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the devil is in the details

Well yeah :)

Any ideas on how the board is chosen? Does the majority(only) owner / CEO of the p-corp do it?

Sincere question: what do you believe should happen when a company becomes successful?

You make excellent criticisms and I've had similar thoughts. But I never really understood what people want to do other than confiscate companies once they become successful. Not saying that is what you want to do - you specifically say not that.

You mention "let’s engineer a network of trust and monitoring and a culture of transparency". I'm not sure what that means.

Why does anyone think the goal is a place for billionaires to flee to? Where does this come form? All initial efforts in the solar system will be extremely arduous. No one serious thinks otherwise.

Permutation City's dust theory was the first idea that made me think: oh maybe something like that. It ties in with the whole "why isn't there just nothing" - total nothingness is a state as well. Probable, coherent states "exist" (maybe).

I think a better question than "who made us" is "where are we?"

Carter-Zimmerman polis vs the rest of the Coalition

1969-2004 was the golden age ;-)

When Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series (super fun to read) was being written.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/26/windscreen-ph...

Bands want people to come back to future concerts. Yes I understand.

My point is that is just one of many factors influencing how bands price their events. And that range of factors has changed over time.

I did not say you did. I mentioned record sales because the balance of from where artists revenue is coming is pushing artists to get more of their money from their gigs as other revenue sources have declined.

The motivation to keep fans coming back and not seem "too greedy" keep things in check but the balance of motivations has definitely shifted towards: we want more money from live events.

Decades ago concert ticket sales might have been considered almost a loss leader.

Bands don't generally want to maximize revenue from any given gig

They do more nowadays. The old model of touring to drive demand for record sales has been turned upside-down. It is now sell music to drive demand for concert ticket sales.

Most (not all) artists now make much more of their overall revenue from touring and want to maximize the revenue there - without seeming too much like they are.

As well artists can sometimes have a narrow window of time to cash in.

That is not correct. Some artists sign deals guaranteeing them more than 100% of total face value. Others put tickets on the secondary markets themselves.

If any system does not funnel a huge amount of cash to the artists it would be changed immediately.

Scalpers neither increase nor reduce total demand. Scalpers are not going to the event themselves.

The UK and Canada are not republics. There's no need to clarify "pure democracy"as no one thinks any modern democratic country is a pure democracy. All modern democracies are representative democracies.

Since there is, more or less, no other type of democracy around when a colloquial English speaker says "democracy" they mean representative democracy. Everything else is a pointless annoying semantic game.

Representative democracy is a perfectly acceptable term. Trying to shoehorn monarchies into the term "republic" is absurd.

Are the UK and Canada republics or democracies?

I have never commented anywhere about Capistrano. But, it has been part of a toolchain that has brought me success and improved my life. Thank you very much for all you have done.

> Our highest court has ruled that our voting system > is against our contitution. Twice. What an embarrassment.

To be fair the ruling is part of your voting system needs to be tweaked to make it even more fair. That is no embarrassment. Quite the opposite I would say. Your system is working on further improving itself and that should look messy not neat and tidy.

Compared to many western democracies the German system is quite enviable.

She was interviewed on CBC radio recently: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/The+Current/ID/2252831223/

The piece has a lot more details plus interviews with women working in the gaming industry.

Dynamic pricing.

No such thing as "face value" for a plane ticket.

Ability to schedule more flights in the same day as demand increases.

Agreed. I read them as slowly as I could manage over the course of about five years. Even 21 was a great read. I was blown away that I was still maintaining the same enjoyment 15, 16 books in. I just assumed the quality would have had to deteriorate. Although O'Brian does get a lot of reuse out of Stephen's joke about the dog watch being cur-tailed.

I wish I still had eight and a half more to go!

For a peak into a future with 'ongoing diagnosis' see the very cool Greg Egan short story Yeyuka:

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/yeyuka.htm

"So why did you go into medicine?"

"Family expectations. It was either that or the law. Medicine seemed less arbitrary; nothing in the body can be overturned by an appeal to the High Court. What about you?"

I said, "I wanted to be in on the revolution. The one that was going to banish all disease."

"Ah, that one."

"I picked the wrong job, of course. I should have been a molecular biologist."

"Or a software engineer."

Canada scores in the top 10 of all PISA categories and has a higher proportion of its population that are immigrants than the USA.

> demographics

Canada scores in the top 10 in all PISA categories, not far off from Finland, and shares much more demographically and geographically with the United States than with Finland.

The provinces of Canada with higher ethnic diversity and immigration (the more prosperous ones) tend to score higher within Canada than the ethnically homogeneous provinces.

If Angry Birds is Crush The Castle this is Hold Your Ground: http://www.physicsgames.net/game/Hold_Your_Ground.html. Since Hold Your Ground has been out for years I am surprised someone hasn't done this before considering the runaway success of Angry Birds.

I agree. Here is the ballot: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Bun...

Voters have two votes: one on the left and one on the right. "Hier 1 Stimme" means "Here 1 vote". It is still just an X in a circle but twice instead of once. Most people when shown this grasp it immediately.

A similar Scottish ballot is on the left here: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures...

A PR system maintaining one representative per constituency is already in use in the United Kingdom - in both Scotland and Wales.

I enjoy Xiangqi immensely. There's a great quote: Western Chess is a war, Chinese Chess is a battle.

There is less messing around with openings as well. That appeals to me as I am just a casual player. You get to the "fun part" much faster.

Max speed to 5GB per month after which they reserve the right to slow down your connection.

In Canada I have unlimited data (with fair use policy), unlimited text and unlimited minutes (North America) for $40/month. The existence of such plans is quite new.

Concerning the introduction of "mandatory" metered internet in Canada: it appears the big guys may have been so greedy they over-reached. The consumer backlash is strong and the decision is now under review by government.

That would have been incredibly handy in the age of sail.

I would be happy to have flashcards.ww.com => flashcarddb.com

Thank you if or if not possible!