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> Similarly, if I were teaching group theory, I would not try motivating it with solving polynomial equations.

Why not? That’s a fine (and historically important) reason to study group theory, and everyone who goes through high school is fairly deeply familiar with polynomial equations.

While we are discussing Arnold, you might like this book created out of Arnold's lectures to some bright high school students in the 60s, https://www.mathcamp.org/2015/abel/abel.pdf
It amazes me when people think the government should be the go-to solution to society's problems. The government can indeed be used for good, and it has solved many problems, and regulations can be a good thing. But government should be applied very carefully, and probably as the last solution, after we see the failures of non-government solutions.

The government is all powerful. They can destroy any business, destroy any life, and seize all assets and livelihood if they desire to, even in America. But at least in America it is possible to sue the government and maybe rectify the situation, but you have to be wealthy or get a powerful ally like the Washington Post on your side.

If it upsets you that the US government is able to hurt an immigrant like is discussed in this article, then you should take a very skeptical view of government actions and also people who advocate giving the government more power. After all, many people who loved Obama's expansion of executive authority now recoil as the enemy party's control of the government reverses his non-congressional approved decisions.

The more power you give to the government, the less power the citizenry has.
You have to sue the government body that took your funds. Get a good lawyer and pray, basically.
Campaign donations are only one form of bribery. There are in-kind gifts, and cash gifts to family and friends, and "consulting contracts" given after the politician resigns.
>Animated Vector Drawable (Android only). More performant because it runs on the RenderThread instead of the main thread. Supports only a subset of Lottie features. Progress can't be manually set. Doesn't support text or dynamic colors. Can't be loaded programatically or over the internet.

The real long term alternative on Android is that Bodymovin now has a plugin to directly export an animation to the VectorDrawable format.
So you get the advantage of running on the RenderThread while still being able to work directly in AfterEffects.
Nope. That's 137M going directly to home owners.

> San Diego Gas & Electric Co. will provide rebates for as many as 60,000 customers to install home charging stations and offer installation services, for a total of $136.9 million.
I'm a bit disappointed by the proposed alternative, which is approval voting.

Every alternative voting method I've seen proposed by voting geeks has flaws that are as serious as the current system.

There are two main problems with approval voting (and other similar systems like condorcet). The first is that approval voting assumes that every preference has the same weight. Either yes, I approve, or no I don't approve.

If we imagine three candidates, A, B, and C, with 10 voters giving a score of 0 to 100. If 9 people give A a score of 100, B a score of 1, and C a score of 0, while one other person gives C a score of 100, B a score of 1, and A a score of 0, then B will win the election in the earlier methods, despite being 99% unpalatable to the majority of everyone.

The second problem is non-voters. Our current system ensures that the will of the non-voter is never accounted for. Now, that seams obvious, because they haven't voted, but it's possible to build a system that accounts for everyone's vote.

In the world of single-winner systems, I think the only voting solution that truly represents the will of the people is repeat-stable voting. With repeat-stable voting, you keep repeating the election until the results are stable. An example of this would be voting every day on the exact same election until the results of two subsequent votes produce the same winner.

That way there is no such thing as the surprise upset. If the will of the people is not captured in the first vote, they have the chance to mobilize for the second, or the third. In this way, you capture the will of the abstainer, as well, because the abstainer is guaranteed to know the result of their choice to not-vote, which means they have the opportunity to change their vote and haven't done so.

To move beyond single winner, however, I think the next big leap forward in voting enabled by technology would be hierarchical vote delegation. Instead of electing a leader, you delegate your vote to a leader. (This holds for any role) An elected representative is not making decisions, but wielding their collection of delegated votes. On any single issue, a person is free to manually control that issue, overriding their chosen delegate, and this ensures that the actions of government are truly those decided by the electorate.
Source? Cloudflare did post a moderately hostile response to Tor a few years back, but their technical implementation is sound and does not present multiple CAPTCHAs to users who have cookies enabled (the CAPTCHA might be broken with JS off, but that's a Google problem).
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Totally with you on all of that and that I live in a comfy bubble of tech stuff.

Conveniently, Github fits right into the technology bubble. :)
The problem is that such a system is actually more easy to game and have a larger proportion of voters not support the overall policy.

If 51% of districts are 51% yellow while 49% are 100% pink, yellow wins.

With a second level, you can run that game twice, and 25% are enough to win.
There are truly offensive terms for people from Quebec and Atlantic Canada, particularly French speakers. Terms that are said and used with malintent.

This particular "Canadian N Word" is not one of them.

As a direct parallel, does anyone from the American North East in what is traditionally thought of as "New England" find the term "Yankee" offensive? That is essentially the same situation.

As a Canadian (who is now a Yankee) with descendants from Quebec and Labrador (an historic "Canadian N Word"), I am stunned that people would take any offense at all with either of these terms.

I'm not sure if this is an example of "any term being offensive" if used with malice or that some people will be offended by any "label" used by an outsider even if there is no ill will attached.

Seems to me that it is the latter and I find that slightly depressing.
It's simpler than this: If you can obtain a nutrient from the environment, then the machinery to make it yourself breaking won't kill you.

Same way mammals keep losing vitamin C synthesis when they settle on a diet that's rich in it.

This isn't "use it or lose it" this is just "lose it and don't die". Having the synth path is better, dying is worse.
All licensed media have to push government propaganda to not lose their rights. Good example are stories about cannabis or other drugs. Often these contain scaremongering, half truths or outright lies and questionable studies. If you want to see which outlet is trustworthy, just check how they report drug stories. I Facebook wants to get rid of fake news I wonder if they are going to ban most of mainstream media. Otherwise they'll still publish fake news, but tell people they now only show true stuff.
Not if there is absolute solidarity against that.

And there cannot be absolute solidarity if any single individual or organization caves in.

Therefore "someone else will, so I might as well" is logically incorrect; it defeats the possibility of solidarity before it has had a chance.
Kinda related question is there a do-178b certified compiler that coult compile a future certified qt?
Not just immigrants... for years, various jurisdictions in the US would shakedown people passing through. If you had more than a couple hundred in cash, kiss it goodbye. There's been a little tightening of its' use in the past 2-3 years, but it needs to go away.
Taxes have existed for a very long time.
The problem is there is no exception for companies whose business model isn't snooping.

Normal companies have customer lists, accounts receivable information, customer email addresses for password resets and announcements etc. A business can't stop keeping records of who owes them money. But then they're subject to regulations designed to make things difficult for the likes of Facebook and Microsoft.
Unequal Scenes
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Although it’s worth pointing out that about 1 in 10 people suffer from Favism (1),which is sort of rough.

1. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, leading to hemolytic anemia.
At this point I just hope that the acquisition goes through, is completely terrible and gitlab becomes the new standard.
You never get paid to do what you love what you love just ends up turning into a job.
I wasn’t aware that this was an old school Apple vs Microsoft debate. But alas.

I don’t know if you’ve actually used the latest Office for Mac. It’s better than the older versions, but it’s still obvious that MS isn’t fully proficient in macOS development. For starters, the interface doesn’t respect the scaling settings on my 5K iMac. I’d expect that sort of shoddy UI from Steam or something.

The fact that iTunes for Windows is trash doesn’t change this fact at all, so I don’t knkw what you’re getting at.
Interesting. My questions (1) what is the timestamp of this page (created or last modified)? (2) Could you use a torrent client to solve this problem?
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this is due to low CO2 levels. Plants evolved and are use to 1200ppm CO2 level. The current levels 300-400ppm 1/4 to 1/3 of their normal level, they are starving. Its amazing they are actually surviving. Probably going to get downvoted to hell but science is science.
It's because of genetic drift.

If there is no selection happening on the gene, then the relative distribution of that gene in the population effectively drifts at random.

So yes, a gene can definitely be dormant, but it can also be lost if it's not actively being selected for.

There's no guarantee that the gene will be lost if it's not used, but it's definitely a possibility that increases with time.
That could be the outcome, yes, or the outcome could be entirely different. It could be that the projects gets farmed out to a less-than-competent contractor that is willing to work on it, with a result that is so spectacularly bad (along any given dimension, not just how many innocent lives are affected) that the project dies.

That, too, is a complete guess and just one of many hypothetical outcomes. I don't think there is any sufficient ground to infer that "if Google does not do it, it will be worse".
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Scotland, whose Parliament uses proportional representation via AMS/Additional Member System (one of the main drawbacks of which is that it takes an age to explain...), has had representatives from socialist/green parties win seats they wouldn't have had a chance in hell winning under FPTP ("First Past the Post"), which I think many people feel has lead to some pretty positive policies being debated and implemented which otherwise might not have happened.

AMS/PR has had the effect of forcing parties to work together much more in Scotland than has ever happened in the FPTP UK Parliament. I would dearly love for the UK Parliament to learn some positive lessons from the Scottish experience, but I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime.

I really like AMS - it retains the direct constituency link of a member for a region elected via FPTP, with the fairness of additional regional members selected proportionally resulting in a pretty proportionate outcome. The downside is that it creates two classes of member - those elected via FPTP, those elected via what AMS calls the 'list', and of course the complexity of giving people two votes instead of one that behave in different ways. The first vote is a classic FPTP, the second vote applies to the list. Your party's performance in the FPTP vote affects the "weight" of any list votes you receive, which is how the system remains proportional. As I said, it's a pain to explain, but one of the fairest systems I've experienced.
To be honest, the GP's post itself reads like a rant and actually does not back up any of its claims. So while I agree that this post did not add value, neither did the GP.

Funny thing with utilities. They are a sort of commons, yet always regarded as evil until proven innocent.
I agree and I don't really like how the internet is evolving either but this sounds like one of the good changes, unless I'm missing something
Do you mind me asking how much you make from 300k subscribers? Or how much someone could expect to make based on subscribers?

I know I have subscribed to a few channels and watched them a lot initially then found them a bit boring after while. I never bothered to un-subscribe. (Somewhat related - interestingly my Stack Overflow score stays quite consistent despite not having done much for a while, the answers I have put on there a while ago still seem to get upvotes).
Here's something that gets me...

A lot of Second Amendment advocates say we need the right to bear arms to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government. Well...here's your tyranny. Now where's that armed uprising?
As I said in a sibling, this reason is more complex than it has to be.

If you can suffer a mutation and not die, because you can obtain the nutrient from food, then you can have offspring who have the same non-fatal problem.

There's no budgeting involved and whether the conditions that make this a reduction in fitness occur or not is a fluke. Vitamin C synthesis turned out to be a big deal for humans once we started going to sea.
A fun thing about them (in the PNW at least) is that you can plant piles of them in fall and they will grow with very little assistance (or watering since it rains so much) and you'll have heaps upon heaps of beans in spring.

I planted $10 of Windsor beans 2 years ago and ended up drying about 300-400 seeds (far more than $10 worth) and still had too many to eat. Some of my new son's first solid food was a hummus made from those same dried beans (really delicious!).

Such a fun plant to grow. Processing the beans is a bit of work, but wow, it's worth it. Unparalleled flavour in the bean kingdom.
I joined a few months ago and found it is mildly useful, and I consider that a compliment. It works for what it is, doesn't try hard to be something it isn't, and actually makes you feel a bit more part of a community. I think the key in using it is to not treat it like reddit/facebook/whatever, and avoid having discussions with people except in a polite manner. Flaming out in a discussion with some other geek on the other side of the country is very different than pissing off your neighbor that is a prominent figure at your kid's school.

I was very wary of it, but now feel ok recommending it with that provision. Tread lightly ;)
This is a continuation of policies that only benefit homeowners to the detriment of everyone else. Homeowners in California have a stranglehold on all levels of government.

This money could have funded public transport which would have had a similar outcome and benefited more low and middle income people.
It seems to me that it a gene gets disabled, but still physically exists, random mutation will eventually scribble over it, as mutations there wouldn't affect the survival of an individual. So dormant genes will eventually disappear.
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Not last. Not first. Not all powerful. Not feckless.

Americans act like their government is representative of governments. It isn't. They act like everything needs to be invented there. It doesn't. They believe that America is the greatest country in the world. It isn't.

If people in America just stopped to look around at how other countries do things they'd be doubly as well run. Most parts of Europe, Japan, Canada, and many other places are well run and have a great deal of governmental involvement. America is hobbled by its own broken political system that nobody would replicate if they were starting from scratch today.

It's essentially the PHP of government systems. Dominant, but broken.
The mathcoins: decentralised cryptocurrency, without the blockchain?
It's not a matter of blame at all... I'd love to see some challengers. In the end, google knows a lot about me and is really good at delivering personalized results because of it.
Please make comments that actually contribute to the discussion. If you don’t care to defend your stance, don’t say anything.
> If I ran a forum for a number of years, and a person decided to close their account, that'd be fine. But if they then said that I need to remove _all of their posts_, that's really shitty.

> It would destroy the usefulness of a forum.

Couldn't you just anonymize their posts, for instance by updating their username to something like "Deleted User"? Wouldn't you be fine as long as there wasn't anything left to link them to their real identity?
> they will target you through payment processors and ad networks

How will they do that, and on what legal basis?
Crows in Japan are definitely quite intelligent. They'll use traffic to crack open nuts by dropping them in front of traffic lights. After a car runs over them, they'll wait for the red light and then retrieve the now cracked open nut[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0
I assumed "out there [wherever /you/ are]"
You can use Google without logging in and with one of those browser addons that delete cookies when leaving a site.
Visa Card Network Crashes, Blockchain Has Never Gone Down
Interesting video on NASA's channel linked from the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1G9gqhkYA

The thing that struck me was how close the summer melt is getting to the North Pole, and just how new the ice is tending to be there.
The problem I have with this line of argument is that's used to excuse the government of these kinds of actions. Once you believe that government is simply incapable then you stop demanding that it becomes any better.

Even what you describe, limiting the power of government, is a governmental solution. You simply have to elect people who want to make the system better rather than those who want to tear it down. It's easy to say government doesn't work and do nothing.
Why this scientist wants you to love krill
I think there is a simple way to describe the difference between the "evolution" of things like TVs, and the evolution of living creatures.

With TVs, we see how the outward form stays the same over a long period of time (rectangle, with varying depth), but the inner mechanism is completely different (vacuum tubes, plasma, LEDs, etc.)

With living creatures, we see how the outward form varies wildly (mouse, elephant, dolphin) but the inner mechanisms have remarkable similarities (skeleton, muscles, organs, genetics).

So it may not be helpful to reason by analogy between these two categories of human engineering vs natural evolution when they are fundamentally different.
It's not comfortable for people who are less than average heighteither. The curvature make those people sit with the head cranked forward... one wonders who is actually in a pleasant position with airline seats.
When I was front man of a slightly successful band I felt the absolute worst and lonlyest after a gig.

It was such a low feeling I’ll never forget it and one of the things I miss least about it.

I think it came from 2 hours of trying to entertain a lot of people and make them feel good about life while simultaneously experiencing full on imposter syndrome.
I drove a Model X 75D down to San Diego and back before buying one. 1 - 2 45 minute supercharging stops is not even remotely the reality. Rated miles don't mean anything with the Grapevine and heavy traffic. Expect 5 stops if you want to get there with more than 20% battery.

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