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>Labor theory value did not stand academic or practical scrutiny.

It seems to be standing academic scrutiny today, at least, it is debated to be. Kliman's[0] Temporal Single System Interpretation of Marx, upheld by Alan Freeman, David Laibman and Guglielmo Carchedi is one example which also attempts to solve for the transformation problem. On the other hand, Paul Cockshott has written on the empirical validity from the opposite pole[4] (note, one which Kliman rejects). Anwar Shaikh takes up what (I believe to be, my memory is rusty) a neo-Ricardian approach to the empirical strength of Marx's theory of value[8]. With regard to Marx's falling rate of profit, Okishio's Fundamental Marxian Theorem is currently upheld by Dong-Min Rieu (in several interpretations)[10]. Recent work has also been done on the empirical validity of the TRPF using actual econometric data[9]. Marx's theory of exploitation is currently upheld by John Roemer, Roberto Veneziani and Naoki Yoshihara[1]. Marx's "third thing" proof is currently upheld by James Furner[2]. The interpretation of the labour theory of value in the causal-explanatory mode is discussed since Steven Fleetwood[3]. The Sraffian criticism of Marx is also very much discussed[5][6][7]. There is also, of course, the Neue Marx-Lektur school which takes the sociological and cultural approach to the theory of value, the relatively new idea of the "value theory of labour", and the philosophical reading of capital such that price and value are different levels of abstraction and thus irreconcilable.

My point is that to say Marx was "wrong, really wrong" does not do justice to the fact that he was wrong on some counts and right on other counts, and your dismissal is much too heavy handed to dismiss much of the work and debate done in political economy.

[0] "Two Concepts of Value, Two Rates of Profit, Two Laws of Motion," Research in Political Economy 18, 243–67

[1] http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/~yosihara/Reexamination_of_the_Ma...

[2] Furner, James (2004) 'Marx's critique of Samuel Bailey', Historical Materialism 12(2)

[3] Fleetwood, S. (2001) 'What kind of theory is Marx's labour theory of value? A critical realist inquiry', Capital & Class 73

[4] http://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/eea97.pdf

[5] Freeman, Alan, (2002), Marx After Marx After Sraffa, MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany.

[6] http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/ecn265/value.pdf

[7] Bowles, S., and Gintis, H. (1981): “Structure and ractice in the Labor Theory of Value,” Review of Radical Political Economics 12,pp.1-26.

[8] "The Empirical Strength of the Labor Theory of Value" in Conference Proceedings of Marxian Economics: A Centenary Appraisal, Riccardo Bellofiore (ed.), Macmillan, London.

[9] Basu, Deepankar and Manolakos, Panayiotis T., "Is There a Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall? Econometric Evidence for the U.S. Economy, 1948-2007" (2010). Economics Department Working Paper Series. 99.

[10] Rieu, D.-M. (2009). Interpretations of Marxian Value Theory in Terms of the Fundamental Marxian Theorem. Review of Radical Political Economics, 41(2), 216–226.
GP meant "eschew" but typed "askew". Also confused me for a second.
I've done XP. It was awesome.

As for the two attempts to implement Marxism (assuming you're speaking of Russia and China here)... in Russia, you can't separate it from Leninism and Stalinism. Is Marxism the problem, or the authoritarian government?

China is more interesting. China is still ostensibly a Marxist nation, right? Per World Bank data I just looked up, China's per capita GDP (in constant US dollars) was lowest in 1962, at $71.91. That's per year. In 2017, it's $8826.99. Constant dollars, mind you. That's 123 times more.

I have a hard time calling that a failure of any sort.

There hasn't been large-scale political violence in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. That ten-year period killed 5-10 million on the high end. Which is, of course, quite bad, but in comparison to the 50-80M that died in ostensibly capitalist Europe during WWII, it doesn't seem that outsized.

So for burden of proof, I think you need to argue that an alternative model would have resulted in less political violence and more economic prosperity than that for China. Good luck.
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> That is exactly how being "cool" works in parts of India, and just the fact is enough to make a person from the west crack up.

Indeed. In the context of the show, and American culture, it was Dinesh's perspective that stood out as seeming odd or unique.

But I wonder if the post-1950s American/Hollywood understanding of "cool" - the glorification of rebel/outcaste that Gilfoyle's personality represents - is itself really the anomaly on the global scale.

I'd imagine many/most parts of the world don't develop a romantic cultural trope around the underdog, or the person who doesn't fit in with the mainstream. But I'd be interested to learn otherwise.
The iShares S&P 500 ETF (quote: IVV) has an expense ratio of 0.04%, is offered commission-free on many brokerages, and based on some quick calculations, follows the official index to within about 0.5% returns. You're right that it's not completely "free", but the total "cost" is only about half a percentage point, meaning you can pretty closely follow the index in the long run with a single ETF purchase. I don't know what could be easier. :)
The regular formalism is very neat and I like to use it, but the RegExp syntax doesn't do it justice.

They are pretty much write-only, and there's no way to compose two regexps safely (new `RegExp(a.source, b.source)` breaks for `/a|A/, /b/, for example).

Rex is a good attempt at solving this. I wrote a similar lib a while ago (more functional and tighter in design, see my other comment on this page).
Interesting observation, if true, it comes at a bizarre time, when markets are being slammed.
> It’s more fun to root for the underdog.

Outside of dumb luck, I don't see a plot arc that favors Richard's team at all.

Especially when one of the overarching themes is that over the seasons the "underdog" throws friends under the bus, hacks competitors, rents a botnet, lies, commit fraud, and all kinds of other abuses.

What's the difference between Richard dumping a gf because she uses spaces and Gavin screwing over Jack because Jack wanted to get dropped off first from the private plane? The only difference I see is that Richard's narcissism doesn't come with the weight of a $100 billion company behind it.

Richard's bad behavior comes off as less jarring because almost all of the time he has considerably less power than Gavin. Richard doesn't have a wall of lawyers who he can casually probe about assassinating a foe. Gavin does.

Edit: clarification
Seems Trump is on the way to top that. That's one thing I never get about modern Republicans. When in opposition they throw a fit about deficits but as soon as they have power they forget these concerns but drive deficits up a lot. Reagan did it, Bush did it and now Trump is doing it too.
It's an idea for a new open project, something like Github but with creative artistic designs! Where people can use similar version control ideology for an art project!
I’m in Canada. At least US bank accounts tend to have no monthly fees unless you want to do uncommon things like receive a transfer.

Unless you’re doing a SEPA transfer, the UK bank I looked at still charges for receiving and sending wires. And you always get dinged if there’s a currency exchange.
> Incorrect. It has been well-documented that when people have more disposable income, their spending increases. This increase in economic activity grows the economy.

It has been well documented that when you give people who have proven themselves capable of efficiently allocating capital (i.e. the rich) more capital, they continue to allocate it to its best and most productive use for society.

Everyone's got a narrative, and they're both right. To an extent.
This is wrong in so many ways. First, I know the language. I’ve been doing this for almost 50 years. This isn’t a question of what the language allows but what the coder is trying to do.

Second, experience has taught me that code and comments often don’t agree. Too, if you have to comment that a loop really isn’t a loop then this is an indication that something is wrong.

Third, it isn’t a loop: while(false) never loops. That’s the point. Having to use a forward reference to understand the beginning of something is bad practice.

Fourth, this construct is almost always a sloppy way to prevent if-else creep. The code is invariably improved by a) not lying about the loop and b) refactoring.
> It was sold to the middle class as "Trickle down economics".

No, it was sold as “supply-side economics”, “Trickle-down economics” was a hostile characterization (as was Geore H. W. Bush’s “Voodoo economics” characterization.)
Only tangentially related, but are there any public Postgres benchmarks for systems running high-CPU, high-memory, p4800x optane drives?
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No need to escape the dashes btw:

$ node
> '02-14-1924'.match(/\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{4}/)
[ '02-14-1924', index: 0, input: '02-14-1924', groups: undefined ]
Yes, I procrastinate.
While at the grocery store yesterday I noticed that the store had a few shelves of cutting boards and bowls made of olive wood. They're made from non-producing olive trees in Tunisia. The little blurb on the cutting board suggested that the Tunisians cut down the trees once they stop producing.

I wonder if there's enough of a market that producing wood would incentivize cutting down infected trees. The grain is visually very distinctive and appealing and the items themselves weren't particularly cheap.
I very much agree that you want to work at a company that embraced remote working instead of one that reluctantly agreed to it.

This is much easier in a company that is 100% remote. The OP suggests using the word distributed company. I noted that many companies with multiple locations. So we used the term 'remote only'. We didn't like the sound of that so we changed it to 'all remote' https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/
I believe it happens in our company from time to time (I live on the other side of the world, so I don't get to see it). Basically people are encouraged to plan ahead about coming in to the office so that they can make sure there is enough space. It's definitely an issue that some people complain about.

It will obviously depend a lot on how the space is managed. If a company likes to see high utilisation of the space (so they aren't "wasting" money), then you will have more contention for chairs, desks, etc. If the company doesn't mind having some empty seats most days, then it will be easy to accommodate days where more people show up.
> long had higher standards of living than a large remainder of the world

Not really 200 years ago most Americans were scratching a living in a new world fighting off the natives and importing slaves.

>The issue is more that while this process was happening a small segment of the US population has managed to sequester a nearly incomprehensible portion of that wealth for no good reason.

Agreed its a big change from the 60s and 70s.
Hah, the UI told me I made a houseboat, thanks for raining on my parade.
I've never even been to Texas, but I consider King of the Hill to be on the best written sitcoms ever. My wife and I still make jokes about Aisle 8A all the time. No other TV show I've seen has ever crossed that threshold of comedy so beautifully.
Any suggestions for remote brainstorming with whiteboard and all that?

I would like a large-ish collaborative drawing surface, and ability to see the faces of my collaborators (2-3 people), as well ability to request and grant control of the board.

So much of our design came out of impromptu design sessions, I don't see a future without it.
> Could one use this ruling and copy all of IMDB's film data?

IMDb forbids scrapers in their conditions[1] but you can freely download their datasets[2].

Similar to what you described: omdbapi[3] is a third party API for the free IMDb data.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/conditions

[2] https://datasets.imdbws.com/

[3] http://www.omdbapi.com/
The Frankfurt School, which coined the term "cultural Marxism", were German Marxists who survived WWI, saw the revolution fail in Germany and turn to Leninist/Stalinist horror in Russia, and tried to understand what went wrong. They were seeking a route to revolution that was not wracked with violence and dictatorship. Fascinating stuff, actually.
Have you given https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/time-series.html a read? Since FoundationDB is lexicographically sorted it's pretty straight forward to keep things sorted for reading data in chronological order.

For example, if you want to read "last 5 minutes" of data, you can keep your timestamp at the end of the key in reverse order (Long.MaxValue - timestamp).
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Hope you find a more competent doctor.
The first episode isn't great but if you push through the first season is good.
“I Applied to 200 Jobs and All I Got Was This Moderate-Severe Depression”
“As an engineer and computational scientist, drawing conclusions from correlations like this is absurd.”

Tell that to Ruby developers... duck typing (if it quacks like a duck and walks like one, it’s definitely a duck)
>Well if you want to make money from those other people, or have easier access to whats happening in the world globally...

Here's the thing though, those people can buy tires or pants made in China, WITHOUT using Chinese websites.

I seriously don't think they care if we use Baidu or not. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the party would PREFER that we NOT use Baidu.
I’m an 80’s kid, and don’t remember the specific rhetoric, but my question has always been: if you dont believe in an organization, why join it and try to ruin it for everyone? Why be president if you think government is bad?

I mean, I think the KKK is bad and should go away, but I’m not going to go try to be it’s leader.
"Renewable Energy" maybe?
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Yeah. I suspect that if MCAS played a deciding role in JT 610 the flight would have been survivable if the pilots were made aware of how the plane handles with faulty AoA data.

Although it may simply turn out that the MAX is a much more delicate plane to fly, something along the lines of DC-10 vs MD-11.

> I'd be surprised if it can drive it outside the normal range of electronic motion. There aren't really enough details out there for me to be sure though.

Yep. There are a lot of questions (at least in my mind) including why the Brazilians and Europeans (LOT, TUI) knew about MCAS and the Americans (US + Canada) and Indonesians did not.
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> Happy to answer questions to the extent legal counsel will permit it.

They are literally checking with their lawyers about what they can and cannot answer. I think they're OK.
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I think one reason why most people have a hard time reading regex is because they don't use any indentation or linebreaks.
Honestly, if a buddy came to you and asked you to help him debug a javascript method and all 15 statements were on the same line, would you offer to help him, or tell him to fix his shit first so you can read it?

What if it was all on one line and his variable names were all "v1", "v2", etc. Would you help him then? fuck no. And yet, this is standard operating procedure with regex, except you don't even get "v1", "v2" because nothing is labeled at all. v1/v2/... would be an improvement!

This is how most people write a simple date regex:

\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/(\d{4}|\d{2})

And mind you, this is a very simple scenario. Here is how you would write it if you treated it like actual code:

(?<month>\d{1,2})

/

(?<day>\d{1,2})

/

(?<year>\d{4}|\d{2})

First off, you can know what my intent is when I'm capturing each group. Maybe this code gets used by a european where the month and day switch places. They can figure out how to fix it in like two seconds. Secondly, the forward slashes are not lost in a sea of characters anymore because we use whitespace like a civilized developer, not a regex savage.
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Add in the "sneakernet" of communication: Heading over to another's office or cube, and the event/conversation/information never gets captured in a form that can nor is communicated further.

"Oh, we talked about that... when was that, three weeks ago?"

I don't view this, per the example, as a positive pattern. Such things become anti-patterns.

They're also another reason that meetings become long, confused, and drag on. The first one third, one half, maybe even two thirds can be spent syncing the team up with all these conversations and their data, that have taken place out-of-band.

I guess agile, scrum, and the like are supposed to reduce this. But when people go to training to become certified "scrum masters"... Bureaucracy is winning, once again.

(I remember one big, corporate "agile" name coming to speak at our campus, back when it was new. I think it was "agile"; the waves up corporate uptake start to blur, after a while. People actually showed up for it. And were rather disappointed: Same shit, new name.)
I think at this stage, the idea is to get feedback on how to improve it, or maybe what to change completely, not saying "recommend this to all newbies to learn instead of regular expressions". I'm just guessing because it seems to be 4 hours old.

Maybe for the purpose of a more interesting discussion, let's just assume everybody knows (how to look up the docs for) regular expressions, but sometimes they're still lazy or just feeling playful, and want to do the same stuff with a different syntax... and this is just one first prototype of how maybe to do that. No offense intended, no claim that this will supersede learning regular expressions implied.
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Oh, and while throwing all sorts of alternative world scenarios in the wild hope one might make a reasonable argument that Neoliberal policies aren’t the driver of inequality...

you forgot Occam’s Razor.
> Bitrot is rare. Over the average lifetime of most consumer desktops, the loss of any personal documents is very unlikely unless it makes up a majority of the disk. And if it does, it's most likely that it affects negligible parts of the file (ie, corruption in a frame of video).

> The risk of bitrot becomes interesting when you talk about long timeframes like a decade.

I think you are making a lot of assumptions here about frequency of bitrot, especially in the face of failing hardware. Also, consumer desktops are not the only use. There are bunch usages where the risk of bitrot is much more concerning. Or were you intending your original post to be only about consumer usage?

>Considering the capacity and price of a 2TB disk, compression isn't the immediate need of the consumer either, unless they have a NAS, where Syno and QNAP already provide integrated solutions with btrfs and ext4 both.

This kind of feels like you are saying that it isn't needed because it is already being used when it is needed. Am I misunderstanding? Consumers may want compression for smaller hard drives they already own in order to get more out of them. Also, compression can speed up disk IO in some workloads.

> The modern ext4 journaling is also very battle tested, it's a very simple and resilient physical journal, data loss in ext4 happens largely when the disk is already failing or has been cheap enough to lie about the state of data being written or not.

The issue with ext4 resilience isn't about quality of the implementation. It is a fundamental limitation of no COW filesystems. Since things are overwritten, if the system crashes mid write you can end up with partial data. COW filesystems always give you the old data or the new data. This can be worked around but that requires that all of your applications do this workaround.

> For the average consumer that sums up to "it doesn't matter enough". Something like bcachefs could change the game by being btrfs+ZFS but without the dataloss risk.

What makes you think bcachefs is going to be any better? A lot of functionality still has to be implemented. What makes you think that the implementation of this functionality will be any less error prone?

You also haven't addressed the large pile of new features provided by BTRFS/ZFS. Snapshotting alone can make it worth the price of admission for consumers. With snapshotting, you can set up a system where rollbacks after any upgrade can occur seamlessly.
That's the point. You have a problem with people misappropriating Marxism, so why not start with the people who claim to be Marxists? If you ask cultural Marxists to explain socialism then they'll tell you to go read Capital, but I think you should be able to answer questions about it if you have and you have understood it. If you don't understand it then you have no good reason to recommend it.

Marx isn't responsible for cultural Marxists, Nietzsche isn't responsible for Nazis and Darwin isn't responsible for social Darwinists.
How hard is it to hit the Trip button every time you fill up so you'll know when you're close to empty?
That's why I pirate all my music.
The answer to the question (consistent with all headline questions) is "no."

The article even mentions JSON.parse which itself relied on eval.

Does JSON.parse still rely on eval under the hood?

Regardless... a wildly popular method used to propagate the most popular data format relied on eval. At least for a time. Nothing evil happened as a result.
Responding here since the comment I was originally responding to was deleted.

> grace us with their presence.

> someone deliberately absent is insulting.

It seems you and the parent comment are conflating working from home/remote with playing hookey, which might be the case for your co-workers/organization and that sucks, but for a lot of companies that's not how it really works.

For example, my organization is spread out across the country, so even if someone on my team isn't working from home, they are still working remotely (from my perspective). This means as an organization, we have to establish communication channels to avoid the pain points you mentioned. I've been in "whiteboard" architecture discussions without being face-to-face with every person on my team and I would argue our way of accommodating remote teams is far superior to your in person discussions for the simple fact that we record all of our meetings and they can be reviewed by anyone at anytime.

Maybe recording these types of meetings (or all) might be something for you and your organization to consider? It seems like it would make you a lot happier and it is very beneficial to come back to a recording of this type of meeting months later and remember why you decided on a certain direction.
Thank you for sharing this. For those who haven't read and/or watched DFW in any capacity, you really should. His thoughts on modern western society are just so fascinating and multi-faceted. His perspective is one of great depression, yet his points are eye-opening and remarkable.

One of my favorite interviews of his is this one [1]. You can tell just how deeply he thinks about each question.

[1] https://youtu.be/FkxUY0kxH80
The title immediately evokes a feeling of disgust in me, for someone to take the tone that people in and around San Francisco making sourdough is a surprising or novel phenomenon that needs to be picked apart - because gasp they work in technology.