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Some highly educated people describe themselves as Marxists beacuse they believe, with or without caveats, that Marx's critique of political economy, contained within it Marx's sociology and philosophy, come very close to a critique of the modern state of things, i.e the current mode of production, which most would identify as capitalism.

I'll address each argument.

1. As I've already responded to dragonwriter, it's incorrect to say that "Marxism" is a set of goals to be acheived or a kind of economy or a mode of production or a mode of social organisation. Marxism is simply the critique of political economy, and from that critique emerges the idea of Communism. As to the question, a lot of work has been done in Marxist (and post-Marxist) circles since about the 1950s, you may have heard of the Frankfurt School, for instance. Alain Badiou, a contemporary French philosopher, has written a book called "The Communist Hypothesis" in which he attempts to "rescue" Communism, not merely as a "less-bad" alternative to capitalism (even considering the track record in history) but as the only alternative. He uses the example of approaches to proving a hypothesis, in which each iteration the lessons learned from the previous attempt are modified. This is directly relatable to history - consider the evolution of Leninism after the Paris Commune, or Maoism after Leninism.

2. Capitalism is the greatest precedent, and feudalism too before it. Though it's worth noting that not only is Communism the "upheaval" of an economic system, it is as Gilles Dauve but it: "the end of economy". Arguably, capitalism really has worked; Marx would be the last to claim that capitalism hasn't ushered in massive prosperity and progress.

These are just my responses, but there is a whole host of diversity within modern (post 1930s) Marxist thought that stretches to this day, with various responses to your questions, obviously not so condensed. The Frankfurt School was critical of both Western capitalism and Soviet-style communism, while furthering the Marxist critique to a mass-media world. The left-communists champion a return to Marx himself rather than trying to re-formulate critique for the modern world.

But I want to disspell the idea that modern Marxists are ignorant of history or human behaviour; Marxism is relatively popular in both sociology and some history departments.
It's the nature of these things that they are not done in the open so there is mostly lived experience and anecdotes, but if you think people like this https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/internal-emails... won't affect your career if you are not 100% Red Guard-level down with extreme PC-ism, then I think you are quite confused.
Then this whole discussion is nonsensical since in almost all cases retail orders are directly filled by wholesale market makers and don't ever land on the exchanges (and don't see any 'frontrunning' as a result).
Ok, theres also a 50 pence and 20 pence piece.. I reckon they were all dropped in at the same time.
Our app (Bitesnap) is made with RN. Another popular one is Gyroscope.

- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitesnap-photo-food-journal/...

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.bite.biteap...

- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gyroscope-health/id110408505...

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gyroscope....
You know you're missing the point, right? There are some jobs that people just don't tend to enjoy or find meaningful. You can incentive people to do them by paying them lots of money, but that doesn't necessarily make people happy or fulfilled while doing the work, which was the original topic of this discussion.
Convertkit is now seva (Biggest change in history)
I think it's becoming clear that (a) bike sharing is good to have in a city. People want it. (b) neither an all public or an all private system can work as well as we'd like it to.

The "all public" system means a municipality contracts a single vendor (or owns it) to build all the stations and manage everything. This is what we have where I live, dublin. It's a stagnant system. They don't add stations. Problems with stations being full/empty at certain times of the day persist indefinitely. Basically, you can feel the lack of competition.

The all private system (like they have in China) is more innovative. They use technology better. You can feel the existence of competition. It's more scalable with bikes, rides and users increasing all the time.

But... It makes a mess. Bikes everywhere. Companies can go bust, can chase market cap & investment. Mostly, bikes end up abandoned all over the place.

This is fixable, for a local municipality that's willing to get clever and design a market. Create infrastructure, mostly it's the stations or the ability to rent space for them. Make rules, but not too many. Let competition happen within parameters.
Have you used it though? Just because it exists, doesn't mean it's good. I've tried usin it several times, and it sucks.
Why are you writing your own solution? Is it just for fun?

I was under impression that there are tons of opensource available platforms to host courses.
Thanks, I mostly use MATE so I haven't tried it in a while. I edited my comment.
> Honestly, a PhD is the culmination of a very complicated thought process. Why wouldn't the program resulting from research be non-trivial to understand?

The subtlety here is that there is the complexity inherent to the problem domain, which is what you are referring to, and code complexity that arises from translating that complexity to a programming context.

Environments like SciPy, Matlab, R, and Julia get rid of a lot of the latter while still forcing certain conventions to follow that make the code easier to read for outsiders, leaving the complexity of the algorithm itself.

And I probably should have used Julia instead of Python as an example, since it aims and IMO succeeds as a "goldilocks" language that combines a lot of great ideas from all aforementioned languages plus Lisp[0]. IIRC, it is sometimes jokingly referred to as "secretly a Lisp" because part of the compiler is writting in... I think Scheme?

[0] https://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/metaprogram...
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I'm sure they were all stolen.
How much does a tech bro cost?
I don't think so. There are cases when SPA provides better user experience (apps that work offline, complicated editors, endless feeds with images, like buttons and comments) but if you need to display text with images, using SPA (and writing two applications) is an overengineering, making a complex solution instead of simpler one. Server-generated HTML is not an outdated technology.

> I don't understand your complaint about the "preloader".

It makes page load seem slower. Browsers can display HTML progressively even if it is not completely loaded, but preloader makes the user wait until all the resources are fetched. This is effectively discarding all the improvements browsers implemented for faster page rendering.

Also it is annoying to see a blank page when you navigate back and forward.
I would like to know about Xamarin too if anyone has them. Particularly looking for high fidelity creative / UX
A company I've worked for in the past is an Australian company called CourseGenius. Fairly affordable and has a free trial.

Avoid SCORM at all costs lol.
Hamilton was built with flutter.

https://medium.com/flutter-io/video-hamilton-app-built-in-3-...
> need tools that turn themselves into easily replaceable cogs.

Sort of but not really.

Even though this mantra is repeated often, the greatest "cogs" actually have deep domain knowledge. That's how most mainstream programmers "level up". They become experts in the application they're developing and what it does functionally. Or in the domain in which the application operates (after having worked on several applications in the same field, for various companies).

HackerNews folks don't work in this kind of field, but in that domain Lisp is a liability. You want a plain and simple programming language, no meta programming, dumb albeit repeated code that does just what it needs to do. The rest of the brain cycles are needed to understand the often convoluted business logic ("due to this regulation the employee needs to be X", "the account is Y because our partner Zs", etc.).
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>he wrote it about the Marxists of his day (mid-20-th century France) -- people who were justifying Stalinism crimes and so on.

This isn't a very nuanced view of even those Marxists, who were not justifying Stalin at all - in fact, the matters of May '68 were almost entirely inspired by a new kind of Marxism, much further from Stalinism. It was an expression of dissatisfaction. It's extremely curious to me that the author doesn't once bring up the Frankfurt School, a group of German intellectuals writing since the 1930s on the failure of both Western capitalism and Soviet-style communism. Rather, Marxists (all of them) are painted with a broad Stalinist brush, which is very ignorant of the movements even during the time the author of the book was alive. Unfortunately the 2005 article has done very little research into the Marxist movements past and present of that year.
An awful awful lot of uncertainty and panic would've happened I think.

I don't doubt that, what I wonder is if it would all be a distant memory now instead of dragging on for decades (we still have a lot more debt than before the crisis).
I didn't look in the last few months, but most definitely when I did last look the reality is that Let's Encrypt and the strongly related "HTTPS Everywhere" movement actually drove growth for the _entire CA industry_

This is undoubtedly at least in part due to a halo effect. If Alice and Bob have $0 Let's Encrypt certs for their blogs about, respectively, an obscure species of tree frog and restoring muscle cars, when Carol asks them if her new business "needs" an SSL certificate they are more likely to say "Yes" rather than "Not really" or "I don't know what that is". Even if most Carols use Let's Encrypt, any who don't are new customers for a commercial CA.
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Yes, that's what I'm referring to.
I wonder if anyone has outlined best practices for going to major public events? Just a burner cell? I assume airplane mode isn't enough. Faraday cage bag and keep the phone off until I get outside the event. Since we no longer really have pay phones, I wonder what best secure SOP is aside from must "don't go". I think airports and tube stations qualify as minor major events.

I don't just worry about it because of the tracking, but also pushing false over the air updates. I know 4G is a lot more secure, but I don't fully understand the current stingrays. With the government saying they don't know who's running the DC stingrays, it pulls a lot into question for personal security.

Here's a presentation from last year's Blackhat:

"New Adventures in Spying 3G & 4G
Users: Locate, Track, Monitor" by Ravishankar Borgaonkar and Lucca Hirschi

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/wednesday/us-17-Borgaonk...
Not exactly "popular" (only 10k downloads), but my Pathfinder spell tracking app is built 100% Flutter: https://www.spelltrackerapp.com/
If it's for coding this might be what you want:

https://clubhouse.io

I don't use it since Trello is enough for me, but it looks pretty solid.
Helmets are for those who take livability seriously!

I grew up in Melbourne. I've worn bike helmets since I was a kid. They have been compulsory since 1990. It's not a big deal. Everyone knows it is just common sense, just like wearing seatbelts in a car.

Over the years, I have had bike crashes and hit my head on the road three times. The one time I was seriously injured was in Amsterdam, where no one wears helmets. My front wheel jammed and I fell over the handlebars face-first onto the road. I had to go to hospital for stitches. I was very, very lucky I didn't end up brain-damaged.

Helmets reduce serious brain trauma by 50-60%. That's well worth the small inconvenience for me.
At KIT they use Praktomat: https://github.com/KITPraktomatTeam/Praktomat/

GitHub plus Travis CI is not enough?
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Microsoft News is built with Xamarin (source: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384)

- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....

- iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-news/id945416273?m...
Central banking is awful and you know no better than to say what you say (having not known anything else).

Evil triumphs only when good men do nothing!
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How does one design a proper ER model without understanding the domain, query patterns etc ?

Because that sounds like magic.

Also MongoDB destroys any RDBMS (minimum 10x faster) if you have embedded structures instead of joining against 10 tables in a normalised design. Hence the importance of understanding your query patterns and domain before selecting the database.
1. Find out what the customer really wants.

2. Try to hack it with as fast as possible - Google Forms, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, Evernote, WordPress. For a lot of things with a database, you should be able to prototype faster with a spreadsheet.

3. At some point, it will fall apart. Design a disposable prototype. Plan to throw this prototype away completely.

4. Hack away at the prototype for max 1 month. This should be enough to present to a investor or even release to a customer. (one of my prototypes got 10k downloads, good cash flow, crashed on average 3 times a day)

5. Build a proper design around this. If you have released your prototype to the client, you know clearly what they want.

6. Break down customer requirements into test cases. As in plaintext tests, not code or Word documents.

7. Design a plan for development to launch. Try to launch as soon as possible. Cut features out ruthlessly.

8. Launch. Iterate.

In the early stages, pick the fastest tool. Pick a tool you know or can learn fast.

Every design, scale up 10x. Your spreadsheet might handle 10 customers. Your app prototype might handle 100. Your first non beta release might handle 1000 customers. Future releases handle 10000, 100k and so on. Don't scale too early; tools that scale well are generally less efficient, and this includes marketing.
Oh I agree with you about the article. Even with cars she shows an example from BMW that rather spoils his point - that's BMW since they adopted lighting as decoration like everyone else, white with some red highlights. My old BM 5 series was a very orange place rather more like the aircraft cockpit illustrated.

In fact all my old cars were - because the first thing I'd do on buying was turn the brightness for instruments right down. With incandescent bulbs that meant they became orange. My current car reduces brightness but keeps colour that I really wish I could do something about.
While the story is legit and has been covered other places, this site looks sketchy and makes me wonder if it's a splog. This feeling is supported by the lack of available information about the author. The only results that come up for the author appear to be related to the URL, and when I search for his name in relation to the other websites he's said to have written for, nothing comes up.
It seems to me a piece of software is either a formal proof or it's not. So if it's not and we still manage to write robust programs, the natural next question is, to what degree is it okay to knowingly violate the laws? And if you iterate that to the nth, do you end up with Clojure?
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For me, it's sort of the opposite. I always wonder how employees at discount stores manage to maintain (the appearance of) job satisfaction.

(Might be cultural difference though. I'm in Germany.)
Slightly off-topic, but it's super interesting to see Flutter (which seems to be by Google), use Visual Studio Code (by Microsoft) and an iPhone X simulator (by Apple) as their main demo. I guess it gets the point across.
> the southwestern deserts.

I live in a place with abundant water, but I would expect this approach to be kind of "frowned upon" in a desert. Isn't saving water a high priority in those environments?
Too bad is unusable.
Somewhat related to this, "lane filtering" on motorbikes is also legal in Melbourne.

That helps converting some car users to motorbikes or scooters instead, as driving to work is generally much faster than in a car (for Melbourne traffic anyway).
More importantly, Instagram downscales your photos to poop and bans zooming.
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And what are your thoughts regarding Spain and Italy?
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> Working in NLP, it really bugs me when people overstate what can be done like this.

But they have to. Otherwise funding goes away.

> It creates massive expectations that are bound to fail, and then the entire field suffers.

Yes. But by then the people overstating now will have made their money and moved on.

I agree with you, but honestly companies and investors are so shallow it isn't hard to see what is going on.
Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age
I have a real soft spot for Autumn's Child, and I also really like Call on Me and I'm Glad; plus, you get some awesome Ry Cooder moments on Safe as Milk.

But, you've nailed my favorite Beefheart period (Shiny Beast-Ice Cream for Crow), and Shiny Beast stands apart as my favorite (The Floppy Boot Stomp, Tropical Hot Dog Night, Bat Chain Puller, Apes-Ma, etc.). During this period, his work had a balance and maturity - without sacrificing much of his quirkiness.
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Yep, had the same in Safari. But when I use Firefox and click on -119000 it shows the objects almost immediately.
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Even more:

Daniel Burd (Canada) - Bacteria that break down polyethylene - https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2008/07/01/waterloo_student...

Miranda Wang & Jeanny Yao (Canada) - Bacteria that eat phthalates - https://www.sciencealert.com/students-are-developing-a-bacte...

Tseng I-Ching (Taiwan) - Bacteria that degrade Styrofoam - https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/hi...

Morgan Vague (Oregon, US) - polyethylene terephthalate [See OP]

And there exists even more research on this, out of Japan.

Can we please just take all those bacteria and together throw them into a bioreactor along with some well mixed, diverse plastic trash, for that sweet, sweet horizontal gene transfer?

Bonus if we can also get some fungi and/or lichen and/or bryophytes in there/out of that.
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The page is fully working but naked and missing some essential chat features. Any fork ideas? :-)
> they are hoarding cash

I don’t think anyone assumes anyone is hoarding cash. It’s just a time to deployment question.

A dollar flowing into a wealthy person’s account may take a week or two to get loaned out or fielded into an investment, and another week or two to pay the investment manager or begin facilitating the purchase of goods and services. A dollar dropped into an empty checking account may buy food that day from an establishment which will sweep it out to a supplier the next day.

Our financial system is efficient, but the last time I saw a statistic for the figure, it takes about two weeks for the average checking account deposit to get turned into a mortgage.
This is all pretty fun reading.

At least with my own code in Haskell, I work in the mental model where I assume termination and strong normalization (all programs terminate under all evaluation strategies).

Then, Bottom corresponds to either an exception that will get forced or a computationally boring infinite loop (which the rts can sometime detect and turn into an exception). My personal style favors having those errors be very very visible.

That said, depending on what formal or informal reasoning properties you care about (especially as a library writer), these little subtleties can be really important!
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Sure. All I was saying is that it's theoretically possible for a market order that a customer submits online to be front-run (as opposed to a market order submitted to a single exchange). No clue how often it happens in practice.
So, just like with an American company today? The US was a notorious "copyright breaker" back when it was bootstrapping...

E.g.:

The U.S. was long a net importer of literary and artistic works, especially from England, which implied that recognition of foreign copyrights would have led to a net deficit in international royalty payments. The Copyright Act recognized this when it specified that “nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to prohibit the importation or vending, reprinting or publishing within the United States, of any map, chart, book or books … by any person not a citizen of the United States.” Thus, the statutes explicitly authorized Americans to take free advantage of the cultural output of other countries. As a result, it was alleged that American publishers “indiscriminately reprinted books by foreign authors without even the pretence of acknowledgement.” The tendency to reprint foreign works was encouraged by the existence of tariffs on imported books that ranged as high as 25 percent.

The United States stood out in contrast to countries such as France, where Louis Napoleon’s Decree of 1852 prohibited counterfeiting of both foreign and domestic works. Other countries which were affected by American piracy retaliated by refusing to recognize American copyrights. Despite the lobbying of numerous authors and celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic, the American copyright statutes did not allow for copyright protection of foreign works for fully one century. As a result, American publishers and producers freely pirated foreign literature, art, and drama.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/an-economic-history-of-copyright...

So, that's like a parent telling a high schooler not to drink, when they had a fake id and everything in their age...
I use a model M as well! I have some that I saved from an old office of mine, but sadly I didn’t save all of them. (They had thrown out 20-25 the week before while I was on vacation. I guess that’s what happens when you miss out on spring cleaning).
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I believe it was in the liner notes for Safe as Milk that I read John Lennon had something like seven copies and that it was his favorite new album at the time of its release.

Cooder has some interesting stories about why he parted ways with Vilet.
> Our current unemployment rate is virtually the lowest in 20yrs and it's hard to hire ANYBODY as a result. (1)

This observation is so weird in the context of flat wages and the proliferation of sub-minimum-wage "gig economy" jobs. If labor was really scarce, shouldn't that put upward pressure on wages? Perhaps what automation is doing is giving employers a way out of competing for labor. The long range consequences seem pretty obvious: massive, rising inequality.
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> Inside a secure defence facility.

In theory, identifying who left it there should be feasible.

That may mean asking the defence facility people nicely (letters and bureaucracy, etc).
Not really, RPS is (I feel) one of the best journals out there when it comes to gaming. Too bad they only review PC games though :(
I find it hard to imagine how the screen could look yellowish while still outputting a lot of blue, but you can actually check it - look at the blue sub-pixels with a magnifying glass or your phone camera and see if they actually dim.
I’ve read that’s caused by one-income households giving way to two-income. It’s a long-term trend separate from changes in the last ten years.