ue_

69 ms·

511.
by ue_ 10y ago
> It is the exact reason why you can run a economy with markets but not with democracy. You may be able to run an economy thusly, but can you run a society in that way? Left alone, 'the market' will push people into extreme con
512.
by ue_ 10y ago
>Also the term 'Late Capitalist' sound like you not only believe that history moves in stages, but also that you know when one stage will end. I believe history does move in stages, each stage being set mainly by the relationsh
513.
by ue_ 10y ago
I don't think that this should be framed as a 'government vs markets' issue, as it's so often framed. It's possible to be anti-state and against the free market at the same time. This is by wanting to bring about th
514.
by ue_ 10y ago
Markets in the capitalist sense, with people having to sell labour-time for wage in order to survive to a market of bourgeoisie is also a recent invention, a little over 200 years old. There's no reason to think it's the 'nat
515.
by ue_ 10y ago
I'm not sure what this comment means. Can you explain please?
516.
by ue_ 10y ago
I find it hard to believe that analogue electronics is disappearing. I'm an undergrad ECE student and the largest part of my course is analogue, with work in labs too. Granted, it's not an immensely popular hobby, but many art for
517.
by ue_ 10y ago
Why must a table be used in such a way, only for tabular data? Sorry if I seem obtuse, but I don't really see the purpose behind semantic elements. Tables were fine for layout with much fewer things that you needed to get right. Wikipe
518.
by ue_ 10y ago
Like me, I have a "MyPhone" and there appear to be no ROMs for it, nor do automated rooting apps do the trick. There's so much crapware on my phone such that the home screen has been taken over by advertisments that I can&#x2
519.
by ue_ 10y ago
I agree totally that HN is not that kind of forum, I was more picking up on the point that community does not require names to exist. Sorry if you weren't trying to make that point!
520.
by ue_ 10y ago
To be fair, community can and does develop without usernames at all, it's just that people aren't on a personal basis with one another. To be honest, I recognise or even look at most usernames and I doubt many others do. It's
521.
by ue_ 10y ago
I think it depends; I'm all for damaging private property, though not necessarily personal property.
522.
by ue_ 10y ago
I feel as though Django is described as 'magic' quite a lot, and frameworks with apparently little magic (like Flask) aren't accused of it so much. The 'magic' trend has carried over to Common Lisp with frameworks l
523.
by ue_ 10y ago
I agree very much; the presence of school would in some cases offer an alternative viewpoint or explanation and although the power of parents over children is strong, children develop critical thinking skills too. I think if anything it enc
524.
by ue_ 10y ago
Abolishing wage labour, which I believe can only be done via putting the means of production and land capital (i.e in totality private property) in control of and ownership of the workers (i.e all the workers) collectively. The creation of
525.
by ue_ 10y ago
It's good if some workers are fortunate enough to be able to do this while working for wages, though many do not have such an option either by the need to support a family, paying off debt or the wage is not great enough to be able to
526.
by ue_ 10y ago
I don't think that's true; social anarchists generally regard hierarchy and unjust authority as inherently something to oppose. It is the abolishment of law and legal responsibilities, not just opting out. It's rejecting the
527.
by ue_ 10y ago
In a weak sense, the authors are commodified no matter what, just as any other worker is. As a proletarian, he must sell his labour-time (by the hour, week, month, year...) on the market to the bourgeoisie, his labour-time being the only th
528.
by ue_ 10y ago
>The universe is logical. How so? >at its core just a very complex state machine Why do you say that?
529.
by ue_ 10y ago
I wonder if this book gave people a skewed view of what anarchism is, or if it stemmed from the colloquial usage of 'anarchy', i.e mindless violence and chaotic lawlessness. Bakunin, Proudhon, Kropotkin and Bookchin have nicer boo
530.
by ue_ 10y ago
To be honest, you can probably also pick up Lisp in a weekend, experienced programmer or not. The syntax is also simpler.
531.
by ue_ 10y ago
I think it would be pleasant to some bigger far-left papers rather than liberal or conservative papers. All the ones you named are liberal papers.
532.
by ue_ 10y ago
My mistake, you're right. Going to correct my comment.
533.
by ue_ 10y ago
Well, depends on your definition of value. In Marxian economics, with the exception of natural resource, value is created by labour, and commodities have both a use value and exchange value.
534.
by ue_ 10y ago
Out of interest, what were the alternatives? As much as I'd love a world in which we were on Lisp machines or running Dylan, these weren't exactly alternatives to C at the time to my knowledge.
535.
by ue_ 10y ago
I think it's rather refreshing to have someone speak out against scientism, thank you for the book.
536.
by ue_ 10y ago
>writes that while socialism may extend to politics, education, and military life. It does not extend to the social and religious aspects of life. The shaping of cultural life via the relations to the means of production refers to the sh
537.
by ue_ 10y ago
Perhaps GP is referring to Marx's theory of exploitation in which surplus value is appropriated from the workers. Many people, especially in jobs which require a lot of equipment (e.g physics, theoretical physics) can't enter self
538.
by ue_ 10y ago
The Common Lisp library ecosystem isn't as polished as it is in Python from what I know. Nor is the documentation for many libraries up to scratch, even the stellar ones. Some libraries merely document the functions provided and don&#x
539.
by ue_ 10y ago
But still the police care enough to arrest someone who imports, views or even privately enjoys drawn pornography that appears to show fictional characters who may be under the age of 18.
540.
by ue_ 10y ago
I have little sympathy for those who decide they need to impose unjustified rule, taxation, force and protection private property against the workers. There's a third side to the chasm, if such a thing could exist.

More ›