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by CrackerNews 3y ago
Countries like NK view foreign aid with skepticism over possible espionage, unfortunately.
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by CrackerNews 3y ago
I remembering reading about a 90 degree FOV which if true, will limit its use for AR and wearing it all the time. The Glasshole style remarks probably won't go away with the Vision Pro either. Not to mention the potential of being robb
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This could end up being like the Post-PC paradigm that the iPad was supposed to herald in. My last experience with the iPad a couple years ago was mostly interacting with iPhone apps with few iPad apps fully taking advantage of the platform
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My question is how easily portable a laptop experience is to Vision Pro? At the very least you might have to be tethered to a Mac, and that seems like barely scratching the surface compared to porting iPad apps to visionOS.
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Arguing about surveillance oppression Olympics in who has it worst and downvoting each other over it is like missing the forest for the trees.
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An opaque process of secret courts with secret decisions may be different legally, but in spirit it does not seem that significantly different to me in terms of preventing overreach and abuse.
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The difference is more like the US is held by corporate business interests while China is under firm control by the Party. They both however end up having opaque government apparatuses for surveillance and control (with differing characteri
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by CrackerNews 3y ago
To me, it appears that Glenn Greenwald is calling out the politicization/weaponization of trans rights by powerful political and corporate interests. This is where he finds a common footing with the fringe right and gives pause to peop
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On the flip side, capitalism can enable greed to a global level never before seen, and communism (as in communist states as opposed to "True Communism") can enforce a level of fairness given the limited resources. The former can d
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Prioritizing profits is a part of capitalism. Capitalism is simply the private ownership of the means of production, but the interests of the capital owner are to use capital to accumulate wealth, which leads to exploitation of labor being
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East Germany has continued being economically weaker than the West, which would make them more prone to more radical ideologies in the absence of the prior far-left one. If anything, a historical gradualist Deng Xiaoping figure would mean a
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I agree. People confuse imperialism with Nazism too easily. It's not necessarily that society is controlled by Nazis, but that imperialism is considered (by Lenin) as the highest stage of an economic system driven by the continual grow
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I don't know how much spite is behind a complete communication breakdown between the founder and the team that joined him. The founder felt unhappy about working with his team and ceased all communication. The team felt concerned about
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I would like to know more about the Signal issue too. If these issues are that much of a concern, then perhaps they could be brought up. Privacy Guides seems transparent about the discussions they have behind their decisions, unless I am mi
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It's the "intellectual junk food" behind the USSR and China turning from backwards peasant conditions to rival global powers. Orthodox Marxist theory States that society must be advanced enough to reach a socialist phase. The
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At this point it's about a desire for rational economic planning versus a capitalist system that they view as increasingly incapable of addressing broader 21st century problems such as climate change.
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by CrackerNews 4y ago
The ideological stupidities were motivated by the goal of economic development. Stalin thought kulaks' economic interests were holding back the centralizing industrialization of agriculture through collectivization. Mao wanted to move
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by CrackerNews 4y ago
The goals of communism are to resolve class contradictions, which "naturally" happened in the case of feudalism ending. Communist states attempt to accelerate and resolve them through stages. This is where they can seem "unna
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by CrackerNews 4y ago
The political system was democratic centralism where there are levels of indirect democracy starting from the local levels of factories and villages, which elect up to a legislature, which elects an executive top command. Power is indirect
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If you really want to get into details, it's Marxist-Leninism. Much of the Soviet-style political system came from Leninist theories of achieving Marxist goals. Lenin said it himself, it's state capitalism. (Stalin then called his
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by CrackerNews 4y ago
In the USSR and China, the large scale deaths were linked to failures during economic development. Despite the failures, there were improvements in quality of life. (The CIA factbook about USSR nutrition being on par or better than the West
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Part of Mao's enduring legacy was his concept of the party line adapting to the will of the masses, and the sparrow extermination campaign was a failure in adapting the party line to this farmer discontent too well. Mao did change Chin
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While there are dangers to bad top-down management, the criticisms laid out in this thread can still apply to the CPC and Chinese mainland society today, but they don't suffer from famines on the same level anymore. I don't think
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It would come down to the law to dictate who has the final say in sending someone to a hospital. Or else the people making the decision they shouldn't be making open themselves up to being subject to legal punishment. (Which opens up a
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I'm assuming low levels of trust and being scared that they could be next.
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There's also a "Marxist-Leninist society" where it is a transitional one to socialism and communism like the USSR and China.
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To make a long complicated story short, Marxism is the study of how class contradictions resolve themselves. Using Hegelian dialectics, it poses different classes against each other and theorizes what the synthesis would become. It could be
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I have an issue with that sentiment because people do not directly vote for policies. They indirectly vote for a representative to enact policies, and the viable ones are backed by mass party apparatuses. Here, the Party's interests ov
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Why not both? The governance could be horrible because its serving the political philosophy of the resident unequally rich to assuage their guilt over their unequal position in society while keeping their unequal position.
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California would be "I got mine, but we can make things more fair for you by lowering your standards and giving you measly benefits so the feudal stratification is okay."

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