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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
And of course, backend services aren't free and they're an ongoing cost. And apps rarely exist without backend services these days. I much prefer an inexpensive subscription over ads or other approaches to revenue. Especially cons
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The insane height of these building is far beyond the argument for vertical density, though.
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The two are so incredibly intertwined given our history that it's hard to separate them. While I think talking about race without talking about class is a huge mistake, it's also a mistake to think that class in a way that doesn&#
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Democracy at Work: Curing Capitalism – Richard Wolff – Talks at Google (2017)(youtube.com)
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I'm not selling revolutionary marxism here, but an informed view of history that doesn't fall into such ideological chasms. Think about why Stalin is presented as a terrible leader and Churchill as a great one.
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Aside from the fact that mismanagement is not unique to communism, there have been many famines under capitalism. I'm not a maoist, so I'm not about to defend his ineptitude, but it seems intellectually lazy to point to these prob
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
That's ahistorical considering almost all deaths attributed to communism were a result of industrialization, a process which was just as deadly under capitalism. The only difference as a result of ideology was the timeframe. The USSR w
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
I don't know if you want to open the can of worms that is "accidental deaths from mismanaged resource distribution" under capitalism. Global deaths from hunger result in one great leap forward every 5 years.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Not to the bodies in the graves there isn't.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
The concept of altruism does not require it to be "pure" or entirely selfless. Altruism can have benefits but those benefits can exist outside of economy and into the realm of the personal, spiritual, social, etc. In other words,
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Is that the only obvious solution? Wouldn't better public transportation (which benefits from economies of scale unlike private automobiles) be equally if not more obvious? Especially since it has a much more proven track record.
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Dogecoin?
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| a set HTML/CSS specs that can be implemented fairly easily That could then be heavily optimized and used for cross-platform apps instead of the bloated, kitchen sink approach of Electron.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
| Many in Silicon Valley advocate for things like basic income and socialized medicine. UBI is not socialist, it has roots in Austrian economics. Most socialists are opposed to it, although some might accept it as a short-term compromise.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
A ton of leftist comedians joined to crack jokes about right-wing people on there and they were almost all immediately banned.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
| Silicon Valley is an odd mixture of socialist ideals There is literally nothing socialist about Silicon Valley. Government spending is not socialism and never has been. If Silicon Valley supported nationalization, collectivization or un
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
| There are important escape hatches that TS gives that make it unreliable This is one way to mitigate those escape hatches: https://github.com/cyrilletuzi/typescript-strictly-typed But in my experience, you had bett
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
> Something in their upbringing gave them this immense sense of worth Is there an abundance of this in Japanese culture that I wasn't aware of?
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
It's incumbent on them to prove that. So far, there is little evidence that they are backed by anywhere near the dollars they claim.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
Maybe HN should get in the 20th century and allow users to delete their comments.
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MedMen stores already look like Apple Stores, so...
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
It was a coup. I don't particularly like Morales (like Áñez even less though) and it was absolutely a coup.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
I don't understand why software architect isn't a position in any of the new startup culture tech businesses. The advantage of having an older, very wise and very experienced engineer whose job it is to document, plan and understa
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I just explained why and it's still weird to you? You should ask yourself why so many democratically elected left-wing leaders find themselves murdered or exiled by the CIA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
Northern European/Scandinavian countries got a pass for things that got Latin Americans slaughtered. I'll give you as many guesses as you need to figure out why. Hint: resources or hegemony | Also why would only the dictators s

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