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by PlzSnow 11y ago
"The rise of communism in China, although violent and of the state-socialist kind, also brought hundreds of millions out of poverty." Indeed, absolute world poverty has halved over the last 30 years because of state-socialism. O
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
Thanks for the link! Do you have a similar great and concise introduction to Nazism or other related extremist totalitarian ideologies?
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"That was state socialism, not a true communist society." Ah. the "No true Scotsman fallacy". It would be funny it it weren't for the countless millions of tortured and murdered women, children, peasants...
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
The communist ideology resulted in the torture/execution/starvation of, what, 100 million working-class people? People don't go about saying "I'm a fascist, let's give it another go, maybe it will work this tim
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
Most inequality in the UK is because rich people are getting much richer. But the poor people aren't getting poorer, they're getting richer too. Standard of living for poor people has increased hugely over the last 50 years.
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
I think Discourse is an over-engineered catastrophe, a prime example of highly-skilled technical people unable to make business decisions. As the author says, this a web-forum software, all it is doing is displaying some text on a page and
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
On my Macbook the swipe to zoom in/out works beautifully well.
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
OK here goes, slightly OT. The name StackExchange is hands-down the worst name I have encountered for a Top100 website. It is absurdly bad. I remember them discussing it on the StackOverflow podcast. What were they thinking? It is a mainstr
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
My jaw actually dropped when they said "they used a programming language called Haskell." Were all my prejudices against the business practicality of functional languages wrong? Nope. "Biilmann no longer uses Haskell. It’s no
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
The 30% decline mirrors my behavior and certainly that of my friends. Anecdotal I know. Increased time spent watching streaming video, especially "let's play" gaming type videos/eSports. Blaming in-game-purchasing is a r
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
It's not true. Reasons for the decline are that people are using their mobile devices for other things. Read the article.
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
Perhaps the UN privacy chief should actually read 1984, then he would realise how silly he sounds.
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absurd nonsense
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
edgy stuff
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by PlzSnow 11y ago
These "immersive" stories will disappear once the realization that the ROI on them doesn't work. Expensive to create, but no income generated because no-one reads them because they are annoying. The only companies left using
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
It's also how I feel about the RT-watching population of the US.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
For what you describe, perhaps an Excel spreadsheet would be best. Although if you're just looking at learning how to CRUD, then it's a good learning exercise.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
Amazon Cloud Drive is useless because it has no synchronization. You need to manually upload and download files whenever they change. Useless!
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Ask HN: Settle this simple elegant vs. readable disagreement
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
NO! I investigated nootropics extensively. If you want to know the fruits of my research: * anything that "works" has a very pronounced psychoactive effect on the brain. Which is scary in the long-term. * by far the biggest cognit
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But that means the technology is being chosen to suit the developer, and not the end-user.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
Why have "acceptable" performance, when I can have "stunning" performance (Sublime Text). I am a professional, and my tools should reflect this.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
These "immersive" stories will disappear once the realization that the RIO on them doesn't work. Who actually sits down and passively consumes media in this half passive/half active way? The only companies left using the
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
I understand the social justice thrust of your argument, and I understand the political narrative that wishes to categorize this as "execution". Unfortunately no-one really agrees apart from your fellow-travellers on the extreme-l
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
This is your argument? If I think Greenwald/Socialist Worker are absurd extremes of opinion, then I must be a neocon? That is the black/white logic of a toddler or Disney movie.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
"Real mystery where that came from." I hope you're not saying I'm one of them/a spook/lizardman. Because I really like this website and it depresses me that it's slowly being infected with the conspiracy
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
It's not up to the person arguing the status quo to prove the status quo. It's up to person with the extraordinary theory to provide the extraordinary evidence.
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If the only people agreeing with you are Glenn Greenwald, Socialist Worker and Esquire, then maybe your argument has a problem.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
It fits the definition of "combat" used by almost everyone. And basically no-one would define it as "execution". So there's your problem there.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
Your definition of execution would not be recognised by any sensible person or institution.

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