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by ue_ 10y ago
I'm still a Corbyn supporter, and I think he's had a difficult time, having to owe up to his own goals, the goals of his grassroots movement and the goals of the old time voters and unions. This is very highlighted on the EU move;
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Sometimes I think that those who complain about 'normal people' on the net have some kind of a point. Would we be here with this kind of dilemma about popularity if the net never took off for 'normal' people?
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Thanks for the links and info, I'll be looking into Ocaml more.
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I've heard the concurrency situation with OCaml isn't very good, though I know nothing about that. Weirdly, this kind of bias and the idea that it doesn't have as many libraries for my particular domain (web programming) has
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>or a wrestling board It does now, in the form of /asp/ I think :) However I don't know how well moot's prediction of fizzling out holds for say 8chan, which has started to very much grow in popularity; granted, havin
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Atheism certainly can be dogma, especially in the strong variety. It is usually also coupled with a healthy dose of scientism.
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>militant, centralized, starkly authoritarian governments animated by populist nationalism. Communism may be militant or pacifistic, i.e via reformism, gradualism or via violent revolution. Communism is stateless, all powers of the gover
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>Communist societies had less redistribution than many modern social democratic countries and even less than the US. These were not Communist societies. Arguably the existing Communist societies were those in the form of primitive Commun
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>Remember, that both the far left and the far right are dangerous. For all the talk currently about fascism, it was Communism in the 20th century that produced the most death, suffering, and misery. The idea that regimes claiming to be C
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This is simply rubbish; it's based on some circular view of politics in which you just go round in a circle if you go in any one direction. It's silly and ahistorical to think this way. And a horshoe-theory like truism doesn'
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Of what relevance is the ethnic or religious or hair colour or eye colour make up of a nation to the ease of filing taxes?
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Is the title an allusion to Proudhon's succinct quote: "Property is theft!"?
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An extremely relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1807/ :)
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>If you're a programmer, and you don't know C, you're not good at your craft. Even as someone myself who knows (more or less) C, this is quite an elitist statement, and doesn't do justice to say, Lisp and people who u
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>At its core, capitalism is simply the codification of a win-win transaction between two or more parties. I work for your company, you pay me X salary. I don't think that's true; I view capitalism as a mode of production, subsi
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>Too bad no one is really advocating socialism I am (on the Internet at least).
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>That's how life under socialism really is - envy and brutality combined with breathtaking incompetence. Why do you think these are core to the ideas of Socialism? If by envy you are referring to envy of private property holders, ha
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Would other barriers to competition not take root, along with the corresponding inhumanity that is only held off by barriers at the moment? For example, the use of private police forces to defend private property (as far as I'm aware,
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>This "personal" capitalism is far different from the way our multinationals, governments, or even people, act today. As a Socialist myself, I have wondered: how does capitalism become personal? Is it possible to achieve this?
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That's why you use Matrix instead.
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>x220, you need to get an i7 to get a usb3 Are you sure about this? I have an i7 x220 and it doesn't come with USB3. I think I remember having a tough decision between the x220 (USB2 + nice keyboard) on the x230 (USB3 + chiclet keyb
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Reverse proxying to Apache is still how I run my Perl CGI scripts. I'm not sure of a better way to do it that supports running multiple scripts.
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Let's not say that writing Lisp macros has no skill :)
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>Because you can't measure what people don't want, or what their relative preferences are between comparable items. In what way do prices help with that? If more Fuji apples are requested, you know people like that over the oth
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Why can't usage data be recorded rather than what people purchase? If you want a Fuji apple, you request one, and that would be recorded in the system. How does the price system determine what people want? Many products which people do
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>really just LTV, but you can't really take that one out, can you Marx wasn't a proponent of the LTV, he critiqued previous formulations of it and then made his own contributions to the theory that some aspect of the value of a
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What has convinced you of natural law? I'm interested in your view.
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I was under the impression that the large-scale market with massive commodification, worthy of talking about in terms of a distinct class of bourgeoisie as owners of capital was a phenomenon beginning around the mid 18th century. But I thin
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I think I can manage to do that, though I don't really want to 'convert' people to any particular ideology, not even the one I subscribe to. I just wanted to comment with my perspective, which is a Marxian-inspired (though no
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> The only prerequisite for "money" is consumption decoupled from the instantaneous moment of the trade This is correct, but I think it is also useful to add that a system with very wide use of money would probably also require

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