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> They're ignorant, sure, but it's hard to see things
> from another perspective if you've never really been
> exposed to anything else.

Are you sure they're ignorant?

Could they not be intelligent, rational individuals with the personal agency to have looked at the same facts as you and come up with different conclusions?
>Value is determined by what others will pay

Yes, assuming that others will pay for it. And perhaps an increasing number of productive individuals will. But that just pushes the question back one step. Why do those other people want to own Bitcoins? You see the infinite regress problem here?

(With fiat currency, there's a finite regress. It terminates with specific facts like historical government actions, gold, taxes.)
Nim is closer to that ideal than Rust, I think; Rust requires provable object ownership that doesn't go bad, Nim uses an (optional, but strongly suggested) GC.

Nim's syntax is mostly pythonic, and it's metaproramming language is Nim (unlike C++'s abominable template metaprogramming language).
Well, as a minimum, you might want to be able to customise the fields that define an entity, the relationship between different entities, and the workflows and processes that those entities may use to interact with one another.
This only counts if you aren't highly compensated for the unpredictable hours.
> There is a very well established theory of intelligence and scientific branch called psychometrics

Psychometrics is a field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement. [1]

It is most definitely not a theory of intelligence.

> I am not even sure if we need to understand it fully to build an AI

Indeed not, since it is completely irrelevant to how intelligence works.

> I suggest the book Superintelligence talks about these exact questions.

I've read it. A TLDR would go something like this: "Suppose we were to create an almighty entity which does not share our values. Could that be a problem for us? Gosh, yes!".

Wild assumptions aside, it makes no mention of psychometrics (of course).

> Semi jokingly, we understand much less of quantum theory than intelligence.

Quite seriously: absolutely not. Quantum mechanics is a perfectly well defined mathematical construct. It makes experimentally verifiable predictions. Our best, most precise theories of nature are quantum theories.

We have no theory of intelligence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychometrics
So who should support emergency issues? Nobody?
> Other than the large (well, not _that_ large) storage requirements (.bitcoin is currently 101G)

This has always been my complaint with bitcoin. Will the block chain download just keep getting larger and larger? Setting up a full node takes forever because of that. Is there any possible way to improve this?
Neoliberalism and neoconservative are very differvent, and both involve more than international trade. While support for neoliberal trade had extended beyond the Republican Party in the US by the end of the Reagan/Bush period (which both produced the Perot phenomenon as a reaction as Clinton largely backed neoliberalism trade -- but much of the Democratic Party in Congress did not, hence NAFTA implementing legislation being passed on the back of Republican votes), support for neoliberal trade and even moreso the domestic policy aspects of neoliberalism like privatization of public services remained much higher in the Republican Party (prior to the current election campaign, where things are more in flux.)

Neoconservatism isn't about mutually-beneficial free trade the way neoliberalism is, it's more about US imperialist foreign policy aimed at securing control of key economic resources and imposing privatization on the domestic economies of the new colonies as a means for US-aligned capitalists and corporations to secure control of key segments of the economy.

There's a little bit of overlap between the two in that Neoconservatism involves selective and forceful export of some of the domestic policy components of neoliberalism, but they are rather different ideas (and both, historically, more attached to both the political right in general and the US Republican party when it comes to US political parties.)
I assume all mails run over NHS controlled mailservers. Some administrator could just step up and kill/block the email thread, right? Shouldn't be that hard of a problem...
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RSS was all the rage back in about 2005. About time we tried again after failing to get it to work first time.
Queens is the most diverse place on Earth. http://traveltips.usatoday.com/indoor-attractions-queens-new...

Elmhurst Hospital has to have translators for 153 languages. (the article is also really good, would recommend it heartily!) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/13/every-disease-o...
You can certainly have a rational debate on values without much understanding of science, but rational debate on policies to reach those goals would be impossible.
This happened at Qualcomm once. I think it was an IT email too. It went out to most of the corp and what really started the issue was people's vacation/out-of-office auto-reply-all messages -- those really started magnifying problem. Then people started making it even worse by reply-all sending "remove me from this list!" etc. The most funny messages were the reply-all that said "Stop sending reply all to the whole list!" It lasted most of the day...
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No, it isn't true. If literally no voters would choose them over any other candidate, they're probably not going to get many votes.

All voting systems have pathological cases. The question is how serious they are and how likely they are. There's a tendency for people to look at one of these cases and think that it is disqualifying, but that's not the right approach. One should look at the whole picture.

Approval voting is a special case of range voting where there are only two values. For small numbers of voters, adding more values to choose from will help prevent the pathologies. For large numbers of voters, that's not necessary -- the statistics make it extremely likely that you get the right result.

Every AV voter has to decide where their approval threshold is. For a candidate that they're iffy on, are they going to vote for or against them? If everybody has exactly the same threshold, then yes, pathologies become more likely. But in reality the thresholds will have some distribution, such that a candidate that everybody is iffy on will tend to get voted for by about half the people. If no other candidate tops that, I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that AV returned the wrong result.
Agents to Cases to Leads to Contacts to Sales to Organizations seems super relational to me. Maybe you'd want some extra-schematic info in the form of a serialized column on each table, but that's about as far as I think you'd want to go.
Most of the comments here are focused on climate change denial and smattering of evolution denial. It often gets painted that science denial (and evolution denial) is something that conservatives do, that liberals are the tribe of science.

Here's a link to a talk from Jon Haidt that puts a different perspective on that [0]. I don't want to do his eloquence a disservice, but suffice to say, every group has their own flavors of science denial. The discourse just seems to mostly focus on calling out the conservative forms of it while ignoring the liberal forms.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kJkuuedw0
We can only read so much into that statement.

Did she say "I must have a diamond that costs a minimum of $15k, or else I'm leaving you"?

Or does she get kind of sad & blue & disengaged when he pitches alternatives, because she dreamed of a diamond ring as a kid?

The later is quite understandable. Even if you think diamonds are silly, it's a matter of fact women in the USA grow up surrounded by diamond culture.
> multi-winner RCV system

Woo hoo, represent Cambridge, Mass.

... our City Council and the Parks and Rec department of Minneapolis are the only two governmental bodies in the US that use Single Transferable Vote to elect a multi-body chamber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_use_of_the_single_...
> Jobs wasn't an asshole.

so the stories about him firing people on a whim weren't true ?
First of all what if I am lunatic xD

There are so many parts of C that are unsafe that a secondary tool is needed to have an reasonable type-checking and that tends to be devastating if they can be easily avoided by even safety critical engineers.

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...
"Toyota does not claim to have followed MISRA Guidelines"

And honestly I dont think we agree on what "a few" is. In my book if any more than 4 or 10 people die from a solved problem in computer science (like strong typing, mutexes, and range checking) that is already way too yes many

As far as decisions on a whim compare the two language design efforts and i'll let you decide:

http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=FAQ&...
"The requirements were not a language specification, but instead they attempted to define rigorously the needed characteristics in a form that could be critically reviewed."

https://www.codingunit.com/the-history-of-the-c-language
“It’s entirely Dennis Ritchie’s work”
Whatever you choose: for a CRM it's great to separate front end from the back end. So build a very good (REST) API, because CRMs tend to be connected to a lot of other systems.

Edit: looking at what you already considered, maybe: back end: Ruby, front end: VueJS
I have a very similar problem! I own a very short domain name, with letters that appear exclusively on the home row of the US layout keyboard. It accepts emails at the wildcard address, *@<my domain>, so I get a looooot of email from people signing up to services by hammering the home row of their keyboard randomly, with a dot in the middle.
Your point is right, but your example is terribly flawed, because as whateveracct notes,

> and therefore, human rights are an outdated concept

is a value judgement that cannot be derived from scientific principles.
The question is: Solving what problems, at what scale?

If you're a profitable company with a sizeable userbase, just buy Salesforce. It's clunky, it's expensive, but you can find contractors really easily to make it do whatever it is you want. Or you can learn the Salesforce platform yourself and build your final CRM on top of that. Welcome to enterprise IT!

If you're a scrappy start-up, or non-profit, with a small number of people to serve, you can use whatever you're most comfortable with. A single database (perhaps with hot replica,) a single application server (perhaps with load balancing for good measure) and you have everything you need. Use whatever you already know. PHP and Bootstrap? Ruby and Rails? Node and Angular? Doesn't matter.

If I were in the middle area -- successful company, lots of customers, but not actually at the point where I need the Salesforce behind-covering and easy contractor access -- then I would probably use React for the front-end GUI, and Haskell with Warp for the back-end services, hosted on top of MySQL or Postgres, with Redis for data caching, plus some scripts to make creating bread-and-butter tables/indices/queries simpler and less repetitive.
Like the poster above, I kind of like having an "escape column" for "annottation data" stored in JSON, although it can simply be a plain TEXT. As long as you don't need indexing, it makes adding new columns easy even if you have a table that's too big to change online.
If you have to ask a question like that, you probably shouldn't be writing your own CRM.
There are some good comments critiquing ranked choice voting from people who seem much more informed / involved than I am. I suggest you just scroll through the comments a bit rather than get it from me (if you can't find them, I'm happy to dig some stuff up).
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Launchcode certainly does[0]

[0] https://www.launchcode.org
It happened in Italy and it can happen here too (2011)
Would you please read my post and notice I was referring to the formation of the current Latvian independence, and events of 1991? Not the wars of 1918-1920 of which I am quite well aware, thank you. (I even have some distant family members who were fighting in the related, similar war in neighbouring Estonia at that time.)
You may want to check out Hyperlinq, a C# library for statically typed HTML generation. It also statically types the HTML attributes. Example code:

H.head (
H.title ("Hello world"),
H.link (a => a.href ("/favicon.ico").rel ("shortcut icon").type ("image/x-icon"))
)

Having used it on a website that I've had to maintain for years I can say that the simplicity of writing reusable components and ease of refactoring is really nice. It entirely negates the need to use a view mechanism at all - you just write your views in C# code.

The links for github and nuget are:

https://github.com/hyperlinq/hyperlinq
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Hyperlinq

I should mention that I use Hyperlinq in conjunction with MarkdownDeep. Markdown is great for defining HTML fragments that are very document-oriented, as opposed to data-oriented. So for instance I'd use markdown to define an FAQ, but would use Hyperlinq to define HTML for a customer record. Markdown fragments can be inserted into a Hyperlinq DOM as literal nodes (the underlying mechanism for Hyperlinq is Linq to XML), so the two approaches mesh together nicely.

I wrote the library ages ago but put very little effort into promoting it as I'm too busy.
McDonalds doesn't really belong on the list as they include employees of franchises. Or if does than there are some other organizations that belong on the list as well -- such as the Roman Catholic Church.
If anyone working on Office 365 OWA is about, please make the Ignore button front and center if the To is a mailing list.

One can right click and then Ignore the thread, but presumably nobody is aware of this or we wouldn't be having this conversation.
I guessed you missed this little bit, emphasis added. Albeit, it's showing their approval of other people's speech, who did much worse than "calling him names":

Caught off guard by Hillary Clinton’s election defeat, Democrats who defended these powers under President Obama may suddenly be having second thoughts as the White House gets handed over to a man they described — with good reason — as “unhinged,” and “dangerously unfit.”
The whole article is based on a false premise - that Trump will be able to use a drone program ONLY because Obama developed it for him. Otherwise he would have been sitting in the Oval office, wringing his hands, wondering what to do. Which is patent nonsense - Trump could have (and quite certainly would have) developed his own drone program even if Obama had banned drone strikes. The same as with torture. Of course, Obama's work will give him a head start, but no more than that.
Of a community dragging their feets while avoiding to upgrade at all costs, with developers being forced to backport features into the 2.x branch.
Why does it cost nearly a million dollars to print new ballots and update the firmware in existing ballot machines?

Specifically regarding the ballot machine update, if the installers are charging ridiculous prices when I'd bet others would be willing to start an open source project that met security needs
One of my favourite days at work in a large bank was when someone sent a boring email to the wrong list. It was a big list. A few people replied all saying "can you remove me from this list please". Then more people replied saying "can you please stop replying all on this thread". Then people said "can you remove me from this list please" again replying all.

The mail servers slowed to a crawl. We had thousands of emails. It began at 9am GMT. Eventually after about 3 or so hours everything calmed down and we could send mail again, albeit with a large delay.

Around 12:30 the US workers began coming in, openend outlook and saw all the emails. And instead of scrolling down they sent an email, reply all "could you remove me from this list". Again people replied "stop replying all" on reply all. We were up and running again! Mail was down for the rest of the day.

The next day some people who were off the day before came in and there was again a brief storm, but sadly this one only lasted around 30 minutes.

One of the biggest banks. Lasted a whole day. We christened it "moron storm".
A property owner that allows the public onto their property needs to have insurance against claims that members of the public were injured by the property owner. Such claims can arise out of accidents that happen in the normal course of walking. The claim process itself is expensive to use for settling claims, regardless of the outcome, therefore the insurance premiums are significant.

It is cheaper therefore, to only admit into the parking lot the cars that belong to the customers of the property owner, because there will be less people who could press claims against the owner. When the owner's business is closed, it behooves the owner to enclose the parking lot to keep out people who aren't customers.

I suggest that non-free parking that belongs to a parking company would be preferable, on the above reasoning. Plus fewer spaces would be needed since the company would have no reason to make you move your car if you wanted to patronize a second business.

I patronize a bar where I have to find on-street parking most nights. It is across the street from a supermarket that has a mostly-empty parking lot. I understand why the bar patrons are not permitted to use the supermarket parking lot, and I believe it were best that that parking lot was instead a paid lot open to all drivers. I think about this as I walk to my car.
> There's a large online anti-global warming movement that needs to be addressed. Actually, there's an anti-everyhing movement (e.g vaccines). The general public is not going to know who to believe.

IMHO the problem is that the conservative leaders (political and otherwise) and media have made a norm, a social requirement, out of ideology uber alles - over facts, wisdom, respect, the welfare and lives of others, and even democracy.

It's not the first time that's happened in history, but the results often have been very bad. We can no longer stand by and let it pass politely and passively; that only further legitimizes it.

I don't object to conservative ideas, but ideological movements of any stripe are a danger to society, and the current one exists among conservatives.
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Personally speaking, enough of my side projects never made a dime that I decided a while back to wait until I made $1 before incorporation. This has saved me quite a bit of hassle.
It should be opt-in not opt-out. AT&T saving cash by messing around with peoples' video streams is the opposite of what a good ISP should do.
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Ireland has a population of ~6.5 million. At 30k/representative, that gives ~216 representatives. In practice, not all the people in Ireland vote (e.g. some are children), so you get 150-160 representatives per your citation.

The US has ~200 million registered voters [1] and the number actually eligible to vote is somewhat higher than that. But if we go with the 200 million number, at 100k/representative you get 2000 representatives. That's a lot more unwieldy than 150-160 in terms of actually getting anything done. Yes, you can meet with your representative and all, but that representative may have no effect on pretty much anything in practice.

I'm not saying "435" is some sort of magic number that is obviously the right number of representatives, of course. But it's not obvious to me that 2000 is better.

[1] http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/how-many-registered-vo...
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The problem isn't faith, it's narrow-mindedness about how the divine interacts with the world. God is bigger than you and doesn't hew to your preconceptions of them.
I'm not so sure about this. The whole point of forming the SMLLC is protection and liability. It's difficult to generalize some of the author's claims.

IMO this needs a citation:

> In such situations, the plaintiff in a lawsuit against the LLC will ask the judge to set aside the asset protection associated with the company by claiming the company is a sham since it has no records and no Operating Agreement. In many cases, the court will agree and the single member [that’s you] becomes personally liable for the business debts.

That said, I am curious to hear more about whether adding a minimal second member, such as a friend paid $1/year makes any difference.

Disclosure: Single-member LLC owner. In my case, it's a purely software development company, so assets are minimal.
The same people who do this is other industries. Paid staff scheduled to work those hours. Honest question: You didn't know that?
I advise you to have some fun trying out Java puzzles now that Winter is coming.
It's been quite a few years since I was last an Exchange administrator, but I seem to recall that you could secure a distribution list such that only authorized members could send mail to it. Perhaps (hopefully) only a relatively small group at NHS are allowed to mail all 1.2M mailboxes, and within that group there are 120 very silly people.
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Race is a social construct.

Edit: I'm 50% Ashkenazi, we are prone to Tay-Sachs disease, caused by a genetic mutation. Does that make me a member of a separate race.
> What am I missing?

Um, this:

> (except as set forth in the App Store Content section below)
> Could they not be intelligent, rational individuals with the personal agency to have looked at the same facts as you and come up with different conclusions?

No. Just as someone that says 2 + 2 = 457 is also wrong.
Is Bernie going to run at 78 do you think?
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Getting real tired of coal miners, their expired jobs and their voting rights.
I personally haven't experienced any performance problems, even on lower end devices (only the ones where the whole OS is sluggish).

I don't know what Discord has seen there, so I don't know if that's been resolved. They also state that transitioning to React-Native on Android would have been more time than on iOS , which doesn't mean that any alternative like Xamarin would have been better. It also reads like the team for the respective platforms is around 1 person big and they already have a running version for Android, so the cost of a rewrite and the time to retrain would not have been worth it, which is reasonable. On a greenfield project, different conditions apply.
> Do you wait for people to get mad at you

Who cares? If they get mad, they get mad.
People just frequently complain when a candidate didn't get 50% of the popular vote in an election. I think it's silly, but it's common. Many people's argument in favor of this initiative is seeing that 50% number. If it doesn't actually produce that reliably, then it's not solving the problem people want solved.

Personally, I don't mind if someone wins with 43% of the popular vote. I don't even mind FPTP much, and yes, I mostly vote third party. But from other people in the state, that 50% number was a concern, and I don't think this addressed that adequately.
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TL/DR: Email sent to 840k addresses wrecks havock on email servers. For context why I find this particularly funny, here is the famous I Survived Bedlam 3 DL story: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2004/04/08/me-t...
Not on that subject, no. It's not reasonably possible for a person to look at the known facts of modern biology and not believe in the process of evolution.

Things intelligent, well-read people can disagree on: fiscal policy; democracy versus republic; abortion rights; single-payer healthcare.

Things so overwhelmingly shown to be factually true that it's not a sign of reasonableness to debate them: Earth and life are old; vaccines don't cause autism.