Quick fix. Just add a special, mandatory candidate to every ballot called "Nobody". If "Nobody" wins, rerun elections one month later without "Nobody" and without top two winners.
I can see Putin being scared of people actually having some modicum of freedom
The trouble is, not only Putin is terrified, but much more than half of Russians are terrified at the thought of freedom. It's really scary for them. Once I talked to my relative, hard-working man from rural Russia, who had small business at that time selling CD disks. A told him about the internet and how it works. That was before widespread adoption of internet in Russia, 2001 or 2002 i think. He was really shocked when I told him that there is no censorship. "HOW THAT?!" he screamed! He thought that people would go nuts if they have freedom.
Yes, they are scared.
Recently Turks shot down Russian plane and its flight recorder was brought back to Russia. Government decided to show the process of opening that flight recorder on TV. Well, everyone who can solder, including patriots were shocked at the sight of bad design and that bad design was the cause of broken chips. That modern, recently made, flight recorder was extremely expensive and said to stand against huge acceleration, but in reality designed like highschool boys do. All money were stolen and the result was outrageously bad. And I saw a lot of comments from patriots on varous forums that "yes that's very bad, there must be investigation, we know that nobody is going to be prosecuted for making such crap, but doing anything to curb corrupt government is out of question, because that mean going aginst it! it means supporting amerika! ouch! nonono..".
But everything started in late 90s and early 2000s with wild use of "terrorist" label. It's a gate to hell. Way too easy to slap on anybody for anything.
We had, at some point -- from 1993 til ~2000. Then these freedoms were lost, and some of this loss is attributed to government's ability to label anyone as terrorist. Unfortunately, our constitution was extremely badly designed and government found how to circumvent it.
It is kind of hard to be called a terrorist when you don't engage in terror campaigns. If you peacefully state your position, there is no ability for the government to call you a terrorist.
Tell that to Russian government, today they imprison people for peaceful statements on the 'net, labeling them as terrorists.
This update broke my Tree Style Tabs and ScrapBook Plus. It was relatively easy to fix Tree Syle Tabs, it was possible to reinstall the extension, but they completely blocked ScrapBook Plus!!! Ok, I installed ScrapBook X, but it seems they are on the quest to kill the best extensions. Next time they will kill ScrapBook X and then I'll have scrapbook directory with years of precious saved pages and no way to view them.
I figure a solution could be to move from a 7.5/8 hour day to a shorter day with the same pay and continue down this path to match the employment opportunities and pay.
So you want to work less while keeping the same paycheck. How? Nobody is going to do that just because of "moving" to shorter day. You'll earn less and that's all.
It is possible to get rid of decongestant dependency with the help of hormonal nasal spray. It's called Nasonex in Russia, don't know about international names. It takes a few weeks to kick in and suddenly you don't have to use any decongestant, then it takes a few weeks to slowly stop using hormonal spray.
I used it to get rid of horrible decongestant dependency. It worked like magic. Of couse, you have to be free of hormonophobia (some people prefer to die instead of taking hormonal drugs).
I need to let them know that burbilog said that you can travel freely in the U.S. and never once have to break out any sort of ID, not for tickets or cops of for anything else. Land of the free indeed!
These are YOUR words, your fantasy, not mine. I did not write anything about U.S.
Same thing in Russia, traveling within the confined space of a single nation has never been a problem.
It's a problem in Russia. Russian citizen can't travel within Russia without having to show his internal passport everywhere. Train tickets for example, you can't buy them without showing your passport. Air tickets. Police checking documents. Hotels. Everywhere. Recently Duma (law making "rabid printer") wanted to enforce passport control even for buying inter-city bus tickets!
And if you fail to show your passport to cops they detain you "until they find out your identity". A few months ago I went to police station to file papers (some dorks scratched my car at night and my insurance company demanded police papers to confirm that crime happened) and saw a bunch of asians behind bars. Waited a lot for my papers and listened for many stories for people being arrested because of no papers. And nobody cares about 2 hours limit unless lawyer appears there.
We can make wind power work but it would involve massive changes to how the national power grid works, which would be very expensive.
Upgrading power network is waaay cheaper than building huge amount of dams (while destroying huge amount of land). Or any flywheel or other SciFi madness. Recent surge in wind capacity factor (from 32% to 37% during this year alone) happened because of power network upgrade -- the better power network, the more electricity is shared across the country as needed.
Wind power, right now, costs three times what nuclear power costs, right now.
No. Recent BNEF report shows that wind electircity became cheapest power source in England and Germany without subsidies.
Even if we could power the world with wind we would not want to. Making wind power work means relying on wind in California to power a Florida with calm winds. There's a lot of ways that could fail, badly.
Wind can't fail everywhere. It just does not happen. And distributed generation is as robust as distributed networking: more distributed power plants means more plants can fail without serious damage to the network.
The Department of Energy has been subsidizing wind power for decades and it still cannot compete with fission power from the 1970s. I don't see a great future for wind power. Wind power will never go away, it's just too easy to get in many places, but it cannot power a first world economy.
How can you be THAT sure that nobody will ever let another Chernobyl happened? I remember that time we waited for the fallout in Moscow and could not do ANYTHING because some fucking stupid people did something wrong. How can you be sure that nobody will appoint beancounters to run a nuke plant near your house? Shit happens, but if shit happens with a windmill it just falls and that's it. And if shit happens with nuke plant then whole area dies and you have to move out. My relatives had to run from Ukraine and we had to house them at that time. One fucking screwup is more than enough to stop fooling around this kind of things.
Wind and solar will never compete with coal and fission. Part of this is because wind and solar require viable (read that as cheap, reliable, etc) storage to provide 24/7 power. Any energy storage system that can make wind and solar reliable will also serve to make coal and fission cheaper.
No. Actually you don't need any viable storage, only viable power distribution network across the continent. Wind cannot stop blowing everywhere on the continent, no matter what. That's how Europe managed to get 10% of its electricity out of windmills in 2014.
When I work with programmers so are hard fixed on the right way to do things, I often get a response that x cannot be done. I break the rule and I have done it in a couple of days work, then they will go but you didn't follow the right form.
The end user doesn't care about form, they care if it Works well, It can be maintained, and it is secure.
Well, I did the same for many years. Now I'm sitting there and think "what the fuck? why, oh why I was SOOOO smart and implemented that 'impossible'???? what for?!".
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
One of the problems I've encountered was ipv6 problem with Google: my US-hosted VPS had a bunch of extra v6 addresses and *some* outbound connections happened over ipv6 -- without any reverse zone for that v6 address. Fixed that and now Google does not complain about emails from my domain anymore.
My last and most important statement is that at this point in history anyone using Oracle is a fool. MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, or just about any one of a zillion good datastores out there is so much better than Oracle that I simply don't know why anyone would use Oracle even if Oracle was free I would still use the others.
There is no sane alternative to Oracle APEX, unfortunately. It's waaay to easy to whip out company-wide applications that require no client installation, nothing, no opensource system could do the same.
During last years I built a network of hundreds of OpenWRT-flashed routers. My custom ROM, based on OpenWRT, does dual wan, bgp and some other custom things. Unfortunately, manufacturers stop producing good routers after a while (like Asus phased out RT-N16) and I have to port my changes again and again to new and buggy platforms. Stable open router platform would be a gread thing, because all raspberries and co tend to have only one or two ethernet ports.
Most often I see it happening when people are using custom ROMs on Android and the kernel-dev screwed up with timings or undervolts the device a bit too much when it goes idle and it basically crashes when it goes to sleep.
I had two Desire Z that had the same problem on any rom -- custom or stock. Random power down in a few weeks without any warning. Many complaints on xda-developers and no solution.
Listening to a musician is fun. Learning to play is not.
Learning to play is fun. A lot of fun. Well, at least it was fun for me.
But the moment it becomes something you MUST do instead of hobby it's not fun anymore.
In Star Trek economics however, there's two problems that are solved without even needing an economy: There are no scarce resources, and there's no need for somebody to be a producer. Why? Because you've got replicators to handle your everyday goods, holodecks to entertain you, and if you want a vacation to florida, either you can holodeck there or beam over there. And since everything is made out of deuterium, there's basically an infinite supply of everything.
Well, replicator can't produce another shoreline. So, you can't build more than X houses along the beach. Here is the scarcity. Replicator can't produce personal music teacher's lessons. Etc, etc. Things from replicator will have no value and things that can't be replicated are going to be admired and desired.
I suspect rating systems fall under similar limitations as Arrow's Impossibility Theorem [wikipedia.org], and there's no way to develop a perfect rating system. So you need to dispense with the notion that there is one "best" rating system. One is not better than another, they simply tell you different things about what the population is thinking.
It's possible to build perfect rating system based on ratings if final rating is based on personal preferences. I.e. if you upvote this page and downvote that page then all similar pages get similar up/down calculations and all search results are altered accordingly -- only for you. But it's very resource-intensive compared with today systems.
Laws will happen. Just as soon as the first death is caused by a hack (or a hack gone wrong). However indirectly. That's what it takes for average people, and thus their representatives, to pay attention and figure out that something actually does matter. Then it will be a CRISIS! and we must do something NOW!
And that's the worst part of the problem. Because they won't fix security problem, they will make it illegal to install custom rom to any wireless device.
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I think the 2-party system is seriously flawed
Quick fix. Just add a special, mandatory candidate to every ballot called "Nobody". If "Nobody" wins, rerun elections one month later without "Nobody" and without top two winners.
I can see Putin being scared of people actually having some modicum of freedom
The trouble is, not only Putin is terrified, but much more than half of Russians are terrified at the thought of freedom. It's really scary for them. Once I talked to my relative, hard-working man from rural Russia, who had small business at that time selling CD disks. A told him about the internet and how it works. That was before widespread adoption of internet in Russia, 2001 or 2002 i think. He was really shocked when I told him that there is no censorship. "HOW THAT?!" he screamed! He thought that people would go nuts if they have freedom.
Yes, they are scared.
Recently Turks shot down Russian plane and its flight recorder was brought back to Russia. Government decided to show the process of opening that flight recorder on TV. Well, everyone who can solder, including patriots were shocked at the sight of bad design and that bad design was the cause of broken chips. That modern, recently made, flight recorder was extremely expensive and said to stand against huge acceleration, but in reality designed like highschool boys do. All money were stolen and the result was outrageously bad. And I saw a lot of comments from patriots on varous forums that "yes that's very bad, there must be investigation, we know that nobody is going to be prosecuted for making such crap, but doing anything to curb corrupt government is out of question, because that mean going aginst it! it means supporting amerika! ouch! nonono..".
But everything started in late 90s and early 2000s with wild use of "terrorist" label. It's a gate to hell. Way too easy to slap on anybody for anything.
We had, at some point -- from 1993 til ~2000. Then these freedoms were lost, and some of this loss is attributed to government's ability to label anyone as terrorist. Unfortunately, our constitution was extremely badly designed and government found how to circumvent it.
It is kind of hard to be called a terrorist when you don't engage in terror campaigns. If you peacefully state your position, there is no ability for the government to call you a terrorist.
Tell that to Russian government, today they imprison people for peaceful statements on the 'net, labeling them as terrorists.
This update broke my Tree Style Tabs and ScrapBook Plus. It was relatively easy to fix Tree Syle Tabs, it was possible to reinstall the extension, but they completely blocked ScrapBook Plus!!! Ok, I installed ScrapBook X, but it seems they are on the quest to kill the best extensions. Next time they will kill ScrapBook X and then I'll have scrapbook directory with years of precious saved pages and no way to view them.
I figure a solution could be to move from a 7.5/8 hour day to a shorter day with the same pay and continue down this path to match the employment opportunities and pay.
So you want to work less while keeping the same paycheck. How? Nobody is going to do that just because of "moving" to shorter day. You'll earn less and that's all.
It is possible to get rid of decongestant dependency with the help of hormonal nasal spray. It's called Nasonex in Russia, don't know about international names. It takes a few weeks to kick in and suddenly you don't have to use any decongestant, then it takes a few weeks to slowly stop using hormonal spray.
I used it to get rid of horrible decongestant dependency. It worked like magic. Of couse, you have to be free of hormonophobia (some people prefer to die instead of taking hormonal drugs).
I need to let them know that burbilog said that you can travel freely in the U.S. and never once have to break out any sort of ID, not for tickets or cops of for anything else. Land of the free indeed!
These are YOUR words, your fantasy, not mine. I did not write anything about U.S.
Same thing in Russia, traveling within the confined space of a single nation has never been a problem.
It's a problem in Russia. Russian citizen can't travel within Russia without having to show his internal passport everywhere. Train tickets for example, you can't buy them without showing your passport. Air tickets. Police checking documents. Hotels. Everywhere. Recently Duma (law making "rabid printer") wanted to enforce passport control even for buying inter-city bus tickets!
And if you fail to show your passport to cops they detain you "until they find out your identity". A few months ago I went to police station to file papers (some dorks scratched my car at night and my insurance company demanded police papers to confirm that crime happened) and saw a bunch of asians behind bars. Waited a lot for my papers and listened for many stories for people being arrested because of no papers. And nobody cares about 2 hours limit unless lawyer appears there.
We can make wind power work but it would involve massive changes to how the national power grid works, which would be very expensive.
Upgrading power network is waaay cheaper than building huge amount of dams (while destroying huge amount of land). Or any flywheel or other SciFi madness. Recent surge in wind capacity factor (from 32% to 37% during this year alone) happened because of power network upgrade -- the better power network, the more electricity is shared across the country as needed.
Wind power, right now, costs three times what nuclear power costs, right now.
No. Recent BNEF report shows that wind electircity became cheapest power source in England and Germany without subsidies.
Even if we could power the world with wind we would not want to. Making wind power work means relying on wind in California to power a Florida with calm winds. There's a lot of ways that could fail, badly.
Wind can't fail everywhere. It just does not happen. And distributed generation is as robust as distributed networking: more distributed power plants means more plants can fail without serious damage to the network.
The Department of Energy has been subsidizing wind power for decades and it still cannot compete with fission power from the 1970s. I don't see a great future for wind power. Wind power will never go away, it's just too easy to get in many places, but it cannot power a first world economy.
How can you be THAT sure that nobody will ever let another Chernobyl happened? I remember that time we waited for the fallout in Moscow and could not do ANYTHING because some fucking stupid people did something wrong. How can you be sure that nobody will appoint beancounters to run a nuke plant near your house? Shit happens, but if shit happens with a windmill it just falls and that's it. And if shit happens with nuke plant then whole area dies and you have to move out. My relatives had to run from Ukraine and we had to house them at that time. One fucking screwup is more than enough to stop fooling around this kind of things.
Wind and solar will never compete with coal and fission. Part of this is because wind and solar require viable (read that as cheap, reliable, etc) storage to provide 24/7 power. Any energy storage system that can make wind and solar reliable will also serve to make coal and fission cheaper.
No. Actually you don't need any viable storage, only viable power distribution network across the continent. Wind cannot stop blowing everywhere on the continent, no matter what. That's how Europe managed to get 10% of its electricity out of windmills in 2014.
Pick any two at once
When I work with programmers so are hard fixed on the right way to do things, I often get a response that x cannot be done. I break the rule and I have done it in a couple of days work, then they will go but you didn't follow the right form. The end user doesn't care about form, they care if it Works well, It can be maintained, and it is secure.
Well, I did the same for many years. Now I'm sitting there and think "what the fuck? why, oh why I was SOOOO smart and implemented that 'impossible'???? what for?!".
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
One of the problems I've encountered was ipv6 problem with Google: my US-hosted VPS had a bunch of extra v6 addresses and *some* outbound connections happened over ipv6 -- without any reverse zone for that v6 address. Fixed that and now Google does not complain about emails from my domain anymore.
My last and most important statement is that at this point in history anyone using Oracle is a fool. MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, or just about any one of a zillion good datastores out there is so much better than Oracle that I simply don't know why anyone would use Oracle even if Oracle was free I would still use the others.
There is no sane alternative to Oracle APEX, unfortunately. It's waaay to easy to whip out company-wide applications that require no client installation, nothing, no opensource system could do the same.
During last years I built a network of hundreds of OpenWRT-flashed routers. My custom ROM, based on OpenWRT, does dual wan, bgp and some other custom things. Unfortunately, manufacturers stop producing good routers after a while (like Asus phased out RT-N16) and I have to port my changes again and again to new and buggy platforms. Stable open router platform would be a gread thing, because all raspberries and co tend to have only one or two ethernet ports.
Ok. Imagine, he's got new fork, new mailing lists, etc. What prevents people from creating the same "toxic" environment in new place?
Most often I see it happening when people are using custom ROMs on Android and the kernel-dev screwed up with timings or undervolts the device a bit too much when it goes idle and it basically crashes when it goes to sleep.
I had two Desire Z that had the same problem on any rom -- custom or stock. Random power down in a few weeks without any warning. Many complaints on xda-developers and no solution.
Listening to a musician is fun. Learning to play is not.
Learning to play is fun. A lot of fun. Well, at least it was fun for me. But the moment it becomes something you MUST do instead of hobby it's not fun anymore.
. I say this because of a very real problem with solar power, night
2/3 of the energy is consumed during the day and only 1/3 at night. So the night is not the main problem of solar power generation.
It seems that she is afraid of competition from said sexbots.
In Star Trek economics however, there's two problems that are solved without even needing an economy: There are no scarce resources, and there's no need for somebody to be a producer. Why? Because you've got replicators to handle your everyday goods, holodecks to entertain you, and if you want a vacation to florida, either you can holodeck there or beam over there. And since everything is made out of deuterium, there's basically an infinite supply of everything.
Well, replicator can't produce another shoreline. So, you can't build more than X houses along the beach. Here is the scarcity. Replicator can't produce personal music teacher's lessons. Etc, etc. Things from replicator will have no value and things that can't be replicated are going to be admired and desired.
I suspect rating systems fall under similar limitations as Arrow's Impossibility Theorem [wikipedia.org], and there's no way to develop a perfect rating system. So you need to dispense with the notion that there is one "best" rating system. One is not better than another, they simply tell you different things about what the population is thinking.
It's possible to build perfect rating system based on ratings if final rating is based on personal preferences. I.e. if you upvote this page and downvote that page then all similar pages get similar up/down calculations and all search results are altered accordingly -- only for you. But it's very resource-intensive compared with today systems.
Buy a Samsung Galaxy from the Samsung store in the mall, likewise, almost no chance of a problem...
Buy Samsung and get uninstallable "Flipboard" application. You can't even disable it on non-rooted phones!
Laws will happen. Just as soon as the first death is caused by a hack (or a hack gone wrong). However indirectly. That's what it takes for average people, and thus their representatives, to pay attention and figure out that something actually does matter. Then it will be a CRISIS! and we must do something NOW!
And that's the worst part of the problem. Because they won't fix security problem, they will make it illegal to install custom rom to any wireless device.