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>1. No nation-level Communist regime has ever been instituted organically, that is, without vanguardism.

On the same token, no nation-level Communist regime has ever been instituted with vanguardism. They never claimed to bring about Communism, only that they were "socialist states". Nevertheless, it is important to distinguish Leninism as incorporating ideas from Lenin from Marxism-Leninism, an ideology created around Stalin's systematizing as a state ideology.

The truth is that I don't know what it would take, especially in today's world. I'm pessimistic about the possibility of workers as a whole uprising, and in the case that they did, succeeding. As David Schweickart wrote on his essay on Sartre's Marxism:

>Moreover, the democratic process, our best hope for relatively peaceful social change, is, increasingly dysfunctional, due in no small part, to the fact that, since the mid-70s, there has been a coordinated, beneath-the-radar, well-financed, largely-successful, ongoing effort, not only to keep “Democracy in Chains,” but to tighten those chains more and more so as to shield the wealthy from democratic discontent. Not good news for Marxists hoping to “win the battle of democracy.” At the same time the prospects for a violent revolution by progressive forces (as opposed to a right-wing military coup) are essentially zero. (A successful storming of the White House? A guerilla army swooping down from the Appalachian Mountains?)

But the point is this: by going through an intellectually lazy route to say that Marxism died with the collapse of 20th c. Communism, we are already shutting down discussion of what Communism could be. The hypothesis, from my point of view, has not been refuted. It is less a matter of teasing out Marx's vision of a future society (which is lacking, because of his philosophical commitments) but rather trying to see what a future society would look like based on the critique. Unlike the diagnosis from a doctor, the features of a socialist society flow from the critique of capitalism, indeed, I would say they are already within it.

I am no dogmatist. If we find that Marx's critique must be reformulated or even abandoned, then so be it. But I think this is less and less the case when Marx's framework is being fruitfully used today for apparently modern phenomena, from McDonaldsisation to the neoliberal state.

So to answer your question: For Marx to be wrong on the solution to capitalism would, for me, necessarily entail that his critique is lacking or wrong. Since we are more able to access the latter than the former, we can sort things out from there. This is actually a weak claim - because I admit that Marx's vision of socialism depends on his critique. A stronger, dogmatic, claim would be that even if Marx was wrong about capitalism then his socialism would still be the answer. I don't think that's defensible.
FWIW, Jeff Atwood has voiced similar ideas (or support thereof), as have many others. It is my impression that people would be open to such drastic changes to the core QA aspect, but whether SO (the company) is willing to make them is a very different question. I see no indication that the answer is "yes".
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The President of The United States has been making statements about the F-35 program for years calling it an invisible jet fighter. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrWUrMK5d4
Re: Buttons and switches on smartphones are always appreciated.

I disagree, I'm always accidentally bumping or pushing them. Plus, they usually do tasks that are not my top tasks. I'd like to reassign some of them to my favorite actions.
The scenario and dialog seems incredibly obtuse like a scene between Spongebob and Patrick.
Like hires like. It's incredibly difficult to be the odd one out.
I think the main difference at least in accordance to the movie is this wasn't activating lunar soil, it was using earth soil on the moon.
> Save enough for 2 years? Only a very small percent could actually save 2 years worth of salary. For a family I’m not sure if anyone able to do this. The standard advice is 6 months.

You don't need to save 2 years of salary.

You need to save 2 years of your expenses.

As a SWE, you make at least ~3x what lower-income people in your area make. If you live with the same expenses as those people, you should be saving 2 years of expenses, every year that you work. It's clearly possible to live that way - most people do it just fine.

If, however, you are a good participant in the consumer economy, and spend every dollar that you make (and two pennies besides), a downturn may be tough to weather. You might even have to... not renew the lease on that second Tesla.
Hey, thanks for listening to the feedback. Also, layout feedback aside, I love your book. <3
Amazon Go cashierless tech planned for airport stores, movie theaters
[Mild spoiler]

I would love it if that series ever got finished. We're stuck on Tines world with the blight's remnant fleet approaching...
The negative interest rates discourages holding money and encourages spending (and investment), which drives inflation. I do not believe negative interest rates destroy money, but I am not an expert. I cannot find any literature to prove or dispute that.
Haggling in the emergency room doesn't even sound that terrible to me compared to the reality, which is a stark ultimatum - if you want to be treated, it's a blank check.
Interesting, but does that change anything though?

I had a famous cryptographer professor. He refused to learn anything past Pascal. He freely admitted he was no longer a programmer and that he shouldn't be doing it.

That seems like a different message from the messages presented here.
218M Words with Friends Players Compromised in Data Breach
If I were to start literally at ground zero with zero knowledge of programming or tensorflow. Where should I go?
How is it fraud? They disclosed everything, people said “this is crap,” and they all had to take a huge bath.

Yes, Softbank and others will lose a lot of money, and Neumann made money off them, but they’re all grownups who knew what they were getting into.
Interesting article...

I wrote a lexer for python as part of gpython: https://github.com/go-python/gpython/blob/f100534592c96b7922...

It is remarkably complex and has a huge amount of state including separate indent levels for parentheses, brackets and braces!

The lexer is extremely well defined in the python docs; I wrote my version entirely by looking at the docs and not at the CPython source code (unlike let's say the compiler!).

Shoving the complexity into the lexer does make the python grammar itself quite straight forward though.
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Add 1981 =)
> With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of Interaction should be a single finger?

What if you don't have an entire body at your command?

The plus side of “pictures behind glass” is that it's a fairly well standardized interface — the software has to adapt to that homogenized hardware, instead of you fighting to adapt to the hardware. (Or, more accurately, you adapt to it once, instead of once for every type of object you want to interact with.)

If interactive experiences all start to require a good range of motion, bodily sensitivity, and ability to instinctively interpret the interface, there's a risk it could be incredibly alienating for many. Unless we design with that consideration from day one, it could make adaptivity harder than it already is.

I went looking for Bret Victor's take on this question because I was certain he would have thought of this already. So far I only found this:

“Channeling all interaction through a single finger is like restricting all literature to Dr Seuss's vocabulary. Yes, it's much more accessible, both to children and to a small set of disabled adults. But a fully-functioning adult human being deserves so much more.”

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

I find it sad to read that. Those with access issues deserve so much more too. There's already a huge access gap. If we're going to champion new modes of interaction, we should fight hard not to make the gap bigger still.
Really? https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu says to `pip install tensorflow-gpu`.
Thanks... the bulk of the site is made up of diffs. We score them w/ our ML model. We aren't (yet) surfacing those scores on a page by page basis. Rather, we are simply collecting the stand-out examples detected by ML in the top card as links to those specific diffs.

Our bad for not including the scores for each page... our thoughts w/ this content piece were it would be attractive to journalists who may not have an appreciation for underlying scores.
You should add

"Friendship Is Optimal" by Iceman

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

"The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge

"Blood Music" by Greg Bear

"Permutation City" by Greg Egan
fast.ai might do the job - https://docs.fast.ai
The school isn't paying the athletes. Yes, there might only be a whisker separating an "alumni sponsorship" and the school itself paying, but that's the alumni's choice. You can't spin out an NFL or NBA minor league at this point, because you'd just have to rip sports out of college entirely.

The issue is that the NCAA's amateur rule prevents players from capitalizing on their likeness. There's no reason for that rule to stay in place. If you're working in any other field, like say Comp Sci, you can go out and get work in that field while going to school. Why shouldn't athletes? You're a QB, you can sell your likeness to NCAA 2K19 or whatever and make some money. You can sell merch or do jersey signings. That all seems extremely reasonable.
Most "modern warfare" is asymmetric in nature where one side does almost all the murdering and the other side mostly just gets murdered. It may seem to you that the, "need for death or injury" is quickly withering away but I invite you to go ask someone from Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan or any other country that has been on the other end of it what they think about death and injury.
Re: Maybe, if you don't have an entire body at your command.

"Boss, I'm not disco dancing, I'm preparing our Powerpoint presentation for the big meeting."

Boss: "Please, do the Reboot Shuffle."
It's very sad that lack of a PhD would cause such a decision to be made rather than that it would get debated on its merits.
Capitalism engenders the same violence, only behind a mask of "free will".
Right - that was the point I was (perhaps awkwardly) making by posing the question that way.
A nice deep dive into that thought is the book “The Wealth of Networks” by Yochai Benkler

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Networks

It’s main focus is on what he calls Commons Based Peer-Production and how the default capitalistic model of private property doesn’t fit that mode of production
I don't have anything this cool and interactive, but for those interested I've been working on a comprehensive Wayland book:

https://wayland-book.com

It's a little over halfway done.
Archive.is is also not available for users with 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare DNS): https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/

Long shot: those two are related. But hijacking requests like that is a big no-no.
Donald Trump was a large part of this disinformation campaign. The whole Kenyan birther campaign was a racist dogwhistle.
I've got more than a passing suspicion the 16 character limitation for Microsoft Accounts was a compatibility need with Windows XP, because the restriction was fixed almost exactly as soon as Windows XP finally hit EOL.
Probably written by a hungry author.
agreed but it should be separate from the product reviews itself
I think the reason you don't get an answer to this is because this is article number 100352752. WeWork isn't a tech company because there's no unique technology they use to rent out office space- which is how they make money. Their business model is "Sign long term contracts cheap, rent out to short term tenants expensive". Which is fine, but it doesn't justify their valuation (which is predicated on them 'disrupting' the office rental industry) and isn't fine - because so far they spend more money renting the office space than they do leasing it out to their tenants. So their real business model is "Rent $1 worth of office space out for 50 cents". They had no compelling path to profitability.
I’d like to add the Berserkers series by Fred Saberhagen to this list.
I don't think there are any left that are visible from the freeway. I remember them being touted as a newer more efficient design, I wonder why they have been replaced by more traditional designs?
I just suck it up and scroll like a normal person.
Twitter's moderation is all over the place, and it really seems like half a step from pure anarchy. I can see people equating that with it being a relatively free platform.

From an American Twitter user's perspective, it seems like you can pretty much advocate all forms of violence and fascism as long as you maintain even the thinnest veil of acting like it's a political discussion.
Mostly I would miss to organise 50+ developers on one platform. GitLab offers a very good authorization mechanics. Furthermore the CI pipeline is extremely helpful. There is no need to use anything else.
They may not be looking for an exit at all.

But they have to. Like all VC funds Vision Fund has a set lifecycle. In their case they have 5 years to invest (starting on the day the fund closes to new investors, which has already happened) and then 7 years until maturity at which point it dissolves and returns capital to investors. The clock is ticking.
This seems like a weird theme for a job board. You're lumping in high-level execs at all kinds of different companies with very high-level engineers and finance folks and anybody else who makes this kind of comp. If an engineer of that caliber is looking for a job, why would they come here instead of working with a dedicated headhunter? Similarly, why would, say, P&G post an SVP-level job here rather than working with headhunters who have a network of the type of people who can fill that role?

I guess what I'm trying to say is it doesn't seem like there's enough in common with either the people posting jobs of this type or the people looking for them that you'll be able to get a critical mass of either.

What kind of research did you do with folks on either side of the marketplace to determine that this would be a viable idea?
No, we did the upgrade to php7.0 and then 7.2 when 5.2 lifecycle
reach its end. It doesn't take so much work, and we see an improvement as well.

I love scgi because it's clean and easy to implement. And it works fine for our use cases.
As much as the market demands?

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. If you don't want to consume the media you don't have to. There are plenty of other genres out there.

I'm not trying to stir anything up, but just to throw this out there, the only people you really hear in Germany saying "Hey can we stop talking about what happened to the Jews, haven't they got enough attention?" are the Nazis.

I think there is a fundamental lack of acknowledgement of the scale and horror of core aspects of American history. This was a sustained holocaust. Yes it's in the past, but personally, I want to learn more about it. I feel that what they taught me in school was a vague, candy coated account that didn't get at the core of why this was wrong. As I got older and learned more on my own, I realized how much of a failure our schooling was in this aspect.

I also feel optimistic that now and going forward, as more African-American people come into wealth and leadership, we will finally see more programs and content that bring issues and information to light that was previously suppressed because of the lack of empathy of white leadership.
Nothing is stopping you. But will you retain your market if you are not the biggest network? You need deep enough pockets to get 50% of the market or Uber will get its share back once you try to be profitable since they can leverage their scale.
I thought companies walk away from leases all the time. Every restaurant you’ve ever eaten at the is no longer there probably bailed on a lease.
I think profit is the right concept. People see the massive spending of these programs, and even if it strikes them as extravagant, they also see the massive revenue of these programs. I think most discussions around this issue take as an assumption that the revenues covers the spending. I think a common way of thinking is "Yeah, it's pretty ludicrous for our university to spend that much money on the football program, but they make it all back, so it's a wash." But it usually doesn't. That's important, and I think would change how people considered the programs if this fact was more widely considered.

I don't think Hollywood movies are a good comparison. The studios will play accounting tricks by setting up shell companies for the purposes of screwing over the people who actually made the movie [1]. That's just pushing paper around, though: if the movies makes more than the studio spent, they turned a profit. Universities aren't doing that; many of their football programs are actual money losers, and they get that money from student tuition or the state if it's a public university.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/01054720744/holly...
He's a professor of philosophy, not a climate or data scientist. Talking from a PPE perspective.

Misinformation requires intent. I'm not convinced there is any intent to deceive here. More likely he's not sufficiently up to speed with a data point not being a trend. Hopefully a scientist or reader will drop him a friendly email.
‘Planet Nine’ may be a black hole
I've never seen a remote job that paid two thirds less. Some do pay less based on location but many don't.
> The idea of a pack of ... auditing my personal messages

What fills in the blank left by your ellipsis is one of the real points to be made in light of this story.

We have to ask: who is fighting to have this job? In fact, who is this job tailor-made for in the first place?

It seems to me that there is no (or, at most, very little) legitimate security interest being served by this process. But the opportunity created for someone who enjoys looking at these sorts of pictures - and doing it under cover of law - is absolutely obvious.
Hole puncher made them perfect
This is absolutely mortifying, how much metadata do pages have to share with browsers to do that one weirdly specific thing!?
Personally, I already do not agree with that idea. Thinking about it makes me despair whether people in any time period are reasonable moral judges.
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> It stands to reason that if physical attributes like height are subject to genetic determinism, aspects of our brain & mind should be too.

And if you don't believe in creationism and also don't believe that intelligence is subject to evolution, then you need some very good explanation where intelligence comes from in the first place.
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I was kind of wondering about this after reading the passage.

On the one hand the traditional Bayesian response is something like "yes, we're making our prior assumptions explicit and then incorporating that into a formal inferential paradigm."

However, this prior is being used to bias the estimates, rather than to avoid the bias. That is, it would be akin to Dunnington taking the current estimates of e/m and using that to shape any new estimates from data. The argument is then that at least he was being explicit about his biases and how they are used to make an estimate.

This has always seemed backwards to me, though. It seems what is more defensible is to use a formal theory about how prior biases affect estimates, and then to leverage that theory to minimize biases. This is basically the idea of the reference prior, to estimate things such that any role of the prior is minimized in an information-theoretic sense. This seems more analogous to what Dunnington was doing.

I really wish reference priors were more widespread, although they can be computationally pretty hefty. It's one of my hopes that quantum computing might make these types of approaches more feasible in general.
We'd need some officially accepted labels which are controlled by organizations that share absolutely no interest with the share holders of these businesses.

But it seems we have like 20 different labels for everything, one less worth than the other.
A big percentage of reviews on Yelp are fake.

Sure you can buy fake yelp reviews on http://freepage.io and other sites.
An AI-based platform that identifies legitimate reviews can easily find a product/market fit. Is anybody here interested?
This screams "mainland china media meddling".

A news website running out of Hong Kong says that protestors won't call the government "nazis" anymore even though they're (LITERALLY) evidently doing some things the Nazi regime did (locking up ethnic minorities to 'purify' the chinese race, stories of organ harvesting, political manipulation, brainwashing your own citizens, the list goes on)

Considering it's a daily occurrence in the western world that some right-wing politician is blasted with "you're a nazi!" rhetoric in popular culture when they're committing nowhere near the level and amount of atrocities the Chinese government is doing.

Edit: Also the fact that China _probably_ doesn't want to be in the middle of their 70th Anniversary showing off their military equipment and power in parades while having parallels being drawn to nazi-ism.
Why link to the adafruit blog instead of the source? https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/24/blackest-black-mit-materia...
As an airline passenger, do I care whether or not Alaska, or American has the biggest network?

I want to get from point A to point B, as cheaply as possible. If the Alaska flight is the cheapest, I'll take it. If the American flight is the cheapest, I'll take that.

I have no brand loyalty for airlines. I have no brand loyalty for taxi companies. Why should I have brand loyalty for taxi-in-an app?

How can Uber leverage their scale? Are you saying they are going to price-dump to push me out of a regional market? Isn't that illegal, and something that our esteemed President complains about on a regular basis?

I'm not sure 'Become so big, and engage in blatantly anti-consumer monopoly behaviour to the point that you are practically begging to be put on an anti-trust trial' is a great moat to have.
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A few things come to mind. First, I've been reading a lot on the science behind Montessori education, and there's a lot to support the idea that our brains are much more active when we're physically interacting with something. Would be logical to assume that the richer the physical interaction, the more meaningful the connection.

Second, reading Jaron Lanier's somewhat recent book on VR I was struck by how far ahead of its time the 'data glove' was. Early VR may not have had the dazzling eye-candy of today's graphics, but on interactivity we just seem to be catching up. (As an aside, I never realized the Nintendo PowerGlove was basically Data Glove 'lite'; developed by VPL.)

Edit: Third, I recently read Carl Sagan's "The Dragons of Eden" which he wrote in the 1970s. It's about the evolution of the human mind. It's SO worth reading today, even if its outdated and proven wrong at times by contemporary discoveries. One thing that really stood out was this idea that it wasn't so much that humans evolved and then invented tools – but that perhaps tools shaped our evolution as much as we shaped tools. Invent a simple tool -> use the tool -> brain develops as a result -> invent even more complex tools -> etc.
IMO that’s the only reason it gained traction. New languages are a dime a dozen.
I believe a reboot will cause you to boot stock iOS again.