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by SQueeeeeL 1y ago
Unfortunately there are many popular ideological movements with little to no penetration in the structures that actually swing material conditions. That disconnect between the holders of an ideology and the existing power centers leads to i
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by SQueeeeeL 1y ago
I think a senator being influenced by a grand child is a good mental case study in productive dissemination of an ideology. There are many people in leadership roles who may sometimes be on the lookout for strategies to tackle problems, but
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by SQueeeeeL 1y ago
I've never really understood the sentiment that "articulation of a problem = solving that problem." Articulation seems to me to be Step 0 in solving a problem, there needs to be people on the ground advocating for why this ne
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by SQueeeeeL 2y ago
Yeah, I really feel like Brenden pretty much screwed over the entire browser scene by going all political and not doing his heavy lifting of reading the mid 00s political zeitgeist better. Feels like he doomed us all to live under Google&#x
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by SQueeeeeL 2y ago
Investing back into yourself is generally true, but only under healthy economic conditions. Boeing exists in a really weird place of being "too big to fail" (ie a monopoly) where investing money into personnel and improved proce
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
People use comments as a substitute for reading the article, that means whatever ideological thread is dominating the comments is also defacto going to be the mass interpretation of events. "Winning" a comment section can have rel
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
The defacto assumption that internet discourse is a "discussion" is pretty implicitly wrong or at least very misguided. Most forums are much more in the mode of loud public arguments, which is why we have votes. Even my own commen
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Free markets are sometimes useful tools in making profits but are also sometimes hinderences towards being able to extract the highest amount of profit from consumers. That's why we see so many mergers and intensive lobbying for govern
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
The issue pointed out by these two comments come from a conflation of vocabulary (which is typically intentional at least at some point in the education). A truly "free market" would ensure that things like WeWork wouldn't ha
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
See also, Whatsapp
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
South Park is written by a pretty atypical crew, most of the writers/actors I follow (from middle budget sci Fi shows I like) just seem like they're mostly politically unengaged folks just trying to get paid and make their specifi
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
I'm not really sure what "the problem" with this is? Like we all do know that the point of pharma companies is to make money, and that things like 'helping people' are just incidental byproducts of that fact. If pha
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
The US government has fallen so far from the days of Jimmy Carter selling his peanut farm to avoid any conflict of interest to people being okay with aids to supreme court justices being given envelopes full of money. Decades of partisan po
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
The 'rich white people' shorthand typical serves as an obvious stand in for 'those who have the political autonomy and systemic support to fight against harmful government and corporate actions'. The vast majority of rea
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
I feel like them cancelling their meetings is a reasonable response no matter the content. Clearly there's some amount of attention going towards these meetings, and they have a literal court case directly policing what can be discusse
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
> The injunction doesn't cut off all contact between the Biden administration and social media companies. Doughty's ruling said the government may continue to inform social networks about posts involving criminal activity or cr
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
It's interesting to think if grift of book sales and random convention talks can equal the ~30 billion of material value wiped out by Twitter. Somewhat reminds me of Andrew Wakefield who went from being a licensed research MD to a gues
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Damn, the US is doomed if we have a systematic expectation of individuals validating people telling them to panic
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
You are correct, but current geopolitical conditions and economic policy have created financial situations that basically enforce short sightedness on the side of corporations. If your employer is publicly traded or has institutional invest
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Writing extremely good quality software is hard and expensive. In the vast majority of cases all you need is okay software developed by people who just want to get the job done. Understanding how software creates value and what kind of
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Not sure if you were responding to the right comment, but yeah, this is a pretty major argument for who unchecked private centralization is very dangerous. The main solutions to this contradiction are website keeping healthy competition bet
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
A very quick Google search reveals they are a tech essayist
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
I'm not sure why the level of analysis is appropriate for the context here. We have an extremely specific objectives with metrics (call wait times and calls correctly resolved). There's nothing fundamentally scarce about the labor
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
They could easily reduce those response times through increased funding, training, and recruitment though... this is just a bandaid on a fundamentally dysfunctional pubic service in need of more state support
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Its going to be really disturbing if the falling real world conditions caused by these weird technocratic decisions leads to the government being replaced. Revolution always leads to a lot of suffering; not sure why the current crop of peop
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
I mean, has a bit of weight when a person who won a Nobel prize in meteorology says it. At least worth giving the sky a glance once in a while to make sure you're safe
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
The fundamental cultural conditions of isolation and low meaning really haven't moved much on the needle since the 90s (look at the writing of David Foster Wallace to see what I'm talking about) The Internet has just exasperated a
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Substantially more usable documentation
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
You could counter that the whole point of Kafka is scalability. There are many much more trivial solutions for message passing not at scale
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Yeah. It's bizarre that leveraged buyouts are even legal given how destabilizing it is to local economies; but also Bain Capital (the company which did the buyout of Toys R Us) was cofounded by Senator Mitt Romney, so you can start to

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