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by ixtli 9y ago
Your comment made me wonder how deleterious it would be to a top university, say, Harvard, to add an extra student to each major track every semester that expressed a strong genuine desire to attend but could pass no admissions threshold. L
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Oh there are lots of ways to show that things are declining, but capitalism has been successful in concentrating wealth in the hands of those who have it. That system is working for those in power and as such I think it's extremely pre
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by ixtli 9y ago
Good comment: I don't really disagree with you. I probably shouldn't have thrown that thing in there about hoarding cause it's more of a gripe than anything. I guess what I was trying to say is that our current relation to po
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by ixtli 9y ago
I think it's fair to argue that scarcity has been reduced significantly, and continues to be reduced. It's been replaced by hoarding. I agree that this book is a little naive in that way (from what i've skimmed) but it's
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update: TIL, favorites.
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It's times like these that I'd like to be able to bookmark HN conversations.
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MindBody (very large BMS system) has been down for four hours with no comment(status.mindbodyonline.com)
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I'd like to be clear that I know and love that the soldiers and everyone else who fought fascism did so to defeat fascism: it's very possible that I wouldn't be commenting today had your grandfather not made that decision. Th
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I'm not trying to be glib. In America the Soviet contribution to killing the Nazis is almost entirely written out of mandatory education so I think it's often relevant in American-heavy discussions to point it out. Also, I recall
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I honestly cling to the hope daily that the internet has changed what people's reactions to power will be in the future. It's the one of the few deep things that's changed.
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I don't imagine they were saints, but statistically they did the heavy lifting there.
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I'll admit I was modifying what I would have said IRL for this medium. You are absolutely right: one of the most brilliant victories of so-called "neoliberal" capitalism is how it's utterly convinced people that it rep
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by ixtli 9y ago
Moreover, the Red Army did the majority of the 'heavy lifting' in Europe during WW2. There are some pretty striking political cartoon from Dr. Seuss about this, depicting the US and Britain traveling in comfort to Germany, while
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It's amazing the degree to which people are ignorant of what you've said here and imagine the US was motivated by ideology.
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Capital interests wont go away quietly, but I hope you're right.
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I wonder about this. I definitely pay more but (and this is a bit hand-wavey, i admit) it seems like the opportunity i'd be wasting if i lived anywhere else is FAR greater than the insane rent.
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It's pretty shocking. What becomes _infuriating_ is when they say this while also defending their right to own the product of that labor because they were there first or happened to present capital in the right place at the right time.
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by ixtli 9y ago
Ah yes this is a good point that I forgot: living in NYC i enjoy the huge privilege of being able to get another job in my industry immediately and very local to whatever box i happen to be living in at the time.
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by ixtli 9y ago
I did exactly this for a year and my quality of life suffered so badly that I nearly had a panic attack so i just sucked it up and moved into the city. I mean look: I like living in the city but when I consider that I could eject and live i
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by ixtli 9y ago
It's funny because this article thinks we can find jobs outside of cities...
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by ixtli 9y ago
After reading this I'm left with the feeling that the author is complaining more about "enterprise" linux distros that never ever change (hello, many centos users who are still running distros that require python2.7!) than ab
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by ixtli 9y ago
I'm not surprised. I'm not really in that biz, so it's just really cool to me that such a thing exists. I love coming across applications of tech that, to us engineers, are pretty simple but to the user are game changing.
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by ixtli 9y ago
I hate using componentWillReceiveProps but always end up doing so because it seems to be the easiest with redux. The static function replacement seems very natural.
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by ixtli 9y ago
Buried deep in the marketing page is a dynamic shot generator powered by typing in keywords?! I don't know much about video production but this seems insanely cool.
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This is interesting. Right now I'm of the mind that the best I can do is to continue to press on the inherent contradictions.
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by ixtli 9y ago
That's kinda what I'm getting at: gerrymandering is the implementation. Our legislatures need to specify and clarify rules to stop those kind of abuses, but I don't think anyone is going to jail for gerrymandering a district.
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by ixtli 9y ago
I like to talk about social issues and politics and stuff but the more I do it in public the more I run into what feels like "politics-as-basketball." It's really begun to feel like team sports as opposed to a critical analys
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by ixtli 9y ago
I realize that this is tangential to what you're talking about but your comment reminded me of it strongly: As much as it's clear that there was some funny business with trump's people and russia, the way liberals are salivat
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by ixtli 9y ago
So in the extreme case that you're talking about it's not dangerous in any way I can think of at the moment. One of the big reasons I called it dangerous was that the effect only a portion of the users leaving the platform is dang
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by ixtli 9y ago
Can someone with more knowledge comment on how strictly tied to the unreal ecosystem these assets are?

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