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> I don't know how "10 to A, 20 to B" could indicate anything beyond the simple fact that the voter prefers B to A.

Scores are actual utilities with added loss, from:

- ignorance
- normalization
- rounding error
- tactical voting

The way you measure the combined impact of that loss is with Bayesian regret.
http://ScoreVoting.net/BayRegsFig.html

So those scores HAVE meaning. That meaning is muddied by the aforementioned loss, but it is lunacy to say it only "could indicate anything beyond the simple fact that the voter prefers B to A".
Parasitic viri (pl. virus) infecting the human brain in a similar fashion in which influenza infects the lung. These viri overtake parts of the hosts brain, causing them to behave contrary to their best interest.
These viri are usually language based, sometimes called "memes", rather than chemical based.
Almost without exception hosts of these viri will group together to spread the infection through means of violence and extortion.
An incomplete list would include the following, in various forms, some "secular", some "theistic ", etc:
Islam, Christianity, communism, welfare state, government, Scientology, consumerism, conspicuous consumption etc.
The usual approach to get rid of infections is to immunize or quarantine the infected. Since the scale of the existing infections is already global, mass immunization is no longer possible with current means.
Those carrying any of the above infections must therefore be quarantined.
Just buy health care. Since you have no income you qualify for subsidies under ACA/Obamacare (but even without those subsidies the plans available are much better than the ones before the law passed).

The ACA is one of the most entrepreneur-friendly laws passed in my lifetime. Big businesses don't like it because health care is one way to retain employees, and so the lobbyists screwed it up a bit for medium businesses. But while starting, it's a lifeline.

COBRA from your previous employer is probably more expensive.
There's no such information about JIDF and even if there were, it's still a group that clearly states what they are doing, not a covert joint pretending to be an "internet research agency".

There's a saying: "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist". The guys from the Agency are very concerned with this too. They don't exist, you know. These are just perfectly real people that happen to think Putin is not that bad and that Russia just wants to show its side of the story :)
Because a pattern like that looks quite alright with a contemporary 800x600 resolution 15" CRT monitor, probably a lot more pleasant than black text on plain white background.
It is also shocking how mathematicians have huge gaps in their basic knowledge of cell biology. What can be done to help mathematicians learn relevant applications? Or even accept that applications merit more than an occasional momentary thought, and that only to wave off a field as trivial?
Thanks for reminding me how much I hate reading SEC filings. Is this thing even dated?
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> it's that they aren't that fun to play for most people

I question if repetitive games like MOBAs are really more fun, or just have an greedy and addicted game mechanics that has been pioneered with the old Diablo 1 (1996). Is it only me that playing MOBA is to let your off steam, clear your mind like playing a simple ego-shooter or passively watching a TV series on your sofa after you come home from hard work. Or is it really fun to play like traditional non-repetitive games?

Example: I remember Farmville, and for me the fun part was very short and it quickly got a lot of repetitive greedy work and the game tried a lot to get me hooked.
I think the author's point was that JSON-LD isn't primarily intended for existing users of RDF, SPARQL etc. Most developers already work with JSON on a regular basis (not so much RDF), and JSON-LD is a model for merging and combine data sources, in JSON.

It's good that conversion from and to RDF is now standardized, but it's probably not something that your average dev is going to be taking advantage of. They'll likely continue to ingest, process and store the data in JSON.
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Lots of people find it elegant in actual use because of the same features that make it hard to parse; this is much the same thing that is true of natural languages.
Obama is a union-sponsored king actually, so it's all good I guess.
The astronauts left an awful lot of stuff on the moon but luckily the moon is a big place - a few people entombed there in the lander wouldn't make any difference.
In the new book "How Google Works" Eric Schmidt talks quite frequently about the need to be able to innovate even if that means cannibalizing your own products. Because if you don't then someone else will. And when that happens, you die off.

Most incumbants die from not cannibalizing their own products. Innovation is the key to survival.
The idea is not really new, it is just becoming more popular thanks to Android's implementation as a first party lib.
There are several well known algorithms : Octree, MCQ & Neuquant and all libs tend to implement a variation of one of these.
"Sequentric’s technology has been tested by the Electric Power Research Institute and is now being deployed by Hawaiian Electric, but we have yet to see the results of these studies." This technological approach is widely used in private homes in Germany. The energy savings are significant and customers are extremely satisfied with every aspect of it.
For most professionals in this field, what's true is pretty irrelevant. Only what brings in funding is what matters. That's why unprovable theories have so much success. It's much better to have something no one can prove wrong and destroy your career than have something that can be. Newton was proved wrong by Einstein, after all, being shown to just be an approximation compared to relativity. So the next step forward is to make sure your theory can't suffer like that and dry up your funding. The next step forward for these people isn't more accurate models and truth, it is more fundable ones.
> You are implicitly presuming an expected utility framework

This isn't an assumption. Organisms have specifically evolved to maximize the expected number of copies of their genes they make. Or rather, _genes_ have specifically survived in proportion to their expected impact on the number of copies of themselves they make, and therefore we are to a very close approximation utility maximizers.

> ..linear utility of money

Utility is approximately log(money).

A caveat here is that certain decisions themselves are costly (particularly in terms of the most precious resource: time) and hence we can sometimes make clearly "irrational" choices because the expected utility of spending more time choosing was lower than the expected utility of making the more optimal choice. This leads to apparent paradoxes like the Allais Paradox.

Here's some background on utility theory.
http://scorevoting.net/UtilFoundns.html
Co-author of proto3 here. Proto3 was specifically designed to make proto more friendly in variety of environments, which includes native JSON support. New Google REST APIs are defined in proto3, which are open sourced[1].

[1] https://github.com/google/googleapis
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Late reply... can you estimate the number of hours per week you put into planning, shopping, cooking, and cleanup? If so, and if you can you assign a $ value to that time, it would be an interesting exercise to compare such _total_ costs (averaged per meal) versus the same calculation using Soylent.

I would suppose (based on doing 50% Soylent for a few months) that for an all-Soylent diet, planning and shopping time goes to zero, "cooking" time to 5 min/day (to shake up one bag in the pitcher), cleanup to near-zero (put glass in the sink). Very possibly the reduction in time, valued in dollars, makes Soylent cheaper.
You're delusional if you think 12%/year returns are feasible for a period of time of 30 years for the average (hell, even for very good ones) investor. On the other hand you're also delusional if you think it is that hard to save more than 20% on a $100k salary.
That just depends upon whatever type abstraction capabilities Crystal grows. It probably won't be getting higher-kinded nominal types so generalizing over Monad is sort of dead in the water anyway.
The EU Parliament videos? I don't know how BBC iPlayer works for other countries, but I think the one where they were heavy on ISDS was this on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wq51g

There's also another broadcast on 10th June that the BBC will produce: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05ykxrt
Actually, you're wrong. The syntactic ambiguity between local variable references and implicit self method calls us not accurately resolved by thinking of it as message sends because it's only a message sends if it is a self method call, not it is a local variable reference. This is a real syntactic ambiguity in Ruby.
I like seeing more CLI tools in Go.

What's the difference between yours and sivel's? (in addition to Python vs Go)
I hadn't seen that essay before. It seems very dated since the emergence of Google. Many of the problems that he implies are fundamentally insurmountable have been largely addressed by modern search engines.
Is it possible to view all the entries with no explanation? I want to try to spot the problems.
I was expecting the technique "風車" - windmill to come up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoYpJqFNj40
The people are not important, only owners of Capital are important. It is more important that they have control, then we actually do anything for the people. The people are preferably reduced to third world conditions you know where you have a very rich elite and a bunch of poor peasants that look up to them for guidance. They want to turn their countries into this.
I don't understand the example. Why would it do that and not unlock after foo()?
XML can't piggyback on the success of anything. It's just a human readable data format, and a cumbersome one at that. It make sense in certain use cases and not in others, but it has to fight it out with other data formats on its own weak merits.

JSON is the object literal format for Javascript, likely the single most widely deployed and used programming language in the world. Until paradigm shifts obsolete the web browser, JSON will be ubiquitous.
Spending 3 months on a segfault? In any language even a mediocre programmer you can usually resolve a null reference exception / segfault in a couple of hours at the most. With a complex program and a debugger it could be a minute or so. Maybe if it only happens in production and you don't capture stack traces or core dump files... but this happens once and then you learn your lesson.
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle was jokingly known as "the only thing more dangerous than landing on the moon". Three LLRV/LLTV craft were destroyed in crashes where the pilot ejected. Despite this, the LLRV was instrumental in making the lunar landings successful.

When future astronauts will train for the next lunar landing, it will surely be done in computer simulations. While it's obviously safer, the element of danger in the LLRV was probably quite character building. Armstrong had nerves of steel when he landed the Eagle in a field of house-sized boulders with just seconds of fuel remaining and alarms ringing in the cockpit.
You can comfortably purchase a Ferrari with far less than $100 million. In fact, there are circumstances under which you could comfortably purchase a Ferrari with well under $1 million.

What most folks don't recognize is that you can get significant leverage on savings, a solid income and a good credit score. In the case of a used exotic car, if you purchase the right make, model and year and negotiate a good deal, you can often drive the car for not much more than the total cost of, say, leasing a Mercedes. In some cases, you can even drive the car for a while for next to nothing.

They key is that you buy used, identify a good deal, put down as little cash up front as is possible (i.e. 10%) and extend the loan term out as far as you can (specialty lenders will do 72 to 120 month loans on exotic cars). If you hit the depreciation curve at the right time, you really can't lose.

You'd be surprised how many people who could pay cash for a $250,000 Ferrari still have a car note. There's really no good reason to pay cash outright in many cases.
> hijacked by corps+lobbyists

corps+lobbyists+owners of capital(wealthy)
Funfacts: Odd-numbered teams are based on the West coast, even numbered on the East coast.

SEAL Team 6 was created after the original SEAL Team 1. They wanted the Soviets to think there were 4 other teams already operating.

There's a great 6-part YouTube series on the basic SEAL training, and how incredibly demanding it is both physically and mentally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQFRePXMI9M
> And, of course, valve takes the other 75%.

Not disagreeing, but they probably use a large portion of that money to actually pay for the organization, venue, designs of the compendium, the staffs, and everything else involved with the International. All that can't be cheap so I'm not sure which portion of that 75% is valve's profit. Does anybody have any ideas?
Isn't Mission Bay and Hunter's Point less regulated? I know they are building a few high rises and hospital buildings that are quite tall. No NIMBYs live there to shoot down development plans yet.
yeah, and it's kind of the only reason why an ordinary EU or US citizen would find enticing in such a treaty... as an EU citizen, I'd almost swallow ISDSs for the short term benefits I would see as possible from this ...but it would be seen as indirectly putting more power in the workers' hands and not in the ones of the companies ... and we can't have more "socialism", can't we :)
Mortgage? The disposable income from the non-peak years can easily pay off the mortgage.
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Complete link: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed
Boring arm chair language criticism. I have programmed professionally in Ruby for 5 years and it has never been a problem. You may as well complain that the ability to import an identifier leads to confusion about which identifier from which namespace you are calling when you reference one. I have 99 gripes about Ruby, but this ain't one.
The filing is dated:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312515...
And what does "convention" say about inflation adjustments?
Neither Obama nor Clinton are sponsored by unions. Their major sponsors are Wall St, universities, SV and Hollywood, i.e. typical wealthy democrats.

http://www.opensecrets.org/PRES08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638

Maybe you were thinking about Bernie Sanders?
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Euphemisms like Kerry's '...someone wants something done...' make me shudder.

I can't help but come to the conclusion that any 'marginally legal if that' activity that it administered by the government will suffer from a kind of Peter Principle, where it continues being expanded until a major mistake goes public.
The book I pointed to also discusses the concept of self. It's not really that ambiguous.
haha, the winning entry is pure genius! It was so difficult to follow, and the code that produces the bug is only viewable if you examined the macro expanded source code - and the macro used _all_ look like functions, so a casual code reviewer probably won't recall them being macros in the first place.
Looks like 40 Gbps is around the same as PCIe x16 v1.X.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/
They don't seem available anywhere, maybe try to contact UnderhandedC@gmail.com and ask if they could release the entries?
>That's illegal in the US

WAS illegal in the US.*

Legalized with the enactment of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. The reform effectively nullifies the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which was amended in 1985 specifically to prohibit U.S. organizations from using information "to influence public opinion in the United States."[1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/us-domestic-propaganda-offici...
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I didn't see anything about "Why Ada" other than hearing that it was useful for high-assurance RTOS, and that it has a Pascal-like syntax. Did I miss it?
That's basically John Ralston Saul's argument in his book "The Collapse of Globalization". Good story from that book was how the PM of Malaysia was laughed out of Davos for installing capital and currency controls then after the financial meltdown of the late 90s they hailed him as a visionary at Davos for surviving the crisis. Saul also predicted they would try this insane system again because it is ideology and therefore can never be wrong.
Ellen Pao is turning into a shake-down artist. Did she study at the school of Al Sharpton?!
No, but then again, as I wrote in a comment just above that one:

"I don't think most teams outside of Google and some C++ or Scala shops have had any issue with "long compile times" for that to have been a major factor."
I actually thought the game was terrible as a kid. You were constantly falling into pit. I had so many better games for my 2600 that I couldn't justify spending time playing a game I thought was sub par in comparison to the others I owned.
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will beautiful like python and faster than Go do? then Nim - http://nim-lang.org will do just fine. Anecdotal benchmarks like this one https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks will show you that Nim comes out at the top (so does Crystal for some, FWIW).
So, first of all clearly the RTS in the generic sense isn't actually dead (e.g. MOBAs, tactical wargames, tower defense games). Even the classic C&C-style base building RTS isn't quite dead, a few still get released every year. For example last year there was Planetary Annihilation and Grey Goo. It's just that even the nostalgia factor can't make those games succeed any more.

The problem is that the classic RTS isn't actually very fun to play. There's too much cognitive overload, too much micro-management, and perhaps a bit too many genre conventions that need to be crammed into the game making it actually feel like the same game I played 20 years ago. Every time I try one of them these days it's like one hour before I give up realizing I don't actually want to play it. In contrast to that I could obsess for weeks over a non-traditional RTS like Offworld Trading Company.
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Windows Phone 7, aka "Metro" aka "Windows Design Language".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_%28design_language%29
I never said it was anything of the sort. I said the dialog attribution style was ostentatious and distracting. Also, I prefaced my entire comment with a warning that it was off topic. I'm sorry you still feel so offended by it.
No, it's not, because NLP and distributed systems are producing useful artifacts that help influence the world in positive ways.

Semantic Web is a field that is obsessed with theory, without producing any useful theory, nor any practical artifacts that can be used.

Hating entire fields is an entirely reasonable thing to do when they are not productive and when they draw attention away from more useful activities. And it's quite possible for social dynamics to do that, for the wrong thing to become en vogue, and for really wrong paths to be followed for long periods of time. And it's entirely possible to study something that's actually nothing, such as alchemy. Perfectly fine to hate the field of alchemy.
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> I can't pass arguments to a variable

I'm confused -- if you're knowingly invoking a method, why are you unsure whether it's a method or a variable?

I programmed for years in Ruby too. I just accepted a whole bunch of stuff as mysterious and shrugged. It didn't mean the language was ambiguous, I just didn't have any idea of what the actual model was.
Has intel said anything about loosening their grip on the thunderbolt spec to make it easier for people to implement thunderbolt on devices? I can rather easily download the datasheets for intel's processors, their chipsets, etc, without registering for a site or anything, but not the info on their thunderbolt controllers. It seems just a bit silly that I can get more info on their top of the line $3000 processors than their $10 thunderbolt chips.
> I think I've seen it noted somewhere that his highest elo was higher than even famous chess grandmasters.

Elo ratings are not comparable across games (or across different player pools in the same game). All an Elo rating (or a rating in a similar system) measures is how you perform compared to others in that same rating pool. Each group that runs an Elo rating pool has parameters they choose when setting up and when maintaining the pool that affect the average and the spread of ratings.
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To get us started, what do you think they are?
When theories get 'large' then the location of our observations within that theory becomes just as important as the rules governing them. We need to take both into account when using Occam's razor.

For example, explaining observations using multiple-worlds QM is very simple in terms of the rules used, but has a very complex "location" within that theory (ie. pin-pointing which Universe those observations are being made in).

There's a nice overview of this idea in http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/3/4/329
While I agree on the pragmatic value of it, and I think this is a pretty minor blemish in the semantics of Python.

You can easily have booleans as a completely different type, and yet avoid stuff like: `1 if boolean else 0`...

In Haskell, for example, `True + True` and `True == 1` are compile errors (unless you defined wacky Num instances), and the boolean/int "identity" is simply handled by `fromEnum` (which works on any Enum, not only Bool)

1 == fromEnum True
0 == fromEnum False
I am a professional in the field :). I make precision experimental tests of gravity.

If a line of physical theory never leads to something testable, is it a physical theory?

Elegance and beauty are major guiding lights for theory, but they can't be the end goal if our desire is to learn the nature of Nature.

Arkani-Hamed and others chasing the physical utility of the Grassmanian are a modern example of beautiful mathematics straining toward physically-testable theory. I expect you'll see more money flowing that way in the next few years.
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Did you compile the Crystal program with the --release flag? That turns on optimizations. On our machines we see Crystal is faster in this benchmark, it always takes about 1.6s while JRuby+Truffle reaches 2.38 at most.
> I'm just saying the result isn't representative and shouldn't be framed as the will of the people.

Fine, but then you can't really frame anything as being or not the will of the people as there's no point of reference. You can't say that TTIP and TPP and TISA are not the will of the people just because Reddit and a bunch of news sites like to hate on them, for instance.