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The fact that Obama wasn't as environmentalist as some would have liked doesn't change the fact that Trump is clearly much much less so.
A democratic republic is still a democracy, albiet an indirect one.
It's also difficult to get consensus when you have several large demographic groups with radically different cultures.

To take the South as but one example, the average African-American lives in a world that is completely different than your average white Southerner. The interaction on political, social and even geographic levels is extremely limited. They may as well live in different countries.

Then there's regions like New England that don't interact with the Southern group, and the West Coast which does its own thing as well. You're left with these quasi-independent groups of states that are thrown together under a single national banner and forced to pick who gets to drive every four years.

Spain has a similar problem, as does Belgium, and in more extreme cases such as Iraq where stark religious and tribal differences make conflict very difficult to reconcile.

It's not population, it's consensus, and that gets harder and harder to achieve when you have large, demographically incompatible groups.

No amount of fussing with the rules is going to fix this. Weakening the Federal government and empowering the states could alleviate some of the pressure, but it also puts a lot of people in a very bad place: They have to pick between living with their family in the place where they have a lot of roots, or cutting loose like some refugees for another state that will treat them better.
I would be interested to know, of those people that love Firefox, how many are on Windows and how many on OSX.

I love firefox on Windows, and really don't like the font rendering of Chrome on standard DPI screen. Firefox feels snappy and responsive.

On my Mac the opposite is true. Firefox feels significantly slower, and the font rendering is horrible, especially light text on dark backgrounds.
What do you think of range voting?

http://rangevoting.org
Sorry your link to that list is a joke. Half of the people on the list are not active or even elected politicians. One (Susan Collins) was happy to voice support AFTER the state voted for same sex-marriage.

You're talking about a handful across a political party of thousands of virulent anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-science elective officials.

Who's going to vote for Progressive Republicans? No Republican.

Funny but already we have Republicans ready to spend billions on a stupid wall. Data shows over and over that it's Democratic Presidents that provide the most stable and fiscally responsible administrations.

Your arguments are full of holes
That was a problem in the early days. Expert systems could support root-cause analysis or justify themselves whereas neural nets couldn't. The new things are close to neural nets in operation. I'm doubting they can do it by default given that. Be interesting to see if anything is developed along those lines given work such as visualization of various layers of deep learning in pattern recognition.
They are not mutually exclusive. The united states is a democracy.
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I think many would make the argument that not enough is being done environmentally and that more action needs to be taken. Cutting funding to the EPA and lifting restrictions are reversing the progress that we have made environmentally in the past couple decades.
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> that is like saying drivers with licenses have a monopoly on driving.

The critical difference is that there's no limit on the number of people who can get standard driver's licenses, but there is on medical licenses.

It's not just the AMA directly, though. Residencies are funded federally, I believe. I'm pretty sure the numbers per specialty are centrally controlled, but I'm not certain how the process works. And I don't know who limits the medical school slots, but I'm under the impression medical schools can't just increase the number of students at will.

All that being said, keeping the supply artificially low probably has some benefits.
Nop. There is huge amount of vested interested in denying climate change. All the big industries including oil, gas, coal have regularly sponsored "studies" that would twist facts and have spent enormous in lobbying to push back on climate change theories. Many other industries such as automotive has interest in curbing regulations that says reduce pollution by x% by y year. Climate change affects almost all of the manufacturing in one way or another.

Thing is that once you accept climate change as man made event, the immediate consequence is asking all the businesses to spend extra on minimizing impact. That never goes well with businesses. My theory is that republicans initially started denying climate change due to lobbying and then they had to take that as religion because science doesn't support it.
No one is talking about staffing. We're talking about the executive gag order and similar policies. The number of employees is irrelevant if they aren't allowed to communicate their findings in a transparent way.
Yes, I expect goverments to vet release of data by all statistical agencies. Unemployment goes up? Just withhold the data! Problem solved.
Yeah, specifically GCE
The democracy is nominally functioning "by design" and by that I mean the law is still being followed.

I'm convinced there are spiritually two Americas here and I'm not sure the founding fathers could have forseen that. There are slow-motion economic wars happening. They are happening at a global level between China and the US and they are happening at a national level in the US between the red and blue states.

I don't think the founding fathers could have forseen the exponential growth in the haves and have nots.
Right now, the electoral college lets large metro areas override the preferences of rural voters in their state. The rural voter in Michigan gets outsized representation, the urban voter in California gets downsized representation, and the rural voter in California gets no representation at all.
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NYT does do that sometimes, but I think in this case the submitter probably rewrote it—which please don't, unless it's misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
That is the kind of prediction that people will look back on and say "I can't believe the hubris." MYCIN had better diagnostic performance than infectious disease experts by 1979 (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/36660...) and in the 1980s the question was "How soon will expert systems replace human doctors?" Putting a number like "5 years!" is asking for disappointment.
Just installed a fresh FF Developers edition, no addons.

Comparing to Chrome's current beta, with about 15 installed/active addons including uBlock Origin.

Firefox has Gmail + https://www.nytimes.com/

Chrome has Gmail + 2 windows, each with 30+ tabs + https://www.nytimes.com/

Pressing <Space> in Chrome to page down in https://www.nytimes.com/ -- completely smooth pagedown

Same in Firefox -- significant lag, jitter, tearing. Pressing <Space> the second time -- don't even see animation, just see the page offset jump.

I'm on Sierra 10.12.2 (16C67)

This is what's stopping me.
I'm not sure Trump optimized for anything. Rumors from his inner circle suggest he didn't expect to win, and was surprised when he did.
There is a good "This American Life" episode that touches on this argument somewhat. Due to mismanagement and zoning issues, students at a low-income and underperforming public school in Missouri were forced to go to a wealthier and better performing school a few towns over. The daughter of a family profiled for this episode demonstrated significant gains in her grades, vocabulary and social life. She isn't alone; there is data that supports that "integrating" students like this improves performance in kids that would typically underperform at a less accomplished school alone.

My fiancée, a HS math teacher for eight years, saw this in her classes too. The smarter kids (the kids that got the material quicker) would catch up the kids that were lagging behind. While she did have to prepare more nuanced lesson plans, she did see improvement in kids with similar characteristics of classically-underperforming kids she taught previously.

Given this, I think smart schools do humanity a great disservice.
We already have them; they're called mobile homes.
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Hi Gordon! Nice to meet you :) I am the author of the article, and I am quite fond of Espruino, it's a great project. Wasn't aware that Espruino has FFI API!
Book please. Link please. More please.

Awesome reply.
Didn't he admit in an interview that this was a joke? Edit>> Found the source http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-china-created-cl...
Trump can do what he wants because his party now has control of the Presidency, the Senate, the House, AND the Supreme Court.

It was a huge, overarching win granting Republicans unprecedented power. Much like Obama's 2009 win which gave Democrats a ton of power.

There's nothing "single person" about Trump's victory. The fact of the matter is that Republicans won more States, Representatives, and Senators in local elections across the country. So yeah, the Democracy is working fine, as long as you sorta ignore the electoral college stuff.

Believe it or not, that's what people "wanted". The Democrats IMO were just too lazy with the get-out-to-vote attempts and support Clinton. The Republicans wanted victory more, and managed to pull it off.
That isn't the alternative. The alternative is to let the sum of each equal individual vote determine the outcome. Metro areas don't vote. Neither do farms. People vote. Just like most of us presumably agree that gender, ethnicity, etc. shouldn't affect the impact your vote has, I don't think that the amount of land you own or the population density of the area you live in should affect the impact of your vote.
At this rate pretty much everyone is going to have to march in some capacity at some point in time.

Amusing that grammarians have already marched on these "Scientist's".
"most of the rest of the country" by square miles, perhaps, but citizens are not square miles. Why should someone's vote count less because they happen to live in a more densely populated area?
Is there an API? Can I export my data?

I'd be interested in using this if I can get the data out. I've been posting everything I eat and drink to my own website for the past few years, sometimes with photos sometimes just text. I'd love to have a better workflow for doing that!
> And in Go, which has a 19-by-19 board and over 10^150 possible positions, even an amateur human can still rout the world’s top-ranked computer programs.

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"Click here to read full interview"

takes you to..

"Sorry, we can’t find the page you’re looking for."
Access to information is being attacked at the State level as well.

http://www.wyomingnews.com/news/wyoming-court-ok-to-charge-f...
If you want to support eval, then the whole parser/compiler needs to be on the device.

But do you really need eval?
> Crime is falling in the long term, not rising, at least in the US.

According to this[1] crime rates in the USA are higher than they were in 1960

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
I was 4 when such a system collapsed around me in the Balkans. It was interesting, I don't remember much, but 25 years later a lot of the politics still revolve around it.

Arguably the US 2 party system is still better than the Yugoslav 1. And while the multiparty system common in much of EU is crazy inefficient, it sure makes This Current Problem high unlikely.
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We have single player in Canada and it's even worse. I have to book one appt to get referred for a blood test, another to take the blood, and then another appt to get the results!

There's even a big sign at the doctors office that says "only one health issue per appointment". Why? So they can scam the system for more cash.
North Korea is a Republic. Communist China is a republic. The Soviet Union was a republic. Russia is a republic.

None of them are democratic.

Canada is not a republic. The United Kingdom is not a republic.

Those countries are democracies.

The United States is a republic... And a democracy.

All that being a republic means is that you are not governed by a monarch. Whether or not you are a democracy is completely orthogonal to whether or not you are a republic.
That's quite a lot you've taken away from one anecdote.

ACE-inhibitors are well-known to cause a cough but not like the one you're describing.

If I was to guess I'd say he had a respiratory tract infection that magically disappeared (as they do) not long after ceasing the medication. This is a common type of scenario where lay people get confused about correlation and causation, and is one of the reasons you need doctors to help you.

Even if it was the medication, like I said, this sounds like a somewhat unusual case.

You'll probably spend the rest of your life thinking the doctors didn't know what they were talking about, but in my experience with doctors (I have a lot of that since I'm a doctor myself), even the "median" ones are far better at diagnosing things than lay people.
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mJS appears to include the parser and compiler, as it seems capable of running code dynamically.
It specifically names propaganda sites. The problem though is that the definition of propaganda should not lie in the hands of google alone. Never hand over shackles that could one day be used on you.
Around man-made structures you'll not appreciate it because the trend is the opposite, we usually gain land to the sea with construction. Shoreline of San Francisco in 1900 probably reached far beyond the actual point in the developed areas.

Water lines are not necessarily indicative and we didn't have satellite pictures or detailed measurements 100 years ago but you can definitely see the sea rise affecting some areas in the world, like islands in the Pacific Ocean or the extensions of salt water marshes. In satellite pictures is posible to appreciate the change the shape of the shores in some points of the globe, if you have a good resolution capture, comparing pictures of just a decade ago.

Here's the kicker. You don't even need to see pictures. We have constant detailed measurements of sea levels (better than water lines) taken all around the planet going back to several decades.

If you want to check them, NASA has a great page for it. http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ (and yes, they have pictures too).

And if you think NASA is somehow biased, you can check pretty much any other environmental agency or space agency in the world.
It's not doctors. I am working on software for the OR right now and I had never taken a biology course. The amount of stuff you need to know is IMPOSSIBLE. No, it is literally impossible. The human body is beyond ridiculously complicated and this is why most doctors pattern match for everything they've seen before.

This is why, if I were an MD, I would be latching on to ML as quickly as I possibly could. There is a TON of money to be made here, sadly, I do not have the domain expertise to make it, though I am picking it up pretty quickly.
My example assumed US reasonable size city salaries.
Since I cannot answer you, I will answer me.

That depends what you mean by "safely". Plenty of countries charge property taxes, and many have eminent domain laws which can force you to surrender land. Property is not absolute, nor do I think it should be.

Of course property is not absolute, it's you who said it, not me.

Which is why I don't think these kind of economic decisions should be considered Human Rights.

That's not a good point. Free speech is a human right and it's not absolute, is it?

Anyway, you're missing the point. What we are talking about (if for no other reason, because that was TFA's point) is safety for personal wealth that was acquired legally and after due taxes are paid. We're talking about arbitrary seizure, not about taxes.

Actually I have learned today that for some reason, there is people that conflates them. So it's either communism or wild capitalism. Honestly I didn't expect that.
Because one person, one vote. I don't give two shits how many acres you own, you should get one vote (and that was the justification from the beginning -- a compromise so slaveholding scum would be overcounted). The country would have been so much better had Sherman executed the treasonous slavers, rather than burning the land. But alas, the story of the US is "well-meaning moderates" bending over themselves to placate backwater racist scum.
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I actually don't consider their intentions to make any difference here. But the damage they are causing is real, and it spans many areas way beyond iOS itself. So IMHO there should be some way to prevent it legally. But again, may be current law doesn't address such situation. Then it should be fixed.

HLS is just one example. I brought it, to demonstrate how such ban on competing browsers can cause bad effects to everyone else, even to those who have nothing to do with Apple and its products.
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On a related note, does anyone know how IBM's Watson health is doing? They've been developing it for years but I haven't heard much about their results.
> It's important that it be affordable to everyone, regardless of wealth.

That's the whole point of giving each child's parents that child's share of public-education funds.

> If it's private with public funding and a profit motive, that messes things up pretty hard - see what's been happening with college tuitions and unlimited lines of public credit.

Teachers' and administrators' salaries are private profits from public funding, too.

You are, of course, correct that private schools would see the voucher amount as a price floor.

I think that there are bigger issues with collegiate funding, which have to do that people borrow from their futures (backed by public funds) in order to pay for near-term benefits for themselves. I'd have lived much more frugally in college had I internalised that I'd be paying those funds back.
>The United States isn't a democracy. It's a Republic.

I'm really really tired of this misinformation.

A republic simply means that you're a democracy without a king.

Whether it's direct or representative democracy is immaterial.

Unless you somehow think that Canada is a republic and France is not.
I think this is way off. Doctors generally actually just have no idea about technology. I'm a programmer and a doctor so all I ever see is ways we can improve things with technology.

I've never seen a doctor shun technology to keep themselves relevant (I've no doubt it will become a thing more in the future).
I think some separate program is good for a variety of reasons, but a separate school, or even education where a majority of their time is spent on the program is not good. They do have different needs from most students that should be addressed, but separating them out is just as bad as moving mildly disabled children into a separate program when they don't have to be there.
Since when does the south or west virginia go for democrats?

Clinton lost because she wasn't able to get out her base in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

If Trump lost Texas you wouldn't be talking about how he failed to reach voters in Washington.
Consider the source of the article. The root of modern journalism is to make a negative insinuation despite official statements to the contrary and let the reader's preconceived notions run wild.
> Almost China and NK's monopolistic government

That's one of the most perniciously false equivalence I've seen in a while, and that's saying something. The US has elected congressmen, elected senators, elected governors and an elected president. Even the top two presidential candidates are chosen from a wide field in primary elections. Portraying that as a stark choice between only two options and saying it's practically the same as China and North Korea, which provide no choice whatsoever, is really pretty disgusting.
There's an amusing number of simple grammatical mistakes in this article.. ("english", "It is unnecessary words that don’t add meaning but complex sentence constructions.", "Write about “grass” except when (my insert) it has another color than green", "Avoid semicolons except when (my insert) you want the reader to make a pause", ...)
The US is quite a bit like the EU.

The average German has less say in EU politics than the average Luxembourger.

Similarly, the average Californian has less say in US politics than the average Wyomingite.
Ah, thanks, wrong about flash footprint.
Neil has done a great job adopting Duktape on ESP32.
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Where does the update of `x` go in this example? By observing a Queue or Stream `q`?
At the moment, we're only available in the US and Canada.
We're working on supporting more countries, but localization presents some unique challenges for us. Commonly eaten foods and preparation methods vary quite a bit from region to region.
It's tiny compared to the numbers described in the article.
Republic doesn't mean what you think it does.
Great answer!

I also wished to be paid to dev in Python :p
Well, yeah.

It's not that they can do the work (they shouldn't), it's that they can better relate to the people they're leading. They know, for example, that asking engineers to complete an arbitrary development task in two weeks without regard to scope, value or other work is completely unreasonable. They've been there. Managers without that experience (or even knowledge of that experience) can never relate, so when their managers ask for a thing and ask that it be done in two weeks (because we're doing "Agile"), they'll more than likely pass the buck down.

But as long as businesses are run by professional C-executives that don't even understand the business they're managing, this will be a problem.
How about a parliamentary system? How about just fixing the problems of presidential elections?
This might not be so bad as a general guide to writing things like blog posts or whatever, but I'm specifically looking to get better at technical writing - e.g. writing software documentation. For example, the prohibition there on "jargon" words would probably come into conflict with the kind of precision you need in technical writing; I would expect the advice on something like that to be like, "where terms of art are required for the sake of precision, always make sure a definition is available, and link to it in hypertext formats" or "do not overload jargon words".

Don't get me wrong, it's not like there's no overlap, but I'm looking for the equivalent of "Clean Code" for technical writing.
Joke or not, the comparison to China or North Korea is awful, and not at all close to accurate. For example, when the BBC went to report on an independent candidate in China, plainclothes policemen blocked them from entering the building[0]. North Korea is at least an order of magnitude worse off.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38005603
Respectfully disagree. Telemedicine is going to be an important aspect of medicine, Dermatology in particular.

Rural and underdeveloped areas are going to be the largest market IMO. Everyone can access a smartphone but not everyone has the luxury of seeing a Doctor in person, and if they do the time/travel costs can be significant.

Disclosure, I work for an EHR startup with a Telemedicine product.
The OP's comment was not asking for a cheaper or more cost-effective alternative.
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Why would insurance companies want to pay for more visits than medically required?