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by npc 15y ago
> communism/socialism is predicated on the presence of a government It's really not. Socialism is about collective ownership of property, state socialism is only a subset of socialism. But perhaps you could explain why prominent anarchi
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by npc 15y ago
Look, I'm not trying to attack you personally, I'm trying to say that the way you are arguing is detrimental to discussion. This includes things like making controversial statements ("I find it endlessly amusing that communists or socialist
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by npc 15y ago
You're either being extraordinarily disingenuous or ignorant if you're trying to claim that socialism and anarchism haven't historically been aligned with each other. Bakunin was in the first international with Marx, Russian anarchists part
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by npc 15y ago
I'm not much of a free-marketeer, but if enough people "in the neighborhoods" want to eat at a burger king such that it would be economically viable, why should other people be allowed to prevent them from doing that?
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by npc 15y ago
Even saying "HN's crowd" is deliberately flagging legitimate links that are critical of Google is cynical as well. I must ask though, if you think HN is filled with people who are so uninterested in legitimate discussion, then why are you p
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by npc 15y ago
I've witnessed plenty of Google apologism on HN, but to be fair I've also witnessed a significant amount of anti-Google bias as well. Either way, saying that HN is deliberately blocking anti-Google sites strikes me as paranoid and needlessl
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by npc 15y ago
I'm sure everybody knows by now, but this is certainly not the first time paypal has done this kind of thing: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/paypal-fiasco-summary.p... (slightly nsfw)
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by npc 15y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's terrible that companies are apparently defining engineers based on languages? I know Python AND Ruby, would that make their heads explode?
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by npc 15y ago
Okay, you do realize that: - the point of the post was not to prove that there is sexism in technology, but rather to show how sexism can drive away women - that the existence of sexism in tech is one of the assumptions of the article, whic
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by npc 15y ago
However, 'lay' does (half) rhyme with 'bathe', which provides a much needed connection between the 2nd and 3rd lines, I feel.