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by dbingham 9y ago
Because with large amounts of money comes enormous power -- especially in a mostly unregulated free market system. Power to influence the political conversation through media. Power to directly influence law makers through lobbyists and d
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by dbingham 9y ago
Or they could, you know, design the thing so that the battery is replaceable and provide easily accessible replacement batteries.
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by dbingham 9y ago
As a shortcut for those of us who don't have the time to really dig into this right now, could those of you have dug into it answer one question? Is this credible and well sourced?
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by dbingham 9y ago
Cheers! Another good book, more about the practical realities of creating a worker co-op in the current context, is Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place by John Abrams[1]. It's more a story a
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by dbingham 9y ago
Worker co-ops in and of themselves aren't a novel idea. Universally replacing the stock corporation (thus doing away with the mechanism of equity financing) in favor of worker co-ops is an idea that seems to be largely absent from our
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by dbingham 9y ago
> It's hard to have big business without big government. The internet provides the perfect counter example to this. It was (and remains) nearly entirely unregulated. And yet Google and Facebook are monsters with immense anti-compe
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by dbingham 9y ago
Have you come across [Local Harvest]( https://www.localharvest.org ) before? That might be a good data source, at least for what farms exist where. I don't know if they collect data on what farms actually grow. But I empath
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by dbingham 9y ago
I'm not the one who makes those decisions, but I'll pass the question up the chain!
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by dbingham 9y ago
Neat! But you've got some work to do to get the data in there. I put in my Southern Indiana zip code and got 12 results back. Only one was actually anywhere near my zipcode (or even in my state). The rest were anywhere from 200 - 50
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by dbingham 9y ago
Computer modeling suggests climate change might just do it though. The disruptions that come from it would only continue to become more extreme post-collapse -- and our ability to quickly adjust in such a way as to reduce them would be des
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by dbingham 9y ago
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by dbingham 9y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Jackie and I think there's something to this. I adored his movies when I was a kid, even his more violent ones, and still do to this day. I just think it's not fair or true to paint all of his movi
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by dbingham 9y ago
Yeah, puranjay needs to go rewatch some of Jackie's early movies again. A lot of Jackie's later movies -- and maybe the ones puranjay is remembering -- explicitly were kids movies. But many of his earlier ones definitely were
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by dbingham 9y ago
Yeah, to be fair, half the stuff posted (and often voted up) on HN is blog posts that are thinly veiled content marketing. Plus, it can get exhausting to write the same argument over and over again. Half the reason I write on my blog or on
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by dbingham 9y ago
Yep. I used to be an avid MUME ( http://mume.org/ ) player with a big group of friends. I learned to code by creating a clone called MEM :D . Mume's still around. I've been indulging in a little memory lane playi
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by dbingham 9y ago
Yeah, the administration is not "liberal ivory tower academics". The administration tend to be conservative business folks forever at odds with the university's faculty.
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by dbingham 9y ago
Everyone had an agenda of some kind. Whether conscious or unconscious everyone has their own opinions and belief systems which color their perceptions of the world. That includes their perceptions of hard data. There's no such thing
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by dbingham 9y ago
The diets themselves are minor snake oil. When you look at the full evidence, few of the various diets really have any benefit over the others: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/science-
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by dbingham 9y ago
I agree, I really hated the fact that you could only try things out in exactly the ways prescribed. It makes sense, if you're writing a tutorial like that in javascript in the browser, you don't want to just rewrite Vim. But it
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by dbingham 9y ago
Ceros ( http://ceros.com ) | Full Stack Developer (Security background) | New York, NY | Remote | Full Time Ceros is the world's leading collaborative design platform. Our users work collaboratively in real-time on a browser-
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by dbingham 9y ago
Do we really need more of an argument than "multi-planet species"? And in the case that "multi-planet species" is the goal, is there a better target? I'm not aware of one.
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by dbingham 9y ago
I like the term precisely because it causes that double take moment that catches people's attention. It's not actually an oxymoron when you more carefully examine it. Socialism just dictates that the workers own the product of th
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by dbingham 9y ago
I would broadly agree with this approach, but it's important to recognize that many of those advocating the Antifa violent approach take that approach from a considered position having carefully studied the history of the Nazi's r
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by dbingham 9y ago
There's a strong counter argument that examines the history of the Nazi's initial rise to power and points out that they started very small, unfunded, unsupported and were able to gain power shockingly quickly. This is the basis
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by dbingham 9y ago
Well, to offer one clear example of harm, we have Nazis openly marching in the streets and arguing for racial cleansing of the US. As someone of Jewish decent, I find that pretty directly threatening. Given where those arguments have lead
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by dbingham 9y ago
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by dbingham 9y ago
You could also call it "Free Market Socialism" which is my person favorite term for it. Although "Democratic Economy" is also apt.
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by dbingham 9y ago
The Next System Project is a similar think tank doing a lot of investigation into what this idea (and others) look like when implemented on the scale of a whole economy. https://thenextsystem.org/
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by dbingham 9y ago
That's exactly what he(or she) is criticizing.

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