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Incidentally, and I've mentioned this before, the complete tone deafness of the US right in this question is pretty much directly responsible for making it possible to have productive debates with Americans about socialism again.

When even Obama - a conservative not much left of Reagan, that not that many years ago could have fit into the Republican party politically - was repeatedly accused of being a socialist there was a watershed.

More and more the response was a "well, I kinda agree with Obama, so if he's a socialist, why do they say it's bad?" curiosity.

The only reason it didn't backfire far worse was that there was no strong social democrat or socialist political organization ready to benefit. But I strongly believe that the only reason Bernie Sanders is getting any kind of hearing this election campaign is that the right laid the groundwork by making the term "socialist" socially acceptable again amongst large groups of the US public

They overplayed their hand massively, and legitimated discussions of socialism by making the category so ridiculously over-broad that they defined people into it and forced those people to re-evaluate socialism rather than re-evaluate their own viewpoints. It's a truly classic failure to understand the psychology of propaganda that deserves treatment in university courses on psychology:

You don't win a propaganda war by saying "these viewpoints you agree with makes this guy you're considering to vote for a [insert label believed to be offensive here]". You win propaganda wars by disassociating your opponent from the views of his base and presenting yourself as the protector of the same views.

The right way to have fought Obama was not to label him a socialist, but to upstage him and paint him as unwilling to go far enough, and twisting the mechanism to fit whatever they'd wanted afterwards. It's not like this is a new strategy: Specifically within the context of welfare and healthcare, it was first used by Bismark in the 1880's, leading to the first welfare state, but at the same time both shoring up the German state by undermining support for revolutionary socialism, and establishing an insurance system that persists to this day that avoided a nationalisation of the entire system.

Instead they walked right into what may turn out to be one of the largest political own goals for decades.
The reply also contains:

"If your sister’s life is working for her, back off. Once you share your views, you can’t unshare them. "

Which seems pretty good advice to me.
I totally agree with the author. I've had similar experiences with Elance/UpWork. I'm a Senior Software Developer from Europe and I can't really compete with developers who offer their services for $20/h. But still, it's not impossible to get a job. I worked on a few projects that were mostly already started projects from cheap software firms that couldn't complete the job for whatever reasons. The clients I met were usually frustrated, burnt a lot of money, didn't have any experience about software development and/or management and were hoping to save the project by hiring a more experienced developer to fix the project. The codebases I've seen were awful. For example, no git repository, just a plain ZIP file, unstructured PHP code with 300 warnings, duplicate code... I'm sure there are all different kinds of projects on UpWork, also good ones. But these are hard to find and I doubt UpWork is the right place for experienced Software Developers with higher rates.
Everything old is good, everything new is bad. Remember when TV was the poison that was ruining family social time? Experts feared families would watch instead of conversing. And yet he praises it.
... for services rendered, at a price no one else is able to compete. Or so I've heard. Correct me if I'm wrong(the PR machines are not to be underestimated). Or don't, your choice.
Your issues are related to the number of plugins being loaded.

I primarily write Java in my professional life, using IntelliJ Ultimate Edition. I have to do so on a MacBook Pro with SSD to be productive.

Lately I primarily write Go in my personal life. I use the free IntelliJ Community Edition (with Go plugin only) on all my devices. On a CHROMEBOOK with 2 GB of RAM running Crouton, my experience with Community Edition is almost as snappy as my 16 GB MacBook experience with Ultimate Edition.

You can radically speed up your IntelliJ environment by being more judicious in which plugins you enable. Quite honestly, lately I've wondered why I bother with Ultimate Edition at all... since the only non-free plugins I really use are for HTML and JavaScript support (and even those only rarely). If my company wants to pay for an Ultimate license and a MacBook on which to run it, then I'll gladly use them... but if it were my money I'd probably just stick to Community Edition for my needs.
Great essay. Though obviously, such a big hypothesis is very speculative.

I think the use of the "market price" concept so heavily here might be taking away a little. It sort of assumes some objective (if unknowable) value to human contribution or achievement. I think in the labour market in general, and specifically the components that he's talking about in the lang term, are hard to describe well this way. Between the difficulty to evaluating labour quality, the variability in "quality" depending on specific circumstances, the bargaining/liquidity issues and other problems, I think we enter a (Ronald) Coase-esqu problem where markets do not play out efficiently enough to reveal an information rich market price.

I wonder if this essay would be much different without market price.
Except maybe:

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I can't speak for the author, but it may be for simplicity's sake.

Personally I would have still have gone Babel+* but a Babel transpilation pipeline adds a non-negligible level of complexity to a project, especially when it comes to debugging/performance optimisation.
Good point. I think that is a often overlooked observation. People incited often have a tendency to invite an onrush of thoughts with a desire to express them in direct proportion to their "excitability factor". When a character limit is imposed, their tweet may as well be an empty beer bottle hurled towards their target.

IMO, why one becomes incited in the first place comes from the drunken sense of control one feels when all they think they are revealing is their gravatar/profile. However, it is relatively easy to reciprocate with a "herd agenda" of one's own and launch an attack without the need to extract any real facts to damage the target's reputation.

If I were to insult an individual in front of a group all physically present, I would most likely be doing so in a way that the "herd" clearly understands my message rather than the target. I have always despised this type of thinking as many do, yet it has become increasingly popular.
> Is, for example, the constant amount of money you mention the same of every member of the populace regardless of income?

Yes.

> If so, it bears semblance with the UK's poll tax (or Community Charge as it was officially labelled), an early 90's tax which was disastrously received (riots in the streets across the country).

I didn't know about it, but it's exactly how I imagined it would turn out in reality.
Answering a personality questionnaire is always a great opportunity for me to appreciate my talents. Take the question "Do you have a rich, complex inner life?" Well, I certainly do, and thanks for reminding me to dwell on this fact.
I had heard the theory about the market for lemons before, but none of the discussions of it seemed to be able to come up with a better example than the classic partial one about used cars. This looks like the case study the theory predicted.
I deleted it because it had about -5 points. :) If anyone's curious I just said that sometimes the only "likes" I get on facebook are from my mom. Ever since I accepted her friend request, my mom likes every single damn thing I post. I am experiencing Facebook Like Inflation from my mother.
So many devs use the F word in their source codes,why?
> Now democracy is a distinctly leftist concept

This one dimensional left vs. right can't accurately describe anything.

Even the subject of wealth redistribution is too nuanced to be properly described or debated with this oversimplified left/right paradigm.
I'd hate to think my trusted friends or family are lying to me because they can't unshare.
It's a trap. He's gotten you to apportion numbers.

The point is that it is irrelevant in the first place because the people he wants to lump in with mass murderers like Stalin or Mao or Khmer Rouge largely have never supported them or policies anything like theirs.

The discussion of numbers is pointless without first getting him to narrow down exactly what ideologies he is referring to by nature of actual policies implemented rather than by massive overloaded names.

The debating technique is equivalent to trying to argue that democracy is bad because the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is oppressive and tricking us into trying to turn it into a comparison of relative authoritarianism based on flawed, self-selected labels.

Instead it is the premise of what is included in the label you must challenge. It unravels quickly.
The problem with your argument is that you make it sound like it's inevitable that the net effect of automation on the welfare of human societies will be positive in the past, present and the future and while the other party questions this assertion and IMO he's legitimate reasons to be skeptic of this claim that automation was, is and will always be a good thing.

Also, can you tell me what would happen to the work force when most of the jobs in the services sectors will be automated?

Because as I see it, jobs in the agriculture and manufacturing - to greater extent - sectors are almost extinct and their counterparts in the services sector are on the way, the so-called quaternary sector can't absorb all the surplus and masses of labor that will sit idle because the the nature of that sector of the economy is that it's more of capital intensive and labor averse and can't create enough job opportunities to an ever growing human population and work force.

What would be the solution to this problem then?
While I agree that a higher IQ does not nessicarly equate to high wealth every source I could find in a quick Google search seems to show a near linear correlation between IQ and income. I'd say this backs up what the GP was saying. For most very "wealthy" people it is built over many generations and passed down.
This is a great sign, to see so many comments on the topics this article is reaching. It shows a lot to me at least. Thank you all for giving your honest and insightful opinions.
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It's odd because someone is looking for advice and in return were shamed. Being concerned for one's sister is not a shamable offence...yet...uhh...check your privilege or some such.

Funny enough, the slogan "Check Your Privilege" has come full circle and become the battle cry of the Social Justice Warrior, alienating all that are on the receiving end of its blow. Whereas its original intent was to help the receiver do some contextual introspection.
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> Does anyone else see anything a little odd about this piece?

I don't see anything odd about the story nor advice, but I am not American. What do you think is odd about it?
I love to see/hear/read little behind-the-scene tidbits like this about the development of the great games of yore. It lifts the veil (or, the "fog of war" HAHA [sorry]) oh so slightly and lets you in on how the magic was made. Geez... I miss the 90's. I feel old now, but thank you for the skinny on that cheat code.
Political labels are a total disaster. First of all, they promote this kind of ultra-low-resolution discussion where people pattern-match what other say to some political ideology and then dismiss it because that ideology is obviously bad. What we desperately need is to talk about details - whether this or that particular solution is good for that particular problem. For instance - should we internalize emission externalities by instituting a CO₂ tax? If so, then how high and why? Should we offset increasing automation with basic income or something else? Etc. Labeling it all as "communist" and dismissing it wholesale is about the most idiotic thing a human being can do in a discussion.

Secondly, they promote this lunacy in thinking. Instead of trying to understand problems and picking ideas that may work, people adopt ideologies wholesale. "I am a libertarian, therefore I support free market everywhere", whether it makes sense or not. Or conversely, others want to regulate everything because their reasoning is basically "regulation is good". This is not science. It's not even religion. It's mindless tribalism.

I see no other choice for humanity to move forward than trying to isolate that kind of politics from anything meaningful, just like we mostly did with religion in the West. If people want to endlessly debate who patternmatches better to one of their favourite history villains, fine. Let's just keep that type of thinking away from the process of deciding where to build a new nuclear power plant.
In my experience, Eclipse performs far better than IntelliJ and the UI is more responsive. Probably because Eclipse uses SWT instead of Swing (which has another benefits as well, like better font rendering in OS X).
> and the bottom will fall out of the chair market

Please tell me that was intentional?
Waiters and tipped employees are not exempt from minimum wage. They must be paid a wage greater than or equal to minimum wage for every hour they work. Tips can take that wage above minimum, but an absence of tips cannot drop their wage below.

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Glad it was so helpful. Sorry about that shortened text.
Good hint. I tried to run the initial tests Kyle (Aphyr) wrote for Disque in order to debug a problem, and after running Jepsen a few times you realize how cool it is, and you want to run your own tests. However Jepsen is a non trivial system and requires some Clojure skill, so I postponed this activity for later... resorting to simpler systems to test Disque for now. But soon or later I want to spend a few weeks at learning Jepsen and enough Clojure in order to do my tests.

However note that the value of having Kyle testing Disque is not just his ability to use Jepsen well (of course) but also the design of the tests so in order to stress the right things to find bugs. And finally the whole analysis that is performed together with the test. So regardless of the fact I'll learn Jepsen or not I hope Disque will get some official testing with Jepsen. However I understand Kyle is a single person and there is a huge queue of systems to be tested.
Better title would be "Why so many sensitive people are artists" imo. Small change on the first glance but important one.
> I think left vs right means how much you care about people when it comes to their relative power and social status in society. If you don't like power inequality, then you're on the left. If you enjoy it or are indifferent to it, then you're on the right.

But why assume that one's opinion on it has to be scalar? What if I enjoy power inequality in some places (say I prefer a small group of smart people to be in charge of energy policy) but abhor it in other (say I believe politicians should not be above the law, or that corporations should not have so much power over ordinary people, or that many issues should be decided by as direct vote as possible)? Does it make me more left? More right? Or a Schrödinger's cat?

That's the problem with labels. They reduce the multidimensional space of ideas to one-dimensional space and ask you to pick a range on the axis - while what we need to do is to focus on single data points.
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I occasionally rewrite Python+NumPy signal processing code in C++ for purposes of packaging and integration with native apps, so I read these examples with an eye to how they compare with typical C++, rather than with NumPy. They compare very well, and it would never have occurred to me to look into D as a possibility for this sort of code.

I'm guessing the GC might rule it out for many cases where you do signal processing in C++, but I may as well ask: what's the deployment side of things like? Can I easily build a shared library and use it from a C++ application?
You can make as much fun as you want about Germans not setting foot on the lawn because it's verboten, but law (and order) is really a thing here.

When a company openly breaks the law (and is even smug enough to brag about it), most of the people take a strong dislike to it.

Intentionally breaking the law, in order to quickly get too big too punish seems to work in the US sometimes, because "evil government". In Europe you're in for a lot of trouble, because "evil corporation".
>you can't really create a government around it

You say that as if it's a bug and not a feature...

In all seriousness, I'm not sure I understand your claim that it's an impossible form of society. I understand the argument that the US or other existing nation states aren't going to become libertarian societies, but I see no theoretical reason why the creation of such a society is impossible (particularly when sea and space colonies start opening up new frontiers). I think this Startup School presentation by Balaji Srinavasan is relevant: https://youtu.be/cOubCHLXT6A
It's also expensive in resources and by extension energy. Unless your data centre is powered by renewables inefficient code can become an ethical issue.
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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud”

― Émile Zola

A true artist is one who never calls him/herself an artist is my stance. It is usually when society sees a person's works and starts to give positive reviews that the inner artist is unleashed on the world. Sensitivity plays a part, but only insofar as the artist can channel art through the correct medium. If I'm electrosensitive (I constantly get electric shocks for example), then computers are probably the best medium. Someone with an ear for sound would likewise choose musical instruments to mirror back the sound of nature..
Another thing I'd like to point out:
"The company has argued it can add thousands of new jobs to Germany if it is allowed to operate freely"

Since the social net is still pretty strong, there is maybe less pressure to add jobs no matter the cost.

And we as a society need to talk about which jobs are even worth existing. I'm not saying that Uber driver is necessarily a bad job, but "because jobs" is only one important part of the argument. The other parts are "what kind of job?", "what wages?", "what kinds of externalities?", sometimes even human dignity.
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Just two examples of such PEBCAK quality:

- Using a for loop to copy array contents instead of System.arraycopy()

- Doing everything on the main thread in Swing

There are plenty more that I can list and they never have anything to do with JDK versions.
> I can't think of anyone who participates in nightlife successfully who doesn't at least get a little buzzed when out.

Well, Kendrick Lamar comes to mind
Is it just because it's an excerpt, or do these researchers have serious blinders on? How about other hypotheses like:

- Michael Jackson's father beat him for mistakes.

- Performers try to connect with their audience. "Sensitivity" is a bundle of things which helps chances of success, at least if you don't have a big professional team creating your songs.

- People with some experience of unalienated labor ("imagining things and then bringing them into being" and a balance of imaginatively creating both people and artifacts [1]) don't have to deaden themselves as more alienated laborers must.

[1] From David Graeber's "Direct Action: an Ethnography" and "Dead zones of the imagination".
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