kmicklas

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by kmicklas 10y ago
> basics of liberalism as we see it today - rule of law and representative democracy Add capitalist property relations though too.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
This isn't uncivil. This is pointing out that OP's statement is factually ignorant of the economic possibilities for 99% of the population.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
You're right that certain parts of the country have been hit hard by automation and globalization but the idea that the hard hit people are the Trump voters is not particularly true.
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> If I'm dismissive it's because we've had a lot of field tests of socialism throughout history, as well as in economic studies, and the results are always poor. It's a dangerous mindset to not examine critically beca
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> And the capitalist system works fine, because if these employees think I'm doing a shit job, they do have a vote: leave and start their own company. I didn't know it was this possible to be so non self aware. > The parts t
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by kmicklas 10y ago
I think they mean replubican in the representative democracy sense, not the GOP sense.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
That's largely a false narrative.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Yes, it's a libertarian pipe dream. Yes, yes it is. > No, I don't want to hear about how "poor people will not be educated" by such a system. Libertarianism summarized: have you ever tried hating poor people... o
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> And for many who cast their vote in favor of these dubious causes, the present was materially bad enough for them, whether through unemployment, stagnating wages, or pay cuts, to take the chance. That's largely a false narrative t
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Landline broadband providers have no technical limitations on how much data their infrastructure can carry I don't think that's true? There are limits they're just farther from being hit. > there are limits to how muc
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> "Brexit and the election of President Trump are the symptoms of society’s preference to cling to the past rather than engage with the challenge of making the most of the future, says Nail." That's a rather naive view of
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by kmicklas 10y ago
There are already more Citi Bike docks in NYC than I feel like is necessary for the service to be convenient. Within one block of my apartment there are already 3!
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Ooof, this is too true. As someone greatly interested in type theory and the advancement of programming, I think this is definitely an issue to watch out for. Side note: an even better example than Whig history might be Marx's historic
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by kmicklas 10y ago
They are for high end luxury developers in cities like NYC though. I don't think this article is implying these are widespread trends for the "99%" market (except maybe some of the stuff about privacy).
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by kmicklas 10y ago
This reads like one of those futurist pieces from the 60s that we look back at now to laugh at.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Congressional lawmaking should also be done like this, in the open. It would make accountability so much easier.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> because of all the investments and research we know we will have a working model soon This definitely does not follow.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
What about AGPL?
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by kmicklas 10y ago
I know of whole cities who don't even get cars because they can take the subway!
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Anti-intellectualism + racist quackery! ESR really couldn't get worse. (Not implying Go devs are racist, I hope that's just ESR.)
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> 1) Choose languages that developers are familiar with, not the best tool for the job This is probably true but also the root cause I think. Enough developers aren't familiar with the right tools and abstractions (modularity, abstr
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> What do you think synthesis engineers do? Just sit around watching the tools run? Can you explain briefly for someone not in the industry why it's not that simple? This seems like it should be a 100% automatable process.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
Does it really matter that much if one calorie is not exactly equal to one calorie? What seems immediately obvious is that sugar is less filling per calorie than almost anything else, and thus if you eat sugary foods you'll end up eati
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> order of magnitude better than what any human individual/team could do (think Spotify's recommendations It's orders of magnitude more scalable but you're music nerd friend will beat Spotify's recommendations an
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by kmicklas 10y ago
You appear to be fundamentally unable to understand paying for the common good. I'm not really sure how to argue with somehow who just hates poor and sick people.
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> Can someone explain the benefits of a US-style healthcare system vs nationalised tax funded healthcare? None. > I see from threads like this is a lot of Americans bickering over their own healthcare, and as an outsider I don't
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by kmicklas 10y ago
That's not even true.
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> It's heavy reading, I don't know why it's getting upvoted here. This is needed exposure for a lot of the libertarians that populate hacker news.
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> It's stupid to require the poor to pay for plans they don't need Poor people don't need health insurance? Doesn't everyone need it? If anyone didn't need it it'd be the rich. > /want Too bad. If we
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by kmicklas 10y ago
> making it illegal to not have coverage isn't acceptable. How can you possibly think that?

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