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by yesbut 4y ago
Ok, its official then.
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by yesbut 4y ago
People who aren't exposed to battery tech don't think it exists. Because they never see it in the media they consume and it isn't integrated into their lives in any meaningful way. It is difficult for them to imagine what the
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by yesbut 4y ago
This is what I was thinking. Someone needs to introduce the OP author to a tiling window manager.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Wishful thinking at best. As long some sucker is willing to fund this it will continue. Worst case scenario, it fails spectacularly and society pays for it.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Took long enough.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Hopefully abandoning the smartphone might result in these kids picking up Das Kapital at the Brooklyn library.
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by yesbut 4y ago
A Luddite was "a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16)." They weren't anti-technology. They were
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by yesbut 4y ago
US antagonism towards Iraq was due to Iraq moving away from the petrodollar. The Oil for Food sanctions were an effort to force Iraq back to the petrodollar.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Well, it was for oil. We even had the Oil for Food sanctions program in the lead up. The result didn't work out in the US' favor, Iraq basically kicked us out. But ultimately I think the oil was a secondary goal. The goal was, and
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by yesbut 4y ago
Then they should share their knowledge with the rest of us and produce more good managers.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Solution: Put term limits on democratically elected Dog Show judges, as well as normal judges.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Managers, like politicians, should have term limits. The temptation for abuse and favoritism is too strong.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Good policy. In worker owned enterprises that are run democratically the owner/employees elect their managers from the ranks. They act as manager for a term and then go back to their original position after the next election. Keeps eve
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by yesbut 4y ago
There is the idea that anyone that wants to be a leader probably shouldn't be a leader. These are the types of people who crave being in positions of authority over others. They'll step on anyone they need to in order to get the t
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by yesbut 4y ago
Low profile skates.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Probably not popular, but it would be really easy for the state to do it. All they need is their larger media outlets to make a few daytime TV story lines featuring these apps in their narratives, a couple big budget movies, some exaggerate
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by yesbut 4y ago
With Web3 you get the benefit of knowing that nobody will ever view your content again.
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by yesbut 4y ago
The pragmatism of coping with poverty probably plays a big role in losing ones motivation for curiosity. It is hard to let yourself waste time traveling down rabbit holes when you are worried about paying your bills.
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by yesbut 4y ago
And to think, the wealthy wanted society to entrust them to be the caretakers of the arts because we're too irresponsible to handle such a great undertaking ourselves.
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by yesbut 4y ago
well, we can't leave it to pesky kumbaya, drum circle, communist software devs that work for free to do good security. only corporate capitalist software devs care about security. duh! now help me get this encryption bill passed so we
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by yesbut 4y ago
100% sure.
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by yesbut 4y ago
These corporate sponsored legislators are really good at writing policy that sounds good to the public but really helps their corporate sponsor's bottom lines in practice. This bill wouldn't exist if it wasn't designed by lar
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by yesbut 4y ago
They'll change the name as soon as FOSS developers spend millions to hire lobbyists.
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by yesbut 4y ago
But why should the state get to decide that for the citizen? The citizen should decide for themselves what they feel is too risky.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Great, now where am I going to store all of my union organizing and workplace disruption instructional PDFs?
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by yesbut 4y ago
No.
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by yesbut 4y ago
That's easy. It securely sends the users data to Microsoft.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Just wait until someone indults an elected official.
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by yesbut 4y ago
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
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by yesbut 4y ago
This isn't a start. Its an increase of the maximum prison time of an existing law. It is a response to the bullying of Hana Kimura that led to her committing suicide. Two men connected to bullying her were fined 9,000 yen. This law wil

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