ElevenLathe

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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
(IANA scholar, but I play one on the internet.) No, Weber is not the current state-of-the-art, but you can see how was a bit suspicious (given the evidence that Weber was working with) that the Reformation and the first meaningful economic
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
There have historically been obstacles and countervailing forces preventing accumulation to get to the point it is now. The classical example is labor organizing, which has been decimated in the last few decades, but that is just one sympto
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
Why not?
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
Re-concentrating fertilizer from runoff sounds like an energy-intensive activity. Why wouldn't cheap wind power make it easier?
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
I personally love the Quake 1 sky textures. It's possible to have a stylized sky in a game that looks good.
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
Yeah I mean Marx himself lived in a world where the aristocracy was still a going concern. Still, management is fundamentally aligned with ownership. If anything, the dynamic you're citing (line workers being promoted into the lower ru
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
Being promoted to management doesn't make you not management, if I'm understanding what you're saying. That's how most (middle) managers are minted in every industry I'm aware of: promoting line workers. That does
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
Americans' political education has been deliberately hobbled. An educated person (let alone a journalist) in most of the rest of the developed world (and lots of the developing world) would know instinctively not to call an executive a
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
This is exactly what "defund the police" is (IMO) trying to say. The justice system (really it extends to the courts, the law itself, etc.) we have is corrupt. To really solve the problem that currently-existing policing purports
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
Our alert was for exceeding $300...by several hundred billion dollars.
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
Between the morning/evening news, a sports game or TV movie, reading the newspaper, and a bit of novel reading, my parents in the 90s were just as physically-available-but-in-their-own-world as somebody scrolling TikTok for 4-5 hours a
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
> But it also stands to ask, why isn't the bridge being constantly targeted? What factors are weighing ukrainian decisionmaking to not simply strike the hell out of this bridge until it falls? This is a spitball, but there are sever
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
You're explaining that you think you do a good job of spotting the fakers. How would you know if you weren't? And anyway, the fakers (approximately everyone) don't have a choice but to be fakers, since the truth (I want thi
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
Right, it's game of pretending that you sincerely desire these things. They don't want a faker, they want a true believer, and they have plenty of skillful people like you to use as tools to suss out who is and who isn't. To
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by ElevenLathe 3mo ago
The advice can be generalized even more. When communicating with an employer or potential employer: -> Subordinate yourself to the desires of capital in all areas. -> Suppress the self. -> Become a true human resource. You are seek
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
Your morality is pretty strange if it equates ignoring some of the more odious terms in a hundred-page click-through EULA to knowingly engaging in wage theft. I would honestly like to hear you explain that further.
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
The universal service obligation is not that they have to provide home delivery for everyone, but that they can't close your podunk post office and make life even more hellish for the the 12 households that rely on it that it already i
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
Most extremely rural areas don't have home delivery and never have. It's been this way for literally centuries.
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
I was more alluding to potential for a Neo 80 Years' War (or else a Neo War of Spanish Succession).
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
The two nations have a bit of history.
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
Thank you for pointing me to Linda -- fascinating and my mind is popping with fun projects related to this model. It actually seems quite spiritually similar to "Bank Python" ( https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.ht
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
I felt this way for years until I decided (for fun) to work through the extremely excellent and recommended Pharo "MOOC" ( https://mooc.pharo.org/ ) to learn Smalltalk. I'm now OO pilled and feel it has reall
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
I don't know why it's so hard to believe. It's well established that people say (and do) very nasty stuff when under stress (see: war). It's also well established that people with power tend to minimize the distress of t
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
I think there is a good chance that this is the AI lobby discovering a trick they can use to paper over lack of capacity by using their bought-and-paid-for influence on the Trump admin (not to be partisan: they've bought plenty of Demo
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
Artists and craftspeople have a problem: How to do my art/craft while still having a comfortable home, food, healthcare, transportation, etc.? Historically one way was to produce commercial art. Let's say you're a trumpet pla
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
The bigger problem I have as a worker is that, once I externalize it (by writing a skill or whatever), it becomes a work-for-hire whose copyright is owned by my employer. Technically this is true of a few other things I do for work, like my
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
This attitude actually becomes the only viable strategy once you realize that the majority of the economy in the majority of the world is connected in some way with some kind of graft. Even honest salt-of-the-earth sewer workers or somethin
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
This, but for everything: industrial modernity, pizza, jazz, and in general nearly all music and culture of note (it's true that some high culture is actually good, though it oftentimes is a thin rebadge of something working people had
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
Thanks for this. I'm past the edit window now, but both ways felt wrong and I just picked one. I suppose "western Texas" and "eastern Texas" is what I should have written to avoid the problem.
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by ElevenLathe 4mo ago
Right, shipping finished lumber is cheaper (per dollar of value) than shipping logs. That's exactly my point, but the lumber is bits and the electricity is the logs. A datacenter is a mill for turning electricity into bits!

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