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by yellowbuilding 6y ago
Large companies paid for the right to stay open, so they got what they paid for. If you don’t want a free market, don’t ask for it.
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by yellowbuilding 6y ago
same with bosses and workers, and nobody seems to mind that.
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by yellowbuilding 6y ago
Taibbi is one of the best journalists in America. Very thankful to have people like him doing this.
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by yellowbuilding 6y ago
Working Americans have no voice.
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by yellowbuilding 6y ago
False. It is no coincidence that as we enter an unprecedented period of economic depression, all the liberal media wants to discuss is racial disparities. The ruling class is winning the class war, and as long as they can keep the working c
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by yellowbuilding 6y ago
If you don’t comprehend that the protests were a result of the historically unprecedented economic collapse, you don’t have a politically left bone in your body.
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by yellowbuilding 6y ago
>From the patents it looks like I can thank inventors Mr. Krause and Mr. Chernov for their freedom sucking, major appliance disabling, communist, 1984-esque idea. GE is, historically, among the most anti-communist of all American compani
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by yellowbuilding 7y ago
I’m not sure if node has something comparable, but python’s splinter feels like the perfect trade-off for me. I don’t like browser tests and splinter lets me spend as little time as possible small tests that I don’t mind deleting later.
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by yellowbuilding 7y ago
Labor rights have a very long history worth learning about. The short of it is that profit from labor is definitional exploitation; the question is how much exploitation we consider economically useful.
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by yellowbuilding 7y ago
Right, and there must be competitors to compare with. This is why a federal job guarantee makes sense.
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
I have been using scoop for about 1.5 years and it’s wonderful. I contribute to it as well. It’s simple, robust, reliable. I might prefer it over what you’re suggesting for Windows. I just can’t imagine Microsoft getting that right.
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
>It has nothing to do with what people want. Gladiators
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Most westerners, and certainly visitors to this site, have spent at least the past 30 years in the assumption that neoliberal capitalism marks, as Fukiyama spouted in 1989 as the wall came down, “the end of history”. It’s becoming difficult
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Wow that is an interesting one. I thinking I might love it. I’ll give it a try.
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Same. Whenever evaluating a programming font, it’s really just a question of how similar to Inconsolata it is.
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Inconsolata
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Extreme distaste and aversion of the public internet. Decentralization can only happen by meeting some prerequisites that we as a society are not even comfortable talking about. I don’t want this and insist it’s not coming from defeatism. I
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Exactly. Growing extremely high quality weed is a piece of cake. The plant does all the work, and all you have to pay it is light and water (a large amount). Those things are mostly invincible.
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
It’s actually laughably easy. I did it once. I had zero gardening experience but did this indoors in a walk-in closet. It probably took a total of a regular work week of actual work and a few days of research beforehand, and I got over 1&#x
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
When people use it, they probably won’t add “that was a britishism I just used”. You interpret that through... eh, cultural analysis.
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
On this note, a vast amount of human energy (surplus and sometimes not, in the aggregate) can be understood as mating displays. Of course, we have added gender to the equation, which complicated things quite a bit.
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
That is one good example, and there are countless more. Most people realize how the existence of “fake news” begs the question of what constitutes “real news”, but it’s become frighteningly apparent that very few acknowledge that trust re
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
I used to assume this idea was a direct result of racism, but that begs the question of what racism is. It turns out, that is one of the most complicated questions in the world. Have a look at this (extremely recent) essay by an expert blac
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Absolutely. In philosophy, and plenty of other fields with central concerns of theory, it’s common that an influence is also someone who one disagrees with, and is responding to. Most the middle area of this chart should be under Marx, and
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
... And the result is clogging the gateways for doing one’s own research. Sales and advertising have nothing to offer. Customers would literally be better off without them, and so would art and entertainment! You also seem to assume bringin
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
I want neither
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Companies pursuing ethics will always be a trap. First, for every ethical pursuit, a company must match it with a similar or greater effort to advertise it. If the advertising is ethical, well, it might not work very well. But, ethical adve
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
If you’re interested in addressing this problem, you need to look at economics. The reasons are not simple, but the bottom line is race and gender focuse equality efforts _always_ fail to help the lower class. Always. Statistically, gender
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Capitalism does lend itself well to technical innovation, which is beautiful but not ethical. And with that beauty comes technical debt in it’s cultural form: decadence. The societal accomplishments of capitalism are effectively distraction
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by yellowbuilding 8y ago
Politicians and corporate leaders told us democracy is not worth it’s salt, and we believed them.

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