Hytosys

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by Hytosys 10y ago
The manager-gone-founder has sympathies and apologies for the destructive ideology of his capitalist master. Of course. The majority of managers have this same character -- it's their class nature. Be wary of trusting these people ;)
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by Hytosys 10y ago
Yep, you're right. There's a belligerent, Randian dream behind that 1000% nonsense that always seems to be accompanied by some far-fetched narrative of climbing the ladder.
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by Hytosys 10y ago
You sound like an employee who thinks they're an employer.
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by Hytosys 10y ago
Awesome! I used the Intensity Shuttle for USB 3.0 on a Macbook (OS X) to develop the plugin. It costs $190 and works pretty well, but can't capture 1080p @ 60fps (only 720p/1080i). I only got it because I couldn't install a P
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by Hytosys 10y ago
I coded the Blackmagic support for OBS Studio. It was only slightly nightmarish. https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio/tree/master/plugins/dec...
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by Hytosys 10y ago
There is no voluntarism in slavery, even if it's of the wage variety. But yes, sure! The employers are the oppressed class. All of us plebeians are so ungrateful of their estate inheritance -- er, brave risks . But don't worry
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by Hytosys 10y ago
The means of production that you use are privately owned by your employer, that's all they provide. Maybe they also do some managerial/clerical labor to lubricate the interaction of the commodity with the market, but this is reall
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by Hytosys 10y ago
I wasn't being reductionist, that is not my world view; I recognize many different hierarchies. But wealth is an extremely important dimension and the one under examination here. Simple example: people with higher income hire literal w
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by Hytosys 10y ago
I think this is tangential, but you're very correct! This alone makes you question the morality of capitalism. Your employer necessarily steals some of the value that you create, otherwise you would have no worth to the employer an
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by Hytosys 10y ago
Wages are absolutely hierarchical. The people who have higher wages have higher rank/status/authority. You just pushed the blame off to the market, which needs the exact same moral justification.
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by Hytosys 10y ago
Hierarchy requires justification, and inequality requires justification, since always and forever. You should be required to try to convince someone working three manual labor jobs and making $40k a year that your $150k salary for making CR
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by Hytosys 10y ago
Of course, you're right. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." —Guess Who
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by Hytosys 10y ago
Employers are necessarily oppressive and may fire employees over this sort of notification if the listed project or the AngelList profile in general is against business interests. If it wasn't clear already, this sort of move shows exa
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by Hytosys 11y ago
> I blame the stock market pressure towards growth. Every capitalist mechanism insists on growth. That's literally what capital is.
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by Hytosys 11y ago
Reporting for roll call. Once you get cope with abandoning all of the metaprogramming-heavy APIs a la ActiveRecord that have been front and center in pop web dev, it's quite lovely. The only thing that seems to slow down my work is the
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by Hytosys 11y ago
I loved GameMaker so much as a kid. I was sad to see it get taken over by money. :( Are there any modern free & open source alternatives? Correction: I remember the underlying scripting language being GML (GameMaker Language). Maybe Del
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by Hytosys 11y ago
a) To this end I agree that my simplification is too emotional. b) I typically regard such actions as means to sustain profit, but I won't deny the exceptions to this rule. c) I scrutinize the definition of profit here, but I won'
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by Hytosys 11y ago
I haven't yet read the last volume of Capital, so I am unprepared to take on the line of discussion in regards to the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. Nonetheless, I fail to see how the simple arguments I initially made are aff
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by Hytosys 11y ago
>I'm not sure how factors of production (including durable capital goods) can possibly be an "enemy" of anything. I'm a Marxist. So in the aforementioned sense, capital is only wealth that grows over time through the
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by Hytosys 11y ago
OP is looking at people who direct and sustain a capitalist enterprise's internal processes. These people (managers, HR) are hired by the capitalists to optimize internally for profit. The only warm & fuzzy side-effects that these
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by Hytosys 11y ago
Let's Encrypt has a public API for managing certificates. One use case where this is handy is for creating/modifying certificates for each customer-controlled domain/subdomain of your multi-tenant web service.
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by Hytosys 11y ago
The capitalist would not be making any money off of the capitalist endeavor if their workers were not being paid less than 100% of their work's value. Incidentally, the economic system is set up in a way to obscure this basic fact. Exa
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by Hytosys 11y ago
You're right, I think I understand. OP is laying out the metrics dependent on social relations by which one may estimate a sort of "fair" wage. My rant was tangential to that bullet point but relevant to the second bullet I q
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by Hytosys 11y ago
>If I create $1M of value for the company, you can compare my price with $1M. Incorrect. If your company were to pay you the same amount as they profit off of you, you wouldn't be sticking around for very long at that company. That&
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by Hytosys 11y ago
If you interpret these results as the material conditions of a class instead of the material conditions of every individual of that class, the results are very easily digestible. Nothing personal.
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by Hytosys 11y ago
> ...homelessness, refugees, war, climate change, income inequality These are all directly caused by an economic system which optimizes for profits instead of people. I would also argue that the other problems you listed are perpetuated
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by Hytosys 11y ago
>My experience here has reinforced the truth at the root of Groupon’s success: if you have a small business, it’s hard to reach customers. I love this. You are the founder of a big company known for being predatory, and you're recog
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by Hytosys 11y ago
Why do you think that these financial institutions exist in the first place? Another piece of the puzzle: https://theintercept.com/2015/11/16/stock-prices-of-weapons-...
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by Hytosys 11y ago
The dangerous ideological heterogeneity I was referring to: see Ferguson, EU vs. Greece, US vs. immigrants... Regardless: > Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ Capitalism doesn't d
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by Hytosys 11y ago
I would think most Marxists would agree that any society would be have a more prosperous working class with a basic income than it would without one. Because of the framework of class analysis Marx provides however, Marxists do not compromi

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