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Once again, debates over definitions completely derail any sensible discussion of socialism. The word "markets" as used by people criticizing command economies for not having them does not simply mean "places where radishes are kept with numbers attached to them".

It is perfectly reasonable to use the term "market" that way. After all, what else would you call a place where radishes are stored with price tags? But that's not what the person arguing with you is saying, and trying to rebut them based on an alternate definition is unproductive.
Public school systems construct stadiums and fund football teams.

Private universities also construct stadiums and fund football(and other sport) team.

Why should a sport team has anything to do with an educational facility? How does a football team...say...further the education of its college students?
Currently, yes.

Currently, aeons-decomposed dinosaurs are still plentiful enough that we're profligately burning them, at our own peril, too.

Both of those things will change.
> I don't recall the last time the marauding hoards of barbarians came through and took all the women and children and burned all the crops

This happened very recently to the Yazidi people, but maybe it didn't happen to you. The only difference is they killed all the men too.
Usually you start by some functional sharding (giving each team of services their own Prometheus servers), but also having per-datacenter Prometheus servers and then some hierarchical federation layer ontop of that. There's no built-in automatic horizontal scaling though (which would be going against the design goal of not having a clustered system, for reliability).

Some resources:

- Scaling in general: http://www.robustperception.io/scaling-and-federating-promet...

- Federation: https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/federation/
I also dislike the term serverless. It's confusing, doesn't relay the information it should. I can't suggest a good replacement, but it's painfully obvious that even here, most people commenting don't actually know what serverless means and what its implications are.

Serverless really is an auto-scalable distributed infrastructure, perfect for small CPU-intensive tasks in an app which doesn't know how many CPUs it'll need at any one time.
Just registered this account to discuss. This is something I worry about, I am a 31 year old dev, only learned to code 5 years ago. I smoke around 28 grams of strong cannabis (kush and haze) a week. Between the ages of 17-25 every weekend consisted either cocaine, ecstasy, mdma, ketamine or whatever really. I currently feel as although I'm playing with as much tech as ever I can't hold as much state in my head when developing and resort to the debugger a lot more. My cannabis intake has gone up in the past year probably. You think its the bud?
Just because a country has high taxes and a social safety net doesn't mean its socialist.

Socialism is collective ownership of the means of production. Which always has significant societal drawbacks.
"Unemployment sharply reduced": you and I both know that is nonsense. The way unemployment is measured is completely illogical.

"Iraq and Afghanistan wars ended": He's continued to murder literally hundreds of people with his drone strikes. He is the opposite of a peaceful president.

"In the process of being closed": haha. He signed the NDAA. It is now harder to close than ever.

"Torture ended": Not really[1].

[1]:http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/12/has-obama-bann...
Thanks, I will give it a try again, but the last time I didn't like the UI.
I wonder if it would be more economically efficient for security teams to turn into insurance companies. So companies selling books over the internet would fire their security teams and instead buy a insurance policy against any intrusions, have the security company scour their systems for vulnerabilities during underwriting, and then pay a monthly fee and upkeep while the security company is held liable for any security intrusions.

The book company could then buy a standard product as a simple cost, while the security company attaches direct revenue to effective security.

I guess the IT/security company would need to run your infrastructure to be able to set up monitoring and such?
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What if the web had the equivalent of 900 numbers. Something like http900://foo.bar.com
There's no such thing as Socialism in a free market, that's a contradiction in terms. Socialism means non-free market, and uses extreme violence to accomplish its ends of nationalizing wealth and production (which are inherently linked). And indeed, very liberal applications of force is the sole means to accomplish such a thing, which is why all attempts at Socialism throughout history always involved the equivalent end result of a dictatorship and extremely violent suppression of the population.

Socialism requires at a minimum the nationalization of the means of production. If what you're talking about doesn't involve that, then what you're talking about isn't Socialism.
"Socialism" has a clear, simple definition. Socialism is the ownership and control of the means of production by the government for the people.

Its the mis-use of the term socialism and the details of actually implementing government ownership of the means of production that makes discussions so confusing. To pick a few examples, Obamacare is not socialism. Government assistance, as implemented in the US, is not socialism. A state run oil company, on the other hand, may be part of a socialist economy.
You raise an interesting point...

As an adult male there is a bit of a stigma around men mentoring younger women. At least in the U.S. we often assume a sexual context when we see older men with younger woman (older could mean 20 vs 16 not necessary a huge gap) when it often times may actually be a professional interest. I know of many men who will not mentor younger woman because "how it will look" to others and their significant others. Which is really unfortunate.

On the other hand, I have also seen many many situations which I'd call sexual harassment. Which is also unfortunate (to say the least) and discourages woman from participating in STEM.

There is not enough context here to know which it was. I'm guessing the later.
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It is also in some way, a disaster, but I think that's more about implementation rather than the use of public money.
So my car is engineless if I never look under the hood?
Mostly Android nowadays, far as I'm aware.
We're currently exploring lambda for certain applications as well. My coworker wrote up a nice little post about it:

https://product.reverb.com/2016/07/16/deploying-lambdas-with...
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Do I understand you accurately to be saying "if you want participate in a debate with me on my terms you're i part responsible for all the evils of state-run economies"?
For straight up data analysis R over python every time but the flip is python is a better gateway to more mainstream programming (IMO).

At the end of the day motivation is the most important thing though. It seems likely that R will better fit your current interests and hence make you more likely to continue the journey so I'd go that way
An old LKML message that perhaps conveys why / how this is important: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/20/255

I think we often forget that sometimes, even just reporting bugs can be incredibly valuable, much less fixing them. Sure a lot of this is thankless work, but many OSS projects don't even get bug reports when they need them most.
The UI is great. But if you do not like it, customize it, either with massive CSS rewrites or the built inside customization options.
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So there you go. That's how Communism is compatible with democracy. It burns the same fuel: the promise of mass political power.
If you can find a copy, read Steeltown USSR

https://www.amazon.com/Steeltown-USSR-Soviet-Society-Gorbach...

The factory was producing substandard steel. Often they'd ship it to customers and it would arrive in an unusable condition because it had been stored outside and was more rust than steel. But they'd try and use it anyway, because if they complained the bureaucrats in Moscow would brand them troublemakers and route the next shipment to someone else and then they wouldn't meet their production goals, which meant their pay would be drastically cut, and their family would starve.

Your "blue shirt vs. tan shirt" is absurdly simplistic, and makes enormous incorrect assumptions, like "Is there even a shirt there to buy that day?"

Some other reading for you would be about Krushchev's visit to the US in the 1950's. He visited a few supermarkets and assumed that they had been set up just for his visit (Potemkin villages) as that was what the Soviet Union would have done. Because having that much product on the shelves was absurd.

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/090611...
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What the hell is an elite in this context? I keep hearing this but can't figure out wat it means concretely
Researchers create a kilobyte of rewritable atom-sized memory
Not necessarily overkill; maybe they wanted to learn how to use neural networks and this was a good project to do that. Simple is best for professional projects, but for personal projects like this it's better for you to explore something you don't know already for learning purposes.
I expected the article to be about the goodness of some peer-to-peer architecture that doesn't require central servers, not a twisted definition of cloud computing.
> "Unemployment sharply reduced": you and I both know that is nonsense. The way unemployment is measured is completely illogical.

I disagree. Both the primary and alternative official measures of labor force underutilization are logical; each of them may sometimes be referenced in situations where the particular measure referenced is not the most appropriate measure, but those are illogical uses of the measures, not signs that the measures themselves are illogical. If you think that there is a more appropriate measure relevant to this context that shows the opposite of what was contended, then you should present it at be prepared to defend your position that it is a more appropriate measure.
As someone who lives next door to Venezuela, it seems to me the situation over there has really hit the proverbial fan.

Venezuela has been in a disastrous economic situation for years, but nowhere as bad what we are seeing these days.

Just yesterday their government opened the border with Colombia for 12 hours (they have kept it closed for a year) and about 125 thousand people crossed into Colombia to buy basic groceries and medicines. 30% did not cross back.
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Yes, I have to collect metrics in a very restricted and separated production environment then ship them over to a completely separate system for reporting. My impression is that Prometheus just isn't the right fit.
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The People's Democratic Republic of North Korea considers itself 'democratic' - it's even in the name!
Spotify, in general, appears to consider accounts disposable. I think I saw something about this getting better recently, but a few months ago the only way to move my paid account to a family subscription was to delete the old account and create new accounts for everyone I wanted in the family plan.
> It may be that the weapon is completely armed at that point, save for a failsafe tied to the rack that keeps the bomb from going off when still attached to the aircraft.

Weird. This would make these modern weapons a lot less safe than some of the bombs we've lost (without catastrophe) in B-52 incidents over the years.
There's two in my list, both recent:

* "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble" by Dan Lyons

* "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez

Haven't read either yet, and it's not about the early 2000s. But they've been getting a lot of press and some good reviews.
This was the progenitor of other such classics as gorilla.bas. I liked that it was "poorly" written, as it made it accessible - and I made the leap from c64/amiga/acorn to ms-dos because I knew there was at least one language (basic) on there that I could use.

Promptly after switching I learned c and never looked back, but there's a lot to be said for what these early open-source (ykwim) games unlocked.

Hell, I started coding because I wanted to play games, and could only do so by copying them into a micro from a magazine (storage media was prohibited) - and fairly promptly wanted to cheat - and before I even really realised, was writing my own games and finding holes in the micro's interpreter that could cause entertaining crashes (I still fondly remember the look of panic on the geography (that was the nearest thing to computers, I guess?) teacher's face on coming into a lab (air raid shelter) full of vdus displaying a garbled mess).

So yeah, "bad" code can be great to learn from at an early level.

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Is it possible that maybe the US military have gone on to alternative methods of hiding their identity. If the NSA can mandate backdoor access to every data centre in the country then couldn't they work with the military to use those backdoors to hide their own identities. To an observer it looks like someone is accessing Google but in actuality it's a CIA field agent sending top secret information to the Pentagon using a backdoor in a Google data centre.
Additionally, the Venezuelan crude is generally viewed as a low quality product. It's not as suitable for many applications. So when prices drop it's one of the first products to get pushed out of the market

But why talk about that when we can have silly ideological arguments over the merits of communism and capitalism instead
I think it's basically a stateless PaaS/microservice with a set of constrains/APIs on top. The BaaS/Serveless architectures also seem to have their own sub-categories based on the constrains/target. Some are fat(i.e. a kind of full blown PaaS with a common/advanced API gateway on top like parse.com) and others are lightweight(i.e. amazon lambda) meant to run as a function(e.g. update a record on event changes). In the end they are various abstractions that hopefully will improve the security and help you to manage your infrastructure easier.
vim and emacs provides that. with vim, you can yank go to where you want to paste it and insert in in. if you want to see it visually you can use the v command, in emacs, it's called yank-pop.
Then the federal government should stop attempting to control it... That is literally my gripe. The Fed and things like QE (ignoring regulation all together) have been extremely harmful. He has done nothing but perpetuate the nonsense.

On your second point; that is extremely subjective. But even still, that should make me feel lucky?!
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/world/americas/a-mexican-m...

"The Mexican government drew fire from American advocates of tighter borders on Wednesday for publishing a pamphlet that instructs migrants how to safely enter the United States illegally and live there without being detected."

So, is that explicitly sending rapists and criminals? No. But it is providing information for criminals on how to evade US border patrol and illegally enter the United States.
He also murdered millions of peasants he saw no use for since rice farming was not on their list of priorities.

When conquering China it was often the case that academics were the first on the chopping block since they were presumably the ones most likely to cause trouble.

So yeah, he fixed the economy?
I don't think it's absurd, because it's happened:

http://adst.org/2015/04/a-flood-of-cuban-migrants-the-mariel...

> more than 125,000 Cubans fled their country and overwhelmed the shores of the U.S. Castro, whose façade of popularity and support was badly shaken, then upped the ante by allowing thousands of criminals and mental patients to leave as well. The Mariel boatlift was ended in October by mutual agreement between the U.S. and Cuba. However, South Florida had to contend with the repercussions for years to come, including a marked increase in crime (which, among other things, influenced the plot for the 1983 remake of the hyper-violent movie classic Scarface.)

Yes, other countries have gamed the immigration system before and could do so again (if they're not already currently).

Here's some more reason for concern:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...

> "in Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide are for illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens" and that "60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in Southern California" were illegal aliens, based on a "confidential California Department of Justice study."[194]
I think Fowler tends to do this in general. Here's a comment from 2 years ago I posted along the same lines:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2051mx/microse...

(And yes, 2 years ago I was a little more violent with my wording. Time has taught me things.)
vim, supports multiple yanks in it's registers, and so does emac.
Maybe a better way to say it was that Microsoft wasn't especially evil.

There were some examples in that book of companies that did MUCH shadier stuff than, say, Microsoft shipping IE with Windows.
Especially aerodynamics. Modeling fluids alone is very hard and intensive, and that's before you model surface interaction, possible ablation, temperature, shock, and all the other forces present in a dynamic situation.

Not doing any x-ray testing would be completely negligent.
You've got the effect of additional mass on the stages backwards. Additional mass on the first stage is bad, but additional mass on the second stage reduces payload in greater proportion.

Mass on the second stage is on the rocket during both 1st and 2nd stage burns, while you get to leave 1st stage mass behind for the 2nd stage burn.
> If history is a guide.

Could you elaborate on this ?

I agree the size and complexity could increase, but so could the number features in the apps. Since all such apps would be reusing the same code base, wouldn't this increase abstraction and reduce implementation hours ?
Now it's going to start reporting to (new) mothership. Whatever that means.
In the 1930s the US was also busy having famines that claimed millions of lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
It's more complicated even than this, and, unfortunately, that means your argument isn't dispositive. There is, for instance, "market socialism", which describes public/private cooperatives. Sweden would call itself a "social democracy", rather than a "socialist country", but Sweden does some things that clearly cross the line in ownership and control of the means of production for some industries. Moreover: most countries with single-payer health care --- the UK, Canada, France --- have state control over one of the most important sectors of the economy! By your definition, they're (at least in part) socialist countries. But they would dispute the characterization.

It's not other people who are causing these problems by incorrectly using the terms. It's that reliably using the term "socialism" with any precision requires so much clunky verbiage that nobody --- on either side --- can use it correctly. When we use the term or see it used, we should raise a flag so that we all understand it's ambiguous, and leave it at that.

For what it's worth: by no definition does it make sense to call Obamacare "socialist".
I believe it's about housing in Singapore.
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Didn't know that you could just use 'A' to append to the end of a line instead of doing '$a'. Neat!
I really appreciate your advice Jake. I will stick to R. Do you have experience with R?
I agree with your comparison, but with real life data, our return on one specific property (therefore not necessarily a pattern, granted) is 13%.

As to your second observation, I look for cashflow, appreciation is just a side (but not necessary) benefit. Appreciation gains depend on selling to the market, and with a shorter timespan for the deal, is usually referred to as flipping.

To me, flipping is similar to speculation.

Cashflow is similar to investing in a business/going concern. The value of the business can go up or down, but the monthly payments keep showing up in my bank account.

The article talked about investing, but I would rarely consider one's personal home an investment for reliable financial gain. Far too many costs involved that are not offset by income, until the final sale. And the sale _might very well_ depend on timing and other people's (market) opinion to get the most return - Not something I want to depend on.

So for me, the way I invest, real estate has been a rewarding investment.
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I'm not suggesting they're the same thing at all. They're just the best approximation I could quickly find any decent statistics for.

What were these higher rates you refer to? Were they as high as would be expected if humans 'enthusiastically' interbred, or even as high as would be expected if humans had no preference one way or the other?
Uhhhh what about the metric of most civilians slaughtered? Just sayin' .... which metrics here constitute "success"?
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It's easy to believe though. Most Americans watch TV to indulge in escapist Beverley Hills (sp?) fantasies, not to see a mirror image of their own dull, drab life. They also tend to believe that these "celebrities" deserve their riches because of their charisma or their athletic ability, MUCH more so than your average white collar yuppie who climbed the social ladder IRL deserves anything.
You can be prepped up the wazoo and if a Venezuela goes down in your backyard what are you going to do? Hide out in your basement and eat tinned tuna?

The best "preparation" is looking ahead and living in a place that isn't about to go to shit. Having a plane ticket and a passport is infinitely more valuable than a bucket of bullets and a gun.
That depends - but yeah, those situations can be tricky sometimes.

If you are pushing metric states regularly though (more than every 5m) or don't set client-side timestamps, that usually works though. But maybe you have an even more special use case there regarding those metrics and the staleness?
No one had a monopoly on "creating the internet". The government pays for basic, fundamental research, and as a consequence of those investments a new technology we call The Internet was created. A good use of public money, but trying to use the invention of the internet to argue that the US government is controlling the economy is a total misunderstanding of basic facts.
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But Vivaldi == "We use JavaScript and React to create the user interface with the help of Node.js and a long list of NPM modules. Vivaldi is the web built with the web.". Which again equals: do I really want to trust that browser knowing how NPM modules are basically the least secure thing ever?
Yeah I see what he's getting at in the sense that Python is more regular and compositional, while Perl is more personal and "poetic" (if I'm to be charitable, I don't really like that quality in my code).

But "Python has always considered itself institution-centric" is patently FALSE... as I said, if you were using Python 10+ years ago, when Perl was more popular, you would find that statement very surprising.

Paul Graham even wrote about this: http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html