VT_Drew

I will stop bashing C when C code looks as beautiful as Python code.

>it would be pretty easy to figure out who voted for who when they step out of the polling booth and the tally updates.

I see this as a pro not a con. I want to be reassured that my vote was counted correctly. That is way more important to me than keeping my vote secret from anyone in the room.

Maybe, I am not so sure that this is an actual phenomenon or just a perceived one. I, for one, think the pro's outweigh any cons, I like the the idea of being reassured that my vote got counted correctly and that there isn't any fuckery going on. I would like to have actually seen the number go up by one after I put my ballot in the machine. I can only speak for myself and say that "bandwagon voting" would have no affect on me (I voted for Johnson/Weld knowing full well they would never win).

I don't know why there isn't a live data feed. I wish when you went in to vote there was a big screen that shows the current vote count for each candidate. You should be able to stay and watch the screen until the polls close and know exactly how your town voted.

I am sure people could adjust to this. I am not certain how many people actually use those buttons without looking at the keyboard anyway. When I learned to type the function keys weren't included, I for one, always have to look when use a function key, and generally have to look when typing numbers too.

Why is everyone so upset about this? It is a dynamic part of the keyboard. I would be shocked if there was no option to set it "classic mode" for certain applications (or even universally if you wanted), which would have the ESC key and the function keys. Why the opposition? Having a dynamic part of a keyboard is pretty innovative, what are some of the possibilities, I am not 100% sure but I am sure that developers will find neat and useful (and probably unexpected by us and by apple) things to use it for.

Yeah, I don't understand all the outrage over the touchbar. It changes depending on your application. So can't you setup VIM so the touchbar displays a "normal" or "classic layout", which would display all the keys that the previous model had? I am far more disappointed in the elimination of magsafe and only having USB C ports.

This seems neat but not what I was expecting. I am writing a small django app to track my finances. This is just an app I am writing for myself to use personally. I would love to be able to get transactions directly from a credit card, I know it is possible there are other services (like mint.com) that can do it. Can anyone point me the right direction? If could get my Amex transactions as json or xml that would be great. As a personal project I wouldn't be willing to spend much money to get access to an API like what I am describing (if fees are associated with it).

that is why I said at best

>potentially creating a new technology to help avert climate change

>The reaction turns CO2 into ethanol, which could in turn be used to power generators and vehicles.

I am no scientist, my question is this: wouldn't it be a zero sum game at best? You are taking C02 out of the atmosphere, turning it into fuel, which then is used in C02 emitting engines.

Is the Garmin smart enough so if two routes temporarily share a stretch of road it doesn't tell you to get off the route you were coming from? For example you are traveling east on route 2, route 202 merges into 2. Rt 2 and 202 are the same road for a few miles, then rt 202 splits off (you are going to continue going east on rt. 2). My GPS tells me to get off Rt2 and to "turn right" on to 202. My ideal GPS wouldn't say a damn thing in this situation since I am staying on the same road.

I love the idea of the cheap bastard plan.

>Changing a toner is $50 per cartridge.

What is the yield though?

I haven't seen anything that even comes close to the cost savings with a Kyocera (not to mention their machines are work horses will print all day without issue). I can get a Kocera TK 3112 toner which yields 15,500 pages (and it actually does) for $66.

Eh, when it comes to computers (not printers) HP isn't that bad. I'll take HP over Lenovo any day. Although HP wouldn't be my first choice when choosing a computer.

>Does this, like SGX, require signing by AMD itself?

I don't know the answer to this question, but AMD does tend to be more "open" than their competitors (look at FreeSync vs Gsync). So maybe there is hope here.

Want to end mass incarceration? End the war on drugs. The vast majority of inmates are non-violent drug offenders.

>but it's done its job and gotten stuck in my head

But it has had the complete opposite affect. As much the charity might be a great and worthy cause, I will never support them and hope the fold simply so I don't ever have to hear that damn jingle again.

paywall

Am I the only one that caught the homestarrunner reference?

>and are still operating at a loss.

No their not, there Q2 financials had them in black.

Neat, I will check this out. Although, if I am honest I really wish there was "Crystal for python".

>I thought it was the case that Moore's "Law" hasn't held up since ~2012.

I thought it was before that, like 1999. I pretty sure I had an Intel Pentium III 2 GHz processor in 99. The computer I am using to type this comment is 2.5 GHz. More's law is long dead, we aren't going to see 12 GHz machines in the next 6 years.

This is really neat. Great job. Only criticism, the headlines should be above the "meat" (favorized content). The headlines give the context. If I read the favorized part first I am often wondering what the heck the text is talking about.

>True, voting for an alternative candidate will take a percentage of the votes away from Clinton or Trump

No it won't. The only wasted vote is voting for someone you don't believe in. Google Gary Johnson.

> President elected by only 15-17% of eligible voters would send a pretty good message

This would be largely ignored and not covered my mainstream media. It would go completely un-noticed by the vast majority.

>A good investment has to grow in value over inflation

Housing is the exception to this rule. Yes you want your investments to beat inflation, but unlike an index fund, or a stock, or a commodity, you need housing (you have to live somewhere). You have to either rent or buy (or live off the land in the woods, which can be illegal many places). When you rent you are throwing your money away, you will never see that money again, period. The one other alternative is to purchase, even if you lost a small percentage on your "investment" buying a home, isn't that better than just throwing your money in the trash and losing 100% of it? An investment that isn't great is still better than an investment that absolutely sucks.

The title should read "Industrial Farming is Horrible". Industrial crops aren't much better for the environment.

>With electronic ballots, it's suddenly trivially easy for just a tiny handful rogue elements to stealthily forge every vote without anyone even realizing there was fraud.

We already have technology that, so far, is pretty much tamper proof that could easily be adapted for online voting. I would be highly skeptical/distrustful of any centralized voting system, but if there was a open ledger voting system that uses a blockchain, well I would be all for that as it would be extremely hard to tamper with, arguable harder to tamper with than with paper ballots.

It isn't realistic with stocks. Are you really going to go get 100% consent from every single person that has stock in company? Even the people that only hold 100 shares (or 1 share for that matter)? You would never be able take publicly traded company and make it private this way.

for tables use https://github.com/bradleyayers/django-tables2

for forms use https://github.com/gregmuellegger/django-floppyforms

For navigation just use something like http://purecss.io/menus/

seriously, this is the very reason I use FF over Chrome.