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But gerrymandering is ALSO an important factor behind today's political polarization.

In a district that's strongly biased one way or another (which is the goal of gerrymandering), the general election is a foregone conclusion: the nominee of the majority party will win, even if (as it's been famously demonstrated) he's dead, or if he endorses his opponent, etc.

The result is that the actual electoral process occurs during the party primaries. And middle-of-the-road folks are a lot less likely to participate in that. The make-up of the primary voters is far more extremist and partisan.

And so what we wind up with are candidates that are extremists partisans, and fewer candidates that are appealing to the median, centrist voter.
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The vast majority of health care decisions are not life and death. Many times it is still hard to know how much something will cost and it is hard to price shop. But the same thing applies to auto repair. You need a car to get around and it is extremely expensive to toll your car to other body shops. You need to take the price the person offers you a lot of the time. But in medicine some times it is not time critical and you can shop around. We don't do it know because we don't pay.
Well these are well respected uk investment trusts in the 50 year club ie increase dividends for 50 years. And these trust have very good 40 / 50 year records.
does it even matter what 'w3' does anymore? doesn't all the major browsers follow 'whatwg' now?
The problem is that there are far far more policies that impact people based on area than based on name. This could effectively destroy any representation of rural areas which would achieve the opposite (every single politician would answer to 65% city voters and only 35% rural voters if the districts were based on something fully independent of location).
I wonder if all these 10x network admins are now working at gcp/AWS/Azure.
Fair enough.

I was just saying that both "Christianity" and "meditation" are pretty broad categories and I've seen overlap in both practices and effects of each.
Gerrymandering is not in general illegal. As you say, districts are routinely redrawn - but in a way which results in gerrymandering! To fix it requires that the districts be redrawn fairly, and that's a tougher fix (but a significant number of states already have non-partisan districting procedures).
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Another thing.

>Now look at it from a politician's point of view. If you really get the signal that it's not a real problem, then it certainly doesn't make sense to spend resources on it.

That is true, but even if there is a perception of a real problem, the short term rules. If it is not as profitable, they ignore it. It's not going to be their problem 50 years ahead.
If I understand this correctly:

1. Infected system sends packets to a decoy

2. The decoy ignores the fake packets (dropped by firewall)

3. The real command center which is located in the same region as the decoy accepts the packets [1]

4. Real command center can still send commands to infected system via landline, but receive data by satellite.

[1] Satellite downlink data is sent to a relatively large area.
> You have a 180-day grace period to either delete content to bring your total content within the free quota, or to sign up for a paid storage plan. After 180 days in an over-quota status, content will be deleted (starting with the most recent uploads first) until your account is no longer over quota.

Looks like that's not the route Amazon took.
> that is an application of the list procedure

That really depends on the current package at the time the form is read, and then how `list` is defined within that package. Strictly speaking, you don't even know which 'list' symbol is referenced without that context. (And in that context, list could be bound to a macro, or it could be unbound entirely.)
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I don't see how it's questionable. They did it to improve the user experience. If anything blame the OS for providing the ability to set it up properly.
Where I'm from (AL), 200K+ (3M population) people enter a lottery every year to migrate to the USA. Like they dream of it, the american dream. You're not that bad. Maybe too much media ?

You can go to EU. Easiest country to go to (and best for english!) is NL (i went but I like more working remote in a cheap country). The wages may suck though and you won't be able to save a lot and retire early. Hell, you can go and then return back.

Do you exercise ?
He said he made up some of the names, so I wouldn't try to make any sense of it without great care.
Hi. Out of interest, what is it that you do in your life to generate income / money for food?
Maybe it's time when automatic archive links are added in HN. Maybe just below the posted link?
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Figuring out goals, identifying underlying problems, coming up with efficient solutions, focusing on the critical path...

A so-called "productivity tool" will save you 15 minutes a day. Asking questions and thinking will save you weeks of work.

More on productivity here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/
Traditionally, due to Andrew Jackson and the spoils system, the US had a far more corrupt civil service than you'd find in Europe. At the start of the 20th century the old progressives tried to fight this by making a very rule-bound process which doesn't allow civil servants either the ability to engage in graft or use their best judgement. Eventually contractors learned to work the inflexible rule system and here we are.
Culture is a loaded word, so I don't know what you mean. Tradition doesn't seem to influence tech negatively (usually they adapt tech to enhance tradition), but regardless, I'd suggest visiting Singapore, Korea, South Africa, probably Qatar.
Financial literacy should be a mandatory topic in a high school curriculum.
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> if there's a huge deluge of shares coming available for trading on lock up expiry date then that's can be taken as a pretty bearish sign that employee's don't like where the company is going.

Is it really? If a large portion of your net worth is in shares of a single company that you also work for, wouldn't it make sense to sell your shares even if you think the company is going to do well?
<strikethrough>It's there: you just have to scroll down and down and down, far further than any normal human being would possibly think is reasonable.</strikethrough>

Nope, you're right: I actually tried to read it properly and the article content bears no relation to the title at the top of the page, which is just a title. That's with or without ad blocker enabled. Incidentally without uBlock enabled the page is slower than hell to load.
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"Members of this Working Group have agreed not to progress the TCP UDP Sockets API specification further as a Recommendation track document."
So now after forcing Microsoft to have a Chinese version of Windows 10 without spyware, Blizzard forced to show the Overwatch loot boxes odds and this, we are living in a World where China, "Great Firewall" China is now the biggest advocate of users privacy.

What is happening?
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True, but I'm not sure that's a defence when it may be because they can't even find the article content amongst all the other garbage on the page.
Clickbait title and forced to register before seeing any of the article.
You should never trust unlimited anything. It's never really unlimited. They should really just offer a "as big as a reasonable person could want" package. For a household that wants to backup some phones and PCs and the family photo album, you can offer 5-10TB of storage and they'll never fill it up. But eventually you know that a handful of power users are going to abuse the system to the point that you have to stop.
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> On a side note though, it seems Apple is doubling down on making decisions for its users. This is one example, another is do not disturb when driving. These sort of features make a lot of assumption and use complex logic to decide for users, even when the users don’t need that. I think that’s concerning.

All of the reports I'm reading say DNDWD is opt-in.
Using FSMs to manage code complexity feels like I was missing out on a great design pattern. Also, I believe if it is applied to a system like React it is a design bordering on being insanely great. I'm not sure why FSMs weren't emphasized as a design pattern when I was getting my undergraduate degree. I believe I have found situations where FSMs would have enhanced my code quality but the things I learned in school didn't emphasize this at all. I did learn about FSMs in my languages and automata class though.
I would think that for a full restore you might be better off with their restore by mail. Note that if you move your data off the drive they ship then send it back they refund the charge for it.
Yup. Totally agreed.

But duuuude. How much did you pay for that domain?! NOICE.
> How many of the Android devices are using the latest version

This comes up every time security discussed. But it is not as black as white as you think:

1. Security patches are separate from OS upgrades [1]. Many vendors incorporate security patches without upgrading the OS.

2. Many core Android components are upgraded via the store.

3. Google scans and remove bad apps from your device no matter Android version [3]

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[1] https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-06-01

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/179638/not-getting-android-os-upda...

[3] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/2812853?hl=en
If there was a standardized protocol/system for "cloud syncing" of files it's entirely likely they would all support it. Kind of like how they all support SMB/CIFS now.
Author should have a native English speaker read this for fluency...
Do you think that will still be the case in the coming months?

Honest question.
I would guess that's up to each researcher. When I was familiarizing myself about some of this on Wikipedia, I noticed that by the time homo erectus came around our predecessors already knew how to control fire and make clothing.
So you buy farmland high in the water catch basin where you're not subject to salination and as few upstream pollution problems. Dig yourself a well, grow your own food using as few herbicides, fungicides and pesticides as possible. Build your own ecosystem and let the rest of society go to hell. Eventually, if you do it properly, you'll be the only one left with farmable land, you'll be bought out for a handsome price and you take your newfound riches and fuck off to somewhere that doesn't have this problem yet and do it all again.

It doesn't matter if anyone believes in it or not. Either you're wrong and you're no further behind, in fact, from a trust standpoint, you're ahead because you're now in control of your food supply from the ground to your plate... and if you're right, then you win.

I'm over simplifying to be facetious, but my point stands. If everyone put not only their money where their mouth was, but took legitimate action to ensure their lifestyle fit what was important to their belief, I don't think we'd suffer from half of the problems we do. Unfortunately 90% of the population are happy with just complaining and being armchair politicians and only make the convenient choices that don't interfere with their comfort and their status quo.

If you believe big agriculture is destroying the planet, find a sustainable way to not support them, or support them as little as absolutely possible. Support your local farms and farmers. Support Mom & Pop stores in your local area. Buy from farmers markets. Learn to preserve food over the winter months when it's not available. Eat seasonal produce.

Of course, everyone's lives are nuanced and complicated. It's not as easy as it sounds for most people. But I firmly believe that if you truly believe we have a problem (which I do), then do something about it instead of just talk, complain and continue life as normal.
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Don't all large companies have auto auditing of access to customer data?
There's a lot of good comments pointing out potential flaws in his argument, but responding to yours since it's the most recent...

You're preaching to the choir. I disagreed with him at the time I read it and still do. The single party south is a "great" example of what happens when primaries become what matter.

On the other hand, the current political polarization and problems are due to the old system, so conceivably changing the structure could change things for the better. It's just fun to consider.

I'd also note that he worked in Congress (not elected) for awhile and taught for a couple decades, so his 160 page book anticipates a lot of the obvious criticisms thrown out here.
All healthcare decisions are life and death. Just not necessarily directly. That fact complicates matters significantly.
I'm aware, I'm using Theano as my backend. I just mean that Keras seems more analogous to Rails than TF - TF would be Ruby in that analogy.
i dont think this is the right way to do. they should use linter instead.
Is this how /pol/ found Shia's flag?
>Weed control is perfectly possible using either mulching or superficial hoeing.

We are talking about farming, not gardening.
The parent's answer will probably depend heavily on the results of the snap general UK election. Polls close today at 10PM GMT.
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:) Yeah we live in a world of dual-option questions.

I'm speaking from a users' point of view. If one program works on Node 8, other on 6, other on 0.12 sth., what do I do? Keep n runtimes for n programs? I don't know node, but I don't know C++ too, should I not use Firefox or Chrome then? Node runtime versions are unfathomable for those who don't develop on node, and thus as a user I avoid running node programs.

Also, security fixes and bugfixes are expressed in semver w/ the last dot-seperated part of the number, the first number is the major version. If every fix breaks as much to bump up that number, then that's a bad sign too.
> 'Private' would mean at least that every penny wasted is out of the personal pocket of the people doing the work; in a very direct sense.

That is an odd sense of the word. It's a state that basically doesn't exist anywhere except in your back yard when working on DIY projects. Even in startups, the people doing the work only lose a fraction of a penny for every penny wasted, according to their share of ownership and liquidation preferences.

It's not a useful concept for talking about issues like infrastructure projects, because there will never be a case where the people doing the work are the ones who suffer 100% of the consequences of loss, or even close to it. I would suggest you stick to the generally understood meaning of the word when having conversations with other people, but I'm an internet commenter, not a cop, so do what pleases you.
The old double contraction!
Before you mention "Cheap options" and Amazon Glacier, read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921365

"How I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier"

> If you’re retrieving more than 5% of your stuff, expect to pay a fee, “starting at $0.011 per gigabyte”.

Key words here is "starting at". as in, no cap on how much they can and will charge you for your data. Cause you know, 60GB is realllly expensive to transfer :(

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What Glacier seems to be for, is more like compliance paperwork and other "We are required to save this for X years" kind of paperwork. Because most of those types of documents, you don't care about and only legally have to keep available. And if a court case comes along, the Glacier retrieval price can just be added on top of court fees (which in that case, Glacier is probably a pittance even at the $10k level).
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> Simplicity can hurt readability, for example, by utilizing too few distinctive visual patterns - fewer than human brain can easily distinguish while scanning code

There's a bit of a tradeoff. I tend to agree with you that there is at least an initial readability hit when looking at most Lisp code. However, that's something that can be managed with a bit of experience reading/writing the syntax and some care taken with the way you write the code.

The benefit of the Lisp syntax comes in that its regularity makes it easier to make tools that manipulate it in higher order fashions. (Paredit mode and macros being two examples that immediately come to mind.) Not only does the syntax make it easier to write those tools, the syntax makes it easier for developers in the moment to understand what those tools actually mean and how they operate on code.

The trouble with all this for Lisp is that the costs are immediately evident, but the benefits all accrue on a longer time scale. It's a style of language that rewards patience and long term investment in a world that does not necessarily favor either.
The cost of food goes up, so we give say 40% of the population money to spend on food. This increases the demand so the cost of food goes up again, so we increase the benefit. This goes on forever, take a look at student loans in the US before federal intervention and now.
Or she :(
Indeed: the Joel Spolsky piece just isn't there, but if you scroll about half a mile down you find a piece about James Comey. Disabling uBlock makes no difference so it's clearly not about having an ad-blocker enabled. Terrible website.
This will be Organic farming's legacy - while generally the benefits of organic farming are between "dubious" and "complete woo-woo", their soil management techniques will eventually take over the world. Better water retention, better soil structure, etc.
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I'd like to see you substantiate that claim. I see no evidence that it's true.
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This is a tech forum, in part, as you suggest. So surely avoiding issues which are primarily social and don't have a specific bearing on tech is reasonable.

The other fora I see as better would be one's concerned with sex discrimination, probably IRL places.

If someone posts on HN about a library someone wrote, a hack they did, obscure details of a back-end, a new startup .. the sex of the people involved is very rarely even mentioned.

I'd sooner just focus on the reported actions rather than the sex of the people performing those actions.

Do you really think HN is going to be a useful forum to advance chances in social policies and/or sexual politics? Perhaps we can flip things and ask you why you consider this to be a good forum for that?
Yes, I meant the dairy farming. I'm just curious about it, not questioning you personally :) I had never heard about it before.
There are many people above 180cm.

Again, let's face it -- it's bean counting, some medium-level product manager wants a raise by saving expenses.

That's all it is, that's all it ever was, and it ain't ever gonna change while there are people on these positions.
Depends on how you time it and what you think the prospects are. Skittish Facebook employees missed out on a quadrupling of value if they sold in the first six months.
We've had to jump through numerous hoops to get SSO functioning across our sites on Safari due to their policy of rejecting third-party cookies.

When you control the full stack on all of your sites it's less of an issue but when you're using multiple vendors SAAS solutions with custom authentication it can be a huge pain.
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It was a slightly exaggerated example. Nothing can be infinitely optimized of course, but the corner cutting in today's tech culture is a bit too much for my taste.
Or is it? There's not much evidence that the Vipassanā of modern practice is exactly as Siddhartha Buddha taught it: https://vividness.live/2011/07/07/theravada-reinvents-medita...
> I'm not even GP but I think I can answer a lot of these

If you can, then he's failed even more. So no, I don't think that you can answer any of them.

The point I'm trying to make is that the best made plans of men and mice fail due to overlooking some small detail. I could easily make that list 10 times as long. One or more slip ups could allow someone to tie 1-and-1 together to make 3 and it is game over. The funniest part of this whole discussion is that it starts with utterly underestimating the enemy, which is a serious mistake right from getting out of the gate.

If you are going to do something as audacious as going up against a drug cartel you have to keep in mind that these are the kind of groups who would hesitate at absolutely nothing if they feel that you are their enemy. Informants and undercover police and other infiltrators (for instance from rival gangs) are routinely murdered, and their families too if that's how the wind blows.

Before you start on a job like that you begin with laying the groundwork over the course of several years, any step along the way that can give away the game will endanger you and those around you. This is not something you cook up one find winter evening and put in motion without some extremely careful planning and creating multiple levels of cut-outs for any kind of activity that might point at your real identity.

The only thing buying a couple of burner phones with cash is going to do is raise suspicion, it is not going to do much in terms of protecting you.

If the OP would put his plan to go after some drug related criminal organization in motion the most likely outcome of the adventure would be 3 lines on page 12 of a newspaper mentioning a disfigured body found floating in a river or a missing person report.

Life is not a video game, you do not get 3 lives and the same player does not get to try again in case of failure.

If you didn't come from a life of crime or from a life of being in law enforcement then your best strategy is to avoid at all costs to get mixed up in this sort of thing.

Even the Unabomber eventually got caught and he was a lot better at tradecraft than sillysaurus here.
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