vezzy-fnord

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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
Interesting how all of the same liberal yuppies who endorsed last year's hot summer, with the authorities bowing before the rioters and tolerating breakaway microstates, have now turned into Thermidorian counterrevolutionaries demandin
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
> As far as I know there is no way to make a transactional state machine without having the concept of a single, reordable work unit. You're basically taking systemd's architecture as an axiomatic premise, so no surprise your c
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
If we can't ever perfectly adhere to an ideal, then I guess we ought to go full on with the connivery and deceit, then. Regardless, I did have at least some expectation that people would actually focus on the original post and not braw
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
All models are wrong, some are useful, others not so much. There's no need to treat me with these banalities. The job model ought to have died with Upstart. It did not. Oh well. > The core problem has already moved to a different ar
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
The 'job model' is the wrong abstraction, as is the unit concept which tries to reduce things that have irreducible differences. I'm also rather amused how you're conceding that they're doing a "bad job,"
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
All of my views come straight from primary sources which I meticulously uncovered, including Debian mailing lists. I realize that you have been one of the more visible members of the pro-systemd side for years now, so I'd definitely li
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
Oh, but it is a good comparison. Many people have compared free software to communism. I always used to dismiss it. But, in a way, they were right. Both are movements with a self-conceited historicist endeavor to eliminate exploiting classe
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
The problem with this straightforward thesis is twofold: firstly, distribution developers did not have any coherent position on the disadvantages of sysvinit or initscripts; secondly, the problem was mostly an iatrogenic one, as the very at
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
> it's nice to see you back again! Not for long, probably. I drifted out of this sphere years ago, and came back specifically for systemd's 10 year anniversary, as I felt obligated to at least do that. Judging by the tone of th
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by vezzy-fnord 6y ago
Well, my point is that (for instance) the specifics of its dependency model are still fairly obscure and undocumented knowledge. So I would say the statement is quite justified. And it also has a fascinating history that often gets reduced
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Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective(blog.darknedgy.net)
381 points by vezzy-fnord 6y ago|432 comments
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by vezzy-fnord 10y ago
Criticisms of mathematical modeling in economics were most definitely given by Mises and Hayek. Historian of economic thought Mark Blaug was also very critical of how neoclassical production theory (particularly Edgeworth's formulation
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by vezzy-fnord 10y ago
objectively regulate There's your problem. Such grandiose visions might have passed for a 1930s-era technocrat, but are laughable today.
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by vezzy-fnord 10y ago
My architectural critique is becoming more pertinent (although they've had the sense to since deprecate the useless snapshot units): http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/ Either wa
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Far Left-Far Right Protectionist Dreams(econbrowser.com)
1 points by vezzy-fnord 11y ago|1 comments
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
If theirs is a drive-by misrepresentation, yours is a sycophancy and an adulation. The argument from bad people is a false one, largely because bad people are people and hence do everything that people in general do. As a result, it can be
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Serious Sam's Serious Engine source code released(croteam.com)
8 points by vezzy-fnord 11y ago|0 comments
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
The Bakunin critique of Marx is then relevant, since the dictatorship of the proletariat is trivially hijacked by vanguardist interests. Moreover, Marx's diagnosis of capitalist breakdown in Vol. III of Capital has failed the test. The
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Your highlighting of "for-profit enterprise" takes me back to old Catholic anti-usury biases. They are rather juvenile. I'm also unsure of how you managed to reduce "capitalism" to the mere monetary exchange economy
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Speaking of that trend, it is worth noting the British use of propaganda during WWI, particularly the Bryce Report and the Rape of Belgium. Much of modern propaganda owes to that watershed period. Bernays mentions it in Public Relations .
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
The middle class has not been decreasing by any measure other than subjective gut feeling.
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Burkean conservatism and classical liberalism (modern right-libertarianism) are leaps and bounds apart. Just go read Russell Kirk's essays chewing off libertarians.
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
I presume you're referring to Norwegian black metal. Norway doesn't have a lot of DM, in fact the only band that comes to mind is Vomit from the 80s.
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Assuming they can get past the veto-2/3 majority dance. It also strongly depends on the nature of the EO. Major economic restructurings have been struck down before, though usually by judicial review. Military deployments, most infamou
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Checks and balances are fine in theory. In practice, the executive and judiciary are overpowered. Judicial review quickly becomes judicial activism. Executive orders are a unilateral get-out-of-checks-and-balances-free card in many cases, l
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Actually Lenin's writings on imperialism are still considered relevant and influential to this day by historical commentators and left-wing movements alike.
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
The Reagan-era "deregulation" was severely overrated. The highlight of the so-called "Golden Age of Capitalism" where supposedly full employment and Keynesian demand management prevailed had, for instance, a Federal Regi
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Rand (along with a couple of other women like Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) was instrumental in introducing a lot of people to the free market ethos, but no. She was never a good philosopher, nor a scholar. Her works are probably be
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Not necessarily a contradiction for capitalist-entrepreneurs to advocate communes. After all, the mutualists and 19th-century individualist anarchists were pro-market, though coming at it from a labor theory of value. Then again, it depends
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by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
An elegant example of a troll trolling other trolls (and few more masterful than the OpenBSD developers), I'd reckon.

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