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Another large change I saw in Victoria over those 40 years was a massive change in the public attitude towards the acceptability of drink driving.

They still have some way to go, I think, to catch up with places like Europe where people are shocked if you consider driving after 2 beers.

Victoria seems to have taken all the low-hanging fruit from the road toll, and will have to work hard to get further gains. Many of those remaining 300 deaths are suicides or pedestrians who "made no attempt to avoid the vehicle" which I think means they were drunk and passed out on the road, or something like that.
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Just in case anybody wonders: roughly half of the Opa team speaks German, at least one speaks Argentinian Spanish, at least one speaks Greek. So, yeah, we are aware of most of the puns.

Guess what? We like them :)
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I think polling is what has done it, because it shortcuts the feedback cycle between representative and represented.

Edmund Burke made the point eloquently in his speech to the voters of Bristol:

"Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.

But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

[emph added]

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s7.h...

Burke is already presaging the exact topic we're discussing: whether democracy is about the direct will of the people, or whether an elected representative has duties other than merely voting as his electors wish him to.
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That's a fantastic response. I'm shocked at how many people have unsubstantiated fears of simply eliminating an unnecessary proxy. The reason we didn't have direct democracy before is because it wasn't practical before -- not because those elected are superior and can ignore what the people wish for.

It is now practical to have a direct democracy: If we can bank online, we can vote online. In contrast, there are 26 lobbyists for every member of congress in the US. They are not there to support the public's will but to contravene it by paying for the opposite. Over 80% of Americans (statistically almost everyone) are dissatisfied with Congress, as they should be. The representational form of democracy is both no longer needed and horribly broken.
If the last-mile bandwidth is provided by something that flexibly distributes bandwidth between "upstream" and "downstream" (thus inverting the meaning of the terms on a millisecond's notice!), or by fiber optics, or by shared media like a neighborhood Ethernet or cable modems, or by hop-by-hop forwarding in something other than a star topology, the reasoning doesn't apply. It specifically applies to DSL.
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Direct democracy killed Socraties. The current system, flawed as it is, does a reasonable job of prevention the most stupid ideas from getting Mainstream attention.

The people deciding political issues wouldn't be the reasonable and smart people who hang around here. It will be the people who stand around picking funerals, people who never graduated high school, functional illiterates and the drug dealers in the inner cities.

Is it really that kind of people, the ones who can be convinced with a few late night tv commercials, you want to run your country?
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Oddly enough, that's one of the parts that could use a bit of editing:

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Only if you'd been raised on Java.

There had been the shift from 16->32 bit not long before that, so it's not that much of a stretch, and 8->16 before that (well after I got my first computer).

We found an almost identical bit-mismatch bug in a programming language that led a bitmap of tcp connections to appear to go crazy on a customer install in a core piece of software. These bugs cost.
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The cynic inside me would extend this problem to the entire economy or even human society itself. Any economic transaction is supposed to benefit both parties: the buyer offers an amount he is willing to pay for what he wants, the seller provides his goods or services at a price he is willing to accept. As PG might say, wealth is created in tandem with creating stuff that people want.

The problem is that some elements in society have become extremely effective at creating a perversion of "stuff people want" for their own benefit. They exploit loopholes in the system, whether by preying upon the poorly-informed, shifting costs onto externalities that we can't price properly, engaging in corruption, or producing items of questionable actual value but very attractive perceived value. They take advantage of our desire for easy answers to our problems with minimal effort expended.

Case in point: Ponzi schemes, coal power plants, Halliburton, the tobacco industry, Zynga, and even to an extent, religion

We've tried to control this with laws, education, and social norms, but ultimately it seems the invisible hand reigns supreme.
So ? Not being in North America makes it worse by default ?
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Fair point. I didn't fact-check the article, but was thinking earlier "hrm ... aren't Kenyans known more for distance running than sprinting?".

Despite specific characteristics, my point about genetic diversity within African populations as a whole should stand.
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Conversely, one question that, if asked of enough people, could end up destroying civilization:

"Why are you doing that?"

('Mister Pinschur', by Maurice Ogden & Betty Fuller, Astounding SF, February 1955)
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I would rather tell my grand kids that I made a cool game that a lot of people had a lot of fun with, than try to explain how I helped an insurance company limp along without succumbing under the weight of their legacy IT architecture. Or contributed to make the world a better place for advertising. Etc. That kind of thing is how most programmers pass their lives.
That article really makes him out to be a serial liar and sort of a con-man.
Spot on. cdixon is trying to direct traffic to things he associates with 'gravitas'. These may or may not unleash much value.

Relative cost structures are really complex; a mind-numbing TV show that people use (instead of alcohol) to cope with their jobs may save more lives than an exceptional charity.

If we think something is retarded and yet millions of people do it, we either have different values than them or have failed to see the value. Neither puts us in good stead to judge those people.

Unless we actually prefer a world of Moral One-upmanship ....
Not to be a downer but they are still running a phone OS (android 2.3.5) on a tablet, which already has an OS built to run on a tablet. Beyond the technical merits of it (getting it to boot something other than webOS) this seems like a step backwards. IMO, webOS is a superior OS to Android. And now that some of the WebOS guys have been picked up by Google android can only get better.

I'd be more impressed if they got Honeycomb running on the thing.

Anyway I have a Nook Color and some of the menus scroll like crap because of the S/W rendering at 1024x600. I can't imagine the situation getting any better with 1024x768 screen.
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It might be that the field is pretty new, and thus CS culture does not have ready made ansers to the question ?
Couldn't agree more..
Does CM7 make for a good tablet OS? Like half of the internet, I have a TP order in limbo, but this gives some promise in case support is lost for webOS.
I wish along with the monetization options for trips/hotels/ etc you had an option to see other people's activities that worked for them before.

So for example if I am making a plan to go ice skating in NYC, I could type the idea on the website, and when saving click a little checkbox that says "Share my idea with others" (With the text saying others will see your idea, but won't see it until you're done with it, don't share private info, etc.)

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Well not pivot in the current use where the entire company changes all of its direction, but 'pivot' in the sense that the new division becomes the company's primary focus.
> IMO, webOS is a superior OS to Android.

+1. I really don't understand why there is so much effort to install non-tablet OSs on a tablet with a lauded tablet-optimized OS already installed....
I think there is a fair bit of difference between 'closed' centralized control in the form of apple / facebook, which is generally proprietary and secretive, compared to the 'open' centralization that google espouses ... they are one of the great proponents of open source ... their android OS for example is open source. Given that, I probably still wouldn't want to work for them though, from what I've heard theres a lot of c++ coding at 1am in the morning. ;-)
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Direct democracy killed Socraties.

No, no it did not. Direct democracy means the legislative branch doesn't use a proxy. There are still two other branches. How is this so hard to understand?

Elected representatives are supposed to fully represent their constituents. There is not supposed to be a difference between the rep. and who they represent. What direct democracy says is that the proxy of a representative has been corrupted and is no longer necessary. That is all.

P.S. The whole notion that representatives are "smarter" than their constituents is both false (Michelle Bachman?) and elitist. Who the fuck are you to decide that people are too dumb to have a democracy? It's the same line throughout history and people have consistently proved it wrong.
Hey USA, your first past the post system actually does tend towards dual party governments [0]. Compare it to preferential system where voters can pick several parties or vote for one party for the preferences listed.

For example, look at this: http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/guide/deni.htm With USA's system, Australia Labor Party would have got re-elected.

There's still improvements to be made for democracy that doesn't need to involve such fancy technology yet [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvergers_law

[1] http://techpp.com/2011/06/08/homomorphic-encryption/
My point is, and it remains, that the problem is not technological.

Is it possible now to instantly poll all citizens, at any moment, on a question of law? Absolutely. Indeed we've had that technology for decades -- since the 50s at least with tabulators and telephones.

The point I am making, and which I was originally being downvoted for making, is that technology is not the point. Social dynamics are the point.

Ancient Athenians lived in a geographically small area, such that the several thousand citizens could all participate in any matter of public policy, lawmaking and justice if they so chose to. Many did so.

Periodically, a particularly charismatic leader would arise and obtain of great power. The Athenians, acting entirely within the limits of their constitution, eventually came undone. In the process they killed Socrates for asking annoying questions and wracked the Peloponnesian peninsula in war for many years, which is how they came undone.

The Romans established a Republic as a reaction to the demise of a monarchy. It was riddled with inconsistencies, but contained many of the features we now recognise as common. For example, there was one lawmaking body elected from a limited franchise (the Senate) and another from a broader franchise (the Tribunes). They tussled frequently, but each jealously guarded its privilege. Rome, an obscure city whose only natural advantage was in being found athwart a salt trade route, came to dominate much of the world while still exercising representative democracy.

In practical terms, what does a direct democracy with proxies buy us? The main advantage is, in theory, to assign power, through proxies, on topics to experts. That is, it's meant to be a meritocratic-democratic fusion.

Fine, except:

* How do you define a proxy's limits? I say "Bruce Schneier has my proxy on matters of cryptography". What does that cover? Simply voting on NIST competitions? Mandating the use of SSL in banking? Some say in the operation of the NSA? Here come thousands of nasty court cases to settle the boundaries.

* What about conflicts of proxy? If I give Bob my proxy on "the internet" and Jill my proxy on "fibre optics", whose proxy prevails when the question is about regulating Google's purchase of dark fibre?

* What about generality? We can assumably assign proxies to any level of generality or specification. Say that Ashton Kutcher, who holds 3 million proxies good for any subject, weighs in against Bruce Schneier over crypto, only holding 500,000 proxies on crypto alone. Is that the outcome you want?

* Demagogues! Bob, who has 500,000 proxies on education policy after a lifetime of careful study, experience and rumination, is suddenly exposed as being gay. Fox News hints he's in league with the devil. Overnight Glenn Beck cries a bit and acquires 2 million education proxies.

* Transferable proxies / sub-proxies. Beck's proxies cause Bob to be outvoted. Beck's viewers, who have now tuned into World's Greatest Unicycle Crashes III, forget that they ever assigned that proxy. 6 months later Beck sub-proxies the 2 million he still holds to the CEO of EvilCo. Hilarity ensues.

I just don't see it scaling.
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How is your e-commerce vocation more useful for humanity exactly?, its still consumerism no?
True, of course. Still, any such automated system would have to have massive redundancy and sophisticated heuristics just to get certified.
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MySQL was simple.

You didn't have to deal with schema/tablespaces, or the chance that someone used stored procs, or security (almost everyone just used the equivalent of a root account).

MySQL just worked.

For the most part, with zero monitoring, it stayed working until the server ran out of disk space or died.

MySQL was always available.

No matter which hosting company you looked at, no matter how little you wanted to spend, MySQL was pre-installed and ready for use.

I never thought it was the better choice, but I understood why it dominated. Once things like Wordpress, vBulletin, phpBB and other stuff was written only for MySQL the choice was then made for you.

I've long been a fan of applications that give you a choice of DB, but it's now unrealistic as many applications have designed schemas to cope with the quirks and limitations of MySQL specifically. These would now be harder to migrate than simply changing a database string, and most application devs don't invest in such things when what they have works well enough and is all anyone is asking for.
That was part of the problem. They covered that in lesson 2 or 3 but didn't follow up at lesson 1300. Like you, I assumed stall recovering was something ongoing but apparently its not. Once you have 1 certificate you move on to the next and the next.

It's like long division in multivar class. Some people can do it again given time but most people wouldn't be able to divide 1345 into 26 right off the bat.
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That there would be separate legislative and executive branches doesn't stop a direct democracy from passing laws that would punish Socrates again.
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> The main disadvantage with sortation seems to be that it killed Socrates.

I was just reading this morning on the way to work a note made by Voltaire to Montesquieu's "De l'esprit des lois" that the decision in Socrate's trial was in fact a pretty close one, so things were not that bad (he still died, I know). I don't want to turn this into /r/politics, but look what's happening to Bradley Manning. I'm pretty sure that even if he were to be put to trial in front of a civilian court the call won't be as close as in the case of Socrates, for a lot of different reasons which I'm not going into details now.

For those interested, here's the count of the votes in Socrates' trial: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/greek...

> In the case of Socrates, the jury found Socrates guilty on a relatively close vote of 280 to 220. (Interestingly, if less than 100 jurors voted for guilt, the accusers had to pay a fine to cover trial costs.)
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