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>See how far you're going to get with your startup by offering to pay software engineers "enough to sustain them".

This is not a refutation. Just like the raw materials used for production, the means of production, land rent etc. what is purchased is a commodity. Labour-time is that commodity. It makes good business sense to not only buy commodities at their value (and no more) but even to try and buy commodities under their value.

Why do you think labour-power is any different? It must be paid in accordance with its value, and how much extra is minimally required to ensure the continuance of the production of this commodity.

>The owner of labour-power is mortal. If then his appearance in the market is to be continuous, and the continuous conversion of money into capital assumes this, the seller of labour-power must perpetuate himself, "in the way that every living individual perpetuates himself, by procreation." The labour-power withdrawn from the market by wear and tear and death, must be continually replaced by, at the very least, an equal amount of fresh labour-power. Hence the sum of the means of subsistence necessary for the production of labour-power must include the means necessary for the labourer's substitutes, i.e., his children, in order that this race of peculiar commodity-owners may perpetuate its appearance in the market.

>Included in the value of labour power is both a physical component (the minimum physical requirements for a healthy worker) and a moral-historical component (the satisfaction of needs beyond the physical minimum which have become an established part of the lifestyle of the average worker). The value of labour power is thus a historical norm, which is the outcome of a combination of factors: productivity; the supply and demand for labour; the assertion of human needs; the costs of acquiring skills; state laws stipulating minimum or maximum wages, the balance of power between social classes, etc.

If the capitalist paid for labour-power at more than its value consistently, in the long run the capitalist will tend to make no profit at all. Profit originates in surplus value being extracted, and although there is leeway (there is a rate of surplus value, for example 0.6, though it could be 0.3 and the capitalist would still make a profit) any sensible capitalist will aim for the largest extraction possible.
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Except the Pharaoh would still be alive(!?) in this case.
It says "Compatible with Firefox 57+" so I assume it's based on the same code as the Chrome one… What APIs do you use that are not supported in Firefox? :)

(Also it says "Released under MIT/X11 License" already…)
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I am a student that has completed one year of CS.

Each summer I work at a small manufacturing company. To date, I have completed a number of projects with them. These include Excel VBA, static website development and some prototyping using Arduino.

I recently got asked to work on a PIC project with them. It would invole tweaking and modifying existing code (no hardware changes). However, I had to decline as the project was above my knowledge and ability. I knew I wouldn't get the project completed by the desired deadline.

Needless to say, the boss wasn't too happy, as the project will now be more expensive as it will be outsourced.

How can I make the jump from Arduino to programming the likes of PICs? Recommended books, guides, process?
It may be readable by them but their life (as a business) does not depend on the content of your conversations. That's a big difference.
That's true. It prevents closed-source forks only.
> "Father dies, leaves company that makes engines to son and $50 million in cash because he has invested most in his company. IRS+State: son, you owe us half+ of what your father left you, or $1.1 Billion. If he borrows half of company's worth that's not going to be a healthy company anymore. So he sells it and selling is not always the best thing for employees."

Isn't the most obvious way fix to that, to give the government part ownership of the company, but leave control in the hands of the heir? If the heir does well, the company continues as usual, and in case of mismanagement, the government could replace the CEO and the company survives under new leadership.

Maybe have some arrangement that allows the heir to buy the government shares back.

If course the government should take good care of their share and not sell it off to the highest bidder. Unfortunately under the neoliberal doctrine that's been plaguing European politics these last couple of decades, many European governments would try to privatize and sell their shares as fast as possible, putting these companies at risk.
I can highly recommend Mail-in-a-Box [1], especially if you're looking for a solution that is secure, easy to install, and doesn't require any fiddling. You can host it on a cheap VPS for $5 a month and it'll happily chug along without any problems.

Deliverability will only be an issue if you land up on an IP address that was previously abused, so it may be worth checking out the IP address reputation on DNSBL [2] before setting up Mail-in-a-Box.

Make sure you configure an SPF record for the server's IP address, and then also set up DKIM and SPF. I have yet to see any deliverability issues using this setup.

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[2] http://www.dnsbl.info
Everyone knowing how to skin a rabbit doesn't help if there aren't enough rabbits. A population of 320m Americans catching rabbits? A billion rabbits a week?

(The US currently consumes 8 billion chickens a year)
What about bugs? What if your distribution code looped infinitely and effectively pumped all of the money from your account or something like that? Programming and bugs go hand in hand, and right now we are relying on the banking systems to compensate us in case we lose money because of their software oversights. Not sure how this problem will be solved in this kind of system.
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They are transmitters and receivers. It would be like putting a "kill me" beacon on your house if the government opposed it.
That's nice! However it'd be more awesome if there was a local version, not tied to GitHub but instead like. you run the node part of VSCode in a development VM and access the UI from a web browser on the host machine.
While I'm happy for them, I feel this makes us JS devs look pretty bad. Don't get me wrong, I like to use the latest library as much as the next guy, but every ecosystem has a bunch of legacy libraries/frameworks/practices and there's always people around that happily maintain old software.

So why not in JS? Why is our answer always to rewrite it using whatever's popular this year? I feel it's not just about frameworks but also about poor code.
Users cares about features, bugs, regressions. Who fixes these things does not matter, but if we don't have the source we can't fix it.
OK, foreigner. But foreigner to what?

I think that he styles everyone except working-class geeks as barbarians.
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// sweat in hands

// checking bank balance of the account

500 - Bad Gateway

// hurried typing

ssh root@myrootaccountserver

// enter password

permission denied!!
So, if I were an influential person, should my private diaries also be made public, even though I have no wish to share them?
Agreed.

It's pretty much a "Tragedy of the Commons" scenario, IMHO.
I have been setting up mailservers since the '90s when you still had to deal with sendmail's configuration format. I've used most email servers available on unix platforms. And I'm also someone who wants to do everything myself and not depend on anybody else if I don't have to. Still, and it hurts me to say this, it might simply not be worth your time. I use a paid service for my main mailbox now.

I have a mailserver handling some personal email, but I feel it's too risky (to take the responsibility) and too much effort to host email accounts for just a few other people. You can and probably will be every once in a while blacklisted by one of the big providers or have legitimate email bounce, even if you have SPF, DKIM, TLS and your own spam filters set up. You also have to keep an eye on your servers to see if no new filth gets through. And you'd probably want to keep a backup relay ready. You have to provide ways for the users to configure or fine-tune their individual spam settings and mark messages. You most likely want to install a web interface next to the IMAP and/or POP service, which opens another can of worms.

I feel I'm too old now – meaning I have so many other responsibilities – that I don't want to babysit something that is after all rather crucial and should "just work". If you have the energy and time, please go for it, otherwise just search for a reliable paid service.

Note that assuming privacy when talking about email, even though most protocol interactions might be encrypted these days, is in my opinion somewhat misguided. Don't use email if it's truly private. Or use end-to-end encryption, such as PGP.

There might be a hole in the market for a company that helps geeks host reliable email servers, for those that want more control than just an IMAP account with sieve support, but maybe the margins are too low and fighting spamming subscribers too hard.
I would make a slight amendment to that

>whether we care

But I'm glad that there are those who get it.
I can't get anything to work in it.
Just for fun I put the not minifed vue.js source inside and I get:

null or undefined
TypeError at repl:537:23 at repl:5:16 at repl:2:2
> Why is WebGL still so heavy on the CPU?

Well, how else are we supposed to get nice side channel / timing attacks?
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You should be complaining to app devs who have blurry apps. This is exactly the same as the OS X transition to high DPI, you're supposed to run things at 200%
I've been running my own mail servers for quite a while and I can assure that this is total nonsense. No large email host charges a fee for mail delivery. There are some rogue antispam solutions that do so, but they are rare and only used by shady small email providers. There's even an RFC stating that charging for blacklist removal is forbidden.

You will sometimes have delivery problems, although the problem is much smaller than often painted. But they can usually be avoided if you don't send spam (many people send spam but like to call it differently - your newsletter you subscribe people that haven't asked for it is spam) and if you properly react to error messages and abuse reports.
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I can't edit my comment anymore but I've taken notice of your critique, thank you very much for being so helpful!
I chose Google GSuite to avoid non-delivery of emails which was happening when I was still on self-hosting. Most emails I send used to be marked as spam and blocked. Not anymore. Fee I pay every month is very low compared to the time I used to spend managing my own servers.
Yes you are correct.

When I said, "transfer the money from one bank account to another", I actually meant not sending the money physically, but by using various other means. I didn't know how to word this, and it came out wrong.

And I was talking about the cash being stolen 90% of the time, if you do choose to physically carry it with you back home. (Or trust someone else to do it)
So was BitPay: http://www.coindesk.com/bitpay-sues-insurer-after-losing-1-8...
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OTOH one country enabling communication infrastructure to another country's citizens without approval of their government would be rightly considered as violation of national sovereignty and could presumably be seen as an act of war.
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Out of curiosity - let's say I was rich and wanted to set up a trust fund for my children so they could live like spoiled brats their entire lives. Why, especially in the "land of the free" would people want to stop me from doing so? I mean, it's my choice what I do with my money(that was legally earned and that I paid taxes on), is it not?

This is purely theoretical, as I am neither rich nor have children, but I take some issue with people saying that kids living off trust funds are "leeches" - it was their parents choice to spend money this way, so what is wrong with that?
Well, if you have 1400 lines of 100 prime numbers each one, and a last line to retrieve one of them, if i ask for the 140.000 prime, that solution would be better (in terms of speed) than 10 lines making calcs for any prime number.

If you know the possible range of accepted inputs, 1400 loc would be better than 10.

One normally think much more loc is worst than a one line solution, but that's, like most answers, always depends.

And that's a simple case. There are lot of similar cases one dont realize.
The antenna is already highly directional - those are LEO satellites we're talking about, you need to constantly track them.

How phased array antennas respond to jamming is unfortunately beyond my knowledge.
Sorry, I'm a little confused by your response. Are you saying L4D started out as a mod as well and using the "but" in an unusual way or are you unaware that both CS and TF were originally Quake and HL mods?
Doesn't mean he didn't take a backup!
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Or it could be that Overwatch is 9 years newer.
Is Litecoin still gaining momentum at a significant pace?

I'm not quite up to current developments in the crypto coin communities, however my perception from the outside is that Ethereum has replaced Litecoin as the leading altcoin.
Is this incorrect?

How well does Litecoin fare against the congestion problems we've heard about from the Bitcoin communities?
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> but what leverage do they have?

The buying, selling and using of satellite internet equipment will be outlawed in countries that don't allow free access to the internet (unless of course the internet satellite company signs agreements to impose the blocking of choice of the regime in question).

SpaceX might be safe from the Turkish, Chinese or Egyptian governments, but the users won't be.
I meant government rules and codes .
> Bitcoin is by far the most decentralized, most secure

Both of these are highly contentious if not outright wrong.

Bitcoin's network is the most centralized at the moment. Bitmain is a great example of that. As for security, Ethereum is currently spending more $$ per block than Bitcoin to secure the chain.
Umpteen years ago, a woman of my acquaintance said that her bathtub had a very poor supply of hot water. I glanced behind it--it was freestanding--turned a knob till it stopped, and the hot water ran a lot better. To be sure, my last name reflects German ancestry, but so did hers.
I agree with you, but I wasn't commenting on that aspect of it.

I was pointing out that popular protocols are much harder to change than unpopular ones. But claiming that this fact will cause the unpopular protocols to take over the popular ones doesn't make much sense. By that logic the least popular protocol is the most likely to win -- completely backwards, as far as I can see.
And then said aforementioned "hacks" do not get updated and you're in a world of hurt.
Either legacy compatibility hurt or frozen API and potentially runtime hurt. Additionally vastly delayed updates including security.

Especially painful hacks are graphics and WiFi drivers.

The trouble of course is that people do not go to complain to, say, Nvidia that their GPU does not work, but to the distribution maintainers or kernel developers who have no control over the driver.
> This would allow them to steal some market share from Apple and Lenovo

The surface line isn't about becoming a big player in the laptop market. It's about raising the bar and expectations for Windows hardware.
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That's what I use. Works great and I've only ever had a few hours of service interruption.

One alternative I would suggest to people trying to decide between self hosted or hosted email is to consider a hybrid. Host your own inbound SMTP, but use a service for outbound, e.g. Mailgun. The hardest part of running a mail server today, is getting your email accepted by the receiving SMTP server.
If there is one thing I am certain of, when it comes to software and licenses, as for new software (not using licensed code), let the copyright holder release on his terms. That means he's the party that gets to choose the license. He should have no other obligations.

That is one freedom I support.
Foucault is ... interesting and my research (and all studies of criminal justice in Europe) has a tortured relationship with Discipline and Punish. On the one hand, he's definitely right about the importance of the social body and the symbolic nature of punishment. But I don't buy his conclusions as to why the transition away from that sort of punishment occurred. I give much more credence to two things. The first is the rise of sentimentality (Adam Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, et. al.). The second is the philosophical idea that, instead of curing the social body by excising the criminal, the social body could be cured by reforming the prisoner (this is linked to sentimentality).

As far as Foucault's musings on social control ... I don't buy it. It's a bit ahistorical at that point.
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Umm .. I don't know who pissed in your corn-flakes, but your assumption that this is bullshit because you've never seen Gold Source Masters ever being made is highly, highly specious.

I've been in the computer business since 1983. I've made gold master copies of released software in every project since that era. Its a highly common practice, and a good one, because it means that no matter what the resources and assets of the company are protected.

Also, CD's like this were easily made back in the 90's using CD label printers and gold discs designed for the purpose. It doesn't need to be a professionally produced CD like you infer; CD printers were quite common in those days.

So no, I'm sorry, your claim that its 'obvious bullshit' doesn't really ring true. What is obvious, is that you don't really have the experience with best practices of that era. Remember, this was a period of time before "Web-2.0 style source code repositories for all the things".

I am quite certain this is legit.
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>To you these attacks are a valid grievance redressal mechanism?

No, but neither is the "War on Terror."
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>but morally as well.

If you believe in private property rights, then sure. If not, then no. Some such as Max Stirner, 19th century philosopher, would disagree with your assertion that it is a moral issue.
Another relevant Java example might be VirtualMachineError (superclass of OutOfMemoryError) and the wonderfully named subclass UnknownError(!).
Social signalling is valuable. Signals that are expensive can be trusted over signals that are cheap. Proof of work has existed before hashcash, bitcoin, and is more than just a good solution to the byzantine generals problem.
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Reading from the thread here about losing motivation among several others that creating self-discipline can be effective.
My question is: when you have tons of things to do but you're overwhelmed by the this amount of things you have to do, you feel unmotivated. How do you create the self-discipline to tackle those tasks and finalize them?
In my example, i have a lot of new tech topics i'd like to learn, other life topics, side projects and a reading list but they feel so much at times that i ignore them all and just waste time on unimportant things. What do you do in these situations?
Most quotes are regurgitations, they just don't get traction until attributed to someone famous.
Nope. I still have working CD-R's of my projects from 20 years ago. So, its a bit of a general fallacy.
Given the context and epoch of the book, I'd guess "barbarian" refers to non-Western, non-industrial societies.

BTW, there's a Wikipedia article about the book. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Clas...
>I think the windows store just did not fit the usage patterns: People were used to download stuff right off the net, or use platforms like Valve's Steam.

I don't think I'll ever understand the weird logic of most Windows users where DRM Online Store A is the best thing ever and a selling point of the platform and DRM Online Store B is an abomination that should never exist.
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You don't get to pick your president and you can't change it.

However you pick your job and you can leave it anytime you want.
I'm an accountant and do not think this is the end or even a bad thing necessarily. I know PR is attached to the US Dollar but any dollar has to originate and then be entered into the economy, which is usually done by crediting/lending institutions.

If you look at the entirety of the economy, bankruptcy is inevitable to some level or money has to be made somewhere. There is simply too much cash flow at any given time to say what countries owe what to who because if every country was debt free then there would be absolutely no currency.

Even Trump has filed bankruptcy FOUR times, including defaulting entirely on a multi-billion dollar loan but he gained value through the process. I'm not saying anyone should accept defaulting on any payments but the effects of looking at an entire economy are not necessary the same. The first time PR asked for money, the value of the dollar in PR was then multipled on top of itself every time additional currency was acquired from the US. If PR was going to completely get out of debt, then it would need a large amount to be shot straight into the economy, just like this.

There is so much more to it and nobody knows what will happen, just like we don't know what the stock market will do at a sound of a bell.

Best of luck thou
An easy solution is to deliver your software with the sources to your customers, along with a license allowing them to use them in case of disparition without any entity inheriting the rights on your software.

An alternative, but similar thing, is to put your sources in escrow, so that they become available to the customers only in such an occurence.

Of course, you may also merely distribute it as free software, with the sources stored on multiple public git repositories.
I think we are mixing two terms here: Intelectual Property and Trade Secrets.

The code doesn't seem protected by intellectual property but it's a trade secret. Just like Mona Lisa was intellectual property of Leonardo, but the way he created the different paint colours was his trade secret.

A trade secret don't necessarily have to be protected by law, the moment it gets out, then people are free to use it as they see fit. That's what I think about this source code: it got out somehow (even if the way it got out was illegal or not), but the moment it comes to public it becomes general knowledge.
>respecting the wishes of the authors of a work?

How do you know it is the wishes of the authors? Blizzard didn't write the software, individual programmers (labourers) did, working as a team. Though I'd be interested to know if there's any statement from the developers of Starcraft if they did or didn't want the code shared.