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by rjbwork 5y ago
You're probably thinking of Marxism-Leninism, though it's hard to know without knowing what country you're talking about. I'm not even sure what a "Marxist" country could possibly entail. They'd dedicate
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by rjbwork 5y ago
You're correct, of course. I was also downvoted for an even slightly more simplified version of this post. Not too surprising given the general demographics of HN being quite biased towards startup founders, VC's, and the like.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Not at all. Marxism is a method of analyzing history and the present through the lens of class conflict. Generally "Marxism" is thrown around as a boogie man term by people with little understanding for something approximating ex
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by rjbwork 6y ago
It's clear we live under capitalism. Private entities own the means of production and employ (largely) non-owners to engage in wage labor using those means. The profits accrue to shareholders who often do no actual labor in the enter
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by rjbwork 6y ago
This is the case for me. I basically just realized I had never actually hard anything speaking back to me and had never observed anything super natural. I was basically fully deconverted by about age 16 or 17, mostly just through self exa
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by rjbwork 6y ago
My 3090 tops out at 400W on a not even very aggressive overclock. And it makes my room HOT when it's pegged. These graphics chips are insanely power hungry and beefy as hell these days.
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by rjbwork 6y ago
FYI to those reading - Blank-Cheque mods over 400 subreddits, many of which are massive. It will be interesting to see how the admins respond to the mods essentially shutting down vast swathes of the site. The only time I recall something
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Honestly I wish they would just go public. I'd invest at IPO and start paying for Nitro if they did. There's no need for them to get bought by one of the big companies to be a successful company providing a ton of value. I thin
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Yeah. There is also no requirements here in the US because alcohol is regulated by the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) rather than the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) or USDA (Department of Agriculture). Th
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by rjbwork 6y ago
At the point we have all that stuff in there are we really drinking "wine", or are we drinking some kind of alcoholic mixed drink? I personally would not expect, regardless of price point, that something I buy called "wine&q
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by rjbwork 6y ago
I greatly enjoyed that, thank you. It's much easier to follow Chomsky @ 1.25x speed, lol. I found his assertion and explanation during the questions section about the meaninglessness of "the physical" to be rather illuminat
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by rjbwork 6y ago
>- ci/cd is maybe not relevant to your users, but its about your own sanity, it forces complete documentation in code of what is done to build and ship, decouple it from local dev setups and make as deterministic as possible. Even s
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Yup. You gotta pay your tuition to the school of hands on trading for sure. It took quite a while for me to really grasp how they can all work in concert to move a position for and against you even if you are ostensibly right or wrong in
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by rjbwork 6y ago
I think you're being deliberately obtuse and uncharitable to the argument being presented. Any reasonable and charitable reading clearly interprets it as talking about "job for pay" rather than saying "childcare is not
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by rjbwork 6y ago
It's not going to happen for a while yet. There is more money chasing fewer opportunities so we see equity asset inflation. This is exacerbated by increasing industrial centralization and the longest period of low interest rates on r
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by rjbwork 6y ago
I think he's saying that neoliberals and corporations have co-opted left-wing identity politics while eschewing the underlying economic framework of those politics. They do this in a bid to obscure the reality that they are just anothe
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Yeah it's not very good writing, but the tl;dr is that someone executed a social engineering attack against Network Solutions, got them to update contact information for the domain owner to themselves, transferred it to BizCN, then tra
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Value != price, nor does LTV make said assertion. Things like markets and preferences (time, kind, etc.) help determine price. The assertion of LTV is that all value created is created by labor, as it is the transformative aspect provided
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Like I said I really don't want to get into this here, but I really would suggest reading more into this stuff, as you do seem to me to have a number of misconceptions about LTV.
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by rjbwork 6y ago
It does not seem to have been the case for me here, although I fully expected it to turn out that way.
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Could you talk a little about that or point to something that details the overall strategy? I'm considering a similar setup for event sourcing in AWS and DynamoDb with change streams crossed my mind.
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by rjbwork 6y ago
I think they're very inconsistent honestly. I ordered a 400 dollar item last summer, it was shipped by Fedex, and Fedex said they delivered it. I live in a house on a private drive way out in the country - nobody is porch pirating he
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by rjbwork 6y ago
I don't really want to get into it here, but your first example is pretty disingenuous. AFAIK the assertion is not that "all labor creates value" but that "all value derives from labor". There is a difference in t
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by rjbwork 6y ago
From a socialist (especially labor theory of value) perspective, you're buying and selling people's future labor. Socialists tend to think that the workers should get all of their labor. Obviously "root of all evil" is
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Regarding your final anecdote - heroin is actually dirt cheap to produce. It's the illegal nature and all the externalities involved that seem to make it so expensive for users. We should probably just allow people to buy pure doses
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Imagine you got fired from your company and the news made it double in value. Poor guy.
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by rjbwork 6y ago
>I technically have 3 jobs, two unrelated "full-time" SE roles, You mean to say that you are collecting two paychecks under the pretense of each company thinking you are working full time?
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Just out of curiosity, as an Atlanta based dev, what kinds of salaries are common in Austin at various levels?
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Personally I don't take pictures of myself and don't have any of the real name or picture based social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, etc.) I only use HN, Reddit, and Discord because I enjoy talking about curr
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by rjbwork 6y ago
Yeah this is what struck me as well. I and a number of my compatriots in high school had the ability to go to very prestigious institutions, but only a couple of us did - largely those from the worst off families economically as they were

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