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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> Members colluding with each other This is it in a nutshell. The main primitive a government deals with is disputes. The main unit of corruption is loyalty. Conservative spectrum ideologies are about systems of loyalty and therefore con
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I wish we could get some kind of semantic versioning system for manufactured items.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Walk me through it. Let's say a dead body was found with a gun shot wound. What happens? Tell me a detailed compelling story of a consensus of peers and equals investigating and resolving the murder.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
How do you enforce rules without hierarchy? How do you make efficient decisions and coordinate actions against an enemy who has decided that hierarchy allows them to wage war more efficiently and effectively. Anarchy hand waives away so man
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Life isn't about what you take, it's about what you give. If everyone takes without giving, there is nothing left to take. If everyone gives without taking, there is enough to take when you need it. This is fundamental to how soci
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
A lot of the conversation in this thread is "cargo cult justice." The rituals of justice are being performed, but justice isn't to be found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science > In the S
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> Is it unethical to use accessibility tools that cannot see visual ads? Arguably, in a black and white sense I think so. In a practical sense no. You wouldn't expect someone who's blind to get a free meal at a restaurant just
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Ad blockers are rules for thee, but not for me. As software engineers many of us play a part in creating a world that we wouldn't want to live in and then exempt ourselves from it with ad blockers leaving the ignorant or less technical
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> one thing There are also guillotines. It never ceases to amaze me that pro gun rights people are generally anti union. Both are extra judicial exercises of power to get a seat at the negotiating table and ultimately prevent tyranny aga
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Low rates and supply chain shock (Ever Given/port problems/COVID) created the opportunity for tacit collusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Greedflation frames the problem around greed. Greed is not the problem. Lack of competition is the problem. Robber barons are the problem. Citizens united legalizing bribery is the problem. Ultimately it is deeper than that. Laborers don&
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> Does this make anyone else spitefully want to spend less, even though they don't have to? You are trying to exercise individual market power, when there are other "scabs" who will go and spend that money keeping prices i
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Likewise, wages are not a measurement of labor, but a measurement of market power. If wages are going down or stagnating, that is an indicator of loss of labor market power and loss of labor power in general. It's also important to und
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
We are experiencing tacit collusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion Economic power, and therefore political power, is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands which allows them to exercise force over compe
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Can you write a paragraph on what patriarchy is and what the harm it inflicts on boys is? Preferably without referring to emotional neglect or detachment but explaining the underlying mechanism itself? Ideologies are not something you are,
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
If you enjoyed this, Seth MacFarlane (yes that one) weighed in on whether the replicator enabled the federations utopian society, or whether the federations utopian society enabled the replicator in an episode of Orville (I haven't wat
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Quotes from his blog: > Before psychedelics, I was intensely commitment-phobic, and assumed that either I wouldn’t settle down with anyone, or that I’d be in an open relationship for the rest of my life. I thought this was a philosophica
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Indeed, that's why it's important to know where ideologies come from, who is using them, and to what ends they are using them for so we can be reflective of the greater implications of our beliefs. If you find your ideology in the
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I'm not very sympathetic to crying about loss of free speech from people who do not protect free speech themselves. Isn't it a bit hypocritical to ban people from r/conservative for not toeing the party line and then complain
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
This was not something I thought about, understood, or really had conveyed to me until I was in my late 20s and saw it happening first hand with product after product. When I asked "why" the answer was there, but I didn't get
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I don't think that was a part of the collective consciousness 10 years ago. People said "but how are you going to monetize" and everyone said "we'll figure that out later." So even if it was true back then (and
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
There is a noticeable uptick of barely concealed white supremacy here in the last 2 days. I would feel confident saying that the way upvotes and downvotes work on a cultural level has changed. We've had conservatives here forever, but
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I'll give you that, but I also don't think it was clear at the time that "next quarters profit" culture would destroy everything good. The culture at the time was "growth is money" and "we can figure out h
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
You are clearly feeling very righteous, but I think you should temper your righteousness. You might want to consider that while spez may not be the best human, he has had a commendable commitment to free speech. The Reddit platform has been
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Communities have authority structures and questioning the basic assumptions of communities (should we allow gay people into our church?) is definitely ostracize-able behavior.
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Middle aged white men can be almost any of those things I listed. It floors me that you aren't flagged. Not because you mentioned middle aged white men (which I am), but because I am talking about reasons people get kicked out of the u
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> If you're living in a place in which you are not happy, with people you don't like, The epiphany happens when you realize it's probably not the place or the people who are making you unhappy, but yourself and your belief
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
He was unable to make and keep connections that he found valuable enough to preserve. He wrote a post about blowing up your life and barely concentrated on the biggest reason not to, to preserve your social connections and proximity to the
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
"One doesn't realize in early life that the price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy one must be tied." ~ CS Lewis I don't know the context of the quote and I know next to nothing about CS Lewis, but having blown my l
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
The tragedy of the commons is a tragedy because it requires the fishermen who would otherwise fish the sea empty to not fish as much as they could. Why would any individual fisherman be happy with quotas? So I won't deny that they don&

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