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by etplayer 9y ago
>By indicating you want it and being a participant in the market for it. Does it count as being in the market if no exchange of money takes place? Is Github a market, for example? If not, this would seem to invalidate the idea at least w
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by etplayer 9y ago
Of course, of course, I forgot the actual question the post was about as I got far down into the thread. Thanks for your descriptions, I'll be checking out FP.
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by etplayer 9y ago
That's very strange for me to hear, considering the position of the author himself and some of the views espoused in the book. Though I shouldn't be saying that books ought to be restricted to certain ideological followers. As a C
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by etplayer 9y ago
>Foucault's Pendulum What's this about? >Critique of Pure Reason What did you find particular challenging to your worldview? As a side note, you may be interested in Critique of Pure Tolerance which has an essay by Robert
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by etplayer 9y ago
>Debt, the first 5,000 years - for understanding money and finance from the ground up For me it's nice to see this is being recommended even outside social anarchist/Communist circles.
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by etplayer 9y ago
> Marxism is unscientific and led some societies close to barbarism. Does Marxism claim to be scientific? If so, is that a deserved critique of it? Ice cream is also unscientific, as is capitalism. Marxism uses the dielectical method, no
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by etplayer 9y ago
>The vast majority of the academic work produced by people who employ this "philosophy of science" is in-falsifiable and never cited. Number of citations do not indicate or validate the worthiness of a piece of work. Do you not
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by etplayer 9y ago
I wouldn't say it's hubris as much as it's ignorance, dogmatic positivism, and scientism that tends to show itself here and there; I'd say it's more common among those who have made it their life course to be in sci
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by etplayer 9y ago
I would have expected something less dogmatic from Hume, himself a philosopher. The irony is that the Dialectic of Enlightenment is exactly about this kind of attitude spawned with the enlightenment and its relation to the old Greek mytho
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by etplayer 9y ago
Those are reasons not to automate, but they're not arguments against automation. If there is too much automation in an economy (across industries) then there are fewer people available to buy products that are being made. From a Marxia
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by etplayer 9y ago
Can someonebody please help me understand what this is? Is it software which Microsoft has included in Windows maliciously for such exploitation, or is it the fact that the CIA has identified a Windows exploit and taken advantage of it? Did
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by etplayer 9y ago
The unfortunate part about many works of political thought, particularly I think from German philosophy is that you need to have a significant amount of prerequisite knowledge, and this has been my case with the Frankfurt School in particul
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by etplayer 9y ago
Although the book is long, the essay which I pointed to, which is the most poignant to the point of American democracy, is the only the first one (which is 52 pages long). The second essay concerns the benefits of using science (this term u
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by etplayer 9y ago
There's an interesting essay about democracy in America (well, there are hundreds if not thousands probably) but what's unique is that it's a criticism levelled against the idea of democratic pluralism, and from where it emer
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by etplayer 9y ago
It would be cool if browsers could highlight URLs that contain the kind of characters which are commonly used to spoof, though I suppose it would lead people to a false sense of security.
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by etplayer 9y ago
Its simplicity is what I'm attracted to, and I think that's why I think Scheme is elegant too. It has less syntax than comparable languages, fewer keywords, a smaller standard library etc. I'm not sure if it makes the case fo
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by etplayer 9y ago
To me, C is honestly one of the most elegant languages there is, right next to Scheme.
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by etplayer 9y ago
That's precisely the point; we call the feudal system barbaric while it offers, at least in the respect he talks about, the same barbarism. However you are also right, the advancement of capitalism has brought many people to higher sta
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by etplayer 9y ago
Between Discogs and RateYourMusic there are plenty of rare albums there, with track listings etc. but there's stuff that I find which isn't on either of them, and I wonder what I could have found on what.cd, if I had an account, a
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by etplayer 9y ago
Yes there is such a requirement, at least for the majority of people. The quote at the bottom by Kropotkin places it into perspective; under the name of free contract, huge numbers of people, I must say the vast majority of people, must eit
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by etplayer 9y ago
I don't wish to excuse past totalitarian states, but the Communist hypothesis as Badiou writes is much broader than totalitarian forms of government; it is the job of modern day Marxists to consider why it happens and how to preven
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by etplayer 9y ago
I think there should be a distinction made between "Free trade" and "free trade", the former being what can be seen in a capitalist economy - not the free association of people, but the requirement of some people (work
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by etplayer 9y ago
It would be nice if they did so, but I know better than to expect such a profound criticism from a bourgeois paper.
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by etplayer 9y ago
Ah, capitalism. Who wants the free association of individual producers as labourers when you can have wage labour and the cycle of capital crisis in a commodity economy backed up by the State acting on behalf of the property owners for the
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by etplayer 9y ago
I don't mean to disparage your content or get into an argument over the 'worth' of an infinitely reproducible good, or even the labour theory of value - but is your content really 'worth' $10 if such a small number
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by etplayer 9y ago
I don't; the fact that life is unfair doesn't mean we shouldn't push for better conditions, and in fact, this is the entire reason why we live so long, have worker rights, etc.
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by etplayer 9y ago
I've been rather worried about the state of parallelism or concurrency in Ocaml, two conecpts which I have little understanding of, but the rumours of the insufficiency in support in the Ocaml compiler/interpreter have offput me f
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by etplayer 9y ago
I might agree with you if we were in a world in which there is little cost to provide lots of high quality information, or maintain a digital library etc. I think it's needlessly dismissive to say that a website deserves to die just
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by etplayer 9y ago
Slightly off topic, but I find the implication made in the image you linked that Google, a company which profits via wage labour, which owns property, is a "Communist" organisation to be absolutely hilarious if it wasn't a si
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by etplayer 9y ago
I must say that he has represented and defended himself very well here, and as a newcomer to this issue I am impressed with his analysis. However if it was possible to turn against him for what I understand to be such small accusations, suc

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