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Marx didn't plan for lower prices.

Marx' theory starts with the same assumption as those arguing for basic income: That labour will eventually - as a natural effect of the drive of capitalism to compete - need to be automated away or squeezed on income, until capitalism faces the dual thread of causing mass unemployment (and so unrest) and too high manufacturing capacity (by driving incomes and employment down and so killing demand). This is outlined many places, but most prominently in the Communist Manifesto.

If that gets bad enough to lead to revolution, Marx "plan" was for a socialist government to use methods such as extremely progressive taxation and the like to basically drive capitalists into the working class. This is outlined in the Communist Manifesto and Critique of the Gotha Programme and many other places.

Once this leads to the end of class rule, Marx believed society would eventually take advantage of the overcapacity built by capitalism to allow distribution according to need. This is also covered in the Communist Manifesto, but expanded on at length in the Critique of the Gotha Programme.

Marx did make the assumption that class struggle will cease if everyone basic needs are met, but he also cautioned a number of places, and most notably in The German Ideology, that attempting redistribution in a society that was not sufficiently advanced to be able to meet the needs of everyone would just restart the class struggle all over again.

You may be right that the threshold for what people "need" before they will be satisfied may be higher than what Marx may have thought, but the point Marx made was not that people won't want more, but at some point peoples willingness to fight for a bigger share than what others get will be lower than such a society's willingness and ability to resist special treatment. Where exactly that point would be, we don't know.

The more immediately relevant question is whether Marx' prediction of capitalist boom and bust cycles eventually running out of control and driving unemployment so out of control as to trigger revolutions will prove correct.

Basic income would be a simple way of proving him wrong, by creating a safety net that would prevent things from getting bad enough to trigger revolutions.

Marx argument there is that the ruling classes will resist these types of redistribution, with violence if necessary, and that is the reason for the Marxist idea that revolutions are in general necessary - it comes not from any idea that they are desirable, but from an assumption that any working class majority for large scale redistribution will be faced with an army. If that proves wrong, then that pulls the rug under large parts of Marx' historical materialism (the idea that history is defined in part by the predominant modes of production, and that these inevitably evolve in certain ways culminating with the end of class rule).
Most actual experts don't have the time or interest to amass points on some website. Just like with Reddit moderators, the type of person that is willing to devote a substantial amount of time to rule over an Internet fiefdom often has some personality problem. Add to this the fact that Asperger-like personalities are quite common in the IT field to begin with.
> * There is a non-trivial amount of money coming in from other countries to bid up property as well.

And how many of them were engineers moving over for jobs? It's not just Californians relocating from nearby communities, sure -- I moved from Canada (via a few years in New York), for example. But it's unlikely to be some foreign absentee landlord.
So basicly, let's deploy UBI, and if people want to work 3-4 day weeks, it is up to them. I agree with this idea, and it clears up the work-no-work part of my argument. I just felt that UBI is such a big step, that just lowering the number of weekly hours had a precedent (from 7 to current 5 days a week) and was not associated with a more leftist sentiment, thus being easier to pass.
The default encryption on Ubuntu, if you select 'Encrypt my home folder' during setup, uses ecryptfs on your home folder, and cryptswap for swap. For some reason, /tmp/ isn't encrypted by default as far as I can tell.

AFAIK the main benefit is: if you want to run a multi-user or headless system, you need the network stack brought up before a password is entered - which home directory encryption provides and FDE can't.
Does Project Galileo cover political expression you consider problematic though? It's easy to support free speech with which you agree. The real test is whether you support it when it's reprehensible
I've found the Postgres docs almost always more informative, clearer, and more correct than anything I find on SO. The only exceptions are for "how can I achieve this goal" questions, instead of the much more common "how can I implement this idea" ones.

Most useful info about Python from SO are pointers to the official docs in content-free answers. What is very valuable, because the docs are hard to navigate, but not what is expected.

About Haskell, C, or Perl, I currently ignore SO links, it's just less bother to go to the next result, and way more likely to get something useful.

But for Javascript, .Net, MS SQL, and a lot of other random stuff, SO is unbeatable.
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Modeling Alvin Lucier's “I Am Sitting in a Room”
GK Chesterton:

> That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones.
No, pretty much all of them know prop 13's a serious problem. You can't repeal prop 13 except at the ballot, which would be pretty hard.
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This looks like cybersquatting and may be illegal.

Please note: I said it MAY be illegal. There are very special rules when it comes to domains. Some people have a legitimate reason for 'holding' a domain. On quick glance, this looks like a legitimate concern.

I am the founder of OpenDomain and we fight cybersquatting - contact me if anyone needs help with domain issues like this.
> Are we talking about rats or humans now?

We are not restricted to confined spaces with other people. Even the most destitute could walk down the street and leave. And we see in people that are so restricted the same kind of psychological problems you find in the rats, such as in prisons.

Population growth is not uncontrolled. Educated populations are equalizing and declining in growth. Once women are educated and empowered in society and people have a standard of living where their own survival isn't dependent on many children taking care of them in old age, you see birthrates decline dramatically.

The clan war problem is truly something mutual, but its something we might be able to surpass one day.

> would prefer against that.

Which isn't something reflected in rats, at all. The population decline was due to a breakdown of society. We are not having that at all, yet our replacement rate declines dramatically once you no longer need the kids to survive in your later years and you are educated on how to avoid getting pregnant. The only reason rats reproduce like... rats is because they don't have the rational mind to understand what contraception is, how to use it, and how it can avoid them the unhappiness later of having kids.

> Why are we still debating global warming, and having wars over religion?

Neither of these are rational arguments. For all intents and purposes, scientific consensus is the basis of rational thought, and everything else is emotional response to rationality. It is that scientific process that separates us from the animalistic emotional squabbles.
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Can airbnb succeed in nigeria?
Why wouldn't you want to do both?
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The situation is getting crazy enough in the Bay Area that one can perhaps begin to have some hope of a countervailing political pressure building. See my longer post elsewhere on the page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12576948
> The only way I could imagine being able to determine that is by looking at the vendor bits on the MAC addresses of the source. But being that IoT devices are generally on a LAN on with some RFC 1918 address you wouldn't have that information.

Your not going to have that even if the device has a public IP unless it is a public IPv6 address on a device not using privacy extensions.

MAC addresses are link local only and are not transmitted beyond their local layer 2 network.

There is device finger printing that you can do on the peculiarities of individual IP stack implementations, but honestly without solid proof or explanations from Krebs, they way he is holding himself out as a martyr over this leads me to not believing sensational claims he's making over the event.
" There is a non-trivial amount of money coming in from other countries to bid up property as well."

That is true and one of my neighbors was a realtor for 20 years and has a number of friends who advertise in foreign countries that they can find you an investment property in California. Typically though, those buyers seem to be "status invested" rather than simply buying a house. So they look for places in San Francisco, or Palo Alto, or Saratoga (places where there is some status associated with owning a home there) rather than say Sunnyvale or Santa Clara.

That said, my neighbor came to the US on an H1B with his wife and daughter, is working for a local tech company, and his parents gave him the money for a 20% down payment on his house. That saved him the more typical path it seems of getting a starter house, building a bit of equity and then trading up to a larger house. I expect that being foreign nationals they don't have the gift tax burden that US parents do.

On the one hand that is foreign capital fueling higher house prices but at the same time my wife and I got a loan from her parents to help buy our original house, so I don't consider it out of the ordinary if the parents can help out.
I have had the same problem. I finally made a git repo in the sessionrestore directory, setup a cronjob to commit it every 5 minutes, and then use this script to dump the session contents when necessary:

https://gist.github.com/alphapapa/bc7f3b25025fb99dad56

The git repo grows in size rapidly, but can be compressed way down. (Today it was 4.3 GB, but "git gc" compressed it to 230 MB). Every now and then you can blow away the repo or filter-branch to get rid of outdated sessions.
The new questions queue (http://stackoverflow.com/questions) should convince anyone that help vampires are real.

Even if not, most experienced answerers regularly see literal copy-pasted homework questions (often several duplicates from different students) and people circumventing question bans to write yet more horrible questions.

Help vampires aren't just real, they're everywhere. If they didn't exist, it wouldn't be necessary to enlist high-rep users to engage in moderation.
yes. it was so-so when launched. Then with every update it got WORSE. i kid you not.

for example, i will just list the worst case so you can have an idea: they updated the keyboard so that now the backspace also works as delete. But you have no control! it decides!
You carefully position the cursor on the middle of the line, press backspace to erase let's say, the http:// part of the url because you want to type in ftp://, well, though luck, because as soon as the cursor reaches the beginning and there is nothing else to 'backspace' on the left, they key becomes Delete right under your finger, while being pressed, and now it deletes the rest of the URL... it is maddening.

But, it had so much potential. The keyboard has touch capacitance on EACH KEY! so you could in theory use swipe type on the physical keyboard. sadly, the swipe type from blackberry is just garbage. And if you select any other soft keyboard, then nothing from the physical keyboard works. No prediction row, no cursor control using capacitance touch. not even shift or symb keys in some cases.
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I've some very bad experiences with stack overflow. They are very hostile towards new users and the 50 point system that doesn't allow commenting is very absurd. If I ask a question, I should be able to comment for a clarification right?

I wonder if they ever A/B test their point system. I only use stack overflow when Google points me to it.

I think SO can do a much better job at making users actually ask/answer questions rather than just use it as a read only site.
I started using guile at work, since I like scheme, and guile was the scheme that was available without installing anything new.

I prototype loads of small tools in guile, and some of the prototypes "stick" since they exceed expectations. The biggest one is a macro system for pascal that expands recursive macros and unrolls loops, generating _lots and lots_ of code.

My scheme implementation of choice is chicken, since they have a package manager with quite a lot of packages, but I really enjoy using guile. Really looking forward to the new 2.2 branch. We are using that in production, and we probably hit a sweet spot where the magic optimization dust gathered the most. We got almost 2x improvement just by switching.
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My understanding of halal is that an easy way for food to be halal is to be vegetarian (in the ovo-lacto sense) and to contain no alcohol.
> The externality, taking someone's individuality and telling them that it's something apart from them, that they don't control it, is also my largest concern with religion and the thing that needs to innovated on.

The Buddha innovated on it 25 centuries ago. It didn't prevent people from just praying to him when his philosophy got popular.
Read the Greek guys open source book.
If anything this video shows us that there is probably a lot less of a performance hit actually is take.

That's one of the things mentioned in the source video.
i still have to look down and destroy my neck and back.
Documents were collected for up to 700 000 people (about 10% of the population), but saying they were "under surveillance" is stretching it. Basically everyone who was politically "left" was considered a potential threat and random snippets of information about them were collected – sometimes absurdly trivial stuff and quite a lot of it wrong.

In 1994, a digital equivalent was born: A database called "ISIS". In 2010, a review showed that more than 230 000 people and organizations were registered once again. NDB, the federal intelligence service, collected data without checking if it is relevant. After a mandatory cleanup, this database is now said to only contain about 30 000 entities. The outcry was much smaller that time.

Now, my fellow citizens voted to be properly surveilled. And this time, we'll do it right and probably collect everything, including looking at any traffic flowing through Switzerland. That will be easy, since a recently passed law called "BÜPF" forces every swiss provider to retain metadata for six months, make realtime surveillance possible, decrypt data if they helped encrypt it and pay themselves for the necessary surveillance equipment (they will be reimbursed for every surveillance case).

I voted against it, but the writing was on the wall. Well-propagated irrational fear beats common sense. Maybe the checks and balances will be properly implemented this time, but I'm not counting on it.
Finger is one of those ideas that worked only while the internet was a playground for the university labs.

After all, it requires that a port is exposed to the world for someone to read it.
Almost all of those have zero answers and many have been downvoted. Not sure I'm seeing a problem.

Better UI can make this even less of a problem. Punishing the entire community isn't helpful. See the link to my response to the mod down thread if you want an example of the real problem on SO.
Varoufakis is one of my modern political heroes.

I particularly like the point he makes at 16:14: "The right to turn down a job is essential to a well functioning labor market"..."to have a genuine right to turn down a job, you must have an alternative, an outside option, because desperate people will accept to do desperate things".
One might add, the amount of a mortgage payment that goes toward interest -- which is most of it at the beginning, and the fraction comes down only slowly -- is just as "wasted" as rent would have been.
Finance is Not the Economy
I'll grant you that there are situations as you describe, where people lean too heavily on the current technology and die as a result. However, I believe that there are more situations where the technology works as intended, preventing mistakes and saving lives.

So, until there is clear data to the contrary, I'm sticking my original assertion that current-gen augmented driving technology improves safety.
Well both parties start out a negotiation not knowing what the other sides limits are in certain areas, having society not interfere allows you to not give away this information to the other side.

Unfortunately, having society not interfere may also mean that you do not have that information yourself, even if you think you do.

If the negotiators are acting in the interest of their own people then you could assume that they will know quite well how far they can go.

Right, but that's a big "if". International trade agreements are like a textbook example of the principal-agent problem. It is extremely common for the negotiators to be adopting positions heavily influenced by special interest groups and business communities, with little if any regard for the effects on the actual people of the country those negotiators ostensibly represent. In the case of the EU, that issue is magnified further, because the EU itself can be (and often has been) used in a similar way.
No income taxes I assume you mean, and only in the US. I think they were introduced at the federal level in 1861 to support the civil war, then it was repealed in 1895 via constitutional argument in the Supreme Court. This forced the government to pass a constitutional amendment in 1913 to keep the income tax in place.

So the income tax has existed for more that 50% of the US' history at this point. That doesn't include whatever States decides to impose.
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Look I agree that some of that stuff in this article is complete and utter nonsense.

For example where it is explained that women wash mens feet and then have to drink the water. Whoever believes this must be either stupid or ignorant.

And that's exactly how I would comment on this. The person who wrote this article is clearly either not well enough educated to have any business writing articles about this for the NY Times or that person is simply ignorant.

But I very much doubt that there is some racism involved here. People sometimes write hurtful or stupid things and I did so myself occasionally but when I did it's not because I hate some specific culture but because of incomplete information or knowledge. (though I'm not a journalist or a politician, so it's not that bad if I get things wrong occasionally)
LOL. I still have mine. On the desktop dock used as a MP3 player dedicated for the living room receiver.

it still runs android 2.3 (custom rom, obviously), which is the latest one that google released the closed source hardware drivers for.

and people still insist android is open source.
When Analogies Fail
I think in this case, "home" encryption is what I use. Most Linux systems when you install will offer to encrypt your home folder. When you login, your password unlocks a key which ecryptfs uses to virtually mount a directory filled with encrypted files to be your home directory. As long as you are logged in, the home directory contents are available (transparently). When you logout, the virtual mount is destroyed, leaving behind only the encrypted files.

To put it in perspective, if you were logged out completely and tried to login remotely, you would be forced to use a password login initially. If it was more like my desktop where I'm logged in and the screen in locked, the home folder is unlocked, so I can remotely ssh in using just my keys.
Osaka was once the commerce center of old Japan, and to a certain extent that legacy remains: Osaka street and open-shop vendors give no fucks and seem to really crave that tourist money in particular. It's not as bad as you've described, but you can expect to be called out to by every corner fashion boutique salesgirl or streetside takoyaki vendor. Some even go to the length of learning English.

The upside of this is that people don't shy away from Westerners the way they do in Tokyo, which makes for a smootger experience if you enjoy talking to natives.
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i mention an example on exactly that too...
Just to clarify: Why does he call it "backordering"? I mean the domains didn't expire yet or does he park them?
Next time: sneeze on their hands.
You may be technically correct regarding the common usage of the word "average". However, "average" is most commonly used to refer to the arithmetic mean. Using the word "average" to refer to the median is bad writing, and furthermore, using the arithmetic mean instead of the median to represent the "central tendency" of a distribution that is highly skewed and/or has extreme outliers is bad statistics. Journalists who are going to write about these things should know better.
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I presume the argument was that a doctor who is misinformed about the latest studies in wrong is an entirely different way to a quack (e.g. a vaccine denier) who may be 'not even wrong'.
I've always thought this described it best: SO is a great place to find answers to your questions, but SO is a terrible place to ask questions.
If a country doesn't accept the TTIP it'll be fine. There's no cost incurred.

What about all of the time, money and resources invested in futile negotiations?

There's also the opportunity cost. It takes a lot of time to conduct these kinds of negotiations, and during that time trade is still happening. If the pursuit of a bad deal wastes a lot of time while a better deal, even on a smaller scale or with more limited scope, would have been possible, then all of the trade that could have happened under that better deal has been undermined.
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Very generally speaking, fill people's needs.. Look at maslow's hierarchy of needs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs.

You'll get some ideas.

More to the point, making sure people know about it and the site is easy to use. Beautiful design is nice but if it gets in the way people will admire it once, twice... and finally give up. Don't let content get stale.
Wow! Hard to believe I had never stumbled on your blog until now. https://williamaadams.wordpress.com/category/luajit/
You could train an LSTM network to generate responses in the same way that google's inbox response suggestions work. Requires a mountain of source data, but hey, you probably have 30GB of email sitting in your Gmail, right?
Why do our spies keep telling us everything?
Ha! A guy that takes a cut for 'managing' an autodriving truck - which then drives itself - is very different. Because doctors and lawyers actually do work.
>help vampires

What is that?
Has everyone forgotten "Sexperts Exchange" ? SO is very much useful
And you can still do that in 99% of the country, just not major global cities like SF.