LesZedCB

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by LesZedCB 11y ago
It's not that poor people are offended that apple makes fun of them for not buying their products. It's that we live in a world that systemically vilifies and denigrates poor people for not lifting themselves up by their bootstrap
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Your conclusion assumes that direct democracy tends to affect things that have little real impact on the humans voting on them. People don't take voting seriously because voting feels less like casting a vote, and more like buying a ra
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
presumably because it already has the panel editing features included.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
The author of Package Manager (wbond) is now working on sublime core, so there's at least one more person working on it. :)
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Orion really is quite impressive. I tried the improvement as well. Orion actually works.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I think renting land in any fashion is morally reprehensible. Though I don't fit in with much the neoliberal HN crowd as an anarchist communalist. Ownership should be restricted to the community of inhabitants of the land. The processe
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
yes, it's scary indeed.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
>is not accurate. From wikipedia on eminent domain: "The property may be taken either for government use or by delegation to third parties, who will devote it to public or civic use or, in some cases, to economic development."
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
It would be accompanied with democratic process of the people who currently use that land. If the community of land users decided it would not hurt them for whatever progress somebody else proposes, they would democratically decide among th
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
> land value tax comes from the idea nobody should be able to "own" land, you should rent land. When there's a more profitable use for your land than you are current exploiting, you must give the land up. The UK enjoys thi
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Well, it would have to be a better alternative than what we have now. Though I think the massive inequality globally and nationally is enough to say it needs to happen. I'm not sure what you mean by modern takes on democratic socialism
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FWIW, I would take the strong stance that it damn well should be.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Maybe it really is true that upholding our current economic structure is a violation of human rights? As Proudhon said, "Property is theft!"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft !
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I think it's just a criticism that health often are made with corporate interests in mind (see: the tobacco industry), which don't care about people's wellbeing, but rather about stock valuation.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I mean, i think most people might agree. it's the pricing that's pretty different though. :)
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Ah, it's because we have Freedom™ instead of ideology[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8ibrfXvpQ
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I think people get frustrated by salaries of others because people don't feel like they have power to contribute to the decision making process of how much any specific role should make. DemocracyAtWork [1] is an organization that help
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Betaflight is beta, so it has some nice features, but also can be a pain to deal with. I tend to stay on cleanflight. Features get merged in from betaflight eventually and I don't have to worry about broken builds.
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Music, Magic and Mayhem with Tesla Coil(youtube.com)
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ElectroBOOM has a cool video[1] on youtube talking about some of that! His videos are some of my favorite. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5E4NiP4hpM
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chmod +x plugin_name
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Every time I see this a get further down the list of examples that I understand. Unfortunately, I still don't make it very far before I'm lost.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Woah, hey, me too! Yeah, it's awesome to be able to meet other people and be excited by the prospect of new love. My partner and I have been dating for three years and transitioned to poly 2 years ago. It's been great for us both,
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I've also done the removable cable mod[1] on one of my pairs and it works great. I use them for both listening and gaming now because I can attach a cable with a boom mic on it, or I can switch it out for the stock cable for listening
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Pension funds (as far as I know, please correct me if I'm wrong) are financial instruments which are meant to be used for future consumption during retirement. They are not financial investments that are used to generate more capital.
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No, that's not the best you can do. What we can and should be doing is questioning the systemic inequalities and structures that cause poverty and wage dependence to exist in the first place. Whatever conclusion you come to, if you don
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Exactly. My partner hates it when I mention that I had a boring day with little interesting to work on, so I spent a couple hours reading reddit. Meanwhile she works in a fast-paced, no stopping, energy draining customer service managerial
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It's not bizarre. There is a long historical culture of criticism of capitalism. It's just been squashed in recent decades. I am a particularly privileged individual because I have a choice of what labor I can do, and even how muc
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What? Have you ever participated in a criticism of capitalism before? Capitalists are by definition people who own and profit from private property (which includes things like small businesses, large businesses, land that is rented out, etc
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I enjoy X, but 'working doing X' is infuriating. I would bet that most people feel this way. Maybe we should consider alternatives to wage labor that better meet the needs of people instead of the needs of the capitalists...

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