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You mean the heavily edited video that the group who did the so called 'expose' refused to release in full?

I mean the "heavily edited video" that, just, somehow, prompted the firing of the two idiots who said too much.

I didn't make up "Can't we just drone this guy", try looking at the results of this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=can%27t+we+just+drone+this+g... and see that the people she asked this of realized she wasn't joking. And that's not the sort of thing people should be joking about.

She won overwhelmingly, no 'wiring' required. There was a reason no one else challenged her.

If no wiring was needed, why did they do it anyway? Is the reason no one else challenged her the very fact that they knew about the wiring? There's absolutely no way this is pardonable unless you throw all all the efforts of the Progressives to end the era of "smoke filled rooms".
I read through the links in the comment above, and I'm not convinced by many of the arguments, including the theoretical voting situations, because it seems they are quite unrealistic in practice, while the current two-party system has many times given us a bad result that would have been solved by ranked choice. I'm thinking about actual Maine politics here. (Although I grant that this has the potential to change the existing liberal/conservative dynamics entirely.)

I'm much more convinced about the argument against complexity, because I don't trust the state government much to design something clear and simple, and it's not yet clear to me that ranked choice is "simple".

I hope they do.

In any case I'm very excited to see what happens.
I remember this happening at Google, but I'm not sure if it was the entire company or just something like eng-announce. I myself once had the wrong CL # on my clipboard and attached a random CL of mine to a bug that Jeff Dean had opened about a development tool used by every engineer (with very active discussion across the engineer on the bug). I don't remember these incidents being treated with anything but mild amusement, certainly not "email hell". This probably has something to do with the fact that GMail makes it pretty easy to block an email thread.
What problems did you run into with Angular?
I would say it arises from programming or scripting to solve problems. Think of something you do in daily life, and try to come up with an algorithmic solution. Don't worry about actual computability or your ability to code it unless it's actually something you're planning on automating by computer, of course.
have you been suckered into equity instead of good wage?

A good quality TEG should be able to sustain sharp memory LCD, but is that useful? Who wears watches anymore? People demand connectivity, you can forget any form of active transmission on recovered thermal energy of the body.
The heart of the problem is that what people think they're getting probably isn't going to match up with what they actually get. I don't think RCV is really any worse or better than FPTP (well it's probably a little better), but it behaves in a way that is going to offer weird results for people that they didn't expect. That's why it's bad.

At the end of the day, no one cares how we decide our leaders so long as their candidate wins. And when their candidate loses, that's when there are suddenly massive flaws in the process.
I don't think his patreon supporters would view their contributions as altruistic donations. They expect some output.
I think this is because most companies do pager duty wrong. I highly recommend the google SRE book[0] (notes here[1], chapter 11 covers oncall/pager). One thing mentioned in this book is compensation for being oncall. At Google we get fairly decent pay compensation for holding the pager, enough where it can incentivize people to be on the rotation.

(I'm a software engineer at google who is oncall at this moment)

[0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do

[1] http://danluu.com/google-sre-book/
The two-party system doesn't need any help. Preferential voting will give people the opportunity to vote for the candidates they prefer in the order they prefer them, rather than participating in the (media-driven) Keynesian beauty contest that the institutional parties force us into.
I used to work in Chicago, and the startup scene was never that great. People asked me why I left when I could've worked for Groupon or SpotHero.

There is nothing innovative going on in Chicago unless you're in the financial speculation industry, and its at least well paid.
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While this response seems 100% reasonable, I don't see how this it is any more effective in the face of "Climate change is a Chinese hoax" level absurdity. At this point with deniers it is religion so reason is out the door regardless.
There is an interesting article about HBase vs Cassandra et al here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3066358/analytics/hbase-the...

I cannot validate or refute any of it. Hoping some here can.
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That is why the argument made me so angry at the time- unfortunately, while the UK has law making it criminal to lie about your opponent in an election[1], there is no equivalent for slandering a concept (or institution like the EU) in a referendum.

[1] slander raised to a criminal offence, punished by forced resignation from the office you won by deceit, and prohibition of standing again for some years.
It's not a flaw. In two-party systems there's often a strong pushback on any system that would break the deadlock. Those arguments won't make any sense, but sadly they don't need to in order to convince people.
Personally I prefer working from home where I have the food I chose.
I wrote this in a sibling reply, but I'll post it here too. Perhaps we are talking about two different things?

I am talking about the efficiency of the voting system itself, and its ability to express the preferences of the electorate.

Note that I'm not talking about changes related to the election outcomes that such a shift in voting systems would potentially cause.

Put another way, it would seem to be efficient to move to any voting system that would allow a voter to express more preferences than just one, since then we're getting strictly more information.
> I think it would lend itself well to a CRM if you look at each lead as a document.

If the only thing you have is NoSQL everything looks like a document?
You could also pay an accountant for a year, and then you have a copy of the forms they prepared, and you can ask questions. At that point, you have a template you can use for future years.
i would love to dive into this further (both the science itself, and how we cross the bridge from science to policy), can you recommend any resources or papers (DOI if possible)?
you can divide that by ~100, unless you manage to keep temperature difference at 100'
Not a direct response to you, but if you calculate Carnot thermal efficiency with a skin temp of 37 C (likely too high), and ambient temperature of 20 C (probably about right), you get 5.5%.[1] Using this result (combined with yours), the watch has to run on less than 5 mW of electrical energy.

[1] http://calistry.org/calculate/thermalEfficiencyCalculator

P.S. It would also be interesting to see how much waste heat is removed in breathing.
I'm not convinced they prepare them for startups.
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Probably.

Bear in mind I don't live in the USA, so I don't meet all that many Americans.
Yes. At least for two reasons:
1) great community from which you can learn a lot. Which will also give you a feedback if you post your ideas.
2) quick and easy way to see which of your ideas do not work.
> So, you could very easily end up with a single-issue candidate being "approved" by the vast majority and winning, even though absolutely nobody would choose them over any of the other candidates.

You're asking us to imagine a scenario in which there is a single issue on which one candidate's position is very popular, but despite that, no other candidate who takes that position on that issue is acceptable to as many voters. In the kind of multi-candidate race that AV is intended to encourage, that seems unlikely to me, at least if the race is one of any importance. And don't you think the other candidates are going to point out that the single-issue candidate is exactly that?

Single-issue voting is certainly a problem -- one we have already -- but I don't see that AV makes it worse; in fact I think it would help, a lot!, by allowing races in which both centrists and more extreme candidates run.

BTW I agree with you that the Condorcet criterion is overemphasized.
Playing devils' advocate, should we not reserve the right to screen immigration based on the ideology of those entering? Would it be ok to, say, deny entry to a Neo-Nazi supremacist wanting to immigrate from Norway?
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The term "foreign born" means very different things in London vs. New York. I don't think it's a meaningful comparison.
This article was originally posted in 2014, the author Scott Santens pretends to take an objective look at UBI, but in reality Scott is "Writer and advocate of basic income for all" according to his website
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So what happens when you end up in the wrong prison? What happens if you spend 50 years in the hellhole and then are proven innocent?

>The aim would be that by the time the prisioner has finished their sentence their old life and self will be forgotten.

I know you're talking about the nice prison here, but if you hold that belief then what happens to the innocent person who has had 50 years of hell?
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I haven't seen a way to write in candidates on these ballots. They're scanned by a machine that detects where you drew a line, so I that would have to be detected manually.

TBH, I haven't looked hard for a way to write in people, and it's possible it exists.
Seconded. Have worked from home for 2.5 years. It would take a crazy amount of money to coax me into an office.
I was once part of a ~20k person reply-all chain. After a while I sent an email to each person who sent yet another reply-all asking to be removed an individual email explaining how dumb they were, in the nicest, most professionally appropriate way possible. None of them replied to me.
First: "captitalism" means "the ability of private property owners to gate access to their property to others." What you're talking about is "market economy," which is not the same thing.

Second: For a market economy to lead to the optimal outcome, it requires that rational actors make decisions based on perfect information.

We have large swathes of society set up to reduce the access to "perfect information," under the guises of "trade secrets" and "privacy" and a host of other values. In fact, as soon as there is any information assymetry, there is a very strong incentive to slant the market to favor the information holder, which leads to much less efficiency. We can fight that either by regulating, or by making it a crime to hide any information. Until now, we have chosen the former. I doubt that you are arguing that the latter would be better. That's the reality of the world we live in today.

Third: For the market economy to work, we also need "rational actors." We know from psychology that humans are nowhere near rational, and often act counter to their own self-interest. We also know from sociology that humans in larger groups are often easily misled from their own best-benefit path.
I think it's something that just happens once you have programmed enough. With that said, I would tell your friend to keep constructing ERD's for different business applications. When making ERD's becomes second nature, your brain becomes wired to break any situation down into a data structure.
I'm building a front-end stack at the moment as a private project.

The main parts are:

- type safety, in the hope that it speeds up development. TypeScript 2 is my main contender here.

- on demand module loading, so I can shrink the initial page loads, will go with Webpack 2, because it lets me use System.import() and automatically splits these imports into it's own files

- interaction flow control completely based on observables, because they compose nicely and with genertic types ease development quite a bit. Will go for Cycle.js (+xstream), because it's rather tiny and really everything there is an observable, data and UI, also it's written in TypeScript. Feels a bit like Angular2-lite.

- WebComponents based UI-widgets, because I think they should be independent from the rest of the application, don't know yet if I'd go for Skate.js or Polymer, maybe I'd even use custom components directly. But I like the Skate API much more than Polymer or the "native" API.

- data retrieval will be based on GraphQL with the hope that it will lower data-on-the-wire if the client has more control on that. I also hope that the GraphQL subscriptions (based on WebSockets) will integrate nicely with the observables. Apollo-Client is my fav here, it's framework independent and written in TypeScript, too. I'll probably use their GraphQL-server, too.

Every part is pretty much independent of each other (besides everything being written in TypeScript, haha) so I think I can use parts of it in future projects.

Server side rendering would be a nice to have, because it would enable the basic app functions on clients without JavaScript.
Instant runoff matches four of the postulates, including all three that FPTP matches. It is a superset of the fairness of the other, they are not "equally unfair in different ways" or anything like that.
Apparently what they wanted? There's no evidence they ever tried to use their overwhelming majority in the PMC to do anything that even remotely resembled control. What they did was fail to enforce rules, primarily around trademarks - they never did anything at the technical/engineering level that was even remotely controlling (and in many cases, they openly worked with engineers from their competitors to make it easier for those competitors to avoid forking).

- non-Datastax Member of the PMC
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"Launched […] on Indiegogo"

This should be a huge red flag.

Indiegogo is notorious for hosting fundraisers for technology projects that are impractical, overpromised, or even physically impossible. Unlike their competitor Kickstarter, Indiegogo performs almost no fact-checking on projects, which has resulted in a number of high-profile scams (like the Skarp laser razor, the DragonFly FutureFon smartphone, and the Triton Gills breathing apparatus).

The fact that their fundraiser is operating in Indiegogo's "flexible funding" mode -- which allows them to receive funds even if their goal is not met -- should be an additional warning sign. Real hardware projects have financial targets that must be reached to make them break even.
> Pager duty is essentially wage theft.
I disagree—it's a part of the job; I dare say it's an important part of the job ... equally important if you are a developer. You write software and you get paged when it breaks ... how is that wage theft? I find no feedback more effective.

What I do consider frustrating, however, is when I'm responsible for alarms/incidents that I can take no corrective action; this is how friction grows between teams: dev and ops.
If you get a Destination Unreachable at a firewall, what do you do with it? Unless the firewall has been passing traffic to the supposedly-unreachable destination, the firewall should drop it. Are firewalls mishandling this, or doing it too slowly?
Your pricing mentions case management but I can't find an explanation anywhere what erm... case management even is. Sorry I'm not in govt, just curious.
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How about just operating a sensor, then using skin conduction to network with another worn device with a transmitter?
The original use case with Bitcoin is to protect your financial sovereignty. Over the years more people have discovered that the features inherent to cryptocurrency can disintermediate many economic interactions and we're seeing more and more use cases built upon the technology. I catalogued a few use cases here: https://medium.com/@lopp/the-multifaceted-nature-of-bitcoin-...
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But the article doesn't argue for NO parking lots; it argues that FREE parking lots are the issue. The stores could stay open with paid parking, and could lower costs for non-drivers because they no longer needed to subsidize that free parking by charging everyone more.
Indeed, it's not my decision.

I'd like to use something we host, then we probably wouldn't need to have the EU cookie warning.
Most of the commenters here seem to think it's a dichotomy. There's many small, bootstrapped companies, where you can do some cool things tech-wise.
I agree he is of minor significance compared to Rousseau or Lenin. I mentioned those two in particular because it's not often recognized how Lenin consciously thought of himself as fulfilling the French Revolution as a Rousseauian. Theil's American libertarianism is also indebted to that tradition in a particular way. The ideological kinship is worth pointing out because it's somewhat provocative and unexpected.
A basic low-power microprocessor (like the MSP430) will run at 1MIPS at about 0.5mA. (Less when sleeping.) At 3V, that's 1.5mW. A Sharp epaper display, like on the Pebble, consumes basically nil when not changing, although I can't find data on energy use when updating. A traditional STN LCD uses about 1mW.

So I reckon it's plausible, just --- thermoelectric generators have traditionally been really inefficient, and I don't know whether getting 2.5mW of electricity out of 85mW of heat is possible. Particularly if you're like me and wear the watch quite loosely.

Edit: Datasheet: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/slase54a/slase54a.pdf

That's an FRAM model with non-volatile RAM, so it can power down completely without losing memory. It claims it'll sleep with the clock on at 450nA. (That's nano, not milli.) It also claims it'll run with the processor on at 120 µA/MHz, so the 1 MIPS figure I quoted above must be about 4MHz. I've never run one below that but I gather they'll go down to about 500kHz. Enabling peripherals costs more, of course, but you can leave them powered off until you want to use them.

So, yeah. Totally plausible.
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We've been a thermoelectric company from day one. We'd like to see thermoelectrics not only in wearbles, but also in smart sensors, medical devices, various IoT devices, etc. The watch just seemed like a good place to start because we would hear about people who would stop wearing them because they forgot to charge them.
He appointed Steve Bannon to be a strategist and advisor. Many were worried that Bannon would end up the chief of staff, which would have been a significantly more powerful position. Instead Reince Priebus is the chief of staff.

48 hours ago the meme was "Bannon is going to be chief of staff! What horror!" Then, when he didn't actually do it, the fretting is over how the chief strategist of the campaign is also going to be an adviser in the White House (which isn't all that surprising).

Not that Bannon isn't a POS, and not that Breitbart isn't despicable. It's just not helpful to inaccurately overstate his role.
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but a writeup on ieee.org has to mean they are vetted!

oh wait, its some blog hosted on ieee domain :), certain Australian is bound to make a video about this.
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part of that is not assigning value judgements to a communication style.

I disagree with this kind of pluralism. Communication style and skill matter deeply, but styles aren't simply "different but equal". In the current context, it's easy for technical people to dismiss everything but the "content", usually a kind of reductio ad absurdum to "technical content". But communication, by definition, involves the audience's perception. If your communication style inhibits your audience's understanding or even their willingness to listen, then you are simply a bad communicator.

Case study: some years back, I was heavily involved in hand drumming. A really excellent master drummer had recently immigrated and settled in my area. The community was very supportive, but the local students had a serious problem with him: he was an abusive asshat as an instructor. This was definitely a cultural style, one that was the ubiquitous norm in his home culture, particularly with a large body of children as the primary students. But it was absolutely off-putting to enthusiastic, self-motivated Western adults who were there to learn. They weren't making mistakes because they were lazy or dumb or inattentive, but just because they were new. Fortunately, community members realized this, supported him, and he switched his style in record time... to both his own and his students delight. His own skills and his ability to mentor were never in doubt, but his communication style utterly destroyed his ability to actually communicate effectively.

So yes, I'll agree that cultural understanding is really important for both the communicator and their audience. But there's a line to be drawn at outright abuse. Just because it's the norm elsewhere doesn't make it acceptable anywhere. Some approaches to communication are simply more effective than others. Failing to realize the human impact of your communication style on your audience, or worse, realizing that it's negative and doubling down on it, make you an ineffective jerk.
It's an unfair analogy to compare all of conservative values to believing the earth is flat.

Academics certainly has a liberal bias, after all, look at where they get most of their funding. Conservative professors are being publicly shamed and chased out of their positions.
While I think the argument that voters won't understand how winners are chosen for IRV is a bit overstated, I think it'd be completely true with the Schulze method -- its safe to say that the average voter doesn't have a strong understanding of graph theory.

Which isn't to say it isn't a good system; but its definitely a draw back. Supporting IRV seems like a good first step in which we don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Or that famous email telling everyone not to poach "his" employees. As if he has ownership over then like a feudal lord over serfs. Oh and that email ends with not very veiled patent lawsuit threat for anyone who disagrees? And you guys complain about your wages and working hours?

Maybe don't deify the guy who worked against you and your interests his whole career.
Well, there's a number of solutions. You can tie the properties to particular street locations, like immediately in front of their house. You can give parking permits to local residents, and disallow visitor parking in some or all areas. You can turn it into metered parking, for which local residents are reimbursed some or all of their costs (or from which they receive a share of the local parking fees.) You could even turn it into neighbourhood-owned "parking co-ops" where neighbours in an area determine the price and can trade shares in the co-op.

I mean, there's a large, obvious middle ground of solutions in between "nobody can park on the street ever" and "anybody can park on the street for free at any time". There are many options; you can ration it by price, by local ownership, or some other mechanism, quite easily. Indeed, almost everywhere in the city I live in where people rely on street parking, there's a resident-permit system. So, in effect, when people buy houses on that street, they're paying to buy a "share" of its parking too.