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by ue_ 10y ago
>optimize the efficiency of those workers, make them achieve more with less effort via technology. And to allow Amazon to make bigger profits for itself by laying off or continuing to exploit workers rather than valuing automation as a m
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by ue_ 10y ago
>To be clear, it isn't that I find the code difficult to grok: if you don't understand how switch works, please stop using C. As an aspiring C programmer, is there anywhere I can read about interesting applications of the switc
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by ue_ 10y ago
This is a very common argument against juries, and I think it's one of the most powerful. Of course if you start to fill a jury with people competent in the area being judged, you run different risks, such as bias within the field. And
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by ue_ 10y ago
How could the Queen be practically removed by Parliament? Doesn't the act need royal assent, so she wouldn't go unless she wanted to? Due to acts of Parliament I disagree with morally I've lost hope in the democratic system o
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by ue_ 10y ago
These factories must compete with others which value profit as the highest motive. So because there is still a profit motive, the co-op factory must optimise on two fronts: money in order to keep itself afloat and still purchase the require
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by ue_ 10y ago
There are various new approaches to central planning that may be of interest, such as those in Towards a New Socialism by W. Paul Cockshott. I don't think central planning is necessarily something bad, and there are certainly suffici
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by ue_ 10y ago
Out of curiosity, why? What things has he done? I'm quite ignorant on the man.
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by ue_ 10y ago
>which existed well before computers and are an issue that's gotten better, not worse That's irrelevant; the fact is that they still exist, and they are still used to make computer products. >Compare what someone at an Inter
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by ue_ 10y ago
>when you include millions of employees Although it's good that people are getting by with a job, exploitation is still present. >without them computers would still by a hobby Many people wish they were, this seems like a matter
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by ue_ 10y ago
I wonder if this will have such high failure rates as other high-capacity hard drives. It's less cost effective to buy many smaller HDDs, but it's probably better for long-term data retention. I wish there were a cheap and easy wa
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by ue_ 10y ago
For a website billing itself as "reason.com", it seems very unreasonable to be saying that Venezuela, which suffered many economic problems and still does, without any worker control of the MoP, is "Socialist". The only
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by ue_ 10y ago
I really wish the "far left" parties were more popular. Unfortunately labour seems to want less focus on class issues and more on silly tax issues and identity politics. Really wish Corbyn could pull labour through to a proper lef
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by ue_ 10y ago
My friend once mentioned that FTP would be a good option, I'm not sure why though. I think they regarded HTTP as superfluous for the purpose of what we use the web for.
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by ue_ 10y ago
>The openness of Wikipedia is the outworking of a philosophy that truth, when crowdsourced, is just as strong — if not stronger — than when managed by a select few. Unfortunately Wikipedia isn't like this in practice. There are seve
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by ue_ 10y ago
The fact that many in this thread are touting 'the free market' as a solution is unnerving. You still have profit motive under capitalism, and that doesn't stop you from exploiting people and destroying the environment. The g
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by ue_ 10y ago
I'm always astounded about what people will do for profit. To destroy the planet, or even to keep doing it, for the purpose of keeping people employed. The 'free market' doesn't fix this behavior. Thanks capitalism.
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by ue_ 10y ago
I'm quite interested in Japan (and wants to live there some day), mostly because I'm learning the language. What sort of things did you consider to be misrepresented? This question is from a position of complete ignorance, please
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by ue_ 10y ago
>The idea that rich people got rich because they screwed other people over is quite common but also a made up generalization. Many people are wealthy because they have exploited the labour of others, exactly as any other commodity might
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by ue_ 10y ago
>Property rights are the foundation of civil society. For the exact opposite view of property, that it is in fact the sign of barabrism and the law of the jungle, read Proudhon's "What is Property?".
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by ue_ 10y ago
Yes please.
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by ue_ 10y ago
What could be worse than unjustified authority and private capital? Only their combination.
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by ue_ 10y ago
I have to say that I really like your idea, I've been reading leftist literature recently (Marx, Proudhon, Harvey, I.I Rubin..) and your idea really made me think. Thanks.
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by ue_ 10y ago
>People who become unable to participate in the market economy no longer matter to it I don't think goods would continue to be produced if so few people (in this society in which almost all human labour has been eliminated) can pay
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by ue_ 10y ago
If consumerism makes people happy than let it be so. I'm not proposing to stop that, rather I am saying that in my judgement it is unfortunate that capitalism, thanks to the powerful hand of advertising has convinced many people that t
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by ue_ 10y ago
>The idea of working for other people is also a part of our being. Poppycock. This is tired ideology used to say that humans need unjustified authority, someone to give the product of their labour to. And it's hardly a "you scr
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by ue_ 10y ago
Eliminating labour on the whole in society does not bode well for the capitalists; there will be no money that can be used to buy the goods that are being produced, or there will be very little money, which is held by those who must work in
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by ue_ 10y ago
I'm sorry for confusion. I meant to say, to relieve people of unnecessary work. There are plenty of things that need work, such as services for other humans (at least in the short term), programming (again, at least in the short term)
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by ue_ 10y ago
Leaving aside questions of if it could exist, if such a machine should exist, in my opinion, it should be used to relieve people of work, not merely to shift them to another job in the useless search for employment. For too long has the cap

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