the electoral system effect all offices which are elected by either plurality or majority/runoff, not just those for Presidential electors. This includes all members of Congress, most Governors and statewide elected officials, most state legislators, most mayors and other elected local executive officers, and the many city and county legislative officers (city council, county supervisors, etc.) that are elected in single-member districts.

There's some of the latter that are elected in vote for N and the top N win elections, which tend to provide slightly more choice, but still less choice (and less effective democratic representation of the choices made) than proportional election.
Can someone familiar with the space speak to how much of this is advertising and how much is genuine progress/innovation?
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The right to vote also includes the right not to vote.