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States have gotten weaker relative to the federal government, so most people identify as being a US citizen rather than a citizen of their state. Keep in mind that Germany is smaller than California, a single US state; and Germans will send representatives rather than vote directly in the EU.

If you view yourself as a citizen of your state, then you want to avoid the problem of largely-populated states overruling everyone else. The Constitution split the House and Senate to avoid New York setting law for the whole country.

There are some bigger problems: States have a winner-take-all system to magnify their impact in the election. This encourages politicians to spend all their time on a few key battleground states.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Constitutional amendment that says, "The people voting for a member of the House also vote for a member of the electoral college, who is assigned to the same district". Then you'd see a few Republicans win in California, and a few Democrats win in Texas. And it'd be easier for 3rd-party candidates to get some visibility. There would still be a statewide vote for the electoral college members tied to the Senate.

There was also an amendment proposed along with the Bill of Rights related to the number of representatives. It was never passed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am...

Anti-Federalists, who opposed the Constitution's ratification, noted that there was nothing in the document to guarantee that the number of seats in the House would continue to represent small constituencies as the general population of the states grew. They feared that over time, if the size remained relatively small and the districts became more expansive, that only well-known individuals with reputations spanning wide geographic areas could secure election. It was also feared that those in Congress would, as a result, have an insufficient sense of sympathy with and connectedness to ordinary people in their district.
Coal in particular has seen vast job losses despite production staying the same. The main bottleneck in that industry is shipping & transport, which railroad & what west coast ports have the capacity and willingness to ship the coal after its dug up?

BNSF & UP are going to need some more land grants President Trump! Otherwise job losses will continue in that sector.
HAHAHA come on dude, this is just a "first 100 days in office" plan, it's used by presidential candidates all the time. You can't be serious.

Transparency? Accountability? Are you kidding me? This is the guy that brags about molesting women and won't even release his tax returns. Did you see who is going to be in his cabinet? Some of the slimiest and shameless career politicians of all time. Christie? Gingrich? When have these people been accountable ever?
See also http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/17/11097990/lenovo-motorola-h...

Pity, I'm very pleased with my first-generation Moto G, even if it's not powerful enough for Pokemon and seems to have suffered from Android bitrot slowing it down.
They did only have a sample size of 1 for each different drive type, so it's not exactly an exhaustive test.
Even if you multiply it by 3 it's a small codebase. And Phoenix does bunch of code generation from what I've seen.
StackOverflow often provides an answer to a specific trivial question faster then going through the docs. There is no point to memorize or read plenty of docs for trivial things such as 'sort array of objects by key', etc. I see no problem with this at all.
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If I remember correctly, quantisation occurs because of the solutions to certain differential equations in the geometry (eg of an atom, of a lasing chamber, etc).

The quantised states are the different solutions to that equation (the different energy levels + spin states in an atom.) - this holds for electrons in atoms being quantised.

The photoelectric effect, which has to do with incident photons, showed that you can't turn up the intensity of long wavelength light and ping electrons off things: the power input didn't change things, but a very low power of short wavelength photons did. Thus, Einstein concluded that there must be something specific about the energy of individual particles, not just the total energy stored in a wave. So it is observed in an interaction, but the information defining the final effect travels with the photon.
The resistance to safety nets is easy to understand: they are not optional (like an insurance, let's say) and usually the same people are paying for the same other people that are receiving. It is not a safety net, it is a transfer of wealth imposed by law.
Since we're discussing what the law should be, what the law currently is is moot.

You didn't mention the law when talking about "the women in my life".

> The medical view of abortion is that it is a safe, legal medical procedure

Why do you keep saying this? Who is disputing how safe it is for women?
Is it that partisan? As I commented to the original Medium post, making themselves anti-fragile to the inevitable party change of controls between administrations should be one of their highest priorities, but if they're nakedly partisan, they should just admit to themselves the whole idea was a failure† and de facto disband through resignations before the axe falls.

†And much more than a small failure if they're explicitly against the half of the nation that voted for Trump, Hillary's baskets of those needing reeducation or liquidation (the latter the "irredeemable" "deplorables" who "are not America"). If they, including most especially their members, were even the tiniest bit partisan after she made such an explicit declaration against half the country, their organizations deserve to be eradicated root and branch.

And to take your thesis further, replaced by ones that have very very explicit white line apolitical rules and even laws, see for example the military, which is expected to accept the lawful orders of whomever is the Commander-in-Chief, whatever their political differences might be.
That is the great suggestion, I will put efforts in this direction. Biggest obstacle on upwork is that they(clients) want much more customization on the same initially quoted price. They keep on adding small details and big back-end work. If i add extra usd on the work, they threaten to cancel the job(more like black mail!!!). They don't obey the milestone payment and think of you as slave!!!
Business isn't uniquely luck based that doesn't imply business books are useful, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM
I haven't read Amoruso's book but business books are generally mediocre because they usually are written with the same logical fallacies. Most of them are either a businessperson extrapolating their unique circumstance to the whole world, or they are a study of a few companies that have succeeded without searching for companies that have failed using the same practices. Every now and again there is a good "philosophical" sort of book that challenges the zeitgeist. Those are the ones I usually like to read.
I'm a South African. To be a one percenter I would have to take home a little over $40000 a year.

Converged wages sound great to me but I'm pretty sure every one in developed countries might take that a little personally.
Most of the advices can be extrapolated to the other fields of development. Not only the software development. But the goal should be highlighted: making the things done.
I think there is even a methodology for this: JFDI
It is bad reporting. The systems in question were used as a part of launching a DDoS attack, they were not the target of the attack. The high load then caused the systems to crash repeatedly.
>You can't deny that the administration is goal-oriented.

Okay? So fucking what? Saying "Today I am going to do everything I can to make sure I shoot myself in the face" is also a "goal-oriented" approach.

I can't believe what is happening to my country.
In my experience, embedded systems tend to behave poorly when faced with large amounts of traffic (normal traffic to these systems is tiny). I have once been locked out of work due to an errant workstation flooding the network with broadcast DHCP packets, which overloaded the embedded system which validates the key cards and unlocks the door (later permanently solved by moving the embedded system to its own firewalled VLAN).

As an aside: lovely Netscape favicon on that site.
The complex is more on the IMS side. Everything else in 4G is a bit simpler. Fewer and less arcane protocols, a bit fewer nodes.
Taxing wealth is a terrible idea, because it means every asset has to generate income each year to offset taxes.
Mobile has become almost a multi-trillion dollar market
This is what you do when you're looking for people on eLance/upwork/etc. I did this on my last start up and it worked amazingly.
Its more expensive than getting lucky but cheaper than getting unlucky and allows you to find amazing people to work with.
I've found that undeveloped land in low-demand, rural areas tends to go for about $2,000/acre. It jumped out at me in the headline that the donation was about the same rate.
> a lot of people with sociopathy

really?

Depressed, withdrawn, neurotic maybe, but sociopathic?!
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Yes, that's the idea behind it.
If you have an idea how to improve that, i would love to hear it
I was in Michigan just after caucusing for Bernie at home, and the sheer amount of people for Bernie or bust among the White, Asian & Black communities was palpable. 10 million less people turned out to vote compared to 2008, and those were nearly exclusively 10 million Obama voters.

Voters like this African American gal I met in eastern Michigan who did not vote after Bernie lost, or that of this great group of young Asian Americans who also supported Bernie but switched or did not vote after his loss due to extended family & friends (from the west coast nonetheless) telling them Trump was the only option.
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> It definitely was a bad move. I can't say I disagree with the sentiment, but it was not a smart thing to say.

That sounds like you think getting caught saying something like that was the issue, not the comment itself.

It's not the first time she's used language like that to refer to Trump's supporters. She was saying things like that repeatedly, in smaller audiences, throughout the campaign. I'm convinced she said it because deep down she's an elitist who really doesn't give a damn about anything besides money and power.
> The ACA is working great for people that make so little they get subsidies.

Not everyone. In NC alone, there are 377,000 people who make too little to qualify for ACA subsidies yet are not covered by Medicaid. That's a lot of people, and that's just one state. There are 19 other states that also don't have expanded Medicaid.

http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts-and-features/state-by-st...

Even with subsidized ACA, the Bronze plans are pretty shit. Average family deductibles in 2017 will be $12,393, with the average monthly premium for a 40-year-old costing $350. Other than 1 checkup per year and female care, these families get to pay $1,000+ per month in premiums (assuming 2 adults and 2 kids) and another $12,000+ on top of that before their plan does much of anything for them.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/26/obamacare-deductibles-are-on-...

Even with a subsidy I don't think it makes sense for a lower middle class family to pay $5,000-10,000 for 3-5 checkups, and $20,000+ if they actually need to use that coverage. Yet they'll be hit with a tax penalty if they don't do that.

How is this good?
In the Netherlands, 20 years (with early release after 13-14 years) used to be the maximum sentence, apart from life sentence, which actually used to be really for life. Parole is possible, but seldom used; release for good behaviour (after a certain minimum number of years) was not possible at all. The European Court for Human Rights actually recently forced us to implement an early release possibility. I think a few years ago we also got a 30 year option (with early release after 20), because judges weren't willing to impose a life sentence due to the aforementioned reason.

Also, 14/21 years is about 20-25% of one's life. I think that's quite a lot, really.
> One of the main objectives of Clojure was to be a hosted language. Not just 'language hosted on JVM'.

Uhm... I always thought it was meant to be a Lisp for JVM. Where did you get
your information from?
For what it's worth, I had this happen in Denmark last month.

During the couple of years when I lived at the end of a metro line in London, I must have found about 5 wallets left on the train. All but one were the type that just holds the transport card and perhaps a credit card, but still.
Prison sentences in the Netherlands for aren't imposed as punishment alone, not even mostly. They are primarily tools of prevention (including the prevention of recidivism). If a convicted criminal is no longer considered to be a threat to society what's the point of keeping them locked up? If longer sentences (longer than whatever they are) have not shown to reduce the crime rate through deterrent, why impose them?

Prisons cost money.
Maybe we're just very different. It would only take me minutes to whip up a few Django models, a few CRUD views and a Bootstrap frontend, but I've never needed to write a messaging system or DB storage from scratch (there are dozens of these off-the-shelf).

That having been said, most of my value is writing sane, readable, cohesive code that can easily be extended years later, with a minimum of refactoring. That's what has been most valuable to the businesses I've worked with, and employers love the fact that my team is the one with the lowest implementation times for new features.
Well, yeah. Reproducible builds are valuable. If you don't think so, then have fun trying to rollback to a commit that can only be built by building a specific set of commits leading up to it in the right order.
Yes, looks like they tried not to sway the vote. But yeah, I'm sure this isn't the first layoff in these states anyway, which is probably why they went Trump.

I wonder if there will be more layoffs and an offshoring scramble in the lead up to Trump taking office for fear of his administration enacting penalties, etc.
The best trucks are around 25 mpg highway, sedans can be over 30 mpg (it's a big category; a larger, high performance sedan will use more fuel than a smaller one and so on).

Which is comparable, but it also ends up being an extra gallon of fuel every 100 miles (on a base of about 3 gallons per 100 miles).
Uhh, I'd avoid Reddit & Quora, and add Github in there.
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>> but you're also asking me to burn a lot of free time.

I don't understand why you think improving your employment situation wouldn't be hard work.
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Maybe it is to protect the people who might be administering the medication from criminal and/or civil litigation?
Would it be elite to tax both activities relative to the estimated damage?

(Passenger miles really aren't so bad, an airliner with a few hundred people on it is doing a lot more work than a commuter's SUV)
They appear to be mixed with the recognition tasks.
Cool. 16 generations and that's it!
My co-authors and I wrote "Taming Text" (https://www.manning.com/books/taming-text) specifically for programmers (there is little math, mostly code) interested in getting started in NLP. The examples are a bit dated at this point (2013 publication date), but still applicable for someone getting started. Covers getting started, feature extraction and preprocessing, search, clustering, classification, string heuristics, Named Entity Recognition and finishes off w/ a simple Question Answering system. Examples are in Java. It is not an academic treatise.
The ridiculous comparison with parens only hurts your message.

I think a more apt comparison is comparing Elm to Go missing generics. Without do-notation I imagine that elm code is filled with a lot more awkward case branching.
Two words: industrial policy. Without it any likelihood of creating substantially more jobs than the the current trend goes out the window. The problem? Industrial policy is hard and requires some attention span. You can't just tweet it out.
there are more realistic choices (left, left/green, far left, conservative (but very centrist, even sometimes a bit left-leaning), liberal (unfortunately economic-liberal) and idiots), also if you don't vote for a mainstream party there is a real chance that they might make it (threshold is 5%). In the last years we saw more political experiments in the form of new parties. On local elections there is even more choice, depending on the state.
It's still not electing policies, but there is one party proposing such a plan (pirates).
You're being disingenuous by equating illegal immigrants with all immigrants - he never said he wanted to get rid of all immigrants. Those illegal immigrants are and were already breaking the law by the way, so his (apparent) intention is merely to enforce it more thoroughly. You knew this. When you engage in dishonest behaviour to prevent any form of concession, then indeed there is no point in conversation.
sure, I have an active profile on github.
I believe that the quantization of the photon is directly related to the idea the electrons can only move between discrete energy levels in their respective atoms.
As someone who worked at a large software company that suffered huge losses because of 1) client data loss caused by using unsophisticated tools and strategies and 2) accounting errors caused by a lack of type-safety: I disagree.
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All those measures will take a long time to take effect. You can't expect culture to change over night.

Luckily if you want results NOW, all you gotta do is outlaw marijuana. Nothing fills prisons like a War on Drugs.
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I agree and sorry for linking to dm piece (I'll be more careful next time). I see though the link was changed - not by me though (you cannot change a link after submission which would be handy). Also it would be more appropriate/accurate as it now appears that I submitted a link which I actually did not.

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I accidentally left this open in another tab for several hours and it got to over 550k score on generation 35. That was fun to see!
Considering it's running as a standalone script, how does it resolve its dependency on cljs.nodejs? That's a Clojurescript library, no?
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I want to second that, with the caveat that, if the exercise is unpaid, I am much less inclined to do it (mainly because I am too busy with paid work to take on more, especially unpaid).

I've interviewed with companies that gave all kinds of exercises. I have no problem with take-home exercises, if they're implemented like the article suggests. A few times I've gotten "do this exercise and we can maybe pay you a bit for your time", followed by them never paying and me never asking. If you decide to pay someone for exercising, tell them how much beforehand, and pay them as soon as they hand it in.

The best interviewing experiences have been with paid onsites for companies, even if I didn't end up getting hired in the end (I got to meet the team, work with them, they took me out to dinner, etc, it was nice).
To stretch the analogy even further: your family has become accustomed to having the neighbors' children cook your food and borrowing those spare vehicles whenever you feel like it.

They're not just hanging out in your yard, they're contributing to your household's economy and are friends with your own kids. In fact, your daughter told them to keep the pets in the yard because she loves them so much.

Suddenly asking the neighbors to build a thick fence and stay the hell out will get your other family members very upset, and also means that you'll have to do more cooking from now on. Tough choices for the family dad...
> so long as that energy is in the form of photons

Of a particular range of frequencies
They are doing something like that in Denmark. Seems to work well from what I've heard.
I'm afraid I don't have a satisfactory answer for you.

I just prefer to pass around functions/closures as values, and being able to invoke them like any normal function, instead of having to call an helper `apply`/`invoke`/`call` function on them (depending on the language)

That's why I said: "maybe more apt"... if OP doesn't care at all about that difference, and it's not among the details that they'd want to replicate from Clojure, it's perfectly ok to ignore
You don't really need point 3. It's implicit in point 2, because private prisons will allocate funds to lobbyists in pursuit of regulatory capture, resulting in 3.
Agree. But how many distinctive things are going down or not even being noticed. It's too difficult to find one that can work and probably investors are more reluctant to put the money in something new , cause now you need quite a lot of money for anything. I understand your point but most money doesn't go to innovation but to proven markets. They're afraid of what they don't know. Look how hard is the hardware market.
they could've funded 65 clothing stores as well, no?
"Just apply and let us sort that out" was exactly the advice I was going to give you.

Basically: you never know what exactly the team on the other side is looking for. They might try to convey that the best possible way in those 2-3 paragraphs the "Typical Job Description" format allows them, and still fail.
Or they might even not try that, because of some weird internal political reasons, or just a lack of job-posting skill, or plain unwillingness to bother.

So, consequently, the only reliable way for you to know if they're looking for a person with your skillset or not — is to apply.
80 MB/s would imply sequential IO. Much harder test if it were random IO - the drive head would move all over the place all day long.
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Cool!

Another (more modest) improvement is Uniform Cost Search[1] (see comparison with DA: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/SOCS/SOCS11/paper/viewFil... ) which then leads naturally to A* and bidirectional search which can be augmented with pre-processing. (Good summary: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/point-t... )

[1] Despite what wikipedia says, UCS is not the same as DA.
Well, interpreted languages like MATLAB and R can be annoyingly slow at times
Two long term trends:
automation
car sharing/hiring

Both mean that in the case of autos, Trump won't be able to bring manufacturing home in terms of jobs.
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To me, going in at age 20 and coming out at age 34-41 seems like a pretty big chunk of your life gone?
There are some things that people just have to learn for themselves. I think your comment is well intentioned, but there are any number of reasons why this may not apply for the OP. For example, at college age, you have no concept of the impermanence of things. Additionally, some people have no parents or have a different relationship with their parents such that spending time with them would be counter to the nature of their relationship.
Good lord you're right. The question on the landing page should be "are you for/against massive over engineering of client side apps?"