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by ixtli 6y ago
I was going to comment nearly this exact thing. SSC guy has worked slavishly for years to grow a fan base which has had knock-on effects as the community he’s carefully curated intersects with some that have done incredible harm on twitter
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by ixtli 6y ago
I think you might be missing my point: often the conditions are not correctable by the individual. They can only be resolved by collective action, and we can’t really start on that until we stop holding people responsible for things they do
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by ixtli 6y ago
To start, I hope that if you're talking about yourself you are doing ok. But yes I think its possible all of the things you're talking about put together. The long term effects of the extreme wealth gap are so broad they're d
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by ixtli 6y ago
I dont know if this is true of everyone but I definitely see this in online communities. People who have access to basic health services still blame themselves for their own conditions and seek individual solutions to collective problems :&
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by ixtli 6y ago
Not to reduce a complex topic to an aphorism but: if the world is configured in a way thats antagonistic towards you, a negative response is understandable. A lot of this stuff fits neatly into a tradition of blaming people for their condit
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by ixtli 6y ago
You know i actually agree with you but, as a manager of other engineers, people never stop complaining about having to edit large amounts of YAML that describe complex objects. At a certain point im forced to acknowledge that its just not e
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by ixtli 6y ago
I run k8s in production and I think this is a really bizarre axe to grind that sort of smells like someone who got upset by how steep the kubernetes learning curve is. Which, in a way, is understandable. > 1) Add hundreds of new failure
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by ixtli 6y ago
This is not true. I currently live in a really nice apt that I rent. My landlord hasn’t substantially raised my rent in 3 years. I will eventually buy once I find something that motivates me but what actually empowers me to negotiate buying
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by ixtli 6y ago
That’s good for us as non-landlords though. I just want to live here. I don’t care about their ability to profit off of the demand which, by the way, has lead to a large amount of housing stock being left vacant!
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by ixtli 6y ago
Marx wrote a letter of congratulations to Lincoln when he was elected as well, as a referendum on slavery. It would be silly to think that is uncritical support of the country tho.
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by ixtli 6y ago
I find this sort of funny in an “everything old is new again” sort of way. There are some up—and-coming areas around downton LA that we’re partially covered high streets (somewhat mall-like) that are having their second and third floors tur
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by ixtli 6y ago
I missed this comment in response to mine and yes, I wonder about negative reactions to what is a relatively dispassionate recounting of historical events.
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by ixtli 6y ago
I've lived in NYC for nearly 10 years, have no plans to leave, and would really, really welcome a rent or apartment price reduction. However, I've been promised this magical thing every time there's some sort of disaster or t
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by ixtli 6y ago
For 15+ years I have noticed a certain set of people trying to make a claim that people are leaving or desire to leave "the cities" for the suburbs or rural areas in America. NYC growth has slowed since 2017, and certainly there w
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by ixtli 6y ago
Anonymous attestation is really interesting because, afaict, there really isn't a way to do this right now if my application wants to authenticate a "normal" user with a "normal" phone.
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by ixtli 6y ago
I focused a bit on the history of computing when i was getting my CS degree and one of the things I've found super interesting is that for at least forty years (perhaps longer!) we've been at least academically interested in writi
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by ixtli 6y ago
I've lived here a long time and come to the realization through observation that the NYPD operates like a private security force for capital. Their primary concern is to defend private property, the people themselves come second. The &
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by ixtli 6y ago
Worth noting that the solution is simple. If you want to end homelessness, you give the homeless houses. It turns out we have a ton of empty houses and apartments in America. If that’s not palatable I’d be more interested in looking at why.
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by ixtli 6y ago
It’s part of the myth. The brand.
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The point is, in part, to attack tech.
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by ixtli 6y ago
Stopping workers coming in from one place isn’t about making sure Americans have jobs tho. It doesn’t magically change the cost of rent. It doesn’t magically educate the uneducated. Nor should it. This is about being able to report to middl
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by ixtli 6y ago
This was featured in a lovely QI bit from years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brsn5Z_uVKk (Featuring trevor noah before he became internationally famous!)
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by ixtli 6y ago
They don’t have to be so secretive. The Snowden leaks told us that companies like Microsoft collaborate with the IC to backdoor their software.
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by ixtli 6y ago
To be fair we know from the Snowden leaks this is exactly what they do. Microsoft quite proudly cooperated with the NSA to backdoor it’s own apps.
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by ixtli 6y ago
This comment is why it's important to be more precise than the word "authoritarian." We all live under an "authoritarian regime" to one degree or another. The problem in this case is that its institutionally racist
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No, the history taught about ghandi carefully selects instances of "non-violence". I don't think ghandi is responsible for how we learn about ghandi in the west. Just like MLK is regarded as "peaceful" when in fact
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by ixtli 6y ago
Ghandi is the face of that movement but was just the tip of what was a very bloody revolution. It is important that we think the movement was "non-violent" such that we can point to it to dissuade people from challenging the statu
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by ixtli 6y ago
All you need to do is watch videos of protests anywhere to see cops aggressing on protestors, shooting people on their lawns, arresting and shooting reporters for major news networks on camera. When people are aggressed upon by armed securi
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by ixtli 6y ago
Not to be flippant but, to your point, Civilization has always allowed a profitable "pillage" option if your units are on an enemy title. This is a feature of struggle.
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by ixtli 6y ago
I think there is an issue where a minority of people live very sheltered lives in the kind embrace of the state, so they have a very difficult time accepting that actually, the experience is shit for a wide swath of other people who have th

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