mikojan

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   by mikojan 7y ago

   ALL propaganda agencies are going to love this. State or industry. Pepsi or Joe Biden.
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   by mikojan 7y ago

   Does this make it not exploitative?
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   by mikojan 7y ago

   > “Macrophysics” (predicting complex physical systems such as hurricanes and earthquakes) does just as poor a job of prediction as macroeconomics. Which is why people do not trust the weather men and neither should they trust economists.
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   by mikojan 7y ago

   Expropriate Microsoft.
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   by mikojan 7y ago

   So how is the invasion of Iraq affecting your buying decision process with regards to american goods?
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   by mikojan 7y ago

   People have been convincingly altering pictures since forever. I could do it no problem when I was 14. Nothing changes.
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   by mikojan 7y ago

   Of course it is "just" a linguistic construct. Those distinct entities do not exist in the real world. We come up with definitions for things we experience as distinct entities. Definitions merely good enough for us to reason abou
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   by mikojan 7y ago

   I love that.
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   by mikojan 7y ago

   Expropriate them.
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    > So of course you go out and collect all the smartest people you can find, no matter what it costs. Yes, but also: Why is there so much money in finance in the first place? This isn't just the way the world is. We consciously finan
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    I think you don't actually disagree with Chomsky. This is what you'd expect (1) shifting resources from the public sector to the private sector and (2) financializing the economy because a corporation is by design oriented towards
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    whats the tl;dr please?
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    > E.g. we have strict rules regarding political advertisement and campaign contributions which means money is not an important thing in Norwegian politics. Consequently politicians are not bought [...] This is not true if Norway is anyth
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    there is a light side?
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    There is a light side?
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    > Markets are the opposite of top-down linear design. Markets are but corporations are private bureaucracies. Some of them gigantic. All but a few managed like a dictatorship. Adam Smith lived in a world in which a single person producin
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    They offer a discount, you just say no. It's a nuisance, but I wouldn't reconsider a subscription to what is maybe the best newspaper in the world because of it.
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    > No one ships plastic waste unless ... Yes. Unless we do. Which we are. And it ends up in the water. And we remain responsible for the foreseeable consequences of our actions.
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    That's great. What about the countries you're shipping your plastic waste to?
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    Is anybody denying that? I found a study by Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath suggesting that total life-cycle energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions contribute an additional 63% for onroad, 155% for rail, and 31% for air systems over v
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    Is it Windows 10?
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    Why would users who do not even understand bookmarks understand anything beyond just keeping dozens of tabs they think they might need
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    Kind of ruined that quote with the propertarianist hot take
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    This. What's so hard to understand about that?
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    So now you're filtering out bots and people with disabilities?
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    Switching to a whole nother editor to use php might be annoying to some people
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    > some I'd call that a success.
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    Nobody has time for that. The hypocrisy rises to heaven when you decry "low level leaf nodes" even though they showed up and you didn't.
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    If you're uploading more landscapes than selfies I'm going to unfollow you. Few people on instagram understand themselves as photographers or visual artists and so the most interesting subject naturally is themselves since they ha
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    by mikojan 7y ago

    > Furthermore with lobbying the activity is largely in public Disregarding popular movements that's not how lobbying works at all. No private special interest group is going to be advertising the many ways in which it is trying to i