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by wz1000 9y ago
> Just like Middle Eastern countries work best (as in, remain relatively stable) under military dictatorships This is extremely easy to say after any attempts at democracy in the middle east(Nasser and the Nasserites, Mossadegh, and now
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"I think today the world is asking for a real alternative. Would you like to live in a world where the only alternative is either anglo-saxon neoliberalism or Chinese-Singaporean capitalism with Asian values? I claim if we do nothing w
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If bitcoin has zero value, DRM has negative value. DRM doesn't make it harder to pirate. DRM makes it infinitely more attractive to pirate.
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No computers have ever been programmed via Turing Machines, or built on an architecture resembling TMs(Von Neumann architecture can be described as a register machine). TMs are simply a mathematical formalisation of the notion of computatio
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Its been improved a lot- https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/512439/1/icfp...
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"far-left" doesn't mean any singular thing, but a few characteristics I can think of are: - Rejection of capitalism and private property - Opposition to all forms of social hierarchy - Rejection of electoral and reformist pol
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Most "far-leftists" tend to view liberal identity politics as a distraction, or a way for the ruling classes to promote infighting and discord, occasionally handing out scraps to keep the proles occupied. Leftists aren't real
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> The takeover by the proscriptive far-left Americans have a very weird conception of what "far-left" means. Liberal feel good minority appeasement by billion dollar multinational corporations is as far from "far-left&quot
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Supporting any US President of the last century or so is morally dubious(if you consider mass murder and toppling democratic regimes morally dubious). Like Chomsky likes to say, if US Presidents were held to the standards of the Nuremberg
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https://chris-taylor.github.io/blog/2013/02/10/the-algebra-o...
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The government doesn't benefit from hyperinflation, it benefits from wiping out its debt. Taxing away the excess money after it has finished doing that prevents hyperinflation while still reducing debts. The government has the most to
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So that its currency has value? The government does not benefit from hyper inflation.
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As long as the government has the power to tax, it can shrink the supply of currency as much as it wants. There is no such "easy fix" for supply problems.
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Neoliberalism(as leftists use the word) is used quite appropriately here. See Zizek: > Let’s turn to the high point of our consumerism. Let me take a drink. > Starbucks coffee. I’m regularly drinking it, I must admit it. But are we a
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> Does this mean fiat currencies have intrinsic value? If so, how is this value more 'intrinsic' than the value a network gives a cryptocurrency? Because you are required to pay taxes. > although Modern Monetary Theory would
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The Black Mirror episode "15 Million Merits" has something like this as its premise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits Some thoughts after going through the whitepaper, > The BAT will,
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> they get mistreated by the system as often as they get lifted up by it. In the end she makes the explicit point that this is just one possible way of organizing human societies among a nearly infinite set of possibilities Well, the boo
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Bitcoins are not stocks. Stocks represent claims on actual stuff. Bitcoins represent... nothing.
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> The French Revolution 30 years earlier resulted in the execution of thousands and the deaths of at least 40,000 Let's not forget millions of people suffering in serfdom under the Ancien Regime.
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And there is nothing stopping you from doing that - just don't start gnome shell or X on startup, and type vim on the tty.
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Linux works exactly like this. Most people who use Linux never directly interact with the kernel. They interact with applications. The graphical shell is an application - KDE(plasmashell) Gnome(gnome-shell) etc. the console shell is an appl
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Will these household appliances with general purpose CPUs and WiFi chips receive the necessary updates for an entire lifetime? I have a CRT TV that is over 17 years old and still works. Will manufacturers provide even 5 years of security up
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Similarly, Rojava and their role in Syria are barely mentioned by Western media.
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But why a cryptocurrency? In app/game virtual currencies(preceded by gift cards) have existed for a long time, and are better than cryptocurrencies at all of the above things.
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> πfs is a revolutionary new file system that, instead of wasting space storing your data on your hard drive, stores your data in π! https://github.com/philipl/pifs
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by wz1000 9y ago
I think the GP means that the purpose of Docker is to provide containers, which are a substitute for VMs. If you are going to be running a VM anyway, why run a container?
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What is the distinction between amorphous and non-crystalline? Also, for instance, aren't all solid metals amorphous non crystalline solids?
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Interestingly, if you rewrite the function with a more general type such as checkCapacity' :: forall f. Functor f => Int -> (ZonedTime -> f Int) -> Reservation -> f (Either Error Reservation) you can guarantee t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case The only reason Netflix exists in the face of superior alternatives is violence.
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What happens when I violate IP laws? The police comes knocking on the door, even though I didn't deprive anyone of anything or harm anyone in any way. The only reason companies like Netflix are able to exist in the face of alternatives

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