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> Read my other comment and read The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx

The Manifesto of the Communist Party was written by Marx and Engels, not Marx as sole author.

> Obama's actions and Marx's document align quite well. I'd love for you to show me how they don't.

Okay, sure. the Manifesto's most direct policy prescriptions are contained in Chapter 2 [0], where after acknowledging that particular steps will differ from country to country, it states that "[n]evertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable" and lists the following items:

> 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

Where has Obama advocated anything like this?

> 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Certainly the US has something like this, with a suitably loose definition of "heavy", but that pre-dates Obama.

> 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

Where has Obama advocated anything like this? (Proposing actually paying capital gains tax on the appreciation of capital assets transferred in inheritance -- e.g., treating transfer in inheritance like a transfer -- is far from abolition of all rights of inheritance.)

> 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

Again, where has Obama advocated anything like this?

> 5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

The US, obviously, has a central bank, but that's not an Obama innovation.

> 6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

Certainly, the Obama Administration has supported some tweaks of existing communication and/or transportation regulation, but, again, where is there anything substantially like this?

> 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

Again, where?

> 8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

Same question as above, where has Obama advocated this?

> 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

The first part of this is a process that private industry has led in this country, but where has Obama proposed anything to advance either part?

> 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.

Much of the first two sentences of this had been advanced in the US prior to Obama, and is fairly (with "present" in the 1848 sense!) uncontroversial. Where has Obama done anything on the third?

Where -- with specifics from both Obama policies and the Manifesto -- has Obama, in short, done anything that shows his actions "align quite well" with the Manifesto's agenda?

[0] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m...
Do I understand correctly that Basho is now a platform-as-service company, like Compose or Heroku, rather than an enterprise database product company?
Playable Bersion of Cold War with JS+canvas
> But Fowler pisses me off because he preaches his religion with zero empirical evidence it is any better than anything else.

And people take it as truth rather than opinion. Look at the way he was all-out in favour of microservices, then backpeddled recently. It's right for a clever man to think out loud and change his mind; but not for people to act on it as if it's fact.
>In practice, pre-civilization cultures had some of the most rapacious, kleptocratic, arbitrary, and vendictive leaders ever. Modern tribes in many countries exhibit similar behaviour

One could say the same of modern cultures. I'm not talking about the quality of the leader, I'm referring to the amount of power he has to redirect wealth and work. The only difference between modern leaders and tribal is in pre-civilization cultures, leaders had very limited power because the concept of wealth has not been fully established; leaders in the modern age, however, derive power from wealth. Thus as a result leaders in tribes are more or less relatively equal in power with all the other members of the tribe. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_man_%28anthropology%29

>Large institutions are (in practice) the most communist organisations in the western world (as they are managed top-down with a great deal of government support), and yet they seem to exhibit the problems you describe more than many 'capitalist' organizations.

They do. I never said they didn't. I only said communism was a solution in theory as opposed to how in practice in doesn't work. Read what I said again.

>You are using a Marxist analysis which is characterized by biased, myopic comparisons, and thinking based on personal preferences and sentiments, as well as the Cohen fallacy, and (unsurprisingly) reaching a Marxist result.

Not only is this not true. But it is an unnecessary and veiled insult. I did not reach a marxist result. Read it again: The only two possible solutions was communism (which only works in theory, and has been shown to be flawed in practice) and some pre-civilization tribal culture, both of which are worse then the current system.

There is no need to make comments about my character by saying I'm biased or myopic. It makes me angry and makes you look bad. What if I said something along the lines of: "When someone sits on the top for too long they develop harsh and protective views to justify their superior and unfair positions." Would that be an accurate description of you? Maybe, maybe not, but either way totally unnecessary.
The question of overpopulation is a non-problem. You can't have children, period. It has to be regulated. There will have to be replacement for accidental death and people who choose to end their life early (or people that leave to space, which I think will never be a big number, but who knows). To replace those, either a random lottery or a lottery for "qualified parents" (who want to), whatever that is. I say lottery because anything other than basic requirements would get really controversial really fast.

I'm not sure what you mean "what a world with nearly no children should be like to be livable"? I don't see how it would be any more or less livable. That doesn't even seem to make any sense.
I'm wondering how common the "mistake" of storing UTF-16 values in wchar_t on Unix-like systems? I know I thought I had my code carefully basing whether it was UTF-16 or UTF-32 based on the size of wchar_t, only to discover that one of the supposedly portable libraries I used had UTF-16 no matter how big wchar_t was.
WebRTC releases notes from Firefox 40
A similar but worse situation:

Someone is arrested for a crime they didn't commit. Bail is set far above their ability to pay. A year later while awaiting trial, they are given the option to accept a plea deal for time served and a criminal record, or wait another year for the trial to take place.
No shit.

But, over the long term, raise the standard of living for the lowest wage earners will both increase economic activity and increase employment. It's disingenuous to pretend that low wages benefit minimum wage earners.
Well, it was really just that we didn't get that far, I guess. Mind you, my friends did much more of the work than I did, but like most student hobby projects, at some point, you just stop working on things.
Or maybe they're angry and deluded enough to think destruction will make people want to help them.

I see that a lot.
> I don't know what Google is thinking

That customer data is valuable for them, so "the more the merrier" ?
>> I've been excitedly keeping up on telomere therapy...

Then you should be taking Astragalus. It lengthens them. I'm not convinced the telomeres are key. They're actually still quite long in people 90+ years old.
It will take 6 months before you're covered by a provinces health plan.
> Or to phase it another way, I literally don't believe the poor get a fair or speedy trial,

The poor never get trials.

The vast majority of cases are pled down.

Prosecutors and other officers of the court punish those who refuse to waive trial and plead guilty, and this forces most (innocent and guilty alike) to take the bargain.

Plea bargains are sometimes useful to prosecutors, allowing them to serve justice at times when there is real risk that a criminal would be acquitted. But it's a tool that is prone to outrageous abuse.

I propose that prosecutors be prohibited from offering plea deals to more than 3% of their cases in any given calendar year, and that any excess of such be sufficient to disbar them or even carry criminal penalties.
> In other words, by his own admission, he sought out and aligned himself with Marxist professors.

By his own words that you quote, this was done as political cover to avoid certain labeling.

That quote does not support your argument.
Emoji is dragging us back to the dark ages – and all we can do is smile
Every API function name should have to be trademarked instead.
Gza Speaks: The Lost Art of Lyricism
A lottery would have no selective pressure, so no Idiocracy tendancy. That was part of the reason I suggested that. But the only thing I think the system needs is to have some very basic requirements, and then choose mostly randomly among applicants that want to have children.

Anything more, like only allowing the smartest or the most wealthy is going to get dystopian pretty fast, I would think
They technically don't need permission to perform the redistribution, seeing as LibreOffice is FOSS and distribution of software is permitted.

However, they do need permission to claim to be representatives of the LibreOffice developers.
Inside the war on coal
Thanks for the reply. I'm leaning towards Rust. I'm required to learn C for university next year (I do physics) so I'm going to have to go through the pain anyway. There's also the quwation of usage in physics circles.

It'll probably come down to the material I'm trying to learn each with. The Rust book looks very good, finding anything decent and modernish for C has been a nightmare.
Even if Lua is all but a footnote, it's nice to see that, yet again, things that rely on it work as advertised.
Show HN: Type Detail Showing Subtle Differences of San Francisco Display
There is an open issue[1] on github that might helps with that, but I haven't tried it myself. I will try tomorrow.

[1] https://github.com/tomkrcha/drawscript/issues/8
Hi Stasy, i just founded on GoFundMe! :)
What Playing Age of Empires Taught Me About Programming
What can we do? Is there a place we can (as an economic sector) throw money to make this happen?

Fucking hell.

EDIT:

Thanks Obama!

"The Justice Department is weighing in on the hot-button intellectual property dispute between Google and Oracle, telling the Supreme Court that APIs are protected by copyright.

The Obama administration's position means it is siding with Oracle and a federal appeals court that said application programming interfaces are subject to copyright protections. The high court in January asked for the government's views on the closely watched case."
It isn't that there is a trend away from Python, it's that languages that are not yet very popular want to lure away some of Python's audience to augment their own.
Four big lessons learned from seven years of production testing
Around "When you integrate a function the result is more continuous and more smooth."
Nope. It's just that world has limited number of magical entrepreneurs, and most of them aren't living in the USA. Gotta collect them all.
This is a nice summary! FWIW I'm more likely 1, as I've seen many people coming from dynamic languages being frustrated about the "Rust way". Not only the ownership model, but also compiling, optimization, etc.

3 is certainly a problem, but personally I found enough materials to learn Rust even for now. However more "friendly" resources would be definitely welcome.
How to Stop Worrying and Building an Adventurous Lifestyle
This link should probably be changed to point directly to the Ars post: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/white-house-sides...
> It'll be the top post ever in /r/soccer in no time, it's already fourth and was only submitted four hours ago.

It's within 200 now, though the many follow-up stories have diffused the voting somewhat.
s/^\([a-zA-Z_]*\)(\(.*\))$/ggl_\1(\2)/ ??

This ruling sounds horrible... very curious to hear point-of-view of people who think otherwise.

Edit: my regexp joke is mangled by markup, but who cares ?

Edit: fixed regexp display (not that it affects joke).
Can someone give us an ELI5? Pros/Cons etc.
Show HN: CUBIC
Just becasue I learned about Worlds Adrift I'm glad I read this article.
MOST INTERESTING. WE'VE BEEN MANAGING OUR CAPITALS IN HOUSE USING A HOMEGROWN MIX OF CAPS LOCK AND HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY, BUT INVESTORS HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN AT HOW WELL THIS WILL SCALE IN THE FUTURE.
It hasn't stopped here in Minneapolis, the Vikings stadium doesn't open until next year.
What does this mean for android?
There won’t be an “Uber of x” for everything, but there will be more Ubers
Do you run database management software, like severalnines clustercontrol, to manage your MySQL instances?
It's not obvious from the LWN article, but the reason it says "White House" is that lawyers from the DoJ have filed an Amicus Curiae ("Friend of the Court") brief informing them of their stance on the topic. [1] [2]

[1] - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/white-house-sides...

[2] - http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/google...
I honestly take issue with the way you phrase your argument. You refer to the poor with phrases like "these people", trivialize their ability to survive without a week's paycheck because "they've done without before" and accuse them of spending frivolously without any real evidence.

My point in writing my comment was to emphasize that the poor pay disproportionately more of their income towards basic needs than the middle class. My hope was that I would provoke some empathy when discussing the economics of poverty.

I don't disagree with you that bail is a tricky issue -- for it to accomplish its goal, it has to mean something. But on the flip side, there are people living in New York City who cannot afford bail and get stuck in the justice system for years without recourse, without a speedy trial, and that seems unjust to me.[1]

A little empathy goes a long way.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law
Asking full privileges is a way of avoiding changing them on a update.

If you change permissions on a update, chrome will ask for user interaction.

That being said, if you don't plan to broad the scope of an app or extension in the future, there is no point.

This technique is applied on a lot of android apps too.
The other hard thing is collecting royalties, apparently.

Fuckers.
Incapacitation is an essential part of rehabilitation, unless you believe that every criminal can be fixed with a simple out-patient procedure. While rehabilitation is in progress but not yet complete, incapacitation is essential.

As I see it, one of the biggest problems with the American justice system is pre-mature release. We are releasing criminals before they are known to be rehabilitated. If we're going to go with rehabilitation, then we need to scrap the idea of determining how long somebody will be incapacitated (imprisoned) during sentencing. The duration of incapacitation should be determined solely by how long rehabilitation takes.

A doctor continues treatment for as long as treatment is necessary. You don't hear them say things like "Okay Mr Johnson, looks like you've got cancer. We're going to do chemo for 6 months, then you'll be done!" Rather, you get "we're going to start chemo, and we'll continue to monitor your progress."

We also need to set sane expectations for our own abilities. What is the false-positive rate for rehabilitation? Does that false-positive rate, when considered with the severity of the crime, work out to a risk that we are willing to accept? What if 1% of captured and rehabilitated murderers go on to murder again? Is that an acceptable risk? What if it's 5%, or 10%? Are there crimes so awful that no false-positive rate is acceptable?
You seem to be confusing state ownership and management of industry with regulation of private industries. The state regulating and industry by banning various things or putting various requirements on the exploitation of common resources isn't anything like Marx's discussion of the state owning the means of production.

> domestic energy supplies

If you want to drill for oil on public land, your fellow citizens would like you to not fsck-up the land while you exploit it. Only in childish pure-capitalist fantasies does a business get to exploit common resources without without any social responsibility.

> progressive income taxes

Again, you apparently don't understand the difference between Marx's ideas of state ownership and modern economic theories, only some of which is even considered socialist. You tax the rich because they are the people with the money. Trying to squeeze it out of the poor with a flat tax is not only wildly socially irresponsible, it also creates social unrest. It also fails a producing revenue for the government.

Oh, and you did know that progressive income tax started a loooong time before Marx was born, right? Even the ancient Romans had a progressive income tax.

> estate tax

Nothing specific to do with any of the economic suggestions discussed by Marx. Like the progressive income tax, limiting the dynastic accumulation of "old money" with an estate tax is a lot older than Marx. It's not like it even affects many people, contrary to the lies spread by many right-wing pundits. Are you leaving more than $5,430,000 to your kids? You did know that the estate tax exempts that amount, right?

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Ok, I have better things to do than to point out the errors in your fairly stereotypical GOP-propaganda-based view of the world.

Obama has done more to continue Republican policies than any other modern president. You might want to take note of that - and do more reading about the history of politics on all sides. Obama and our current government have done some very worrying things (the Patriot Act power grabs that are the subject of this thread are a good example). I suggest focusing on these real problems if you want to accomplish something useful. Retreading old, easily debunked GOP is a waste of time and distracts from the actual problems that need to be addressed.
Debug Settings and Webkit Hack on PS4 Fimware 2.00?
A bit more information can be found here: http://cdixon.org/2015/03/24/improbable-enabling-the-develop...

Too me it reads like MapReduce for highly place-dependent computations, whatever that looks like. Probably something along the lines of a distributed kd-tree with message passing at borders handled for you as well.
From OP:
> we made sure to stick with the same ideas that made our previous architecture work so well: using simple components that we understand and avoiding prematurely solving problems that aren't yet problems

So, if their team have lots of experience with MySQL but not so much with PostgreSQL, that could be a good reason to prefer one over another.
Hah, that's interesting. But that last person is going to feel ripped off.

They can "accidentally" be born sterile. Shh, nobody tell.
Then why don't we cut it in half, and then gradually cut it to zero?

Seriously, why aren't leaders who are against raising the minimum wage proudly storming Washington to get it cut in half?

If you're for the number of jobs that the current minimum wage supports, then isn't it your duty to your fellow man to do what you can to cut his wages in half, so that someone else can step out of unemployment?

And for that matter, why don't we have a maximum wage?
ridiculous. copywriter apis will breed a whole new class of lawsuits making it less feasible for smaller companies to compete.

What about POST to /login who copyrights that one first?

Of course there is the right to parody. I wonder if we'll see parodies of APIs as a way to sidestep copyright.
OK, I've clicked, dragged, wandered about, and just don't care. It's not obvious, not engaging, not interesting, and I'm out. I'm sure it must be technically wonderful, but I haven't a clue what it's supposed to be.
It was a small wrapper that downloads the actual installer, loaded from a different site to their usual mirrors because they outsourced the whole "bundling unwanted software" functionality to a third party. I don't still have a copy because I downloaded it in a temporary test VM, sorry.
Agreed, that kind of extremely binary thinking about "CRIMINALS" and "NORMAL PEOPLE" is not helpful.
>What can we do to convince people that criminals are not, in fact, "just" bad people?

If you find out please let me know. I work in the corrections industry and I deal with this concept on a daily basis and I makes me ill...
Mike Jay (the reviewer here) is such an interesting writer.

The Air Loom Gang (http://mikejay.net/books/the-air-loom-gang/) is an amazing book: it tells the story of James Tilly Matthews, the first person recorded to have believed that his thoughts were being influenced by a machine.
> On the other hand if the State has a slam dunk case against my Client, it again makes no sense to go to trial and expose my Client to the maximum sentence when I can work out a plea at the minimums

This is exactly the kind of things that a lot of people find incredibly odious about the US justice system.

If the state has a slam dunk case against your client that justifies the maximum sentence, then the state should seek that. If the state does not have a case that justifies the maximum sentence, then the maximum sentence shouldn't - and in most countries wouldn't be - on the table in the first place.

That this is even possible gives US prosecutors strong incentives to dangle the threat of high sentences in front of your clients whether or not they are justified in the interest of pushing your clients not to go to trial. Especially when they face defendants with weaker representation. To me, this does not serve justice at all - it serves to create further injustices.
If you're in the position of being able to refund any money you have received for which you didn't already clearly deliver whatever you promised, you can walk away with reputation in a pretty good place.

E.g., I got in way, way over my head on a project for a startup once a few years ago. They didn't know what they needed, and I had no true idea how much work was involved. When I couldn't deliver I returned the money (which hurt, but I could do it). The client later came back to me (!) with a much smaller, better-defined project which I executed on well. They became a regular client and have been worth six figures to me over the years. (It did help that they tried another developer in the meantime who also didn't deliver but kept the money and stopped returning calls.)
Flask made a number of really questionable decisions that are not visible to someone who just followed a tutorial to make a simple app. "g" is a horrible thing that doesn't exist in other frameworks for a reason.

If you started out parodying something else you didn't like, and ended up completely emulating its interface, it means that you were either wrong earlier or you were wrong later.

Maybe he will do better things in Rust, but Flask has been heavily overrated since it came out.
What is the point of that? Just have lots of people? That doesn't help anything. The whole idea of anti-aging is for individuals to live longer. Have their hard won expertise and skills continue to be of use longer, have them enjoy life more rather than a constant progression that ends in death.

That would be fine if we had a billion people on Earth, but whatever number ends up being stable, it's an orthogonal issue.