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"capitalism" as casually used can be broken down into a bunch of discrete, sometimes contradictory concepts, here's just a few off the top of my head:

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1. "CAPITAL"-ism with a capital "C": the policy that when labor and capital do something together, capital should get the bigger share of the return.

2. "Laissez-faire": a market that has as little regulation from the government as possible.

3. "Free market": a market that is generally untainted by what are considered "artificial" external manipulations, such as price-fixing, etc, that prevent it from reaching a natural equilibrium.

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These sometimes contradict. For instance, pure laissez-faire can easily lead to monopolies, which hinders the ability of the "free market" value. Also, it's not clear at all that "CAPITAL"-ism naturally follows from either 2 or 3.

And even when you break it into these concepts there's still plenty of room for interpretation.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but since the author is in the US, I'd like to ask him: do you know why it took Al Jazeera so long to get into the US? Do you know what Al Jazeera had to create a separate entity, "Al Jazeera America" ?
A few pieces of feedback. In the suspension section, it would be worth explaining a few things about truck suspension, also. Like solid axle, front and rear suspension, both with Coil and Leaf springs. Also, dampers are incredibly important in large trucks/SUVs because if they fail, body roll has much higher likelihood of causing you to lose control. Finally, a "bounce test" really won't work with many SUVs or truck where there is simply no way to compress the suspension to any meaningful degree with your hands.

personally, with trucks, I like the "speed bump test" where you drive into a speed bump and if the truck/SUV continues to oscillate upon returning to the correct height, your dampers probably need work. Additionally, since most trucks/SUVs use similar oil volume dampers to cars, the life of their dampers is frequently lower than in cars. The ones in my TRD Tundra lasted about 40K miles.
This is the fundamentalist reply - the same reply proponents of socialism give when confronted with the horrors committed by Stalin and others during the 20th century. It wasn't real socialism, you see.
They have some interesting stuff in their GitHub repo: https://github.com/ska-sa

Slides about one of the projects to assist scientists with simulations: https://speakerdeck.com/gijzelaerr/rodrigues (Gijs gave the talk yesterday at the Python Amsterdam Meetup)
> He incremented a number in a URL, and that was his ultimate crime.

What ultimate crime? Are we forgetting that weev's conviction was overturned on appeal, indicating that it was a result of legal error. There was no crime. Not in a "well, some people on the internet think he shouldn't have been convicted" sense, but in a "the legal system has authoritatively declared that his conviction was in error" sense.
Capitalism might not look the way you would like it to look, but it's still Capitalism.
>Second, information is corroding the market’s ability to form prices correctly. That is because markets are based on scarcity while information is abundant. The system’s defence mechanism is to form monopolies – the giant tech companies – on a scale not seen in the past 200 years, yet they cannot last. By building business models and share valuations based on the capture and privatisation of all socially produced information, such firms are constructing a fragile corporate edifice at odds with the most basic need of humanity, which is to use ideas freely.

This is a fascinating dynamic. How do you charge for information when nearly anyone can replicate it for free?

* Novelty - sure you can get civ4 for 2 dollars, but civ5 is "more desirable".

* Punishment - hexrays blacklisting engineers that use IDApro without a license.

* Technical - DRM it is only mildly effective, but architectural solutions such as gmail or WoW have a low piracy rate.

* Rewards - benefits to compliance, such as steam backing up your saved games and giving you hats.

If a nation were to completely ignore IP law would that provide a competitive advantage to that nation?
At which point, you might as well be in a physical meeting. You're either synchronously communicating (and not paying attention to something else) or you're not.
Thats unfortunate. It looks like that phone has 1GB of ram. I will try to optimize the performance of playing live sounds with a sequence in the background to need less memory but it might take a while. Hopefully it goes out in a future update sometime. Thanks for trying it out though!
But code is written in an entirely pragmatic environment. That means its value changes with time.

But we don't treat novels as pragmatically. If all its references are out of date, we simply excuse that problem by saying the book exists in history. Also, we don't have people running around re-writing novels. I don't doubt for a moment that Kafka's works could be improved if it was "open-sourced" and edited collectively.

And fiction is "code" for humans. The basic design of a human doesn't change nearly at all compared to computers. So instead of optimizing novels for humans with new features or faster processing, we hang on to some of them because particular "code" or life lessons need to be learned by a new generation.
My experience with Cycles is that it generally looks almost great, except for a bunch of terrible looking fireflies (lone, overly bright pixels) for which there is no straightforward cure.

(I am very grateful for Blender and Cycles in general though).
This sounds like a perfect _proof_ that email is not good as it sounds when you think of it as "an open decentralized protocol". Spam prevention requires an enourmous amount of hard work, computing resources and magic and is _totally dependent_ on the lack of privacy.

The whole problem, it seems, is that email is the only protocol on the internet where the sender can initiate contact with whoever he wants. I used to think this was good before reading these notes, but now I think other solutions must be seaked. Sender-initiated contact is not a feature of anything.

A good suggestion is found at this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9829614
Given your perspective, what do you make of stuff like Umbral Moonshine http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2779 and ER=EPR http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0533 ?
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Ma Bell? You are actually trying to use that as an example of a "free market created monopoly"?
Yes. The author's statement is malformed.

Lots of people get themselves into trouble pontificating on how the flow of information makes markets work or not work. What they often fail to notice is that there is also a market for information itself, and that it's not really necessary to special case "information" differently than any other necessary input.
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I don't know if this is still the case, but around the time they IPO'd, I deleted my account as it had been worse than useless, but people I know mentioned I continued to show up as if I was still on the site.

Tons of recruiter spam and so on, not to mention the email dark patterns.

All "x site is the new resume" approaches are flawed, but at least GitHub-as-resume encourages publishing code and evaluating people by the code they've written and how they interact with open source projects. LinkedIn is good for cronyism and pretending that "n years at Company Inc." is particularly meaningful.
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Sounds like a euphemism for "moving something with your fingers".
Agreed, I just meant I choose self-sufficiency over dependence when possible/practical. As I get older, it seems to impact my choices more and more--and I'm not (just) talking about basic necessities, it's also guiding my investment decisions and property purchases.
Counter anecdote: I got my current job through LinkedIn. Recruiter reached out the first time, and I said I wasn't interested. A few weeks later I decided to test the waters and I put my resume on Dice.com. The same recruiter reached out on LinkedIn a few hours later, saying he saw my resume on Dice and asked if anything had changed. It had, I interviewed, and I've been working here for a little over a year and a half.

For me it's a convenient way of having recruiters reach out without having my normal inbox completely spammed.
I guess what I was referring to by 'capitalism' was actually 'free-market' by that list. I should've been more concise. The author was attacking 'capitalism' as a whole, so I wanted to refute his general argument against market-oriented economies
Preventing the EU from being a transfer union is not what doomed the weaker economies; the fact that some of the weaker economies tried to turn it into such did.

The more capitalist weaker economies (note: most are poorer than Greece) seem to be doing just fine.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
> Most of the fluffy scenarios he describes, whereby private individuals make voluntary, mutually beneficial agreements with each other, is almost the very definition of capitalism!

No, that is the definition of a free market. Capitalism is a framework of ownership that operates in markets of varying degrees of freedom.

A barter economy is a free market, but not usually a capitalistic one.

The author is pointing out ways that the free market is starting to outgrow it's reliance on the ownership framework of capitalism and how capitalism's framework of ownership has problems dealing with the valuation and ownership of information.

I suspect we will increasingly see the old capitalistic structures use governments and force to hold the line against the free market.
There are developer jobs out there for 40+ year-olds. I worked with a developer who was 70+ for a little over a year. What some people do is they move to tech management positions such as CTO, programming manager, or work as software architects. That really depends on what you enjoy doing thou.
I am not affiliated with Afrostream, but they currently serve only French speaking countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland in Europe and Senegal and Ivory in Africa). My guess is that the founders are from Senegal or Ivory and want to tackle their local market first.
Was I the only one who saw this as a sorta commentary on how we might be looking at combustion engines in 100 years? It will probably seem ridiculous that we were burning smelly fuel.
Randomly chaining numbers seems to be the most practical strategy up until you start running into the empty blocks.

Game should probably be made a little easier so the intended strategy of chaining primes becomes more viable.
Well, its not that similar, in that weev's conviction was overturned on appeal based on improper venue, with the appeals court also quite skeptical (though, as the improper venue was sufficient to dismiss the conviction, not stating an authoritative conclusion on this point) as to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the charges.

Both the people arguing for and those arguing against the result in weev's case seem to be forgetting what the final result actually was.
Or vice versa.

Imperialism is the goal, capitalism is the excuse.
> I think it's silly when people use monopoly as a synonym for bad. Sometimes monopolies make sense.

Theodore Roosevelt's policy on monopolies was pretty much this. Monopolies that provided good service at reasonable prices were left alone, those that abused their power were attacked.
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Yeah it's a huge mess when people don't define their terms.
> I think there is consensus (at least among people, philosophers included, in their ordinary lives) on the value of helping more people.

There may be consensus, but the source of the consensus is not some objective fact, but a mere convergence of various simulated worlds.

> If we restrict ourselves to empirical predictions, Gettier's examples cease to be paradoxical.

They're not paradoxical, they simply challenge the meaning of knowledge. But who says we want to restrict ourselves to empirical predictions? The problem in your reasoning is that everything in the real world is mediated for us by the simulated, subjective world. A click on the mouse in the "real world" might have some effect on the world of Minecraft, but the nature of that effect is determined by the rules of the simulated world -- not objective, physical reality. We should limit ourselves to empiricism when we want (subjective) to do stuff that interacts with physical reality, like build an airplane. But what if we want to laugh? Is a joke less real than an airplane?

> whereas people without a humanities education seem to still have the supposed benefits of one.

That is not true. People without humanities education have humanities knowledge comparable to grade-school math. It's more than nothing, sure, but it's far from making one knowledgeable. It is an extreme example, but there's a fascinating fringe group (mostly centered in and about Silicon Valley) called the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionism. They are similar in many ways to other historical groups, but different in others. In any case, they are mostly STEM people who have some historical beliefs that are completely erroneous, precisely because they believe what you just said (and that makes the movement all the more interesting).

> All I can say is that in ordinary, everyday life, I suspect you find questions (ordinary everyday questions like "where are my car keys?") to be only as valuable as their answers.

Sure, but why restrict ourselves to ordinary, everyday life? Do you think that human existence lies solely at that level?

> You can construct a whole anti-inductive edifice of beliefs that stand alone, but if they're completely disconnected from anything in real life

Here's that word again: real. Is a joke not real? What makes physical reality any more real than simulated reality? Is euclidean geometry any more real than non-euclidean geometry simply because we find the former in objective physical reality? Is, say, Call of Duty any more real than Minecraft or Super Mario simply because it imitates physical reality better? They're both simulations. Certainly some things are more physical than others, but whether that gives them any more value is completely subjective.
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TCP Connections can be upheld in IDLE-Mode for 25 Minutes without causing any traffic.
> One reason for his success is that he multitasks well, whereas humans typically do not. This enables him to work the way he did/does.

But this is self-reported and multitaskers are known to significantly overrate their own performance.
Except your definition is wrong.

Why can't you and a democratic cooperative operate in the same free market?
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> Here we have a highly intelligent and inventive creature repeatedly trying its best to escape - it's hard not to identify with it! - and the scientists just recapture it by force.

> They actively oppose the animal's attempts to liberate itself, again and again.

That makes me think about the Rat Park experiments. Treatment of the animal's may play a bigger role in the results of experiments than anyone suspects. Especially as the intelligence of the animal increases.
The people demanding you pay them tens of thousands per year, for them to tell you how to learn, say it is. We can trust them, right?
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I think he's including the PPE in his count of 9 processors.
I agree that sometimes monopolies makes sense, and that they're not all bad. So long as they're do through voluntary, customer means, then sure.

I mentioned in another response further up that, sometimes a company will provide services so well that they create a 'market satisfaction' whereby there'd by no point competing because consumers aren't looking for an alternative so there'd be little point. I think Google (before the privacy concerns were raised) were an example of that.
That's more or less correct. The problem is real (we don't need that many people to make all the stuff) but the proposed solutions are no good. He's into co-ops and "local", which just don't do much in the developed world because the big guys are not inefficient. (You're not going to beat WalMart on price with your local grocery co-op.) Then there's some Marxist analysis, which doesn't help; Marx wrote when companies needed huge labor forces.

Bernie Sanders, the presidential candidate, makes an interesting point. He questions the whole idea of economic growth as a national goal. “Unchecked growth – especially when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent – is absurd. Where we’ve got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but we’ve got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people."[1] There's something to be said for that. You get what you measure and optimize for, and US policy has been to optimize for GDP. Maybe we should be optimizing for median per capita real income per hour worked, or "how much does an hour of work buy for most people". That's a number you never used to see in the press, but it shows up more now.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/13/w...
Yeah, well aware. I was only address this from GP:

> I've been looking for something to do this (below) in python at least on backend.
Netflix isn't so much like "cable" anymore. It's more like HBO. It's a channel; one of many.

My family, for example, subscribes to Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and CrunchyRoll.

I suspect in the future there will be more and more niche channels like Afrostream (and CrunchyRoll).
> But you'll get maliciously prosecuted for guessing a sequential URL and typing it into your address bar thanks to CFAA...

I don't know that you can say "thanks to CFAA" for a prosecution that was not -- per the appeals court that threw out the resulting conviction -- carried out properly.
Yeah, sure, we can think of a far future where everything is automated but I think this discussion is more about the near future (near being when self-driving cars are for sale).

The logistics of parking go far beyond getting into the space. How does it pay the parking meter? How does it know if a parking lot is public or not, how does it pay for that? How does it know not to go into the unsafe neighborhood where wheels get stolen?
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I can't be the only one who thought this article would be about people who will be known throughout history for their amazing work in D3- champions, heroes, front-end developers!
> professional social network, largely targeting workers that use computers in some way (designers, developers, electronic engineers, project managers, investors, etc).

... and...

> Companies and recruiters will not be welcome (at least initially

So it's not a LinkedIn competitor, then.

It might very well turn out you're onto something great and I'm not saying this as criticism, but from description you're trying to become something fundamentally different from what LinkedIn is. Don't try to sell yourself as a LinkedIn alternative.

LinkedIn is where I go when I want to find someone important in company X that I wouldn't normally have access to, typically in functions that are usually outside of my normal circle. E.g. I got two separate SVP's at DHL to personally interfere to get a package I was waiting for redirected when their local customer service was being useless once.

It's where I go when I want to find recruiters with contacts in the right companies, whether to hire or to be hired.

It's where I go when I want to research companies to see if they're a good fit to work at, or a good fit to partner with etc.

It's where I go when I want to contact someone I've worked with in the past but not closely enough to e.g. have them on facebook or have their current phone number or e-mail. This last one appears to be pretty much the only one that fits your model, except I often want people outside of the techies.

This is why I'm reasonably active (couple of times a month) on LinkedIn, and not at all (once a year at most) on Facebook. For me, you'd fall closer to the Facebook end of the spectrum based on your homepage. That's not necessarily bad (clearly my Facebook usage is crazily atypical), but it's a different niche.
Cycles is hard to use for animation because it is very noisy, it's fast to get an initial image (great for tweaking) but it's slow to get a noise-free image. Also this includes pixar's "denoising as a post process" which is really amazing (and might even be applicable to cycles renders).

Cycles shading graph is very limited (but well chosen) compared to the flexibility of Renderman Shading Language.

Renderman's subpixel shading is just amazing, so getting crisp, antialiased renders even with fine detail is automatic, whereas cycles might require tweaking the settings or really cranking up the sample rate.

Cycles struggles and has memory limitations on large (even not so large) scenes.

Renderman produces very good motion blur without much performance hit, which is critical for integrating with real-world footage.

Renderman has a lot of features (similar to plugins) to integrate with external tech (e.g. you could plug in a custom hair generator step), which is critical for production.

Renderman has a lot of "scalability" features like caching indirect lighting into brickmaps, or loading large sets of tiled textures, that cycles (or even blender) just don't support.

Also, renderman has been used in production for decades, so a lot of places have built up large libraries of tricks, shaders or tools that work with renderman that they can use.

Renderman is well integrated with many render-farm technologies, so if you're working on a large animation there are some great option. Of course there are ways to do this with Cycles, too, but they are generally less mature and lack some production features.

With all of that said, cycles is still an amazingly powerful renderer, and completely free (not just free to use). You don't have to generate and install a license file to use Cycles, and if you want to tinker with the source code, you can do so! That's not going to happen with renderman anytime soon...
Democratic cooperatives and market economies are not mutually exclusive at all.
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I used 3ds Max to do part of my thesis project. I just installed the 30-day trial on different machines in the computer lab by turns. :)
I would lose my mind if I was like this all the time. Sometimes it feels great to be very busy as you get a nice flow and momentum going that leads to more productivity. But I need downtime to retreat into my head. I don't answer phones or emails on weekends. Guess I'm destined to be poor.
> Well, for one people do not expect drivers to stop at a green light, like was the case here.

er:

> The lane to the left of the Google AV was a left-turn-only
lane. The vehicle waiting immediately behind the Google AV in the straight-only lane began to move forward
when the green arrow left turn signal appeared (despite the signal for the straight-only lane remaining red)
and collided with the rear bumper of the Google AV.

Are you talking about a different incident?
That's a nice repository, thanks for sharing! I'll be combing through that as I make the transition from R to Python ;)
I didn't say we couldn't at all, I personally would like to work in a market economy. Not in a cooperative, but similarly I would want others to have the freedom to work in a cooperative should they wish to.
Nice! Gives a lot of detail! I also created a word count tool a while back but it is not quite as feature filled as yours:

http://thecharactercounter.com/
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