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by andrenth 8y ago
The term “dictatorship of the proletariat” is not a coincidence.
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by andrenth 8y ago
In theory? Maybe. In the real world those traits have been present every time.
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by andrenth 8y ago
No, price controls are always counterproductive, but they don’t automatically make a country communist. I never said they did. In fact I never used the word communist in this discussion until now. Venezuela is socialist because it combines
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by andrenth 8y ago
Are you being purposefully dense? I’m not talking about isolated price controls in a few products. I’m talking about generalized price controls that cause shortages and hunger. I’m talking about going to jail for trying to sell food above t
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by andrenth 8y ago
“Giving it to the people” is code for government ownership.
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by andrenth 8y ago
It’s nothing like Norway, no matter how many smiley faces you put over the citizens killed by the Venezuelan government. Price controls are a socialist measure. Name a country that has impelemented Venezuela-style price control, where busin
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by andrenth 8y ago
I’m not sure his policy is “idiotic” in the sense that he just made mistakes running the country. This is history repeating itself for the nth time, so it can’t be a “mistake”. This is in fact socialism working as designed. Maduro and the r
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by andrenth 8y ago
Venezuela has a totalitarian government who nationalized industries and implemented heavy price controls, putting those who don’t comply in jail (or to death by government militia). I can’t imagine how this could even be compared to market
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by andrenth 8y ago
Could you provide some links?
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by andrenth 8y ago
Would you be open to exploring the idea that natural monopolies are in fact anything but natural, being instead a result of government intervention?
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by andrenth 8y ago
While in theory that’s true, Venezuela also has strong government-imposed price controls backed by a violent militia.
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by andrenth 8y ago
What’s the definition of markets being appropriate, and what’s your course of action when you decide they ceased to be?
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by andrenth 8y ago
> You are arguing against perhaps the most dominant notion of config best practices in the modern era I don’t know that it’s “dominant”, nor that it’s good merely because it’s “from the modern era”. But even if all that is true, 12 facto
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by andrenth 8y ago
If you think there’s a risk of comments becoming outdated in a config file, then the risk of it becoming outdated in a separate place seems even higher. Configuration via environment variables is as far from best practice as I can imagine.
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by andrenth 8y ago
Take Apache or Postfix, for example, which are configured via possibly complex configuration files and not a “web API”. It is definely useful to have comments explaining configurations. For example, “here we deviated from the default for su
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by andrenth 8y ago
I think HCL (Hashicorp Configuration Language) reads much better than TOML when there are nested sections in the config file.
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by andrenth 8y ago
Do you expect a systems administrator to be familiar with the source of every software he maintains?
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by andrenth 8y ago
Do you also drive home afterwards?
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Harry Potter and the Reason to Read Another Book(spectator.org)
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by andrenth 8y ago
I see, I misunderstood then.
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by andrenth 8y ago
You wondered about the USSR. I was replying to that.
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by andrenth 8y ago
We can unquestionably say that communism has destroyed people and places.
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Journalism Is Not Activism(quillette.com)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Robots do not destroy employment, politicians do(dlacalle.com)
2 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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Political Moderates Are Lying(quillette.com)
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by andrenth 8y ago
Brendan Eich and James Damore, just off the top of my head.
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The United Nations Report on American Poverty Is Just Plain Wrong(fee.org)
3 points by andrenth 8y ago|3 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
Tech has enough word salad already, no need for Foucault.
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Notes from an Academic Paper Mill(quillette.com)
1 points by andrenth 8y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 8y ago
This should be eye-opening to a number of Europeans here on HN who, in the GDPR debate, basically dismissed any possible negative implications of the law by trusting their politicians and basically saying “we don’t have to worry because thi

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