_vbnz

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by _vbnz 3y ago
Yeah, but I think kibbutzim is really extreme, and not how even socialists would want to live. It's a full commune - more like a cult than normal society. So it's quite a strawman in that respect.
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by _vbnz 3y ago
But what is a "socialist community" in that respect? The only thing I can think of that's achievable is worker co-ops, and a lot of start-ups are like that for early employees and founders.
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by _vbnz 3y ago
Seems weird to pit socialism against free markets. There's nothing about disallowing private ownership of the Earth's common resources, natural monopolies, etc. that stops having free markets everywhere else. If anything, allowing
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by _vbnz 3y ago
American engineers are lucky to earn enough to be able to save up and do stuff like this, like on $200k you can save enough to really try a start-up for a year or two. Whereas in Europe we're lucky to get $80k in the same jobs, and the
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by _vbnz 3y ago
Yeah, feminism has gone completely insane. At the moment of marriage all assets are divided equally in most countries, regardless of when they were obtained. And in many countries a man can even be liable for child support if his wife cheat
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by _vbnz 3y ago
I wish this were more commonly used - just having comments is so useful! Are there already parsers available for Scala, Python, Java, etc.?
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by _vbnz 3y ago
Yeah, but if you speak to Cubans they really think it become Miami overnight if they get rid of the Communist Party. Whereas the reality is probably much closer to Haiti. It'd be best if there were a steady transition of ending the blo
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by _vbnz 3y ago
The main thing is that having them elected directly would mean holding an election across all EU countries - and I think that would be great for European unity. Like have French, Spanish, Greek, Swedes, Germans, etc. all debating and voting
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by _vbnz 3y ago
Yeah, it was shocking here in Stockholm when there were BLM protests in 2020. It's like people are more involved in US politics than their national politics.
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by _vbnz 3y ago
The book is from Britain and written by a socialist - this section is about how they try to twist it to their benefit, making the government take over their failing business and then blame the later failure on "socialism". But yea
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by _vbnz 3y ago
Socialism isn't just "government does stuff".
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by _vbnz 3y ago
It reminds me of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists where the capitalists conspire to make the local government purchase their failing electric company (written in 1910): 'Something will 'ave to be done, and that very soon,&#x27
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by _vbnz 3y ago
Stuff like this will lead to the rise of socialism again tbh. It's like Tucker Carlson said - it's no wonder that the young people support socialism, when they can't afford a house and face massive economic uncertainty even i
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by _vbnz 4y ago
AI "ethics" is just a bunch of grifters worrying about sci-fi stories.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
This has nothing to do with socialism. Socialism doesn't have welfare like this, it'd have full employment - look at the Soviet Union for example.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
This literally happened in South Korea already.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
That's nice, but my side-project isn't a passenger airline. This will just kill innovation and startups in the EU. It's already a nightmare of bureaucracy for taxes and permits, etc.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
More useless bureaucracy that will harm start-ups (and side-projects becoming proto-startups). I don't understand why people want more bureaucracy, it never works out well. Now the established companies like SAP will just pay expensive
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by _vbnz 4y ago
Wayland has a massive loss in functionality (in the name of "security" and off-loading implementation details to compositors/window managers) compared to X11 though. Stuff like xdotool, screen sharing, clipboard sharing, etc.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
Real Late Stage Capitalism to push up the cost of learning to drive to absurd amounts (along with a massive shortage in driving test places) - easily 3k+ GBP nowadays, and then just offshore driving jobs remotely.
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by _vbnz 4y ago
It means the capitalists and landowners are rich, meanwhile we "will own nothing". Marx predicted it perfectly: > You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private proper
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by _vbnz 4y ago
In some countries layoffs like this are done as redundancies though, like in Sweden they have to declare a work shortage and cannot re-hire in the same roles (in Sweden) for a few months. That said, internationally they'll be different
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by _vbnz 4y ago
As a Europoor it might actually increase our wages at least!
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by _vbnz 4y ago
American developers might find themselves on the sharp end of globalised capitalism now.
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DigitalOcean axes 11% of workforce, focuses hiring in Pakistan and Mexico(theregister.com)
21 points by _vbnz 4y ago|6 comments
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by _vbnz 4y ago
To the suits we're just a translation layer between the business requirements to deployed code. And they'll be happy to reduce the work to story points and neo-Taylorism, so they can try to treat each person as an interchangeable
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by _vbnz 4y ago
The cabin they passed on the way there wasn't that far compared to how far they got in the end, the best option would likely have been to take what they had from the car and stay there. And try to set a tyre alight as a signal for help
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by _vbnz 4y ago
It's horrible that it seems the parents died before the children too. What an awful way to die, but totally understandable that in the moment they were more worried about retrieving the rental car and making it to LA on time than findi
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by _vbnz 4y ago
But doctors in Europe are paid a pittance in comparison. Like less than a third or even a quarter of US wages. That's the real issue - they will never want to take a hit to living standards. It was possible in the UK because it was dir
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by _vbnz 4y ago
> Warnings about the state and future trajectory of the UK armed forces have been coming from the US side for a number of years now. And they can all be solved by buying American weapons... funny that.

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