slurgfest

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by slurgfest 15y ago
No, I think it's valid to say that the USSR was not socialism. That doesn't mean that the USSR was good, or that socialism is good, it just means that they have never been the same thing. (Unlike Chomsky, I am not concerned to save or favor
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by slurgfest 15y ago
Let's not use the word "essentially" as a weasel word. If you mean to say that Hitchens was a Marxist, that should be based on documented membership in some Marxist organization or some concrete quote avowing allegiance to Marxism. Otherwis
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by slurgfest 15y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure - because women talking openly about male privilege might find agreement from some quarters but ridicule or worse from other quarters. This is like saying that black people have the privilege of talking about race in the U
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by slurgfest 15y ago
Well, the problem is that this confounds all the properties of "the desktop world" with the properties of another client-side substitute for Javascript (like, say, Dart or some language using NaCl)
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by slurgfest 15y ago
I really don't think it's fair to insist that if anyone doesn't think Javascript is the optimal solution to every client-side web programming problem, they are themselves 'the problem'. "There are worse things than Javascript" is not a grea
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by slurgfest 15y ago
I would too, but what will be the characteristics of that VM? And who 'owns' the technology?
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by slurgfest 15y ago
Thinking "x will happen" doesn't mean having a specific timescale in mind. If I'm not mistaken, that's a prerequisite to making money by shorting stocks
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by slurgfest 15y ago
I think you are right, but it is really hard to take a nuanced position like that out in public (or anyway, it invites a lot of criticism) because it is inevitably interpreted as a political move to neutralize efforts in favor of groups whi