shirakawasuna

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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Seems like awfully political content to me
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
If all famines caused by economic systems are genocides, then there's a very large reckoning to be done by applying the same accounting methodology to other countries.
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Who, specifically?
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Not sure why noting the hypocrisy of HN moderation counts as hate. When I've (accurately and politely) pushed back on ahistorical anticommunist narratives in the past, I've been rate-limited and warned by HN mods. While commenting
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Any idea of the sustainability of the Gates Carbon Drive system? Looks like it's made of polymer + carbon fiber. On the other hand, traditional chains eat+shed oil and grease.
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
I'm sure the Hacker News mods will be in to censor this definitely-not-tech and definitely-political post and all of its comments. Right?
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Opt-out analytics is not the only way to do research on your own products or users. Not by a lot. And it being popular doesn't justify it, it's just an invasion of privacy that many people put up with (or are unaware of).
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> Our perspective is that fascists are not capitalists because they seek to manage the economy through central planning. An incorrect perspective. Fascism is sacrificing one set of the ownership class for another, diverting populism dire
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Essentially none of what you said contradicts any point I've made. I am not a USSR utopian. Very much the opposite: it had very serious problems. The issue is the comparative nature, where capitalists pick and choose what counts as exp
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> I'm not sure it will be fruitful to discuss this issue with someone who denies the international ambitions of communism :) I'm not denying that communists have had international ambitions, only that your description was accur
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> Perhaps but I'm not sure it makes much of a difference. It does. Many socialists want to (and do) use markets as part of their desired transition. Capitalism is not actually pro-market by default, it just uses markets to accumulat
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> It is indeed true that socialists and communists reject the construct of private property yes > and jump to expropriation yes > and violence No. Most individual socialists are reluctant to be involved in any form of violence and
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> Of course they did, this is Marxist doctrine. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. It doesn't make any sense to jump straight to "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> False, capitalism successfully prices products every day. The failures are eliminated in a process akin to natural selection of species. Capitalism doesn't do that either. This entire comparison is a category error. In this discus
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> The Cold War would be an answer That's not the answer, it's the mechanism of that violence. > unless you somehow deny that communists were equally dedicated to subverting and overthrowing the west. I will absolutely deny t
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Correct, the politics and power dynamics are the primary barrier, not because the theories fail (they tend to go untested). Look at Venezuela. A country that has been dependent on an oil-based extraction economy for decades and subject to b
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
An important consideration is that USSR-style communism did not fail because of a fundamentally broken economy, but due to expending vast resources and organization against outside attacks / foreign policy. Not that there weren't
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
We have reached the End of History (TM), you see, and no longer need to think about that.
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> There is: you can't estimate how much people will want something new. Socialism cannot estimate this any better or worse than capitalism. Contrasting the two is actually a bit absurd, given that socialism has a wide range of forms
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
A prototype of Cybersyn operated for about a year in a limited capacity and did so successfully. Then Allende was murdered in a CIA-backed coup. Claims about it failing for theoretical reasons seem... odd.
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Glad to see these takes on HN. Keep it up!
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Communist systems took poor and often feudal countries or colonies and made them into regional powers or superpowers. The liberal narrative that we've reached the end of history because of their "failure" is absurd in the ext
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Looks like an interesting project! It would still need serious audits since it's all browser-based (arbitrary JS could be added at any time and snoop on the results page) and there's a black box element at the point of retrieving
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
It's all about context. If you make an honest mistake on, say, WikiData, nobody should jump down your throat. That's not productive and the context is one where some degree of empathy should be expected. It's a commons. And t
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Just wankin' it in front of your coworkers during a meeting nbd cancel culture run amok! If you aren't okay with me wankin' it in front of you, sweetie, you're not cut out for this business.
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
"Now let me address, in detail, why I was fired..."
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
Something important about that situation is the power dynamic. You were not in a position of power, your boss was, and you were looking to defuse the situation and take ownership of a mistake. Your point is correct - there was a systematic
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
> If people are leaning more towards denial, it means that the cost for an individual to do something immoral is already too high I have no idea where this idea comes from. People will attempt to avoid consequences even if those conseque
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
What is wrong with the public raising its expectations on public figures, companies, politicians, etc? This is what I read every time someone refers to the "internet mob". It's a bunch of normal people being loud on the inter
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by shirakawasuna 6y ago
I thought there was a decently-sized left contingent that could at least push back on them. Alas.

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