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by minimuffins 6y ago
What union did this?
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I'm sympathetic to this way of thinking but I'm not convinced this is a real instance of web bloat. I didn't measure files or anything, but I have a pretty terrible internet connection and didn't experience any discernib
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by minimuffins 6y ago
If we're just thinking about it in terms of pure money optimization, that makes sense. Why spend 170,000 dollars when you could spend...nothing. But it also seems the author actually enjoys building these tools. So it doesn't actu
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by minimuffins 6y ago
It doesn't matter! Don't give them the power to! There's a Richard Feynman quote from the Challenger postmortem: absence of a particular kind of failure in the past doesn't guarantee absence of the same kind of failure i
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Google has not directly intervened in elections as far as we know. Will they ever if we don't take away their power to? Only one way to find out!
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by minimuffins 6y ago
In short, because pervasive surveillance is a nightmare for a free society and you aren't the only person alive.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
In a child comment you make the case that racism is when some group holds "tribal/identitarian" notions about an "other" group and attributes essential characteristics to them. You say this has existed throughout hi
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Good thing I'm not saying there's no difference then.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
That certainly did not start in the Trump administration.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
No.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
There is a book called Sweetness and Power by the anthropologist and historian Sidney Mintz with a thesis that the way we consume sugar is not actually so arbitrary. According to Mintz, the production of sugar was at the heart of the transi
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by minimuffins 6y ago
This is not exactly a direct answer, but I've really enjoyed clicking through this expansive guide to electronic music: https://music.ishkur.com/
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Hacker News Capitalism Defense Force is really circling the wagons and downvoting totally reasonable comments on this post.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Some smart writers have spilled a lot of ink over the years about the use of force in capitalist productive relations. Pre-modern high art is "vanity projects." Is that your real take?
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Really pathetic that this is downvoted. It's correct. Whether you like gun control or not, the real history is it was kicked off in the Reagan era in response to the Black Panthers' efforts to arm themselves.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I don't know. In the past a lot of material culture survived for thousands of years by total accident. A lot of objects survived just because nobody ever bothered to destroy them, and could be found later. It's a different situati
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Yes, journalists should absolutely follow white supremacists and tell me what they're up to so I don't have to. That is their job.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> "If speed/performance is a feature that your customers want to pay for, they will let you know. If it's not, then your competitor will eat your lunch" This doesn't really disagree with the argument from the pie
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I don't think it's the nature of progress. There's no question we have the _capacity_ to engineer our way out of these problems. They aren't unsolvable. But a lot would have to change before the necessary resources are m
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Do you think like, high performing teams at a FAANG corporation is the meaning of life, or?
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I guess I'm supposed to sympathize with the manager in this hypothetical (which is different from the OP's situation anyway). But I don't!
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by minimuffins 6y ago
This line of reasoning is insane to me: 1. Exploitation and immiseration are real and severe at home and abroad. 2. This guy is luckier than most since he's not in one of the most hyper-exploited groups. 3. Therefore: he should check h
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by minimuffins 6y ago
This is nuts. This guy doesn't owe the maximally extractive amount of his labor to the FAANGCorp. If they're happy with his work output, fine. He fulfilled his end of the bargain. Totally deranged protestant work ethic run amok to
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by minimuffins 6y ago
It sounds to me like you found yourself a nice sinecure, a rare find in contemporary life! Take heart! There's no reason you need to identify yourself or your work output with the company that employs you. A lot of people try, but it&#
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by minimuffins 6y ago
"My career exists because of it" isn't a great argument for its actual merit.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
It's a mistaken construction to try and think about what computing does, whether it's good or bad. There is not some fundamental nature that lies at the heart of something called "computing." Computing, or science or tec
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> it does seem they need some sort of up-armored police cars given how many of them have been destroyed in the rioting Police cars that can be destroyed by unarmed civilians are a feature not a bug.
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by minimuffins 7y ago
When a strike leader gets fired over some bullshit like this you really have to be a sap to take the company's side this seriously.
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by minimuffins 7y ago
These kids are the spawn of a terminally deranged postmodern technocapitalist society. You can see it's contradictory historical cultural dementia in incel ideology. They have no idea where they are in history. I want a wife and a fami
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by minimuffins 7y ago
Bathtubs aren't a novel cultural formation. Bathtubs also don't kill people on purpose because of beliefs they've recently adopted. Personally I think it is reasonable that we talk more about incel killings than bathtub killi

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