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Git supports external merge tools (per file type too). They don't need to be packaged with the base install IMO, and git won't support every language under the sun.

For example Unity3D are distributing one for their assets (which are not nice to merge as simple text)
Exactly this. I think some of the tutorials and introductions were a bit overwhelming with their huge dependency lists (see Polymer catalogue), and a lot of opinionated ideas about how to form a Polymer application. Core Polymer is so easy to pick up and flexible. It's been a joy to work with. Well ok, there's a few gotchas, and the build process if you're mostly rolling your own can be a real pain. But once you find your feet with it, everything works pretty well.
This article leaves out proportional representation and single transferable vote. PR is widely used in many democracies and should be considered for the U.S. Senate. Specifically, mixed member proportional which allows each district (in our case State) to elect one member to the legislature and then the rest of the 50 seats would be filled to create the closet proportion to popular support each party has. Single transferable vote, which is actually used in some democracies, would fit the House of Representatives quite well.

Duverger's law tells us that we will not see electoral diversity in the U.S. until we change the way we vote.
> But you still have to distinguish those who are not effective at all, contributing nothing, but who are still putting their name on the project.

You dont need an individual assessment to do that. The real work world is exemplary on that. People without degrees very often outrank and outperform people with degrees, either through curiosity or through other skills that make him a more important key member.

In real life if someone is regarded as unproductive by his co-workers is not re-tested individually for validation.
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Turns out decentralized is not as profitable as walled-garden cloud service with recurring subscriptions fees. Bummer--I too wished for your version.
That seems more applicable to your first response to me. My exact point was that there is a difference (your labeling my phrasing as "political sloganeering" notwithstanding).

It only makes sense to compare current society with historic oppression if you also equate us all with that oppressed class (eg the unoppressed class is what has vanished).

I'm not saying you can't find further examples of historic government overreach against the citizenry, it's just that slavery is not one of them.

edit: Actually scratch that, I see that the comparison was actually being made with torture, which is generally about non-citizens (I hope?).

I was addressing the larger topic of societal surveillance, and that to me seems like a definite new phenomenon rather than something comparable to past oppression. Although I'd say it's been created by technological change rather than political change.
My 13" ships back tomorrow. Keyboard befitting of a crappy laptop not a premium macbook pro, touchbar located where you hardly ever look (your keyboard), wifi borked on resume from sleep, fit and finish is poor - a disjoint ridge where the bottom panel and the unibody frame fail to meet accurately on the bottom rear, performance is below par regardless of what the reviews + benchmarks claim, intellij is not fast on this laptop.

USB-C wasn't an issue for me personally even though i have tons of electronics dev boards + associated junk i plug in all the time.
Well, I don't know. Were you speaking to us like we're real people when you dismissed Friedman as automatically worthy of extreme aversion, without even bothering to give any explanation or justification? Were you even speaking of Friedman like a real person?

I submit that you were not. You were in fact speaking like a person whose mind is made up, and who thinks that everyone else's mind should also be made up, and there's nothing that's even worth talking about or considering. I'm not a philosophy major, bored or otherwise, but that's rather close to my understanding of "epistemic closure". (Ah, however, actually looking up the term shows that it means something rather different. My bad.)
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Sorry, I know my comment is negative in nature. And I'm not saying someone can't or shouldn't talk publicly outside their narrow band. Just pointing out that when the few public interviews a founder gets are outside their actual venture, you begin to worry about the venture.
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An interesting PARC-like collective would be about 50 people working on ~10 projects, about 5 people per project.

As a project becomes successful, it grows to about 20 people, then spins out into a for-profit commercial enterprise.
> I find myself getting really annoyed with movie sound
> design now because it's so aritficial.

I don't think this is a modern phenomenon, and I present The Coconut Effect as evidence: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect
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there is a theoretical (never tested) nuclear powered propulsion design (project orion) but it looks like the point with this is to keep mass as small as possible, so that high-powered lasers can provide propulsion.
And the voice chat web interface just works!
I have an adblocker - and could read the article without tricks. The reason I'm not commenting is that I'm not surprised and don't really have anything to add to the topic.
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I could just as easily say the same about stoicism or Carl Rogers being on the list.

I mean, no, I'm not going to read Friedman's book. No, I'm not a fan. No, I'm not defending his positions. It's fine that you don't agree with Friedman. I don't agree with stoicism, either. But deciding that the list "took a dive" just because he has a book on it? Yes, you're being closed minded.
To me this feels like making a commit without unit testing first. When I find a conflict I like to be able to resolve it and then do some unit testing to make sure that my revision didn't miss anything.
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Not yet, but Breakthrough Starshot is working on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

The numbers they are putting out are probably more than a little on the optimistic side, but the project is definitely a serious attempt and I'd love to see it succeed.
Halfway through typing this comment I remembered that I indeed know of "Delft's blauw" (Delft's blue) which usually refers to a color used on pottery. So yes, I apparently do know Delft for its pottery, but much more for technology. Then again, I'm Dutch so I should know what goes on in cities here.
The anandtech forum is terrible. So much half knowledge and toxicity that even your average tech subreddit is a better choice.
Kaplan's review of Snowden: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...
Here is a much better (and the original source) article: https://www.theinformation.com/the-reality-behind-magic-leap

The article posted literally says: the Verge says that The Information says...

>"The Verge, which quotes an exclusive article from The Information, reports that..."
I suspect the use-case they have in mind are folks who have CI hooked up to Github (so using this feature will automatically trigger tests).
interesting how University of Waterloo was never mentioned given its heavy ties with YC, and that it was his main university.
That depends a lot on the field. At the more philosophical end of my discipline (politics) a good book published by a first-or-second-tier publisher (one of the major university presses, plus the best of the commercial publishers) is a major career progression requirement.

In my part (quantitative, mainly methodology) it's all done in journals and monographs are rare. It really does depend.
Thanks for the tip. That will be useful.
I used to enjoy circling around a cyberdemon and only shooting at it with the double-barrelled shotgun from Doom 2. I can't remember how many shots it took to kill it. The shotgun blasts were less effective from the safe range (couldn't get too close to a cyberdemon) but still packed a punch.
STV is a PR system, just one that retains candidate-focussed preference ballots and doesn't resort to party lists for who gets elected (MMP uses candidate-centered ballots, but also uses party lists to fill the additional seats.)
The question that Strangers tries to answer is: why do working-class whites vote Republican? The National Review doesn't answer that, it tells me how conservative elites think. I'm happy to read a primary source by someone in the working class but I haven't found it.
They should care about security. Exploited machines do disrupt their business (e.g. spam, hacked websites, hijacked extensions).
Arxiv for life man
I'd be happiest if he didn't exist, quite frankly.

But either way -- it's fine for him, as a human being, if he still needs to look up in an encyclopedia, or "ask an expert" what nuclear weapons are really useful for -- or whether the U.S. still has access to them.

But if he's that far out on the "happy-ignorant-foolish" spectrum -- then I'd greatly, greatly prefer that he not be placed in charge of the disposition of such instruments.

Are you with me on this?
It seems like the article is long way around of saying that people want or need nicer accommodations than today's shelters. The difference between a "shelter" and a "hotel" is (a) of/how you pay (minor detail), and (b) the quality of the accommodation (privacy, security, comfort).
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I think you would enjoy "How Nations Fail" by Acemoglu and Robinson, and the EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts.
I forget the exact wording of the quote I want, but it was something along the lines of "It is almost impossible to get someone to notice something if their continued employment depends on them not noticing it."
Same here, I don't see what's so laudable about marginal optimization / penny pinching. Anyone can do it and almost everyone does it, they just aren't in the position of CEO and so don't have their efforts multiplied by a factor of a million (assuming that what Rockefeller did was even optimization; I have the same doubts as hackuser). The "CEO feats" that most inspire my respect are of the exact opposite form. Jumping ship from a lucrative career to work on a default-dead startup, cannibalizing iPod sales to bet on iPhones, that kind of thing. It's not innovation if nobody thinks you're crazy for doing it.
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> Indian manager fresh off the boat

didn't help me understand the point of your story, but did cast doubt on your credibility.
> It's certainly not established that proportional representation is superior to good single winner systems.

Yes, it is. Proportionality in the legislature is a key determinant of public satisfaction with government amongodern democracies. See Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy.
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This answer doesn't quite satisfy :-)

This topic must be extremely interesting (good suggestions could increase sales by a LOT) and smart people must have been working on it for quite a while.

- What is the fundamental reason why this is a hard problem?

- What's up with the coffee tables specifically, could you, for the hell of it, look into that category and tell us what the actual related products are? Let us (fail to) guess how these products are related, but don't let us hanging :-)
The article is actually called

Clinton and Trump supporters really don't listen to each other on Twitter

However, even then the article says and the data shows:

Hillary Clinton supporters in this user group are not as cohesive as Trump supporters and they interact more frequently with users who follow both or neither candidate.

As opposed to:

This large cluster of Trump supporters on Twitter have little mutual follower overlap with other users and are a remarkably cohesive group.
I mean that you don't need Many-Worlds to generate the requisite multiverse to explain the apparent fine-tuning of the observed constants. Eternal inflation does the job nicely, and the argument that our universe isn't so unlikely applies exactly as well to a Many-Worlds multiverse as it does to an Inflationary one.
That's a shame. Didn't use to be like that. But that site has gone downhill in general since Anand sold it to some big media outlet. (With the exception of a few authors who were around in old times.)
Well, in common law, yes. In a civil law system, you just write something like "the preferred representation for development has to be publicly accessible", and you’re done.
They'd rather it shut down completely so they don't have to give it any more attention.
I tried Imzy, and I wanted to like it, I really did.

However, I found it slow, bloated, very unnecessarily political (in a deeply polarising way, which is bad for something that isn't going to be an echo chamber), and the signal to noise was absolutely atrocious.

I get what they were trying to achieve (and I hope things have improved since I left), but I think there's as much a risk of overestimating what Imzy can achieve as there is underestimating.
I'll add it to the list:

Teal and orange tone movies

Super hero pose on one knee

Braaam
I keep wondering why submitting papers to these journals is necessary. Does the research not stand on its own?

> I feel in those disciplines researchers are a big happy family

I feel the same way. ArXiv accepts submissions from any registered researcher¹ and it seems so much easier.

¹ https://arxiv.org/help/submit
A very easy way to ensure a website works even if not all your assumptions are met (e.g. CSS, JS, fonts are loaded properly) is called “progressive enhancement”: Build the system as good as you can without JS, then add JS on top for the things you can only do with JS. All web sites I created using that technique required minimal testing on systems without JS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
Are those the same guys that do tech support to family/frends/colleagues and install them the latest batch of add/js blockers?
I said "it's a valid opinion to express an extreme aversion to Friedman".

that's exactly what I meant. it's an opinion. it's not a claim of any kind of universal truth. it's a statement of taste and therefore does not require justification. I didn't anywhere say "automatically worthy of...". You said that. You're trying to put words in my mouth, which is a discredited rhetorical trick.

you are really getting carried away with word games. knock it off.
Cool. However, we're pretty settled on Grafana+InfluxDB and I'm not sure I have any real reason to deploy Chronograf. We'll see though.
So it took you 24 months to lose 50 pounds (and congrats, no small feat), whereas Ive lost 25 pounds in 2 months with much less effort. Sample size of 2, sure, but my approach sure does seem to be an order of a magnitude more effective. Why would I want to do your diet when it requires more work for less results?
I'm a huge fan of VimWiki and have years worth of data in my main wiki.

What are people using for their wiki on iOS? Right now I'm syncing with iA Writer. It works pretty well, but doesn't support links. It looks like Bear is promising -- it uses the same style links, but it doesn't sync with a folder of text files. Any others out there?
Here's my personal recipe:
* Call cable company and cancel cable TV

* Buy an Ouya (I was a kicktstarter supporter!)

* Buy an older (non-smart) LCD flat screen TV

* Download BBC documentaries

Never have to watch news and ads again!
And also you are getting to choose what you want to watch and when!

And seriously, what beats watching "Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity -- Jim Al-Khalili BBC Horizon" and geek out!
(1) I can remap Esc of course, but I shouldn't have to.
(2) I also use F1-F12 often. Them being gone and replaced by touch interface is awful for an experienced typist.
Holy crap this is depressing. I'm happy that the state of the art in economics, currently, is to post working papers and preprints online.

This has the side effects of papers being cited before being published, and turning out to be bad, but is certainly a huge net positive overall.

It's rare to not be able to find a free pdf preprint of an economics paper written in the last 6-7 years, which is great.
> if their continued employment depends on them not noticing it

A lot of these reviewers review for these journals for free, maybe because being known as a reviewer for a prestigious journal is beneficial.

But their livelihood certainly doesn't depend on it. A lot of these major journals pocket all the profits from paywalls, and don't pay the scientists who do the hard work reviewing a dime.

If there were a collective revolt, and all these scientists switched en masse to an open publishing system/platform, this scam would end then and there.
pretty cool.
You can get it back by making your bisect test function return "good" whenever it sees a commit with merge conflicts.
BRAAAM is first heard in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (8 years before Inception): https://youtu.be/3ME5jhsgmB4?t=53 (two in a row spot-on BRAAMs)
The notion that he "lacked the ability to leak carefully and strategically" because he was an outsider. I'm fairly sure he was more than capable of selecting only documents related to domestic surveillance if he wanted to -- that just wasn't his broader goal. However, I would definitely appreciate the argument that his status as an outsider rendered him opposed to the idea of leaking selectively. I think the author hinted at this when he contrasted "hackers" and "leakers", but it's still quite different from what you're saying.
Also, I don’t see how protomyth concluded that Carlos Lozada was one of the “people it claims to report on” (i.e. Tea Party supporters / working-class rural whites). From what I can tell Lozada is a journalist turned newspaper book reviewer who was born in Peru, lives in DC (previously NYC), has a masters degree from Princeton, and thinks Trump is a “totalitarian”. E.g. see another of his reviews, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/06/09...
I'm not sure trading child porn is really a market any business trying to make it in the public world is chasing. There maybe a lot of money in it, but the laundering is going to chew into your revenues.
Apple's support page on USB-C power seems to be a sign that all is not well at Apple.

> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201700

You can verify that you're using the correct version of the Apple
USB-C Charge Cable with your Mac notebook and its USB-C AC Adapter.

The cable's serial number is printed on its external housing, next
to the words "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China."

• If the first three characters of the serial number are C4M or FL4,
the cable is for use with the Apple 29W USB-C Power Adapter.
• If the first three characters of the serial number are DLC or CTC,
the cable is for use with the Apple 61W or 87W USB-C Power Adapter.
• If the cable says "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China"
but has no serial number, you might be eligible for a replacement USB-C charge cable.

For a company whose brand was for quite some time "It just works" to ask you to read a serial number, printed in gray, in 4 or 6 point font, off a light gray cable is dumbfounding.

Here's a photo of an Apple USB-C charging cable to illustrate what finding the serial number looks like. http://i.imgur.com/ffVLDYl.jpg

The serial number is right below the control key, if you're curious.
Has anyone figured out how to integrate a camera into a watch? Nobody would replace a phone with a device without a camera.
Yep, such is life with new tech. GenStage was 0.3.0 when we started using it. We'll be able to get this visibility once we update to a newer version (hasn't been prioritized).

FWIW, the buffer only fills up to the peak about once a month. Load shedding is the last ditch effort in catastrophic situations so that everything doesn't fall apart.
Oh dear. The exploit is trivially easy: http://imgur.com/gYy6CwD

Even if only exploitable on the lan side, you could make a simple landing page, buy some cheap ads, and start your own botnet.
> Two-party system encourages both parties to move towards the centre.

If you assume things (unimodal distribution of preferences and/or participation [propensity to vote, in simple models that ignore campaigning] that is constant across the spectrum and insensitive to distance between the voters preference and the nearest party position) that turn out not to be true in practice, sure.

In the real world, two-party systems don't usually encourage centrism, they encourage polarization.

The median voter theorem is a solid mathematical result given the very simple parameters it applies to, but has less practical application to the real world than many people like to think.
Invoking the concept isn't out of bounds, but having watched a decent number of presentations, talks, and interviews by/about this particular person, the lack of nuance in describing someone whose views seem especially easy to find was frustrating and likely deliberate. It took me all of five seconds to find Snowden's last tweet on the particular argument Gladwell references, which was about a week ago (bold font): https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/805868198138703873

Gladwell's uninformed gee-whiz speculation seems like an excuse to parrot the claim that Snowden "may have been the dupe of a foreign-intelligence service" without mentioning any evidence or even a clear argument beyond its appearance in a book. Maybe Snowden was that or worse, but the only argument Gladwell seems to construct to support the claim is that he was a dupe/fool because he didn't go Harvard like Ellsberg.
Also note that Fitbit can cover some of its costs (or enhance its profits, however you look at it) by wholesale spying upon its users.
I spend less time on sites that do not work without Javascript - I consider it another barrier towards "not worth it."

I have gotten used to viewing source for those that still pass the threshold. I use NoScript to block Javascript by default, only trusting sites I choose. And that sometimes only fleetingly.
Ok, I didn't fully understand your point. You disagree with the "dump all docs on Greenwald and hope for the best" method of leaking, as does the author of the article (and I do).

Thanks for responding.
I don't know if you're factually correct or not, but where do your assertions come from?