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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Primitivism is justly derided, but there are other solutions to the alienation caused by our modern money driven technological society. We can have a better world if we ask for one.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I think gen 1 or gen 2 of the TPU explicitly supported short ints.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
This argument rests on the idea that inequality is equal across systems and that no system attempts to set a floor on how far you can fall or a ceiling on how far you can rise.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Well, the US _is_ imperialist and also doesn't care about implementing quality social programs. So both are true.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
If you want the left perspective, all or nearly all housing would be public housing. This cuts landlords and banks out of the loop and decreases housing prices for everyone. No one goes homeless. You can move whenever you want, though there
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
This is far too celebratory of markets. Markets pay for things that people of means want. If I make a useless toy that delights a rich person I am paid lavishly. If I make a useless toy that delights a poor person I get next to nothing.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Let them. There should be citizenship for anyone living or working in this country for six months regardless of how they get here. To do otherwise is to exploit people and subject them to man's inhumanity to man as we are seeing with r
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Hopefully a tighter labor market will result in higher wages for workers, reducing the necessity of overtime. There's some evidence that in the united states that employers are so powerful that even the tightest labor market in years i
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
For what it's worth, changing the voting system to, e.g. ranked choice or theoretically superior variants would automatically open up the viability of third (and fourth) parties. Right now, if a popular movement becomes so excited that
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Agreed. These are all symptoms of capitalist dominance.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
On behalf of USians, I apologize for monopolizing the word "Americans" when two entire continents have a right to the word.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
It's because the right benefits from low turnout. The left, representing the interests of the proletarian majority, benefits from large turnout. The Democratic party, a center left or center right party depending on who you talk to, ha
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
The first is a good idea, but the second is not. Voter ID cards are historically used to make it harder to vote and thus compromise elections. In person fraud is very uncommon, and it would be very difficult for a foreign government to pull
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
That second link you posted was excellent. It's a very cutting criticism. "When the Analog Research Lab posts a picture of Dolores Huerta on the walls of a company whose engineers have no unions, it demonstrates its own power to t
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I think that's an acceptable requirement. After all, you wouldn't expect an app to work without downloading it. If instead of using lzma, gzip were used, I bet you'd be able to include some code that would unzip itself using
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Browsers have offline capabilities that are currently massively underutilized. You can store the LZMA scripts in IndexDB perhaps?
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I added the part about the Welfare State because that's what we have today that favors workers, not because that's socialism. It's a manifestation of social democracy, I'm in agreement with you.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
The capitalist is able to procure computers from other workers because they control capital. They then take part of the proceeds of any additional labor attached to it. This is the extraction of surplus value that is being discussed. The wo
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
It was a frustrating read, but for what it's worth, he does raise the point that capitalism is powered by growth and that the growth began to go haywire in the 70s. He is correct that what comes after capitalism will be very different,
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I am generally supportive of your position, but these are actually organized as "State Capitalism". They are not subject to internal democratic controls. Hierarchy still exists though there is nominal democratic political control.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
This is anarcho-capitalism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism ). There are other types of anarchism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism ). "Anarchism holds the state to be u
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
It's not all, though it is the astounding majority. Non-profits are not capitalist though they can mimic them in internal structure and worker co-ops are a kind of market socialism as the workers own the means of production.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
It's trivially true. A worker produces something and gets a fraction of their value paid back to them. They would not have been hired if it were not so.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I had a few reactions to this concept. 1) The idea of a set of reusable APIs around data ownership could actually be the foundation of a new internet. If it becomes impossible to concentrate data, the system will be more resistant. 2) The a
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
This is a sensible reaction if you remember nothing of history. Russia is acting out because NATO has crept up to its borders and Russia has been subjected to invasions since Napoleon. The Russian interference seen so far has been clumsy an
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Capitalism has resulted in such fierce competition that now even its feeder system for employees is being compromised. There are few marks of distinction that matter anymore, resulting in ever greater precarity for even the middle classes t
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I don't like FB, but that was in 2015 before people went crazy with Russia hysteria.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Profits are also a side effect of grabbing surplus value from their workers. Just sayin'
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Yea I knock on them for the same reasons, but when the topic isn't of national interest, they have some excellent story tellers and reporters. Their digital remixes are great too (e.g. Snowfall and its intellectual children). Nonethele
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
You can do a lot in blue states/towns, but it involves pushing the Democratic party further left (Medicare for All, Abolish ICE, Affordable housing, and more) if that's your cup of tea.

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