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Delegation doesn't mitigate large groups' tendencies to, in moments of emotional fervor, make incredibly stupid decisions that they wouldn't if forced to the a few weeks to think about it.

This is the difference between e.g. the Californian and Swiss referendum systems [1]. California directly enacts popular thought into law. That makes lawmaking a game of finding moments when you can make the majority disinterested while sending an active minority ballistic, and then freezing that moment into law. Switzerland, on the other hand, lets leaders counter-propose and negotiate with the population. It also has mandatory waiting periods.

Broad direct democracy has a poor history because it tends to empower mobs. This is a bigger problem than the expertise issue that delegation addresses.
You shouldn't assume everyone online is American. csomar is from Tunisia [0]—a country which was, for what it's worth, colonized and exploited by the French until 1956. I imagine that might color perceptions.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160626074252/https://omarabid....
Have you thought that perhaps things like emotions, both empathy and revenge have evolved to emulate Copycat / Copykitten play styles?

That is, I don't think they're missing from the simulation. Rather, the simulation shows why those things exist.
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I used to buy them because local multiplayer

Now we have the controllers, but no games

The whole thing is just dumb
So, I find this article vapid. It basically says -Tell the truth, but assign your own meaning to it-. However, it's been my experience in tech that this is exact behavior a major, major problem at the companies I've worked for.

Most startups I worked at insisted they were saving the world in one way or another. The C level probably patted themselves on the back pretty hard for coming up with such an inspiring interpretation. But within a year, it always rung false (based on their actions being entirely inconsistent). This made me trust them less than if they had simply said "We're in this to make money. We're a company, that's what we do," which, in my opinion, is totally okay to admit.

For example:

- Do not call yourself a family if you have ever let somebody go within 3 months of hiring them. Would your literal family kick you out because they weren't seeing an ROI in 3 months or because you were difficult?

- Do not say your mission is to empower one group or another if your actions are not truly in that group's best interest. E.g. giving them credit cards when they're already in debt.

- Do not imply that your "door is always open" unless you have the willingness and time to hear some of the ways your company is actually fucked up and act on them.

- Do not suggest employees will get rich when you damn well how unlikely it is.

- Do not use bullshit euphemisms all the time, such as a massively failing manager being "promoted" to a position with no authority. What your actions are doing is saying "We work in a class system where you can't be fired once you're at a certain level"

- Do not imply you're a meritocracy. Your company isn't, it's a handful of narcissistic wealthy people at the top surrounded by sycophantic top-level-managers with actual laborers 3 or more levels down. The idea that individuals can be rated on traits and promoted to "levels" is a laughable oversimplification to anybody who thinks about it.

- Do not imply most of your employees will ever be promoted if you know most won't.
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It's also easy to counter. I can think how and so can you.

What's the point of "ramming through" if it gets repealed in terror at the start of next cycle? Very potent point is that laws should be tried and then most of them should be repealed. Only a minority of laws should survive to permanence.

Right now we pretend that we're capable of writing good laws from the first attempt.
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I was an employee there too. They have really low salary standard and say that "you get to do open source so it's fine". The best programmers get out of there quick and that's why you don't get high quality software from them.

Their business model is based on using people with temporary work permit (coming from out of Canada, mostly France) who are stuck with them if they don't want to go through the process of obtaining another work permit and have to go back to their country in the meantime.
I guess my question is ..

Is it true age has a correlation with perception?

If so - is that truth itself ageist?
> The vast majority of government research for space launches was done by the Nazis

The extreme majority of government research for space launches has occurred since 1950. The extraordinary resources put into the US space program, including the research necessary, makes the Nazi efforts look hilariously trivial by comparison.
True, but arguably the same can be said if you've got an ear infection or recovering from eye surgery or something; your respective senses aren't at full capacity then either.

I know that, in my experience, pungent smells have an interesting way of making it through some of the sickest olfactory sense.
I agree; in practice, people can't deal with gov all day. But there are hybrid gov models to address it, such as delegate democracy, which I foresee as next stage in the evolution.

Also, I think it's kind of viscous cycle situation. Bad gov reflects in personal-live problems causing the individual to have even less time to deal with the gov.

One day robots will work for us. We will receive UBI. We will have plenty of free time, so we can all be full-time governors.
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What else does it default to, if you open a new window?
Which book are you talking about? The Hard Thing About Hard Things?
To prevent voter fatigue, you have to make it difficult to get referendums/propositions on the ballot, and you have to make voting on the ones that do get on infrequent (like yearly).

But if the alternative is legislative bodies inundated with lobbyists and corporate money making big decisions for us, I'd be willing to experiment with any solution, even direct democracy like this.
You've created a straw man.

The original point was that inclusion means accepting everyone and their beliefs. Regardless of how bigoted they are.

And that is ridiculous.

No one is saying don't hire republicans because they are anti-gay, anti-womens rights, anti-immigrant, anti-abortion, anti-muslim.

What we are saying is that if you have an bigoted opinion (such as homophobia), keep it to yourself, or you will be shunned (in tech).

You want limited government, guns in the classroom, no government medical care, trickle-down economics, fine, we can debate those policies all day long and never agree.

But sorry, no, you can't get to be a bigot and expect us to accept it.
> A new Distributed Proof of Work (DPoW) backed blockchain that is immune to centralization because of a unified client/miner with only one miner allowed per person, linked anonymously to a HUID.

The whole blockchain thing is built on the assumption that we don't have this HUID thing which solves Sybil attacks. Now that Sybil attacks are no longer a concern, surely there must be a more efficient algorithm than PoW to secure the chain.

> This ID is not centrally controlled, which will virtually eliminate all Sybil attacks, along with the vast majority of problems in peer to peer networks.

It's trivial to stop Sybil attacks in a centralized system... Making the ID decentralized certainly does not help in that department.

> A HUID generated through the intersection of revocable biometrics and cryptography.

Aren't biometrics (and by extension, identities) trivial to generate?
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> "We work in a class system where you can't be fired once you're at a certain level"

But isn't that pretty close to the truth?
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this would have the biggest impact overall. it would potentially change Mr R's attitude and effect others as well. a single ripple of honesty.
They also "assign meaning" to their youth to paint themselves a thug.
I think we can limit this electric vehicles because that is what both the federal and state laws pertain to.
tl;dr

1) Make people allergic to meat.

2) Give children hormone treatments to limit their growth (reducing metabolic needs).

3) Give people "cognition enhancing" drugs such as Ritalin to lower birthrates.

4) Give people pyschoactive substances such as oxytocin and SSRIs to increase the willingness to cooperate with social rules or goals.

They say this should be voluntary:
"human engineering would be a voluntary activity – possibly supported by incentives such as tax breaks or sponsored health care – rather than a coerced, mandatory activity."
> Much easier to bribe 500 people in a 300 million people

It's also much easier to force individual accountability on 500 people than 300 million. That sense of accountability is what drives compromise. Consider how often the electoral base drives compromise versus it occurring as a top-down necessity.
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Your posture might be the problem.
That's true, but you would still have a balance of power so that a court could overturn a law created by direct democracy.
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That one is pretty straight-forward. They'll start to really compete when New Glenn is ready.
> One more step

> Please complete the security check to access archive.fo

What were you linking? I can't even get CAPTCHA to appear.
No, I did not:

> the achievements you note have little or nothing to do with their status as a private company and almost everything to do with taking advantage of government research from the past half-century
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Rewriting a large codebase in Python (or any dynamically typed language) would be a mistake.
> You can have gun rights and abortion rights. You can have social safety net programs and curb illegal immigration. You can be tough on crimes and treat drug addiction as mental issue. You can have higher taxes but lower regulations. You can have higher military spending but no wasteful spending. You can have higher marginal tax rate while having simple tax code.

Well, you can. But will that really happen? Especially in the area of civil rights, it is difficult to defend a right of interest to a minority group from ill-informed or simply emtionaly-driven majority opinion.
I'll have to pull down this release and look at that option. My recollection from the last time I looked (over a year ago) was that the changes I wanted, mostly which involved changing the pull-down menus and accelerator keys therein, wasn't able to be customized. I'm not using "keyboard shortcuts" so much as operating the pull-down menus very quickly with multi-keypress muscle memory sequences (which Microsoft handled very well as Excel moved to the "Ribbon" interface).
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> you would still have a balance of power so that a court could overturn a law created by direct democracy

Presumably based on the laws this direct democracy enacts? Observe California and imagine if every single law had to be passed through referendum. The system fails because people don't compromise across large, unaccountable groups.

Direct democracy is better used as a check on a small group of leaders, e.g. a right to popularly veto legislation (or Constitutional amendments) and a right to select the leaders.
> the notion they are pursuing keto with so much animal products is just gross

Why? It is my understanding that the keto community, at least on reddit, is not vegan.
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The (conditional) independence assumptions it makes are pretty strong and usually inaccurate. In the text example, consider "Steph Curry" and "Warriors." These are going to show up very frequently together, and both provide strong evidence that the topic is sports. However, they don't provide strongly independent evidence of sports. Supposing Curry announced he was making an investment in a local restaurant, the article would probably mention the Warriors just because it's Curry.

The problem is that seeing "Warriors" when you see "Steph Curry" shouldn't make you that much more confident that it's sports than just seeing "Steph Curry" alone. Just like seeing "University" with "Stanford" shouldn't change any inferences much from seeing "Stanford" alone. In naive bayes models, these are treated as independent pieces of evidence and that can lead to overconfidence and errors.

Naive bayes is a generative model, so in flipping bayes rule around to discriminate classes, you have to be sure your probability model is decent. In a discriminative model, you just go straight to learning the p(class | observations) and have no requirement for a decent model of p(observations). p(observations) is the kind of model that would have to know about "university" and "stanford" being likely to be observed together. Often, it's better to go straight to the discriminative model. In this case, logistic regression.
The same reason crowdsourcing works on sites like Yelp, Amazon, and TripAdvisor.
What? How on Earth do you know that "women are hardwired to smile more" instead of "women are culturally conditioned to smile more." Considering women are told to smile by complete strangers on the street you can't just go ahead and disregard cultural conditioning.

https://news.yale.edu/2003/03/18/women-smile-more-men-differ...
When my mortgage for a house on 1/2 an acre costs less than my 650 sqft apartment in L.A. did, it sure feels like my cost of living was cut in half.

When a round of golf at a Davis Love or Fred Couples designed course costs the same as playing at a shitty muni in L.A., it feels like my disposable income has tripled.
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> - Facebook has a massive, $35.5 billion hoard of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. It's the third biggest S&P 500 company by this metric that isn't paying a dividend, after Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet.

It's "massive" but compared to AAPL's $250 billion in cash, FB's cash it is still fairly small.

> Facebook and Google combine to account for up to 99% of advertising growth.

They both pretty much dominate the search/video/social media space.

What is most astounding to me is that every nation doesn't develop their own google/FB. I still find it incredible that most of europe is dominated by google and facebook. Even india.

I respect what FB and GOOGL have done, but their "tech" isn't hard to replicate. With regulation and government authority, countries like germany, india, france, etc can develop their own FB and GOOGL.

China, Russia, Japan, Korea, etc are smart in developing their own local tech/social media/etc industries. I'm so astounded that germany, france, india, etc have completely ceded their territories to google/FB/etc.

I can understand britain/canada/australia ceding control to the US since we are anglo nations with similar culture, language and historical roots. But why don't spanish speaking countries, german speaking countries, french speaking countries, etc have their own "google/FB"?
1. The study you referenced included 28 participants and utilized food frequency questionnaires. Maybe you have something more substantial? Because that is pretty weak on multiple levels.

2. Nobody is referencing the China Study here. It is also 12 years old. Not sure what critiques you are referring to (as you didn't reference any), but I highly doubt they would discredit the information I referenced just because they have to do with "dismantling" the "red meat is bad point of view."

Here is yet another huge meta analysis of the correlation between red meat and Type 2 Diabetes published just 2 years ago:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yoona_Kim5/publication/...
The image seems to be a representation of the oppression women in tech face. I guess the model is wearing that because she's in water. Only the jeans look out of place IMO, not the swim appropriate top.
It was running with modifications at the time, but now runs unmodified. I suggest to get in touch with the team to discuss your specific case at info at iolevel dot com.
Anecdotally, Libreoffice has better compatibility with older versions of MS Office than current versions of MS Office, so I'm not sure you have any more evidence for "the reason" than the person you're replying to has for the "conspiracy theory."
In this real time everything, voting for matters every few years does not make any sense. The issues are hanging for decades and the progress is slow.

50%+1 voting process it is not optimal. A statistically significant number could be way down than half of population.

If voting process is convenient (meaning a tap away), secure, cheap and real time all the issues could be resolved much faster. Instead of decades could be months.

We are still in the stone age when it comes to policy and democracy.
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> Not quite sure why the car manufacturers aren't building these things.

Because consumers aren't buying these things.

The only people who seem to be buying full electric vehicles are electric vehicle enthusiasts, meaning it is a niche. Most enthusiasts will just buy a Tesla if there is a Tesla at the price bracket they're looking at, since Tesla is the most exciting brand in electric by far.

For everyone else, full electric vehicles don't make cost effective sense. Oil is too cheap and electricity too expensive. Many vehicle subsidies have also vanished. So people who are cost sensitive are looking at hybrids, or even plug in hybrids, since it is completely future proof to oil or electric price fluctuations.

People aren't buying electric for completely normal rational reasons you can quantify using an Excel spreadsheet. For that to change, either oil has to go up, electricity has to come down, subsidies have to return, or electric vehicles need to offer some other quantifiable value not found on a hybrid.
I believe it's called monopolist arrogance. Those who have it tend to be caught off-guard.
Telling the truth will get you fired, ostracized and possibly assaulted today.

I don't like it, but telling the truth, like riding a bike to work, is a luxury that only the extremely rich and extremely poor can afford today.
Newbie here. Somebody can point to useful other resources for F#?
Just for your info, no better in MS-land, Microsoft broke most shortcuts between Office 2003 and Office 2007, a few got reverted with 2010. Still it's mind blowing how bad shortcuts are nowadays. Instead of Ctrl+<char> one has to type Alt+<char>+<char> and other nonsense for many shortcuts. (Sure system wide shortcuts and a few ones like Ctrl+C still work) But try to paste a text as plain unformatted text, good luck with that.
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if the fire alarm is in a different room light would not work very well, with a strong enough smell no matter where you are in your dwelling you are going to notice it...
Looks like a nice project. A few remarks.

0. If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

1. I would prefer to be able to browse the topics rather than be required to work through them linearly. I mean, I don't really want to sit through six exercises of vectors before I do anything else.

2. I understand the software was developed for a university course, but that's not the context in which I come to it over the internet.
I don't mean to detract from Ivy, but...

As an interesting aside, the fact that you can organise your pages in a hierarchy reminds me of cat-v's "werc" website framework[0]. It's not a static site generator, but it will read the directory and file tree into a navigation menu, so you can navigate the tree using a sidebar. It will render pages using markdown on the fly.

Perhaps the "killer feature" is that you can run multiple subdomains using one instance. If you configure your web server correctly, a request to x.y.com will serve the website stored in the x.y.com directory etc.

It's also very small and extensible.

[0] http://werc.cat-v.org
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http://mulholland.xyz/docs/ivy/themes.html is gorgeous on FF/Android.

I might replace my static blog script with this :)
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com is great. I'm enjoying Don Syme's book "Expert F# 4.0" as well.
>I suppose you're not very familiar with BTC-e.

There's probably 5 or less people more familiar with BTC-e than I am.

>It had a reputation of taking funds from users

Compared to the other big exchanges they've mostly had a reputation of not doing that.

Essentially all the people I can find complaining about suspended BTC-e accounts got shut down due to inconsistencies in their incoming wires.

I'm looking at BTC-e user database right now, only 0.2857% of the users are banned. Much fewer than you'd see at any other exchange, but I suppose that's not a very meaningful metric given the ease of registrations.
C++ has always supported callbacks and has libraries for promises [1] and event loops [2]. Co-routines (i.e., await) are coming soon.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd492427.aspx
[2]: https://github.com/libuv/libuv
I don't understand one thing in your argument:

> Ransomware forces people to buy bitcoin while at the same time making the bitcoins spent unspendable (because spending them will get you caught).

There must be a way to "launder" those bitcoins, because otherwise, as a criminal, why would I want to get ransom in coins that I can't later spend on anything?
Oh, that explains why I can't navigate in "Settings" with Alt-Left (and there's no Back button either), yet it looks like an IEView (MSWebView, Electron, etc.).
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Thanks a lot for the constructive feedback! We just released the pricing several weeks ago and are open to experimentation. Would you be up for a quick chat about this? If yes, just send me an email (it's in my profile).
> What's the point of "ramming through" if it gets repealed in terror at the start of next cycle?

You just characterized the see-saw retributionary populist democracies that trashed Latin America's economies over the 20th century. Policy instability is anathema for lower-level civic and economic self-organization.
Of course Musk is still Mars focused. That is the goal of what he and the people working at SpaceX are doing. If you watch the source video[1] for the Wired piece (journalists aren't selected for truth telling), you can see Musk controlling the impulse to call NASA a do-nothing, scaredy pants organization. He explicitly states that people going to Mars will not be "safety first" people (implying NASA people are). Musk would love to use rockets to land the Dragons back on Earth but getting them to pass NASA safety tests is too difficult to be worth it with his current understanding of propulsive landing. He and his team have recently determined that there is not as much overlap in the design of a rocket landing Dragon that would land on Earth and the ones they would use for Mars as they originally thought. As Earth Dragon development does not support much of the Mars efforts, they will just go with parachuted Dragon for NASA approved Earth landing and design Red Dragon with more customization for Mars only landing (and liftoff?).

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqvBhhTtUm4
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Here's a web of trust design that comes with a conflict resolution mechanism.

https://github.com/neyer/respect

http://s3.neyer.me/respect-matrix-slides.pdf