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Somebody finish automating the closing papers for real estate deals. Yes, you can sign contracts on line. Yes, it’s probably a very good idea to have the final papers notarized and witnessed in-person by neutral humans. What I’m after is the $35 after-the-fact FedEx charge for overnight delivery of the NOW-VALID papers. That’s your low hanging fruit target.
Firefox still doesn't render native OS elements like select boxes and right-click menus, so I have little faith overflow scrolling will ever be fixed.
The original problem I think intends the points to be on the plane. Feel free to find solutions in higher dimensions - the trivial answer is that there are infinitely many. The less trivial answer is to find all the families of solutions.
Add to that that then-telephone-only private hire companies are moving to the internet, you're now left with the question of what makes Uber better than another private hire company
They still need to caucus to get a majority in a legislature. Encouraging third party people, especially now, is just encouraging fringe lunatics.
I was moved by the images. It reminded me about how selfish I am the way I grab at things. At these time scales would it matter if I had more prestige or material possessions. I want to become kinder but I don’t know how or if I ever can. The more immediate instincts of anger and jealousy hold far more sway.
I would find that extremely concerning. Also, New York City is already spending a fortune on just that. The main lines that feed into New York can't really be shut down for maintnence without massive water outages.
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U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea spillover
This seems to be a relevant topic for discussing unintended side effects of automated systems.

You can build a robot that can navigate the usual aspects of the city - but can you ensure that robots can also navigate the unusual aspects, which are rare but very important, such as needing to move aside from a curb cut so that a wheelchair user can get on the sidewalk instead of being stranded in the street when the green light ends and cars start driving there?
It's a bad reason for a veto. Looks like this patten means we'll need to wait even longer for a more democratic voting scheme.
I seriously want to begin working in this field as a consultant/architect/developer. So much so that I've registered the LLC, opened a bank account, and even had a few clients I built web apps for. However, I'm not exactly sure how to pivot to business solutions/productivity tools though. Do you usually approach companies where you expect to have a solution for them? Or do you find clients through advertising? Do they find you? Any advice is appreciated!
If it is Zener-ing, there is some base current, no?

The article says there is "some" static power requirement... that sounds like base current to me.
This is a good point I think. If this system were adopted, all it would take is a small number of activist people to understand how to game the system, then post a bunch of YouTube videos explaining to all their acolytes how they can join in and game the system.
> Personally I'm rooting for the economic solution.

An impossibility because so called 'economic growth' (which is no more than global entropy increase) is coming to an end as degraded ecosystems worldwide fall into collapse. Climate change is only the most salient of literally thousands of distributed causes of this, but the overview is: the physical loans taken out on our global systems over the past two centuries are coming to maturity. It's payback time.
Fargo ND recently adopted approval voting (it was approved by voters by a wide margin), and there's a campaign to get an approval voting ballot measure in St. Louis.

The Center for Election Science seems to be the main advocacy group that's pushing approval voting. They're a much smaller organization than fairvote.org, but they seem to be getting more funding and gaining momentum.
Quick solution: Open primaries.

California has an open primary, first two past the pole approach.

In practice this has driven a big move to the center. Two democrats past the pole first? The more moderate one wins. Two republicans? Again, more moderate one wins in general.

IRV with highly partisan primaries is still a losing game. Go to an open IRV process and you have gold.
Probably not.

A sophisticated attacker will simply use something like Mechanical Turk to get past Google captcha, and Google captcha is incredibly aggravating to a number of marginal users. But it's simple to implement, so that makes it popular.

I'd even say that most services don't need captcha in the first place. Captcha only affects relatively unsophisticated attacks, and if it's just an entry in your database, who cares? If it's sending you spam in an attempt to DDOS your email or customer service platform, use correlation between purchases and accounts to filter out the spam.

So, as with all security related matters, identify your threat model, and use that to figure out what you actually need, not what you think you need.
I tried to cover that near the conclusion. It's likely that someone would offer docker a reasonable amount because of the docker hub and the registered users. Don't think they would sell though.

AWS, Google, Azure should already have mirrors in place for their own offerings, should be ready to substitute to docker hub.
Where you see this is DDoS?
What about DNS over HTTP? Do I still have to use Nightly for that?
Which would mean we should have up to something like 11,000 representatives given our current population. Clearly something is wrong when the average representative:constituent ratio is 1:700,000! It was originally 1:34,000.

11K is perhaps far too many to be manageable, but 435 is clearly far too few.

Edit: the 14th amendment may have changed this math before the 1911 Apportionment bill fixed it at 435, but 1:700K is still far too high.
Thanks for this! I had not heard that perspective at all.
There really isn't, any more. A few more polys in the models and a few more rays in the path tracing aren't a big difference. Check out what Blender can do with Eevee, which is more-or-less a realtime engine. Better physics simulations are still a big differentiator, but that doesn't matter for characters. The only reason rendered likenesses don't appear in films more (because they already do, look at Peter Cushing) is that they're still expensive and take a lot of manual work, and both of those factors are decreasing rapidly.
It’s got a terrible reputation on repeatability on a process. One reason tunnel diodes never went anywhere. They were expensive, tetchy and unreliable!
Yep, for tourism. Look at some of the examples this small company is/has worked on: gamifi.co
I never like FB to begin with, or Social Networks like it in general, but the thing that made me pull the trigger was the one day my greatest fear was realized: "I don't want to find out that I hate the people that I like", and lo and behold, one day I scrolled a little too far and discovered "well, I can never think about that person in the same way again"
The answer is pretty simple: carbon fuels release energy when burned. This means an organism reversing the operation needs to absorb energy (in the case of photosynthesis, solar energy). Sunlight is not that energy-dense, and concentrating that energy too much would burn the plant anyway.
BinMeasure is using LIDAR units and some clever feed-shape algorithms to calculate the feed volume remaining in agricultural feed bins. Instead of sending a person out to climb the bins and look in the top (the current method), you get the info on a mobile phone app.

https://www.binmeasure.com/
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Intermittent DNS Resolution Errors

We are investigating reports of occasional DNS resolution errors with Route 53 and our external DNS providers. We are actively working towards resolution.
I bet it does suffer ESD issues. Even “SWR proof” RF BJTs are fragile. Anyway not that it matters really here even for CMOS as the ESD protection is just on the die lands. Most of the devices on the thing don’t have ESD protection on CMOS.
I can't find figures but I expect the amount of crude used for fuel is very high compared to its other uses. Maybe 99% but that's just a guess. I'll try to find figures tomorrow (it's late here). Let's call it 95% for now.

If 95% of energy is not burnt but extracted for other uses then it stays in the ground 20 times longer (ok, not forever).

But we have no way of replacing that huge energy source that is crude. So we will not stop because there's no alternative. What he suggests is a counsel of perfection - "precise and also correct", I agree, but it's not going to happen. So it's a useless suggestion AFAICS.

Basically I'm confused as to what he's suggesting.
Because they don't have to win in order to have power: they can extract concessions from one of the stronger candidates in exchange for dropping out and possibly endorsing him. In Ranked Choice, especially with IRV, third party candidates can be more easily ignored if their 1st choice votes will be assimilated.

In your example, under Ranked Choice, the 15% who really wanted far left policies can be safely ignored after the primary. In traditional voting, the majoritarian center left now has to take their concerns seriously if they don't want to lose the whole thing.
console:
The output console.timeEnd()
and console.timeLog()
will now automatically select a suitable time unit instead of always using milliseconds (Xavier Stouder) #29251

Am I the only one that finds this unacceptable? Instead of a consistent result of a number, let's return string.. That now I have to parse..
It most certainly does matter, as he only went into that embassy in the first place to avoid going to Sweden. He would have been at least as safe in Sweden as in the UK, even if convicted.
My concern is that if even a small number of people bullet vote, other people will see that their votes have less impact and adjust accordingly, in a self-perpetuating cycle.
I think Brooklyn Nine-Nine nails physical comedy for a modern era. Andy Samberg in particular has some great moments of physical comedy in it.
Also, there's only I think around 56 state-level attorneys general (if you include territories and DC) so this is roughly 80% of state-level AGs, and 90% of state AGs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_attorney_general
Disclaimer: I work for UiPath.

This is a problem with almost any type of automation. I wouldn't say our software (I am only familiar with UiPath) is finicky. GUIs are finicky, but there are ways to deal with them. That's the stuff a good RPA dev can handle.

I was automating before I started at UiPath, and GUI interaction adds a new layer to automation, of course. But it is still maintainable when you implement them using best practices and CI/CD. I didn't have UiPath at my previous job but it would have made a lot of our automations more reliable and more maintainable. We're also making strides to address these types of problems easier.

I strongly believe that UiPath should a tool in any automation developer's toolbox, as well as GUI testing. UiPath is also pretty easy to use, so business users can automate simpler tasks on their own after going through the academy.

The industry is exploding, and good devs are in high demand. Salaries are high, and you can download Community edition and get certified for free.
I would say docker's real innovation was the introduction of reproducibility to system software at the OS-level. Or, it was a vote of no-confidence in the old way of patching/upgrading/deploying/building software. Or, static linking won.

The Linux features like cgroups/overlayfs etc that were used to deliver reproducibility at an acceptable performance cost are more of an implementation detail than the actual innovation, imo. I think one of the co-founders of docker might agree [1].

[1]: https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1111004913222324225
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In terms of hardware, they're running on AMD x86 CPUs. AFAIK there isn't anything special about them, other than having a wider memory bus (they use GDDR5 as opposed to DDR4).
Speaking of which, is anyone using deno (https://deno.land/) for anything real yet?
I'm not OP, but I heard that unofficially from somebody who works at aws.
The Earth will be inhospitable for life (as we know it) within the next 800 million years, in fact. It’s a bit sobering to think that we’ve progressed through about 75% of the time life has on this planet.

Source: my favorite Wikipedia page, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Is exploit-free software possible?
We can't really track you across the web in the same way that Google can, but we do track your activity on a particular website and how you interact with the captcha to see if it conforms to the model of a human user of that website.

In the case of Google tracking you, they have your personal information and they are using your activity to show you ads -- we don't have either of those aspects to our business model; so our tracking is essentially anonymous.
It's actually kind of hilarious. You're totally right.

So what it means is third-party candidates still have zero chance to win whatsoever, but the votes cast towards them would no longer be lost.

You're still allowed to pointlessly vote for an independent, but now you can do that AND still influence the actual battle between Rep and Dem.
Yes, there is that Deckard's Dream project that already exists; Yamaha is also considering making a modern re-issue of the CS-80, and so does Behringer. Any good analog synth with with two filters in series per voice - a high-pass and low-pass modulated by the same envelope - can come quite close to the CS-80 (though purists will say it won't). Here where I am at the moment : https://soundcloud.com/audiosampling-1/november-2019-is-comi...
> Justice is now escapable because it's been deemed "too difficult to pursue"

Only if you're rich enough.
Yes, that's the original link. There's still a green checkmark next to route 53, though.
>another round of debate among the finalists before revoting

What do you do if revoting doesn't break the deadlock? Also, just in general, I think a lot of people don't want a system that involves potential revoting.
Only thing I can think of at the moment, geologically-speaking and within a short time span could be a Super-volcano eruption that engulfs the atmosphere in smoke, causing another ice-age. Another method of danger could be a meteor impact, though it's time span is unknown until we detect it, and not sure if that fits your geological category.
Try https://web.ushare.to

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- integration framework
I don't live in Burlington so I may not have as much background on this as a native would, but my impression is that the Burlington election showed that strategic voting it's still a problem with IRV, contrary to what its supporters generally claim. The Republican voters would have preferred that the Democrat won over the Progressive, and they could have caused that outcome by dishonestly ranking the Democrat higher on their ballots. Thus, the purported benefit of IRV of allowing you to honestly vote for your favorite candidate first while still taking your second choice into account was discredited.
Theoretically if you cache based on the full header other than request time being identical, you could even get away with breaking the RFC and caching a 400 to save the backend generating it again. This specific problem only happens if you do all three of: 1. pass the troublesome header through, 2. cache the 400, 3. treat a new request to the same resource without the poisoned header as if it was the same as the one with the poisoned header.
You could look at sustainability accelerators. For example, my company participated in the Techstars - Nature Conservancy accelerator. Almost 900 sustainability startups applied.
PM of KV here.

People have certainly done auth with Workers and KV before. https://liftcodeplay.com/2018/10/16/pushing-my-api-to-the-ed... and https://gist.github.com/bcnzer/04620abc992da72f83f6f1c61d71c... are two examples I've seen using JWT. We added expirations to KV to handle these sorts of use cases. I don't have a pre-built firebase example handy, but I think this should work pretty well. You'd store the ID and refresh tokens in KV, and then use those when talking to Firebase. Sounds about right. Feel free to reach out if you give it a shot and run into issues: sklabnik@cloudflare.com
Ranked Choice Voting is sometimes called Instant Runoff Voting when used in a single-winner election. But it can be used in multi-winner elections.

If it's used for a multi-winner election, it gives results that are proportional in representation. For instance, this is how it's used in the city council elections in Cambridge, MA. Sometimes it's referred to as "Single Transferable Vote" when used for multi-winner elections.

"Ranked Choice Voting" is an umbrella term that refers to the ranked ballots, round-by-round elimination of candidates, etc.
yet they settled out of court for $3m and had to return the goods... id say its pretty safe to say they are up to some shady stuff, otherwise why not fight in court to clear your name and save the $3m ?
> which does not make a centrist third-party candidate likely to win.

The goal to ranked-choice voting schemes isn't to promote centrism, it's to eliminate the possibility of electing candidates without majority support due to factional vote splitting.

As far as fixing polarization of factions within the electorate, that's not something an election scheme is going to be able to do at all. Modern Fox viewers and vegan college students are simply never going to see eye-to-eye, and that has nothing to do with what choices they're presented with every year in November.
Release of a nasty biological weapon, potentially.
It would even matter in longer distance running as well - the spring being more energy efficient than feet and ankles.

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a23133365/blake-leeper-run...
Agreed. That's a ridiculous change.

A well defined function should have a single purpose, and a reliable and repeatable output.
Just downloaded a clean install of Firefox 70 but even scrolling a simple site like Hacker News feels very laggy compared to Chrome.

Not sure whats going on. 2018 Retina MBP with dedicated GPU running Catalina.
Consider this, those engines aren't modeling physics per se, they are modelling our psychological perceptions of the physical world.
It's not "private ownership by everyone", it's "stock ownership by some individuals employed by the company". Not even remotely close to the same thing.
Excellent recommendation. SEL always tops the lists of cicada connoisseur lists like https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/we-ranked-animes-top-10-s...
At these time scales does kindness matter any more or less than prestige or possessions? The only behaviors that might matter are those that could lead to our interstellar diaspora. It's not clear that kindness is or isn't a greater motivator for that than pride.
How is paying for G Suite and using their API instead any different?
I just got off a chat with an AWS agent:

"We are investigating reports of occasional DNS resolution errors. The AWS DNS servers are currently under a DDoS attack. Our DDoS mitigations are absorbing the vast majority of this traffic, but these mitigations are also flagging some legitimate customer queries at this time. We are actively working on additional mitigations, as well as tracking down the source of the attack to shut it down. Amazon S3 customers experiencing impact from this event can update the configuration of their clients accessing S3 to specify the specific region that their bucket is in when making requests to mitigate impact. For example, instead of "mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com" a customer would instead specify "mybucket.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com" for their bucket in the US-WEST-2 region. If you are using the AWS SDK, you can specify the region as part of the configuration of the Amazon S3 client to make sure your requests use this region-specific endpoint name."
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Thank you. I never thought to consider the possibility of making these be separate. Interesting.
Yes, it definitely depends on whether you're cherry-picking a few issues or taking a more balanced view. When it comes to property rights, most would say the Democrats' acceptance of higher taxation and regulation makes them more authoritarian. And then there's the second amendment. On the other hand, the "anti terrorism" (pro war) "tough on crime" Republicans seem rather inimical to individual freedom at a much more fundamental level:

* More search, seizure, and surveillance
* Less due process
* Less independent judiciary
* More suppression of information (violation of public records laws, gag orders, general enmity toward science/journalism/education)
* More tolerance of authoritarian regimes elsewhere
* Corruption and concentration of influence among leaders' cronies

Really, unless you're a corporation, you have much more to fear under a Republican government than under a Democrat one. If you want to see which party is more authoritarian, look at which one real civil-liberties organizations like ACLU, CCR, etc. find more objectionable. More partisan-political organizations that focus only on "economic rights" and generally act as extensions for the Chamber of Commerce don't paint an accurate picture.
> Until a study shows up that measures sham treatment

> to be more effective than no treatment,

Effectiveness of sham acupuncture (placebo) was almost twice that of conventional therapy. ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17893311 )

what is the ethical decision according to Hippocratic Oath?

sham acupuncture (placebo) or conventional therapy ?
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And infinitely many stars you don't see. Cast a ray out in any direction from any point, and eventually it'll hit a star.
The article seems to have overlooked the Blue Man Group. Their schtick definitely has elements of physical comedy.
In my mind it's something a little more subtle but to the same effect. I think that ordinal and cardinal voting systems attract/repel people with different psychological tendencies, probably not unlike the tendencies described here, related to tolerance for uncertainty: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/.

Ordinal systems impose a strict rank on peoples' choices, whereas cardinal systems allow people to settle on superpositions of choices, to explicitly give up control.

To me, being forced to order my choices is an unfair imposition. I want to be able to say "I'd be okay with fish or vegan food, someone else who cares more should make the final call". I don't want Rob Richie telling me that I should vote for fish over vegan food because I happen to really like fish. In doing that, I'd be alienating my vegan friend, and because I'm totally up for eating vegan food, I find it unacceptable to be pressured into ranking one over the other. This is the very dynamic that creates splitting, and I'm offended by it.

Being forced to rank my choices is unnatural to me, but I've heard ordinal voting advocates claim that ranking choices is natural and intuitive to everyone/most people, even after sharing my position that it feels funny. Go figure.

I'd expect ordinal voting advocates to be more likely to agree with statements like "everyone has a favorite color".
no, has been in for the last couple of releases IIRC. I know I have it on and I don't use nightly