Libertarians still support the existence of the state (even if it’s a hollow shell of what most nation-states are now). Seeing the very existence of the state as being dystopian is anarchist.
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...which means quite a few Saturday mornings in Asia have been counted as weekdays and many late Friday nights in the Americas have been counted as weekends.
It would be great if StackOverflow had information on the local timezone that the question was asked in. Seeing Mon-Fri 9-5 vs other times would be interesting.
It’s not exactly surprising. ES6 came out almost 6 years after ES5, so there was quite a few changes then. The yearly release cycle was always going to mean fewer features being standardised each release.
While I do follow from a distance some of the work TC39 does, I can only assume that most people involved have realised that having an orderly process for feature proposals - and not trying to rush heaps of features into a single release - is a much better way to do things.
> With the language moving this slow compared to faster releasing languages like Python, Elixir, and Go
Python, Elixir and Go have the advantage that they have one main/reference implementation and can break backwards compatibility whenever they want (although that hasn’t gone brilliantly for Python) by just incrementing a version number. ECMAScript runtimes have to be able to run programs that were written almost two decades ago - backwards compatibility can’t be broken - and you have several major implementations (V8, Spidermonkey, etc.) to deal with.
The tail call feature from ES6 is already being revisited because it caused problems [0].
> I wonder if Node.js will start to see a decline in hype since the language hasn't improved much in the last 2 years.
Tools like Babel mean that people who really want to use new or experimental language features can do so. There are dozens of language features in the proposals pipeline [1] and many (if not a majority) can be used via a compiler like Babel or via a polyfill.
Node.js also has the advantages of having it’s own 'standard library’ and an enormous package ecosystem to use. I think it will be fine.
[0] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ptc-syntax [1] https://github.com/tc39/proposals
Edit: Plus whiteout allows fairly simple overwrites.
You may argue that capitalism has increased the ‘unfairness’ of the distribution of resources, but capitalism can’t be solely blamed for the various geographical, religious and other reasons for the ‘unfair’/unequal distribution of resources.
> Trump has as much chance of winning as Cubs
Are you referring to this “The Cubs Have A Smaller Chance Of Winning Than Trump Does”[0]? If so, I don’t understand why you would consider such a headline to be inaccurate or not objective.
[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-cubs-have-a-smaller...
It’s still the same language, just new ways to write it down. It’s no different to writing Russian or Greek using the Latin alphabet.
Wikipedia shows LNP MPs as being a part of the LNP, with a note stating their affiliation.
Secondly, in Australia the Liberal National Party is a partial merger of the Liberal and National parties. MPs in the LNP can be a member of either the Liberals or Nationals. In the House of Representatives data for Australia, the breakdown of LNP MPs between the two parties is incorrect, and leaves one MP as a sole member of the LNP. The errors are similar in the Senate data.
Additionally, two politicians (Bob Katter and Jacqui Lambie) are wrongly shown as being independents, despite being elected as the sole member of a party.
Also, I'm wondering how the data was collected - the party affiliation information for the Australian parliament is very strange. Not entirely wrong, but probably misleading.
I ask because I used DuckDuckGo almost exclusively for about three years (had it as my search engine on desktop and iOS Safari) until a few months ago. A few months ago I noticed that DuckDuckGo's results began becoming very spammy and that I was having to use Google for anything more than a trivial single keyword search. So I switched back over to Google for a few days and never went back - Instant Answers actually turned out to be not that useful, Google's result quality is miles ahead, and the !bang feature is almost redundant because browsers support search-by-site natively. I know DDG has privacy as a selling point - but it's just not important enough for me to not use an overall better search engine, as much as I root for the underdog.
In short, Ukrainian has no definite article, unlike English. Ukraine officially dropped 'the' from the English translation of the country's name after independence. Some Ukrainians find the use of 'the' somewhat insulting as it is the Soviet-era translation and disregards the Ukrainian government translation.
How would this improve anything? Is there something about Markdown that makes it inherently inferior that I don't know about? I don't consider myself a tech-elite and Markdown seems just fine to me.
I should have looked at Wikipedia first :) Although I do find the arrangement quite odd - Egypt and Sudan don't have a similar arrangement?
[1] I'm excluding anarchist communities.
Edit: Actually Wikipedia says that Croatia's position is that the land belongs to either Serbia or themselves, to the exclusion of any third party. Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia%E2%80%93Serbia_borde...
Approval voting suffers from most of the same problems as plurality voting - a candidate can still be elected despite not being approved or preferred by a majority.
There is a well known phenomenon in Australia where voters in Tasmania will use preferences more often than voters in mainland states (Australia’s Senate uses STV with semi-optional preferences). This is almost certainly because Tasmania uses the same system in other elections, so voters are used to it and know how to use preferences.
On the other hand, a big swing state like Florida matters for candidates. Clinton can win Florida and then afford to lose several smaller swing states. Trump has to win Florida to have any chance.
> Electoral College is better geared toward preserving liberty, an imperative in our culture.
Less populous states are still greatly outweighed. Wyoming is very unlikely to ever determine a presidential election result.
Even then, if a single president can ruin the idea of federalism, then that is more a sign that the president is too powerful.
> Direct election isn't a solution, as implementing mob rule is prone to inspiring civil war.
US presidential elections have already inspired one civil war.
In my opinion the best system for US presidential elections would either be a nationwide instant-runoff election or (if the electoral college couldn’t be replaced) a state-by-state single transferable vote election that proportionally elected Electoral College electors.
An instant runoff election would let voters put Johnson or Stein as their first preference and put Clinton or Trump as their second or third preference. It completely eliminates the problem of spoilers. The counting of votes might take a bit longer (perhaps a day or two if done manually), but needing to know the result within a matter of hours isn’t a requirement.
Well, two candidates have a possibility of winning. The nature of first-past-the-post elections means that Gary Johnson or Jill Stein can still affect the outcome if their votes change the result.