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Yeah, the minority of elected officials and bureaucrats. It's kind of sad seeing how little say the voting-populace actually has. Not only are they fragmented per-issue, but the entire establishment is built around not actually getting things done. E.g. Look at how Trump is not actually able to do any of the things he was voted in by the voting populace to do. What is the point of voting him in then? Either you want all of what he platformed on, or you want some of it and you're hoping that that "some" thing that he manages to do is the thing you actually want?

It's all bread and circuses, with the media running the circus. Just spend 10 minutes watching one of the big networks and you quickly realize it's all just rhetoric and bias, sprinkled with facts. No one reasons or argues, it's all just emotions and word-juggling. E.g. the recent "undocumented citizens" and "dreamers" double-speak when referring to illegal alien children under DACA. They're children, they're illegal aliens, it's not that hard.

Edit. Grammar.
I think this is an awesome idea (and I believe Amazon has something similar - powerpoints are banned and proposals must be written)

Formalising that into something like a RFC / PEP seems a great idea. Add in the email based discussions and it's the start of bringing democracy into the feudal corporate world
Good job ignoring how some drugs really do f people up.

The biggest problem with drugs is that we call them "drugs" and then make very specific claims about "drugs".

It's molecules people, effects vary wildly!
It's not, anybody can write a bullshit paper today. There is a reason this hard won democracy exist and why we dealt away with lesser systems where less people are in power.

The author of the papern should go visit North Korea or Saudin Arabia and perhaps live there if he thinks the majority is tyranising him with their voting rights.
I think his initial comment is a fair summary of that section:

> So I read that as there's no measurable impact on hurricane activity yet. The modelling indicates that they won't get more frequent, but will become more intense in the future (stronger winds, more rainfall).
I use YAML all the time (for config) and the things you mention have caused no more than one minute's frustration in my life. JSON is great for serialisation, YAML for little config files that need frequent hand-editing during development.
I don't get this obsession with "just HTML". Is it just for its own sake? What tangible benefits do you get when it's laid out that way?

I am fairly certain the reason is not readability because a lot of people get by JSX just fine.
That's what I did actually. I don't like it though. A comment is really saying "this is a note for the reader that isn't used at runtime". Putting a comment in as a value goes against that and it uses up memory when the file is read in.
It's not necessary for a single wealthy individual to be able to buy a victory by themselves for the results to be skewed towards the will of the wealthy.

If 1000 votes cost £1 million, and 100 wealthy individuals all decide to spend that much in an election, that's 100,000 votes when these individuals would only usually have 100 votes. That's going to have an impact, especially on local elections.

As for it being more cost effective to buy votes the usual way, the "usual" way relies on voter fraud and massive advertising campaigns, one of which is illegal, and the other is very expensive and the voting decisions are not guaranteed. On the other hand, quadratic voting would be legal and guaranteed.
We can't have genuine consensus until people reason with arguments and facts, instead of emotions. And emotions are currently extremely manipulatable. The entire media ecosystem is built around doing just that.
He was a bit too much towards the right-wing conservatism and militarism. I believe the best interests of the US are better served by soft diplomacy rather than the indiscriminate use of military force. One can be respected by either love or fear but only love will get one real loyalty.
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This is exactly what I meant. These companies compile large amounts of personal financial data without peoples consent. They use SSNs for non-tac purposes, which I think is/was illegal. This ultimate cause of the breach has nothing to do with the exploit used, but rather the fact that this company and its practices exist at all. They put peoples info on a computer connected to the internet for no reason other than efficiency - profit.
The point is that Americans (me included) are going to put very little trust in a system which allows you to literally buy votes. Everyone should have the same amount of votes no matter the wealth and I don't see myself compromising on that issue.
From the blog he seemed to be aligned with Trump on many things: "regain control of borders", climate-change skepticism, supporting judges like Scalia for supreme court and so on.
If you are in a professional career, then it's not the median salary that matters but the median salary for your particular profession (and indeed whether there are any jobs in your profession in that area). You also want to be looking at home prices for a particular class/size of home as the nature of housing stock varies considerably from place to place.

I'm in the UK, 50 minutes by train from one of the mainline London train stations, but prices here are a fraction of what they would be next to that train station. Median salaries here would also be much lower, but if you moved out here and commuted into London, your salary would effectively only decrease by your commuting cost, not lower to the media salary in this area (although you of course then need to commute which has its own set of disadvantages). Other costs such as childcare are significantly cheaper here too than in central London.
One-person-one-vote is a terrible system, with the only advantage of it being simple and easy to understand, which was important when votes could be counted only by hand.

CGP Grey has made an excellent and well known video series explaining this, so I don't think I need to debate it much further here.

CGP Grey Voting Series: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLej2SlXPEd37YwwEY7mm0W...
Twitter is slowly rolling out an algorithmic feed. It returns to chronological once you refresh, but sometimes I forget and don't realize until I start noticing things are out of order.
Yes, that's why nobody's doing it.
Good luck, start exercising if you are not.
Fuerteventura (Spain) -

- It is a turist island, but not that much crowded. It is relatively cheap to live there (comparing to Dublin/London/OtherTechHubs)

- climate is absolutely amazing (18-25 degrees all year - no rain)

- it is not a party island, it is really quiet and peaceful

- internet is decent - although expect higher pings when working on remote terminal.

- no need to speak spanish - since turists are everywhere - basically everyone speak english on level that enables communication

- perfectly safe.

- EU, Schengen.
But why is it plotted with this arc bars. That is more than weird, isn't it?
Last I checked cloudflare was also involved in AMP

https://www.cloudflare.com/website-optimization/accelerated-...
The suggestion being made is that the unwashed masses don't know what's best for them, and need to be guided by the enlightened minority. The problem with this is that there isn't a minority that's fit to lead. No one group fully understands the needs and wants of a society. That's why, as imperfect as it is, it makes sense for every citizen (of voting age) to have an equal say in how a society is run.
But how do you write a list with only one element, x (func y) z?
I found that earlier research article: https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/economic/conf/gr...
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I think a reasonable outcome is free credit monitoring for LIFE. I don't understand how these companies get away with only one year of service as if the information will be removed after that year.
Why would you ever pay for an additional vote yourself, instead of giving the money to someone likely to vote in your favor? If you want 50 votes, just give 3$ to 1/p * 50 people with a p probability of voting for the thing you want. 1/p * 150$ is almost certainly massively cheaper than 2500$.
In many countries you don't need a scrip to buy low grade opioids like codeine. That will inflate somewhat the US number.
I love the Australian voting system. It is based on two seeming unrelated, but intertwined rules.

1. Instant runoff voting (preferencing the candidates from 1 to x).

2. Compulsory voting (actually a fine for not visiting the polling station and getting your name crossed off, voting is optional).

The two systems together work to keep everyone involved to a certain extent in the political system, a choice in who you can actually vote for, and historically, stable centralist governments. We have over the last decade or so ended up with less stable governments, but this is more a reflection of a convergence to the centre. The differences between the major parties is now so small that changing does not make much difference in policy.

The one downside is it does make Australia a rather boring place to live :)
The real problem is the winners take small American electoral system and the lack of mandatory voting.

Fix either one, preferably fix both, and I suspect people will stop proposing brain dead ideas like this.
Can't this be used for a direct democracy where all the population can vote directly on issues instead of voting representatives? This essentially makes the people the legislative branch of government. Now scale this decentralized system globally and we've got ourselves a planetary civilization.
Also never "stop", slow down, allow for pauses, allow for minute amounts, as long as you keep decreasing.
You didn't answer the question, you just said the current voting system is bad.
Yes and that's probably the explanations! European men went through this 2-3 generations ago, and then, they were too busy with the nasty stuff happening back then in Europe.
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> The modelling indicates that they won't get more frequent

Is simply incorrect.

"One modeling study projects a large (~100%) increase in Atlantic category 4-5 hurricanes over the 21st century, but we estimate that this increase may not be detectable until the latter half of the century."

Isn't saying they will not get more frequent, it is saying they may get much more frequent but that it will take a long time before we will be able to detect this reliably.

Which is logical given the limited number of data points.
What is your day job and for which company? Just curious as Java (and .NET) are everywhere I look so I wonder.
What's the reasoning behind choosing the power of 2 for this?

It could be tuned to a power of 1.9 or 2.1 or 3 or 1.5.

Aside from being a round number, how do we know 2 is best?
What would be the pro/con of a higher exponent?
What about the pro/con of a lower exponent?
The system where you buy votes is the current system, mind.

Somewhat true for elections of political representatives, but even more true for things like Senate Committees - these require party membership fees that get paid, which come via donations from lobbyists.

Not party political, both sides do it: http://www.definingthemachine.com/party_dues.html
The Opium Wars brought China to its knees, from which it is only now recovering. I'm surprised that the leaders of the US aren't more worried about this.
>The suggestion being made is that the unwashed masses don't know what's best for them, and need to be guided by the enlightened minority.

An enlightened millionaire minority, by the looks of it.
I do also like the idea of dropping sprints in return for rfc bounded projects
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If data is so big that parsing is a bottleneck, that seems like the wrong case for YAML. It's good for hand-edited and human-readable config files, and it's fast enough for that.
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What is the dumbest solution to a problem that actually worked?
Forum without politics, please
Can someone please create a HN like forum where it is moderated to stay on topic and prohibit strictly political posts? If I want social justice propaganda or to slam Trump I'll go to reddit.
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I was never a fan of social feeds trying to show news rather than what friends are doing.

But I have to upvote for the TTRSS. The web client is always open in one of my tabs, and when I'm away from my computer I use the ttRSS Android app. I stuck it on one of my boxes and basically forget about it aside from checking for updates semi-regularly.
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2008/9 suggests that isn't the case!

Hell, HSBC was actively money laundering and they are still kicking.
I have wondered if one of the benefits of being a European is having a rich heritage. Coming from a very new country that really has a limited cultural identity it can be hard to grasp onto anything patriotic that feels legitimate. Couple that with less importance on family values and an increasingly isolated and individualist society it's also hard to come across anything feeling much like a community.

Not being able to anchor your contributions to anything meaningful past "a business" it can be easy to feel like it doesn't really matter that much.

To poke at the digital world, most of what we create on our computers is ephemeral, transient and bound for quick obsolescence. With no roots in the real world, with no past to be a part of and no community to belong to, our efforts existing briefly at best, perhaps it is no wonder everything is underscored by a lonely existential dread.
The FSF and SFLC have as much authority to sue people for infringing the kernel's copyright as I have: absolutely none. Only the copyright holders can do that. Likewise, I can't sue people for trespassing on my neighbor's property.

In the US, (1) you can't let an issue get bigger simply so you can claim more damages the way SCO tried; and (2) when there's a specific statute of limitations -- like there is with copyright -- courts are less likely to say somebody delayed filing suit for too long, unless they made statements about trying to make a record to qualify for more damages, the way SCO did.

In the US, it used to be possible to lose copyright if you failed to enforce it, but that hasn't been the case for decades.
Allow me to shine some light on the title:

What does the general population think if aristocracy is about to buy back it's way to power?
Only now? Can you elaborate?
If you think of the market as another democratic institution (albeit with another set of principles for what's considered fair), could this be a step towards addressing both? (A market is afer all just another way to try and select preferences fairly and effective)

I've long found it an interesting idea to allocate limited capital assets (aka land) in a similar manner, select best use (aka owner) through highest bid (aka vote), but offset the opportunity cost, and rent extraction, by expressing said bid in a rent paid as a public dividend.

Perhaps when discussin public policy decision by means of voting with your wallet it opens the door to also discuss market decisions as a democracy implementation.

(Oh well, I have a 58-page paper to read to see if this comment was entirely of topic)
> Right, I was thinking more along the lines of needing to raise the $42 mil to exercise the option.

I have a hunch that finding someone willing to lend $42m, given a court ruling that it can be turned into something worth $1bn, will be quite easy.
I cannot follow TOML at all. YAML is nice and obvious in the limited basically json subset I use whereas nested maps in TOML are a nightmare.
Isn't it a bit pedantic to want me to repeat arguments from the original post?

OK, here you go:
"Weyl and Lalley prove that the collective decision rapidly approximates efficiency as the number of voters increases. By contrast, no extant voting procedure is efficient."
That's why school subjects like media studies and civics aren't bullshit wishy-washy ones, they're essential for getting us out of this rut. We should teach the young how to be better citizens than we are by equipping them with the tools to see through propaganda and to help them set the direction they see as best for their country.

Also, there should be room for both rationality and emotion in public debate. Emotion is a key part of the human experience, making decisions based on rationality alone will stop us seeing why certain rational decisions should not be followed.
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>If you aren't happy about the stores closing for holiday weekends, blame the union. That's something they protect for their members.

What are you talking about? Unions don't care about stat holidays. They care about making sure their members are paid. Plenty of people would work over a long weekend for 1.5x or 2x wage. To me seeing the LCBO closed while every other place on that strip was open and full of shopping tourists means the LCBO is completely immune to market forces. They just don't care.
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Rails app?? I’d think something go-based would be more appropriate for this kind of service.
YouTube shuts down North Korean propaganda channels
It's got a lot of bad features which should not really be used. The core is good though.
What I know about Pournelle I mostly picked up from listening to him the few times he was on the TWiT podcast. He was always an interesting guest.

One thing he mentioned there that stuck with me was that he logs his daily activities in a journal. What he eats, the weather, phone calls, meetings, etc... I tried to start the habit, but it never stuck.

I wonder if his personal papers will end up in some university's collection?
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Matplotlib also allows xkcd style plots [1] if that is something you fancy :)

[1] -- http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/07/10/XKCD-plots-in-matpl...
As I understood it, "buy" does not have to be money. It could be hashing ability as in Bitcoin or maybe everyone gets X voting credits every few years which they "buy" votes in local and national elections.

I could be wrong, but I prefer the possibilities of such a system not directly involving money. The distribution of wealth is so imbalanced that I cannot see buying votes to have any kind of positive impact.
I think about it this way: if I get a 20 dollar paper note let's say in 1810 and believe it to represent 20 ounces of silver (simplified to make the point) but upon visiting my bank branch I only find 5 ounces - the bank is insolvent and the paper notes immediately near worthless. In the crypto world 5 filecoin will always be 5 filecoin- and I can see (and trade in and out of them) on a 24/7 basis. That's quite a different trust level to me. In fact I can 'shapeshift' them into hundreds of other coins that I deem more relevant or worthy as a value store at a moments notice. Does not that sound like a superior system, even when granted, it's not perfect (as long as we are dealing with imperfect knowledge of the future and human emotions)
They are one of the largest purchasers of alcohol in the world, of course they negotiate.
Yes, but its lightweight enough to not have my browser stutter while scrolling, and continue scrolling for several seconds after I stop.

I cannot say the same for most news websites.
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> Writing an RFC demonstrates that you have thought enough about a problem to devise a working solution that is not rash but also admittedly not perfect

This is critical. One of the most important parts of the RFC process is that by its very nature it invites comment. It specifically invites people to poke holes in it, to find issue with it, to voice their concerns and be heard. While it doesn't promise unanimity, it promises consensus. And while every single objection may not be fully satisfied, every one of them should be addressed.

An RFC averts the tendency towards an overabundance of confidence, warranted or otherwise, and instead starts a discussion.
China gives Weibo users a week to use their real names
I'm curious: Is this module meant for Python 2? It resembles a heavily trimmed down version of the pathlib module found in Python 3.4+.
This is one of my most favorite Lua features -- trailing commas are allowed in table constructors.

When generating code, it is so wonderful to not have to have the logic to track the first or last object ....
I didn't read the whole article, so maybe they address this, but instead of letting people buy votes with money, which favors the rich, why not allocate an equal number of special credits to everyone that they can apportion among different issues (still using the quadratic system, if that there are reasons to think that is optimal)?
The argument was that teaching was a desirable job because of things like tenure. Tenure is becoming increasingly rare[0] and I very much doubt it plays a big role when people are deciding if they would like to pursue teaching as a career.

> The period since 1972 has seen a steady decline in the percentage of college and university teaching positions in the US that are either tenured or tenure-track. United States Department of Education statistics put the combined tenured/tenure-track rate at 56% for 1975, 46.8% for 1989, and 31.9% for 2005. That is to say, by the year 2005, 68.1% of US college teachers were neither tenured nor eligible for tenure; a full 48% of teachers that year were part-time employees.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_tenure_in_North_Ameri...