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> FPTP ensures at most 2 parties

Canada uses FPTP, and yet there are five parties represented in the house of commons [0].

While it's true that two parties have the lion's share of seats (155 for the liberals, 121 for the conservatives), as there are 338 seats, the liberals can't just steamroll legislation unopposed; they have to get at least some approval from other parties.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Canada
I'm not sure "stereotype" is the right word here.

Parent is not making stereotypes about people from the UK or US. They are describing the reputation of those two political entities.

As for specifics, I'd refer the unfamiliar to Wikipedia which itself refers to a very limited subset of about hundred or so books on the topic.

Perhaps you'll find some particular aspect or angle of British or US imperialism particularly enlightening and will want to research further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
I'm pretty sure that is already how addition is taught. I'm not a fan of formal education at all, but I'm not sure what you think schools are missing here?
Illegal immigration and immigration in general is its own rabbit hole. You shouldn't assume from my post whether I'm for or against illegal immigration (or any type of immigration) because it doesn't really matter one way or the other to the points I'm trying to make.

Economically speaking, granting legal status to unskilled illegals results in a combination of undesirable side effects:

- it increases the price of the goods they produced reducing the buying power of the minimum wage,

- it prices many of those illegals out of the market because they are unable to produce value for the wage they are paid (but now they are eligible for government benefits),

- and it encourages new types of "black market" employment.

Try all you like, but you won't outsmart the market.
A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner’s friend paradox
Yup joking. I cheer people up with humor. I try to joke while I’m depressed but it just makes Me sound like an ahole.
That's fair. It's hard to generalize as there is definitely a mixture of good and bad research out there. As a counter point I had to opportunity to observe the Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain (https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/events-t...) which had fascinating interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computer vision, ML, data science, and foundational neuroscience research. There many other programs and research groups I can mention that do quality interdisciplinary research and train interdisciplinary students.
Unfortunately, they're not thin compared to a laptop lid. Especially with the taper near the edges that Macbooks and many other high-end laptops have. There are some exotic optical solutions out there that allow for thinner lenses but I doubt we'll see those in laptops anytime soon.
The notion of everyone being equal has to do with the equality under the rule of law, and nothing else. There can be no other categories of measures in that regard precisely because you cannot perform any meaningful measures across several different dimensions of differences. For instance, would you be able to make a meaningful measure of who is underprivileged the most - an orphan billionare who is not likeable by anyone in his close circle of "friends" or a poor family of 5 who regularly get invited to family dinners in their community? What are the standards?
Russia didn't have to do anything.
The GOP weakend the coalitions and the diplomatic softpower by threatening their partners.
And the last time I checked the sanctions against russia are still in place.
If you change jobs, you impact financial outlook for both of you. I don't think a veto is as unthinkable as you make it out.

Especially in long marriages, couples often operate as a team - one spouse chases the job opportunities, the other one holds down the fort. One spouse makes money, the other runs a startup. Etc. That doesn't work if you think "my life is mine only, nobody gets a veto". You give up autonomy for better cohesion and combined success.

But I think what's important to know is that in long-running healthy relationships, people have worked on setting boundaries and agreeing on what's off-limits and what isn't. It's not about "pressure", it's about having an agreement.
This is the logic: it's ok to riot in the streets, but going to the gym is considered unethical.
> We can "call out" whatever you want. People vote with their dollar. Target, Walmart, cheap resellers on AliExpress/Amazon are "winning" every day because the most important thing most consumers care about is rock bottom price. I don't think "calling out" will do much other than virtue signal.

People also vote with their votes. If voting with dollars was the only thing that counted, we'd still have rivers so polluted they'd regularly catch on fire (see http://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Cuyahoga_River_Fire).

All all "voting with dollars" does is sum up an unfathomable number of myopic, usually short-term decisions. Sometimes the overall result is counter-intuitively brilliant, but other times the terrible result of myopia magnified.
It should say something that one party is against voting. Sadly it doesn’t seem to.
Which is the client I used before Apollo.
Also, how exactly would you prove herd immunity when we don't know the antibody threshold required? We also don't know that antibodies are the primary mode of immunity- could be T cells. So I'm not sure what kind of analysis you are looking for.
There is actually a whole backstory to people ignoring the idea because she was a woman etc. The navy initially turned down the technology when she presented it. More the the main point I made above- people did not know what they were looking at because they could not think of how important it would be or how it could evolve.
" For starters, it's officially one of the 17 USG intelligence agencies."

Are you sure?

It seems, they only have a small part of it dedicated to that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Intelligence_and_C...

Not big enough, to do a project like this on their own and for themself, it seems.
I'm talking about the 1933 renegotiation. However, the original D'Arcy Concession terms were also regularly violated by the British.

This document from 1952 has an excellent summary: http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/74019146804407210...

See Section II (D) beginning on page 4, for violations of the original concession, and Section III (D) beginning on page 16 for violations of the 1933 agreement.

I'm not simply casting the British behavior as exploitative in some hand-waving appeal to the evils of imperialism. I'm talking about real, substantive, and specific violations of their own agreement.
> ...where is the proof that it won't hurt long term productivity, and where is the proof that it doesn't cause inflation[?]

Assuming we could obtain reliable proof that UBI reduces productivity and/or increases inflation, that doesn't necessarily imply that it's an undesirable policy. The economy exists to serve humanity, not to maximize productivity or minimize inflation. It's certainly possible that a policy could provide an overall benefit to humanity while simultaneously reducing economic productivity and/or increasing inflation by some amount.
Is it so hard to accept that the Democrats have been nominating some weak-ass candidates that don't have the broad appeal they think they do?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_ag...
I downvoted this comment because it contains no substance past an ad hominem attack against JP and his family, thinly veiled as 'mental health professionals', ('mentally unstable', 'raises kids with problems', 'something wrong with them', 'soak up badness from other people', 'shrinks') with no evidence, and perpetuates the US' incredibly damaging culture of perceiving stumbling on mental health issues as being caused by an innate problem with the person instead of being a treatable health condition.

I don't see why mental health professionals should be magically exempt from getting hit by mental problems, and I don't think it means that there's something wrong with them if they do. Mental health professionals are still just people, and like any person they also are subject to health problems. Are doctors exempt from getting sick because they fix sick people? If a doctor gets sick is that evidence that their career is done and their entire profession is invalid?
Why did we ever send them into classrooms in the first place if it's "probably good for them [to spend] more time playing outside and some less time on stressful academics"?

I think it's "probably good" for them to learn something, too. It's not as if it's a 9-5 job after which they come home, do housework, file taxes, try to socialize with the family a bit, and go to bed exhausted. They do still have time to be kids besides school at that age (barring less common cases like toxic families and extreme poverty, of course).

Also, we didn't evolve to read books, use chairs, power our stove with electricity from hydroelectric power plants, etc., but I'd rather not cut those out of my life either. We did evolve to run many miles behind prey, but I don't mind not practicing that. It's a really weird argument that a lot of people seem to use, "we didn't evolve to", which can be applied to virtually everything we do today. It seems to be a placeholder for when something seems disagreeable to you but you can't actually articulate why or be bothered to look into whether that is the case.
Workflows and orchestration are my jam -- that's what we're trying to simplify over at https://refinery.io

Conductor is a cool piece of tech, and it's a well-established player in a rapidly growing space for workflow engines.

I used to work at Uber and that company had microservice-hell for a while. They built the project Cadence[0] to alleviate that. It is similar to Conductor in many ways.

One project to watch out for is Argo[1] which is a CNCF-backed project.

There are also some attempts[2] to standardize the workflow spec.

Serverless adds a whole new can of worms to what orchestration engines have to manage, and I'm very curious to see how things evolve in the future. Kubernetes adds a whole dimension of complexity to the problem space, as well.

If anybody is interested in chatting about microservice hell or complex state machines for business logic, I'd be excited to chat. I'm always looking for more real world problems to help solve (as an early stage startup founder) and more exposure to what others are struggling with is helpful!

0: https://github.com/uber/cadence

1: https://argoproj.github.io/argo/

2: https://serverlessworkflow.github.io/
Interestingly enough, things like Machine Learning grew out of domain fields. A couple of decades ago, there were few - if any - dedicated programs for Machine Learning. The research and grads came mostly from domain-specific fields, like Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Computational Biology / Chemistry, Statistics, Applied Math, etc. Then when things got more cohesive, the most important parts formed into a more or less "pure" field of Machine Learning.

Today, you can study Machine Learning without having to focus on any particular domain (well, other than stats and applied math, which lays the foundation for the theory).

But, yes, it is tough and demanding to find people that have deep / expert knowledge in both their respective domain, AND machine learning / data science / AI.

I think maybe one way to do it is to just look after domain experts, and learn them enough about ML and DS (if they lack the background) to work as generalists. Enough that they can read and discuss it.

And then, you hire ML scientists and engineers to do the nitty-gritty work, with the input and feedback from the domain experts.
Fish Sticks would be a much better name for a dog.
>Most reasonable people can agree

Is this just a way of saying that people who don't agree with you aren't reasonable? What do we do with those people's opinions if they are the majority?
Where's my 405lb kettlebell for deadlifts?
As a former provider on Helpouts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Helpouts) who was sad to see it go, I am excited to see more products like this. Good luck!
Ok, we'll swap a prefix for a suffix of the title above.

(Submitted title was "Deep Dive into Filecoin".)
While we’re at it, have you met Yelp?
That's true. Companies are just collections of people. They are not entitled to anything either. I don't think they should have any entitlements. No entitlement is "reasonable" if none are owed to anyone or anything to begin with.
lol you're missing out! we'd be delighted if you would give us another shot :P
I think you answered your own question: "As long as the curve has been flattened sufficiently and the healthcare system isn't overwhelmed"

The difference between "overwhelmed" and "not overwhelmed" is pretty subtle. You can measure this in ICU beds and hospital capacity, but that's not sustainable. You have to start asking "How many hours are health care workers working?". You also have to ask, if we did have any setbacks/outbreaks, what buffer do we have in terms of people and PPE availability?

You can't run the system at the red line, it's not sustainable. And any distance between our current capactity and that red line is somewhat open to interpretation, but I bet that distance feels a lot smaller for our EMTs and Doctors than it does for the average person on HN.
The potential upside for the company that gets it right is enormous. Billions of people are tired of wasting their time driving. Entire industries can be built on the technology if it works well.

That said it's a problem that steers awfully close to needing a full real AI and that's been a showstopper for loads of potential solutions for decades now.
This isn't true. The US threw away vast amount of food because of supply chain disruption, and a lot of raw production was interrupted. The US is a massive food exporter.

If the price of soybean, or wheat, or pork goes up 15% internationally as a result of US supply disruptions, that doesn't starve any Americans, but it absolutely causes deaths in Yemen, which is already in the middle of a famine.
Great point, I missed that nuance!

Certainly with the costs associated with drug approvals being exponentially higher today, only Federal government could possibly be in the drug business.
Yeah, but that'll only go so far, because we have very different social programs, e.g. somebody with severe disabilities receives far more (and means-tested) than somebody who just doesn't want to work. That won't change with UBI, so we'll mostly just replace welfare/rent subsidies (which are, at least in Germany, handled by the same agency and are essentially the same thing, only some will only get rent subsidies but no cash). There's obviously some overhead, but it's not a lot, and it's nowhere near enough where not having to spend it would make a dent in the UBI costs; it's not like we spend 2 euros in administrative cost for every euro we pay out.

> No need to exchange food stamps for cash at 50% face value in order to by beer, just take some of the cash and buy beer. Empower individuals to live how they want.

It's been that way for quite a long time in Germany, cash is the default, vouchers are only a thing in rare cases where the cash component (~400Euros/month; rent, healthcare, utilities etc are paid directly) is reduced by more than 30% due to penalties so people can still buy food. Generally, people get cash and are free to spend it as they see fit.

A large problem with "cash only" (e.g. rent etc not paid directly) is that there's a significant number of people who are unable to handle money. I know, because I live next to some of them. If you give them 1100 euros instead of 400 in cash + 700 in rent and healthcare payments, you'll get plenty of people who spend their 1100 euros on things other than rent. And in that case, you'll either have to accept that they'll become homeless (and we won't accept that), or you have to still pay their rent directly, on top of whatever cash you give them.
> The lost protection against inbound particles isn't much...

Why would it not be impacted? You'd be breathing in unfiltered air, and that's the main method of transmission.

It would be impacted. You'd lose 100% of that benefit. But 100% is still not much.
there is this pervasive assumption in economic theory that if two things have the same price they have the same value in some global sense. To make an obvious example: If you are allergic to peanuts, then the value of a peanut to you is quite extremely different to the value of that same peanut to someone else. This is unaffected by the price of the peanut.
Oh I never said anywhere could be safely opened back up- that's a leap. I say quite the opposite- people should be careful and not open schools until cases drop to near zero.
Ask the Chinese about Japan.
It's more astonishing how russia acts to germany after the losses of WWII.
The US had never an attack on home soil like the UK.
> and airing some of the DNC's dirty laundry?

Fun fact, the GOP was also hacked, but their blackmail material was held in reserve and not published.
If someone is looking for a good explanation i must recommend this playlist by CGP Grey explaining different voting systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo&list=PLNCHVwtpeB...
5 is a crucial age in child development. Get offline and home school. Take a leave of absence if you really have to. Talk to your employer.
Not to mention the blocking of spy pixel tracking out of the box and the screener.
https://lwn.net/Articles/701165/ is a nice writeup.
Unlike, say, buying a game, most folks can't just decide not to work. If you need to eat, pay rent, child support, need health insurance, or a slew of other things - you can't say no. You must work. Period. The safety net isn't good enough not to take that minimum wage job, especially if you are a childless adult. The only real thing keeping you from being paid less is minimum wage, and that's there because companies aren't fair about hiring practices.

The only reason you were able to work an unpaid internship is because your family not only didn't need you to work, but they also didn't need you to watch younger siblings in your free time. To top it all off, that was offered to you - this isn't a thing most folks can do. Not to mention that unpaid internships are often slavery under a different name. If someone wants to give someone experience or train someone, they should pay.

I wish people would quit acting like the market is fair by any means or like people have a real choice in working. Neither of these things are true with the labor market.
It may be harder to combine two skills such as sales and engineering, than knowledge in bio and AI, e.g., which are both technical.
So many questions.....

This sounds like an really great story if you feel like sharing; I'm hooked to hear more about this guy, why he's in jail and the attempt on your life...

Apologies if it was really traumatic and I'm being insensative...
To get your data through the app.
>There is not a single democratic govt in the ME sans Israel

The millions of Palestinians unable to vote for the government that controls their movement, trade, and lives in general would probably disagree with your characterization of Israel as a democracy.
Undercut them in what sense? Pay the employee even less for $50 worth of labor?
Last time I checked, Bitcoin was still trading safely for around $12k.
In this discussion a country's population is irrelevant. For a small country with a GDP per capita higher than the United States only 55 years after independence I would say they are doing pretty damn good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

There is no requirement that everybody succeed at the same level. The measure of a country's success is improvement of society over time. Has the general quality of life improved for the people of Singapore over the last 55 years? I think that is a resounding yes.
If by “part of the PRISM program” you mean “responds to court orders and routinely fights orders that are too broad”, then I suppose that is accurate.
Certainly it can't be that. It has to be external forces at work!
The crux of the reproducibility crisis.
You don't know the state of the debate on one of the most important issues of our time, but you felt the need to weigh in with your conjecture anyway? I'm not sure what exactly you think you are bringing to this conversation. Aristotle was a really smart guy, but he would have saved the world almost two thousand years of being completely wrong about physics if he had bothered to check how things actually worked instead of reasoning about it from first principles and assuming that his best guess was good enough.

Talking about hypothetical pressures that a theoretical government might face is a lot less interesting when we can look outside and see that the exact opposite of your hypothetical is actually taking place. Empirically, the pressure to not bankrupt the government and have to lay off police, firefighters, and teachers, to let people go back to their lives, and to not be seen as job-hating nanny-state bureaucrats is the dominant force in state and local decision-making, only barely being held in check by a sense of civic duty and concern for long-term consequences. And in places where civic duty and long-term planning aren't in vogue, we see that the former has won out entirely. Mayor Breed and Governor Newsom are doing what they do despite the political consequences of shelter-in-place, not because of them.
This is an unbalanced opinion of free markets (but I generally agree with downsides of unregulated capitalism).

> Profit. That is all.

Free markets also have intense competition so "Profits" that you talk about don't just go out of control - Prices are set at the intersection of supply and demand curves. Companies would need to shave off profit margins to stay competitive.

I think it is fair to say that there are no ideal free markets. There are always asymmetries, downsides, side cashing and a whole bunch of complexities in any market - nothing is ideal.

So, we should have regulations that control those asymmetries.
There are parts of NYC with 68% positive antibodies a month ago- so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more people in NY have been infected than is reported. But not sure I'm following your math from R0 5.6->80%?
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They are arguing about semantics. The labour market is a free market but not a totally efficient market as some participants use their power over demand or supply (huge corporations, unions) to drive different outcomes to a perfectly competitive market where all participants are price-takers.
> Those are the only things unsafe Rust can do that safe Rust can't. It doesn't turn off the borrow checker or anything else.

You can do serious damage with those things though. One tactic I have done is to expand the lifetime of a reference by laundering it through a raw pointer, since the function to convert a raw pointer to a reference allows you to choose any lifetime you want.