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by somatic 7y ago
“Slavery” doesn’t have just one configuration. It’s just a word that we sometimes use to describe certain kinds of superior-inferior relationships: master-servant, lord-peasant, employer-employee, landlord-tenant, etc. Or how about debtpeon
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by somatic 7y ago
What you’re pointing out is just one expression of the larger phenomenon of America’s third-world-ification. We absolutely should have new airports. And trains. And not only should we have new airports and trains, we should have undergroun
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by somatic 7y ago
For an open-source phone to work, the devs will need to be paid. Open source as charity has run out of steam; to survive, open source must be profitable. The way to do it is to have a license under which all uses personal, educational, hobb
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by somatic 7y ago
You know, that phrase, “we value your privacy”, is actually pretty accurate when viewed in the right light.
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by somatic 7y ago
Truly we have transcended parody.
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by somatic 7y ago
This strikes me as profound and I would like to hear more. Do you have other writings? Are there any books about this? Do you think about this often?
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by somatic 7y ago
Maximum efficiency will occur when no humans are employed and all energy is produced and transmogrified for, and consumed by, retrofeudal neoaristocrats living lives of infinite leisure in their garden cloud paradise fortresses. Free market
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by somatic 7y ago
Not only does Apple offer no option to buy a 15 inch with a full keyboard, they’ve also failed to upgrade the 13 inch model with this refresh. WTF, honestly.
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by somatic 7y ago
Your username is uncapitalized.
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by somatic 7y ago
This situation is perhaps the finest example of the self-licking ice cream cone. Consider: * “The community” (houseowners) own the present stock of houses; * The price of a house is driven not by materials or labor, but by supply; * The sup
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by somatic 7y ago
We humans are remarkably solipsistic creatures. Why not build more elsewhere? Probably because leadership isn’t feeling the squeeze.
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by somatic 7y ago
No one complained when they named everything iEverything. Or if they did, the complainers weren’t important enough to matter. Just be thankful that they didn’t name iMac MacMan.
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by somatic 7y ago
Amazon is just one facet of a larger phenomenon of social and economic centralization and the ever-intensifying tournament by which the resources are distributed as a natural and necessary consequence.
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by somatic 7y ago
Wal-Mart and Amazon are not really in the same industry. Wal-Mart is an old retailer with a lot of physical stores and a well-established business model. Amazon is a young software company with the world’s biggest Internet store, the world’
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by somatic 7y ago
I interpreted your comment to mean something like “Emacs is configurable with third-party LISP code”, in much the same way as Vim is configurable with third-party Vimscript. But Vim is written in C, Vimscript being just a bolt on, whereas E
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by somatic 7y ago
Emacs is written in Emacs LISP, which is its own language. The really performance-critical stuff is written in C, as is the interpreter, but that’s it.
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by somatic 8y ago
If I may ask, where did you find a front-end job you liked?