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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Ironic, considering Holme's father was VP at Enron...
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
> > If that's gone, I'm going to have a hard time not making the CCP my mortal enemy > Wouldn't be a bad choice, regardless of what happens with Steam. I can't tell if this is an ideological thing or not. There&
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
>But honestly, GGP replying with a one word answer "Capitalism" and to paraphrase your reply >"The system has brainwashed you" does no one here any good. Please expound on what system you would like to see implemen
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Is it not a little pessimistic (and not to mention, very convenient for the ruling class) to believe that we've reached the peak process of resource allocation and community building in the western world of 2021? There is no possibilit
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Seriously? How can you have a 'neutral take' on Julius Evola? Do you want Wikipedia to make a neutral take on the literary merit of the Turner Diaries? Some things cannot be expressed or explained without political language or ter
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
I agree, I was very confused how the Grosskreutz testimony was so incredible. It was obvious from the video. Should the state have even pursued that charge? Probably not, but that has nothing to do with that testimony blowing anyone away.
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
And who exactly would be making sure companies didn't sell dangerous snake oils as harmless? How can someone know what's in it if no one is testing medicines or enforcing some set of standards?
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
This is the single most hacker news comment I have ever read
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
This is why using the timed messages feature is important if you really want privacy.
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
That was a crazy story to read. Sounds a little North Korean-esque.
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, but I think it's intellectually dishonest to claim we can't engage with the ideas of Marx because of the history of the 20th century communist revolutions. Revolutions themselves tend towards thing
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
What if we are already living in a time where rich Western countries could experience post-scarcity if we just allocated resources and priorities differently? If we're not there yet, what do we do when we are? To me socialism is just a
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Remember not a single of the Communist experiments of the 20th century started as already democratic, Western style societies. Russia and China were not developed countries prior to communism. They didn't have what we would consider th
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
I could just as easily say 'under capitalism, you are presented with the illusion of democratic choice at the ballot, but in reality the constituency of our elected officials is mainly the capital-owning class' But that's not
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
>Hacker News is turning into a place where, especially for discussion of "popular" programming languages, the commenters seem to be largely those who don't have a solid foundation in the specific topic that's being di
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
First time I've ever heard of this (always preferred Heinlein to Asimov) and I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately drew connections to Historical Materialism and Marx.
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
This is not only the territory of dubiously useful counterfactuals, but also doesn't square with the actual history of the day. Some of the faults I see with this way of thinking: A. The pieces of modern 'combined arms' force
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Respect that you are all about that grindset for your product in this thread, but it's also a little insane that you need a third party tool to make sense of what's going on in AWS. I'm a bit of a GCP fan, and while it's
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
I've never heard of Craft, but it seems to be a Mac thing? One of the best parts of Notion is it a actually works pretty well on every platform. So that's not very helpful.
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with wanting to collect money from accidents. That's not very reliable revenue anyways. That's just an unfortunate side effect for us plebs. The real reason is that if you give companies a
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
How can you look at the history of the British trade companies and not see how intertwined imperialism and what we today call 'finance' are?
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
It has been noticed that resource rich countries in Africa actually do worse on average than those without. There's a lot of theories as to why: a common one is that it leads to brittle economies with all their eggs in one basket. If y
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
All the countries doing well today either were historically imperial, ie., most of Europe, America, Japan, China, Russia, or were or are now connected to imperial countries as 'allies' like South Korea. Any remaining difference is
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Thinking that's ok cause you're saying it to a bad person is some... high levels of mental gymnastics
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Have you ever considered that the profit motive might be responsible for leading all companies to act unethically? In the future, it's a good reason never to trust them.
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
> Post modernist retort kudos That's not what post modernism is
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Does every single one of these things not already apply to regular business scenarios? Dealing with people who get ahead by playing the people game is already a thing. As is seeing the sometimes incompetent get promoted. As to having a seco
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
This is the most hacker news comment I've ever read on hacker news
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
Almost like we live within a certain economic system engineered to alienate us from our own sense of self that can convince people to squeeze every last drop of their own personal value out for the hope of not having to continue to scrape b
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by 7sidedmarble 5y ago
>wants to revolutionize the entire system of centralized currency >can't see any reason why you'd want to challenge the existing distribution of that currency

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