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> One of the neatest thing about growing up in rural ND with roots in small towns is that your network of people automatically extends about 100 miles in any direction.

I guess that might be for you. I grew up on a reservation and knew people from other reservations, but I never had that social network you talk of. I did almost get my butt kicked in a small neighboring town, because I had my high school jacket on[1]. This quaint Mayberry stuff wasn't in my experience. I have noticed that the border towns[2] tended to be happy that we spent our money there and liked to raise funds by setting up checkpoints on the days welfare checks were distributed[3].

My perspective is that there are a lot of new people and some are good and some are bad. Its time to rediscover the folks around you. I’ve noticed that quite a few of the new arrivals are pretty nice people.

> This brings me to my second problem: People don't want to, or literally cannot stay in their home towns.

This is a big problem for any boom area (Hi, Silicon Valley folks). The state needs to get on the infrastructure a lot faster than it has been. All these superficial articles are not doing us any favors. God help us if we get another flood year. I can only imagine what the Army Corps of Engineers will screw up this time.

> We have trains that are blowing up in cities 250 miles away for reasons that may or may not be caused by this boom.

Talk to BNSF about deploying the newer railcars or start talking about pipelines[4].

> There are a dozen oil spills every month and the drinking water has become very questionable for cities that are in the Bakken region.

I would need to see stats and actual enviormental reports, not the fakery done in PA.

> Finally, the state was operating in the black before all this. We didn't need this at all.

Yes, we did. North Dakota was dying and nothing was bringing people back.

More importantly from my perspective, the tribe nearest the oil fields now has a source of money that the state cannot force into “social programs”. The casinos were a moral compromise and the draconian restriction of not being able to pay tribal members with the money as a dividend on a tribally run business was vicious. Besides, reservations were located in places that are not next to the bigger cities[5]. I don’t know what the state is charging for taxes[6], but the tribe is doing fine with its fees.

Better, most tribal members are making money for themselves and not stuck in welfare.

1) I’m white, my biological dad is a enrolled member of a tribe

2) bordering the reservation

3) Without public transit, poor people drive cars that often are not well maintained and often have safety violations

4) amazing about the billionare friend of POTUS that owns a railroad

5) when placing a population that could stage an uprising, it is best to keep it away from the “good folks”.

6) I understand it might be a bit more than Texas which could be a problem with Texas moving to fracking
I was with this until this part:

> His real error is materialism: man, in fact, is not merely the product of economic conditions, and it is not possible to redeem him purely from the outside by creating a favourable economic environment."

That's going to segue (thanks for the spelling check davidw) obviously into some religions thing about the soul or something. And I take issue with having to be redeemed. I do not need to be redeemed.
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I have done that before in a previous job, the end result is I was further alienated. Members of the team distanced themselves from me for fear of saying something wrong or reported. In the end, I had to change jobs because I couldn't fit in.

I suppose its not a problem of race, but a problem of just being different from others, like Age in you case.
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Dropbox will sync the files in plaintext if you use full disk encryption.

If TC + Dropbox is not an option, maybe owncloud + private hosting +SSL certs should be used instead... OR SSHFS with private keys.
> I love Silicon Valley, but I'd hate for this place to turn into "app valley".

Isn't it good to sell shovels during a gold rush? I think now is the perfect time to build SaaS sites with "Enterprise/Startup/Hacker" pricing plans that function similar open-source tools. e.g.,
Heroku (AWS with more fluff), e-mail marketing tools, customized web hosting, Parse (backend for mobile apps), Airbrake.io (real time error reporting). I think it's a fad that people in startups are willing to pay for.
The problem with dependency injection in this manner is that your test code is using a fake class that's injected while your production code is using a real class.

This is fine if all you want to do is unit test your classes. That's beside the point though -- I would posit if you're bolting dependency injection onto your interfaces just to make your tests faster, you're not doing it right. Instead, bring that dependency injection into the forefront: to the constructor. Yes, this means to make an object, you'll have to make another object first, both in your production and test code. But now your interface acts the same way in both places. If this sounds very Java-like, well... maybe Java got it right. (There was an article on the Twitter blog in the early days about this but I can't remember where it is now...)

Of course, this is going to introduce complexity and now you have to decide whether that complexity is worth it.
>We worry because worrying is part of being human.

Worry isn't a binary state. Not being able to pay for your child's health care is more anxiety-inducing than not being able to pay for your gerbil's health care, for the vast majority of people.
You obviously have a process. It's just that you haven't formalized it yet and/or that it's too convoluted to be easily expressed in a marketable form for most human beings.
ok, so can we now no longer expect comments on the internets from semi-educated types whose every other word is socialist or marxist?
So, essentially no change worth talking about.

Look, I get the idea of "Hey, here's something new, it could change something in a bad way, so lets test it." Fine, I hope someone does that. But the fact that these kind of concerns are the first thing that come to people's mind and make it to the top of this thread means the discussion is bad. Every time someone mentions something revolutionary like a self-driving car, we could spend the discussion talking about that super unusual situation when the self-driving car is more dangerous than a normal one. Or when Amazon starts drone deliveries would could imagine that one time it crash and kills a dog. But this is just a distraction.
On purpose, it is tongue in cheek.
So I take it you haven't talked to a marketing person in the last few years, eh?

I recently was told that a product would be hosted on a local cloud.

What they meant was an NFS share.
I wouldn't mind wind if we started protecting the birds. I'm fond of solar, but until wind power is less destructive, I don't see why we should deploy it anywhere but off the coasts.
One of the values of a constitutional democracy is supposed to be that it reduces the impact of the "tyranny of the majority". That is to say, that it reduces the likelihood that a simple majority of people will trivially be able to oppress minority populations. This works by setting up a base set of rules that cannot be violated even if a majority of people in the democracy want to. In order to change or amend these rules, a much higher bar must be met.

However this idea of restrictions placed on a democracy to keep the majority from oppressing minorities is worthless without actual rules. How do you perform the initial population of this set of specially privileged rules then?

Think of it like a problem of bootstrapping trust. A pure democracy cannot be trusted (as a pure democracy trivially allows/enables the oppression of minorities), but non-pure democracies must be conceived and implemented somehow. Can you trust a constitutional democracy that was created by a pure democracy? Arguably no, since the pure democracy cannot be trusted. Can you trust a constitutional democracy that was created by a small set of arbitrary people? Again arguably no, since arbitrary people pulled from the general population wouldn't be any more trustworthy than a pure democracy. Can you trust a constitutional democracy created by a small set of particular people? If you trust those particular people, then perhaps you can trust the constitutional democracy created by them.

People want to trust their government, which leads to them wanting to trust in broad terms the general concepts and ideas that this particular founding group had.

Personally I think it's all shit. A constitutional democracy does not resolve the tyranny of the masses, it only pretends to. Democracy itself is nothing more than "might makes right" combined with a primitive notion of MAD (with anarchy and civil war being the boogieman, rather than nuclear war). Constitutional democracy is good for little more than lying to ourselves to make ourselves feel better about democracy.
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Read paragraph #1 in the linked page and you'll find stated quite plainly the ideas and questions which the author intends to explore in the rest of his text. The commentary on Marx is situated within that larger context and does touch on questions of soul, faith, redemption, and other religious themes.
You had posted a job opening and got great by terrible response, or you applied to jobs, but no follow-ups?
Yea, and smartphone have a lot fewer nooks than traditional cell phones since they have no keys. Better do a study to see if we should recommend that all doctors upgrade from their old Nokia!
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And now you know exactly why the NSA is doing what it is doing: to protect the oligarchy from exactly an uprising against it from within.

There is no terrorist. The system, the agents of the USG have won the coup on freedom.

They now exist only to preserve their power, and this is the reason why apologists for the deep state are worse than fools
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umm, no it isn't (I mean, maybe he did say something like that afterwards, but that's not what he's saying here.)

The idea that humans are not just the product of their environment but have something within them is undoubtedly true; some of our behaviours are learned (from the economy, and from other places), and some are innate/genetic.

Similarly, humans placed in a "favourable economic environment" are not automatically perfect, or even good.

On these points, I agree with him (in spite of being an atheist and ex-Catholic.)
The idea of false consciousness is one of the most misanthropic and illiberal ideas of the 20th century. It "explains" why the masses disagree with your "analysis" and thus shields you from having to confront the frightening prospect that maybe the masses actually are better equipped for knowing what they want and setting priorities for their own lives than you are.
A little OT, but I distinctly remember rolling my eyes when I watched that, mostly because I hear this sentiment all the time. Only the creation of physical things apparently counts as real productivity, and all of this service economy crap is somehow wishy washy or even illusory. It's a fetish for manufacturing, with this back-when-men-were-real-men ring to it.

But economic growth can't plausibly come from creating ever more things, and the obsession with stuff is crazy talk. Delivering services is definitely the thing a modern economy should aspire to. Leave the making of shit to the robots and other countries, with whom you shouldn't even want to compete. It's just nostalgia.
Sounds like they would be pretty foolish to proceed with a lawsuit, doubly so if MMM happens to be in a state with a strong Anti-SLAPP law.
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I felt slightly sick when I read that title.
LOL. This is on the todo list :) Thanks for the feedback!
Not what I was anticipating. Interesting to learn more about what make this guy tick.
Is "maker" culture Marxist?
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I read up on this a bit, and bioelectrical impedance is actually potentially useful for glucose monitoring. Products utilizing the technique have been produced and tested in the past. From what I can tell though, no such products have been suitable for medical use by diabetics, since precision and reliability requirements are very high.

My understanding is that one could probably produce something that monitors glucose in this manner, but it would be inadequate for medical use. Since there's not a lot of non-medical use for glucose level data, there has not been much impetus to create such a product.

I asked about this product on Reddit[0] and got a few replies. A user there claims the product could be legitimate, but lists several caveats regarding its potential capabilities based on its hardware.

IF one assumes that the product is real and has the hardware mentioned in the marketing video, I believe it would face several major problems in actual use:

1) It probably wouldn't be very accurate at detecting glucose levels

2) Glucose levels alone aren't a proxy for caloric intake, since such levels are impacted differently depending on the macronutrients consumed.

3) There will be a substantial delay before meals impact the reading at all.

I believe that they could make this device, but given the limitations of the proposed technique, as a way to measure calories it would be so inaccurate / untimely that any data generated would be essentially useless except for identifying the broadest trends.

It would likely be worthless for use in portion control, for example, which is where calorie tracking is most useful.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/2059tg/is_this_indieg...
" And we've sometimes acted like an evil invader. (See Blackwater atrocities, etc.)"

Blackwater!? That we were there at all was an invasion based on a lie and a tragedy of convenience. 9/11, strong connection to Afghanistan and a Saudi/Yemen family ... let's invade Iraq! I think we're still searching for the real weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair
It's designed to make watching movies easy, as the current solutions are all subpar. But piracy isn't the goal, it's just the only existing method to make the functionality work.
Services like this could benefit from eye-tracking. It would be ideal if it would pause whenever you look away from the red focus point. Samsung phones already have eye-tracking API.
Corporations and their ways to influence/corrupt democratic processes?
Interesting, I didn't know that. Nothing seems to have changed.
A way to look at it may be: Is there one community laptop or are their many laptops? A mainframe setup and limited internet constrained to university and business campuses, it becomes more like the "means of production". If there are enough laptops (or near enough) to go around, it's personal property.
If Twitter just had 35,000 spam bots in all of Twitter, they'd sign up for that in a heartbeat.
Yup i stopped at same point.

I'd add a point. It's also because young people don't fully grasp the cost / benefit analysis - they don't know the pain, and they don't know how to develop & implement the solution.

I might have a cool idea to cure cancer, but it'd be a difficult search to even figure out if it's been done before: lot of learning to do.

Whereas a quick scan of app store and talking with a few buddies tells me if my idea for a sexting app has been done.
Good to sell shovels in a gold rush but it's best to build a business that lasts.
You ignored my 200% mark, though. If I could run this demo in the browser and it pegs all of my cpus, compared to running the same demo "native" and having half my system capable of idling, I'm not sure I see the win. Even if it gets to 100% of "native." (I hate that it sounds like I am claiming that is the case here, as I really don't know.)
Well that was a good read. Seems that someone needs to learn how the internet works. Just put it on reddit and watch the Streisand effect in action :).
Exactly my point. To not do so is a crime on osx.
I get the impression that the author wanted to dispense with all of the usual preconceptions about Marxism right at the beginning, to inoculate the essay against the reflexive prejudice people tend to have about Marx.
It's a phrase that we in the US grew up with. It means something in our mythology.
Oh wow, that's a nice touch. I'd never noticed that despite using it all the time, which I guess is a good sign.
I think it's a very "role specific" problem.

You sound like you're in a really lucky situation where neither your specific job, not your organisation has a big email culture.

But, for a lot of roles or organisations they use email for distributed tasking. Even in a reasonably small technical team I'd say this is common - so you start receiving email that requires response due to it either being a task or it checking on status on a task.

It becomes even more difficult in situations where your response is required quickly as business is being blocked while you don't respond. A lot of (for want of a better word) middle management roles fall in this category.

There is a bit of the 'hero' problem about email management and far too much "FYI"'ing but it is a real problem. Ultimately, the cost to "send" an email is a lot less than on the X people who you just asked for a reply. So in some senses the impression of zero friction communication is very costly.
Yasser Arafat and Henry Kissinger come to mind.
> So, essentially no change worth talking about.

Umm...depends on how hard it is to clean. Something we don't know the answer to. I can hose down my glasses with clorhexidine, they're entirely inert. Can I do that with a Google Glass? Does interacting with your glasses as an information gathering tool change usage patterns - for better or ill?

You can't say there's no change worth talking about until you actually do the study. Not even a particularly hard study at that.

> Look, I get the idea of "Hey, here's something new, it could change something in a bad way, so lets test it." Fine, I hope someone does that. But the fact that these kind of concerns are the first thing that come to people's mind and make it to the top of this thread means the discussion is bad. Every time someone mentions something revolutionary like a self-driving car, we could spend the discussion talking about that super unusual situation when the self-driving car is more dangerous than a normal one. Or when Amazon starts drone deliveries would could imagine that one time it crash and kills a dog. But this is just a distraction.

First off, I was like the first or second poster on the thread - that it got a lot of comments is possibly just because it was there.

Second, I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist with a particular interest in hospital infection control, especially surface contamination mediated transmission. Asking questions like this is my job.
Copyright is a capitalist invention. It would not exist in a Marxist society. This makes your question trivial to answer: your laptop becomes a means of production when it's connected to a machine that produces real goods.
The first paragraph is probably intended to establish the author as somebody who isn't crazy.

The disconnect between the majority beliefs about Marxism and its actual contents (as well as the beliefs of those who actually follow in Marx's footsteps today) is gigantic. I perfectly understand that the author felt they needed some way to bridge that gap without turning the vast majority of readers away at first sight.
Spritz is supposed to improve comprehension too. That's how it was pitched in the original article I read.
Feminism isn't just about not offending people or giving women the same "rights" as men. You can make the (true) claim that blacks in America have the same rights as whites. But does that mean that there's no more racism? And even without the judgmental word "racism", does that mean blacks have the same opportunities as whites? I don't think so.

Feminism is about making sure women have the same opportunities as men not only by virtue of the law, but "on the ground"; that society doesn't gently (or not so gently) steer them in directions where they end up with less power than men; that they're no longer objectified and that female politicians are not called by their first names.

I'm not saying language can fix all that, or that it even matters all that much. It certainly matters less in cultures where feminism has had greater success. But it is a good place to point out how, perhaps inadvertently, we keep falling into the same gender traps. If you start thinking about your choice of words, language becomes less natural, so you stop treating it, and the culture it articulates, as "nature", and start treating it as the malleable social construct that it actually is.
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Due to the bit about redemption and that it was the Pope's words I considerably doubt he was speaking about anything other than original sin. If you find your genetics equatable to sin from which you need redemption, you should consider aiding gene therapy research or something then, because you cannot change your genes by reading the writings of religious leaders.
And better tooling helps here more than anything else. The giant elephant in the room nobody likes to speak towards is that Flash dominated not because it was a great language, but because they had awesome tooling around it. This is doing very little to address that.

Now, the Unreal Engine is a great tool in and of itself. Having it target the browser is the questionable part to me.
Here is the actual crime data: http://www.ag.nd.gov/Reports/BCIReports/CrimeHomicide/Crime1...

7.9% increase last year (10.9% increase the previous year) except for rape (which they seriously need to deal with by dropping the hammer on these people).
I use it in my game engine to script components and behaviours.
The judgy bit was "it just isn't courteous or respectful."

Of course you're entitled to your opinion, where did I say otherwise?
> Yea, and smartphone have a lot fewer nooks than traditional cell phones since they have no keys. Better do a study to see if we should recommend that all doctors upgrade from their old Nokia!

Um...trying to figure out what to do about smartphones and the contaminants they carry is a very active area of discussion in infection control right now.
It is one of the weirdest sites I've been to recently. I'm not sure if they're making fun of the Daily Mail, or trying to be like it to get hits, or what. The stories just seem off.
Then explain the "within X% of native" from the link. If this demo is strictly limited by the GPU, then why isn't it as fast as native, period?