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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> By your definition, every corporation is right-wing by the fact that it's a corporation and all leftists want communism. Literally yes, although I'm an ancom and most of the leftists I know are demsoc or anarchist not ML.
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
The 'left' (as opposed to Liberals) are anticapitalist. HN's brainworm infested "anytime someone calls something racist it's leftist" has very little to do with political theory or history. The left is anticapi
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> Corporations and capitalism are not antithetical to left-wing politics. Fuck I didn't realize I actually like capitalism whoops. Wikipedia: > The term was later applied to a number of movements, ... socialism, communism, anarch
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
I'm excited for your shock when you _actually_ meet a leftist in that case instead of these milquetoast liberals. Hint: Google still supports and enforces capitalism.
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
The left was pretty damn upset about the blackface scandal. The Liberals are a _centrist_ party, not a leftist one. That's the NDP.
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Yeah, one of them was formerly a plant pot, an umbrella, and christmas lights. It's pretty funny but equally sad that Amazon doesn't care (or worse, is misincentivized) about fixing it.
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
My favourite example of this are cheap digital PH meters: https://www.amazon.com/Accuracy-Measuring-Household-Drinking... If you can find any listings with real reviews, it turns out that these are pretty terrible, usually
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Sorry, but what makes you an outsider? > The number of crackpot acolytes around Corbyn grows every day (thankfully, he remains unpopular with voters). I would vote for Labour normally...but their current policies are just...ignorant. The
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> Exactly how certain are you of this? This is my job. I design consumer electronics that ship in volumes larger than the raspberry pi. You've probably used something I've designed before. The backseat engineering by software d
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Nothing of that complexity is 5-10c in volume (even huge volumes). I would guess somewhere in the 1-2$ range, which _is_ a big issue for them. For reference, 5-10c won't even buy you a middle to low performance op-amp. The Pi became po
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
You certainly don't _have_ to do anything, and under a fixed computational load the Pi4 should run cooler because of the better core architecture. However, you can get better performance by cooling. A fan off to the side of the board b
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> It isn't like sociology...you either haven't studied economics or sociology. I love this dig specifically because you missed my point. I was simply addressing the fact that I don't think a field needs to have experimenta
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
I'm not claiming they require "clean experimental results" for the field to have validity. I think sociology is a very valid and valuable field that doesn't have such a thing. My problem is the misrepresentation of a so
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
I take a "Manufacturing Consent"-style approach to reading economics :)
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Haha, essentially, although I have a great deal of respect for the 'softer' sciences. _Most_ researchers are thoughtful enough to understand the limits of the approach and teach in kind. Economics are a special kind of arrogant th
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Here I found a good article about it: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/against-economic...
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> Both due to the content having this not-rigorous quality to it and because a lot of macroeconomics seems to be politics in disguise. Yeah, I'm cool with macro conceptually, but we shouldn't pretend it's something it&#x27
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> D) and replace it with a different version of economics, specifically one which agrees with my politics. All of macroeconomics is really just politics though, so if you believe a particular political conception is more useful or valuab
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Interestingly, you're doing exactly what the article is criticizing. The orthodoxy of "everything is supply and demand" has failed to predict many recent, important macroeconomic phenomenon. On the hand, the heterodox economi
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> To this day, economics continues to be taught not as a story of arguments—not, like any other social science, as a welter of often warring theoretical perspectives—but rather as something more like physics, the gradual realization of u
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Again, I think you're making a fair point about the intersection of privilege and the 'dirtbag' lifestyle, but that's not really what I'm getting at. I'm just commenting that those people with 100k$ vans are sn
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> I hate being basic and following the crowd As much as my comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, I don't mean to say you shouldn't do it because it's basic ;). I've been climbing for many many years and agree that it&#x2
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
I 100% agree it's played out, and was never totally true in the first place. However, compared to a lot of other sports that are complex and require a significant amount of equipment, climbing culture is a lot more weary of throwing mo
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcN3WETCDzM That's a beautiful line!
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
People like talking about things they are passionate about. For better or worse, climbing is the new "Tech Basic" thing to do, where lots of people in tech are recently getting into it, and therefore excited about it. It's a
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Rock climbing has a very long and storied history of climbers living on absolute scraps to get by, just so they can climb more. This persists in the culture to this day. Yvonne Chouinard, depicted in the article, was one of those climbers.
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
You're derailing a very reasonable discussion to make a political point. Instead of hiding your complaints with loaded language, be honest so we can actually discuss it on it's merits. Furthermore, it would benefit from some real-
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by nlfwhulsdhouv 7y ago
Every step of your analysis is several orders of magnitude too optimistic. The only thing sensible here is conceptually going to higher voltage. Loss in these systems is dominated by switching, not conduction. Are you just using the Rds(on)