It is confidence that the answer is true. 100% being fully sure the answer is true. 0% being fully sure the answer is false. 50% should be used for both true and false have the same probability.
It is important to be careful with how you try to use Glacier. I have been looking its pricing; It costs $0.01 per GB per month only if you want to upload your data.
Downloads add significant cost if you want to retrieve more than 0.17% of your data in a day.
Downloading 5% of your data increases your monthly rate to $0.097 per GB.
10% increases to $0.187 per GB
50% increases to $0.907 per GB
100% increases to $1.807 per GB
Downloads are also delayed by 4 hours after you make a request.
if I have 2TB stored and only want to retrieve a single 10GB photo shoot one month (or even just a single photo), it would not be anywhere close to 5% (.5% in fact) of my total amount stored. The key point here is that we are dealing with TBs of photos that are there for safe-keeping and they have already been tinkered with and all photo JPGs needed have been exported and put elsewhere. This is just for RAWs and you likely won't need to access them again, definitely not 5%+ of them like this.
Looks like he won the seat in a gerrymandered district. This manipulation of district boundaries takes advantage of people who vote along party lines regardless of an individual candidate's qualifications.
This point simply cannot be overstated. The absolutely deplorable level of "oversight" performed by Congress is a direct function of the degree to which they've been able to insulate themselves from the electorate. Being able to select who can and can't vote against them is one of their most effective means for doing this. Indeed, this practice explains why so many of them can hold onto their seats while continuing to act against the interests of their constituents in ways beneficial to their funders.
In short, gerrymandering, closed primaries, and private campaign finance form the Triangle of Doom. In combination, they provide the noose with which Congress is choking America to death. Abuse at the hands of the NSA (and their multi-billion dollar web of contractors) is just the latest, and perhaps the most chilling example of this phenomena.
> Now, in all fairness they do have a cragy coast, but it is very clear the districts are unconscionably gamed.
I'm not sure how it was done in the source for that news article, but gerrymandering-detection algorithms should ignore natural borders in that regard. See, for example, this paper which measures gerrymandering in terms of convexity: http://mathdl.maa.org/images/upload_library/22/Polya/Hodge20...
