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by ue_ 9y ago
I know of this book and Graeber himself, it's something I'm looking forward to reading. Thanks for the recommendation though!
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And we'd still have people saying that monopolies are only granted by the government, and that without the government, or with a small one, the Free Market(TM) would sort it all out.
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That's exactly what I do when streaming Overwatch, especially when my friend talks to me via IRC and I reply with voice. That said my monitor is big enough to have both the game and IRC visible, and I could set OBS just to record the g
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by ue_ 9y ago
Not at all; that's an argument used against the right of privacy. GP was merely remarking that those who lament free speech being dead seem to be, at least from my point of view, those who say bad things. Maybe they have a right to say
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Worker rights.
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>1. Governments are less efficient than free markets at spending money. See China. It's worth noting that the free market is less efficient than governments in other areas, or at least, it does not optimise for outcomes in certain a
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> for my traditional Music/Artist/Album/[track]_[title].mp3 For anyone wondering what a good tool to organise your music like this is, for example if you use Winamp or something like MOC, it's a Python tool called &qu
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The owner of the website could sign responses, and you could verify them, in addition to TLS via HTTPS. I think that can make it at least as secure as package management systems.
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There are many people who find the collectivisim/individualism distinction facile and inadequate, though. I feel you're making a point about ideology in general, however I can't see what's wrong with subscribing to a par
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Eh, maybe. Marx's idea of the socially necessary labour time fits into this quite well, as he wrote in Capital vol. 1: Some people might think that if the value of a commodity is determined by the quantity of labour spent on it, the m
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Why shouldn't it? The shell is arguably the most convenient way to interact with your system's programs, seconded only by something like Perl. That level of interaction ought to mean you can write functions such as for common task
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I believe Stallman has stated in the past that it was never about the amount of software under the license; in that case, the GPL would have been a failure if it fails in accomplishing its aims with any particular piece of software licensed
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"U.S. climate science" Is US science any different to European or Japanese etc. science?
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>The UK isn't as free as many other Western nations. This is certainly true. I will note that in 2009 Parliament demonstrated that it has no problem with making illegal mere possession of certain drawings (even if you drew them your
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There's no need to be snarky, it's almost as if you're reading comments just to find something like this to comment on. The "racism card" you refer to is when an opponent will use a word like "racist" to s
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This is nonsense. A state can privately own land, and you need to own capital in order to lease it in the first place. And since when does renting not count as a form of ownership, albeit with restrictions? You're not allowed to do cer
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How would that work in the case where the employers have the majority of the bargaining power? What motivation is there to keep pushing up the wage? It would seem to work if the employer is choosing only one potential candidate, but in real
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>Poor, underfed, and uneducated is the default position for human beings. We were born into this world, as a species, with nothing. Have you had a look at 19th century philosopher Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread ? Here&#x27
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> Children who experience parental divorce are less likely to marry heterosexually than those growing up in intact families This would suggest, save for "correlation does not equal causation", that parental divorce has some ef
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>The reality is calculating "value created" is extraordinarily difficult, so we use "hours-of-butt-in-seat" because it's the closest proxy. Some would disagree on this, the Marxian school posits that the employer
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I'd also like to mention this, which may cast doubt on the "gay people are born gay" idea: Children who experience parental divorce are less likely to marry heterosexually than those growing up in intact families; however, l
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Notice me Jedi!
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>That's the only reason not to steal everything? Just that it's impractical? If you're talking about personal property, then I'm against stealing that. Private property and goods that can be infinitely copied at my co
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That would be excessive and impractical; just because you can't go the whole way toward doing something, it doesn't mean that any measure along the way is useless. Supporting copyright less is better than supporting it more, as I&
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As far as I'm aware cmus doesn't let me browse by directory.
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Perhaps there is a second side to it in that you'll be thinking about what the best time is to next check your phone. Granted it's a little far removed, but it's plausible. It stands for other commitments that run all the tim
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Do most people have download speeds greater than 5MB/s?
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It's a real shame that MOC doesn't support Pulseaudio out of the box. I say this because I almost have to use Pulseaudio (Firefox has removed ALSA support) and thus if I want to play a Youtube video (or any audio in firefox) at th
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>Also, opposition to slavery great organically over centuries, not from the proposals of one person. Why would that matter? And even if it did, is it true? Opposition to worker exploitation has been happening for centuries too, and in th
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Is it really hubris to propose a radical change in social organisation? Were the abolitionists acting out of hubris?

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