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I'd just like to point out that representative democracy can coexist with other forms of decision making. For example, the revising chamber of a bicameral legislature could be populated by sortition, and there could be direct democratic voting in referendums on policies rather than on people. (Switzerland does the latter.) Strictly speaking, I think the other forms of decision making I have in mind still involve voting, just not voting for representatives.

Also, most developed countries have legislative elections that are more resistant to gaming than those in the US, UK and Canada are. (Switzerland is also one that has has an electoral system more resistant to gaming.)
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I actually appreciate you pointing this out. I get rather tired of smug assertions that America can just do everything like it's done in Europe or something when the landscape and population density are so very different.

But I don't think that means we can't borrow any lessons at all from them. The biggest lesson we can borrow from the Dutch seems to be that they set out to intentionally make their cities more pedestrian friendly and bicycle friendly starting in the 1970s when people became extremely fed up with children dying due to being hit by cars.
https://www.mountainview.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx...

Most bike-car accidents are the fault of the cyclist, at least in Mountain View.
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Office 2019 for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra or later. Maybe it's a business reason but at the same time their skype requires 10.10. Update Skype for web 10.12
[0] https://blogs.skype.com/news/2019/03/07/the-new-skype-for-we...
Note that here electric bikes are currently mostly treated like normal bicycles, and don't typically mingle with car traffic.
Yes, why not? It seems to works fine
Just FYI, do you know that your site is missing a <title> tag?
This could be an interesting alternative. Any ideas for a sport that anyone could enjoy easily? I wouldn't expect most people having fun with a tennis match for example.
I agree, and I would like to add that going out in small groups may work better for some people, because it takes off the pressure of having to "perform" or to make a "good impression" when people are not feeling up for it or when their minds are otherwise too occupied.

Overall, I like the idea of making an effort to form social connections and to learn more about your colleagues and their work. Especially in an environment where most people are not completely consumed with deep work (which to be honest applies to most work places including mine right now) this could be one of the little things that keeps a company together as far as motivation and mood go.
> Let that sink in: The Dutch are already starting to abandon their pedal bikes.

Within Netherlands the number of accidents with bikes also has skyrocketed. That's due to often older people buying these bikes. They're more mobile, however they're slow to respond, plus not used to the speed of these bikes. As a result, more accidents plus the accidents are more severe.

The electric bikes are often restricted to 25 km/h (15.5 miles/h). That's actually too quick for most electric bike users.

It's great that older people aren't reliant on others to get around. Still, electric bikes do have a huge impact on the safety of their users, plus other people on the road.

Note that wearing a hi-viz vest can actually make you more accident prone. There's been various studies that a helmet or a hi-viz vest means other cars will pass you closer than before.
And Snow Leopard was supposed to be a feature-light release to improve quality!

It eventually was very solid and is well-regraded today. But yeah, it’s a great example of the risk of the OSX.0 release.

Personally I try to wait until version ~4 of anything Apple. I’ve been very happy following this strategy.
In my 44 years on this planet, having traveled a lot in many biking friendly cities and living in one, the opposite is true.

Cars respect pedestrian much more than bikers do

As a walker I hate walking in Belgium or Berlin, where you have to share the sidewalks with bikes that usually go high speed, faster than the average car, don't look too much around them and treat pedestrian as obstacles (try to walk on a bike lane in Bruxelles or Berlin and wait for the biker to start a fight with you, it's not gonna take long)

If you optimize you infrastructures for basically unregulated means of transport, you're just moving assholes from cars to bikes.

At least when they are on a car they can be policed and fined.

Bikes should share roads with cars, they have wheels, they are not pedestrian friends.
Not really. If you're particularly panicky and feel like you won't know where to draw the line (I feel like if you're asking someone for lunch because you don't really know them, the line is really obvious), then just avoid complimenting looks or clothing and touching. Really no way to go wrong if you avoid those.

Also, if the person does not respond positively (and I don't mean they respond negatively, but if they say no for whatever reason), don't ask again. They now know you want to and will let you know when they're free, and once they do, even if you're the one whose busy, you'll know you're not bothering them.

At least in Israel, lunch is regarded as inherently acceptable in a professional setting, since it's in the middle of the workday, even if you're eating out. Generally I'll only ask people to meet on their personal time if I feel like we know each other well enough and they like me back, otherwise it's an inconvenience -- asking for somebody's personal time is a big ask. With the opposite sex, I find it's really hard for a simple invite for dinner or beer to be misconstrued as an advance. It also helps that the vast majority of female engineers I know are in a relationship, so that makes my intent blatantly obvious.
It's great to finally see it flying but it is certainly not a car.

It's more like an alternative to helicopters, perhaps. Which begs the question: If the aim is to provide a taxi service, why not just do that now with small commercial helicopters?
Many companies know it is important to build tools like that. Google has been onto those things since 2006. :)
Tor Browser 9 released: first stable build based on Firefox ESR 68
Assuming we agree that there is an objective reality; someone who figures out truths by measuring then fitting is obviously doing science. The phenomenon studied by science are largely those that are real no matter how they are approached.

There are easier and harder ways to come up with useful data and I endorse predict -> check-> refine as a great model; but if someone figured out laws by guessing what data they needed to gather then did a curve fit doesn't somehow make the laws invalid or the process particularly unscientific. If someone had just gotten lucky and just happened to plot mass vs velocity to recover the laws of gravity we'd still include it in all the science textbooks. What is the alternative - claim they figured out universal truths in the wrong way and ignore them until someone else figures it out?

If all the data fits the model then science has happened. Everything else is quibbling how robust the data is (which is still important).
> Each of the apps provided purchasers with instructions on how to remove the app’s icon from appearing on the mobile device’s screen so that the device’s user would not know the app was installed on the device, according to the complaint.

For the legitimate uses of this app, there should be absolutely no need to remove the app icon from the home screen and there should be a regular/persistent notification of when monitoring is in effect. I can't believe that the company would even think this is a good idea for their intended use, let alone ignoring how it enables malicious behaviour.
Is it popular in China?
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This is awesome news. It means the price for mummy brown oil paint should finally go down.

/s
I don't see any problem with re-installing windows though as often as you like.

By being a little disciplined, you can have a fresh install of windows, configured with all the apps you need from woah to go in little over a couple hours.

I like having a scriptable install of windows in case I completely lose a system while travelling, it's easy for me to completely restore and be productive again within a few hours (just buy a new laptop).

Choco really helps here too.

choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation
choco install googlechrome
choco install firefox
choco install 7zip
choco install vlc
choco install git
choco install paint.net
choco install sql-server-management-studio
choco install vscode
choco install visualstudio2019community

gets me to 90% of where I need to go.
It was take your toddler's to work day on the one day it went down to -42?
This is the sort of self congratulatory pablum that every ruling class believes about itself.
Can somebody please help me understand what is cool about this ? Seems like a web interface that can use bluetooth.

Was this previously impossible or something ?
Wow, 70km! Where I live that's crossing almost half the country. I didn't know some ebikes had such a range.
SoftBank clinches WeWork takeover deal, bailing out co-founder
Europe is facing many problems. Soil compaction, climate crisis, lack of labour force, ground water contamination in some places. Very little demand for organic produce. And pest/pathogen pressure. Example: Even places like Spain and Italy are uprooting olive groves and moving it to Turkey and Morocco where labour is cheaper and plant pathogens haven’t entirely destroyed the soil. Africa used to supply a lot of food. But EU insisted on non-GMO. Now that China is moving in to Africa(and South America) with their Belt and Trade initiative, Africa is happy growing for China.

And China isn’t slacking either. China..for example..supplies most of the tomatoes and ketchup internationally.. competing with Provence and Italy .. this is a good documentary: https://www.moderntimes.review/the-untold-story-of-the-red-g...
Yeah I know. The website hasn't been updated in a few years. We've been talking about a redesign for over a year (just didn't get to it because it was so busy) Finally added some extra hands to get it done. Should be live in 2 weeks or so. Despite the handful of technical issues we have today.. the conversion rate is still very healthy.
We are in the govtech sector and decided for mailjet because of european and national data privacy regulation for governments ("DSGVO", data residency, etc). Does anyone of you know how the merger will affect the companies DSGVO promise or if will mailjet stay a company under european/french law?
My point was everyone can't do that. It's not a solution, it just happens to be those producers are of a size to make that choice and get some value.

The dude making a hydro turbine I watch for 4 hours, he's not getting that. I'm not going to patreon for that, it sucks but I'm honest. I patreon someone building a whole boat, seems cheap I'd do the same for just that.

We all hate advertising but really what does the alternative look like. Consciously donating just isn't going to cut it.
Does US agtech industry agree w Sonny Perdue ‘big get bigger the small go out?’
What prohibition's failure means for the legalisation of cannabis
> One quarter of the Dutch population

If only the world was flat and below the sea level as Holland...
We had a wonderful irony in local elections recently: the newly elected mayor doesn't have a driver's license, he hitchhiked to work previously as a city counselor and plans to continue that as mayor. Many of his opponents had car parking high on their platforms :).
I regularly ride my "normal" bicycle (including 2 little kids in a trailer) in the rain in Berlin (where it rains for 167 days per year on average, which is ~45% of the year).

You just need the appropriate clothes & gear.
Is it really never, or is that in relation to complex low voltage setups? I replaced my main panel earlier this year. They very intentionally grounded to hot & cold water and iron gas pipe in multiple places plus at the copper water supply entrance. Externally there are two buried rods. From what I recall the NEC requires all of that for every installation.
France, as far as I know, has a two-tier university system. They have regular schools that are non-selective and then they have the grandes écoles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9coles). It's these that train the elite and ensure social stratification.
Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and
It's a Specialized Turbo Vado 4.0. The range is advertised at 80km and I've gotten about 75km out of it on a single charge with some steep hills.

It was not a cheap bike so I keep it in my office and I have a charger at home and at work should I need to top up.
we use zombodb https://www.zombodb.com/ to keep ES and Postgresql in sync, it has its flaws but when it works it works perfectly. That at least helps with 1 and 3, which are indeed a major annoyances.
bicycles are not the solution ... The solution, as this article touches on, is light weight electric transport using the existing road structure.

To me this sounds pretty funny: you make it sound like an electric bicycle is not a bicycle, whereas to me it's still a bicycle, just with the addition of a motor. Even a speedpedelec is normally still considered a bicycle here: after all it doesn't move unless you pedal, unlike a moped for instance.

Electrics will soon start to invade

Small city in Belgium here with historically a lot of cyclists: this has happened already despite infrastructire not being sufficient :)

Even a cheap electric bike already feels much safer in urban car traffic than a pedal bike because it has super fast acceleration from a dead stop

Hmm, having used more than one cheap and not-so cheap and expensive electric ones, that is not my experience at all and for more than one reason: it only works really well (i.e. better than a non-electric bicycle) if your bicycle is in the highest power mode and in a low enough gear. Even then, it takes some experience to be able to use that fast acceleration safely. Seriously, I see people struggle everyday with starting from dead stop just because they're still in the wrong gear or fail to put their foot on the pedal in time etc. Or they succeed and then they get suprised by the acceleration and can't keep the bike straight. Just ask people in the hospitals: amount of injuries is up since electric bicycles happened.
> Everybody born within 22 years of each other belong to a "generation"

So everybody belongs to (up to) 44 generations?
We left the app store because it was making it hard for us to do anything innovative. The mac appstore is litterally hindering innovative apps from existing, and for no good reason that couldnt be solved other ways.

I completely understand security concerns but the way apple solves theM is by limiting the free choice of the user.

So now we are using the google “appstore”
(not a designer) I would not start my 7-day free trial without beforehand having more information on what the product looks and feels like.

In the "How FontPeek Helps" section there's "Show your fonts" sections, but it shows no fonts. I'd love to see some demo fonts/pages with embedded fonts at least, perhaps a list of links to the designer's websites showing the widget (I assume it's a widget, there's no info on it) if they consent.
Lauri Love would be a more recent example. Controversial extradition cases do not have a great track record in the UK, I'd almost be surprised if Assange ever gets put on a plane.
An illustration: How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/how-i-lea...
Diabetes is a genetic condition

No one is not having diabetes because is biking...
Me, too, me, too. Knowing a little bit of Chinese, I can understand that this is not an easy job for an AI. Too much context dependend stuff. Or maybe, there are simply not enough bilingual documents for the training. That's the great advantage of the European union :)
I like this argument. The government is effectively subsidizing a huge amount of real estate (to a huge cost, with the taxes collected from everyone), for the usage of free parking. I would prefer if all that money went instead to free housing, or free healthcare.
Maybe it's in order to cite an upvoted blunt answer there:

> This post seems to simply continue the same tone-deaf tradition we've been seeing throughout this whole debacle. Since the SE folks don't seem to be good at picking up on hints, perhaps a bit of bluntness is in order:

> StackExchange, it's not Monica's values that are out of alignment. Your values are out of alignment. The overwhelmingly negative response to this post is pretty solid proof of that; this is the community telling you in no uncertain terms that your values are not aligned with ours!

> Compelled speech, even in the name of a worthy cause, has no place in civilized society. Period. Our values reject it.

> Forcing people to choose between violating their conscience or leaving, in the name of inclusiveness, is an Orwellian nightmare that has no place in our community. Our values reject it.

> Telling people that the acceptable solution to being in a position where they might be required to violate their conscience is to "disengage" (refrain from posting at all) is incompatible with a site in which reputation is built entirely on posting. Our values reject it.

> Telling people that the acceptable solution to being in a position where they might be required to violate their conscience is to "disengage" (refrain from posting at all) sets up a "heckler's veto," incentivizing people to act in bad faith in order to force people they disagree with to disengage rather than voice their opinions. Our values reject it.

> Putting identity politics front-and-center in what is supposed to be a neutral, objective Q&A environment promotes division and strife, not inclusion, and more importantly, it distracts from the primary mission of these sites: getting good answers to good questions. Our values reject it.

> If you truly value your community, that means respecting the community's values, not attempting to impose new and incompatible ones by fiat. Your values are out of alignment with the values of the community you are supporting. Please fix them.
I was really hoping this would be about "Philosophy of Science"[0]

For example in "The Problem of Induction" you can see a bajillion sunrises but can't infer that there will be another. Likewise you can conduct a bajillion controlled experiments and can't really tell if the result will generalize. Worse yet is that the more conditions you control, the less likely it's to generalize. Infamously, clinical trials wanted to control for the variations caused by periods so they only tested on men and it turns out some drugs affect women differently! In general, if you control for everything, you can't say anything about the real world outside of those precise lab controlled conditions.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
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I run https://pageflows.com and have been living off it full time for a little over a year.

The business makes a bit more than what I was earning a few years ago as a junior developer in London, so it's not a huge amount of money, but it's enough.

It's a fairly boring business to run and not as predictable or sexy as some sort of micro saas, but it's I'm happy with how things have been so far. Happy to answer any questions you have.
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Idk about nVidia since they insist on being a special snowflake in the Linux graphics ecosystem but for everything else you can add arbitrary display modes with xrandr and and then either let your display do the upscaling (might not support all resolutions) or configure your GPU to do it.

Most displays also just advertise a number of smaller resolutions - does yours not do that?
German interest rates are below zero right now. There actually are hundreds of billions of dollars flying around the world chasing the slightest hint of return. So yes, we do have the money.

Also MMT.
I agree, but there are two problems.

First; a point made in the article - the breadth of data available in many domains (economics, business, medicine, psychology, linguistics, biology, and more) is vast and unmanageable. An a-priori selection made by the attention of the investigator misdirects us. Additionally some data is not captured due to process problems, a classic is missed opportunity in business. You advocate focus on new business opportunities, I advocate focus on our old markets - I show that by treating our current customers differently a 5% reduction in cost is possible. You claim a 50% revenue opportunity, but how do you know? I can claim a causal link, you are claiming hypotheticals. I win the argument and then a year later we examine the data - I have achieved the cost saving, and there is no record of all the business that we didn't get. The opportunity loss is not on the spreadsheet. Conversely if you win and we look a year later I can show that our customers still cost us what they did, and I can show (if you were successful) that my initiative would have saved 7.5% of the spend one year ago (+50% thanks to you).

Problem two; outside physics and chemistry not many things are comparable in the sense that statistics expects them to be. This is closely related to the scope of data problem, but hides it. Widgets made by machines or seeds carefully selected and screened can be made to share (approximately) an identity so that they can be statistically reasoned about in bulk. Other things can't and medicine is really running up against this now. Pain killers work differently on people with different genetics and different genders (also different ages, contexts...) Cancer evolves differently from case to case. The assumption of similarity and category membership is often broken and we often do not notice before doing a t-test.
It looks like infrastructure and population density is your issue. Dutch kids ride to school, sports and social activities on their own from around the age of seven. You are the one wasting time driving dozens of miles to drop the kids off everywhere when they could bike on their own while you drive straight to and from work and not worry about the kids.

But again, the United States is lacking the infrastructure and population density for this. Yes it's a big country but they could've gone for small dense settlements with everything you need in reach and then big distances between those towns. But having everything spread apart was a cheaper solution.
> No voting system could have fixed that.

Literally the point of IRV, Approval Voting and so forth is allowing viable 3rd parties not endorsed by the official channels of the major parties. They fix precisely this sort of problem. Democrats could have voted for a different left-leaning candidate without advantaging the right wing of politics.
> It's that or it took six extra months to install four grounding rods.

Given some contractors I've dealt with --- I wouldn't be shocked. (or maybe I would be shocked, ... if they were allowed to do electrical work unsupervised. :) )
Travellators everywhere....
I suspect the attitude in the relevant areas of the UK to your comment would be to be dreadfully amused at the idea that "competence" was a relevant factor ;-)
There is no wrong weather, just wrong gear.
I think this line of thinking can take you dangerously close to the realm of eugenics and social darwinism. I recommend Taleb's take on IQ as some food for thought: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...