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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Because it runs counter to the "epic nerd" persona Musk was trying to build with his authorized biography. Windows isn't cool right now.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
That's because "lightweight" to Linux nerds is more like "weight of light" than "light of weight".
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
I think maybe frameworks should stop calling it debug mode and start calling it "danger mode". Because clearly people aren't paying attention to what it actually does.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
And much of those things are part of, and often actively caused by, capitalism, including war and starvation. The legal battle over some obscure bit of private property is not the worst bit of capitalism, I didn't say it was. But it&#x
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
There's literally centuries of thought on leftist alternatives. I can't sufficiently explain them in a HN comment. But The Conquest of Bread is a good place to start.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
And the waste companies they empty them to end up dumping them in some other water way.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
A small decrease in plastic waste is insufficient. We need radical solutions yesterday, not lackluster solutions three months from now.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
>changing consumer behavior (which is not easy, but it's happening right now, and achievable through further exposure and education) Shifting the burden of plastic waste onto consumers is extremely naive and foolish. Consumers have
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the Civil Rights Act because racism is very much alive today but you're very right that planet Earth is not a laboratory. We don't have time to tinker with taxes in an attempt
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
The US has never had a carbon tax, what are you talking about?
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
>My only concern is that we are too far down to rabbit hole with cheap, ubiquitous, damaging materials that if the true cost was reflected in the price no one could afford anything. The reality is even worse than that: since capitalism h
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
>Political games are all there is. That's not true. A better world is possible, but not if we restrict ourselves to shortminded solutions like taxes and electoral politics. This is a systemic flaw, you can't work inside of the
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Companies won't act as long as the short to mid term profit is still with wasting plastic. Opposing the system (capitalism) as whole is the only way to prevent evironmemtal collapse.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Rather it's a problem we're exporting to the third world.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
> >Where does the chain of responsibility end? With capitalism. >Do the domestic waste management companies that profited from collecting plastics, only to send waste to China bear any responsibility? I would say they bear all o
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
We really should have locked up every single banker on Wall Street after 2007. The meme of private property has caused so much harm in the world. We have messes like this house sitting, rotting, festering, on society. We should excise the c
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Government loans aren't a tax on those who don't need them, who are the very people who should be taxed the most. And states only fund roughly half of school's out of their budgets and that number has decreased in recent year
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Yes I suppose you're technically correct. But government grants hardly pay for poor people's education, especially considering they trap them in the cycle of being unable to pay for books and food without earning too much to lose
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Yes, don't fund students, fund schools. The government shouldn't pay tuition bills, it should ban tuition for schools receiving public funding. Though I question why an AEI schill should be considered a credible source on anything
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Wow, you are so confident when you provide literally zero evidence to back up your claim either. Though that's not what I was addressing. I was addressing the criticism of universal healthcare that we'll somehow run out of doctors
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
There's a difference between the government funding education and the government funding students. Costs are high because the government funds students (sometimes), not education. And very few people get government scholarships, most g
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
We can't create enough doctors because medical school is prohibitively expensive. Universal healthcare and universal higher education go hand in hand.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
College is inefficient because instead of just paying out of the taxpayers, we created a roundabout system of loans and banking that serves no one except shareholders.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
You often do because the cost of administering financial aid and loan programs is much more than if the government simply funded education. The same applies to healthcare: you need dozens of administrators because you have dozens of insurer
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
That was because states covered most of the budget. Austerity policies changed that. And supply and demand is not applicable to macroeconomics, which education is part of.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
The biggest factor in the rise in tuition is easily austerity policies lowering in-state school budgets.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
It's really depressing how capitalism has taken automation and data and bastardized it into a toxic weapon.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
Not sure why you're acting like that's a bad thing. The idea we should live to work 40+ hour weeks isn't a good thing.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
MITM attacks can also simply be injecting malicious code onto insecure websites. They don't have to be stealing your credit card info to be harmful.
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by rrcaptain 8y ago
A conversion rate drop doesn't necessarily mean it's unpopular with users, just that people aren't converting.

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