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by chton 12y ago
My beef isn't with the anonymity, my beef is with the supposed objectiveness of the educators they use to give the randomly selected lawmakers the knowledge they need to decide. Those are the people to lobby, those are the people to b
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by chton 12y ago
I don't know, but at least I know it's them making the decision. I know they're corruptible, and I know their information can be manipulated and can be incomplete. It's transparent because everybody knows this, that&#x2
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by chton 12y ago
But it does mean I can't decide to delegate it to my friend who knows a lot about the trade situation with China. All the power would become consolidated in a few people again, and giving your vote to anybody else would be a waste of
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by chton 12y ago
Sure, many of the decisions in the current system are 'impure' in some way. Everybody has a price, everybody makes mistakes, everybody is uninformed about things. The big difference is the decisions still come from the elected l
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by chton 12y ago
The problem is not that they would do worse. The problem is that they would be entirely dependent on the information they were provided. Anybody who gives them that information has their own opinion, and whether they want to or not, that
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by chton 12y ago
Any system that isn't a very narrow form of representative democracy requires a massive re-write of the constitution. That is not a reason to not consider them. In a delegative democracy, decision making is a lot more fluid than in th
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by chton 12y ago
The big problem with Sortition is that the voters are necessarily uninformed. It means you need to teach your randomly selected group a huge amount of background information, even before explaining the specifics of the case. It falls into
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by chton 12y ago
That would default back to a representative democracy then, since if my opinion differs from the top N, I have no way to influence the decision.
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by chton 12y ago
How would this work with a case like foreign policy? Since everybody needs to able to participate, all the information related to a matter at hand needs to be made public. This is not always a good idea, especially when relating to diploma
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by chton 12y ago
Aside from my startup (which fills most of my evenings), my side projects never pan out. They're never completed, or end up being too difficult to complete. I consider them learning opportunities more than marketable projects. Current
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by chton 12y ago
"It is perfectly possible that the NSA really do need to damage human rights in order to fight terrorism" This is the first sentence of your comment. "the only answer the government have is to take away even more privacy&
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by chton 12y ago
Why would participating in a broken democratic system automatically imply you believe it isn't broken? It's all you can do to have even the tiniest amount of influence. Sure, your vote might not be worth much now, but that influ
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by chton 12y ago
The internet is a communication method. It's powerful because it's widespread and fast, but it's not a 'tool for terrorism'. The internet doesn't make bombs or create extremism. People do that. Claiming tha
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by chton 12y ago
According to http://www.fastcoexist.com/3037899/we-took-ikeas-new-automat... , it isn't being released just yet due to a production problem. It was on the IKEA website a few days ago, so they probably just took it
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by chton 12y ago
Aha I must have missed that news. I'll update my comment. Can't say I'm sad to see them go, they were useful but turn a complicated class into a clusterfuck. thanks!
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by chton 12y ago
A getter-only property can only be set on initialization of the class, so either with a fixed value or one from a constructor. That does make it the equivalent of a read-only field, but it's a lot easier to keep byte-level parity with
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by chton 12y ago
This may be a stupid question, but is it possible the blog author was given a refurbished device? These all sound like exactly the kind of problems you'd expect from a device that was pre-owned and sloppily reinstalled. Either way, the
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by chton 12y ago
For what it's worth: people with those kinds of issues are rare. Not rare enough, of course, but it's not as if everybody has them. In a way, chamakits's problems demonstrate why Microsoft is still selling them: even if the
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by chton 12y ago
It's true that orbit is more challenging, but you have no hope of getting there if you can't do a suborbital jump first. Aiming for suborbital first might see them get a lot more funding if they succeed. You need to learn to cra
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by chton 12y ago
That is amazing, thank you so much for linking it. I did not know about them, and it does indeed seem like they have made a lot of progress. I'll be following them from now :)
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by chton 12y ago
We're still very early in the development of spaceflight. If you compare with the car industry, we're at the early industrialized phase, where large companies carefully start to develop the necessary technology. Now, 100 years l
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by chton 12y ago
It is much like a conversation in a chat system, but the etiquette on twitter means your conversation partner usually won't wait for you to finish a string of messages. It's true that it's easy for people to interject and ann
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by chton 12y ago
It can be. This conversation is a multi-person one too. That's still different than, say, hangouts because everybody is free to reply, not just people you invited. Maybe somebody neither of us know will read this next month and come
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by chton 12y ago
Terse also means short, clearly explained. Yes, 'terse' has an extra meaning, but in a technical context, and especially when contrasted with 'verbose', it should be completely clear which meaning I meant. And for the re
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by chton 12y ago
As far as I know, the two are synonyms in common parlance. I chose 'terse' because it's the usual converse of 'verbose'.
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by chton 12y ago
I agree, use the best tools. But if you email or text them, there is no way for other people to join the conversation. Think of a twitter conversation as one at a party where you know people. Anybody can come join in, and can add value. It&
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by chton 12y ago
I would agree that iteration through thought is not necessarily a useful constraint on a medium by itself. In the case of twitter, however, it is merely a product of the 140-character limit for each message. If, during a stand-up debate,
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by chton 12y ago
No pejorative was meant at all. My point about 'thinking too far' was about the singular thought you're trying to express. It's easy to want to say too much, 'walking the chain too far' if you will. Twitter
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by chton 12y ago
Terseness is a learned skill. Verbosity is too. They're not mutually exclusive, you can apply them where they work. And they're both useful. (That's exactly 140 characters for you :) )

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