mikojan

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by mikojan 6y ago
*in their foreign influence ops Fixed that for you
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by mikojan 6y ago
> The only difference I see from your description is that in Germany it is not the media following the politics, but rather the politics following the media. It works the same as everywhere. The state is reliably broadcasting a constant
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by mikojan 6y ago
Bertrand Russel's "A History of Western Philosophy" is both a comprehensive, insightful introduction into the topic as well as incredibly funny and entertaining. It's also fairly opinionated but openly so, which is refre
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by mikojan 7y ago
> We have a proven and tested way of producing electricity without any emission - nuclear power plants. We don't know that since to this day we do not know what cost a nuclear power plant actually imposes on society. The geological
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by mikojan 7y ago
> But although it is true that Russell’s political writings were often > naive and simplistic, ... Say what? Of all the books on politics I've read in my youth Russell's were some of best. Not simplistic but written in a cle
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by mikojan 7y ago
It's as if in the beginning of a marathon you were to sprint ahead of Eliud Kipchoge - stop - exclaim: "I beat you!" You're not competing. It's monkey business.
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by mikojan 7y ago
His opinions were not that rare. The socialist mainstream of his time was libertarian and "Anarchism" was just the name of this current. In fact, leading up to his coup d'etat Lenin himself published quasi-anarchist pamphlets
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by mikojan 7y ago
> How many people change their IQ? Literally all of them. However, if someone never progresses to "senior" they might've just lost interest in software development. People in general are remarkable at learning about subjec
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by mikojan 7y ago
There is no distinction. Everybody has an agenda. NYT for example openly(!) supported HRC in the last election. (And that is a good thing.)
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by mikojan 7y ago
I don't think many would deny "action" is or might be "risky." However, you'd have to show that "inaction" is not for your argument to make sense.
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by mikojan 7y ago
Traffic jams are bad for the environment because in general acceleration is more costly than constant speed. This is about every bodies right to clean air and a world permitting organized human life.
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by mikojan 7y ago
That's what I wrote:they aren't the root cause. My point was:They are a BAD solution and they are contributing to the problem.
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by mikojan 7y ago
This has been my experience in dealing with the German collection office even though all had already been moved to web and I never once met a real person. They would always send me nice letters explaining what exactly was wrong. Even did th
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by mikojan 7y ago
This is just the next logical step in transforming reddit into some sort of not-racist 9gag. A stream of images and videos that encourage scrolling, not 2000s bulletin board discussions.
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by mikojan 7y ago
Why do people on this website use "make(1)" instead of "make" in writing? And I know it's in the man pages but what is this number even for?
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by mikojan 7y ago
Uber tapped into a market that is completely dependent on cheap, insecure, unorganized labor. A market that creates disastrous externalities. How any of this gives you reason to celebrate them rather than question what the f- went wrong is
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by mikojan 7y ago
You are wrong and the author of that article, too, is wrong. Some scientists the author claims do not exist even made this handy chart for y'all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
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by mikojan 7y ago
Oooh...
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by mikojan 7y ago
Expropriate Google.
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by mikojan 7y ago
Yes, great, let's enhance the gambling problem that is modern finance by replacing everybody with a data pile mixer. Can't wait for the next bail-out. Very revolutionary.
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by mikojan 7y ago
Taxes aren't theft. Taxes is when we as a society pool together resources to invest into the projects we as a society agreed to implement by means of the democratic process. If you don't like it you can organize and pick different
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by mikojan 7y ago
3) Undermining the cartels of some of the most vulnerable sectors of society. 4) Shifting ressources from railway to road transit from the 1920s onwards as well as severe cuts to public transit in the 1960s and 1980s. That last point might
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by mikojan 7y ago
That's a questionable dichotomy considering there's ample research showing Uber is cannibalizing public transit and regulations on Taxis have historically been put in place for a variety of reasons that one should at least conside
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by mikojan 7y ago
> I've worked in aerospace and have been reading HN for over a decade. > Here's some adult advice, for both the OP and HN in general. > Space is a waste of time unless you're a government or a bored billionaire. Obje
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by mikojan 7y ago
Yes, super exploiting their drivers is a necessity for their success. But there are others. Governments have been intentionally crippling public transportation for the past 40 years or so in many western countries. And they have been shifti
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by mikojan 7y ago
I agree!
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by mikojan 7y ago
You are making this out to be a conspiracy. It's perfectly possible people are just unconsciously working together towards this end. Let's say I grow up in a poor working-class environment. Years later I find myself CEO of a multi
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by mikojan 7y ago
Germany has been spearheading the neoliberal assault on democracy alongside the US and Great Britain as early as the 1980s. In the 2000s we created "Europe's best low-income sector" (Gerhard Schroeder) and destroyed the pensi
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by mikojan 7y ago
No, they are exactly right. Former migrant and working-class districts have been turned into habitats for the rich and the upper-middle class. Lower and middle income groups are driven out of the city. (Not completely. After all, we need th
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by mikojan 7y ago
It is really that good.

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