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by bantunes 6y ago
Your failure to see past your preconceived notions in this is a bit baffling. > That is, for anarchism to work, you need people to simply "all get along". For current society to work, we all also have to get along, right? I wal
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by bantunes 6y ago
> The second you mentioned 'boomers', you mentioned what is very specifically an American phenomenon. I used boomer as a shorthand for "person rooted in the old ways" all over the world, not just US older citizens. &g
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by bantunes 6y ago
It doesn't work for everyone, no. But just like in 1800s Europe, when monarchists died off suddenly republics were obvious. I suspect much of the same will come to pass regarding systems of government tending towards anarchism and boom
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by bantunes 6y ago
Caving to marketing designed to make children nag their parents.
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by bantunes 6y ago
Precisely. Since colonies are seen as money makers, there's little point in having expenditures that don't further your bottom line back home.
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by bantunes 6y ago
In this context "extraction-oriented" means extraction to a foreign power, ie building roads to ports and disregarding all other infrastructure needs that do not further the exportation of raw materials and goods to imperial ports
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by bantunes 6y ago
That much is obvious, every country extracts their resources. In this context "extraction-oriented" means extraction to a foreign power, ie building roads to ports and disregarding all other infrastructure needs that do not furthe
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by bantunes 6y ago
You're right, but I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of scale once the Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Dutch joined the practice.
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by bantunes 6y ago
I recently heard about Benin and the British "punitive expedition" that looted the country in a Vox video, of all things, about the world's largest open crime scene - the British Museum https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by bantunes 6y ago
Well, for one, their infrastructure wouldn't be extraction-oriented. Right?
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by bantunes 6y ago
And yet we don't call what the Huns, Aztec, Chinese or Zulu did "colonialism" - why do you think that is, and does it change your point?
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by bantunes 6y ago
I did explicitly say "free from influence stirring internal conflicts", and in that regard Ethiopia has some history with Italy and communist regimes. I stand by my statement: they'd be better off left to their own fate. But
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by bantunes 6y ago
There's checking people using your libs downstream (which, admittedly, is quite hard to do) and there's not writing software for cruise missiles. > This can be used for good, or evil, but by whose standard? Your own. The oath i
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by bantunes 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply it was an European innovation.
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by bantunes 6y ago
This is hard to talk about, here's my take. To say that British colonialism was better in Nigeria than in Kenya, or than Belgian colonialism doesn't _really_ seem to support the thesis that "there were good things about Briti
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by bantunes 6y ago
The biggest hurdle for me with these tools is CSV import - banks are so crappy with them. If only we had a universal banking API system that all these tools could tap into. "Challenger" banks like Monzo and N26 and so on could uni
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by bantunes 6y ago
Maybe for you. The goal of Hypercard was to empower people that don't really think '.length' is easier.
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by bantunes 6y ago
I smell FUD.
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by bantunes 6y ago
Maybe people will start listening to degrowthers like Jason Hickel that advocate for a rethinking of our economical systems' reliance on infinite growth on a finite planet https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018&#x2
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by bantunes 6y ago
They forgot how to make great products. See Macbook keyboard debacle and TouchBar irrelevance, AirPod rattling debacle, cancelled AirPower, etc.
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by bantunes 6y ago
> Your job is to set aside all beliefs about what’s right or wrong and do the best job of executing a record of eye witness observations, quotations and facts that give a holistic view of every story. You're describing a robot. Peop
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by bantunes 6y ago
Do you get a lot of value from them?
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by bantunes 6y ago
The difference being you can't contract bad driving.
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by bantunes 6y ago
> A big problem is the the leftist politics of painting everything as social problems, instead of dealing with them as they are. I don't understand. If caste-based discrimination is not a social problem, what is it then?
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by bantunes 6y ago
Not only that, it will also step up ARM software quality in general, hopefully. Expect Rust and ARM versions of Linux to get much better in the short to medium term.
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by bantunes 6y ago
Am I the only one not surprised at all by this report?
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What were the other nails?
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by bantunes 6y ago
I hear he's 64, so this might not be a big deal for him going forward.
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by bantunes 6y ago
Really great reply, thanks for this!
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by bantunes 6y ago
> In the book "The Everything Store," Jeff Bezos mentions that the public tends to hate companies as they get bigger and that managing the company's image is very important. I meant "from a book citing Bezos".

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