AntiImperialist

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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
The problem is most people don't have those perspectives. Their beliefs don't come from their life experience or that of their family handed down to them. It comes from marketing material. Therefore they're highly inconsisten
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I feel the whole "species conservation" thing is very myopic and misguided. Whatever species or distribution we have today is very different from that 10k years ago or 100k years ago or 1m years ago 100m years ago. This has been g
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Not very interesting but it's definitely the Samsung Note 20 Ultra.
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When I put: - "The Sovereign Individual" by James D. Davidson - "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" by Harry Browne I got suggested The Bible NIV and a bunch of other Christian books. Is it trying to tell me that th
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Maybe you tried it when it was down? I put "The Selfish Gene" and "The Demon-Haunted World" and I got "Women, Race and Class" by Angela Davis and "The Feynman Lectures".
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
> There are people who believe this stuff as firmly as I believe the complete opposite. If you asked them, they say, with absolute conviction, that I'm nuts. How might that happen? What if they're right? What could I have misse
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
>Conservatives wish to conserve the “traditional way” of thinking, living, and organizing society while liberals want to “liberate” humans from the those “traditional” ways. Your statement is true but Democrats, who call themselves liber
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
They are as different as two sides can be in a political scale.
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Well, most HN commenters have found success one way: by being a wage slave in one of the tech giants. You should not take any advice from them. If you are safely doing that while pondering how to start a side thing without taking any risk o
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
What? Since when does a Hyundai car, Windows computers or Seiko watches have ads? Those are not the categories of things where ads are tolerated. That's not what the previous commenter was talking about at all. Some platforms and servi
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Those risks are overrated. It's more likely that the security flaws are patched quickly in Wordpress. Whatever else you'll use, you'll be just as dependent on that. Wordpress is very performant if you optimize it for that. Th
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Just because you see scammers doesn't mean Facebook doesn't do anything. It's just too easy and too lucrative for many more scammers. There are reports of legitimate businesses being taken down by Facebook all the time. So wh
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Most people in the world do not have adequate furniture or well-built houses. If we provide people that by cutting down trees, at least that much carbon remains trapped in them. The new trees thus planted will suck up more carbon. We'v
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
It's more like calling the police because a kid stole a berry from the neighbor's garden... except imagine that no matter how many berries the kid takes, there will be the same exact amount there... and the berry is in the nearby
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
First of all, it doesn't suck. As someone who started the Software Dev career in the freelancing websites you mention, I can tell you that the customers who are looking for the cheapest way to do things are getting that. Those who are
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
THIS! Facebook is always being grilled by politicians and the "news" because Wallstreet doesn't control Facebook, while they control politicians and the "news". Look at this story for example. Are there scammers in
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
I don't see the problem. Why do you care about someone pirating someone else's software... specially when the software being pirated is ancient video game roms which you can download from anywhere?
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Almost all of my shell scripts are made up of code-snippets copied from Stackoverflow.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
The news story seemed to close with a counter to the argument that the Biden family are Chinese assets i.e. https://mobile.twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/133621354154038... So, her intentions were not to go against
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The difference between the ones you listed and Assange is that Assange isn't a CIA asset.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
No, it is very likely that it won't backfire. If you look throughout history, for every anti-establishment movement that succeeds, they're are many many more that are curbed in various stages. History has selection bias which may
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
No, we don't always reach for Windows and macOS. Ubuntu LTS has served us well for decades. If you don't want drama, use software maintained by people who have a life and don't have time or energy for drama.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Canonical has microk8s, which you can install as a snap package. Super simple and works great.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Except Google has 4 million customers. If 1% of their customers made a 75k mistake, they make 3 billion dollars.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
>Bad will and using gym membership tactics aren't how they scale or make money. Except they do that with their actions. >Cutting your service off when your over the limit is an incredibly complex set of edge conditions. Sure! But
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Meh! You assume that a "Software Engineer" doesn't already solve domain specific problem in whatever domain or organization they're in. bE a "prOdUcT eNgiNeEr" bEcAUsE a "sOfTwaRe EngInEeR" iS aN iDiO
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
That would be a terrible strategy. Imagine how many people who have only used Facebook messenger between them are switching to another messaging platform now; some of them may like the alternative better.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Do you have the Bose HD 700s? They are terrible indeed.
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
So, out of all these big tech companies, Facebook is the monopoly? Not Google with search? Not Apple with their App Store? Facebook, a company whose products you could completely ignore and not even notice you're missing anything?
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by AntiImperialist 6y ago
I read 136% of what I'd set out to (34, was set out to read 25). Here are the best ones: - Unsavory Truth by Marion Nestle - The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson - The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins - The New Confessi

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