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by bergstromm466 6y ago
I implore anyone to check out ‘Trade is War’ by Yash Tandon: “ Globalization has reduced many aspects of modern life to little more than commodities controlled by multinational corporations. Everything, from land and water to health and hum
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Please stop normalizing racism.
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It doesn’t lead to it, the capabilities to do so were already there, it’s just being activated more.
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Yes, this is the grandiose technocratic elite who believe they can save the world. A bit exaggerated, but I find these kinds of comments scary, misguided and naive, as well as very revealing of the underlying ideologies and oversimplified &
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Tbh this is mostly because of the plunder of the commons. There are monopolistic corporate enclosures all around, embedded in a globalized 'free market' neo-liberal system which has given rise to the most unequitable system to hav
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Yes, but books become well-known because they describe the general undercurrent of a cultural mood in a certain era, what Carl Jung called the 'collective unconscious'. Many people identify with the writing of an author because it
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Companies shouldn't be encouraging employees to be political Yet the very act of any type of business dealing is inherently political. To deny that is to misunderstand the word itself. It's a shame that people have weaponized
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm convinced we've just taken the industrial age economic and banking system and copied it into the digital age, but we haven't accounted for the near-zero marginal cost of information creation, storage
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Honestly, i think Rails is underrated. Most bootcamps still teach it. It's a great framework for getting results fast, with a posibility to push into different areas if interested.
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> This story [school boys stranded on Island] never happened. An English schoolmaster, William Golding, made up this story in 1951 – his novel Lord of the Flies would sell tens of millions of copies, be translated into more than 30 langu
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
I hear you brother/sister. I honestly believe, the people with these arguments have never experienced any hardships - which mean they can't understand the ruthlessness of their arguments. So ingrained are they in the Cultural Hege
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> I've determined that the things I cannot change are human nature This line of argument scares me, because we are so unaware of how human made our problems are. "Money is like an iron ring we've put through our noses. We&
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> an increasing percentage of the taxed income is derived from rents Yes, thank you for making the link clearer.
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Favourable (read ‘low’) tax rates for the propertied classes, as well as the neo-liberal nation-state’s tax cuts, are ribbon wrapped gifts
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Yeah ok. I think you will keep scapegoating these other ‘evil’ ‘no-defence‘ people, until you yourself are on the receiving end of systemic inequity - or systemic failure - at some point and that’s when the penny will drop...
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Poor Zoom, first they were scapegoated due to the whole industry’s overuse, or faulty use, of the term ‘end-to-end encryption’ (especially if we believe Snowden’s claims in his latest book that portrays corporate cloud computing as a way f
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Effectively influencing people's behavior Would a more constructive way to describe this be: 'helping people to grow'? To me 'influencing' sounds covert and without consent. They would also personally benefit f
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> a completely separate processor; think of it as a small CPU hidden next to the main CPU Damn that seems a sneaky strategy by Intel, especially since they retain the master key. So are all these big chipset manufacturers selling chips w
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Usually, snark remarks like "really?" mean that all venues for learning are excluded. Why would someone step in to teach in this case? Text does not translate intention well... It was a 'really?' filled with curiosi
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> indicates that you haven't read much about Intel ME :/ I wrote in my comment: > I already know a little about Intel ME and proprietary silicon So yes this is true, I know only 'a little'. I have only understood t
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by bergstromm466 7y ago
So let's go with option 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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by bergstromm466 7y ago
Completely agree. For anyone who hasn’t come across it, check out the exciting work being done by developers of the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol: “Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-host
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by bergstromm466 7y ago
Ok you might want to watch this short documentary. Your fun 'pirated' games and software with 'better support' might cost you dearly when your daughter or your girlfriend/wife gets filmed by a hacker, using your own
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by bergstromm466 7y ago
“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.” - Francis Weller