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it never is socialism, never ever. it is a common thread when socialism fails it is because it wasn't really socialism. socialism works until you run out of wealth that other people had that was easily accessible. then comes the never ending cycle of finding a new bad guy to take from.

all the fans of socialism always forget, the same problem that doomed Venezuela exists in all nations. Politicians. Politicians who are above the law, who are the one percent, who are there to lead and by that requirement deserve special status. Doesn't matter what you call your government type, they always have more power and less restrictions on their actions.

the difference is that it is implied in a socialist society that there is no private property or very little. as such what is there to aspire too? some quasi socialist countries try to juggle this issue to some success but are they really socialist or truly capitalist with some "socialist" qualities?

when government fails to protect the private property rights of people, to the effort of their work, their physical property, the wealth they create in their businesses, it is only a matter of time before it folds. you can only take until the wealth dries up. once that happens you only have force
The thing is, having a great economy when over half of the population is living in misery (even worse than now), it's not a great alternative. That's why lots of people still support Maduro.

Venezuela is a cautionary tale of a wide spectrum of economic policies, not only the recent ones as the media would like us to think.
Yet we still don't learn the lesson after all the countries that have bit the dust.
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The richness in natural resources is kind of part of the problem though? It allowed a small group of rulers to maintain control without caring that much about the country as a whole.

Well, that's my interpretation of the situation? It seems like the common way for this kind of situations to arise. The political ideology that the rulers choose as costume for their kleptocracy seems only marginally relevant.
Sean Penn is a movie actor, not a "liberal leader," what are you on?
Need a safe space?
Please someone add "(2012)" in the title.
I hate to also add to the cliche, but I think the description of one of the pictures in this article really emphasizes that perhaps it's not just a cliche: "Over 100 people lined up in Caracas to purchase price-controlled chicken. Chicken is highly sought after, yet very difficult to find for sale at affordable prices in Venezuela." Chickens are absurdly easy to farm. They're basically meat grass. Put them in a fenced area so they don't run away, and they pretty much take care of themselves. It doesn't have to a big area. And they grow just about as fast as weeds - growing naturally from egg to butcher time in 3-6 months depending on breed.

What is preventing, or perhaps more likely - disincentivizing, people of even moderate means from doing this? It would be a trivial way to add a substantial side income that would simultaneously help out countless people, again as this article emphasizes. I never gave much weight to the stories or failed social systems, but this does seem to be very much a recurring pattern. Venezuela is obviously far from an ideal example, but reality itself is also hardly ideal. If we end up with these sort of collapses when systems are less than ideal -- then that alone is sufficient reason to doubt their viability.
Given that there are some knowledgeable economists and historians who are socialists your comment makes no sense. Care to perhaps post something insightful? Or comment in a meaningful way to OP?
A quick Google didn't yield much for "canary passwords", but it sounds like monitoring for passwords as opposed to user email/details as described in the OP.

Care to shed a bit more light on what you mean here and how to effectively use them?
but they are not socialist governments. don't confuse having the word in the government title as being the primary form being exercised.
What's the situation like for US citizens? Does Switzerland have an "H1-B" program like the US?
I am actually a bit concerned with how this reached the top page with so many low effort comments.

Regardless of whether it is the case that socialist policies are responsible for this situation, it’s weird that there are a sudden upswing in the strange, almost sneering style of comment that is littering the comment area.

I almost expect a list of Wikipedia links about Zimbabwe and other countries to follow.
> Grad students receive free housing, tuition, and other paid expenses out of the tax payers wallets.

Not all schools are public or paid for by the taxpayer.

> Good riddance. Universities have been a bastion of Marxism and Leftism for too long and the tax payer is subsidying this bullshit there.

Here are some other things universities are bastions of: medicine, law, engineering, biology, mathematics. All of which will be dramatically and negatively impacted by this change, so that a few very wealthy people won't be taxed on their massive estates after death. In the place of American universities, other countries will take over as the leaders in these fields - or American students will stop attending in favor of international ones, and then your alleged taxpayer dollars will go to people who aren't from here and have no intention of staying.

But hey, at least those damn liberals will be mad, right?
You mean like a forum with certain rules of civility? Yea, I guess so, welcome to our "safe space."
I think the word is a trigger in US politics somehow (since the Cold War and maybe McCarthyism?).

While outside it's just a normal political current (and most of the western democracies besides the US will recognize and embrace some elements of socialism).
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I think it's pretty obvious that I was extending the metaphor to make my point. It was the intention and the meaning behind the metaphor that was insulting. Do you take exception to that?
This whole situation is so sad, because it is 100% human caused. This is not a natural disaster! Socialism does not work and it is not moral. Hundreds of millions of people have died and suffered under this economic and governmental system, and many more will die in Venezuela to re-learn this lesson.

And yet, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, the appeal of socialism still somehow permeates to otherwise succesful countries.

Sure, the lines between Social Security+Medicare vs Denmark vs Venezuela aren't so black+white, but it's clear to me that the desire to destroy capitalism continues to be strong.

It is quite scary to me that people can be so delusional even with the overwhelming evidence of the success of capitalism for the poor and the absolute failure of socialism for everybody.

"Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world."

-Leader of the Labour party in the UK[1]

"These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today"

-Bernie Sanders[2]

[1] -https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/309065744954580992

[2] - https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-...
Cuba is a socialist country, and while they have plenty of problems, you don't see the kind of situation we're seeing in Venezuela. I don't think socialism is a good system, but we should at least try to honestly understand the reasons for what is happening in Venezuela, rather than blindly chalking it up to some loosely understood specter of "socialism".
> In fact, in 1992, the speed of broadband, as detailed in state laws, was 45 Mbps in both directions — by 2014, all of us should have been enjoying gigabit speeds (1000 Mbps).

This doesn’t sound quite right to me? That’s not how I remember 1992 at all.
There's no socialism in Western Europe, at least not by common standards. It's called social democracy. In contrast to socialism the means of production are largely privately owned and there's no single-party system.
Well we have 4. That's more competition than we have in a lot of other software platforms.
That's your belief based on current societies norms.

Don't you think that the first tribes, before the agricultural revolution were not free? And yet they didn't have private property.
Good catch. You're right. The author confused flow charts with state charts.
New Lanark (formed before Marx was even born), where the term socialism was coined, didn't need at kind of force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lanark
Not really. Most resource-rich countries are terribly governed. Google “the resource curse.”
Guess what number they'll accept and double it, put up a fight when they halve it, blame someone else when you miss it, and take the credit when you hit it. At most companies estimates are about control, expectation management, and blame distribution and not about information discovery.

Most people really suck at expectation management, much more than they suck at estimating work.
I suspected that folks would think this is about rolling your own thing as opposed to relying on existing solutions, and I thought I was clear what I said was not about that — I just thought it would be somewhat valuable to someone how MyRocks compared to InnoDB and MyISAM for our use case. That’s just one datapoint.

Doesn’t mean others will have a similar experience(in terms of performance and scalability) with us. Obviously. YMMV.
When would it be appropriate to decry socialism? If ever?

I want to be ready for when that day comes.
I live in Irvine, CA, and per the article we are the sixth most expensive for a renter. I live with my parents and three sisters and we do pay $1950 for a two bedroom apartment, three dollars off the actual median.

Though what I find hard to believe is how my family does it. I attend a local community college close by, and have been doing so for the past four years after high school. Every year I fill out the FASFA (a Free Application for Student Aid limited to only six years), and I usually ask my parents for their tax record of the past year which gives me a look at our overall income.

My parents for the last four years combined have made roughly an average of $31,000/yr. I've never asked them why we initially didn't move to a cheaper state when we migrated from Mexico, but I assume they enjoy the quality of life here. Though I'm skeptical on whether the trade offs are worth it. We give up most of our life for work, so we may have a few hours off in the week and the weekend. And the the latter applies to my mother, older sister, and I, it does not apply to my father who works the entire week as a gardener with his own workers and clients and only gets a few hours each week (more now since it gets dark earlier with autumn/winter daylight savings).

Though above all, I find it odd that we give our only life (?) to living for rent, food, and necessities. Which is not to say work is bad, after all, work I think has three functions: “to give a man a chance to utilise and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.” But otherwise, I still believe there ought to be a healthier and more natural approach to modern day work and life balance.

The quote above is from E.F. Shumacher’s Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. A book I have come to admire and tend to revisit from time to time.
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Nice to see Apple and Google attending a conference that promotes Internet censorship. I'm sure they're busy changing China from their seat at the table.
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That's ok. I'm sure sales will take a substantial hit if people cannot walk into a store and buy it. I mean there's a reason Apple sells directly in France, right?
Small in size doesn't imply small in power to me. The smallest kind of government only governs the military and nothing else.
Thanks for the reminder.
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$25 given, it's nothing for this.
A lot of great answers!

Don't forget the majority of bigcos are not software companies. These are companies like Ford, GM, Coca-Cola, Proctor and Gamble, etc. Basically, these companies use software as part of their business, but are not fundamentally software companies.

The worst jobs I've ever had was being a software person in one of these non-software companies. Few of the positives (e.g. having a great set of great senior software people and practices to learn from) existed, but certainly all of the negatives did. At one of them (I didn't last long there) there was constant talk of us "Being agile like startups" which meant that people did a lot of useless work just so Directors with minimal/no software background could generate 100s of slides to demonstrate how agile and entrepreneurial their groups were.

If you want to work in software and want the positives of a bigco, work for a bigco software company. If not in a software company, in the technology org of a bicgo that actually sees software as a core strength and not just a cost center or value-add.
So you think that the huge inequalities we have today in developed countries are a "huge success"? When the richest man in the world has 100B$, and yet 12% of Americans live under the poverty line?
Argentina isn't even resource-rich, it's just large. Great for ranching, few mineral or energy resources. And it's not exactly a secret that petro states like Venezuela have fallen on hard times in the past decade.
Interesting article.

Seems it would be ideal to use post-tax income. Is the norm that you shouldn't pay more than 30% based on pre- or post-tax income?

The graph on education level does not include those not graduating high school.
The best approach to this I have found is to ask why.

What decision are you trying to make using this estimate? Understanding context helps you to understand what sort of estimate is needed - or whether an estimate is needed at all.
Err, why do you assume that everyone with a certain opinion must be a troll?
> (and most of the western democracies besides the US will recognize and embrace some elements of socialism).

Indeed. Quite unfortunate for those other democracies.
Its a strange article to read in the context of ageism.

He also humorously quotes Brooks who's always been right and often quoted and basically never implemented outside maybe avionics and nuclear control rooms because "ship it now fix it later maybe" which adds to the irony that the article claims the cathedral ruined software because dogfooding and scratching ones own itch somehow miraculously results in worse software quality than "ship it now fix it later" mentality which surely pragmatically has resulted in low quality trash in the ecosystem.

You have to keep in mind that its from more than half a decade ago which means its a generation (or two) in the industry which makes the "lost generation" talk even more weird and it makes it an interesting alternative reality alternative history from the past, a very interesting enjoyable sci fi read, while it being an alternate reality prediction that didn't pan out doesn't entirely ruin it. The Edwardian Era not having turned out like "War of the Worlds" postulated doesn't imply its bad story.

Alternative histories are cool. I like it.
Top 5 cities: LA $2600, San Jose $2502, SF $2333, NY $2141, San Diego $2058

It's been a while since I lived in the Bay Area, but has San Jose really surpassed San Francisco? Or is this a function of SJ having larger apartments than SF on average, or something like that?

I wonder if the list would be quite different for a specific type of apartment. A single renter living in 800 square feet will probably pay a lot more (I speculate) in NY than San Jose? Where a family of four living in 1200 square feet (not the norm, I realize) might not even be able to find a place in a few of these cities.

Bottom 5 cities: Toledo $550, Memphis $728, Glendale AZ $751, Kansas City $885, Lincoln NE $907

The average for the lowest cities is surprisingly high. This makes me curious about Toledo -- how is the lowest rent city 25% lower than the next lowest? That seems like an outlier. Is Toledo out of space, or depressed, or only renting studio apartments or something? How does Toledo compare to Detroit, where it's easy to find a small apartment in the $400s?
I'll let whistlecrackers make his own definition, but I'd say:

- problem is not that a country has some socialist policies

- problem is not that a country has a party with "socialism" in its name in the government

- problems definitely start to appear when a country has an autocratic government, whether it was originally "socialist" or "bolivarian" or whatever; an autocratic government then typically adapts some sort of "socialism" in its name in order to justify the autocracy, the choking of free markets, the political redistribution of resources, ad-hoc top-down responses to the economic problems that eventually come up, and the suppression of free media to hide the increasing problems.
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There was once a saying "as rich as an Argentine"
The situation seems very worrying. How can people from the outside help? What is the situation with internet access over there? Are there any bloggers or reporters who report frequently on the situation and struggles frequently?
Sorry, this is a result of socialism. Chavez undercut the middle class by giving or selling staple goods to the poor voting class, subsidized by the oil wealth. This undercut the middle class and anyone who sold things based on market supply and demand.

Source: I studied abroad there in 2001-2002 and I witnessed the overthrow of Chavez and learned a lot from the people in addition to studying the economics of the situation afterwards.
A while ago I took glassblowing course at Jim McKelvey's glass studio in St. Louis. McKelvey co-founded Square -- he was selling these amazing glass faucet spouts[1], and he lost a $2500 sale one day because a lady wanted to pay with her Amex.

He wrote an instructional book[2] on glassblowing that's pretty good.

[1]http://www.glassfaucet.com/

[2]https://www.amazon.com/ART-FIRE-James-McKelvey/dp/0978683110
My comment is not in favor of any political system, but rather wrote to showcase how the word 'socialism' seems to be used by internet trolls to destroy debate with noise.
Some things to do that could help everyone (this is what I do):

If documented stuff changes, Please report it (though that likely means testing against the alpha / beta versions (or just master). Keep Django honest.

If you find yourself using undocumented features, consider documenting them; that way they’re held to backward compatibility.

Also, follow the development of Django and comment on the intentional breaks if you think they’re not worth changing.

Disclaimer: Core dev now, though I had this attitude before that too.
US companies cannot buy, sell, or work on open source with Iranians due to sanctions, which probably hurts a lot.
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Except of course that people that the ACLU and others absolutely did raise their voices about the targeting of Anwar al-Awlaki. Indeed there was quite a lot of legal back and forth about its legality.

Personally, I see pragmatic difference. It is easily within the within the U.S' capabilities to give this person a lawyer. It's not clear how the U.S would have bought Anwar al-Awlaki to justice for the crimes that he was proud of committing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
I just deleted a comment I was going to make on another HN article that was basically a long political rant against the Republicans. Ugh. It's not valuable when it goes either way, and I doubt there's this huge lack of sympathy for the disaster. If anything, we all saw it coming. It's horrible. When I read these other posts I don't see people not caring, I see people quite frustrated because they do care.

There's this line of debate that goes "Since I cannot argue with you on merit, I will call you heartless and rude"

It's designed to shut people down without consideration for the merits of what they are saying.

It kinda works sometimes. Sure enough, there are plenty of folks who are heartless and rude on the net. But when I read comments that begin with "This whole situation is so sad, because it is 100% human caused. This is not a natural disaster! Socialism does not work and it is not moral..."

I nod my head. This doesn't mean I care less for the people involved. In fact, I care more. What a terrible thing to bring on yourselves for what appeared like a noble cause at first! And how many other South American countries have skated with this very disaster, most of the time coming out better than these folks did.

This is a horrible disaster and I wished I could do something about it.

You don't have to be a troll to point out that this has been a train wreck everybody saw coming, and the disaster continues to play out with more and more harm befalling others -- all for predictable reasons. That's not trolling. That's just where we are.
I don't think e.g. wikipedia agrees with such a restrictive view (there are many form of socialism). Also many of those countries have their main left wing party named "socialist party".

(I think it's cultural difference between US and rest of world where the US considers socialism ~= communism)
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Well, the question still stands.
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"The US has a long and bloody history of meddling in Latin America's affairs"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cia-venezue...
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I really respect this. We need to publically shame and boycott companies that hide their money and refuse to pay taxes.

The government isn't doing anything, but we can !