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As I have spent (too) many years living in such a system, let me explain what I've observed in practice.

First of all there would be, in principle, differences per culture but it will level down when troubles strike -- then it is universally everyone for himself. The only difference being how big the trouble must be for this to trigger.

Generic problems observed in practice:

- ownership by everyone means in practice ownership by no one as proven every single day by comparing the same business run by a state or a city or privately -- it is always worse and more expensive

- maybe it is strictly separate subject but in socialism somehow people are expected to be equal; since this is obviously a wrong assumption people will be forced to be equal which is never pleasant for the "better" onces (whatever that means); economically it will include taking from richer and giving to poorer (again, regardless whether these differences would be labeled fair or not and whether the reacher earned it by working hard or the poorer was just lazy)

So, unless your culture isn't aready "trained" in putting the good of the group above individual and, believe me, US population is not, socialsim will not work for you on a long run.

P.S. I wouldn't write this if this article wasn't so painfully stupid -- I'm not calling the author stupid, only this idealistic view. Socialism is NOT about dishing the same stuff to everyone like a storm or a disease. It is a much more complex system that is incompatible with human beings. Maybe permanently, maybe just not right now. It is not wrong, it is not bad on its own. It just doesn't work today for most of us. In addition any stystem that attaches an adjective to the word "justice" -- as in "social justice" -- needs a very, very careful investigation. At least.
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You might be able to trademark it, if it's sufficiently unique in its market to be trademarked. (i.e. you form a corporation with the book title as its slogan, or you attach the trademark to some product or service you sell.)

However, contrary to popular belief, trademarks do not prohibit others using your trademarks in their writing. They prohibit others using your trademarks deceptively or in a way likely to cause confusion. Which means you don't have the same ability to prevent someone from using your trademark in the title or content of their book, that you have to prevent them from using copyrighted material in their book.
> You could probably make the claim that static optimization is a halting problem, and dynamic optimization eventually can beat it by definition since it can optimize what the program is actually doing.

It's not as if static type systems and JIT compilation are mutually exclusive concepts, so this argument makes no sense.

If JITing were a panacea, dynamically typed languages would be just as fast as statically typed, and lower-level languages like C would be long dead. This is clearly not the case.
The irony is even more inescapable than that. It was founded by a guy who invented explosives and, who only created the prize after reading an incorrect reporting of his own death and being frustrated at how he was eulogized.

> The obituary stated, Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead")[1] and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."[11] Alfred was disappointed with what he read and concerned with how he would be remembered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
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In my somewhat convoluted estimation, the Nobel Peace Prize has ceased to hold any special meaning since it was awarded to someone who never really did anything to earn it other than become elected to an office whereupon the very foundations of freedom have been increasingly attacked through the expansion of policies which that Nobel Laureate so vocally opposed during his campaign for office.
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If there is a 3 servers limit, at least two new should have been accepted for me right? And why in the first place do they allow to order a 4th one if it's not even valid?

Anyway, I'm pretty sure my orders have been cancelled because I paid using Paypal, like others said. This is quite weird since this is the way I have paid them for over one year now (for my other server) and I didn't see any message/email telling another payment method should be used instead.
The article conflates social institutions with government (and possibly conflates the various levels of government) which is a common theme among many political ideas.

On the "Right", people often conclude that, because their religion is good, it should be enforced by the federal government. In reality, people can (generally) practice their religion freely through their church so long as the government policies aren't too overbearing.

On the "Left", people often conclude that, because charitable giving and safety nets and community projects are good, those things should be enforced and run by the federal government. In reality, there are many social institutions and mechanisms by which those things might happen (families and communities do many of these things already, and local governments can do many more), and the federal government is only one option and may only be suitable in specific circumstances.
I guess the argument would be that big companies already have people with extensive domain knowledge who are deep in the maze, and can afford to be stealthy because they already have 1. History, 3. Theories, and 4. Direct Experience.
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We should beware definitions of "socialism" which come from those who hate it, as well as those seeking power by claiming to champion it.

(Much like "democracy", which actually isn't about voting in your managers every few years then going home.)

A main part of historical socialism is control over production by the producers themselves. Not by "bosses", whose commands producers must obey.

Collectivism vs individualism is a false dichotomy. We can easily imagine that a healthier society cooperates to increase the freedom of its individuals.

Simply talk with mainstream anarchists (anarcho-syndicalists and so on). They typically call themselves socialists, organize collective action like strikes and radical unions, etc. Certainly, anarchists aren't known for supporting the state. :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism)
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Medical care is not unequivocally a private good.
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There is plenty to be criticized about KA, but this has politics written all over it, if the above Freudian slip doesn't convince you, consider the following bits:

Behind paywall, but someone at Khan Academy is an NCTM member, right? Right? If not, shoot me a note. We’ll get a copy to you.

Or from the other article:

Khan could tap into any number of existing networks of exemplary teaching, perhaps from recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching or the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. He could seek these teachers’ advice and collaboration on issues large and small.

Meaning, they are not interested in contributing in any way, but they are feeling pity he did not ask for their permission before starting KA.
I think the author is saying that there isn't much difference on a relative scale. For example, humans typically weigh between 100 and 300 lbs and have a certain range of strength (say, deadlifting between 50 and 1000 lbs). Compare that to an elephant or a mouse and you can see that humans represent a very small range of weight and strength, even if it seems like lifting more than 1000 lbs is impossible in the same way lifting 10 lbs would seem impossible to a mouse. Similarly, we see intelligence on a subjective scale where the smartest humans seem brilliant. But we have nothing to compare them to. If another species (or artificial intelligence or alien) that was vastly more intelligent than us came along and compared human-level intelligence to its own then even geniuses would seem simple and stupid. There would be effectively no difference between the smartest humans and dumbest humans.
I really respect what Sal Khan is doing. I think his methodology for creating videos and exercises great because of how adaptable his process is, and how he gets creators who have real teaching experience to create the content.

That being said, it makes me a little happy inside that the company I work for addresses the specific criticism in the article, although it doesn't go to the lengths that Khan Academy does in terms of video and more interactive exercises:

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-5/compare-decimal-numbers
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I disagree as Manning's action prompted the Arab Spring, which continues on in many Middle Eastern countries. More democratic Middle Eastern countries is better for the US and for citizens of those countries.

Snowden in my eyes revealed and reminded us what we already learned back in 2006. Though he revealed the size and scope of the US surveillance program and inner linings.
Thanks, this is the point I am trying to make.
If you are opposing an ideology then have balls to attack the ideology straight on.
I don't see people often attacking Marxism on the basis that Karl Marx was hiding from child support obligations and that Lenin had syphilis. Yet it's par for the course to dismiss whatever ideology Rand is representing just by attacking her character.
Apart from supporting Fascism, didn't von Mises miss the rather fundamental question of economy of scale and resultant monopoly domination?
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You can't have modern concept of property if you have voluntary cooperation. Handshake deals without enforcers don't work in large scale.
This reminded me of a quote by Joe Armstrong, creator of the Erlang language. He said, referring to language design in general: "What you get right, nobody mentions it; What you get wrong, people bitch about."

Though I think the original author is making a valid point here, don't get me wrong, and Khan should address the issue.

[1]http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
What is the Freudian slip you are talking about? Do you mean the "if we were supervising" bit? A Freudian slip is a misspoken word that reveals unconscious intentions, often with a sexual implication. For example, you're sitting with someone who's eating a muffin and you ask, "Can I have a bite of your mother?"
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The HOA is just an example of how creative solutions can be found, it is not an answer to every problem. Did you really expect me to provide a full theory with all solutions to all problems in this post?

Your tacit premise is: "Since you didn't show me how to solve every problem, then your general solution is false." This is like blaming calculus for not having worked out all possible calculus problems.
GitHub may be a good service, but THEY ARE PROPRIETARY. Thus, it is absurd to talk about them as important proponents of Open Source without mentioning this hypocrisy.
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I talked with someone internally that works on this, he said:

I can type { and } on a Swiss keyboard which is a AltGr + ä and AltGr + $.

What keyboard layout were you seeing issues with? Looking at Wikipedia it looks like it would be South Slavic Latin based on your mention of Alt Gr+N?

You can mail me privately if you wish (mail in profile).
HOA's can be formed based on a premise that democratic procedures govern the creation/modification of new rules.
Sorry to harass the hn community over this one more time, but does anyone knows if optional static typing is even being discussed as a future evolution for python ?
I know about the pep for annotations that could be used for that ( but in a non standardized way ), i know about the mypy project ( which seems like a one man project), but is that all ?
Note that you can actually use the same `enum` interface on Python 2.4+ now that it has been standardized. Just install from PyPI. :-) [1]

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True, but epidemic prevention is an extremely small problem (and a very cheap one to address), at least in the US. Virtually no one across the political spectrum (including most libertarians) opposes it.

Near as I can tell, the OP wasn't talking about it either.
> Successful people consistently underestimate how lucky they are.

Meanwhile mediocre people consistently attribute other people's success to luck. As luck would have it, they are both right and wrong. I am a high school dropout who never went to college, yet I sold 2 companies in the last 2 years. Is my success just a matter of luck, or am I that much better than the average population. Maybe the answer is that neither are that important. What I can say for sure that I work harder than the average population, much, much harder. And that's my general problem with those who champion socialism, they never seem to want to work as hard as I do. Among ditch diggers, there are always a few men leaning on their hoe handles.
That would be the use case ... but not for the amount of money that "dream" currently costs ;-)
> What we see in these two girls’ thinking is precisely the problem you set out to solve with Khan Academy. But you aren’t solving the problem, Mr. Khan. You are perpetuating it.

> Mr. Khan, you have a team of teacher advisors. If none of them can identify these gaps for you, you need to ask for help from the larger community (and then to reexamine your hiring practices).

> Or you could educate yourself (as we require of all licensed teachers) on what is known about how people learn mathematics.

Which of these contributed to his point? The whole thing is just entirely unnecessarily snide and personal. He has a simple and straightforward point that could have been explained in a concise and conciliatory manner, but he chose to use it as a platform to grind an axe. Also the "open letter to Sal Khan" title is confrontational linkbait. This is just not constructive.
>all that demand is going to lead to a child being abused somewhere in order to satisfy it.

At the "all or nothing" level, this is perhaps true. But where is the evidence that aggressively going after CP consumers has a significant marginal impact on child abuse? If you arrest 10% of CP consumers (a ludicrously optimistic goal), will that reduce child abuse by even 1%?
Khan Academy is putting out really flawed videos and spending millions and millions on 'em. Think VHS / Beta...

Guess what -- this is not a letter to you -- it's to the Khan Academy.

It's questioning its quality. Since you obviously can't address the well-grounded claim that it is very poor quality, you have to find something else to bring up.

It's 'way easier to say "you're a poor loser' than to address the actual claims, isn't it? Much harder stunt.
> Whose life am I living? I'm sure you ask yourself that kind of question from time to time. What am I really good at? What is the purpose of my work? These are not new questions. Sooner or later, we all seek answers to them.

This reminds me very much of the recording "Here we all are" by Ram Dass. It's 2 hours long, top result on YouTube with that query.
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Where is the politics?

Maybe you can find some between the discussion of the pedagogy, because you obviously aren't comfortable with that.
IMHO, KA aims to solve the education-accessibility-gap and does not aim to academically discover the most ideal explanation (as the open letter writer seems to think).

As one KA person mentioned earlier, they're just following "Common Core math standards".
If you found that part disingenuous, you misinterpreted my post. I included that only to immediately dismiss it, in the same vein as your intentionally asinine example. My point was that the fireworks being the cause of the visit makes far less sense than the Google searches being monitored. Which turned out to be correct - they were monitored.
No, I didn't. Even co-ops that exist today must sell on the capitalist market.

There is no use-value based economic planning today.
The point that there are gaps that hvae not been addressed? All of them.

Do you have any other suggestions as to how the pedagogical flaws could be addressed, since Khan Academy keeps basing all its exercises on these flawed materials?
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How much student loan are you in debt in? I'm thinking of taking out student loans myself.
The thing is, the fireworks theory was absolutely not more plausible. It didn't even make a little bit of sense. It was clear that someone had acted on the Google searches, not facebook pictures of fireworks on July 4th. Unsurprisingly, this was confirmed to be the case.
Not completely contradicting you, but just pointing out- they've open sourced a lot of stuff:

https://github.com/github
Could you find some things that he got right?

Oh. I didn't think so.

He also says in his movies that "two plus itself times one" is what "two times one" is. That's right, he gets 2 + 2 wrong.
>But courts in Austria never have to pretend that some evidence doesn't exist.

Those restrictions are important to safeguard people's rights. The US since its founding has always had a bias for protecting individual civil rights, in theory at least. I rather this way of doing things.
The idea you took away from my comment was the opposite of the idea that it communicated. You decided that my comment was an endorsement of amorality. It wasn't. Now that you've been called out on that, you wriggle and writhe through all sorts of meta-commentary to avoid acknowledging your misperception.
If the point you're trying to make is that attacking a person's character is a poor substitute for an argument against their beliefs, then point taken. But you weren't doing a very good job getting that point across.
How are studnets "interacting" with his videos?

It's a hard pill to swallow that maybe he's not on to something; that THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES.
It seems more like Distracting yourself to me.
It should also have to add some iptables rules no? At least one for the natting and one for the filtering.
I think you think this is a stinging comment, but it really says more about you than it does about me.
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Syphilis and child support payments aren't communicable by economic ideology in the same sort of way that lifestyles are by moral dictates.

Without taking a side either way of the AR thing - taking advice on how to live your life from people whose character you detest seems like it might be a bad call. Living your life in the manner they approve of, at least if they did so themselves, stands a good chance of making you more like them.
I'm assuming your points are:
1. John Galt used his talents to make the world suffer.
2. John Galt is obligated to use those talents for the common good.

1. In the sense of actively destroying things, nowhere in the book. Maybe he goes kicking around puppies somewhere off the pages, but he does nothing of the sort anywhere in the book. Ragnar Danneskjöd does, but that situation is hard to judge given the details in the book.

Galt did know that he had (assuming you mean the motor), the wherewithal to make the world a better place. But,
a. He believed that doing so would only improve conditions in the short term, since the system in place was naturally errosive. Changing the system and then bringing forth his idea would provide longer term benefits.
b. That assumes he was out for the common good. He wasn't. Doing what you proposed, namely comercializing his invention and "making the world a better place" would have led him through the same agony that Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart went through, trying to keep things together when they were clearly falling apart.

2. I disagree with you that anybody is obligated to do that.
Exactly this. Alex Stamos' ethical strategy is perilous; it forces him to do a balancing act when asked to help companies like Narus or the USG, because his work for those organizations could help more than it hurt. I'm confident Alex can perform those ethical acrobatics, but I prefer to avoid them altogether.
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Wasn't your original idea something that democratic procedures violate people? Is difference that in an HOA you agree to the procedures, instead of being born into them?
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I thought the Nobel Peace Prize was supposed to be about promoting peace, not sticking it to The Man. What Snowden and Manning did was far more along the lines of the latter than the former.
I think the danger that members of Congress would be concerned with at the moment is being sanctioned by Congress itself. If you lose your collegial relationship with Congress then it's probably difficult to get your bills and amendments heard, and campaign funds from the general party coffers and specific itelligence lobbyists probably dry up too. They're worried about incumbency.

Blatant, open direct manipulation and punishment by the NSA is probably not here yet. Probably soon.
Nathaniel Branden for example.
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>The reason why it's so bad is because it's exploitation of children, who could not have led themselves into a vulnerable situation of their own accord.

Yikes, the flip side of that is that adult rape victims are at least partially at fault because they put themselves in a "vulnerable situation". Is that really a position you agree with?
Interesting. That's not something I had considered. I will need to update my views.
Or gives them more employees to tackle the problem?
Patents are an obvious enabler of monopolies. Supported by the Obama administration.

This story is screwed up for the fact that a patent-backed ban was enforced AND for the fact the Obama administration stepped in to help Apple out. If it'd been Joe Bloggs, I doubt they'd have cared.