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On the idea of Capitalism as an Outdated System unfit for the First World
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> though, it did also cause that problem

One could make an argument that government subsidization of roads resulted in urban sprawl and general lack of population density, which resulted in a ton of transportation being done with cars, the least efficient form of transportation.

Another argument one could make is that restrictions on nuclear power have had a disastrous effect on emissions. If nuclear power was more widespread, electricity would be cheaper (an economic boon) and much, much cleaner.

> But it is increasingly proving to be inadequate to address the problems of first world nations.

The market economy created first-world nations.

- Countries which are more free economically are more prosperous compared to similar countries which are less free
- Countries which free up their economies are more prosperous afterwards
- Countries which restrict their economies are less prosperous afterwards
- Industries which are more free have more innovation and are more consumer-friendly

Free trade is well-known by every version of economics to be a huge boon for every country involved.

> The poor are poorer & account for a larger percentage of the US population as compared to 30 years ago.

Increasing or stagnating poverty is a result of bad government policy including the drug war and the welfare gap.

> money in politics, sophisticated AI in sales, marketing, & advertising, unprecedented range of automation, & radically diversified/global scale business means that the consumer has simply lost any power in the market in all but the most extreme cases

Citation needed. Also, what kind of policy would you propose to "fix" this without having drastic damaging unforeseen consequences?

> Highly organized & well funded corporations, organizations, & industries have power in the modern day (both through technology and through politics) that they could have never dreamed of just a few decades ago.

The amount of power an organization can have through politics is a function of the amount of power the government has. Technology works both ways: it allows organizations to have more power but in the same proportion if not more allows for individuals to have more power. See: the printing press.

> That's why I believe that smart regulation on business is extremely important in the modern day.

Corporatism and cronyism is a blight. Rent-seeking and regulatory capture are widespread, and the only way of getting rid of them is to reduce the power of the government in those areas.

> I also believe that it's imperative that we start exploring new economic models, in search of something better than capitalism

Like what? The economic calculation problem is unlikely to go away.

> it might already be showing its cracks

The state creates those cracks by continuously pounding the market with regulation and other distortion factors.
Damned straight.
And the customary xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/243/

(nsfw language)
Why One Startup Turned Away from Medical Record Portability
It did take an unfortunate turn.

Good luck with the library, whatever you decide.

In a curiously pertinent piece of timing, you are not the only one rejecting calls to rename:

https://mobile.twitter.com/hardmaru/status/10548722327222231...
My last boss had a killer job and a killer salary to go with it. He lost his job and could not find a similar one. He also had lost most of his relevant tech knowledge after being a manager for so many years so he couldn't go down the career ladder to get a job.

Finally, he bought a dry cleaners franchise and that's what he's doing now.

Lesson learned, sometimes you have to move on.
https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_why_we_should_build_...

This video makes me pretty proud to have graduated from UBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHtdnY_gnmE

An extra reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DPp2NcnTb0
I don't believe this, but it's an understandable error.

First, let me be clear that handwritten optimized WASM is faster and smaller than heavily optimized Javascript on primitive types, by significant margins. It doesn't surprise me that compilers burn this (to put it mildly, compilers aren't great at code generation), but it's worth noting that the raw throughput difference is there and definitely measurable. This difference should be expected to grow in the near future, since browsers' WASM compilers are suboptimal right now.

Now, more importantly, the major criticism I have with this is that it is presumably focused on small imperative tasks, which ignores the main places performance is lost in a language like Javascript:

1. Javascript can't handle memory efficiently without doing everything through typed arrays. Efficient use of memory (compact representations, mutation and sharing, sequential access, etc.) is an unreasonable task in a high level language, whereas transpiling to WASM works.

2. Javascript's abstractions are heavy and inefficient. Building your own abstractions is liable to have similar issues. A language like C, C++, or Rust lets you build efficient abstractions both in the small ("zero-cost abstractions") and in the large (architecturally).

Little unpublished demos won't show that.
I didn’t receive the email yet!
That may house the projector that throws the display onto the glass.
> That's like asking why atheists are still uncomfortable with religious faith and spirituality.

Because if you accept religious arguments, you can also perfectly argue using similar arguments that also the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) exists.
> Perhaps they resent a poorly communicated request. Perhaps the task giver does this literally ALL THE TIME ... getting other people to do their work. Maybe the adventurer wants you to fail, because you do this all the time, and like, maybe for once you should do it yourself.

Amen. But we should still be honest in our working lives even when people are shitty or annoying. It's dishonest to say "yep working on it now!" "top of my list!" when asked about the task if you have no intention of doing it. It would be more honest to say something like "not sure when we'll be able to get to that" or "other things are higher priority".
Oh! That’s malicious compliance of the best kind.
I’m now a bit curious when the switch flipped at the school I attended. There was no question when I started in 1975 that you needed a calculator. I suspect that those in the class ahead did as well. But that must have been very new.
Having close relationships with family and/or friends also helps if you need a bit of care.
Of you watch the video on the landing page they describe that olivine is a very common by-product of mining for other stuff. Currently the practice is to just pile it up, as it's worthless. So you don't even need to mine it (at least until demand scales way up) - just go to nearest mine and pick it up.
British technology company Dyson to build electric car in Singapore
Not sure how colour/race and gender come into the issue at all.

The fact that he's bought them into the argument to emphasise his point shows his point has little merit.
The problem becomes that when someone is worshiped for their stock picking ability, they basically guide the market and can create self-fulfilling prophecies.
I would go farther. The primary goal is to make sure that work can be distributed. It's not a team if you're all being held hostage by one person.

In that context there is no blame, there's just information: Work can't be distributed for reasons, reasons that should maybe worry us. One of the least likely reasons is "person X is stupid". Far more common is "person Y and Z have a serious case of the Curse of Knowledge".
From the comments on that thread:

> RapeLiberalSluts • 4 years ago

> For your own mental health, stop believing this nonsense about misogyny. Your peers are brainwashing you.

That's even 4 years ago when it wasn't quite as popular to be so edgy/hateful outside of certain communities.
Please, Please Don’t A/B Test That
I'll take it a step further and say I don't think sequestration will work if economically productive materials or systems can't be made out of the resulting carbon. Humanity is too shortsighted to fix it without gain. It's worth investing not only in the technologies that can halt climate change, but also the technologies that will enable us to survive as we endure increasingly volatile climate change.
Exactly. Figuring out which tasks are bullshit and just not doing them is an essential life skill. If you want someone to do something the best approach is to convince them it matters.
mine too! I don't really know why
> No, bu the ones with all the patents will be Waymo, Uber, GM.. Lyft?

Considering it looks like were at least 10 years away from having a self driving car industry those patents aren't going to have a long shelf life.
LuaJit comes close to pulling this off in some cases (and does in a select few), but obviously not across the board in general use.
I don't think you can transpile Perl. Maybe a subset. https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=663393
What about the divorce? Aren't you required to keep paying your alimony at the same level as before or go to jail? I am no divorce settlement expert but isn't that a reason one would want to keep up the earning levels?
So, to summarise online advertising:

1. It has been a vector for viruses / malware / cryptocoin mining

2. It tracks users activities on the internet without their knowledge to form a picture of their 'online personality'

3. It can invade a users privacy by keeping records of personal and / or intimate details of their online activities

4. It often uses more bandwidth than the content of the site it's on

5. auto-play videos

6. unexpected audio

7. As per rayvy's comment "everyone does fraud"

As the Joker said "this town needs an enema".

Given that "all the smartest people in the world work for advertising" it's a remarkable collective of all kinds of failure. And yet it continues to make a shit-ton of money because it's pretty much the only game in town.

What's the alternative? Word-of-mouth? That requires a product that's good and useful both now and into the future; not a fad. The growth-rate can also be glacial for a long initial phase, which needs commitment and passion from it's developers and management over the long term.

I can't see any revolution on the horizon though. It's going to take an impossibly sized critical mass of society to protest, and given the number of people still on Facebook... 'Brands' aren't going to stop advertising for fear of competitors getting more eyeballs.

I'm going to start an advertising company called Raypenpillidge Sleepwell.

Footnote:
Point #3 is separate to point #2 because tracking and privacy invasion should be considered separately - tracking could be done more openly with user consent which would mean the level of privacy invasion could be chosen by the user.
It is pretty unbelievable that it doesn't and I haven't seen any other reports. Lots of car USB ports only provide the base 500 mA. Did you try any other USB chargers? Did you use Ampere app to see the current?
It's also in earthquake country.

And it was made in China!

> At $7.2 billion, it will be one of the most expensive structures ever built. But California officials estimate that they will save at least $400 million by having so much of the work done in China. …

> [Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company] put 3,000 employees to work on the project: steel-cutters, welders, polishers and engineers. The company built the main bridge tower, which was shipped in mid-2009, and a total of 28 bridge decks — the massive triangular steel structures that will serve as the roadway platform.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge....
Depends on where. In Vancouver, I twice put my own job on the line to vouch for the desirability of hiring older men. One was 56, the other in his mid-fourties. If I hadn't then neither would have got the job; and their ability to do the work was never in question.
IMHO it's misleading to say "There is no "settled science" establishing a genetic determinant for crime." - while it's debatable how large that component is, there certainly is evidence that it's very unlikely to be zero.

In particular, the following factors are both quite correlated with crime (and in a way where it's reasonable to assume causation) and also are known to be somewhat heritable:

a) mental disorders such as psychopathy;

b) being prone to addiction;

c) general impulse control and risk-seeking behavior.

Given the available evidence, it would be wrong to assume an absolute lack of relationship between your genes and propensity to crime, there clearly is some (though not necessarily large) genetic determinant for crime - all other things being equal, some newborn babies are a bit more likely than others to go on and commit crimes when they grow up.
how much advancement do you think you'll want in your 50s? also I think it's funny that you mention intolerancia to differences in a thread about svs ageism
Perl5 is a great language. For internet and system related tasks it is great! It was created long time ago and evolved over the years.

One thing is true, it had a lot of advantage over other languages for a lot of years. However, now in 2018, other languages have also evolved and gained a lot of traction. One example is javascript/node which is now being used more and more. For a lot of time, a lot of frontend focused developers didnt really want to try backend development... specially because backend development was usually done in another language which was not javascript. So some never really attempted to do backend development. However when node was released, that opened a lot of new opportunities for the front end developers.

There are a lot of languages these days and many of them are capable enough to do many types of projects.

The important thing is, some languages have a bigger concentration of more capable engineers. One of these languages is perl. The perl programmers are excelent. They have real close experience with the kernel and systems and usually have great experience in complex backend tasks. Many are not as great with front end development. Some are.

Some projects can be done and deployed by 1 single perl developer. The same project if done in java for example might require more than 1 java developer.

The microsoft language creates a bubble and their developers sometimes dont know universal technical terms, they only know the microsoftish terms. Ie. they might not know what a "web server" is, but they know what "IIS" is. They might now know what a "hash" is, but they know what a "dictionary" is. Perl developers use universal terms.

Amazingly, javascript, especially ES6 is looking more and more like perl. Those that know both will agree sometimes it reminds of perl.

There are many projects people dont know about that use perl behind the scenes. But of course there are not as many perl programmers as there are in other languages and thats one reason you dont hear much about these projects.

Companies embrace more and more the modern perl development. Java, microsoft, node, python, ruby, etc are more popular of course. Specially because a lot of banks use java and they push java via universities. In the past I have seen labs with SUN machines on universities that teach Java. Microsoft also gives students free software licenses via universities. Thats another reason Microsoft and Java are very popular.
If they could show us a compromised motherboard; and maybe even the Chinese tiny chip?
> what do you mean a class is an object

I think that's pretty standard for object orientated languages. I can't find of any where it isn't the case off the top of my head. Is it not the case in Perl's object orientated support?

And why wouldn't it be an object? Seems more surprising for classes to be an exception.
9th circuit rules FBI warrant authorizing Tor Browser crack invalid [pdf]
Facinating story. How did you learn programming?
The reason GHC won't infer the definition of Applicative is because there can be multiple valid `Applicative` instances for a type (unlike `Functor` where there is a unique (non-trivial) instance).

The canonical example of this is lists, with 2 valid instances of `Applicative`.

The author of the post seems to have this realization, but I wanted to call it out, just in case.
discussion https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1054797792890228737
The last one. Doubleplus ungood.
NIPS Foundation Board Concludes Name Change Deliberations
A one-percenter buying a million-dollar house might well consider it reasonable to hire a lawyer to help out with something as ordinary as a home purchase, but the rest of us aren't buying million-dollar houses and don't routinely get legal advice about anything. When I bought my house, I had $30k to spend as a down payment; no way would it have made sense to waste 5% of that on unnecessary legal work. (What would lawyers have even theoretically been able to tell me, anyway?)
"It's time to invest and avidly pursue a new wave of technological solutions to this problem - including those that are risky, unproven, even unlikely to work".

I had a recent crackpot idea that falls into the "unlikely to work" category since my background is not chemistry.

Given that a modern automobile's tailpipe emissions are mostly C02 + H20, those molecules can be converted into ethylene (C2H2) using known efficient electro-catalytic processes. The conversion of ethylene gas to a polyethylene (plastic) is well known and has the added benefit of being exothermic.

The end goal is for my car to output a lump of plastic I can drop into the recycling bin instead of CO2.

But my gut tells me that:

1) There is no way to speed up the reactions to keep up with the 80 liters per second of tailpipe exhaust (~40rps * 2.0 liter engine) without this system being impractically large and/or requiring energy intensive compressors.

2) No one, including me, wants to drive around with a tank of hydrogen and a tank of ethylene gas.

But still, it might be fun to hack on something like this assuming I can do it safely. If anyone has any feedback, or has experience making polyethylene, I would be grateful for feedback even if it is negative. Thanks.
Waymo has Avis handling their fleet management. The rental car companies are in a good position to take on Uber/Lyft if they get self driving. They're already renting cars; this is just shorter term rentals.
Microsoft Windows zero-day disclosed on Twitter, again
Control Panels – Historical photos of dials, toggles, buttons
Relevant read: "Quantum Teleportation" and other Quantum Misnomers (H. D. Zeh) http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~as3/Teleport.html
https://screeps.com/ You can use javascript, c/c++ or Rust to play an MMO sandbox game where you program your units' AI.
Terraform is pretty good; but its strength is its weakness; the declarative syntax (DAG planner) isn't perfect and once you start hinting it, it causes all sort of chaos.

The solution to complex deploys that re-use portions of the deployments you would want to put a context boundary on, is a series of modules that maintain their own state. But this forces you to pass large amounts of the same data (couples the modules strongly to the main file) over and over again.

As for collaborative, terragrunt works pretty good ;) provided you can give a home to the statefile.

The real problem I have with terraform/aws (or insert provider) is that its still time-intensive to actually do the deploys. The parallelization of the terraform graph, is "simple" at best.

If anyone wants to collaborate on a fork of packer/terraform, let me know on thread.
THIS!! Community is what keeps people alive. Mentally, physically, emotionally, and what-ever-else-ally. Even hanging out with a younger crowd is beneficial to you.
The main reason it is falling is because of natural gas substituting for coal in the power sector and that will continue to happen due to the low prices for natural gas.
For me Perl is (awk|sh)++. It's a great example of the Unix philosphy, which is, among other things, evolution based on practical experience rather than top down theoretical design.
article: https://lawandcrime.com/fourth-amendment/court-says-fbi-run-...
All models are wrong. Some are useful.

Basically every organization that has looked at the issue and built a serious model has reached the same conclusion. From early studies done by engineers at oil and gas companies, to research undertaken by skeptics, the message is the same: we're not in Kansas anymore, and we're running out of time to turn around.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of...
One time I took some time off between jobs and found https://topcoder.com which is a combination of competition and freelance site. It can be a lot more than just practice, but I found it great for getting deep into areas I don't usually work. Worked on various small mobile, translation, compound matching programs. The jobs varied from maybe an hour's worth to days. Often only one to three of the solutions get awarded cash prizes, but I figured I want to learn this stuff anyway and having a deadline or competition really was motivational. One thing to keep in mind is that it's okay if you think you should have placed but didn't. The site is also really well run. There's topcoder staff assigned to liason with the poster of the task and a forum for each challenge for questions, answers, and getting additional materials in a timely manner.
Back in 1997. Funny how timeless some things are.
I’m kind of amazed how much money can be tied up in things that are not well understood by the vast majority of people who fund those things.

Ad networks. Various products from financial institutions. Cryptocurrencies. Heck, even app stores (as a developer, if your app was sold to somebody and Apple/Google’s system was simply broken and somehow they made their cut but you didn’t, how would you even know?).

At a certain point, it sure seems that people rely on popularity as proof of proper functionality (i.e. “lots of people seem to use this just fine” = “nothing can go wrong”). In reality, we should be expecting a lot more: asking harder questions, demanding more proof of activities, expecting extremely reliable support, etc. And frankly, a lot of these things should have open-source implementations to make it even easier to ensure that they work the way they claim to.
Yes, ignoring economic incentives, they could just bury it. (Due to similar incentives, Chevron and BP aren't leaving oil sequestered in the ground.)

Shipping petroleum from Earth's surface to Mars is almost certainly prohibitively expensive.
A JIT can do all the optimisations that a static compiler can, and then of top of that it can do additional optimisations that a static compiler can't.