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> The definition is not complicated: have key industrial assets, notably transport infrastructure, owned by public authorities.

Many socialist ideologies reject the very idea of public authorities. Talking about them owned by the public would work better, but would exclude many other socialist ideologies.

E.g. Saint Simons original socialism involved a technocratic society where the actual key change was that people would be paid according to merit.

In Marxism too, that is the key defining aspect of socialism: Marxism sees the capitalist as not contributing work, but capital, and hence he's overpaid if measured by the merit of his work. (Marx was very clear on the distinction between socialism and communism as an end stage of a long period of development here: socialism would not involve full redistribution, but a process of redistribution by first levelling thing by paying people by merit, and then evening things out further by changing to pay based on need).

Public ownership in Marxism, is not a requirement per-se, but is seen as a consequence of the intent of giving everyone control over their own work and ensuring everyone is paid on merit.

This is the same in many other socialist ideologies, and hence you will also find distinctly socialist ideologies that accepts full private ownership, but instead e.g. relied on heavily progressive taxation as a means of reducing the difference.

You would be sort-of right that many socialist ideologies do share that characteristic, but it is not sufficient nor necessary in all instances.
I dont know about pixelation, but gaussian blur can be undone mathematically. Pixelation at least destroys the vast majority of the information.
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What? http://githut.info/ 5 out of the 6 top languages on Github are OOP(not counting CSS). And PHP still supports OOP. Pretty much if you want to create an app for web/mobile/desktop with one of the most common languages you are going to end up using OOP. How can you "never need it"?
I don't know about the article, I'm going to read it now, but the title is genial.
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To give a concrete example:

My company deploys wireless sensor networks. Each sensor periodically reports its battery status, which we store in a database so we can see which sensors need their battery replaced.

Recently we found out that some batteries run empty much quicker than expected. The hardware vendor asked us for 'all battery updates for the past year or so'. We didn't save those; each update was just replacing the current value in the database. So it becomes very hard to diagnose this problem because the historic data is lost.
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And also flight routes - I'd rather fly with a stopover in Singapore than a stopover in Dubai.
That's a terrible book (and series) to learn from, the level of visual clutter on each page distracts from the actual task of learning anything. I had a copy of "Head First Design Patterns" and after only a few pages I thought my eyes were going to fall out.

I found Bruce Eckel's "Thinking In Java" useful back in day to learn OO programming and concepts. Much of what you learn is transferable to other languages.
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I've got to say I've had the opposite experience, moving from London to rural England, where a car is necessary to have any sort of flexibility (to go to work, shop, take kids to nursery etc).

I'm learning to hate cars. The damn things are a time sink. In the UK we have to take cars for MOT each year and generally we service once a year. That's two half days gone, but I try to make best use of the time by working in a coffee shop while it happens.

Then there are the unforeseen things. Door locks breaking. Tyre replacements. Punctures. Remembering to top up the air in the tyres. Washing them (I pay for someone to do this, but it's still something on your mind). Replacing wipers. And the wiper fluid of course. Checking oil and tyre pressure.

Just the sheer time I spend in petrol stations. Why aren't all petrol stations self pay? I try to avoid ones where I have to go into a shop but it's not always possible.

Insurance. Oh great, the yearly "you raised my premium 10% but I can see I can get it cheaper online" phone call. I resent having to make this.

And then there's the cost.

Sorry, that turned into a rant.
Summary of decent complaints:

1. Intelligence is mostly heritable anyway.

2. Academic achievement doesn't have that much to do with intelligence.

3. Different people have different priorities, you might find that after a childhood and adolescence of you trying to make them "super smart", they will finally tell you that they don't give a damn and never will.

I think I'm probably fairly intelligent; but I honestly don't have enormous ambitions, I just want to have a child in the next 5-7 years, and not fail him or her.
> The former believe in normal multi-party states with free elections.

A whole lot of the people who consider themselves communist do too. In fact, the Bolsheviks murdered a huge number (tens of thousands is a very low end estimate) of communists who opposed them and who supported multi-party democracy.

Including a whole lot of communists who were members of the socialist parties that beat them in the elections to the constituent assembly shortly before their coup, but they also ended up murdering tens of thousands of members of their own party who opposed the authoritarian turn it took.
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You will find that the entirety of the legal system, the world over, is like this.

Asm/C/C++/similar programmers have no problem with the concept of pointers and one or more levels of indirection, but the gap between indirection abstraction and judicial practice likely stems from having to use statistical inference to apply the concept in law enforcement, and that's a judicial show-stopper for generally sound reasons in much of criminal law. We might be seeing some of the complexity of some classes of white collar crime and their fast-moving evolution vastly outstrip judicial concepts rooted in more prosaic criminal activities, with a simple single level of indirection capable of stymieing most laws aimed at sophisticated white collar crime.

Pretty much anytime you see laws and regulations erected to prevent white collar crime above a certain level of sophistication (perhaps way above check kiting, and somewhat below securities fraud), if you look for ways to factor responsibilities and roles between separated parties and add one or more levels of indirection, then you will have found a way to flout law with impunity. As long as you are familiar with the lay of the legal and regulatory land, it is (for programmers) a fairly simple algorithm to defeat these laws. It raises the buy-in cost of the scam, but that just raises barriers to entry to competitors for those who are in on the scam. The scammers are way faster adapting than the judicial system. It is analogous to the cat and mouse game between designer drugs versus drug enforcement agencies, but far more consistently profitable for the scammers, much, much faster evolution on the scammers' side of the equation, considerably more insurance/protection angles for the scammers (in both legal, regulatory and political forms), and immensely more damaging to average people.
Part of the problem is that lobbying is explicitly protected by the 1st amendment.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"

How would one prohibit lobbying without also prohibiting petitioning for a redress of grievances?
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Compounded with the current (IT) expectation that you should do and be everything for your job. It should be the first thing you look at when the alarm goes off, and the last thing you look at when you go to bed, and at 2pm on Saturday...work work work.

But then you're made redundant in the name of 'finding inefficiencies' due to the merger and find yourself with...nothing outside the office that defines you.
I'd prefer if these emulators would just run in a sandbox so an exploit could affect your save files and nothing more. They are so complicated there will always be bugs.
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Is this actually true? Can you give an example of a dumb or distracting or obnoxiously obtrusive ad that got whitelisted for pay?
China actually tried to formalize this some time ago. Every citizen would get a citizen score, like our credit ratings, but grading how politically loyal they were

North Korea actually did it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbun
Some parts are colder than the south of England, see Burgos and surroundings (not to mention the Pyrenees with 3K high peaks!).
Actually our physiology, may constrain us to this type of behaviour, throught the inner reward system that releases certain dopamine and other "feel good" neurotransmitters only after a certain level of effort / stress has beed detected, that is after high levels of cortisol, which is connected to stress .

This is of course a very simplistic description and by no means explains the result but it may play an important role.

This is a mechanism evolved since our existence in the wilderness and may have very different/negative results in our modern lives if not filtered through higher level mental functions. But anyway giving the fact that it's such a low level mechanism is hard to control it totally..
I also just find that a lot of the implementation of the comments is horrible.

For one, that it's somehow and for whatever reason linked together with Google+. Far too often, I have to read through a sea of +-syntax, which makes no sense from the YouTube-side. And when people share a YouTube-video on Google+, apparently the text with what they've shared it, shows up in the YouTube-comments. I don't need to know that jeffmeyers told +sandrasmith, +thomasthomasson and +phillipmuller to watch the video that I just watched. That's not relevant for the discussion about the video.

Then something really basic that you could reasonably expect webpages to have figured out since the early 2000s. Shortening comments properly. I don't need a comment shortened when the part that you've cut off is only 1 line. Not even if it's 5 lines. That's just annoying. But somehow Google has managed to implement the single most naive implementation of comment shortening.

Next thing is the thread-system that they have going on. I still have not figured out how the comments inside a thread are ordered. Most of the time, they seem to be chronologically ordered, but occasionally you see people replying to other people who have commented further down in the chain. That their time stamps are only as precise as the next bigger time-frame ("2 weeks ago", "6 months ago", "1 year ago") doesn't help either.

And then their tagging system. It's a naive "+username"-text in the comment text. If the user changes their user name, then good luck trying to trace it back. Also, they allow user names with spaces in them, meaning that it's often hard to figure out what's part of the user-tag and what's part of the actual comment-text. If they had a less naive tagging system with proper identifiers behind the user names, they could highlight what the user-tag is and dynamically load in the correct user name.
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If you're actually serious about cutting down your work week, check out the book 4 Hour Work Week. It's not perfect, but at least does a good job at entertaining the idea.
Because actual quid-pro-quo bribery is illegal and is distinct from the activity taking place.
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The mini 2 is also a 64 bit processor, basically a shrunken ipad Air or 5s, where the mini 1 was a shrunken ipad 2.

They're completely different machines in practice.
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The “I need accommodation” crowd is bigger than the “I need accommodation and want to live among locals” crowd. They cater to the bigger crowd.
Because Eclipse is not an advanced text editor and more of a weird platform experiment. Every time I have to leave emacs(or vi) for a defaulted Eclipse I get wrist pain (how ironic).
Is it though?

If you start tampering with the hardware of the car to splice in this box, will your insurance cover even in normal situations?
What was the language mode set to?
Look at the bottom right, or use ctrl + k, m to open the dialog.
Right now i do iOS development mostly in pure C, outside of the unavoidable Objective-C. So i do have the right experience.

The issue with OOP is that as soon as you introduce inheritance, and things like virtual functions, you’re introducing variable program behaviour based on context. And most of the time you end up having to special-case things up in the hierarchy because nothing ever goes as you envisioned it.

Structuring your code so that you have simple data and code that operates on the data means that what’s happening in the code at a particular time is always explicit, and any deviations based on objects the code operates on are right there in front of you, not hidden in 4 virtual function implementations in different files.

It’s all special-case code you have to write anyway, but if written in OOP fashion, the complexity of it is most of the time unclear, and it’s hard to judge what code will actually be doing just by glancing at it.
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That sucks. We have one target for the store and one target that uses our enterprise provision we use for internal testing. I suppose we can just use test flight now.
I was half joking, but I think there is something to be said for biological computation far beyond the capabilities of silicon, that we may be able to ultimately harness with better BCIs (brain-computer interface). Imagine Goldman Sachs running market predictions on huge banks of invertebrates hooked up to neural network HFT algorithms, literally earning the name "vampire squid" :)

I think the ethics of something like this is a very challenging area. Legally, cephalopods already enjoy some protection in the EU against scientific experiments that can cause pain - http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...

However we readily eat squid and octopus, to the point of endangering them. We breed chicken and other animals in factories, in the case of battery hen from hatching to killing them in 72 weeks max (about 10% of their normal life span), in often horrific conditions.

Would using octopuses be more ethical than chimps, since they lack a spine and are genetically further from us? What if the octopuses were bred on a farm instead of captured in the wild? What if instead of whole animals, just the nervous system structures were grown in culture?
You could argue programmers in most countries get compensated for that risk of sitting all day. But most office workers do not.
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They are not really busy, but it is one of the best socially-accepted excuses.
If you include other agencies or even the whole military-industrial complex, it seems to me that they are both source and solution to the problem. With Saddam still in Iraq, ISIS would not be a thing and there would not be a need for intelligence on them. Doing less can be more.

The usual justification for invading becomes ridiculous in that context: We need to restrict the people's freedom by spying on them, because we tried to bring freedom to another country.
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For what it's worth, the motive to have children at all is entirely selfish and that should be fine. There is nobody else in the world who cares if you have kids. If you do have kids it had better be for your own reasons, or you'll just give up (as many do). This can sound inhumane, and I certainly didn't have a good childhood, but if people keep kidding themselves they're going to keep realizing this after they've had kids.
> Let's put aside the fact that patenting a fucking molecule is even a thing

Assuming you don't find fault with the mere concept of patents, I am legitimately curious why patenting a molecule shouldn't also be possible.
Because an app being on the App Store creates an expectation that cannot be met without the sandbox.

Without the source code and large amounts of resources it is not possible to determine whether an app is malicious or not. The only way would be for Apple to trust that developers actually do what they say they do. The unfortunate reality is that they cannot be trusted. I don't blame Apple for not taking that responsibility. Unfortunately that means the responsibility ends up with the user who cannot make the determination either. Such is life.
Of course not a single one of the countries you are referring to consider their countries to be communist, but socialist.
I think what you are experiencing in Spain is kakonomics, a preference for low quality pay-offs.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37108240
> 20+ years is way too long a term

I've heard that the approvals process eats up almost half of those years. (Or if not the approvals process, then something that's going on after they get the patent but before they're allowed to sell it.)
I used to believe this, now a little bit less, at a certain age I'd say our brain takes pride/comfort into being a fair social agent (not a child anymore). You try to be independant while collaborating with others and satisfy your needs mutually. Society just amplified that trait.

- my 2 cents.
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The only thing that can drive prices down is competition. No competition — no price reduction. Economy 101.
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That is not true. SMS messages arrive as long as the phone is online, regardless of location.
Needs (1998) added to the end of the title.
Presumably OP is thinking of libel laws, because accusing someone of talking a bribe is tantamount to accusing them of breaking one of any amount of anti-corruption laws. I'm (extremely) doubtful of the claim since the plaintiff would have to prove in a court of law that bribery can only possibly refer to a specific action (breaking one of the above laws) that he did not commit.

Though the threat of a lawsuit may be enough.
Its probably built into their old school model that even if they could do firmware updates (likely still via USB), that they don't in order to get you to replace the entire vehicle sooner. Just speculating
The original author's distribution of time over responsibilities is not identical to mine, but it's similar enough to make me wonder where you're getting those 6 hours from. I'm not saying it's "weird," in fact I think it sounds lovely. But I doubt I could find six contiguous free hours in the next six months, except maybe if I spend my holidays with my in-laws.

Edit: typing on phone
This usually madness for production projects, unless you're Apple (or Microsoft in the 90s).

But I wish Python 3 did the same with its libraries.
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That's a corner stone of comedic value. It is to pretend you aren't intending to joke and landing on one.
Fascinating, but can someone explain why the text reads

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What does that "VIAGRA" (on a small caps font) do there?
Your comment puts Snowden's actions in perspective. He risked his liberty, if not life, so that we could learn about the scope of US mass surveillance.

You worry about the risk of being registered as a Snowden sympathizer if you voice your support and the discomfort that might bring with it.

Democracy and rule of law doesn't come for free.
> epi pens are off patent and there are many competing companies in Europe, but the FDA refuses to approve any of them

Not entirely true: there's adrenaclick. But if a doctor writes "epipen", the pharmacist isn't allowed to give you an adrenaclick, even though that kind of substitution is usually allowed. http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...
"If you're not busy, why don't you help me doing this thing that we both kinda like? (but I have to do for reasons other than pure enjoyment)"

I think that social acceptance sums up into that sentence here.
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> ... hedging and differentiation ...

How is the distinction hard to understand? Socialism is a system characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to capitalism, which is characterised by private ownership of the means of production. Both are ideologies.

You could have compared to Soviet or East Germany directly if you wanted to make a point about totalitarian regimes.

Also, I'm pretty sure Germans don't consider socialism to be an authoritarian ideology. Maybe you're confusing it with national socialism (nationalsozialismus => nazism).
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Falsely claiming that a company committed a crime might run afoul of libel laws? That's the only thing I can think of.
I wish we could sign as citizens of other countries.
While an opposable thumb is very useful, I don't think it's necessary for "practicing" intelligence. Cut a man's thumbs off and he'll be seriously impaired, but hardly so much that society couldn't develop tool use, agriculture and technology.

I feel opposable thumbs tend to be brought up on the logic of "this is one of many features unique to humans, therefore it must be related to the important feature unique to humans, which is intelligence". In this case it's not even unique to humans: all Old World monkeys and apes have opposable thumbs to one degree or another.
Hardware for Oracle and PostgreSQL are different. We used to have big boxes for Oracle with lots of memory, SSD disks and rigid economy of CPU (small number of very fast cores because Oracle is licenced per CPU cores). And that hardware was really efficiently used in consuming nearly all system resources (CPU, I/O, disk space and even network bandwidth).

For PostgreSQL we use commodity servers and right now they are not really efficiently balanced (i.e. on some hosts we don't have enough disk space but other resources are utilized ~30%). So we are working on improving that. But I can't tell you exact numbers of hosts for Oracle or PostgreSQL (which is actually ~x3 from Oracle hosts number :)).
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