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Those familiar with contemporary ideas of communism, socialism, communalism, left-anarchism, etc. will know there's been a lot of work done since the 50s (and a little earlier) on criticism of Marx, of the Soviet system and of the Chinese system. Modern Marxology actually takes up these issues with regard to their historical context, the USSR in particular. Unfortunately very few people actually get round to reading this wealth of work, especially after the year 1970 or so, in which most departments Marxism was declared dead and refuted.

The question of Marx's meaning and intentions, what does or does not flow from his critique, the idea of revolution, the issue of Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin and Mao are all very much actively discussed today. At the same time, there is a distinct, perhaps irreconcilable, difference of opinion between the liberals who treat property as part of an individual, or an extension of him, and the tradition since Marx which does not take this for granted at all.
The value of a (good) certification is that Rumsfeld’s Law applies: you don’t know what you don’t know. Even if you never finish the programme you will at least pick up an idea of what you need to learn, the common vocabulary etc.
Thanks, I suppose that would work. It would probably take me a few months to watch all the episodes, but if the show is as good as everyone says, it would be worth it.
I don't really understand why this scenario is worded this way, it seems like World 2 where everybody has .5x is just worse due to World 2 getting the shaft. Here's a setup:

* World 1, where everybody has x except one person has 100x

* World 2, where everybody has 1.2x

I think World 2 pretty clearly wins but this is a bit of a strawman to begin with. I'd personally rather live in a world where the poor have x and the rich may benefit by having 6x in extreme cases.

I agree with the general concept that incentives can increase productivity and different people are adding different amounts to society, I disagree with the idea that some people are equal in skill to 100,000 other people and need to be rewarded accordingly.
I live in Burlington VT and they are the best bagels I've ever had. (Of course, I have not tried everywhere but they are darned good.)
Yep, same in the UK - I've spoken with several GPs and consultants across specialisms about dozens of medications I've tried, and not one has ever even mentioned withdrawal symptoms.

When I spoke to my GP after this episode was finally all over, he clearly didn't even understand the mechanisms behind receptor tolerance withdrawals. I know GPs are by "definition jack of all trades", but I was still somewhat shocked.

He also seemed to think I was over-reacting when I told him I wasn't going to try any more NRI-type medications, which suggests he also doesn't even understand how severe withdrawal symptoms can be.
These are artificial choices that don't help. I think the last decades had most people in rich countries staying the same or going slightly negative while a few got much more. To me that's not desirable.
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We really do need more studies to make any kind of statement about the uniqueness of grammar, given that we cannot communicate in a representative sample of animal languages in order to make this claim strongly and also that grammar can be quite simple, so we cannot infer this claim from the relative difficulty of the task.
100ms+!

Ouch. Is that just large amounts of data? Are you guys using pg.native?
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In my experience, it's all handled transparently behind the scenes... there is no headache. In Rust, checking a connection out is a single function call on the pool, which is easily shared among all threads, and it will automatically get checked back into the pool when the connection goes out of scope... you don't have to do a single thing to check it back in. In Go, the connection pooling is all handled transparently behind the scenes, such that you don't even need to know it's happening. I actually had to do some googling when I started using Go, as I was concerned that no one was recommending the use of a connection pool... creating and tearing down a connection per request is just wasteful when connection pools are so nice to use. It just turns out that Go embraces connection pools so deeply that I don't know of an easy way to avoid pooling your database connections.

If your application gets bottlenecked by the number of connections in your pool, it's easy enough to increase the number, but the more independent pools you have, the more overprovisioned connections (connected but not being used) you will have scattered throughout those pools. It's also usually possible to run a connection pool without an upper limit, if you trust your database to handle large number of connections gracefully.

Rust and Go's connection poolers will also automatically scale down the connection pool when connections are idle for a given period of time, which is nice.

I can't think of any nightmares or headaches that I've encountered with those connection poolers. It all "Just Works"... except for PgBouncer, the ultimate connection pooler. PgBouncer doesn't work with prepared statements or transactions unless you run it in transaction mode, and then you have to run every query in a transaction to use prepared statements.

I'm definitely not suggesting that you try to serve 1000 concurrent requests with 10 connections or something silly like that, but that is what often happens when you get large Ruby deployments which would attempt to establish more connections than Postgres can handle, so you route them through PgBouncer where a small fraction of the number of connections exists.

But, this is pretty off-topic at this point. I didn't mean to point the conversation in this direction.
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Exactly. In contrast with manufacturing, where the goal is to make the same thing over and over, in software we are supposed to make a different thing each time. Whenever we discover that some labor is repetitive, we either automate it (as with CI, CD, and automated testing) or we generalize it (as with libraries, frameworks, and services).

Software would should, as much as possible, be design of novel things. And the only way we know whether something novel really works is to see what happens when people use it. The shorter that feedback loop, the more effective we can be.
Trickle down economics is a pejorative term from the 30's. As a proposition it is as naive as trickle-up, which is what the other spectrum usually sells. ('if you give poor people more resources, its good for everyone')

Economics, as the expression of human beings exchanging with each other, accepts neither.
If you want to pay for a forcing function, that's fine, but be clear with yourself that that's all you're really paying for.

Certainly I would push back hard on the idea that a certification of any sort is something you need to obtain a first job in the field.
The point does not stand because the proportions you gave are very far from reality. The world 1 you describe is a communist utopia compared to what we currently have.

It is interesting, though, that your idea of what's grokable is so far from reality
Good discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428949
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> Forget ever using electrical element heating, which is 100% efficient from a thermodynamics perspective, but uses a ridiculous amount of kWh per heating unit.

A question regarding this. Why are heat pumps not used for heating, instead of resistive heating? Afaik, they should offer 3-4x the efficiency and really cut down on the electricity requirements.
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> Probably because the implementations tried have failed so badly

Implementations of Leninism did, sure, but (deliberate mislabeling aside), I'm not sure what that has to do with Marc, since Leninism rejected the preconditions Marx laid out and altered the approach to address the changed preconditions.

Leninism is farther from Marxism than the near-universal abandonment of the system Marx named “capitalism” for modern mixed economies (which, to be sure, is still pretty far from Marxism), so if you are going to blame Marx at all for the failure of the former, you have to credit him at least as much for the success of the latter.
In a past life I went to film school at a very very left-leaning university and distinctly remember learning about Lukács, Gramsci and Althusser as a "Cultural Marxist" wave that was all about correcting the excessive emphasis on economics of previous orthodox marxism.

So there -- not only the phrase makes perfect sense if you do read Gramsci like I have, it's been uttered by Marxist professors somewhere in the world sometime this century.
I don't think so. American media generally had the same tone for the past 20 years as far as I can remember where news segments longer than 60 seconds about China had to finish with a Tiananmen reference or something similar (imagine Chinese TV finishing every US report with "the US is currently bombing 7 countries").

I think the only difference is that more and more of the American public are now on the receiving end of the media rhetorics so people have more of an eye for these kinds of things now.
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The US has, on a global scale, long had higher standards of living than a large remainder of the world so balancing US workers with foreign workers to elevate the standard of living in third world countries isn't a bad thing. 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.
"Draw the world together", "Nice! you made a house". Even when Google make a "web toy", they just can't help but ooze infantilization and saying one thing while doing another.

> the added fun of dropping the thing onto a cartoon google-map.

The added fun of it being dropped, or dropping it? I don't know, since for me on Firefox, it hung at the "finding a place in the world" stage.
I've yet to read any DFW books. I've heard much about him, and saw couple of his videos on youtube. Any recommendations on which books of his I should start off with?
There are a few forums where I don’t expect nor would prefer indexing. They may be niche forums, etc. Forums like reddit, of course I expect to be indexed. So, basically, it depends.
No, many neoliberals & center right supporting people like Tim Cook have taken to this idea that we should censor certain views after the defeat of Hillary.

Its a weak argument responding to the expression of the dropping standard of living for the poorest among us here in America, and it was a massive blindspot that Hillary's data science team didn't pick up on: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/9sy7g1/di_...

Edit: People of Tim Cook's beliefs, eg: the Gay Log Cabin Republicans mostly died out during the AIDS crisis. A very similar strain of political ideology was heralded by Hillary in this past electoral cycle. Basically a "Fuck you, got mine. Don't you have magical bootstraps? Oh, here is a tiny, useless smidgen of help".
He can't, unless he has a beneficial genetic mutation that makes his sleep super effective.

He needs to hire a delivery driver, record the hockey games on a DVR to watch the next day, and buy blackout curtains for his bedroom, so he can go to sleep by 5 PM.
Any idea where I can read the opinion? I know they won a preliminary injunction, which LinkedIn challenged in the 9th Circuit in march '18, but hadn't heard anything since then.
That interferes with individual liberty. Robert Nozick did a great job illustrating this with his Wilt Chamberlain example:

The font is terrible, but this is the shortest explanation of it that I could find easily:

http://faculty.seattlecentral.edu/jhubert/wiltchamberlainarg...
Yes, if you want to depict the relationships between four sets.
This mad-max painting of economics is not really true. Since the 80's, global wealth exploded like nothing else. Extreme poverty face an erradication unlike any other period. Recently it was published that for the first time, the majority of the world is middle class. Ever.
That's just not the case - if you assume he bought in during a low point you'll get a much higher figure.

Besides, there's no claim that he was given anywhere close to $400M over 60 years ago, nor can anyone be realistically expected to invest their inheritance starting at the age of 12.
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Do you have any notes on this? It is something I’m actively researching.
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In a lot of roles people juggle various tasks and responsibilities that coworkers may not be aware of. That was the point I was making.

In any case you seem to have a real issue with your coworkers wherever the actual fault lies. Doesn’t seem sustainable.
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No, but the project will be dead in a year (or rather bitrot will set in), so if there are old dependencies then perhaps effort should be put into porting or working out the kinks in Python3 dependencies doing a similar thing. I understand for a hobby project that's a big ask but it's not unreasonable to question, I think

https://pythonclock.org/
As I said, I'd only been taking them for 4 weeks.

It was also my doctor's advice to do it over 1 week, and I'd come off other tricyclics and NRIs before over the course of 1-2 weeks, so I really had no idea what was coming.

If I ever had to come off anything like this again, I'd absolutely do it over a longer period - but I won't; these kind of drugs haven't help me, and after what I went through I will never take another again.
They think you can take Capital and search/replace 'money' for 'privilege points' and it's what the left believes now. I'm paraphrasing but I see this point made over and over again. James Damore did it in his Google Memo...
You really should delete the post and not answer questions because it could inadvertently jeopardize your court case.
Especially because the corporate ESR version 60 is relevent for about another year (support finishes when Firefox 69 comes out).
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Who's dang and why are you self-censoring? Are you afraid of getting banned from HN? I don't think the site can remove your comments. If you are banned, I'd take it as a badge of honor.
Specifically, the ones I had in mind are:

1. Uber crash, Tempe, Arizona, 2018-03-18

2. Tesla crash, Mountain View, 2018-03-23

> Autopilot may not detect stationary vehicles at highway speeds and it cannot detect some objects.

To be more precise, then: I agree with you that might be "very easy" to detect objects and then, say, stop. But apparently, self-driving cars would then stop all the time needlessly, which is why they're not programmed that way.

So, what is hard, then, it appears, is to avoid crashing into people or objects, but still keep driving when safe.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg

[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot#Mountain_View,...
> Yeah, is like why use python when assembler is just as obvious.

This is a truly awful straw-man.
Pushshift.io is pretty close to what you were talking about for Reddit comments; they make their archive available periodically at http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/

IIRC Pushshift is what powers sites like https://removeddit.com/

(to anyone reading this, please consider donating--this project is so cool)
Grooveshark was #4 on your list. Didn’t work out for them.
I was just watching a tutorial by Hugh mentioned in the article on carving windmill blades out of wood which does grow on trees. Though admittedly there are some metal bits too. https://youtu.be/QlWAihvSYxY
No, this is just say a list of messages, not that much of data. We tried to move to pg-native, but it didn't help. Problem was in Sequelize. But in my internal tests even Sequelize was the fastest library on the market.
The irony is the right holds Reagan as a shining example of fiscal conservatism.

However, Reagan ultimately tripled the debt while in office. The right loved saying Obama spent more than all other presidents before him combined (which he did, which Bush did...but Reagan the model of fiscal conservatism spent 2x as all presidents who served before him).
You are putting forth the logical fallacy of "no true scotsman", ie no TRUE CS person dislikes or doesn't understand regex.

You are are also straw-manning her tweet, by suggesting that she is unable to grok the basics of regex, when in fact, she actually seems to have stated that it's the worst and she hates it, not that she doesn't understand it.

From a "good for business" perspective, you also seem like you might be an overall drain on your team, as you elevate puzzle-fun and brevity over understanding your audience, ie that other people on your team don't know regex (or "refuse to learn it") and that you have to scale back your regex usage.

I also wouldn't say that I use my CS chops (which I will define as my ability to discern algorithms and design patterns out of bits of code that I write), but rather my ability to put up with the tedium of sitting in a repl and slowly figure out how to write the arcane incantation necessary in as few esoteric characters as possible to perfectly search out the text I want.

Also, it's hard for me to understand how you are writing code with regex that you have to tear our, because your coworkers don't understand it. Whenever I write regex, I hide them behind function calls that are easy to grok:

const hasFirstName = (blockOfText) => /some-ugly-regex/.test(blockOfText)

...

if (hasFirstName(uglyButUniformBlockOfText)) return `has firstName!`
It would also make the entire runtime environment (code and data) a homoiconic relational database.
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Reminds me of the 'verbal expressions' projects from years back:

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/08/26/verbal-expression/

https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions

https://medium.com/@leighsn/verbal-expressions-in-ruby-fb8a9...
> Who's dang and why are you self-censoring?

dang is the HN admin, lead moderator, or whatever the official title is.

> If you are banned, I'd take it as a badge of honor.

Some people would rather continue to participate then accumulate honor badges.
I used Nobbas a little bit but unfortunately, not so many listings in the Boston area right now.

Great job on the interview. I enjoyed your UI much better than Zillow or Trulia. Collab took a few minutes to get used to it (I suggest you add a joy ride for first time users).

Good luck!
But Karl Marx was wrong, really wrong. About almost everything he modeled. Labor theory value did not stand academic or practical scrutiny. The reserve army idea is frankly, plain off the mark.

He contributed a great challenge to economics with his ideas, having to work towards rebuttal and debunking of his simple, yet appealing models.
I expect they’re also getting higher demand for older models. I wanted to get an Xs but when I held the smallest model in my hand it was just too monstrously big.

I want a phone not a portable TV. It’s the first time I didn’t buy the latest phone.
In places like the West, the poor have air conditioning, refrigerators, plumbing, and large high-def screen TVs. While the people on the top have a lot of money, they can't spend it. The people on the bottom are living better then the richest African (who is the richest man in absolute dollars) ever. When we toss in promiscuity of both sexes, better than the king.

People down vote, but where am I wrong? The West's biggest problem right now is having TOO MUCH FOOD! Think about that. We are so fat that we're dying. Not starving. FAT!
ditto. Its starts off with a young ex-IBM executive trying to build the first IBM compatible machine and everything that goes with launching the new product.
Later seasons go into things like server farms, early gaming, and social networking.

really underrated show.
I did read the essay and I did not find it insightful.
Exactly. The 1-2 weeks of inconvenience is nothing for some people, specially when the alternative to not taking them is death, in some cases.

It's also much less of a problem because you know the symptoms will go away. Just taper it off slowly (where "slowly" varies a lot, sorry).
In Austin, my coworkers would always stop at lunch and look if Mike Judge was nearby. We were convinced he just followed us around for Office Space and King of the Hill material.
NYTimes is going overdrive cranking out favorable coverage on China the past couple of days. Perhaps NYTimes editors got some reminder from Wall Street that China again needs to be sold to the American public. Since Wall Street dismantled the American workers 30 years ago with NAFTA and China/WTO, it probably felt like it can do it again with the incoming $250B tariff on Chinese imports.

Problem is, US is winning, big - China Is Paying for Most of Trump's Trade War, Research Says.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/china-is-...
HODL!!! I'm told you'll soon be so rich you could buy a yacht! Or two!
Thanks aakashm!

We are already working on a joyride and it should be released in the next 7-10 days. We appreciate your feedback!
I didn't get the point of anti-progress stance being perceived as American.
This isn't amazing. It is just a matter of priorities. There are many other things that need to be addressed first to ensure the patient gets onto the therapy they need. In my experience counselling people about interventions far more complex and risky than starting an anti-depressant, it is clear that 99% of people don't want a branching tree exploration of every eventuality. They get information fatigue very quickly. Ultimately, there needs to be some trust between doctor and patient for things to function in any real sense. This is why I personally loathe the word 'client' in lieu of patient - it recasts the relationship in harmful terms in my opinion, splitting the therapeutic alliance that should exist into some slightly adversarial union of compliance on the provider's part and due diligence on the client's part.
Except a bunch of satire can't exagerate the excess, or even show it faithfully, because no-one would believe it.

This is what Iannucci says about making more of The Thick of It -- it's impossible to do because current politicians are self satarising in ways that are unbelievable if you put them on screen, even if those things actually happened in real life.
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I can't agree strongly enough. I wonder how many VCs read about Arthur Rock and the Traitorous Eight and are smart enough to realize that Silicon Valley has become today's equivalent of 1950's New York: expensive, dominated by advertising money and networking, and so self-evidently the center of the universe that one shouldn't need to worry about what people are working on in the hinterlands.

New industries will be born somewhere, and it probably won't be in SV.
It's a waste of time contributing. Everyone has their little bubbles. I do this while my RL agent learns. Once I'm out of ML, probably out of HN.

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Start with "Consider The Lobster".
Well you actually do end up with 0.5x instead of 1.2x because in World 2 you have eliminated the profit motive that drives progress forward. Basically you forego all progress that would have happened with the opportunity to profit by creating and inventing things and then making those things faster, cheaper and better.
Apologies for an unsubstantial comment, but biology blows my mind.

Do we know when these features in our immune system evolved? I assume something this foundational is shared with fish or maybe earlier?