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by jahaja 6y ago
Well, that shouldn't be that surprising since the term was Socialist in its beginning before the current US right-wing tendencies co-opted it to mean Propertarianism.
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by jahaja 6y ago
At least like 5 of the top 10 countries in that report are also among the least religious countries in the world.
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by jahaja 6y ago
You usually really like to use Scandinavian countries in your arguments but "somehow" you miss out on doing so now since they blatantly disproves your point in this argument.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Stuff like this just isn't important compared to the benefits. One has to focus on the positives and negatives and each of their proportional importance overall. In that particular case, it's just fine to workaround these things w
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by jahaja 6y ago
Why? The writing part of this job is the easy part. Furthermore, if you think that this problem is solved by just hassling junior devs a bit you're painfully wrong. Some people with great experience are still prone to this, some times
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by jahaja 6y ago
My main issue with "complex" or "expressive" languages are how they scale. Certainly not with regards to performance or throughput, but rather with how they scale with people. How will the code base look after 5 years an
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by jahaja 6y ago
Sigh. What a pathetic reply.
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Today, under capitalism, we already have democracy in the economic sphere. Each of us already has single-use votes proportional to our means (i.e. money). If you want more votes to use, do something valuable so that others vote for you
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by jahaja 6y ago
Well, certainly not the version you keep peddling as the only version. Socialist of today want to extend democracy into the economic sphere - which today are totally undemocratic. That is, to actually give the workers control of the means
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by jahaja 6y ago
That people should discuss the issue even if one account of the issue is only 90% correct. People seem to be deflecting.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Don't revise history, those authoritarian states started out authoritarian from the get go. There were no "decline" into authoritarianism because of some inherent force in socialism.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Uhm, who knows? What about tomorrow's Republicans? Their radicalization over the last ~30 years is pretty grim.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Let's keep our feet on the ground and realize that all countries collect taxes and decide through their particular version of politics how these are spent. The US are responsible for the outcome of their politics.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Yes, and today's socialist movements are to 95% distinct from totalitarianism.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Exactly, so to focus on dismissing the book/author seem very opportunistic since the core of the argument is still based on facts, and people should acknowledge the bad parts of their history.
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by jahaja 6y ago
That was a very poor country ravaged by wars and totalitarianism . This is a figure from a country well within its means to provide universal health care but choose not due to Capitalist ideology.
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by jahaja 6y ago
I said a single data point just to give an indication of what would happen if we start adding stuff up. Now take all the other data points. And to be clear, I'm not a Stalinist or want to excuse that regime in any way shape or form,
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by jahaja 6y ago
If the same measurement stick would be used against Capitalism it would be so vile* that capitalists are usually very careful to not accept the same measurement stick. * Just to take a single point: 72k/deaths per year in just the U
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by jahaja 6y ago
Assuming the criticism is true, would an edited version put US history in a much brighter light?
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by jahaja 6y ago
This is also very similar to the criticism Noam Chomsky have received. He has been very accurate for decades but is still handled as an outcast. Come to think about of it actually, it's also similar with the criticism of David Graeber&
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by jahaja 6y ago
Throughout the pandemic the (neo-)Liberal (right-wing by Swedish standards) newspaper Dagens Nyheter (Today's News, dn.se) have led a campaign criticising the Swedish lax approach. The news site is paywalled however. The leader of the
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by jahaja 6y ago
People really see what they want to see. As a Swede this whole pandemic has been truly enlightening regarding peoples propensity for confirmation bias. It has been truly shocking how prevalent it is throughout entire societies and ideologie
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by jahaja 6y ago
There's a lot of things included in western Europe's high taxes. Not just universal health care. The US sets a very low bar overall. At the same time, however, the US somehow always affords to fund massive wars and armies through
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by jahaja 6y ago
You don't think that being both shunned and actively worked against by almost the entire main stream media doesn't have an effect? The so-called establishment are seemingly very united when it comes to stopping left-wing deviants.
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by jahaja 6y ago
The collapse of the Soviet Union has left the world with "only one way" and the drift into privatization have accelerated since. But even the people in the US have been in favour of some sort of universal health care since well
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by jahaja 6y ago
Barely a single news media in both the UK and the US lobbied for Sander/Corbyn. Still they got a very decent results. So one could ask; repudiated by whom?
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Sweden recently partially privatized its social security system 70% in Sweden is against this change to for-profit social security companies, but the parties in power doesn't prioritise it. And for whatever propaganda reason you k
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by jahaja 6y ago
So damn sad. Such an inspiration as a fellow anarchist (in the sense he meant by it). Rest in peace my friend.
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Bought by Facebook?
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by jahaja 6y ago
> How does a team grow to ~300+ developers ($89M R&D) Is it possible to reach a S-1 with a decent valuation with just ~30 employees "market confidence"-wise?

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