I opened bug #337051 in 2006 and it got closed in 2016. While I can't take any credit for the actual squashing of the bug it feels good having contributed to an important and very long-term project like Firefox.
The way US elections are run makes it very hard to have anything except two dominant parties. If Yang is successful (extremely unlikely) there will still be a two-party system, it will just be his party and whichever other one still remains (probably the Democrats since they have more institutional support at the moment).
> If Yang is successful (extremely unlikely) there will still be a two-party system, it will just be his party and whichever other one still remains
That would still be a massive improvement. Unfortunately, the more likely outcome with our current voting system is to split the vote of whichever party they're aligned more closely with, and cause the other party to win.
We desperately need either approval voting or Condorcet voting, so that people can express a meaningful preference for a third party.
This is the natural consequence of our simple-majority single-ballot system. It so strongly favors the two leading parties that getting them to change it is basically impossible.
I'm curious, what is the 3rd party in your scenario?
I can see ways to count > 3 (before this announcement), and obviously there are the two competitive parties so that's a way to count, but it's not obvious to me how you got to exactly 3.
”An Apple-designed A8 chip powers the most complex audio innovations in HomePod. Like real-time modeling of the woofer mechanics. Buffering that’s even faster than real time.”
But what does it have to do with the powerful cheap? Buffering is not very useful if it's slower than real time, and all that's needed for it is a connection and some memory.
"real-time modeling of the woofer mechanics" reminds me of those Philips Motional Feedback speakers [2] my parents bought in the late '70s [2]. Instead of digital "real-time modeling" they used an analog feedback loop to control and correct woofer cone movement. These were self-contained active speaker cabinets containing a 35W (later also available in 75W) amplifier and two or three speakers with the feedback mechanism controlling the woofer.
They did not have wifi or an always-on microphone, true, but the former is easily remedied (use a Raspberry Pi Zero or something similar) while the latter is more of an advantage than a disadvantage.
Apple's approach goes a fair bit beyond simple servo control (which only tends to work well for truly low-frequency content.
While Apple hasn't disclosed much about the particular details, it's bound to be in the same vein as Klippel's work, which doesn't use feedback as much as it monitors a few states as input to a feed-forward error-correcting mechanism. The net result is that distortion is lower, and it's much less limited with regards to the frequency range you can support.
