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511.
by ionised 8y ago
So then we change the rules.
512.
by ionised 8y ago
> Isn't the whole premise of capitalism that people motivated by money will build useful things for the world? I hope not because that seems hopelessly naive.
513.
by ionised 8y ago
How is class a race issue in somewhere like Scotland?
514.
by ionised 8y ago
That's just what happens with empires/superpowers thoough. Rome would have been the #1 talked about country evereywhere else when it was at the top of its game. Same with the British Empire etc.
515.
by ionised 8y ago
I deleted in 2017. 2018 just confirmed that it was the right decision. Can't say I feel like I'm missing anything either.
516.
by ionised 8y ago
I think Uber not being a thing might have been for the best.
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by ionised 8y ago
Consider that each Electron app runs its own instance of Chromium. Chromium itself is a memory hog and apps like Slack routinely take up to a gigabyte of memory. For a fucking chat app. How many Electron apps does the average developer run
518.
by ionised 8y ago
They were all great but Planescape Torment was my favourite of the lot. Such a well-written game.
519.
by ionised 8y ago
A victim complex will get you even more downvotes.
520.
by ionised 8y ago
As a Brit, this all seems accurate to me. A lot of my fellow citizens seems utterly delusional about their own country and its place in the world.
521.
by ionised 8y ago
This is not the London I know of.
522.
by ionised 8y ago
because economists are so good at predicting recessions?
523.
by ionised 8y ago
> It seems nearly everyone always believes that a recession, big disaster slowdown, market crash, Etc is "right around the corner." And for the last 10 years they have been wrong in the macro sense :-). What? Every western econ
524.
by ionised 8y ago
Seems to be only you that made that interpretation.
525.
by ionised 8y ago
I don't see how that's relevant.
526.
by ionised 8y ago
Wait, things can be taken out of the public domain? What the fuck?
527.
by ionised 8y ago
Facebook does a perfectly good job of making itself look bad.
528.
by ionised 8y ago
> My hope is that by that point we have all grown enough as a society to be able to look past the little mistakes we all make as humans. I doubt that will ever be the case.
529.
by ionised 8y ago
You're talking about the country of McCarthyism and the Red Scare here. Those same attitudes persist in much of the population. Tolerant is absolutely not the word I would use.
530.
by ionised 8y ago
Speak for yourself.
531.
by ionised 8y ago
Why would that comparison be helpful?
532.
by ionised 8y ago
> Think of it as how Americans are completely tolerant of communists What?
533.
by ionised 8y ago
The Mantra of Greed.
534.
by ionised 8y ago
> It would completely set up my family and children for life. This isn't as good an excuse as you think it is. You might want to ask yourself if there is anything you believe in or care about beyond your own genetic code.
535.
by ionised 8y ago
Oh they apologised? Well everything is cool then.
536.
by ionised 8y ago
Do you honestly believe that's the only reason? Like, do you think Facebook is a paragon of virtue being kept down by the big bad old media?
537.
by ionised 8y ago
Any company in violation will be given the chance to make themselves compliant before fines are levied. The fines were never going to start right away.
538.
by ionised 8y ago
I thought supplements were generally considered a scam, as our bodies won't/can't absorb vitamins in that form, we need to absorb them from food or sunlight.
539.
by ionised 8y ago
Amazon pay a living wage now because they were shamed into doing so.
540.
by ionised 8y ago
Almost as if capitalists understand that they require an exploited underclass in order for their system to work.

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