I would think that more house seats would lead to more egregious Gerrymanding. My entire point about Gerrymandering was that it was hard to gerrymander 2 districts, if we had the 4 or so you envision, it might be possible; i.e. put Nashua and Salem in one district to concentrate the Democratic vote and make 3 reliable Republican districts by splitting up the rest of the state. (I'm actually not sure if Nashua/Salem would be the best choice, it might Concord/Manchester, but you get the idea).
The Gallup poll for this week gives President Obama a job approval of 39% against the entire polled population, amongst self-identified liberals (which I'm going to assume is a synonym for progressive when it comes to American politics) his job approval is a pretty good 70%, amongst 'liberal Democrats' it's 82%.
Well, it is true that gerrymandering leads to extremists, but gerrymandering really only is that bad in large states. I live in New Hampshire, I'd like to see you try and draw a district map in New Hampshire which was more than 55% Democratic, as we only have 2 districts and both are always competitive. On the other hand, Massachusetts has no Republicans in Congress; and even then Barney Frank quit in a huff when his Newton district was redrawn to be even a little bit competitive and he'd have to spend time debating some hopeless Republican; how humiliating for him.
I used to live in California, and the gerrymandering there was horrible and resulted in the legislature being filled with morons and parasites. It'd be nice if you could mandate a computer algorithm to draw the lines based solely on population, city boundaries and a minimum number of polygons.
Well, I didn't want to and don't want to get into the nomenclature. Whatever your opinion of the actual point on the spectrum of ideologies, the people who most support President Obama tend to call themselves progressives. They were looking forward to showing the world who smart and technically adept and better than lesser peoples they were by this hi-tech wonder: the Healthcare.gov website. It was going to dispel the misperception of government products being dreary, consumer hostile, Soviet like palaces of inefficiency, and dazzle with its helpfulness, swiftness and central place in one's life. That, at least, was the plan.
Boehner cannot be Speaker without the Tea Party (libertarian) members of his caucus. How exactly do you expect him to make them vote for policies which would rightfully get them primaried in the next election? The ACA has something like 87% disapproval amongst registered Republicans, and the other 13% probably don't recognize that ACA means ObamaCare. There are lots of things that the parties can negotiate upon, and the ACA has already been modified several times, but the ongoing existence of the ACA is not one of them.
Boehner apparently wants to do something bipartisan with immigration reform, but that's a hard needle to thread given the Democrats mainly support it to add dependent dependable voters and the Republican base don't like the idea of becoming more like Mexico.
The Affordable Care Act : AKA ObamaCare
Well, the website had 4 major functions:
1) Comparison shopping. In retrospect, it could have been handled by a private company that Travelocity like didn't sell insurance, but instead helped you shop.
2) Subsidy. According to the law, you only get a subsidy through a state-run exchange (the Administration has chosen to ignore the actual wording of the law to include the Federally run exchange two.)
3) Seeing if people should be shuttled off to the mediocre but cheap care of Medicaid.
4) As a showcase for the law. This was to be something concrete to show what great things progressive government is capable of.
I think that the Members of the House who were newly elected in 2010 after the ACA, resulting in the GOP retaking the House, and re-elected in 2012 are rightfully following what the people in their districts want them to do: oppose the ACA. There are a handful of districts which voted for both Obama and a Republican Member of Congress, but there aren't many, and those few are pretty squishy about what to do. My own Congressman came back into Congress in 2010 (he had been unseated in 2008) and then defeated in 2012 by a Democrat; he wasn't following the will of the voters who showed up on election day 2012, other places, the story is different.
I think the most interesting thought in the article was about the author's observation of contempt between modern managers (in the example in the publishing business) and the engineers who actually create and manage systems.
I'm also drawn to how articles written with sources inside the Administration refer to the technical people as 'Technicians' instead of what they probably were 'Senior Software Engineers' or appropriate equivalent title. I certainly don't think of myself as a technician, and I find the term somewhat demeaning somehow.
When I run out of room on my 32GB iPad, I'll open up the Usage panel in the Settings app and look at the Apps in order of disk space. As pretty as Infinity Blade might be, I never play it and I've never seen my kids play it so its 1+GB goes. Smaller apps, those under 10MB or so will rarely be kicked out. The apps I write tend to be very lightweight, as in of the 100+ apps on my phone, my own apps like SVG Paths, TV Towers USA, etc. are all in the bottom 10 in terms of disk usage using around 2-3 MB apiece.
I was working for a company last year and when I came in to update their iOS app, it was using 12+MB of space, by the time I was laid off it was down to 4 or so just by removing evolutionary dead ends of graphics that had accumulated and a half megabyte background texture for a dialog the user would never see.
My impression is that revolutionaries are not necessarily very good at maintaining infrastructure. Same deal with Venezuela, decades of eating the seed corn and nobody who knows how to keep the black stuff flowing in charge.
It's even simpler than that. Upgrade to Xcode 5, do a Archive build to send it to the App Store and it'll include a 64 bit version with no programmer intervention. Apple is really confident in the compatibility of their LLVM builds. If nothing else, you should get in the habit of testing in the 64 bit simulator until you get an A7 device.
Helpful is a hard word. I was put off by the patronizing tone throughout. I'd say the basic premise is a good one about working towards a financial position where your capital works for you. This might very well have helped a younger me setting off for 20 years of working for other people.
I would have bought the now illegal catastrophic insurance but now I guess I will just let you guys pay for me when I go bankrupt. Enjoy paying those premiums on those high deductible plans. I'll be pocketing the money and retiring early.
I'm pretty sure that 2.5% of my income will more than cover any emergency room visits I'll be making in the long run. Especially as they'll be paid out of my credit card.
...if I hadn't once lived in California and now live in a state with a functional state government. If you think Cali has anything but a horribly dysfunctional government with bottom of the barrel public schools, badly maintained roads, ridiculously high taxes (income, sales...) and unfair and arbitrary justice system, well, I think your standards are low.
Apparently, the new rule of law at least according to President Obama is that if the president doesn't like the law, he can choose not to enforce it. There is no law that says the administration can waive the employer mandate, and yet the mandate is waived. Similarly, the law saying that people have to buy insurance, or the Feds or states have to set up an exchange, or that people get subsidies. Apparently that is all now waive-able.
Or maybe more damaging to ACA, the next president could choose to enforce it to the max and remove all the waivers.
I remember when I was in graduate school looking over a member of my group's shoulder and realizing he thought that the ^ operator in C meant raise to the power of instead of being the bitwise XOR operator. Scientists are often pretty indifferent programmers.
I used to have a programming job which involved maintaining a large C++ codebase which was shipped as a Windows desktop app, a Mac desktop app, NPAPI plugins on both Windows and Mac, and an Active X control. As it was written before 'modern' Mac NPAPI, you can imagine how ridiculously convoluted it was converting the Mac plugin to support such necessities as Core Animation layer rendering, and the sandboxed event handling that Safari moved to as an attempt to make NPAPI plugins secure. So I spent literally years trying to keep that sinking boat afloat when it was obvious we needed a Javascript/web app replacement product.
I wonder if the sensor could be trained to recognize an inanimate object like a casting of my finger. Then I could say "see this casting bypasses the security".
I don't think you understand how pervasive the use of Core Animation is throughout the operating system. Do you ever, for instance scroll a view? Move a window, drag an icon, update some onscreen text? Does it do so smoothly without you noticing it much. Do you remember how horrible it used to be to resize a window on OS X, and how now, it's pretty darn smooth?
Well that is all running through the Core Animation compositing engine, which was developed so that the iPhone GUI would be smooth.
How have you been disabling Core Animation? A library developed for the iPhone and brought to the Mac and now the backing for every view on screen. MapKit, notification center, core location... There are a huge number of frameworks common to both iOS and OS X, and OS X benefits greatly from the engineering effort made to optimize the code both for performance and energy usage.
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I would think that more house seats would lead to more egregious Gerrymanding. My entire point about Gerrymandering was that it was hard to gerrymander 2 districts, if we had the 4 or so you envision, it might be possible; i.e. put Nashua and Salem in one district to concentrate the Democratic vote and make 3 reliable Republican districts by splitting up the rest of the state. (I'm actually not sure if Nashua/Salem would be the best choice, it might Concord/Manchester, but you get the idea).
Because you think Barack Obama is a centrist and Rand Paul isn't. That pretty much explains it for me. I guess it's a matter of perspective.
Success has a thousand fathers, Failure is an orphan.
The Gallup poll for this week gives President Obama a job approval of 39% against the entire polled population, amongst self-identified liberals (which I'm going to assume is a synonym for progressive when it comes to American politics) his job approval is a pretty good 70%, amongst 'liberal Democrats' it's 82%.
Well, it is true that gerrymandering leads to extremists, but gerrymandering really only is that bad in large states. I live in New Hampshire, I'd like to see you try and draw a district map in New Hampshire which was more than 55% Democratic, as we only have 2 districts and both are always competitive. On the other hand, Massachusetts has no Republicans in Congress; and even then Barney Frank quit in a huff when his Newton district was redrawn to be even a little bit competitive and he'd have to spend time debating some hopeless Republican; how humiliating for him.
I used to live in California, and the gerrymandering there was horrible and resulted in the legislature being filled with morons and parasites. It'd be nice if you could mandate a computer algorithm to draw the lines based solely on population, city boundaries and a minimum number of polygons.
Well, I didn't want to and don't want to get into the nomenclature. Whatever your opinion of the actual point on the spectrum of ideologies, the people who most support President Obama tend to call themselves progressives. They were looking forward to showing the world who smart and technically adept and better than lesser peoples they were by this hi-tech wonder: the Healthcare.gov website. It was going to dispel the misperception of government products being dreary, consumer hostile, Soviet like palaces of inefficiency, and dazzle with its helpfulness, swiftness and central place in one's life. That, at least, was the plan.
Boehner cannot be Speaker without the Tea Party (libertarian) members of his caucus. How exactly do you expect him to make them vote for policies which would rightfully get them primaried in the next election? The ACA has something like 87% disapproval amongst registered Republicans, and the other 13% probably don't recognize that ACA means ObamaCare. There are lots of things that the parties can negotiate upon, and the ACA has already been modified several times, but the ongoing existence of the ACA is not one of them.
Boehner apparently wants to do something bipartisan with immigration reform, but that's a hard needle to thread given the Democrats mainly support it to add dependent dependable voters and the Republican base don't like the idea of becoming more like Mexico.
The Affordable Care Act : AKA ObamaCare
Well, the website had 4 major functions:
1) Comparison shopping. In retrospect, it could have been handled by a private company that Travelocity like didn't sell insurance, but instead helped you shop.
2) Subsidy. According to the law, you only get a subsidy through a state-run exchange (the Administration has chosen to ignore the actual wording of the law to include the Federally run exchange two.)
3) Seeing if people should be shuttled off to the mediocre but cheap care of Medicaid.
4) As a showcase for the law. This was to be something concrete to show what great things progressive government is capable of.
I think that the Members of the House who were newly elected in 2010 after the ACA, resulting in the GOP retaking the House, and re-elected in 2012 are rightfully following what the people in their districts want them to do: oppose the ACA. There are a handful of districts which voted for both Obama and a Republican Member of Congress, but there aren't many, and those few are pretty squishy about what to do. My own Congressman came back into Congress in 2010 (he had been unseated in 2008) and then defeated in 2012 by a Democrat; he wasn't following the will of the voters who showed up on election day 2012, other places, the story is different.
I think the most interesting thought in the article was about the author's observation of contempt between modern managers (in the example in the publishing business) and the engineers who actually create and manage systems. I'm also drawn to how articles written with sources inside the Administration refer to the technical people as 'Technicians' instead of what they probably were 'Senior Software Engineers' or appropriate equivalent title. I certainly don't think of myself as a technician, and I find the term somewhat demeaning somehow.
It seems as though every time you here about the IRS invoking 'Taxpayer Privacy' it's to avoid having to admit the agency is doing something criminal.
When I run out of room on my 32GB iPad, I'll open up the Usage panel in the Settings app and look at the Apps in order of disk space. As pretty as Infinity Blade might be, I never play it and I've never seen my kids play it so its 1+GB goes. Smaller apps, those under 10MB or so will rarely be kicked out. The apps I write tend to be very lightweight, as in of the 100+ apps on my phone, my own apps like SVG Paths, TV Towers USA, etc. are all in the bottom 10 in terms of disk usage using around 2-3 MB apiece. I was working for a company last year and when I came in to update their iOS app, it was using 12+MB of space, by the time I was laid off it was down to 4 or so just by removing evolutionary dead ends of graphics that had accumulated and a half megabyte background texture for a dialog the user would never see.
My impression is that revolutionaries are not necessarily very good at maintaining infrastructure. Same deal with Venezuela, decades of eating the seed corn and nobody who knows how to keep the black stuff flowing in charge.
It's even simpler than that. Upgrade to Xcode 5, do a Archive build to send it to the App Store and it'll include a 64 bit version with no programmer intervention. Apple is really confident in the compatibility of their LLVM builds. If nothing else, you should get in the habit of testing in the 64 bit simulator until you get an A7 device.
Helpful is a hard word. I was put off by the patronizing tone throughout. I'd say the basic premise is a good one about working towards a financial position where your capital works for you. This might very well have helped a younger me setting off for 20 years of working for other people.
My wife asked me to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and he is, indeed, a pretty mediocre wordsmith.
I would have bought the now illegal catastrophic insurance but now I guess I will just let you guys pay for me when I go bankrupt. Enjoy paying those premiums on those high deductible plans. I'll be pocketing the money and retiring early.
I'm pretty sure that 2.5% of my income will more than cover any emergency room visits I'll be making in the long run. Especially as they'll be paid out of my credit card.
...if I hadn't once lived in California and now live in a state with a functional state government. If you think Cali has anything but a horribly dysfunctional government with bottom of the barrel public schools, badly maintained roads, ridiculously high taxes (income, sales...) and unfair and arbitrary justice system, well, I think your standards are low.
Apparently, the new rule of law at least according to President Obama is that if the president doesn't like the law, he can choose not to enforce it. There is no law that says the administration can waive the employer mandate, and yet the mandate is waived. Similarly, the law saying that people have to buy insurance, or the Feds or states have to set up an exchange, or that people get subsidies. Apparently that is all now waive-able. Or maybe more damaging to ACA, the next president could choose to enforce it to the max and remove all the waivers.
I remember when I was in graduate school looking over a member of my group's shoulder and realizing he thought that the ^ operator in C meant raise to the power of instead of being the bitwise XOR operator. Scientists are often pretty indifferent programmers.
I used to have a programming job which involved maintaining a large C++ codebase which was shipped as a Windows desktop app, a Mac desktop app, NPAPI plugins on both Windows and Mac, and an Active X control. As it was written before 'modern' Mac NPAPI, you can imagine how ridiculously convoluted it was converting the Mac plugin to support such necessities as Core Animation layer rendering, and the sandboxed event handling that Safari moved to as an attempt to make NPAPI plugins secure. So I spent literally years trying to keep that sinking boat afloat when it was obvious we needed a Javascript/web app replacement product.
I wonder if the sensor could be trained to recognize an inanimate object like a casting of my finger. Then I could say "see this casting bypasses the security".
I don't think you understand how pervasive the use of Core Animation is throughout the operating system. Do you ever, for instance scroll a view? Move a window, drag an icon, update some onscreen text? Does it do so smoothly without you noticing it much. Do you remember how horrible it used to be to resize a window on OS X, and how now, it's pretty darn smooth? Well that is all running through the Core Animation compositing engine, which was developed so that the iPhone GUI would be smooth.
How have you been disabling Core Animation? A library developed for the iPhone and brought to the Mac and now the backing for every view on screen. MapKit, notification center, core location... There are a huge number of frameworks common to both iOS and OS X, and OS X benefits greatly from the engineering effort made to optimize the code both for performance and energy usage.