2bitmachine

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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
The Dig is like EconTalk for leftists. Even if you’re not onboard with the ideology, the intelligence, researched depth, and interest of the host Daniel Denvir is matched by little else in media today.
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
For anyone interested in a more thorough and well-introduced volume on Japanese literature, I’d recommend this two-volume work: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-columbia-anthology-of-mode...
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
That he subverted democracy by threatening the Seattle city council as they attempted to address their homelessness crisis makes me skeptical of this effort. I doubt we can do much to fix the underlying issues in a context where billionaire
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
At the point when you recognize this and then choose to proceed apace, you become a “mustache twirling villain.” YouTube crossed that threshold a long, long time ago.
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
> Many grocery store chains are unionized and the jobs are still loathed. Unions aren't about undoing alienation under Capitalism, they're about making Capitalism survivable for laborers.
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
We’re in the middle of the best economy and wages still aren’t rising. Monopoly, monopsony, and free market extremism have crushed them for all but the very few. https://www.epi.org/publication/its-not-just-monopoly-and
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
And? If Amazon bought a company with poor working conditions, ripe for unionization, it’s their problem. They’re the bosses now. Maybe the workers hoped things would get better absent labor organization, but now that they’re being managed b
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
It’s not pure speculation- it’s the worker’s side of the story. You can’t discredit their experience because the other side behaved in such a brazenly stupid fashion that they’re probably being advised to not speak to the press at all. Even
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
If they can’t do basic, physical security correctly, it kind of calls into question their broader approach? For example, I imagine it’s much easier to socially engineer yourself into other access once your inside the campus than from withou
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
I guess I’m not sure why we’re to believe that your perspective on the situation is somehow more valid or absent a similar “agenda” you ascribe to the journalist. The journalist spoke to the people involved who described their motivations (
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by 2bitmachine 8y ago
>There was a very small detail that was almost overlooked in the article- it seemed like they were planning on keeping their more senior engineers and fire their junior ones. This seemed pretty clear in the article? They tried to buy off