The book is so good it deserves to be listed twice. :)

One of the best pieces of advice I've received as a sysadmin was "Don't just do something, stand there!" :)

Do you mean the 3.6 GHz band? The auction commenced a week ago: https://acma.gov.au/Industry/Spectrum/Spectrum-projects/3-6-...

In a properly-operating democracy, politicians require votes to be elected; money helps, but isn't sufficient.

The 1% may have 50% (or more) of the money, but they only have 1% of the votes. The 99% (or rather, those members of the 99% who vote as if they're in the 1%) need to exert their power at the polling booth.

The 1% own the media companies which are happy to tell you what a winner looks like, and there is a general belief that voting with your heart is inferior to voting for a probable winner.

The latter problem would be solved with approval voting at least https://ncase.me/ballot/

> The 1% may have 50% (or more) of the money, but they only have 1% of the votes.

Yes, but that money also buys political votes via contributions, political influence, and affects legislation favorably towards themselves. Look at how much money Google alone spent in 2017 on lobbying ($18M). If that wasn't gaining them tremendous influence, I highly doubt they'd be doing it. Not to single Google out (they just spent more than anyone else last year)... they all do it... because they have the money to do it... and it pays off.

The 1% have a lot more influence than just their "1 vote each."

http://fortune.com/2018/01/24/google-facebook-amazon-apple-l...

Money can pay for marketing and shills to flood online forums to trick peoples voting.

You're doing a disservice to those 99% or at least those of us that do vote by assuming this is the only issue that people vote on. There's a wide range of priorities between the 0% and 99.9% on the economic scale and what goes into most peoples' decision to vote for someone is almost always nuanced even if the newspapers and tv interviews try to make it look like everyone that voted for the "wrong" candidate only voted for them because of X issue.

And just to prove I did study Latin, I actually remember the end of that poem:

"atque in perpetuam, frater, ave atque vale"

Well, that's the result.

The change is not to interview for "cultural fit" but for "values alignment".

I studied Latin in school, and we studied Catullus 85 and 5 (which is mentioned in 16).

We discovered there was a book of English translations of Catullus in the library, which we used to "help" with our homework. I'm pretty sure it didn't contain 16, because we would definitely have noticed. :p

"Trimester" is a word commonly used in English in relation to the stages of pregnancy.

Mm, and it's good to know it's etymologically closer to "three months" than "third-length period".

(TIL also that "semester" means "six months". I'm an idiot, I thought it was "half-length period". Like "semi" I guess.)

Also in the academic world where there is a quarter year system used (3 trimesters and summer break).

Also some college use it rather than quarter or semester systems.

The Mercury compiler is written in Mercury, which is syntactically derived from Prolog. The original compiler was bootsrapped by stripping the non-Prolog parts from the code and executing it on NU-Prolog. The compiler first successfully compiled itself in 1995, after which NU-Prolog was no longer needed.

And just to tie this back to the original topic, Leon Sterling (first author of The Art of Prolog) was the head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne when the development of Mercury began there.