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by zenogais 12y ago
Notice the contradictory language used in describing what you want: "creating a system that is efficient and holistic but also allows for diversity and evolution." Effectively: I want things to be one thing that is the same, but a
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by zenogais 12y ago
If you've read some of the alternative literature on capitalism you might think that profit is by definition providing "unpaid work for other people to exploit and make lots of of money off of". It's a rather clever inve
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by zenogais 12y ago
Me too! Really enjoyed your article applying the concept of the assemblage and (de-/re-)territorialization to software development. Just finished a reading of "Difference & Repetition" myself and have been working on appl
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by zenogais 12y ago
Just discovered Steve on Twitter yesterday so this is a coincidentally well timed article. What initially drew me to his Twitter account were the obvious references to Deleuze and Guatarri - specifically his reference to the concept of the
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by zenogais 12y ago
The idea that there was an entrepreneurial "market" thousands of years ago is just wrong. The entrepreneur is a fairly recent social role. Thousands of years ago it was possible, without selling your labour to another person, to m
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by zenogais 12y ago
This is one of those classical myths we tell ourselves - that buyers have an encyclopedic knowledge of the commodities they buy. In such a world oversight and protection wouldn't be needed. Unfortunately, we don't live in that wor
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by zenogais 12y ago
The point is that its food - something everyone who eats it has an active interest in - but it's privately owned and therefore no one has the transparency or say they'd like in how it is produced.
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by zenogais 12y ago
Seeing as how "natural economic growth" is not infinitely sustainable (I'm operating under the assumptions that there are finite quantities of natural resources and human ingenuity is not infinite and infallible). It's p
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by zenogais 12y ago
Creepy
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by zenogais 12y ago
He's getting that argument from good ole Kant and his Critique of Pure Reason from 1781 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason ). The basic argument, so far as I understand it, is that there must exi
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by zenogais 12y ago
Hahaha first thing I thought of when I saw this article.
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by zenogais 12y ago
Knock it off. You run a business not a family. The divisiveness of using such a term is appalling.
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by zenogais 12y ago
It's possible to raise the standard of living of the working class while increasing the rate at which they are exploited, as explained in the lecture video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqEKLuPCgZ0#t=11m47s
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by zenogais 12y ago
Or we could look to Marx, who predicted exactly this state of affairs succinctly by showing that, at the most basic, there are three traditional ways to increase competitive advantage: 1. Work more intensely over the course of a fixed worki
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by zenogais 12y ago
The comment by ntl more or less nails it. This example is contrived at best and intellectually dishonest at worst. These kinds of patterns simplify applications with complex business logic. They complicate applications with straightforward
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by zenogais 12y ago
The following is my take: It seems like the desired result is to make it determinable when a NaN value is produced in a language that doesn't have an is_nan function (such as an assembly language lacking such a predicate) so that a sim
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by zenogais 12y ago
"An abhorrence of contradiction has been high orthodoxy in the West for more than 2,000 years." Not necessarily so, just a particular branch of western thinking and tradition now widely called the analytic tradition. GWF Hegel and
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by zenogais 12y ago
You would be surprised. I worked on a marketing product for a major agency. This product heavily utilized the Facebook Ads API, and I can tell you that it is extremely fraught with problems. Often times we were left to work around issues in
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by zenogais 12y ago
There's a better, easier way: https://docs.python.org/2/library/cmd.html
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by zenogais 13y ago
This is a relatively ahistorical, naive view of the operation of markets. Even with competition, assuming fixed price cabs eventually get driven to extinction, then what? There would be nothing to stop the collusion of existing market compe
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by zenogais 13y ago
Not necessarily true. It depends on whether you think technology is a part of the problem or the solution. I would recommend Jacques Ellul's "The Technological Society" for a decent treatment of this point and a fairly convin
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Net Neutrailty: 1996 Interview With Manuel De Landa(t0.or.at)
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by zenogais 13y ago
Satire? We can only hope
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World Action Now on Fukushima - Harvey Wasserman(youtube.com)
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by zenogais 13y ago
Legitimate thing to wonder I suppose, also a decent ad hominem. I'll elaborate on my point: You are always forced to make a choice - you can write in whomever you want, but you cannot opt to suspend the process and await alternatives.
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by zenogais 13y ago
Perhaps this points towards a larger scale failure in modern forms of "representative" democracy. Since opting out is the only alternative to arbitrarily picking between unsatisfying options - there's no "none of the abo
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by zenogais 13y ago
Well aware of the concept of patriarchy and the literature on the topic. No one's throwing their hands up. I just thought the article was terribly reductionist. All we can really say is "the activity of software development mirror
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by zenogais 13y ago
I think this article radically blurs the line between personal and professional space. Is the entire gem repository a professional space or a personal space? To my mind it's a bit of both. If you believe that self-expression is allowed
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by zenogais 13y ago
But no one forces the cancer patient to accept cancer treatment - it is always a choice. The same can be said for clinical depression - but for some reason in this case you sound as if you'd like to force the person to undergo treatment bec
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by zenogais 13y ago
If you say so, but I fail to see how the two don't overlap significantly.

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