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by door5 7y ago
> Is there any indication that people actually understand (and can mathematically demonstrate) how to fix this, or are all suggestions going to be based on economic or political ideologies? This is an engineer's mindset, but human s
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by door5 7y ago
Rent control prevents people who currently have homes from being displaced. It also limits the degree to which housing is a commodity investors can profit off of & the degree to which they can exploit their tenants. It is obviously not
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by door5 7y ago
> What I find most sad is that most of the people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they're benefiting from what they claim to despise. Dev
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by door5 7y ago
>You can't have the government report on the government and expect full independence - even if it is independent of the executive, you still need to fund it somehow, which is going to make it beholden to someone. And private media,
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by door5 7y ago
So get engaged and use your privilege to struggle for the rights of workers who have less privilege than you.
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by door5 7y ago
>Why stop with code? If code is always better in the open, then why not require all business communication in the open Sounds good to me, a kind of freedom of information act for private corporations.
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by door5 7y ago
>It sounds like you're arguing for a socialism model where a central authority decides how to use capital. You got it. A democratically controlled central authority representing the interests of working people instead of capital, ye
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by door5 7y ago
You're confusing the actions of yourself with the actions of multibillion-dollar institutions. Corporations are not people, they are massively powerful legal entities.
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by door5 7y ago
>This is fucking insane. It’s a terrible suggestion and you should feel terrible for having made it. It's actually a very good suggestion and I feel good about it. Another way of saying this is that intellectual property restriction
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by door5 7y ago
>When the licence itself and the mantra that goes with it are both hostile to business use, it’s no surprise business doesn’t get involved. Obviously, but that's because businesses act unethically -- ie, for private profit over publ
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by door5 7y ago
Also true.
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by door5 7y ago
True -- vastly expanding public housing, with the goal of eventually eliminating private housing. Housing should be a public good, not a commodity. Until then, rent control is a good way of minimizing the extent to which landlords exploit t
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by door5 7y ago
It's an issue that not everyone has access to this support, and whether or not any individual person does is random and dictated by birth
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by door5 8y ago
Sure it does. The OP assumed that piracy was bad and compared outline.com to piracy to attempt to argue it is bad. Their premise is false, because actually piracy rules and is good.
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by door5 8y ago
Both of those articles refer to journal articles if you are so inclined. My point is not that cell phone radiation is unsafe (it probably is safe), but that it's not an obviously resolved issue in the way that vaccine safety is.
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by door5 8y ago
The government can blockade roads and impound/boot your car. They also maintain roads. Many low-income people rely on public transit as their only transit option already. If your fear is that the government is going to turn against its
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by door5 8y ago
There's a lot of anti-cell phone radiation cranks, but to compare the research to anti-vaxxers is disingenuous. Mainstream publications have raised legitimate questions about it and the research is far from conclusive: https:/&#x
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by door5 8y ago
Find a business model that doesn't involve a paywall.
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by door5 8y ago
Yes that rules also. Information and technology should be free.
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by door5 8y ago
The conspiracy theory is "China is wholesale slaughtering political dissidents in order to harvest their organs". Questioning why claims by two researchers funded by the Falun Gong cult get uncritical attention from a Tory writing
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by door5 8y ago
Piracy actually rules
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by door5 8y ago
>Mr. Rogers is East Asia Team Leader at the human-rights organization CSW, deputy chairman of the U.K. Conservative Party’s Human Rights Commission Hm, I wonder what the political motives of the author are.
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by door5 8y ago
I condemn the rich who want to isolate their kids instead of working on a public school system accessible to all, yes. It's oddly transparent to limit your stats to white people.
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by door5 8y ago
>During the cold war, he also used to characterize 'capital democratization' as a third way, separate from capitalism and communism Decentralized workplace democracy was the model in Yugoslavia under communism and in much of Ch
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by door5 8y ago
This is pedantic. 10% is proportionally a very small number. I'm far more invested in the interests and priorities of 90% of people than of 10% of people.
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by door5 8y ago
Issues like distaster recovery should be handled by governments, not unaccountable private charities. The issue is that the U.S. has systematically destroyed Haiti's infrastructure for nearly a century and overthrown any leader that is
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by door5 8y ago
You're right, to some degree, public sector employees have stronger labor protections than private sector employees. However, we disagree in that I think these protections are a good thing, and I support nationalization where possible
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by door5 8y ago
Advocacy of a specific religion should not be part of a citizen's formal education. Private religious schools receive public funding and public accreditation, and they should not, nor should any other private school, for that matter.
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by door5 8y ago
Are you validating my point? Less than 1/4th of all children in one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in the country.
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by door5 8y ago
People rich enough to put their kids in private school are a tiny minority. It doesn't matter what they think. This is a working class movement for working class people.

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