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>What I often see in my local election is that 3rd-party candidates are often (not always, but often) very inexperienced, and might have platforms that don't make sense or aren't coherent

This is a symptom of our current system. Anybody who has any ambition in politics will modify some of their positions to fit one of the major two parties. If running for another party wasn't a death sentence, you would see more competent candidates in those parties.
> We don't even have scooters yet and they're talking about passing regulation in case it becomes a thing.

That's a good thing, not a bad thing. It means your regulators are paying attention to events elsewhere and are trying to proactively prepare for them, rather than flailing about in reaction to complaints and problems. When the scooters come, your jurisdiction will be ready for them, rather than having to ban them just so they can catch up.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/companies-pull-scooters-off-sf-str...
This despite the claim that the columbine shooters used doom was false.
I think your statement is one data point, but I can certainly concur with it. I have had the same experience. When I disconnect from the internet, I tend to sleep much, much better. Also, if sleep wasn't affected by technology, why would Google and Apple be making efforts on "Digital Wellbeing" in their respective operating systems to help limit our use, especially late at night.
Yes but it’s the oldest model supported by Mojave, so consider getting a used 2014 maybe if you want it to be relevant for a few more OS releases.
Refurbished iPhones are the best deal running.

Apple has already said every refurb gets a new battery and case. And if they replace any glass breakage, there's really nothing left besides the logic board. You're essentially getting a brand new unit.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-refurbished-used-iphones-new...
Also, where are all these privately owned gypsy ambulances that would be signing up for this service? You'd need fleets of rando EMT's just trolling around towns hoping they're going to be the closest to an emergency. The reason independent ambulances work is because they have a central dispatch to make sure things get evened out across the board.
Exactly. Leaving a lot of poor people uncovered by Express. It’s not in Detroit either.
Another thing about recursion is that it is really powerful for operation on tree like data structures/objects
They might, just like the MHz marketing wars. But for now consumers don't care about "7nm" as a marketing figure enough for them to care if it's actually 7nm or not.
I think this has to do with the fact that things like XML are not Turing complete, even though it is a language in its own right.
Indeed. As easy as it was to grow up hating "the system", with the benefit of perspective it has to be said that a good selection of well-trained doctors, well-connected councillors etc. are likely to be more useful in a post-nuclear-holocaust recovery scenario than a bunch of school kids whose survival story would probably end up reading more like Lord of the Flies.
This is actually an interesting point. An acquisition is either a cause for celebration because it's validation of what you built and a potential financial windfall, or it's a sign that your company has fallen behind and needs a soft landing.
I can think of at least one prominent mathematician and anime fan who might've written that anonymous proof.
> Do you literally never take any deductions at all? Never expense anything? No mortgage or whatever? Have zero capital gains income of any kind an in turn never have any losses of any kind there?

Well, welcome to a part of the world were software development doesn't necessarily mean big money. I don't own a house (I share a room with my SO in an apartment with other two people and a dog), and I don't have anything invested because I don't have money to invest, so no capital gains of any kind. The only expenses I could deduct are for prescriptions and my glasses, which I don't do because the burden is too high for the kind of money I would get (think <100€ per year) and I don't buy drugs often anyway.

> if you then simply slap a tax on the revenue again and make the margin go negative now the business dies, simple as that, and all the flows cease. Is that actually your intention?

No, I was just asking why am I not taxed based on what I earn minus rent, food and transportation.

> Why not just seize it then and take it all for the government directly?

Why not, indeed? I mean, I get that a lot of people in here are libertarian, but that doesn't mean it's the only way. I'm not actually advocating for State ownership, I'm just saying it's not necessarily impossible to have such a system.
I was just looking into in-memory SQL DBs so this is great. Does it have ODBC support?
>It's an evolutionary thing. Having children, adolescents, adults and the elderly on different sleep schedules affords a family unit with nearly round the clock protection

Erm. No.

If you look at modern primitive groups of people, you don't sleep all night. You wake up several times throughout the night and are, generally, considerably lighter sleepers.

Some people in 'civilized' societies still do this. I wake up a handful of times a night, the vast majority of the time, and always have. It's not a medical issue, I'm getting quality sleep and I'm back asleep in a couple of minutes tops.

Same goes for a lot of career soldiers/warriors throughout history including modern times, they can be out cold in a couple of minutes any time of the day with minimal effort and can be fully functional within seconds of being woken up.
This might be a stupid question, but what is the advantage of this solution over an in-memory sqlite database?
When I was younger I was able to go into interviews with the mindset of, "it's their decision and it's okay if they don't think I'm a good fit."

It made interviewing easy, and in a lot of cases even enjoyable. Unfortunately for reasons still unknown to me, I'm not able to get into that mindset anymore. Interviews are extremely stressful now. No amount of rationalizing will help.
I realized, that's why I wrote the comment.
I think it could make sense if your traffic has a large difference between peak and trough, and you can reliably and automatically scale your system up and down throughout the day; and even more if you can make use of spot pricing. Bare metal makes a lot of sense when you're using the capabilities of a full machine (or several), but provisioning isn't usually fast enough to deal with short term load management.
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YouCompleteMe will be better than TabNine for API exploration.

TabNine will be more reliable (it will work correctly with malformed, ill-typed, or half-written code) and it can find patterns in your code, like you can see in the pictures on the website.
Sensibly, they used a friendly game which includes suicide bomb creatures.

Edit: fastest downvote I've seen.
I saw some pretty slick business models come out from HP. Actually held one that somebody showed me, it seemed well built.

It'll obviously take time for high quality AMD-based laptops to become a normal thing, but with the CPU being en par and the GPU clearly being better than Intel's offering, it should really only be a matter of time.
I was thinking luggage for long haul flights + clothing + carry on was extremely heavy. But, your right the average is probably far below that.
Yeah, but this one provides free mosswort and radium supplements with all limb reattachments!
Worth noting that Scott Kaufman, psychologist at Columbia, has correlated narcissism with Impostor Syndrome for quite some time.

Here is a pretty easy to read overview from last month’s Scientific American: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/are-nar...
Looks like it's missing a lot of the details about the "how".

"This was a more complicated operation with tighter spreads, and required a net long position in crypto"

Based on this, it sounds a lot like gambling, and this experience is survivor bias.
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Yep Dell has Ryzen Pro 3/5/7 laptops, with Vega GPUs with same TDP as Intel machines.

edit I almost ordered one but went with a different model to choose the keyboard layout. So my point is that they do exist.
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It's always been good at OLTP and great at OLAP. We used it for years as a single HTAP solution during the 5.x versions for heavy adtech applications.
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Ranked voting is sorely needed in the US. Plurality vote, the predominant US vote tallying system in the US, actually maximizes voter dissatisfaction. That is, if your candidate loses you are most likely to end up with a winning candidate that is polar opposite of your values.
Awesome plugin Jacob. I have a question about the full version, is it per editor? Eg., I use Sublime Text most of the time, but occassionally vim, do I need to buy 2 licenses?
Also are these licenses transferrable between machines (work vs home)?
If someone else is paying for it and you have time, why not do it? Worst case scenario, you have proof of your ambition and get a free credential. Best case scenario, you'll learn something and get a free credential!
As a fellow .NET developer, I dig the author's point. However, I would argue it's not C# that's dangerous - it's Visual Studio, the IDE.
Or you could learn more about other options and critiques of IRV in order to realize that our effort at reform would be better spent on STAR voting (or maybe approval voting), even though IRV is better than the status quo.

IRV has the fundamental flaw in that it counts some voters' preferences and ignores others. It's an overly-complex and mediocre unequal system.

Check out https://www.equal.vote to understand what it means to have voting equality and how we can pursue systems that honor that.
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That seems managable when you have 3 candidates. What happens when there are 10 or 20 candidates? Would voters have to list their top 10 or 20 choices?
> consumer electricity prices

due to taxes which companies don't pay, so that doesn't matter.

Look at the following graph (you need to expand it). Denmark has the lowest prices.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263262/industrial-sector...

Price of electricity in Denmark is less than 51% of the price in Ireland!
Ideas are a dime a dozen. The hard part is always the asking the right questions and collecting the right data to filter out bad ideas and refine good ideas into practical products.
> A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy.

This is not generally true in the abstract, but the specific form of most Constitutional republics, including the US, is basically representative democracy, though sometimes (as in the US) with skewed voting power, and democratic values (coupled with fear of the volatility and excesses of direct or unconstrained democracy) was fairly central to the founding ideology of the United States.
It's never different silicon.
We've banned this account like we said we would.
Is (Transistor Count / Die Size) something that produces a meaningful number?
Well, nothing in there suggests direct manipulation of voting machines, which was the core point.

I think that somewhat proves my point - it's not clear to me that 'posting comments online' or 'paying news outlets to write specific stories' are or should actually be crimes. More directly stealing documents from election networks is - and was caught.
> One property of IRV that makes it so questionable is its non-monotonicity. This means that you can help a candidate by ranking them lower, and hurt a candidate by ranking them higher.

Could anyone take a stab at explaining how this could happen? I looked at the linked site but it's over my head. The visualizations aren't doing anything for me.
I'm going to hold on to my Mid-2015 MacBook Pro for dear life.

I'm hoping it will be good for 3 more years.
> your software will automatically update to the full released version at no additional charge.

So, give your proprietary software both network access and access to all my source code?

I have very few complaints about the Jedi autocomplete library, which is neither proprietary nor requires network access.

I welcome innovation in dev tools, but I wish you had found a monetization strategy that didn't require us to trust you so completely.
If US corporations hike their prices up to cover the tax, that would increase the competitiveness of local companies who have already been paying their fair share of tax. Perhaps that's the encouragement governments need to stimulate the local economy further.
From what they claim, MemSQL supposedly scales well across a cluster of servers (and of course the usual, fail over, features, and other fun stuff).
I clarified the difference before you linked lyft’s non-emergency medical transportation services

>And there is a differnce between non-emergency transportation and emergency transportation...but it is all highly regulated.

Nevertheless, I am right. Even to provide non-emergency medical transportation you must be registered (hold appropriate licenses/insurance), a random ride-share driver can not legally offer non-emergency medical services...unless they are registered with the government to provide those services.

Still none of them can provide emergency transport services to the public for money. So now you can continue debating that a patient with a crushed hand/severed fingers diagnosed by their doctor as needing emergency treatment in an ER is not an emergency requiring emergency transport under the law.
No real HFT system is doing a * database transaction * in the critical trading path. HFT systems are not built like web applications. They are typically built as a tight event loop, reading market data packets directly from the network card, doing a tiny bit of computation and then writing to a userspace TCP stack for order entry.

I guess you could be using MemSQL for post-order or trade analysis but then it would probably overkill since a lot of that can be done considerably slower.
It's almost the literal phrasing of the Dunning-Kruger article, why do you expect people not to notice the similarity?
I’m no db expert, but doesn’t SQLite have very non-granular locking that makes it hard to scale?
Supposedly Apple is planning an 8k display to go with the modular Mac Pro.

I suspect if they release a new display it will somehow be beholden to graphics capability of new Apple machines, possibly requiring A chips or their ilk.
https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
Headphones are stereo (okay, there are some exceptions), and optical S/PDIF can do stereo PCM, so there's no quality downside. But for home theater audio, you can't do any lossless multi-channel formats over optical S/PDIF, so the vast majority of enthusiasts will use HDMI.
It's also a very competitive price. $29 is excellent for a piece of software that helps my day to day. It's really a sweet spot between very reasonable, and a bit pricey. I'm so happy about this project, and hope it works well (I'll be trying it tonight after work)
I can't imagine a human right more fundamental than health care. What good is freedom of speech or assembly or trade to a dead person?
choosing what avenue you use for transport yourself is fine. it's when you're told by an employer that you must use a ridesharing service that it becomes illegal.
This is because taxing profit is a very bad idea. It leads to situations where two companies doing exactly the same thing pay different taxes because one uses less efficient (and often more polluting) technology or just chooses to buy luxury cars for the employees instead of showing profits. The tax on profits is a tax on honesty in accounting and even if accountats are honest it's still impossible to determine fair value of things like offshore licensing.

Once you accept taxing corporate profit is a very bad idea the solutions magically appear: tax consumption and things we don't want (pollution, land usage etc.) It's very easy to make consumption tax progressive if you want that (higher rates for luxury goods, refunds up to X amount per month, funding social services with it etc.).

There is no reason to debate what a company based in country at the end of the world should pay or how your neighbors choose to tax their companies. If they do business in your country the revenue is collected by consumption tax. If your country is nice to live in people will move and pay tax there. The incentives are right for the politicians: make your country businesses friendly and a nice place to live and for the companies who move to places which are more business friendly and better to operate in as tax rate isn't an issue anymore - everyone sets their consumption tax rates and everyone who sells there must oblige.

The countries setting their corporate tax to near 0% have the right idea. I hope they won't be bullied of their position.
Are you saying that it is not common to see IDEs and other editors support HTML in addition to other text-based formats?
I would asume that depends on the circumstances? In an dire emergency you take the first ride you get. Otherwise I could image that there are some rules in place.
I think though with Dell offering laptops, desktops, and servers with AMD components the time is already here.

OTOH maybe this Dell stuff isn’t on consumer market yet.
So you continue to make assumptions about a Lyft being faster than an ambulance. Do you also believe that an ambulance lacks trained medical personnel and equipment compared to a Lyft?

I'm sorry, what is this "indirect cost" of using an ambulance, when the purpose of them is to service severe injuries? Maybe you think a severed finger is no big deal, but how common do you think severed fingers are, to think that victims constitute a serious threat to the supply of ambulances on any given day?
Ergo, the natural consequences of capitalism.
> Even to provide non-emergency medical transportation you must be registered (hold appropriate licenses/insurance), a random ride-share driver can not legally offer non-emergency medical services...unless they are registered with the government to provide those services.

Please can you link to the law that you're talking about?
Yep, STAR voting is generally my preferred method, but I do love the simplicity of "in favor of" binary voting as well. Either way, there's loads of improvements over our current system.

The biggest thing is we need to eliminate the need to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of 2 evils. Obviously all republics involve some level of "this candidate is close enough to be my proxy" decision making, but I'm currently stuck voting for someone who was indicted while in office for political crimes because the alternative is worse.

Moving to either system helps break the 2 party system open...which is why nobody in establishment politics is making a big push to get it implemented.
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The charts on this website are eye opening. Even in 4 candidates we can see very strange behaviour from IRV. I initially didn't understand why IRV would be non monotonic, but reading some examples it can be seen that the results of IRV can drastically change depending on who got the lowest votes. The graphs show several weird behaviors for IRV and I would recommend anyone interested in voting systems to have a look.
There is also a low level tool, disassembler and debugger, radare2 [1]. It also allows to record the session in both debug and emulation sessions and replay it[2].

[1] https://github.com/radare/radare2

[2] https://radare.gitbooks.io/radare2book/content/debugger/revd...
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Quoting the author from r/rust[0]

> Its paid features are always enabled when completing Rust code, in acknowledgment of the fact that TabNine could not exist without the Rust ecosystem.

Thanks for this, Jacob!

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/9uhc1x/tabnine_an_aut...
No, you would only have to specify/rank as many choices as you want your vote to carry over. If you only like 5 candidates and hate the other 15, your vote will simply be thrown away and not counted if you don't specify any of the other candidates.
Strictly speaking, that's not true:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/03/01/doctors-...

With Uber Health, a doctor can send an Uber to pick a patient up to transport them to the doctor's office, and many doctors have offices in hospitals, so this service would then be illegal according to you, but it isn't.

What you probably meant to say is a medical practitioner can't call a non-medical transport for a patient in an emergency, which also doesn't seem true, but I can't find any articles that directly say that (why would someone write such a thing?).
Well, I certainly wouldn't, but in four to five years if I need a general purpose server, it'd be nice to install Linux.
I'm all for folks on both sides. However, just please don't push your beliefs on me. That's what I dislike. I have my personal beliefs, which I am happy to share, but I won't force you (or judge you) for any lifestyle choices you make.

That being said, if anyone wants to have a genuine conversation about the pros and cons of both sides, happy to do so. Just don't make it personal.
You can read more here: https://www.coindesk.com/us-election-pushes-total-augur-bets...

Augur allows anyone in the world to bet on different events. Augur cannot be shut down by the government (Unlike Intrade, which was shut down a few years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade). It allows anyone to create a prediction market on any event. It is a perfect use case for a decentralized blockchain.
Distributed. Scalable. OLTP + OLAP queries. High availability. Very fast performance for reads and writes.

They are entirely different systems. Sqlite is meant for self-contained applications that need some relational data persistence with a single file for storage, not for accessing as a central database with many clients storing TBs and scaling across nodes.
In which ways?
Here is a wikipedia link which explains this with an example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Instant...
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I think those questions come from both naïvete and a desire to increase information asymmetry in the hiring process.
Except for people who actually want a healthy society and see the bigger picture.

If my candidate wins with a plurality and is stymied and sabotaged by a divided population with many people feeling totally unrepresented, that does not create a world I prefer. I want a society where as many people as possible feel included and trust the system. I don't want a situation where losers feel disenfranchised and interested in undermining democracy.

If my views are actually democratically popular, I will be okay with a fairer voting system. If I like that the current system is unfairly weighted in my favor, then it's still very short-sighted for me to defend that system.

Incidentally, I don't advocate for IRV, it's a flawed system. Much better options are STAR, 3-2-1, or approval voting.
Are you denoting control+shift+a as control-A?