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by sacomo 6y ago
The origin of the virus is worth knowing. I think the far-right in the US are trying to use "covid was made in a Chinese lab" as a way to build anti-China sentiment and also to dismiss the virus' impact in a way. Their power
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by sacomo 6y ago
I've been playing violent video games my entire life. Depictions of rape and murder still make me cringe. I can't even sit through 20 seconds of slaughterhouse footage. But I love watching statues of dictators or pro-slavery loser
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by sacomo 6y ago
Economics isn't a science. > I call it organized religion with equations, superstition. The only way to become free of superstition is through overcoming. But you need to study. I’ve always pissed off my academic colleagues and othe
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by sacomo 6y ago
Don't you understand? The manufacturing of new electric stoves to replace the billions of gas stoves currently in use will be good for the environment. Stop drawing attention to flaws in the article. /s
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by sacomo 6y ago
Not OP, but found this: https://indivisiblesf.org/blog/2020/4/28/the-cares-act-will-... > the CARES Act may end up serving as the second largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealth
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by sacomo 6y ago
I'm not sure which country you live in, but in the US workers are constantly railroaded by their employers simply because they aren't addressing the political power that their employers hold over the worker's lives. Most Amer
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by sacomo 6y ago
Yes. The concept of selling yourself as a prepackaged, easy to comprehend commodity is soul crushing. You are trying to convince other people to exploit your labor. Be flexible and use the term that the person you are selling yourself to wa
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by sacomo 6y ago
I'm actually happy to hear that more people are latching onto the political aspects related to their industries. Everything we do is political even if we want to pretend otherwise. Let's end the artificial separation of work and p
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by sacomo 6y ago
Shouldn't have been allowed to have undemocratic control over that amount of political power (wealth) to begin with.
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by sacomo 6y ago
They should convert to a Worker-owned Cooperative https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/how-to-convert-a-business-into-a...
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by sacomo 6y ago
They should convert to a Worker-owned Cooperative https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/how-to-convert-a-business-into-a...
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by sacomo 6y ago
Should have just ran with it and called in StaLin.
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by sacomo 6y ago
They should convert to a Worker-owned Cooperative https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/how-to-convert-a-business-into-a...
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by sacomo 6y ago
They should convert to a Worker-owned Cooperative https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/how-to-convert-a-business-into-a...
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by sacomo 7y ago
> The Takeaway: Soy is a unique food that is widely studied for its estrogenic and anti-estrogenic effects on the body. Studies may seem to present conflicting conclusions about soy, but this is largely due to the wide variation in how s
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by sacomo 7y ago
it's no longer the proletariat, it's the precariat.
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by sacomo 7y ago
The vast majority of any labor force is of the unskilled variety. The "bourgeois capitalist" are still in full command, even at the largest and most profitable tech firms.
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by sacomo 7y ago
This is one of the most simplististic, reductionary arguments against socialism I have read. Anyone who uses the 'human nature' argument shouldn't be taken seriously. Especially with this article's mischaraterization of
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by sacomo 7y ago
> As Will Wilkinson points out, the available data suggest that citizens of countries with liberal free-market economies are among the most satisfied, which explains why the United States, which exemplifies exactly the sort of amok consu
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by sacomo 7y ago
You can use tor also for search, reading articles, and research topics that you don't want associated in any way with your traceable internet persona (no region, ip, etc) identifiers / telemetry. There are lots of reasons to use t
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by sacomo 7y ago
we are using it internally for a lot of management apps. we just deployed a new authorization frontend for graphite / carbon using cro that is handling several million daily requests (per small EC2 instance). raku is a great language t
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ICE Revealed How Much Its New Contract with Peter Thiel’s Palantir Is Worth(motherjones.com)
5 points by sacomo 7y ago|1 comments
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by sacomo 7y ago
Only socially liberal. Economically speaking, the tech industry is more akin to the traditional economic liberalism . Not left by any stretch of the imagination.
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by sacomo 7y ago
Then use your imagination and write some new novels. People are free to write whatever they want.
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by sacomo 7y ago
The status quo understands that the `utopia` of the future (the shiny versions) will not be achieved under the current economic / political paradigms. They are afraid of losing their centers of power and for them it is easier to discou
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by sacomo 8y ago
Here is a slight modification that takes advantage of the hyper operator >> (»): @numbers.grep(* > 10 && * % 2)>>.&work; https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators#index-entry-hyper_...
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by sacomo 8y ago
We are using in in production. One of our bigger uses is a DB metrics aggregator. We use it to to pull stats from DB servers for remote clients and dump them into graphite. Sort of an agent-less monitoring platform. We've had this Perl