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by cturner 13y ago
(I wrote my reply to rmc before reading your reply - honestly!) The countries you're talking about are simply more civilised than the rest of us. Particularly Sweden - you guys are able to execute things that just don't work in ot
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I'm not familiar with Ireland's system - I should read a history some time. FPP is a mess - I agree. But PR is the wrong response to it. My response to it would be to pick one of the preference options from my earlier post - probl
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PR makes party tickets central to the electoral system. This plays to the interests of people who are employed around the political scene to carve out a place for themselves while staying loyal to their sponsor. For this reason alone, it&#x
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It's not a freedom of speech issue - it's just about avoiding doing things that detract from other people's experience of the event/the industry/etc. If someone had come to the conference and broadcast music that wa
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So if I were to offer you $25 or $1000 which would you take? That's not a great analogy. For much of the life of the internet, we had the experience where everything was slow and awkward. Modems sucked. But now, people ha
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In the heyday of the automotive industry, the best auto worker in the world produced about the same output as the average auto worker Agree. Also, there's a strong trade union theme to the history of autoworkers wh
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Good points, thanks.
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This essay makes a fallacy case, "it is this way, therefore it must be this way". It takes a lot of liberties with evidence to come to a crazy conclusion. I grew up in a small state in Australia. Business there keeps close with st
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It's a stretch to call it a universal currency. You don't see people in the high street quoted in units of salt.
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The Spanish had grown up knowing that gold could be swapped into land and wine and women. Get a lot of it, go home, live the good life. I doubt it was more sophisticated than that. The evidence suggests that the Spanish didn't have an
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It wasn't just IBM. Everyone except Microsoft made a mess of the 80s and 90s. On the whole, computers sucked. A few didn't and those companies made a terrible mess of the business side. Think of the hapless operating system effort
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Disturbingly addictive. I have those willpower problems, beware. I just downloaded it to try it and got captured. There's several modes of play, and lots of possibilities. So you keep coming back to it with what-ifs. I found something
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It's very different for different programmers. I've worked with people who are skilled developers and who can't even touch type. They have a slow-pace, methodical way of working. Many look at the keyboard over glasses and hun
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I installed it a few months back, and prepared the SD card in linux. Instructions: http://trogrd.tumblr.com/post/38874675677/plan-9-on-rasberry...
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I like being able to shift+pageup in consoles to see history, but haven't got a good replacement for this in tmux. (Including when you switch to a new window and want to see something.) Usually I go into copy mode and scroll up. This w
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> So there is a hard copy of the votes, and anyone can check. I think it's not enough to have the ability to do a count. It needs to be inherent to the system. Think of it as being similar to double-entry book-keeping. Oth
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Hey - I had an idea for how electronic voting could work. Voters would enter their vote into a computer. The computer would print out a card for you, and show it to you from behind a perspex card. You would then say "OK" to verify
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The Australian Democrats had a deliberate structure along those lines, although less revolutionary than what you're proposing. They'd been a successful minor party for about thirty years, but imploded from in-fighting about ten ye
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They won't have access to the temporary keypair that the server generates, and which lives only on the server.
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Thanks. There's a pattern that affects codebases, particularly when they have moved out of initial development and into maintenance. A maintenance programmer is presented with a bug or feature request. To address it, they make adjustme
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Government is a god-object.
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An important feature for email: fast and flexible search over a large dataset. This is easier to implement in the cloud than on the client. So I don't see a strong future for desktop-based email clients.
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This is a really exciting problem space, and I feel some envy at the thought of your task :) I haven't worked with Quark, but years ago I did something similar working with Indesign. We needed to produce education resources at a fast pace,
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Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesiser(teenageengineering.com)
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What would you put forward as an alternative to awk for the kinds of complex projects the author describes? Sam and vi are both descendants of ed, but go in very different directions. Is there a path forward from awk that focuses on differe
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Yes. I made this point several times in drafts of the comment you replied to. But kept removing it because it didn't help me make the point and would have triggered offence in some people who'd otherwise get the point. (I was pushing my luc
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Why are all the downvotes here? rikacomet isn't obnoxious, just making a point that you're uncomfortable with. Or maybe you can see flaws - if so then respond. If you can't explain why you disagree, maybe that's something you need to work o
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Regarding the caste thing, had some more thoughts. Django Unchained plays with this. At first, you don't know where Stephen fits in. Is he a slave who "knows his place"? But he's so disrespectful! Gradually you learn that he has carved out
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Your first comment wasn't so good. But here you pose a great thought experiment. To run with your point for a moment - it is possible to consider the idea of a caste system. Most hacker news readers would be disgusted at it, but you could i
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As I remember it - you'd put your icons about where you wanted them, but they wouldn't be aligned pixel perfect. So you'd right click and see "arrange desktop icons on the grid" and think that must be it. But that would rearrange everything

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