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by jahaja 8y ago
Thanks, his works are on my reading list. Curiously enough, I reckon that the sole reason I've pushed his works down the list is because he's so talked about by the sort of people that like to obfuscate everything in an esoteric l
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by jahaja 8y ago
And those "translations" were criticized from their inception onward by non-authoritarian socialists/Marxists. For example, Bertrand Russell only 3 years after the revolution (thus 1920): In a capitalist state, the Governmen
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by jahaja 8y ago
It doesn't seem helpful to say that the Frankfurt school coined the term when their academic use is so vastly different from the bullshit we see today.
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by jahaja 8y ago
I'm seeing this sentiment often. Some people seem to think that the storming of the Bastille would never have happened if the people would just have known how much better France's trading partners had progressed over the last deca
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by jahaja 8y ago
Yes, and some of those may appreciate a direct example or just that it's called out.
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by jahaja 8y ago
It's interesting how quickly HN can shift from idealized meritocracy to blunt warnings about the loss of the networking effect.
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by jahaja 8y ago
To write a good reply to this would take some time and effort that I'm not willing to spend on someone with the comment history you have I'm afraid. The common best case scenario seem to be that you just stop replying.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Really? There's some objective reality now in economics and politics? To add insult to injury you also imply that they just haven't been bothered yet to simply fix themselves? I'm sorry, but that's a pathetic reply.
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by jahaja 8y ago
> The Greeks have nobody to blame but themselves. Thanks for confirming my point so well. It's lovely how bottom-up democratic everything becomes as soon as blame and punishment are being thrown about. > The Germans would in fact
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by jahaja 8y ago
But it's the same belt for all three? I find it both fascinating and unsettling that there seem to be so many smart people that prefer and defends punitive action so reflexively that they will go to great lengths to give it the benefit
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by jahaja 8y ago
How much is hidden by the US drug epidemic?
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by jahaja 8y ago
> And damn, I've heard a lot of dumb anti-socialist arguments before, but "people who are not able to provide labor to a market economy should starve to death" is a new one. Horrible indeed. The callousness of it reminded
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by jahaja 8y ago
I'm not talking about pay gap and that's an expanded notion that I haven't talked about either.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Could you clarify what you mean please? I'm arguing against the imagined notion (which is also regarding representation, not pay).
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by jahaja 8y ago
> it debunks the notion that discrimination is the only reason for any differences in gender representation. Which is also a notion that nobody has ever argued but suits polarized demagoguery.
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by jahaja 8y ago
As the saying goes: Shame on you if you fool me once, shame on me if you fool me twice. Insisting on supporting politics/policies that create vast inequality then doubling down once those have taken effect is so cunningly cynical t
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by jahaja 8y ago
This is your second reply to where I explain what I meant with regards to evolution without you enlightening me about what's wrong but instead go on about evolution in some sort of spiritual awe. But you're not done there. After y
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by jahaja 8y ago
I have never talked about the selective phase.
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by jahaja 8y ago
Ok, given your replies I can only conclude that I should never use an analogy in a reply to you ever again. You've read everything literally and run away with it. The only thing I was attempting to say is that the random mutation pha
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by jahaja 8y ago
Given what I wrote in my original comment I interpret the reply as standard status quo apologetics and implying that success needs to be a prerequisite. Then the analogy seems appropriate no?
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by jahaja 8y ago
Did I though? Success is the differentiator post-mutation. If mutation itself ceases due to the prerequisite, evolution does too. But why do you feel the need to read and dissect an analogy so literally in the first place? It's not the
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by jahaja 8y ago
If success would be a prerequisite of evolution it would grind to a halt.
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by jahaja 8y ago
This is also a crisis of critical thought. There's an utter lack and/or willingness to imagine any other reality than the current market economy. This goes even to the length of advocating some sort of scorched earth policies to d
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by jahaja 8y ago
Since what you call facts are clearly bullshit I think it's perfectly reasonable to "logically extrapolate" that henceforth everything you write should be assumed to be bullshit unless proven otherwise.
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by jahaja 8y ago
> Could you direct me to the organization responsible for selecting which facts go on the list of "you are racist for stating these facts"? Kindergarden. > It is very concerning to me that I am now a thought criminal and the
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by jahaja 8y ago
> but it also gets you labelled an evil racist nazi klansman But you are a racist [1]. I wonder how common it is to do these brief checks through the comments of users that seems just a bit off. Too often there's a pattern. [1] h
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by jahaja 8y ago
I honestly think it's just too esoteric to ever be considered "mainstream" simple.
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by jahaja 8y ago
I find it hard to follow these kind of no-chat articles since they usually come off as a bit contrarian rather than something that makes sense: * Why does a chat blackout naturally follow a fear of missing out? * What's different fro
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by jahaja 8y ago
There's seem to be a pattern where some people consider simple languages an insult to their intelligence and will fight its adoption with whatever cheap shots that's available. This seems to be such a case.
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by jahaja 8y ago
You're not bound by the CBA if you're in another union that has no CBA with the company. Sadly, there are ongoing attempts to stop this.

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