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by gt_ 9y ago
Parent from 2 up here. For the record I agree with both of the comments under me. All good points. I guess it’s not much help to call Trump a neoliberal. I’ll take that back.
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by gt_ 9y ago
Neoliberals want to use the state as an enforcement vehicle for private interests, so neoliberalism leads to more corruption of the state while libertarianism seeks to abandon it. Also, neoliberalism is much more crafty with propaganda, by
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by gt_ 9y ago
“Neoliberalism” is not a partisan term. I guess that is the most common context lately, but many contemporary republicans fit this description and the more nuanced ones. Decoding neoliberalism in the wild often requires a cultural critique
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by gt_ 9y ago
Not that you don’t have a point of sorts, but such a simplistic consideration of taxation seems dangerous to me. There are many theoretical possibilities left unconsidered including some obvious ones, such as fewer EU users of the American
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by gt_ 9y ago
You are mischaracterizing the proposal. Let’s be clear: the EU has no intentions of enforcing taxation outside of their jurisdiction and of course they have every right to enforce taxes within it. It’s pretty normal stuff.
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by gt_ 9y ago
Interesting to see individuals show pride in the “neoliberal” label, which is usually a stand-in for “complacent”.
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by gt_ 9y ago
Wonderful article! I did not expect to read this on HN today at all . I expect anyone with the undying love for Hopper’s work that I have to immediately imagine the harsh realities that produced these illustrations but alas I am mistaken.
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by gt_ 9y ago
> Wal-Mart sacrificed and betrayed its founder’s key principles of integrity and honesty, pushing those core values aside in its rush to win the e-commerce war at all costs. Markets left to their own accord incentivize dishonesty and ma
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by gt_ 9y ago
Great news. PIA is a solid service I can recommend to less tech-friendly family members and the like.
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by gt_ 9y ago
I hesitate to expect it will have that exact effect, mainly because it will first be implemented in advertising. Unless it has to be said or humans learn the AI will be nicer to them for saying it, I would mostly expect this to be populariz
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by gt_ 9y ago
If this were available right now, I would likely buy it! I am tasked with learning Django in the next couple of weeks. This got me realizing that I usually purchase and consume tutorials on an as-needed basis and I usually want to start rig
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by gt_ 9y ago
I have been stashing in Evernote for about a decade but have come to really love using Markdown for learning notes so I am looking elsewhere. For now, I have started using a git repo for learning notes.
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by gt_ 9y ago
I was under the impression the market would take care of everything. No? Maybe private interests don’t have enough influence on politics.
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by gt_ 9y ago
“Thank you, car.” This is not the last time we will be hearing that.
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by gt_ 9y ago
I think this was some lazy paraphrasing on my part. I’m pretty sure the latter is what they meant. Personally, to me, it sounds like ones of those business idea myths that may have some bit of truth but it’s mostly a viral spin.
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by gt_ 9y ago
I can think of a political example, too.
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by gt_ 9y ago
I recall an episode of Software Engineering Daily where the host, Jeff was interviewing some Microsoft guys and they suggested AWS was the result of Amazon selling it’s own infrastructure. Jeff interrupted him and said that was “not accurat
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by gt_ 9y ago
I come across reverence for these publications regularly but I don’t say anything because I fear bipartisan reactionism would label me a conspiracist before I have a chance to defend myself. I actually get most of my news filtered through H
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by gt_ 9y ago
I wish this view didn’t have a reputation of being conspiracy, because if the perch of criticality can be achieved, this process is very accessible and observable. Media theory can be very nuanced but the general ideas are daily routine
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by gt_ 9y ago
I think the problem is the arcane interface and documentations. The verbiage in the documentation is unnecessarily difficult if not a computer science major. I agree The Git Book is by far the best way I have found to learn it but the comma
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by gt_ 9y ago
This is interesting. I would expect eBay fees to crontradict the utility.
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by gt_ 9y ago
Many will say “cut food stamps and Medicaid”
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by gt_ 9y ago
> It’s not really possible to outsmart the market. This is exactly what advertising does, and it works great. There are other ways, but in any case this assertion is a fantasy.
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by gt_ 9y ago
> Already, drive-through times at McDonald’s slowed to 239 seconds last year -- more than 30 seconds slower than in 2016, according to QSR magazine. It’s also pokier than Burger King, Wendy’s and Taco Bell. Can someone describe what “po
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by gt_ 9y ago
I could definitely use this tool but the privacy concerns would need to treated as be your #1 selling point along with user side encryption. The encryption could cost more but once a competitor arrives with these two necessities, I will si
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by gt_ 9y ago
I wonder that the reasons given for the suicides are. The article doesn’t have a single hint as to what they may be. Of course, we can hardly be certain of the motivating factors, but it seems like a place to start in considering solution.
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by gt_ 9y ago
I work in film and visual art, and have always, odd as it is, associated my difficulty following film plots with my intrigue or indiosyncratic relationship to the art forms. I am also diagnosed. Film editing offers an interesting boundary o
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by gt_ 9y ago
Speaking from personal experience with the exact conundrum described in the quote, I could not agree with your comment more.
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by gt_ 9y ago
I would mourn the full effect of "midnight" poetics, as in Eric Clapton's "After Midnight" or Gladys Knight's "Midnight Train To Georgia".
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by gt_ 9y ago
This is the exact problem it would solve, once "everyone" had actually switched.

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