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by crispinb 7y ago
Yeah. Capitalism apologists now sound very much like the credulous lefties who made excuses for the Soviet Union's many catastrophes, long after it was manifestly a disaster. A benign idealist version might exist in some Platonic realm
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by crispinb 7y ago
Quite. I'm not remotely claiming that capitalism is the only system which collapses ecosystems. Plenty of civilisations did that locally millennia before global capitalism was conceived. As for what needs to come next, that's well
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by crispinb 7y ago
Quick reply as I have to dash back into the physical world! Grounds: - theoretical: economic 'growth' is (a) central to capitalism, and (b) identical to global entropy increase (decoupling is a faith-based myth). So-called 'g
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by crispinb 7y ago
On reflection I do agree on the ethics of it - if the authors have a defensible reason for using it, they should make full disclosure on first run. I've submitted a github issue to that effect. The pragmatics are still in favour of it
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by crispinb 7y ago
There is. It's incompatible with the continuing existence of a living planet. Naturally enough, a billionaire megaconsumer, having bought a moat intended to separate himself comprehensively from physical reality, isn't fussed. But
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by crispinb 7y ago
I know. I'm a diehard IntelliJ user, but I've been playing with the vscode remote development extension for wsl. Really very impressive.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I don’t see any reasons why would anyone install a terminal emulator built on top of a web browser, It's honestly been the least problematic option I've found on Windows. Everything else I've tried has had some issue som
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by crispinb 7y ago
Possibly true - I compiled it and it's a bit rough for daily use as yet. It will be a long time (if ever) before it will compare with iTerm2 or Terminator.
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by crispinb 7y ago
(c) is a fair point.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Sure, as I say it's improving. I had a bunch of problems I never fixed with cmder. Windows Terminal has definite promise. We'll see.
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by crispinb 7y ago
A user who can't flick a switch on a settings screen has bigger problems than google analytics.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> 100 MB for a terminal emulator? Silly on any Linux or on OS X. The available alternatives are too good, and not such a daft size. But it's a real contender on Windows where terminal apps are dire (if improving fast). > Google A
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by crispinb 7y ago
Absolutely - death cult is very apt.
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by crispinb 7y ago
The superstition that so-called 'economic growth' (which is actually not growth at all, but just a global entropy increase) can be decoupled from physical dismantling of ecosystems is a faith-based initiative of consumer-fundament
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by crispinb 7y ago
Consumer-fundamentalism is the most dangerous faith-based authoritarian system the world has yet seen.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I hope you're right. I really have my doubts, but have seen enough life not to be too confident in my predictions.
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by crispinb 7y ago
And now Labor is careening in the same pro-coal direction. Sad!
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by crispinb 7y ago
Sure, and there's the Extinction Rebellion stuff in the UK. Here in Australia we're kind of complacent/lazy, not often giving a stuff about anything except sports, celebrities, and limitless acquisition of consumer crap. But
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't know about the solutions - my view is that the die is cast. > My view is that climate change is a world problem That's undoubtedly true, and the fossil fuel companies clearly acknowledge this - their 30 year anti-scienc
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by crispinb 7y ago
Not news of course, but worth restating. Credulous 'scepticism' about the fundamentals of the climate collapse threat has been largely driven by corporate propaganda campaigns. Those campaigns were themselves constructed by people
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by crispinb 7y ago
Wow this is nasty stuff.
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's fascinating to see how many people jump apparently with little pause feet-first with their pet theories, about which they seem to have no doubt. And this is on HN, which is supposed to be a bastion of rationality. Folks, it's
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by crispinb 7y ago
The US on a large range of measures has never quite joined the ranks of the mainstream West. It has the largest GDP, sure, but with inequality rates approaching 3rd world levels, that wealth isn't sufficiently distributed to bring its
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by crispinb 7y ago
Opinion columnists are lazy unoriginal authoritarian dictator manques. Stop writing imperative mood headlines.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Right, sorry - I'm sure I'm not the first person to be humourless on the internet ;)
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by crispinb 7y ago
Yes well, that's real-world experience in spades - actually taking part in deposing a regime!
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by crispinb 7y ago
> The last thing I personally want to see is Go being handed over to the community to be designed by committee. There is a point about diversity to be made here. Different design models will each have their strengths and weaknesses, and
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by crispinb 7y ago
Same with Serbia's Otpor! IIRC there was a fair bit of criticism of them within Serbia for taking American (if not CIA?) funding, and who knows whether that specific act was the right decision. But the did get rid of Milosevic, remarka
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well I'll take you at your word that you're interested and 'not doubting' my story. But can you at least see why that isn't the impression I got from reading your comment? You even said you thought people were swaye
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by crispinb 7y ago
Actually you don't - I did give my reason for not committing to linux, despite in some ways preferring it, which is that it took up too much of my time to manage, compared to either macOS or Windows. What do you want, proof? Evidence t

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