CriticalSection

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by CriticalSection 9y ago
There is plenty of news coverage of this in China, both in English and in Chinese - http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-24/258802.shtml http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-18/258072.shtml http:/&#x2
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> The problem with Marx is not that his analysis is nonsensical, as Mr Gauke maintains, but that his solution was far worse than the disease. What solution did Marx propose? In the afterword of Capital, Marx notes "The Paris Revue
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
There is an idea that the dominant form of production in our age is done in a manner that causes alienation on a number of fronts for those who do the producing. Part of this is commodity fetishism, where people can see commodities, but not
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> The CPGB’s loyalty to Moscow also triggered its morally darkest moments – the switches of line dictated by the Communist International (Comintern) in the 1920s and 1930s; the U-turn following the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939, which arguabl
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> China has the right to take care of its national security, sure. But not at the expense of the right to self-determination of other nations. How about the self-determination of the Meskwaki and Sioux nations? Do they have a say whethe
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> spread disinformation about them Then why does Voice of America have a Russian language TV and radio broadcast? All it does is spread disinformation about Russia. There's no proof Russia hacked into these computers. The US hacks
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
If money was distributed in the USA for something that is actually competitive, like athletics, then people of African descent would rule the country, as they seem to dominate this arena, even in venues like golf. If you look at the wealthi
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
The US government bankrolls the self-described "National Endowment for Democracy", which openly boasts ( http://www.ned.org/region/central-and-eastern-europe/ ) of meddling in Russian and other elections
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> What I want to know, how to turn your motivation back right away, without changing a job or taking a vacation. Sometimes vacations are very demotivating. If the work situation is bad, it is nice to get away for a week, but then after
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> Do we want politicians making decisions for businesses and controlling the free market? So a visa only available to workers with a certain skill set that chained them to companies is the free market? > It's surprising how quick
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
Reminds me of one of Peter Norvig's "Plot Synopses for Episodes of a Gilligan’s Island Remake Starring Members of the Bush Administration" for McSweeney's Internet Tendency "The professor’s experiments conclusively
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
Sure. Prior to World War II, the FBI began keeping a list of people to be rounded up "in the event of a national emergency" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Index ). Some people on this index were put in
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
It's not much of a mystery to crack. The chart starts in 1950 with 63.6%. In that year, one out of three American workers in the private sector were in a union. Today one out of fifteen American workers in the private sector are in a
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
I guess they'll just have to settle for (horrors!) American workers.
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
Noam Chomsky was interviewed the other day and he said something like "the only thing the Democrats seem to be complaining about with Trump is that he wants to ease tensions with Russia, which is probably the only sensible thing he is
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> a CEO can somehow ‘earn’ £10m per year, whereas a teacher ‘earns’ £25k per year. That’s only possible if you divorce the word ‘earn’ from any of its actual meaning It's not even a real argument against a corporation, since corpora
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
Industrial capacity utilization is currently less than 76%, which is historically low. So about a quarter of invested capital is sitting idle currently ( https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/scribd/?toc_id=296052&filepath.
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> rights for content creators I scratch my head when I hear talk of this, because the past century and a half has been a steady march in western economy and politics against rights for the original creators of wealth and content. Neglig
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
Every decade since the 1960s, Real (ie. non-financial) US GDP growth has slowed ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA ). Industrial capacity utilization has been shrinking since the early 1970s. In the
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
> end up in public purview, sometimes not even among the workers in a company I agree. The exact same thing happens on closed corporate projects, it just happens behind closed doors. You're right - sometimes a co-founder gets push
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by CriticalSection 9y ago
Having worked for corporate software projects and for free software projects, I can't say that free software projects are dominated by personnel issues any more than corporate software projects. The main difference is things tend to ha
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Girlboss – trailer for a Netflix original series(youtube.com)
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by CriticalSection 10y ago
> John D. was a devoted Osteopath for most of his life. If you haven't read Titan, it's a fascinating bio. That's interesting, I didn't know that. More than osteopathy, the similar yet different practice of chiropract
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by CriticalSection 10y ago
> The Osteopathic profession was the only group that was organized enough to survive the Medical Guild's purge of non-Rockefeller-approved approaches to medicine. What? The Medical Guild purged (almost) all of the quacks and snake
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by CriticalSection 10y ago
I agree. Phone tech interviews are usually low level screens to see if the candidate has the minimum technical chops to come on board. Short and sweet is what I prefer, especially since I'm usually doing the phone interview on a lunc
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by CriticalSection 10y ago
Surprised I don't see my main pet peeve - early reference check. Before I even talk to anyone I'm asked to provide three phone numbers of three former managers. So I have to call them up, make sure the number is still working, a
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by CriticalSection 10y ago
This is not the time to ask that question. The time to ask that question is when you're 38 years old, married with two kids and the wife home raising the youngest one. Then you're laid off. And it's 2000 or 2001. Or 2008 o
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by CriticalSection 13y ago
I worked in IT, with no BSCS. I took some college classes at nights and weekends while working. When 2008 rolled around, I knew things were shaky at my company, but many companies I looked at had "Required: BSCS" or even when not