wormlord

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by wormlord 2y ago
How do you know my analysis is emotionally-driven? One might argue that your analysis is driven by the need to justify the atrocities you witness-- an emotional reaction. > usually leads to bad outcomes Citation needed.
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by wormlord 2y ago
Not trying to be an asshole, I think you should genuinely ask yourself why your first reaction is to try and justify/intellectualize the deaths of literal slaves from the third world who are enslaved by an actual monarch .
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by wormlord 2y ago
I agree with everything you say up until: > The private sector can’t legally force me to pay for their projects, whereas the “public” sector can. What's stopping them from hiring a private military and enslaving you? Who will stop t
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by wormlord 2y ago
> So I'm going to take the latter You don't pick anything. Our rulers pick the system and we bend over backwards to justify it so we don't lose our minds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of
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by wormlord 2y ago
> someone compares US v. Saudi worker fatalities > the time I wasted on your meaningless, unrelated and high drama warble garble. "The US also has really high worker fatalities, therefore I have silenced the cognitive dissonance
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by wormlord 2y ago
The real free market is a fiction which could never exist. It is a distraction for the true nature of capitalism which is about private ownership.
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by wormlord 2y ago
I like many of the journalists from The Intercept[0]. You can find publications that are outside the mainstream and then follow journalists independently on substack. Many of them collaborate with each other, it is kinda like the MCU of jou
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by wormlord 2y ago
I am of the opinion that the Free Market is a fiction which has never existed and can never exist. The belief in a fictitious "Free Market" which is just a platonic ideal, is equally as ideological as a Marxist belief in a "n
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by wormlord 2y ago
> That place has absolutely nothing in common with western morals and mindset That's why we support them militarily and send them F-16s /s. There are no "western morals" there is only power and money. The actions of o
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by wormlord 2y ago
like clockwork...
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by wormlord 2y ago
> 21,000 people seems like a massive amount of dead. I know that Saudi Arabia and other gulf states abuse foreign workers horribly, but can the death tool really be that high? That works out to 3,000 per year. That seems incredibly high.
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by wormlord 2y ago
Do you think pundits will count these deaths as "deaths as a direct result of capitalism" or will they say "no that is not real capitalism!".
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by wormlord 2y ago
My simplified equation for stress is: ``` (workload) * (giving a shit) ``` Workload is set by company, giving a shit is set by you. You may not last long, but nothing is stopping you from letting those Jira tickets pile up. It's e
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by wormlord 2y ago
> On the other hand, a lot of these changes to try and speed up the base language are going to be highly disruptive. E.g. disabling the GIL will break tonnes of code, lots of compilation projects involve changes to the ABI, etc. Kind of
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by wormlord 2y ago
In NYC?? Amazon entry level devs in LCOL areas were making that much in base alone in 2021.
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by wormlord 2y ago
I've always felt like China doing a "hot war" in Taiwan would be really uncharacteristic of them. What I think is more likely is that they sponsor parties/social movements in Taiwan that support reunification. Eventually
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by wormlord 2y ago
> This paradox challenges the common belief that more exercise equates to more calories burned and consequently, more weight loss. This is pretty obvious if you have ever done strength training/tried to lose weight. Working out make
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by wormlord 2y ago
If you think a free market is a requirement for capitalism then by definition sure. If you think it is about the distribution of ownership over capital then the free market doesn't matter. Many political scientists refer to the economi
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by wormlord 2y ago
The means of production are still privately owned. What you described is not Capitalism by strict definition, but the owners of capital are still at the top of the food chain in such a system. It's not like lack of competition somehow
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by wormlord 2y ago
Please read my edited comment for clarity.
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by wormlord 2y ago
I edited my comment for clarity
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by wormlord 2y ago
The destruction of democracy is a convenient byproduct of their consolidation of power. Fascism in germany was convenient for the wealthy-- even if they weren't the architects of it.
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by wormlord 2y ago
Of course not. However they are like 5% more willing to pursue anti-trust action and enforce regulations. Even a small threat like that will be resisted by the ultra wealthy.
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by wormlord 2y ago
Parmesano Reggiano has to come from the Parma region of Italy and is certified by some consortium of cheese makers I think. Same thing with San Marzano tomatoes. There's not a problem per-se, but the issue is that in all reality you&#x
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by wormlord 2y ago
This is cool. It looks like the creator of the ScriptEase engine wrote about it here [0]. It would be cool to see a style or testing guide to see how they prevented bugs from shipping. [0] https://brent-noorda.com/nombas&#x2
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by wormlord 2y ago
Geckos store fat in their tails https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.UYKInXyy0_Vhs1qqTziRGwAAAA?rs=...
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by wormlord 2y ago
> If my company town sucks and I’m talented, I can find a better company town. What's stopping the company from hiring a private police force to prevent you from leaving? > For instance, if Im American living abroad, I still am r
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by wormlord 2y ago
No offense but this feels like a politically immature opinion. You could say "this implementation of the state". I also believe that the "less state, the better". But what about a state that is controlled by council comp
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by wormlord 2y ago
Hey they're dogfooding.
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by wormlord 2y ago
Open-sourcing this is awesome! What a great jumping off point for people wanting to do 3D game dev.

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