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by woooooo 3y ago
I'm not worried about the Chinese, they'll be fine. Just pointing out what a wonderful boogeyman they make if you want to discount the viewpoints of young Americans. Any left-wing viewpoint that's common on TikTok could prob
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by woooooo 3y ago
Do you have a quote from anybody you're basing that on?
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by woooooo 3y ago
There's also the propaganda accusation as propaganda. If TikTok skews young and they have a viewpoint that's different from entrenched power, we can just blame the Chinese.
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by woooooo 3y ago
That's a pretty strong statement covering a long period of time with radically different Chinese governments.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Plus, partisans of one side will always display the nuts on the other side, it's an easy slam dunk.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Sure but Tesla and SpaceX objectively exist in the real world. Landing a freaking rocket booster is now routine. It would be "cult of personality" to pretend the Musk did everything personally, obviously a lot of dedicated peopl
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by woooooo 3y ago
You said "tesla was already built" before Musk came along. He joined in 2004. First car in 2008. Path to profitability starting in 2015. I'm inserting the opinion that maybe some of that stuff since 2004 was highly relevant
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by woooooo 3y ago
You're saying that the real innovation was filing some paperwork with the name tesla? Actually building any car at all was just maintenance?
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by woooooo 3y ago
I'm not disputing that he has faults, it's just amazing how his real accomplishments get magnified or erased by dumb tweets in 2023, 10-15 years later. How many people fall for this stuff?
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by woooooo 3y ago
I can file an LLC by end of next week if I want. A sustainable, profitable automobile manufacturer would be slightly more difficult.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Tesla didn't even have a car before Musk came along, let alone a path to profitability. Whatever Musk's faults, it's really interesting to see people rewrite history.
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by woooooo 3y ago
I never said that in this whole comment thread. Neither did I insult you personally. Remember what I said about charity? Frankly I'm disappointed, you should have called me racist for saying only Europeans can invent stuff.
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by woooooo 3y ago
My "theory" is a straightforward recollection of the way things did in fact happen, on this planet and in this universe. Europeans started the industrial ball rolling with for profit companies. Sorry if you don't like it.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Before industrialization, slavery and serfdom are common for thousands of years. After industrialization, it goes away within 1-200 years every place that industrialized. Probably because it's not economical anymore in the presence of
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by woooooo 3y ago
I'm not calling those things the same at all. I actually draw distinctions between them. But there's a historical record of how they happened together after not happening separately for thousands of years. There's a princip
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by woooooo 3y ago
I was under the impression that most pre-industrial societies had slavery. Or at least most societies that were successful. The Bible has passages on how to be a moral slave owner. As far as conflating industrialization with capitalism, I&
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by woooooo 3y ago
I think you may be fighting some ideological proxy war that I definitely don't care about. If you don't industrialize, slavery never ends. It was everywhere in human societies until industrialization.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Because I'm generally aware of western economic and political history from 1600-1800. I'm not conflating them, they were in fact conflated. Soviet russian and chinese industrialization was different, but later and not relevant to
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by woooooo 3y ago
Without industrialization, you never end slavery anywhere.
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by woooooo 3y ago
There's that too, plus the fact that using the word "elite" is itself something that mostly the elite do.
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by woooooo 3y ago
I think when people say this, they're using "elite" to signal a mentality rather a wealth level. Consider a wealthy, business-owning tradesman and a broke ivy league post-doc. Who sounds more "elite" in their manne
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by woooooo 3y ago
There are so many wild, interesting, contradictory and overlapping concepts in the world. This article covers a few of them using normal people language. Arguing about niche academic word definitions is just so, so boring. An act of supre
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by woooooo 3y ago
Sounds like the irony was lost on you.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Ironically, the article leads with a parable of some dork being overly tendentious about word definitions. Maybe you could give it another chance.
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by woooooo 3y ago
I'm as frustrated as anyone with "let me Google that for you" style interruptions but you don't ship anything alone. You need a team.
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by woooooo 3y ago
The article makes no argument for or against the level of financialization and debt in the economy, I think you may be bringing some preconceptions. Highest wage firms have to be faang, by number of employees right? Private equity and top
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by woooooo 3y ago
Anyone know why we can't get a new POSIX with some epoll/kqueue equivalent, maybe baking in some of the lessons learned from epoll's interface? It's insane in 2023 that people are typing things like EPOLL_ONESHOT and it&
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by woooooo 3y ago
I think it's a bit of myopia from lack of life experience. Top compensation, highly educated bubble, too much attention and praise on a chat bot. "Mean tweets" are actually some of the most threatening things these people can
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by woooooo 3y ago
Also, modern humanity's light cone is tiny. We've been listening for like 75 years?
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by woooooo 3y ago
Java seems like a particularly bad case to migrate for a non-google-size company, how does it even work? Do you have to check in every maven dependency to the monorepo as source?

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