jgroszko

Sounds like a problem that would lend itself well to machine learning

All first past the post systems like we have in the US will trend towards a two-party system. It sucks because voting third party just takes votes away from the major party candidate that most closely represents your views. To maximize your influence you have to hold your nose and vote for the major party candidate that most closely represents your views...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Sure, straight white cis men can say "Oh that's all just political" but for someone who's gay, black, transgender, or female these issues effect nearly every aspect of your life. Every situation is viewed through that lens. Things like casually mentioning something you did with your spouse last weekend might not be "political" to you, but it is to me.

I can't attest to Eich's personal views, but giving money to maintain a status quo that is discriminatory against gays is anti-gay.

He mentions Brendan Eich who was ousted from Mozilla for his anti-gay views. I have little sympathy for someone who feels marginalized by views they choose to hold and express when I, as a gay man, could be marginalized simply for who I am, something I did NOT choose. While most people may be able to just put their political opinions on the shelf, any time discussion turns towards family or after-work hobbies I have to make a conscious decision based on who I'm talking to and how it could affect the situation.

I can be professional and work on a temporary basis with people who hold anti-gay views, and I'm not going to go out of my way to attack them. I don't know much about how Eich ran Mozilla, I couldn't say if he deserved what happened, but I know that I would not consider a job at a company with anti-gay leadership.

That's... not how US debt works. Countries use the dollar as a reserve currency through buying up treasury bonds. It's simply a safe place to park their money. The US 'owes' China 1.2 trillion in the same way your bank 'owes' you the balance of your checking account.

There were a couple different movies that explored this theme around the time The Matrix came out. eXistenZ is another one that I enjoyed a lot, where video games become completely immersive, but there's still a few tropes like vapid NPCs and generic place names that kind of give it away.

Do people actually ask random people from other companies out for lunch? I've never heard of someone actually doing this, and I feel like if I was approached at a meetup this way I'd be very unlikely to accept, if not a little uncomfortable at the prospect.

It helps to keep in mind these groups are just constructs to help sociologists talk about large groups of people. While they're good for talking about differences in generations, no single person is going to fit into any generational group perfectly. On top of that, it doesn't help that news outlets like to oversimplify these things for juicy headlines.

You're probably thinking of the City of London, which is an area inside London that has it's own government and special privileges apart from the rest of what we think of as London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ROpIKZe-c

I was always a fan of HammerJS's branding, but it looks like they removed the silhouette of MC Hammer from their front page :( http://hammerjs.github.io/

Ahhh good point, I haven't actually been following that story very closely.

Not even as sinister as sibling comment here talking about genocides, these billionaires are wielding disproportionate political power to encourage policies that effect lower classes negatively to the benefit of their own bottom line.

On a foreign scale, defense contractors have a vested interest in keeping the Middle East unstable and have the political power to push congress towards putting more US forces there. Domestically, it's hard to find a more plausible explanation for so many state governors doing things like opting out of ACA, limiting unions, closing schools, or enabling the Flint water crisis.

It seems like the high reflectivity of snow would help in case of following the tracks of the previous car, where I'd guess the car's tracks are a little bit less reflective than the fresh untouched snow on the rest of the road?

I suspect they're never going to go completely away. I still like to keep a set in my car in case my phone is dead and can't charge it from the car for whatever reason. I believe the Navy is adding celestial navigation back into their curriculum in case their electronic systems are compromised. There's still a lot of use cases where the low-tech solution is a good backup.

As a tourist the DC Metro at least seems much cleaner to me than the Chicago L that I commute on every day. The displays that show arrival times for the next train in DC are slick, but many L stations have those now too.

What's the inspiration for 6? I know it's a running joke that evidence goes missing, but I don't think I've ever seen a news article about a specific instance in Chicago.

Wikipedia has a yearly donation drive. I'd be incredibly surprised if Twitter took that path though.

There was a bunch of research when Facebook started becoming big around what could be determined just from who your friends are. Basically, Facebook can already figure it out based on who your friends are, even if you didn't check it off in their interface.

> Ever see those studies that show that the most vocal person in a meeting is considered the most knowledgeable by the group (even if they're the least knowledgeable)? Yeah - software development has this to the extreme.

I think this happens a lot online too. It's super easy now to become an 'expert' on a particular technology just by writing a few blog posts about it, tweeting a bunch, or self-publishing a quick ebook. I suspect a lot of people feel like they aren't 'expert' enough to do these things despite them being done by relatively inexperienced people all the time.

Agree that it's a pretty naive argument. There's probably a lot more to be said about how it would give even more influence to lobbyists and staffers that would stick around in DC for years and be far more knowledgeable about how to get things done.

> I've long maintained congress would be much more representative if eligible citizens were randomly selected for 1 congressional term, like jurors are in juries.

And like jurors in juries, wouldn't we then be governed by people not smart enough to get out of their congressional term?

I like the Replay cameras, you can set them to overwrite old files, and to turn on and start recording on external power. So basically I just had to plug it in every time I went out on the bike, and then unplug it when I was done.

Unfortunately after about 2 years the plug on my XD1080 stopped working so I can't reliably charge it :/ I'll probably replace it with the Prime X when my budget allows.

Illinois is an at-will state, so like any other employee in the state they can be let go at any time for any reason, with the exception of a few protected classes, since we also have a state Employment Non-Discrimination law.

This approach, at least for my setup, would require opening up a port in my server's firewall as well.

The other benefit is that ngrok provides a nice web interface so you can watch and inspect web requests as they go by.

> I definitely do the "manager doubling" when it comes to estimates. If I think it'll take a month, I estimate 2 months to my boss. If I have to report several levels up, I multiply by 2 for every level.

Hah, I like this. Every level up that sees it is also a potential for more scope creep, as each person will have their own vision of what's being produced.

One of my favorite estimating guidelines from a mentor was that development tasks are either 2, 4, or 8 hours. If it's more than 8 hours it can be broken up into smaller tasks.

Yeah not sure how accurate the calipers are, I pay more attention to if it's going up/down than the absolute value.

As a lifter with a BMI of 26, it's not a very useful metric. Last time I measured my BF% with calipers it was around 9%...

Edit: Okay checked my spreadsheet, I misremembered. Honestly I don't track it that closely

I've noticed this in a few BBC shows vs. American shows. In a British TV show there will be characters that just happen to be black, but in an American show it's going to get talked about eventually. Admittedly they aren't the same genres, but the shows that immediately come to mind for me like this are Sherlock and Dr. Who vs. say 30 Rock or Community.

It will be interesting to see as we run closer and closer to the limits of observation and consciousness if we're on the verge of another huge paradigm shift in empiricism.