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by ue_ 9y ago
This sounds horrible, even though I knew about it before. What are the viable options for other manufacturers or architectures which don't come with this sort of thing, either for desktops or for laptops?
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But why? Doesn't that shut out a range of economic theories from the discussion? Classic political economy and its critiques (Marx et al.) I feel are still relevant and useful. If they are not to be studied in economics, then where?
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Your comment is a strange one, and I hear it a lot projected at Marxian-thinking people and economists too. In the case of Marx, he does not call inequality a bad thing, he says it is within the self-interest of the workers themselves to
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Venezuela is not a Socialist country, and I do not support dictatorships. In line with Marx and Engels, I support the gradual transference of power away from the state (which must be at once transformed into the complete and democratic cont
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Some would compare it to a form of slavery, and I think such comparisons are reasonable . "The only difference as compared with the old, outspoken slavery is this, that the worker of today seems to be free because he is not sold once
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You raise a very interesting point. Engels said (I can't find the quote at the moment) that the time when the employee is away from work, i.e not selling his labour-power, he is useful to the employer, as the worker repairs himself a
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Then they should protect that with non-disclosure agreements, or realise that they can't survive as a business (or don't want to) without restricting the freedom of the workers to do what they want to outside of the time paid to t
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They should also study the history of Communist thinkers during these regimes. I mentioned in another comment a while ago: >Socialist critics [during the time of the USSR and others] include George Orwell (known for his criticism of tota
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Socialist critics include George Orwell (known for his criticism of totalitarian Socialism in Animal Farm), economist I.I Rubin, the anarchists which the USSR suppressed, Luxemburg, Bordiga, Bookchin, and later on Hobsbawm, Trotsky (to some
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I very much agree, I think that the concept of property, the concept of possession, and the abolishment of the former should be discussed more, though it's strange that it's often taken for a given in political discussions, despit
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As much as I would like to achieve Socialism via democratic reform within the system, various figures (Emma Goldman, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, even Engels himself) have noted that working within the existing system ("bourgeois democracy&q
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I'd like to say that I am a British (born and raised in England) Communist. This does not mean that I support the actions of Stalin, nor Mao, nor Che or Castro. I also don't think we should play numbers games with ideologies or fi
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It depends; perhaps it will push people to realise that the current system of affairs is broken, and then to push people to a revolution.
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Why exactly is it a slippery slope? I admit that it can be made as such, but why must it necessarily be? A legislature or person can define hate speech in such a way that it is not a slippery slope in my opinion, and I think that's wha
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>soon will also consider mis gendering as hate speech. I think it should be up to the individual case; deliberate misgendering can cause significant psychological trauma and distress, especially if in multiple occurrence.
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> unpopular (often rhetorically construed as "hate") speech does. Why?
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>With that attitude, why stop there? Why not just outlaw saying mean things in general? You're making this into a slippery slope when it need not be. The parent commenter didn't say anything about mean things, they were talking
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The government, or the state in general decides. Whether the laws are problematic or not depends on someone's personal view. You view them as problematic, the parent commenter probably views them as unproblematic.
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>Who decides In the context of a country, a judge or the people elected to represent the people do. This is often touted as some kind of immense showstopper to restricting speech, when really, it's not. The same people who decide wh
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I don't know if it is related to the constitutional issue, but someone was convicted of having Simposons pornography because it pictured child characters from the show. The UK, Canada, NZ etc. and otger countries (to a weaker extent) h
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> his favorite suggestion is that communists should be dropped out of helicopters into the ocean (cf Pinochet). Very frighteningly, I see this suggestion echoed around seemingly seriously by certain groups of libertarians, especially on
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I am a Socialist myself and I often talk with people who are accelerationists; I am divided on the issue personally. Accelerationism in the Communist sphere tends to align itself with policies against working within the democratic system to
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The extent to how it happened in Britain, I believe, even had other cities in Europe being called 'little Manchester'.
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My problem may be that I don't have much passion for the subject I'm studying (electronic and computer engineering), as I originally applied to do a different degree. Although I find some parts of the subject interesting (digital
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That's an interesting story, though I find that I oscillate between periods of perceived dread (though, as your Calc professor mentioned, I am privileged in this regard to not have it as much of an issue) and periods of a kind of laid
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Thank you; the pass mark being only 40% has given me some hope. It's been a large step up in terms of volume of content from what I did to get in.
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I'm 20 years old in my first year of university, and I'm probably going to fail the final exams next week. I don't think I'll be having the chance to take advantage of this peak.
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And yet it would have appeared on your screen nevertheless. You, or others in your position, also wouldn't have replied to me in such an instance, if you didn't want to discuss the topic. I was asking for a reason why my comment w
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Please don't mistake me, I wasn't trying to whine about downvotes. I wanted to find out the reason why people are downvoting, rather than replying. Hacker News strikes me as a very odd place; on one hand, encouraging discussion of
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They are in fact illegal in the US, if they are 'obscene', but what is deemed 'obscene' I believe is up to state law. A supreme court decision ruled that the material would be OK if it was not 'obscene'. I&#x27

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