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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
For those unaware, parent comment is a pretty good layman’s version of Marshall McLuhan’s position. See: the concept of hot and cool media https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
It’s so appalling to me. Anything called a “timeline” that is not and cannot be ordered chronologically is going to lose me immediately, as Facebook did when they made that change.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
I expect the prompt is there to neg more than nag. I presume the only people who click “no” on the “Are you sure?” prompt are unsure as a result of the prompt itself. In other words, the role of the prompt is to make them second guess thems
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Neither of those events were recessions by most definitions. The .com bubble was very specific to one industry.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
That in itself would require a communist revolution.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
There are other options too. Land reform, for example, would not need to be any more violent than mass evictions.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
The state is always in service of the ruling class. This much is beyond evident in the U.S. as the semblance of democracy that took shape over the expansion of the American empire erodes. And regardless, you would have to have a democracy,
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
With smart planning, you could clean up the noodle bowl and take a piss in the same 10 minute chunk. And with enough practice you could have a few minutes to spare for something important to come up.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
This is awesome.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
He should, but he won’t.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Only in the sense that the concept of race was deployed to serve the ruling class. There is a wonderful book called Racecraft by Karen and Barbara Fields which lays out how this was achieved and how we got to where we are today. Highly re
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Bingo. Refreshing to come across this level of social awareness on Hacker News, which is not to put down Hacker News. I love it here. I just don’t expect to come across comments like this on here.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Another comment above almost came out and said it, but stopped short. Rich people simply want their own planet. This has nothing to do with ‘the human species.’ They have trashed Earth and they will need to keep doing so in order to keep in
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
And bless them they deserve it.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Ex 2nd camera assist here. Handing off a camera mid-shot just asking for failure. Almost any cost to avoid that is going to be worthwhile. There are some maneuvers that can work, like one person to some mounts. 2 people to a mount is usuall
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
There are certainly at least a thousand, and that’s probably a laughably low estimate. I can think of 10 right off the top of my head but you’ve never heard of them. I currently live in McDaniels, KY and it’s one. My bank is a 1 hour drive