knieveltech

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by knieveltech 9y ago
"Stimulate the economy" and "provide prosperity" correlate only very weakly, if at all.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
It certainly is nothing of the kind. You dragged that Sanders-shaped strawman in with you. Since you appear to harbor the common delusion that mainstream Democrats are, in fact, on the left side of the political spectrum here's some li
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by knieveltech 9y ago
Thanks for digging up the source material for my original statement. Not sure why you're getting downvoted.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
That statement was substantially more accurate 24 months ago when we didn't have organized groups of individuals marching in our cities literally chanting Nazi slogans.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
Of course they are, neither party is left of center on the political spectrum.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
It's always amusing to observe the kind of rhetorical gymnastics folks will try to employ to blame "the left" for the excesses of unregulated capitalism that the right tirelessly champions.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
Point of Order: Godwin suspended Godwin's Law indefinitely, likely in response to the alt-right and Trump's election.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
"The corporation is still fully liable." is incoherent. Pfizer (the corporation) is a convicted felon. Whereas this would basically eliminate an individual's access to credit, ability to vote, and a whole host of other right
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Tech company Lanetix fired software engineers seeking to organize, union claims(sfchronicle.com)
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by knieveltech 9y ago
To this day I'm disappointed that no potential employer has asked me for this kind of information during the interview process. I am genuinely curious what kind of emotional response a hiring manager would display when told to go fuck
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by knieveltech 9y ago
McCarthyist talking points on body counts? 45,000 Americans die annually from preventable illness due to lack of access to healthcare. ~200,000 Americans die annually from poverty-related causes. Meanwhile the US military and CIA are respon
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by knieveltech 9y ago
You seem to be distracted. To return to the central point, not all opinion is equally informed or equally valid.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
Diversity of opinion is one of those facile concepts that look good on paper until someone uses it to prop up support for shit like white supremacy and trickle down economics. Not all opinions are equally informed, or equally valid.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
"The situation where capitalism is not the best tool for the job we should abandon it for that job." Soooo healthcare, food distribution, housing, transportation, resource extraction, education...
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by knieveltech 9y ago
No I have not. Do they have a similar form factor?
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by knieveltech 9y ago
* A vending machine the size of a small convenience store, on wheels
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by knieveltech 9y ago
I kinda feel like this is already a thing.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
If you believe that you're going to be sad when someone shows you a graph of income inequality over time. That oppression pre-dates software is not in question. Are you attempting to assert that modern surveillance and carceral state e
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by knieveltech 9y ago
I've listed observable deterioration in societal conditions attributable directly to software, and thus changes that have taken place over roughly the last 50 years. Are you asserting mass surveillance (for example) hasn't become
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by knieveltech 9y ago
Tell that to the Whigs.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
Beyond providing employment for a few folks involved in implementation and systems maintenance, in what way does launching a government-backed cryptocurrency benefit over the existing state-backed currency?
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by knieveltech 9y ago
Spend some time contemplating all of the ways that the modern surveillance state oppresses minorities, all of the drivers of income inequality (both domestically and globally), how few people actually benefit meaningfully from automation, a
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by knieveltech 9y ago
A few decades of observed reality suggest the path involves reversing the arrow of time. Software fucks up everything it touches in one way or another, with few meaningful gains outside of simple convenience.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
This implies it's possible to steer the HN community into positive discourse.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
A few things: 1. This isn't "my" definition, this is how the term is used everywhere it hasn't been coopted. 2. "goals and implementation" is a non-sequitur in what was a conversation about the meaning of words
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by knieveltech 9y ago
"Difficult" is a subjective term. One cannot telecommute to a bricklaying or machinist job.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
You assert that folks working for startups do so out of necessity and not choice, and that for them their options are limited to either live this life or be homeless? Because that's the reality of blue collar work. Let's not prete
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by knieveltech 9y ago
In poor taste? What's in poor taste here is an individual working in an extremely privileged field (in terms of job security, ease of finding work, and pay scales) attempting to issue a style guide for blue collar workers. For people t
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by knieveltech 9y ago
Um...no. Leftist politics are inherently anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist. The venn diagram between liberals and leftists only really overlaps on issues of racism, and even that only weakly.
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by knieveltech 9y ago
None of these anecdotes are union-specific. People are assholes and behave poorly at work in every industry regardless of how the labor force is organized.

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