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A failure of capitalism? I have to question the premise. Capitalism does not have as a goal some social-utilitarian purpose. Capitalism is practiced by individuals for their own self-interest. Sometimes they work together for a shared self-interest (e.g. corporations, investor groups) or they work against each other as needed (competition). But you cannot take self-interest out of the equation and still have capitalism. Every trade (be that stock for cash, or work for cash, etc.) is predicated on each of the parties fulfilling their individual needs and wants to the degree that they can. On it's own terms, capitalism hasn't failed at all.

What you can say is that capitalism has failed to mollify those that seek non-capitalistic goals. This is true of some so-called capitalists who experience guilt in pursuing their self-interest as well. If your view is that capitalists are "greedy, top-hat-wearing" types that fail to meet your social welfare goals, then my bet is your characterization masks a larger purpose. Primarily at bringing them down, probably in favor of the central planners of old (or some degree thereof).

Perhaps the real question should be: why would companies and individuals with captial choose to sit on it, or choose to spend it on relatively worthless start-ups? Why would a capitalist choose to sit on cash or buy-back shares if there are other, more profitable avenues to invest those funds? I think if you take a critical look at it you might find that there's still a fair amount of central planning behind what we'd like to think is a capitalist economy.
Having worked in several large corporate environments for most of my lift, sociopaths are the highest achievers of the bunch when it comes to working their way up the corporate ladder.
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War Is Boring is a terrible site for military news and analysis. I've read several articles that included elements that were factually wrong and obviously so to anyone with even passing knowledge on the subject.

A good example is their piece comparing aircraft carriers to battleships in the 1941, where they claimed the navy missed the danger of air attack on capital ships because it had never been done before. Ten minutes on Google would have been enough to keep someone from making that assertion.
I like the story of how Grep is fast because it tries to do as little work as possible.

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I'm with you. Because the idiots imbibing potions concocted with rhino horn are no doubt going to convince themselves that the "real stuff" is made from wild rhinos, and that the stuff made from the farmed version is inferior.

In my fantasy world, we convince the Chinese that the ground up bones of poachers makes one's dick hard.
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The notoriety that this concept has managed to garner in the past 36 hours only secures the fact that a clone app (and however many more) will be made in a short period of time.

How much of an effect is removing the app really going to have?
We can push this further and expect your "reality test" to become practically useless some time in the next 50 years. That is, when no matter how well you analyze a video/picture, you can not tell if it is CG or not.

What happens when, in the next 150 years say, one cannot identify with appreciable probability [1] whether someone is human or not?

[1]: À la Turing test, but with a humanoid robot.
Speak for yourself.

Edit: Here's a nice link. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/journals/freed...
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I dont think its strange.
the windows world has solved a lot of these issues - its other issues it hasn't solved that generally make people go to other platforms.

AD setups are actually pretty complete if you ask me. Heck, OpenLDAP is a lot to setup vs AD. Same for cert management. User management. Machine management. Kerberos that works (since most don't even understand it: its a ticketing authentication system - the thing we keep recreating and calling it something else).

It goes a long way - and I'm glad more tools are coming to narrow these gaps!
The apple car will happen. That doesn't mean it will work in the long term. And it doesn't mean that Apple will be a market leader. See the iWatch, AppleTV and the iMac. Not all of their products are market-changers.

Watch the car companies. If they thought the days of personal car ownership were over they would be in total panic. There is a strong Freudian association with cars ownership in north america. People are very proud of their cars. That isn't going away anytime soon.

As I have said in other threads, if everyone wants diverless cars, why is there not a single car on the market hardwired to obey speed limits? I'll believe people ready to have their steering wheels taken away when I first see them give up control of their accelerators.
> Pretty much all cars on sale today come with an immobilizer built in, and services like lojack and onstar allow you to activate it remotely

Doesn't that just not let you start the car? I don't think it turns off the car.

edit: according to [1], OnStar "can limit the speed at which it can be driven, remotely lock the ignition so that it can’t be started, and track the car’s location".

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/09/07/how-tech-mak...

(as for the original question, even ignoring situations where you need to have acceleration to get out of them, just cut the power steering on someone who has never driven without it and see how well they pull over to the side of a busy intersection or the like)
Imply: indicate the truth or existence of (something) by suggestion rather than explicit reference.

Spot the subtle difference. Saying it openly would look like this:

"This paper has no scientific value."
I think you're basically right. If you read between the lines, this looks like a matter of Purdue thinking "let's pass this off to a true private sector entity that will allow the market to fix the pricing/profitability issues we have with this product", only to find out they sold it to a pack of fucking inhuman scum who think "let's see if we can exploit the shit out a vulnerable, sick population" is a business plan. Purdue was clearly naive, but they are clearly not malicious.
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I mean, when Adam Smith says "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest," he's not saying that in support of self-interest, he's saying that in support of OUR DINNER. The point of capitalism as economic system is not that self-interest is inherently good but that self-interest can be yoked to "some social-utilitarian purpose."

Of course, Adam Smith's opinion of corporations was "The directors of such [joint-stock] companies, however, being the managers rather of other people’s money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own," and he thought they'd all die out unless they were propped up like the East India Company, so it's not like the Wealth of Nations is much of a guide to what we call capitalism nowadays. But still.
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The Spanish-American war of 1898. The Philippine guerrillas on Mindanao were crushed so savagely and effectively the locals still associate the US with actions taken during that time period.

War is ultimately a contest of wills. It's not that you can't beat irregulars, it's that you have to be so brutal the folks at home won't tolerate it unless the threat is existential.
"Your Lisp code (unless it's an emacs tool) will never work with anything or anyone else. You're invited to write everything from scratch, and doing so is easy; it's just difficult for anything you do to be used by or with anyone else's code." - That might have been true once, but arguably isn't true any more, now that we have Clojure, ClojureScript, ClojureCLR, ABCL, Kawa, etc. And if you are willing to go for a multiprocess solution, there are numerous ways to integrate multiple languages over IPC or the network, from decidedly old-fashioned approaches like ONC RPC or CORBA, all the way through to the REST microservices of today, and there exist Lisp bindings for all of them.
There is actually a FDA "waiver" process known as a "Humanitarian Device Exemption" for medical devices.

The FDA does allow compounding pharmacies [0] to produce orphan drugs that are not otherwise available commercially.

The big issue with using compounding pharmacies to produce orphan drugs is that these drugs can't be marketed for a specific use. The approval is as much about how the drug is marketed as the drug itself.

The reason why the case of Daraprim [1] is so outrageous is that the drug is approved and in production, and the increase is profit for the "marketing" drug company.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compounding#Regulation_in_the_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrimethamine
I know little, but I thought I had read that yogic "flying" is just a misnomer - they're in the lotus position and kind of hop around on their knees (I've seen footage of that), but the word for it kind of roughly translates to flying. I haven't heard/seen claims of literal flying though.
Just you. There may be standards around cert management, but for small teams it is so impossible to do PKI remotely correctly, it is nearly a joke. *

*: There are small teams with expert in x509. Most don't have such a luxury. For them to get certs right is near impossible.
Your mileage may of course vary, but as I said, in my circles it wasn't so much a knee-jerk reaction as a decision to take the occasion to buy in bulk.

I haven't yet met any of the stereotypical deranged gun owners that I keep hearing about. Although I'm not a gun owner myself, I have visited ranges and gun shops throughout the US and all the "gun people" I've met have been peaceful, helpful, open-minded, and friendly.

And FWIW, you don't need to subscribe to a "deranged anti-Obama conspiracy theory"; the market mostly moved (quite rationally) after the Obama administration announced support for the so-called UN Treaty on Trade in Small Arms. The conference concluded without adoption of a treaty, but US support has made it more likely, and passage may well mean decreased availability of small arms and ammunition.
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Some things that I thought were interesting:

He prefers OCaml to Haskell because of Haskell's mental overhead. I think he nailed the problem a lot of people have with Haskell.

He likes the ability to mutate when he wants/needs to. He wants to be functional, but not forced to be purely functional.

I'm sure the Haskell types (pun intended) will have counter-arguments to these points, but Edgar's position seemed pretty good to me...
Bingo :-) It's the PRI code that does it. If it's any consolation, that code wasn't in the mainline as long as I was with PRI :-P

It's actually even worse than you describe. It allows you to set the bit that says that the calling number has been validated by the network. The justification for the change was to allow the bank to set a single outgoing number on the PBX. It may very well be true that this is what they intended to do. It also allows you to avoid paying long distance fees by spoofing the outgoing number as a local number. Numbers that are already validated avoid the billing code.

Edit: Just realized that I may be wrong. The code I work on was for the SL-100. I can't remember if Meridian shared that code or not. I think they did, but it's long enough ago that I just can't remember.
>Capitalism does not have as a goal some social-utilitarian purpose.

Not intrinsically, no, but it is justified by it in the face of alternatives. When you present people with an economic system that does have a social-utilitarian purpose, those people will select capitalism over it on the basis that capitalism is better at fulfilling that purpose.

And most of the time, the argument is "capitalism self-optimizes for that purpose." Except that it self-optimizes in ways that result in central planning, monopolies, and deception. Capitalism is not convergent on social goals, it is divergent, and we have to keep pushing and prodding, regulating and deregulating in order to get anywhere near our goals.

Capitalism fails every day. And we just roll up our sleeves and get to work fixing it because there is no other option.

One wouldn't ague that a hole in the boat is a good thing because it keeps the crew fit trying to bail the water out. Especially when there's a whole world of other skills we'd rather have a crew be proficient at.
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> Your Lisp code (unless it's an emacs tool) will never work with anything or anyone else. You're invited to write everything from scratch, and doing so is easy; it's just difficult for anything you do to be used by or with anyone else's code.

Not really true these days, with the prolifiration of high-level-languages most libraries present a C interface which is no harder to bind to lisp than to other languages.
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Interesting, and depressing. Thanks for sharing!
Something standing in front of me that cannot be scientifically proven not to be human, would be a human. A robot that accurate down to the microscopic may be a synthetically-grown human but nevertheless still a human being.

CGI will always be behind the curve. Science requires repeatability by independent researchers. A CGI hoax cannot survive independent footage of the event. So CGI cannot survive scientific scrutiny. It can certainly survive fake scrutiny (see viral vids) but not real investigation by people looking for the hoax.
Hey look, it's my paper. :-)

Dunno why this caught back on now. Paper is from 2012.
Often by people manually modifying ones they bought themselves.

And, interestingly, many satellite receivers allow users to just enter a frequency in the supported range and they will happily load and display the data on that frequency.
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If the FDA has approved certain pharmacodynamics, these should be characterized. With well characterized bioavailability curves, re-running the original experiment doesn't tell you anything.

If the FDA is instead approving other characteristics by happenstance, it leaves open the door to market abuses like the one we're seeing.
To the long-term investor, the correlation changing sign very frequently is very similar to "uncorrelated"
>That is exactly how government works. The legislative branch can veto laws.

What? This makes no sense whatsoever. The legislature makes law. They can change it however they want. Veto is a different concept entirely.

>And the judicial branch can over turn laws that are deemed illegal.

No, the judicial branch can overturn laws that are unconstitutional. Laws cannot be illegal unless they're enacted illegally. For a judge to find a law unconstitutional he must have some textual basis for doing so, and "that doesn't seem fair" isn't enough to do it.

>There are a couple of absurdities in this case...

The law is absurd in many, many ways. But the judges are still supposed to apply it as written unless it's unconstitutional. In this case the law is constitutional, so that's not a legitimate avenue for the defendant to pursue.
Carry a lantern and live in a barrel.
I'm not defending the reasoning here, just saying that these are the obvious possible concerns that spring to my mind:

Discussion of the Holocaust is upsetting in general, and topics related to it may be too heavy for some people. Alternatively, it might just be too much of a buzzkill for a TechCrunch publicity event. Those are just a few stabs in the dark.

Donald Trump, Ben Franklin and Drinking Games are popcorn topics. Empty calories. They're safe and boring. They might tilt the scale a little bit, but safely within the range of attitudes mass media can cover with their lazy paint by numbers toolkit.

Anne Frank brings to mind one of the few remaining topics society takes very seriously anymore. People might raise questions on what it means to give Anne Frank a voice. Question if it is in good taste to include her or not. Or someone could comment that it's a cheap way to bring attention to the app (side note: In contrast, a Trump app is fine because it's undoubtedly that).

Finally, it is feedback like the attempts to shame TC throughout this article that put them on guard and (mis)apply criticism into saying "I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole" when the topic of Anne Frank comes across their desk.

But what exactly did they expect bringing something thoughtful to an event branded TechCrunch?
One of my amazing classmates in medical school is the founder of a company called Global Village Fruit [1] where she works on making jackfruit available internationally. In the Boston area her company has supplied numerous local restaurants with the fruit (Veggie Galaxy makes a delicious jackfruit sandwich out of her company's product), and she's done a wonderful job spreading awareness of the jackfruit. I urge you to check out the company and learn how you might be able to incorporate the jackfruit into your own recipes!

[1] http://www.globalvillagefruit.com/
>with the advance of information technology we should see more, not less, of these accomplishments recorded

This is an over sophisticated way to say "no evidence, no thing". I don't intend to defend the existence of big foot (which I think is a silly comparison), but if asked about it I'd rather make no claims about it.

The answer to whether it happened or not is moo.
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Pretending someone who disagrees with you is arguing your point is... pretty dumb, to be frank. Or did you think I would just get unbearably confused by your cartoonish switcheroo?
See the sibling post.

Working a Nortel was an education for me. I demanded a move from that team to another team and landed in even a worse place. While there were some phenomenal people there and a few really good teams, that place was just rife with corruption from top to bottom. I eventually quit (my manager gave me the lowest possible rating in my review saying, "Ordinarily I would give someone who accomplished all these things a very good review, but I just don't like you" -- probably I had a case for constructive dismissal ;-) ). I spend 8 months writing free software and trying to figure out what I wanted in a job. It was actually an excellent thing for me in the end, so I don't really regret the time I spent at Nortel.
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With alternatives like iOS, I feel it's simpler than ever to switch away from Windows. I'm not advocating using their closed ecosystem, but it may have some advantage. Especially for those grandparents etc.
Consider than in 150 years there may be several hundred videos of something happening, from a variety of angles, where the devices are controlled by multiple, independent agents.

While one stream can be faked, it would require large-scale collusion or subversion to fake the large majority of videos.
Fermat's Library is a great idea. Curating who can annotate documents (professors, scientists, domain experts) will add a lot more value than Genius's scheme to have everyone "Annotate the World".

The Bitcoin whitepaper was also a great choice for this type of project. Terse, spartan language where every word of every sentence is completely necessary and contributes meaningfully in some way. It's not hard to understand (unlike the majority of academic research which seems to be intentionally obfuscated), but it benefits greatly from a bit of context and color.

Nice work! Hoping to see more interesting papers in the future.
I'm not sure I buy the idea it has anything to do with Clinton's tweet specifically. She's doesn't hold political office, and it's looking less and less likely by the day that she'll ever make it to the oval office.
if the "dialog" had occurred without the 140-character limit:

journalists: why did you increase, over-night, the price of Daraprim, a life-saving drug, from $13.50 to $750 per pill, a 5,000% increase

Martin Shkreli: you are such a moron--the previous price of the drug was $18.00 not $13.50, so the price increase was barely above 4,000%. Why don't you check your facts!

journalist: aplologies for the outrageous error. i regret any damage casued, etc., etc. So anyway, some people might think that even a 4,000% increase is a lot.

Martin Shkreli: you are such a moron--making drugs is difficult, time-consuming, and uncertain--the price increase is necessary to re-coup our R&D costs. Just trying to keep our heads above water.

journalist: good point, you're certainly entitled to make a buck for all of your hard work and risk-taking;
but not sure how that applies here--your company, Turing, didn't develop this drug, in fact, your company just bought the rights to the drug last month.

Martin Shkreli: like i said, a moron.
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I agree. For me, Forever War was a book with an interesting premise and a somewhat lackluster execution. None of the characters are pretty interesting or memorable, and the main character seems to be Hadelman inserting an idealized version of himself into the story. The story itself felt a bit forced or inconsistent in numerous places, and never really capitalized on some of the ideas.

I enjoyed reading it, but didn't think it was particularly great (same with Forever Peace, though that book had somewhat different issues).
Stopping the engine also means you'd loose power steering, and more importantly power brakes.
What's the hash rate of the 21 Co computer? I thought it would be included on the promo page but did not see it.
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