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by marnett 8y ago
s/the rich/the powerful/g
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by marnett 8y ago
this is fascinating. did you experience this first hand, or have you read this somewhere? I'm interested in reading more.
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by marnett 8y ago
What diffie-hellman hack are you referring to? I'm curious.
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While this is an important decision, Chief Roberts' time to prove his balance and foresight as a justice was with Citizens United. His court's legacy died with that decision. If it weren't for the archaic archival privacy rul
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by marnett 8y ago
> what is a class or event I can go to they are poor. they don't go to events or extracurricular classes...those cost money.
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Corporations are already one of the only realistic ways to attain affordable healthcare. It seems sensible that higher education joins the basket of corporate perks.
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God bless Hunter.
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too late.
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cash is not perfectly anonymous. cash taken out of an ATM has tracking numbers assigned to you.
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Micro transactions allow some "video games" (I use quotes as it seems to mostly be mobile apps) to play nearly identically to machines you'd find within a casino. We regulate those casinos due to the known addiction of gambli
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by marnett 8y ago
At its simplest, if there is still private property it is not and cannot be socialism or communism. Scandinavian countries are social democracies - UBI, universal healthcare, guaranteed labor, etc are social democratic ideals. Please don&#x
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by marnett 8y ago
Oh, in that case it's just placebo, price, and primed expectations.
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Most US citizens are woefully ignorant of this perspective. Their ignorance precludes the irony from ever showing itself.
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The MIC and Intelligence apparatus are here to stay. They are overwhelmingly bipartisan. It would be "Anti-American" to not avow complete support.
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> There are plenty of capitalists who don't support this kind of degrading, dehumanizing shit. Unfortunately not the ones that matter on a meaningful scale. I can't imagine worker intel (even just the minimum: browsing on work
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by marnett 8y ago
The sole ethic of a corporation is increased production, profits, and value for the shareholders. This myopic view is the religion of capitalism.
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by marnett 8y ago
Most residents of NYC use the subway, at least for long distances - it's simply the cheapest and fastest way for a large majority of routes throughout the city. The socioeconomic spread is large; granted, I'm sure the wealthy with
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by marnett 8y ago
one could argue this is accepting that reality and taxing those wealthy enough to build homes.
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Well average wage is a poor metric. Hopefully it is median global household income that has doubled. Taken to its logical extreme, there is no wage whatsoever if a majority of jobs are automated.
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What past productivity improvements and/or economic developments have ever pointed to your fantasy being realized? How will thousands of workers in the Philippines and India losing their call center jobs result in "higher and high
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by marnett 8y ago
Native advertising.
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by marnett 8y ago
if this happens i will surely protest self-driving cars. cities should be built for pedestrians, not cars.
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and the irony that no modern day receptionist would have a job long enough to benefit from the exact system that made it possible in this one case.
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by marnett 8y ago
You are correct. There are plenty of other factors that result in broken healthcare, broken prisons, broken public health, broken cities. But what are they? What is the root cause resulting in the richest country in the world being so dysfu
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by marnett 8y ago
plenty starved, but sure they worked.
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words directly affect thought. while some substitutions can be overkill, it can still help the reader better perceive the precise thought the writer wants. this idea is at the core of books like 1984, for example.
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by marnett 9y ago
this is a global community! Yay Florence!
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by marnett 9y ago
Third vote for this book! Amazingly knowledgeable man who is quite the succinct writer.
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At all related to Salsify the company? [1] [1] https://www.salsify.com/
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by marnett 9y ago
this is a gross misrepresentation of quite a well defined school of thought.

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