manoDev

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by manoDev 3y ago
> if there is an organization which is arbitrarily limiting supply, it is not accurate to call it the "free market". Free market is like communism: when it doesn’t work we can complain it wasn’t the true thing.
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by manoDev 3y ago
"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."
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by manoDev 3y ago
I understand "common ownership of means of production" is just plain communism in the way Marx intended when it refers to "post-capitalistic economic organisation".
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by manoDev 3y ago
> Capitalism at least tries to use human selfishness to achieve a better outcome Maybe you're not aware, but it was the socialists who coined the term "capitalism", and their definition has no relation with the one you gav
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by manoDev 3y ago
> A world with community ownership of the means of production You seem to be trying really hard to avoid the word "communism". Is it a banned word in HN?
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by manoDev 3y ago
IMO, all that is necessary is the law strongly backing personal liability of C-level in all industries. Trying to penalize companies never works in practice, regulators CANT let large companies going bankrupt, cascading defaults of creditor
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by manoDev 3y ago
Raising SOME animals in SOME places is an efficient way to produce protein, including dairy – like zebu cattle and goat, hardy animals that graze on land that will grow nothing. There are human populations outside the western bubble survivi
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by manoDev 4y ago
Capitalism causes some contradictions, this is one of those: you need a complicated/expensive scheme to lawfully defend the rights of content creators because the only possible incentive for producing content is monetary return from se
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by manoDev 4y ago
> Workers gained many rights, like limits on work-hours, social insurance, free education for their children (who were banned from working dangerous jobs). Most governments creates successful interventionist policy that "de-fanged&q
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by manoDev 4y ago
It seems TRON was pretty advanced in fact, I've found this demo of it: https://youtu.be/7RNbIEJvjUA?t=1505
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by manoDev 4y ago
> Let's have a 20,000-Watt society, not a 2,000-Watt one. You know this really means “let’s keep the average per capita consumption high, so I can keep spending the 10x more than a third world citizen” right? > Not a communist-
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What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video](youtube.com)
309 points by manoDev 4y ago|167 comments
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by manoDev 5y ago
I believe the way Tesla is approaching autonomous driving is fundamentally flawed by political/ethical reasons. The general public accepts the fact humans may cause fatal mistakes while driving, because responsibility is expected and u
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by manoDev 5y ago
Doesn't the fall of the Roman Empire explain it? At its peak it was a huge unified empire, it should be expected a lot of commerce and knowledge would move freely within its borders. The (slow) fall of the Roman Empire would be like wa