It's the usage that originated with Lewis H. Morgan. Engels used it in "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", which Wikipedia has a good summary of:
> Barbarism – the period during which man learns to breed domestic animals and to practice agriculture, and acquires methods of increasing the supply of natural products by human activity.
For anyone wondering whether this work is worth reading, I must recommend The Origin of the Family, along with the other works of Marx and Engels. Engels has a wonderfully written The Principles of Communism which was the precursor to the Manifesto. They offer great insights into society.
We've thought exactly the same in the past about depression, homosexuality, unmarried mothers and outspoken women, but yes, maybe this time medicalizing something before we know much about it is the right answer and won't make us look like abhorrent barbarians to our grandchildren.
We're a relatively small team so it's nothing terribly sophisticated - Spark jobs prep log data for a nightly model training, done with sklearn - the model is just a python pickle that get loaded into our ranking system, Thimble. All done on EC2.
We also have a real-time pipeline (Bazalgette) that pulls events off a Kinesis stream and turns them into features, saved to Redis.
We're hiring a software engineer (in London) at the moment so if this sounds like the kind of tech you'd be interested in working alongside, drop me an email (in my profile) or look at https://thread.com/jobs
I don't think that you literally mean literally, but an obvious difference between slavery in the United States and conscription in the United States that you can avoid the latter by permanently renouncing your citizenship.
Not a lawyer, but I imagine they have not ability to exercise the fifth amendment as it's not self-incrimination, and I believe only natural persons (i.e. not corporations) are protected by it.
