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Fear and ignorance don't respect party lines. There's things liberal people are likely to be wrong about, and there's things illiberal people are likely to be wrong about.

The issue is where people fear a situation or outcome, and then draw their answers from their peers, who are also either un or ill-informed on the subject. Then you get bad answers to important questions, which no-one goes back to question (because now disagreeing with the answer means disagreeing with your social group).
Great idea but basically it figured out what I drew by showing me dozens of possibilities and it was all the way down.

If it is going to do it that poorly, best show a mini legend of just the symbols at the top and hyperlink them to the description down below.
And I guess the converse question which has vexed socialists for decades - why do so many of the poor vote for centre-right, business-friendly parties? For example, why did so many working class people vote for Thatcher in UK in the 1980s? Why are they not massively in favour of Jeremy Corbyn right now?

I'm not saying it's irrational. But sometimes it's odd to hear people who need the government to subsidise their minimum wage zero-hours income just for basic survival defending the Conservative Party's economic manifesto. I read "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" some years ago, and this question really stuck with me.
I don't have a handy source, but Apple claimed that they made ALAC because FLAC couldn't be decoded on an iPod in a power efficient way.
> GOP is the party of creationists and climate deniers...

how is this statement different than e.g. "the democratic party is the party of socialists and communists"?

they're both bold assertions on a large group of people that are unlikely to be true for the majority...

to be honest it just sounds smug
I mean YouTube UI is a disgrace really, what is it about big companies that stop them from being able to do design properly (even Apple post Jobs is starting to experience this).
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Perhaps not highly educated in the sciences. Many US schools allow students to graduate without any real exposure to science.
And anti-GMO. Anti-nuclear. Organic food enthusiasts. Anti modern farming. Naturopathy and homeopathy believers. The type of people who think that global warming causes more hurricanes for example.
Certainly if you only read one third of one paragraph of the article it would seem shoddy. You even paraphrased that snippet to delete the part that clearly states it's only a partial explanation: "The growing number of women with advanced degrees is part of it, as well-educated women tend to be especially left-leaning."
INTERCAL is a whole other level of crazy hard opaqueness though. I admit I never tried to write anything in one of these two funny urbit languages, but from what I've seen in the docs, they don't intend to go out of their way to be impenetrable.

I read INTERCAL documentation twice. First time for fun & crazy and I had some good laughs. Then a while later I came across a challenge to write X in INTERCAL (I forgot what X was), so I got the documentation again, this time reading it with intention to write code, ... I gave up halfway, in horror.

INTERCAL was designed to be "most unlike any other programming language" and didn't stop for any feature if it could be twisted into being more unlike any other language. And it shows, it's hilariously hard to program in, and gets in your way on purpose.

Ubrit also seems so far to be very much unlike many or most systems, ever. But it's more about trying something new, with an idea, it uses its weirdness to support the idea, but it doesn't stop at nothing to keep pushing the weirdness over the top. There's another goal in mind. But the goal is not very funny so that's an extra barrier it has over INTERCAL.
Magic Actions for YouTube is also worth checking out.
It's not stupid, it's true - a lot of the UI is written in HTML/CSS/Javascript.
Now I see the scifi story: a disruptive future where culture is created by computers so Google doesn't need to pay any creator in YouTube.
It's always tragic when people expect law enforcement to actually obey the law themselves.

It's not just an FBI problem, it's anyone in an authoritarian position, from individuals to entire organizations.
It's like this: you're in a tent becoming hypothermic--maybe the night was colder than your equipment was good for, maybe you got wet-- you hit the delirium stage and feel great so you decide to go out. You can't work the zippers because of course you're half frozen in reality so in the unlogic of delirium you just cut open the tent and step out. In that delirium you don't so much paradoxically undress as simply not-get-dressed.
Pretty much. And you're generally not threatened of things you understand. Most things in the world aren't actually scary.

That's not to say there's nothing to be scared of out there - obviously there is. But there's a difference between knowing something is worth worrying about, and being badly informed or not informed at all, and thus being scared of it.

* Thing not to be scared of: vaccinations for your kids

* Thing to be scared of: long term effects of climate change

I'd take higher levels of education to mean that you're more exposed to being wrong about things, thus more accepting of the idea that you might be wrong, and more likely to change your view on finding out you are.

The more educational levels you pass through, the more you have it beaten in to you that you don't know as much as you think you do, and you're wrong to greater or lesser degrees a lot of time, about a lot of things.
Yahoo is more interested in the colour palette of its apps, than who its users are. No effective leadership is the problem.
Doubtful; Yahoo stopped supporting OS X in the last couple years with the official YIM client, and the service is completely unreliable on the platform with 3rd party clients, with messages randomly failing to be delivered. Pretty much any company with non-Windows users has been forced to migrate away, including my workplace (thank Jebus).
> Why would you run like hell away from your tent without your boots in the Ural mountains night?

-Because you are sound asleep one moment, only to find yourself in the midst of a number of explosions the next? That would unsettle me no end, for sure.

Not saying that I know for sure what happened; only that the simplest explanations often are the best.

I do find it rather unlikely that Soviet armed forces (if they were testing something suffiently secret to 'justify' killing any accidental spectator, even their own citizens) would even let people enter the area; much easier (and less drastic!) to just tell people to turn around 'for security reasons' and be done with it than letting them get too close, then killing them.

Now, death by negligence/indifference in the course of military action, on the other hand, would hardly be a first.

(And if someone WANTED them dead, the area does appear to lend itself well to making people disappear; doubly so when under a regime which had taught people not to ask too many awkward questions.)

It would be rather surprising if anyone but Soviet authorities of one variety or the other was involved in activities which couldn't be allowed to come to light in the area, so I (perhaps too lightly) discount options like a secret CIA infiltration mission, yetis, aliens, poachers, rum runners...)
We're talking about post-graduate degrees though. I would hope that most people with advanced degrees would have the critical thinking skills to understand the net benefits of vaccination, even without formal training in science.
Except that you do not see democrats stumping about the benefits of communism. You do see GOP candidates openly denying climate change and denouncing Darwinism as a left-wing plot. One has decided to become more extreme than the other.
The browser is fast, based on Chromium, has a nice Opera 12 inspired UI but is closed source.
May I refer you to an oldie but goodie: 'The Disadvantages of an Elite Education' by William Deresiewicz:
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite...
I like that. Tried it with a few Greek letters with accents. Works nicely, in particular on a touch screen.

Just getting a GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA was maybe too ambiguous. :-) A filter for the subset of characters (e.g. Greek only) would be helpful here.
An alternative, similarly simple model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...
nice read..
If I listen closely, I'm pretty sure that I can hear you patting yourself on the back through my computer.

Your comment boils down to saying, "Because education opens your mind," which is completely asinine. Political science and philosophy are not young fields. Where would Aristotle, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Locke, Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin or Madison fall today?

Are you telling me that you find it reasonable to think that none of them would find themselves on the right, because they're uneducated, have a simple world view, and can't appreciate nuance?

I like this website more when I don't click the political articles.
So what is the alternative? We don't want to pay, we don't want ads.. how else can these things make money?
I think YouTube is amazing!!!
> The biggest features we are working on are sync and mail

Okay, I have to question this. Why is a browser vendor spending precious time and money adding a mailbox to their browser?

I used Vivaldi a little bit ago during the beta/1.0 period for a few months—at that time at least, the UX needed more polish and there were bugs and usability issues that were daily pain points.

So I find this it concerning that they're building a mail client. They already have a browser and I already have a mail client. Why take developers off of working on the browser to provide me with a new mail client? It gives me the impression that this is fundamental to their strategy for building their browser UX—constant integration. What does this say about the future of Vivaldi development? I think I'd rather have a flexible UI that works for whatever I'm doing—NOT a bunch of integrations to various workflow points, some of which I really want and others I couldn't care for.

As if you did not already have the ability to put a mail client on your sidebar in Vivaldi. Using web panels, you can pin the email provider of your choice to an icon and open it in a sidebar at any point you like.
because you aren't going to be afraid of something when you understand that it's not something you need to fear

Such as a highly educated media worker, has no fear of the factory closing because the company has found somewhere with lower taxes and relaxed pollution laws?

This is the appeal of Trump: he is the only candidate who doesn't want to send his demographics jobs offshore. It absolutely makes perfect sense for a significant number of voters to prefer him. I am really astonished at how many "liberals" despite their "high intellect" don't seem to get that there is a whole world outside their little bubble.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is simply a compression+decompression of the original film. This so-called 're-representation' is just the result of the dimensionality reduction.
Here's an alternative perspective from the nytimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confessio...
Rothschild and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority will definitely oppose UBI
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> You're answer boils down to "because liberals are right and the others are wrong"

I disagree. I read the OP's answer as, "The more education you have, the more you're prepared to accept the possibility that you're wrong." This leads to a greater acceptance of viewpoints (or at least the right to hold them) which you don't necessarily agree with, which is basically liberalism in a nutshell.
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>The article defines highly educated as people with advanced degrees. They are not academics

Definition from article:

>But the most highly educated Americans — those who have attended graduate or professional school — are starting to come together as a political bloc.

Doctors make up 1/3 of a percent of the US population (they don't necessarily have Phds)

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-percent-of-the-us-population-do...

Doctors chose Romney over Obama 55% to 36%.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/01/survey-doctors-choose-romn...

1.68% of Americans have a Phd (actually significantly more than I expected and significantly more than I think deserve to be handed out). I really wonder how many of these people do practical work. I can't find statistics to prove my bias so we will have to leave it as is unless someone can find some.
They once got everything right then screwed it up with the Google+ integration.
Yes I think in my case I need to push through that language learning stage where you have the documentation open constantly looking up methods, selectors... forums posts from other users on tricks and shortcuts. I was hoping blueprints were more intuitive, but it still has a complex syntax of its own nature -nice challenge.

Marketplace is also interesting.. very good, but sometimes the things sold could be assembled easily by just having the required blueprints. So I wonder if this creates a sort of restrained help community on the sharing and caring front of blueprints and solutions to common need such as "Info bubbles on any object! just $19.99 now from the market" and it's just a handful of blueprints essentially - at least for the non-asset offers on the market. Javascript has always been generous and happy to share code snippets and plugins and so on, but in Unreal there's this economy around that, which is cool if a bit cunning.
I read your comment and had a quick think, and it occurred to me that it's likely to do with nationalism. Most liberal political parties' views on immigration etc. tend to put off the voters you are talking about. Most of the right winged parties tend to emphasise (taking your example) British business and there's a lot of dey tuk urrr jerrbbs syndrome that comes from these types.
Just like to point out the members of the T9 lean libertarian.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150226234712/http://www.triple...

T9 (Triple 9) is a high IQ society similar to Mensa, but which only accepts members whose IQ is in the .999 percentile.

It's a non-scientific poll, but in my experience while lots of my college friends were liberal, lots of my professors and the smartest people I know lean libertarian.
The first stage for them is rebuilding Opera 12.

They're still be missing the IRC and torrent clients :)
What he calls out as stupid was the mistake of using those technologies for the UI.

Although I defended Vivaldi as the Opera Successor since its Beta, I stopped to support and suggest it because it failed to fix the js/css/HTML sluggishness with Version 1, and even more sadly with Version 1.2. I started using unofficial stable Chromium Builds with Codecs and Sync disabled via ChrLauncher and couldn't be happier.
I believe myself to be a liberal. However, I still believe that the question asked "Why are the highly educated so liberal?" in itself is a loaded question.
I must admit, I do like the thought of `theme-color` support being integrated into desktop browsers. It works really well on mobile. I know it's a more complex task on the desktop where there are a multitude of browser customisiations and themes to take into consideration, but this looks like a good attempt.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ui...
Is this actually true? Plenty of former Russians are very anti socialist, because of their experience with communism. They would say that their larger experience causes them to fear things that sound good in theory, but are terrible in practice. Either way, I doubt you could get away with saying they have a simple worldview without nuance.

I think your view really boils down to "i'm right they're wrong, so of course education and experience would cause anyone to be on my side!"
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Perhaps it is because state and national GOP party platforms specifically call out support for creationism and the denial of man-made climate change while no Democratic platform statements call for the introduction of socialism or communism? There is a difference between being right and being smug.
Well that's...a reach. There's more to the American liberal outlook than support for government programs. I'm guessing you didn't read the article; you might want to do that first and attempt a more substantial comment later.
extructure? why is that important?
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet in all the comments (or maybe I just missed it)is that a capital infusion can allow you buy talent and expertise which in turn permits you to grow faster.

In the article Rudzin worked for 20 years within the industry and he surely within that time had accumulated a lot of niche knowledge which helped him succeed.

Say X is a high school teacher with an insight that a better mattress is needed in the marketplace. She follows up on this and goes on to start a company that initially shows traction. X after a while will discover that her lack of knowledge in finance, distribution, negotiation, HR, legal etc (in a general sense, and on an industry-specific level) is a barrier to her companys development. Capital will help solve this problem by allowing her 'buy' and domesticate expertise within the company and and use same for expansion and growth.
> Pithy answer: because you aren't going to be afraid of something when you understand that it's not something you need to fear.

I guess we are all are against some things. For my own part, I don't see that when there is something I feel is wrong, it is always, or even usually, because I am afraid of it. Furthermore, some things (strong AI; synthetic biology), I have become afraid of by understanding some of it.

> Someone who understands how vaccinations work, why we do them, why they're made the way they are can't be afraid of them, and thus won't be against them.

Oh, my. I am all for vaccinations, but the reason is simply that I find the people who claim that vaccinations do not cause autism (or whatever negative consequence) more credible than those who claim that they do. It's not even about my own education, it's about what sources of information I find trustworthy. I couldn't possibly say anything myself about how vaccinations and autism are or are not related.
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Bugs are *not* the developer's fault
What probably annoys me the most about youtube, is that there is no elegant way to queue the next song easily and without a few second of 'buffer' between them.
I didn't say left or right, or Democrat/Republican once. I specifically chose examples that would reflect that both sides of the political spectrum get wrong.

The left doesn't have exclusive ownership of liberalism, nor does the right always find itself to be illiberal. Fear and ignorance however can abound on both sides, leading to illiberal opinions.

I'm sure some of those mentioned would be left and right, as well as anyone else you might want to bring up. There's parts of Aristotle's Politics and Ethics that would most certainly place him on the right of the political spectrum. But that's got nothing to do with liberal views.
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Great interview. The thought that stands out for me is the repeated assertion that fantasy UIs must serve the narrative first. That's analogous to the way a lot of people design UIs for real products in that they tell "user stories."

However, there will always be tension between that narrative-first approach and the real world where narratives don't exist. A real user, trying to use a real interface, just needs it to work. There's no audience, no dramatic tension, no character arc, etc. It just serves their needs in the moment or it doesn't.

In a story, the fantasy UI really is a pixel-deep metaphor substituting for the technological capabilities available to the characters. "Access denied" isn't really an interface, it's a visual way to communicate a complex plot point, just like all of the other crafted visuals in the movie. Nobody ever has to puzzle over a bad interface for the same reason nobody ever has to go to the bathroom.

But real UIs are more than one pixel deep. They're the Rosetta stone that translates between human thought and machine logic.

So when Minority Report makes up a gesture-based interface it's because they have to show the audience something plausible that they've never seen before. However, when a designer makes a real gesture-based interface it's because there's something their users can't do with the interface they're used to.
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There's some research that suggest climate change and evolution denial go up (by certain measures) as the respondants understanding of the issues goes up.

The answer is apparently that the smarter you are, the more likely you are to have absorbed this information, but also, the more likely you are to realise that your social group expects you to answer in a certain way.

For people outside the social groups that have rejected evolution/climate change, more knowledge helps rather than hurts. So it's not just about ignorance.
In the US the conservatives get those votes by pretending to give a shit about "values". Such as (subtly) not liking brown people, liking Jesus, etc. It is astonishing the votes you can get for free just making some meaningless statements that a lot of people agree with.
Why is Yahoo Answers still in existence? I'd be embarrassed to run a service like that where the average question is looks like it was written by an illiterate, and three-quarters of the answers are trolls.
Like Atom? So it is not unique. We can say this statement for a lot of software products being Chromium more special and from a third party.
The lawyers? I know them. Most have no understanding of the metric system. Their science education stopped in grade school.
IQ societies aren't representative of the IQ range they require. I have a feeling people who feel the need to join one of those groups are more socially disaffected and have lower empathy than the their non-member IQ peers, which certainly correlates with a libertarian outlook.

And I haven't found your comment about libertarianism being rampant among professors to be true at all. Where did you go to school? That would be very much outside the norm.
Fond memories of back then when WordPress was the fancy new kid :P

//edit: apparently they both came out in 2003 - but Textpattern seemed more solid and underdog even back then, even though I can't exactly remember when the Wordpress craze started.
Very true. The best unifying characteristic of that group is "music which critics have traditionally sneered at". Many of the genre labels in it are labels which were critic/industry-imposed, and were disliked or rejected by almost all the artists it was applied to - "New age" and "easy listening" in particular.

The author(s) of this page doesn't quite subscribe to those condescending attitudes it seems, but they inherit the framework from those who did.

Overall, in all the genres, the project reveals its biases by having extremely variable resolution. It's not a bad project as such, it's probably as fair as any such project can hope to be - but that's why we rather need quantitative approaches. Echonest's "Every noise at once", everynoise.com is a good example of that.