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Well pretty much Flummox is ES6-ified Reflux, no big differences in functionality...
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The TPP makes me crazy, as I'm a big fan of trade for basically the same reason I'm a big fan of transparency: I think things generally go better when we have a lot of well-informed individuals thinking and making choices.

I've been strongly in favor of pretty much every trade deal to come along. But here my feeling is more "fuck that" as I have zero faith that the secretive TPP process would produce anything I can trust.
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It's not. See https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependenc...
It's incredulous that Obama is pushing this deal so hard after backing net neutrality so early on when this deal is universally frowned upon. Not able to wrap around my head around this.
I'm a little surprised, in a way, about the seeming indifference towards Imperial College.
I honestly do not get the controversy. They work as consultants to fund development and the start-up has been publicly known for almost a year. How is this any different from companies hiring developers to contribute to the Linux kernel or Google hiring van Rossum back in the day? The language is still free, as in freedom. Am I missing something?
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And pretty much all of the kinds of obvious things that you'd expect to see in a "self-organizing" environment are called out.

- de-facto hierarchy takes its place (at valve it seems that there are several overlapping hierarchies, all of which are toxic)

- highly centralized power at the top results in the de-facto highest people jockying for favor and acting as gatekeepers

- innovation stops

- complex projects take forever

- risk taking gets turned into position jostling

- unclear structure leads to unclear reviews

- nobody to resolve disputes

- secrets and rumors dominate information flows

- these problems remain unacknowledged

Look at reviews for other large flat organizations and you'll see the same issues echoed over and over again. Anybody who's worked for a reasonably sized "flat" org will recognize all of these problems as persistent and near universal.

Zappos will be no different. It's just a terrible way to organize labor.
This article does not take the subject seriously.

The large numbers of homeless and travellers in San Francisco makes providing for people a genuinely difficult problem. There are bus and train stations that remain open to the general public, and it is quite easy to beg for enough money to get a drink and use of a toilet.

The aside about problems with the sewage system is a distraction. Use of high flow toilets in the past kept the sewers flowing, but low flow toilets are forcing parts of the sewage system to be redesigned. Part of dealing with that in the short term involved bleach, but both the problem and proposed solutions are more complex than implied here.
To me, that makes matters worse, not better. You are telling me that disenfranchising people like me that hold non-mainstream political views is by design. That's outright offensive to me.

You are also wrong: It is not by definition going to be the majority opinion of everyone in my "community".

For starters, the person who won the seat I live in got 43% of the vote. The majority of my community wanted other people to represent them.

The current system the worst of both worlds: Single seat constituencies without even the pretence of trying to find a candidate a majority would stand behind.

Secondly, lets disabuse ourselves of the notion that the electoral boundaries matches a "community". They do not.

My seat includes uppper class areas in Shirley, with million pound mansions, as well as council estates like New Addington - the latter is one of the places in the UK with the lowest average life expectancy. The electoral seat encompasses perhaps a dozen separate communities that rarely mixes other than superficially. We can see clearly how divided this seat is - as many others - by looking at council election results, where various wards go very, very firmly on way or the other, while the seat as a whole is a very marginal seat (this election the Tory incumbent held onto his seat with a 165 vote plurality).

In reality, if one were to draw up geographically based communities based on how people actually live and work and interact together, there'd be maybe a dozen separate areas.

Apart from the flaw of thinking that areas as large as a parliamentary seat - even in London where the population density means the physical areas are fairly small - will be homogenous enough or closely enough linked to represent a single community, when you look at the overall electoral results you see pretty clearly that "community" does no longer - if it ever did - match geographical boundaries. Communities are split between parties that stands so far apart that pretending that community is geographical is a joke.

But in the end whether or not you believe that the representative should represent a community, or that the point is to represent the voices of the people, the fact is that this system leaves millions upon millions of users without a voice where it matters, and without the ability to influence decisions in parliament if they vote their conscience.

You may think that's acceptable. I don't. I find it an affront to the very idea of democracy.
This is why AV (preferential voting) is so much better. You vote for the candidates in the order you like and the candidate the majority prefer wins. You get to vote for minor parties without ending up with chaos.
There was a pretty poor campaign around it, and only 42% of people bothered to vote.

The other consideration was that many people wanted a different system to AV.
Interesting points:

1. > That is more than the upper limit calculated on the basis of laboratory tests.

Does this mean the panels generated more than they were tested to generate?

2. Part of the purpose of the project was to beta test the suitability of their glass surface treatment as a biking/walking surface. (I'm imagining it's textured like a truck bed liner, but transparent.) They did have an incident early on with a bicyclist slipping, related to a stick-on surface, so they switched to a spray-on surface.

3. Commenters slinging arrows at a Conservative strawman for the high price and comparatively low (factor of 500) energy output vs government building rooftops.
What were the expectations?
I challenge you to show me what part of systemd isn't directly related to inititialization of services.
Great news. The core developers had said that this was in the works at last years JuliaCon. Now they can make a living through consulting while continuing to work on Julia.
> Computers can't solve instances of the Halting problem or the Tiling problem, whose solution is immediately intuitively clear to a human.

This is unclear. Do you mean that computers can't solve the Halting Problem, but humans can solve many instances of the question "will this question halt"? Then you're not comparing apples with apples. You should instead compare human reasoning of "this program will halt or not" with programs developed in the field of termination analysis. Are these analysis bad compared to human ones?

Or do you mean that humans can prove the undecidability of the Halting Problem, but computers can't manage to prove or disprove it, or understand the human proofs? Does this have to do with such proofs tend to be non-constructive, as far as I've seen?

In any case, I guess it's still an open problem whether or not the human mind can algorithmically solve the Halting Problem, right? Our minds would have to be "better" than a TM.
I don't see what is the problem. They are selling training on Julia and Julia development. They are doing a great work on Julia, please let them monetize it.

Also, I wouldn't call it a startup, it's more a consulting company.
But you can buy votes here and it's designed by economists... The field of economics generally assume wildly improbably things about the distribution of money. Look, there's already too much money in politics, and I'm just going to dismiss any idea that advocates more money in politics.

I guess that in lieu of money, you could portion out votes. 1000 votes per person, for example. And then they can be spent in the same way that money is spent in quadratic voting.
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I struggled the same with another ES6-first library. The best way to convert those to ES5 is via copy / pasting the code in https://babeljs.io/repl/. After a while, you'll quickly learn the syntax and the code will come naturally.
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why don't go with http://www.passwordstore.org/ (pass)?

pass is just a 500 line bash GPG wrapper, and a git repo. You can audit easily the code. You shouldn't have your password manager, the most succulent software, to be 5000[1] lines of code in c++. You don't need a single point of failure. You don't need to build trust in a new developer and it's desire to keep mantaining and updating the software. Just use already proven tools for data at rest: GPG.

Also, pass has implementations for Android, iOS, web browser extensions, etc.

[1] ~/fort $ wc -l .cpp .h *.ui : 5079 total
"Never" is a pretty log time. Curious what reasons you have for making that statement?
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You are absolutely correct; this is what Mithril.js does. In Mithril, a component is a plain JavaScript object with only two properties: controller and view. No set / replaceState, no component[Will | Did][Mount | ReceiveProps] – just plain JavaScript data structures.

Because Mithril uses plain JavaScript constructs, you can use standard design patterns and techniques when constructing and managing your components. Everything works beautifully.
Do you know if Obama's involved (or for that matter, fully aware)? This seems like something that would mostly unfold at a lower level.
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That argument makes little sense to me.

You dislike PR since it'd allow small parties to actually get representation and thus "cause chaos". If you think AV doesn't have this problem, it must be because you think AV would keep the small parties out just like FPTP. But if that's case, why bother switching to a system that changes nothing?
The original poster was asking, if I can reword properly: Who is using enterprise-grade hard drives instead of consumer-grade ones, if FB doesn't (and why)?

Both consumer- and enterprise-grade hard drives use standard interfaces (SATA, etc) so all this "drivers" stuff you talked about doesn't apply to this particular hardware. Since even enterprise-grade hard drives will fail one day, one needs to have a proper backup strategy, which would backstop the needs of supporting of consumer-grade HDDs. So in light of this, why buy enterprise HDDs?

(I'm not saying one shouldn't, I'm just not buying the explanation above :])
You're assuming the Tories would opt for UKIP over Labour for a coalition, which is not at all obvious. The Tory right wing certainly would prefer that, but the Tory left wing certainly would not. The question would be which wing of the party would hold the most influence. Cameron certainly is far from the most right wing part of the conservative party.

And that consideration is also a reason why I don't think you can assume the pattern of votes would be all that similar: You would not get rid of tactical voting - you would get tactical voting in different ways where e.g. parts of the uncertain Tory voters on the left wing would be more likely to vote Lib Dem or Labour out of fear of a Tory/UKIP coalition.

I'm Norwegian, living in the UK, and in Norway coalitions are the norm these days, and voting patterns certainly are strongly influenced based on perceptions about whether or not you're enabling a coalition you might not lead. Currently we do have the equivalent of a Tory/UKIP coalition, and it has lead to a massive resurgence for our Labour party, and the centrist parties that enabled the coalition have largely collapsed in polls as it's clear a lot of their voters don't want to help prop up such a coalition again (the parties does not have a majority but negotiated a supply agreement with our liberal party and christian democrats).
Much better in the second case, even if the two biggest winners are the same, but 1) they have less power and 2) it gives the others a chance to keep growing at the next election and replace the 2 biggest ones in 1 or 2 terms. And 3) the power is more distributed among 5 or 6 bigger parties - much better than just having only 2 or 3 parties.

That said, approval voting would've worked even better:

http://www.electology.org/#!approval-voting/cc04
> They allow investors to sue nations over legislative and administrative rules alleging that they harm their profits.

This is much bigger than copyright. This is removing substantive power from existing governments and transferring it to a new structure. The fast-tracking should be seen, not just as evading scrutiny by the public, but also as evading scrutiny by Congress and by other legislatures whose power is being stolen from them. When you write your representative, you might warn them that this puts them on track to end up like the Queen of England: powerless figureheads.
Either is valid in many dialects.
So the big parties would split into a few smaller ones.

That might not be bad.
There's a variety of differences.

One of them is seeds themselves. Modern GMOs, more than being about being resistant to specific herbicides, are about built in pest control. It's part of the sales pitch to farmers: Buy this new seed, and you'll spend less in pesticides. With a traditional seed, a farmer gets to either lose a lot of yield, or use pesticides. Organic farming doesn't ban all pesticides: Some are considered natural, and are used a whole lot to protect the crop.

The problem is that organic pesticides are not necessarily less toxic for humans, or less likely to harm the environment. In fact, some organic pesticides are very toxic, even though they are 'natural'. It get worse when we take into account that they have to be used in large quantities. Practical toxicity is affected by how much we use, and then ho much actually 'leaks out' of the farm.

We also have the lower yields: A more 'natural' seed tends to yield less in practice, so to get the same number of bushels, you need to plant more plants, and protect more plants. Welcome less forests, and more pesticides!

So the picture of toxicity and environmental impact of organic vs GMO+synthetic pesticides is pretty complicated.
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The key difference between a rocket engine and other types of engine is that rocket engines only use chemicals that are stored onboard. If it needs gas from outside then by definition it's not really a rocket.
Fascinating stuff.

My guess is that they were definitely aware of the weight tolerance of the floor and the tiles but looks like the weak spot was the canister wheels on the bottom of the rack. I wonder how they eventually got it out. They probably used one of those rack jacks to get a stronger dolly underneath... Or removed the HDDs and moved it.

This made me wonder about something else - the power density. They say the layout:

"can support up to one exabyte (1,000 PB) per data hall. Since storage density generally increases as technology advances, this was the baseline from which we started. In other words, there's plenty of room to grow."

I wonder how they account for increased energy consumption as they put in larger powersupplies to deal with the increase in power to run and cooling for the larger HDDs. I imagine in this layout everything is in proportion. CPU / RAM / Disk Space. It must be hard to accurately target growth with in the constraints of a limited power footprint.
To be fair, the SNP would have used a vote for Devo Max (and a decisive vote against the status quo) as a rallying point to call for a straight yes-no ballot afterwards anyway: as you said, referendums are political tools.

If Scotland does leave, Cameron will deserve the blame for the "don't let the Scots have any influence" strategy that won him this week's Westminster election, but the independence question seemed fair enough, especially with oblique hints that more devolution would be forthcoming anyway.

I have a horrible feeling the EU options will hinge more on the "no" campaigners being far more motivated to vote than those satisfied with the status quo, particularly on the assumption that the "pro EU" side will appear to have enough of a lead in telephone polls and goodwill from major political parties to be just fine.
You are not disenfranchised. Every single person has opinions that are not supported by their community and hence their representative does not (should not) support these minority views. If you want to change things you need to convince the people around you that things need to change.

I should say I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but the solution is to change the mind of those in your community and the politics will follow.
> Your bigotry has made you say that you would prefer dishonest liars to people who are honest but with a mental illness.

Wait, who is the "dishonest liar" in your hypothetical scenario? The person who "might by lying"?
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Also leads to a two party effect because of the elimination property. You should still strategically vote for Gorilla as #1 because otherwise you could have Owl first eliminate Gorilla and then lose to Tiger, for example.

So if you prefer Owl > Gorilla, you still have to go with Gorilla as #1 because Owl might not have enough to beat Tiger. This means it still leads to Tiger vs. Gorilla two party system.

It's already implemented in Australia and they still have a two party government.
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Maybe the parameters and interface will simplify over time. Patterns emerge with use.
There is basically no way of redrawing those boundaries that is apolitical. It may not be a "diabolical plot" but constituency size is not all of it. How you alter that inherently alters vote distribution in a FPTP system, and as such it is a major problem.

Even if you supposedly makes it fairer by evening out constituency sizes, and even if the people doing it are trying to be fair, the net effect due to the electoral system can very easily be to disenfranchise the voters even more.
They ran the message "it's too complicated for you to understand", and most accepted that at face and spent no more thought on the matter.

Same phenomenon as "math/computer is hard" being acceptable and an excuse not to try, or even listen. You can see the roller shutter come down in their eyes.
Because it stops you having to tactically vote. With AV you can vote for a minor party you support without this vote helping the candidate you hate most. You don't need to vote for some candidate you don't like just because you hate another candidate more who might win. You just number tha candidates from 1 to x in your personal preference.

The end result is the consensus candidate is elected while allowing everyone to vote for who they want. It is simple and it works well in practice.
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It cost three million euros but can only power three houses? A million euros to use solar to power a house? Am I missing something?
1. No, it means that the panels generated more than the predicted upper bound. As a commenter on the source article mentioned, this year's April was one of the most sunny in recorded Dutch weather history, which might have contributed to this fact.
Sounds like the first comment hit the nail on the head: there being 25% more sunlight hours than expected.
With that membership, you'll get keep getting upgrades as long as your hardware supports them. This is just like Chrome, your apps, and other operating systems like iOS operate.

So, just like Apple and Android phones, Macbooks, and I presume Chromebooks and Surface devices, OS updates will keep getting pushed to your device until your device can no longer function acceptably, and you'll be forced to upgrade the hardware.

This is the OS software industry's solution to the "problem" that the hardware became good enough for most people and new sales dropped.
I didn't imply they'd try that in Scotland. Scotland is basically irrelevant for the Tories today - they won't ever win many seats there any more. In that scenario a strong SNP is good for the Tories, because if it prevents Labour from getting an overall majority on occasion, it puts Labour in the uneasy position of having to consider a coalition with SNP.

But the over-representation of SNP - a party they've vilified, and that actively fights Tory policies, and that drags up the whole "Scottish MP's voting on English issues" deal may very well make more Tory voters sympathetic to a system that'd reduce the SNP influence.
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These are all roughly a year apart and it's a very interesting article. I don't really see a big problem with reposts that far apart to catch newcomers' eye.
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I keep hearing/seeing statements like this when that is not the case. Models are inherently simplifications of the real world. I don't think the problem was with the math or anybody's understanding of it but more a result of the innate complexities of the market. The people at Goldman Sachs for example maybe knew about their exposure to the mortgage backed securities but they were unaware of the exposure of all the other firms in the industry. Also, a number of people expected and made a lot of money from the crash, although nobody expected it to be as bad as it was (again nobody had an accurate gauge of the exposure), it's not a lack of intelligence that drove firms but greed they were making so much money that they considered it foolish to stop and think what would happen and based on the aftermath they really have no incentive to. They suffered for a while but the government made every effort to assist them and now a few years later the market is back to record highs until the next inevitable crash.
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Numbers from the article:

3000 kWh in six months = 684W average

70 kWh per m^2 per year = 8W per m^2

As a comparison point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_system#Solar_arra...
gives a typical output for a square-meter panel as 0.75kWh per day, or 31W.
It's basically what you often get in PR systems anyway. New parties form, or split off to fill perceived voids to the left or right of one of the big parties and eat into their voting base.

Many countries with PR systems rarely if ever have single party majorities. In Norway the current two party coalition is a minority government that needed a supply agreement with two further parties (technically one of them would be sufficient) to secure a majority. In the recent past we've had coalitions with up to four parties, several of the coalitions being minority governments. Our last single party majority government was in the 60's I think.
Would you prefer China's model more then? Just one party. No gridlock, ever.

Having more parties is a good thing. It implies negotiation between them and it leads to more rational laws. When you have just one or two parties it's much easier for them to abuse their power and pass crazy laws.
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Apart from they wouldn't really be "news", which is supposedly what this site is for (as denoted by the site's name and URL).
Well, Jobs said he intended to have a newly designed single transformer out sometime soon (rolls eyes).