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Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs. By Robin Hanson This short "manifesto" describes a new form of government. In "futarchy," we would vote on values, but bet on beliefs. Elected representatives would formally define and manage an after-the-fact measurement of national welfare, while market speculators would say which policies they expect to raise national welfare. Democracy seems better than autocracy (i.e., kings and dictators), but it still has problems. There are today vast differences in wealth among nations, and we can not attribute most of these differences to either natural resources or human abilities. Instead, much of the difference seems to be that the poor nations (many of which are democracies) are those that more often adopted dumb policies, policies which hurt most everyone in the nation.

These policies are not just dumb in retrospect; typically there were people who understood a lot about such policies and who had good reasons to disapprove of them beforehand. Speculative market estimates are not perfect. Why you will love nftables » To Linux and beyond ! Mr. Google's Guidebook. Mr. Google realized that most people don't really want maps, they want guidebooks.

And he also realized how he could use those signposts to build a good guidebook. When someone puts up a signpost it shows that they feel this destination is a place worth going to. Mr. As I read further, a storm rose up in the west. It was late at night by the time I read this remarkable fact, and I'd had several more glasses of sherry.

After a tussle I got the shutters closed and, shaken, returned to my leatherbound armchair and took another sip to calm my nerves. At some universities, administrators are taking a new approach to deciding where to put footpaths. Maybe that's all it is then, I thought. I was standing with my mother in York; one of many visits some years ago. I awoke with a start. I was just about to put down the pen, exhausted now, when I heard a creak and the door to the library opened. But Mr. My shoulders sagged. . - No (said Google). He held out his hand, imperious now. "Thank you sir. Google+ YouTube Integration: Kind of Like Twilight, Except In This Version When +Cullen Drinks BellaTube’s Blood They Both Become Mortal, But +Cullen Is Still An Abusive Creep, Also It Is Still Bad | Vi Hart.

The choice between having to use Google+ and never commenting on YouTube again is laughably easy for me. I invested so much into my YouTube channel, and they’re taking that investment and threatening to throw it away if I don’t also start investing in Google+. No thank you Google, but you’ve already made me regret investing so much into you the first time. Do you really think I’m going to do it again? Google was so good at being Google! + Google is trying to re-animate a failed platform by leeching off of a successful one, despite that the failed platform failed because it is bad, and more users are not going to make it less bad + Google’s publicized selling point was “comments just got better” while in actuality they managed to take what we all thought was the lowest of the low and actually make it worse (this is a significant accomplishment that leaves me in awe) Google’s products used to augment humanity with beautiful tools that helped us get the information we wanted to see.

George Carlin Doesn't vote.