misterbishop

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by misterbishop 3y ago
If another company wants to make a Steam competitor on PC, go for it. EGS isn't a competitor, it's an internet scam.
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by misterbishop 3y ago
Fingers crossed they kill the Games Store.
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by misterbishop 3y ago
Lessig is a bit of a crackpot. Extreme wealth, and the political power it bestows is so obvious and corrosive to the whole world. The capitalist system enslaves almost everyone on the planet, and Larry's out here theorizing about how w
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by misterbishop 3y ago
No disrespect to the author, but how do projects like this trend on HN? It has 5 commits all from the same day last summer. There's very little activity or engagement with the project to date. Something like this happens almost every
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by misterbishop 3y ago
A rational economic system would eliminate the distinction between education and production so that people are constantly learning/improving while occasionally contributing to massive breakthroughs. We systemically under-develop every
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by misterbishop 3y ago
Here's a program with the goals I'm talking about: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/research/responsive-math...
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by misterbishop 3y ago
This just is a total misunderstanding of what's being proposed, and a hamfisted excuse to dress up reactionary stupidity as a defense of "Math". The changes aren't "refusing to teach kids math", they are a bett
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by misterbishop 3y ago
Why is this trending when there hasn't been a commit since Jan 2021? There's a comment here like "it's early days"... the repo has been dormant for longer than it was active.
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by misterbishop 3y ago
That site has been Comcast's honeypot for like 10 years.
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by misterbishop 4y ago
on the part of the capitalist counter-revolution as well
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by misterbishop 4y ago
It's a tautology. The whole idea of a "golden age" is premised on liberal/enlightenment values which were brought to life through the revolutionary transition from feudalism to capitalism. There are no modern communist s
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by misterbishop 4y ago
The pocket change invested in serious scientific research by capitalist-run foundations proportionally increases with the wealth of those capitalists. That it grows is not impressive. What would be impressive is if these foundational social
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by misterbishop 4y ago
It's actually capitalism that has stagnated scientific progress. Initially capitalism revolutionizes production by liberating it from the backwardness of feudalism, establishing division of labor, science over church, automation, etc.
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by misterbishop 4y ago
nonsense. the political activity required to solve the big problems would sweep these little bullshit issues off the table.
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by misterbishop 4y ago
I hate this as much as anyone, but it's wild that nerds make their stand on the sacred right TO WATCH A MOVIE. We face incredible political oppression and extreme economic exploitation in the context of global capitalism melting down.
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by misterbishop 4y ago
and copyright is already holding back our culture insanely without blockchain DRM do away with copyright and guarantee everyone a decent standard of living.
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by misterbishop 4y ago
It's already bizarre enough that librarys have a DRM check-in/out system on e-readers. If you think I'm gonna buy your NFT book, think again.
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by misterbishop 4y ago
It cuts both ways. What you're saying about the GOP is 100% true. It also became the Democrats' fundraising angle for 30+ years, despite their total inaction on passing an actual law recognizing the right to abortion. Democrats l
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by misterbishop 4y ago
Business and investor interests quickly point to the federal reserve as a scapegoat for policies which they needed to prevent bankruptcy in the worst period of the covid crash. We've had a surreal 2 years where the US is clearly in dec
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by misterbishop 4y ago
It is the worst. It offers nothing to anyone, it has a terrible user interface, and it breaks basic features of the world wide web. If AMP is genuinely a way to enhance online user experiences, then make it opt-in, instead of the current no
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by misterbishop 4y ago
AMP is probably the single worst thing Google has produced. But as a Pixel 6 user, I think the real solution to bypassing AMP would have to live at the VPN level. Using Firefox Nightly as my primary browser, I don't really get AMP sear
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by misterbishop 6y ago
As if the Inquirer didn't cultivate a toxic, racist audience intentionally. They published the thoroughly mediocre Christine Flowers basically weekly for 17 years. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/philadelphia-prog
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by misterbishop 7y ago
"no true scottsman" is irrelevant at the level of the philosophy of Marx/Engels. Communism is a stateless, classless society where mass productive capacity allows for the maxim "from each according to their ability, to
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by misterbishop 7y ago
Even by this ill-informed left-com critique, Marx and Bukunin both share a vision of a stateless, classless society based on free association and a practical end to resource scarcity. Not "top down rules" as the original poster si
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by misterbishop 7y ago
It's obvious you don't know anything about Marx because you are contrasting "top down rules" (allegedly communism) to a "decentralized" capitalism. Even a cursory reading of Marx would dispel both mistakes.
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by misterbishop 7y ago
It's awesome to see criticisms of Marxism on the one hand attack its rigid dogmatism, and on the other hand attack its vague, mystical dialectics. I've been a marxist for 10 years and it's extremely rare to see a criticism of
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by misterbishop 7y ago
Jack, while incredibly powerful has been a huge hurdle for pro audio on Linux. I'm looking forward to Pipewire being the default audio interface. Hopefully it drives a revival of the Linux sound engineering community and new software p
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by misterbishop 7y ago
"It seems many transgender need to be taught..." This is a condescending and cheap swing at transgender people. First: lots, maybe most trans people in the US don't get reassignment surgery, so your unsolicited education fo
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by misterbishop 7y ago
You're making a basic mistake between gender and sex. Gender is a social category, and women as a social group are oppressed in various ways. A major task of feminism is to identify and end gender-based oppression. None of that depen
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by misterbishop 7y ago
It's sort of weird to see this article framed as a progressive move against male bias when it seems to buy wholesale into a gender essentialialist worldview. The piece even touches on it at the end, dropping a hand grenade in its last

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