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by opnitro 7y ago
>>> If you don't believe this, can you give examples of cases where "the rich" have successfully withheld a beneficial technology from everyone for more than a few decades? Control over the means of production
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by opnitro 7y ago
Tech also became tech because of massive centralized investment from the defense industry.
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by opnitro 7y ago
More specifically, while linear logic grants the 'must use-once variable', Rust implements "affine types", where values must be used no more than once.
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by opnitro 7y ago
Yes, there are white people are poorer than Will Smith. Unfortunately, if we want to do analysis of society at large, we need to look at trends. And leaving race out of class analysis tends to obscure some of the relationships at play. This
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by opnitro 7y ago
Curious how people who use this find it compares to an environment like Racket?
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This is basically good.
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by opnitro 7y ago
Humanities courses often thrive on discussion sections. These are hard to replicate with just books.
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by opnitro 7y ago
I can't see how that would break it either, hence the low confidence percentage!
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by opnitro 7y ago
I've tried that. Lights simply stay lit as if nothing's happened.
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by opnitro 7y ago
Just a word of warning, I tried this right now and I'm 55% sure I just broke the arduino. Upload failed, resetting does nothing.
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by opnitro 7y ago
Easy, put executives in jail.
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by opnitro 8y ago
I suppose the reason I choose to argue the semantics is that I think overdefining the term socialism hides the critique of capitalism that socialism embodies, and I think that does a disservice to the debate.
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by opnitro 8y ago
Sure, I don't think many would argue that social democratic schemes are further down the scales to the left. But if we define a system that explicitly exists within the context of supporting privately owned corporations socialist, I fe
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by opnitro 8y ago
I don't think the problem is that Apple purchased an office on an island. The problem is the use of that to not pay taxes to the USG.
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by opnitro 8y ago
The means of production are _not_ being redistributed via taxes and foodstamps. Apple still owns the factories, the IP, the land, the offices, etc.
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by opnitro 8y ago
"Socialism is when the government does stuff, and the more stuff it does, the more socialister it is."
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by opnitro 8y ago
Communal ownership of the means of production? Social democratic redistribution schemes are not socialist.
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by opnitro 8y ago
Perhaps the "people" who helped create that wealth should have some say in how it's spent
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by opnitro 8y ago
I worry this ends up being a technical solution to what is ultimately a social problem. If the problem is that people feel threatened submitted feedback at their workplace, the issue is the structure of the workplace.
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by opnitro 8y ago
Yet this critique of ideological association never seems to come into play regarding the US's genocides in south America, or Britian's starvation of India.
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by opnitro 8y ago
Posting this essay because it's eternally relevant when it comes to discussions like these: https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm It's an essay by a feminist writer on how movements organize themselves
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by opnitro 8y ago
Reporting is always biased. There's a limited number of stories you can investigate, and someone has to make that choice. "What deserves resources/attention" is one of the fundamental political questions.
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by opnitro 8y ago
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm This paper is ever important when trying to come up with technical solutions to societal organization.
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by opnitro 8y ago
I mean, this isn't really a new phenomenon. See the United Fruit Company ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#Guatemala )
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Idris 2: Type Driven Development of Idris(youtube.com)
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by opnitro 8y ago
One problem here is the differential in power between employers and employee. An employee needs a job, as they need income. An employer probably has multiple applicants. If it's beneficial for all employers to have NCs (as it helps ret
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by opnitro 8y ago
It's interesting though, Racket certainly doesn't shy away from it. It allows you to use the lambda symbol as a replacement for the `lambda` keyword. (The keyword still works however)
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by opnitro 8y ago
Seconding this. I got discouraged trying Haskell. Came back and tried it with Racket and things made more sense. I certainly wouldn't give Haskell as someone's first functional language.
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by opnitro 8y ago
I'd disagree (though it's certainly not the tool for every job). I think it has more to do with the old line that FP makes "the hard things easy but the easy things hard". It's a really different way of thinking abo
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by opnitro 8y ago
Perhaps it would do well to reflect on the kind of society that treats people and handles poverty in such a way that they would rather be locked up and almost every aspect of their life controller, because at least they get some food.

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