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By Academia's politics I am referring to the faculty'sgeneral leftist views, which I myself widely share.

By academia I mean the whole thing.

The faculty has maintained these these acclaimed leftist views for many decades, sat back and drank Kool-Aid while the administration took on the bloat. They were too busy climbing the ladder and forgot to critique it; no better than than the rest of the average neo-liberals.

Student debt swallowed at least 2 generations whole while the faculty did nothing. They didn't have to. But, they'll be the first to commend a proletariat revolution which remains a safe enough distance from their job. I cannot help notice the hypocrisy here.
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Something important to note is that though your local instance is often closest to you, all of the instances talk and you have access to the entire network (or nearly all of it) from any instance.
Had I read an article opening with the sentence: «Here is a .NET runtime alternative which is however 100 times slower…», I would have quickly dismissed it, shame on me. This article is right, the DotNetAnywhere code really seems a gem, well worth to study!
Personally, I haven't used google plus in awhile but when I used it, it wasn't for the social networking of people I already knew, but it was for following communities w/ topics that I liked.

The problem I'm finding with Facebook right now is I don't want to spam everyone with science-y articles or to offend/bother people who might not care for liberal view-points.. just because there are so many people that I know that are on their network. Also, I'm too lazy to create groups to target my posts with. It ends up just being a photo-dump with maybe written posts once a month + mostly keeping brief tabs with family+friends.

When I first started on Fb, it was addicting posting things I could reference later or writing long-ish essays or being ridiculous with friends (photoshop wars).
Nobody knows how to do this anymore. About half the projects I got when I freelanced were projects that were finished but "just needed" a boot loader.
I would define "post-scarcity" as when you organize your economic system to constrain supply in order to prop up prices.

For instance, the U.S. burns 30% of its corn crop to produce ethanol, which would never happen in a market system, but it happens because of a government mandate.
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I just saw it on the front page, which I check embarrassingly frequently. :-) (But I do have a Google Alert setup for it, sure.)
I think you're right. From the documentation [1]:

set 0 to stop ksmd from running but keep merged pages,
set 1 to run ksmd e.g. "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run",
set 2 to stop ksmd and unmerge all pages currently merged,
but leave mergeable areas registered for next run
Default: 0 (must be changed to 1 to activate KSM,
except if CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled)

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt
You've also PICKED UP and BELIEVED some of the very wrong stuff, like your false claim parroting white supremacist propaganda from ESR's blog that "Affirmative action _is_ racism, by definition".

I am still waiting for you to counter the argument I posted showing that you are wrong, or admit what you said was wrong, and that you were wrong for parroting it.

Please stop spreading those lies.
Not easily, I'll admit. We've been working for so long at dealing with scarcity that when presented with abundance we don't know what to do.

I'm at least glad that people are at least starting to understand that our economic system while better than it's predecessors by a mile, should be improved.

This kind of question is better answered piecemeal, like how do we get the homeless into one of the 4-5 empty homes per homeless person, or how do we avoid throwing away 40+% of the food we grow? Correcting horrific market failures like this is a wonderful way to start.
It is definitely possible that my worries are overblown. However I did see a lab where researchers would close doors before moving a desk to a new location because they are not supposed to as moving furniture was a union job (and requesting this via official channels takes days instead of minutes).

When I saw it first I thought it was a joke and laughed, but the folks working there were serious and asked me to shut up lest I get them in trouble. Maybe this is an edge case, but this still worries me when I hear about unionizing -- formalization of duties is extremely inefficient in most research environments and is often a flip side of unionization.

Again, I admit that my fears might be overblown.
In practice, this never happens. The value is certainly less than the data you're selling about your users to Google.
Fundamentally they can't, but that's not what the concept is aiming at. What we can do is to drop costs of things people need (or want) in their daily lives to the point that supply/demand basically stops working for them on an aggregate scale. If we do this to the point that any person can live a full life and participate in the society at large without having to exchange labour for resources or worrying about their wealth, then we achieve "post-scarcity".

Even in Star Trek, there were scarce things that needed to be allocated. Not everyone got their own starship. But we consider this fictional economy a post-scarcity one, because food, clothing, shelter, healthcare and entertainment were basically free for everyone.
In fact afaict G+ has a very different vibe from Facebook, so I think of it as an alternative to Twitter rather than to Facebook - it generally feels like a public discourse rather than a "share my baby pictures with homies" type vibe. Except you have more than 160 characters (or whatever Twitter's new limit is), so conversations can flourish much better.

There are multiple writer communities, DIY communities, Yoga/meditation groups, sci-fi fan groups, etc., and a lot of android apps use their G+ communities as their support forum + user communications page. (And those are just the ones I know of.)

For whatever reason, these kinds of "I don't use it and my friends don't use it, so why does it exist" type posts and comments - which seem to happen repeatedly here - are posted disproportionately more so with G+ than any other minor but thriving network/forum /thingamagick.
doesnt rustc rely on LLVM to generate its assembly. i watch the webrender repo and there have been several issues about poor codegen that LLVM could not properly handle. some were also related to absent optimizations at the MIR level.

also would that mean that the asm snippets could change as llvm changes and possibly cause security bugs if not carefully hand-audited/tweaked anyhow?
I love the combination of these! Really opens up a world of possibilities. The one command I'm still trying to replace is `cd` itself. For instance, can anyone suggest a way to add bookmarks, so that I can move around faster? I found a few, but was never happy with them.
If you're so technically superior, why do you even import high-tech products from Europe, such as EUV lithographic systems, and why do you need to use the NSA to spy on European companies then?

The mere fact that your government spent mlney to spy on Airbus and give the data to Boeing shows that the superiority you claim to have is nothing more than a PR gimmick.
That's my hope. Maybe the period where humans had an impact on the planet will be short lived and they will disappear again. When I look at my 50 year old body and its slow decline I wouldn't mind getting rid of it and live virtually.
Once we can do the same for uranium, platinum, N-(4-Methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline, polyisoprene, hydrogen fuel cells, lithium ion batteries, silicon wafers, liquid oxygen, nitrogen tetroxide, hydrazine...

we'll be at a post-scarcity economy.
How hard would it be to allow users on a server to sell their own personal data from a federated social network with both the server admin and some central authority taking a cut?

I feel safe in saying that users being able to sell their own data for their profit, instead of Facebook's, would get people to jump ship.
tax+spend; not supporting 'trickle down' economics w/r/t other gov't policies, actually enforcing monopoly laws, regulating other areas in favor of small business (e.g. FCC used to have media ownership laws to keep media companies smaller) etc..

if everyone has more money but there is no cap on the top, things will just get more expensive, and then more basic income will be provided, and the cycle will continue..

not necessarily a fan or a detractor of any/all of these things, but just chiming in.
I think this is it. They knew their best way of beating Facebook was going to be incorporating Plus as tightly into Google as possible. If you remember, it even integrated into Google searches for a while in a very obvious way (though they rolled back how visible that is).

I'm not a developer, but I'd imagine it's not a single thing they can remove, that it's mixed into of every team's code, all over the place.
Enough of what?
In what markets are titles common for technical people such as developers (apart from megacorps where they seem to be universal)? Would you ever have a formal job title as a developer at a company of 20 developers in e.g the US?

I have had to invent my own title for as long as I can remember because there aren't fixed roles/positions/titles at the company (In the sense that you are hired at a certain role/title.).

I'm now probably some kind of "Senior developer", or "Lead developer" or "Architect" or whatever. And I'd introduce me as such if someone asked. But I don't think this title exists in some database or contract anywhere. When we hire we some times call it "senior developer" just to mean experienced. But we don't have pay grades that means this new hire would necessarily be making more money than anyone not senior.
F# introduction for my coworkers
I've written an F# introduction for my C# coworkers. It haven't been reviewed, so it probably has many faults. Might still be useful for others. Any feedback is appreciated.
Maybe because of Google+, Facebook as 1 or 2% less users and Google thinks that's good enough a reason to keep it alive.
That was over four years ago. It's time to move on with your life. You'll meet other feeds and timelines...
Welcome to the era of the living Meme.
When I visited a Google office a few years ago, I noticed that they are heavily dogfooding Google +

Anythins that other bigCorps would use Exchange for, they use G+

This is stuff like looking up employees, across teams and entire organization, etc.
So Mozilla continues the tradition of terrible names in software engineering - HolySh*t is just wonderful. At least if they were as autistic as Terry and were inspired by HolyC...
> So a true post-scarcity will never exist. People will just invent new goods or services to go after in the future when today's iphones and sportscars have become affordable. Not because they need them, but for the simple fact that they are difficult to obtain.

This assumes material wealth remain a source of status. If all things are easily aquired, then there is no reason to hold people with certain possesion in high regard. Instead knowing social codes and ability might become even more important. Perhaps the exception would be historical artifacts abd handmade things, asuming those could not be perfectly copied...
Yeah, the GC code is certainly not optimal (in terms of memory usage), but I don't know if that means you can't trust it.

At least in the simple tests I did it behaved as expected, but I know that testing a GC for correctness is not a simple task!!
No offense, but the blog post is seriously missing a better (or any?) explanation of what's the new JIT all about.
At first I even thought my browser loaded only half the page...
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I've seen plenty of spammers, though. People who tag you in things that have nothing to do with you to only drop dodgy links.
Neither. Work for a company that generates revenue by not encroaching on the privacy of every human being on Earth.
We shouldn't always point at obviously dysfunctional examples when we look at problems in our society. There is no natural law that things will always end up like Venezuela or the Soviet Union when we change things.
> It would seem to be better for the collector to buy digital art, which is electronic and reproducible, than to buy up physical paintings, which means less paintings available for others.

Except the experience of viewing physical artwork is better than viewing a digital representation, in the same way that physically traveling to another country to experience the culture and atmosphere is better than simply seeing it in the 3D view of Google maps. The map is not the destination, and a PNG of a painting isn't a painting. It's only in science fiction that the physical and virtual worlds are indistinguishable.

Notwithstanding the value that also exists in the rarity of physical artwork itself, and in collecting it because it's not infinitely reproducible.
I have a warm wool shirt that's lasted for going on 25 years now. I use it for a jacket in fall and spring. Shows very few signs of wear.
rational free market theory; humanistic positivism, etc.

in the case of rational free market theory, even OP pointed out the logical problems inherent in this theory, i shan't repeat here since it doesn't deviate from the thread
Why do we have to use JSON for data interchange [in Elm]?
There has to be a better way of stopping people from upvoting with alt accounts, or emailing a listserve asking for upvotes.

One way would be to make sure the article generates good discussion. There are no comments on this article other than complaints that it's on the front page...
It does link to https://github.com/nbp/holyjit which explains pretty much everything there is to explain so far...
"Our product and brand is intentionally a parody, and is not connected to the real Elon Musk."
>the source repo for HolyJit have the word "brainfuck"[2] in it?

It is a reference to the best programming language ever created.
I don't worry so much about resale because I plan on using my computers as long as possible.

The touchpad works fine for me, and I don't notice the difference in screens (except aspect ratio). Battery life and weight are comparable.

So to me, the privacy factor and supporting Purism is well worth the price. Also the Librem probably runs native Linux better, which is a huge difference-maker for me.
Don't learn languages - learn pure paradigms. I can write C# three different ways - imperative procedural, functional, imperative OOP.
> So why do many people still work so hard?

Let me make you a question. For how long will you still afford all that stuff if you simply quit working?
> This is precisely what makes your line of argument tiresome: you fail to understand the very basics of what models are and how they are used.

no, this is precisely what makes your line of argument argument tiresome - choosing one inherently biased and flawed model over another because you prefer the way that the biases look..

and actually I wasn't "arguing" for/against anything - but pointing out logical inconsistencies in an already occurring exchange..
I’ve been enjoying autojump [1], it automagically creates bookmarks and prioritises them based on frequency of visiting said folders.

[1] https://github.com/wting/autojump
How is this different from Pypy, other than the fact that ones uses RPython and the other uses Rust?
the bold new idea of GDP/capita, perhaps.. hmm.
How mature is nftables? Do people regularly use it in production? I see that it was added to the kernel in 2014.
> Had I read an article opening with the sentence: «Here is a .NET runtime alternative which is however 100 times slower…», I would have quickly dismissed it

I deliberately didn't start with Benchmarks, pretty much for that reason! Plus I put a huge caveat in before I showed the results.

> This article is right, the DotNetAnywhere code really seems a gem, well worth to study!

Glad you think so as well, that's exactly the reason that I wrote about it. It's relatively unknown and if nothing else it's a really useful resource (whether it's suitable for production is another matter)
yes, msft and commercial unix.
Pretty sure that's the semantics of an `auto_ptr`: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/memory/auto_ptr/
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I wonder how things would work out if we had a system where companies beyond a certain size are strongly discouraged. I think the economy would be much healthier if we had many small businesses instead of behemoths like apple and Google
> Is it basically just a Rust rewrite which also tries to reduce the complexity of their current just-in-time compiler?

My understanding is it's rather more similar to RPython: the developer does not write the JIT, the developer writes the interpreter and the meta-jit generates a JIT from that. The developer can further add various annotations to guide JIT generation for improved performances.

See Laurence Tratt's Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time on rewriting their Converge VM in RPython: http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/fast_enough_vms_in_fast...
Most online brokers don't have lending inventory available yet. TD won't let me short.
You are free to join a more "open" or a more "safe" server (whatever those words mean), depending on your tastes. I personally joined a fairly laissez faire server as far as I can see. Either the very worst is filtered, or people are decent over there, but I haven't seen anything that disturbed me - but also haven't witnesses "censorship". Of course, everybodies tastes are different when it comes to what they want to see or not.

And you are not really siloed in - it helps if people with common interests are on the same instance, to find people in the beginning, but due to federation you can connect to others easily.
I always thought they should morph/change/add circles as a method to do authentication, authorization and enterprise group permissions.

Imagine an Enterprise IT worker creating a Resource Circle called "Salesforce" or "DropBox" and a user group called Marketing.

I would want it to work for inside private resources as well as public resources. Same thing with user groups. Groups of employees, contractors and outsiders.
"your maximum reading proficiency" muwhahahaha what utter balderdash!
> The same people who cry for Twitter to stop abuse.

While I think there is some overlap, I don't see that as being the whole story here. I've actually seen some of the threatening and terrifying things some friends and acquaintances have received. This has at times included specific threats and photos of where the target lives.

I don't see people who complain about abuse posting photo's of Milo supporters homes and encouraging people to go there and hurt them.
It's certainly become easier but I rather like having people contribute fixes to issues we may not be aware of. For a small team like our startup, execution of the idea is far more important than having something completely unique.
Ah, but what is a "full life?" Might someone believe that they need something more rare in order to attain it?

Isn't "post-scarcity" just taking the limit as supply reaches infinity, and thus just another term for "asymptotically cheap?" Do we really need a "fresh new" economic theory to talk about this?
> They're not magical.

> Both sets are managed by non profits.

without an explanation as to how these non-profits are founded, given authority to regulate a given credential, and populated with people, fail to see how 2 negates 1.
I would guess you are referring to a motherboard BIOS setting that at least claims to "turn off" Intel ME. But for all we know, it is still possible or easy for someone to remotely access the ME and use it.

Purism is doing some much more in-depth stuff including both hardware and software/firmware changes. I don't know the details myself but it's a whole different level of approach.
DynamoDB, Cassandra
Equifax deserves the corporate death penalty
What about just avoiding needless offence to people who happen to regard the 'holy' morpheme as indicative of ... well ... something holy and not to be trifled with.

I don't have religion, but given an essentially infinite number of alternatives to this not-very-funny one, why do this?

People also have a right to be idiots in other ways, such as poking hornets' nests because it's funny.
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Will we?

Grad students are major drivers of funding and research for universities. Cutting them will reduce that funding further and make them look worse nationally as an institution.

Perhaps undergraduates SHOULD be welcome to do more of the work? I see no problem with offering cheap workstudies to help grad students and professors getting the little things done while they research and learn.

Adjunct professors might be a good thing-many tenured professors disdain teaching and it shows.

Grad students won't be asked to do more than they agree to because they have a union.
The blog post doesn't explain it very well, but I believe the tool code-generates the assembly at runtime, and not at compile time, so LLVM is not involved in code generation for the JIT.
Low res on a CRT looks much, much better than low res on an LCD panel though
> Still for development still using Vi(m), because it's on every (remote) machine, is so much more responsive.

Try TRAMP, which enables you to edit remote files in a local (spac)emacs (and also local files with sudo or su). It's pretty awesome.
I don't think any newspaper is "ignoring" the world of finance.
HolyJIT seems to be similar to RPython rather than Pypy: RPython is both the restricted language and the tooling around it, Pypy is a Python interpreter implemented using RPython.
Good article. Concise and to the point with the key elements. Thanks for sharing
MongoDB is the MariaDB of the NoSQL world.
This. Especially with western world moving more and more into service-based economy, we're literally beginning to have to pay rent to survive.
Then they can simply be fairer to their employees and they wouldn't need a union.
Value is a too ill defined concept. I would say that the manager has more leverage on the destiny of the company, thus you want a great manager more than you want great employees, and thus you have to pay them more.

Except that this is not exactly true either. Some times it is, other times it isn't. Yet the salary relations never change.
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People also like to get married, have families, socialize, play sports, go to nice restaurants, attend shows, etc.

Your vision also assumes every human wants to, or can, be a knowledge worker. A lot of people can only function as manual laborers.
For better or worse, production workers are seen as fungible and managers (ideally) have deep domain expertise and knowledge of the company's operations that allow them to multiply the efficiency of the people working under them. I am aware that in reality this is not always the case.

Edit: In your car analogy, the management aren't the engine; they're the driver.
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It is slang, short for "mongoloide".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mongo

Interesting this isn't the case with English.
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> Work on adding ripgrep to Linux distros is being tracked here[1]

There are multiple interpretations of the GP's comment, each one being a prerequisite of the next:

- ripgrep is available in the distro repos
- ripgrep is included on the main install medium (first Debian CD, Arch net iso even?)
- ripgrep is selected for inclusion on a default install (but grep is still there)
- ripgrep replaces grep altogether

On first read I though we were talking about the third one.

> where swapping grep for ripgrep will break

> Offering a compatibility mode with grep has been suggested, but is significant work.

Do you mean by that, that 'rg' could change its defaults and behave like 'grep' when being invoked as 'grep' (through symlink or hardlink), similarly to bash/sh or vi/vim?