albatruss

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by albatruss 3y ago
> Still, human history shows us that money always wins. Are you aware of what happened to the landlords in China or do you mean the landlords weren't human?
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by albatruss 4y ago
The USA threw 100k+ of its own citizens in concentration camps, stripping them of property and leaving them in poverty after the war. Not exactly a shining moment for principles.
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Poll: Distrust of Asian Americans is rising(axios.com)
25 points by albatruss 4y ago|40 comments
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by albatruss 4y ago
Source with interactive data: https://www.staatus-index.org
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by albatruss 4y ago
> Also - shouldn't the web be full off vurnurable database servers then? No, the docker bridge network is not on a routable subnet.
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by albatruss 4y ago
Their MEGAsync client is open source at least.
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by albatruss 5y ago
Walmart makes over 200k in revenue per employee. Using profit to make your point is not applicable if honest. Otherwise you would advise Amazon to cease hiring altogether in all those years they were seemingly losing money per employee.
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by albatruss 5y ago
It's worth mentioning that it wasn't just Germany on the Axis side, but a 6 nation alliance that invaded the USSR.
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by albatruss 5y ago
I cannot cite a universally accepted definition of anything. That is an impossible standard and I'm sure nothing I say will satisfy you. The only help I can offer you here is to question the neutrality of that link.
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by albatruss 5y ago
The article concerns philosophers who loved talking about ideas, not the colloquial usage of the word stoic.
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by albatruss 5y ago
You've got it backwards. Toxic masculinity is exactly the avoidance of vulnerability and emotional openness you praise, not horsing around with your buds. You don't have to guess on the definition by the way, as academic terms ten
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by albatruss 5y ago
Something important to understand is that the hard sciences are more rigorous, but that's because they're easier to model than what the social sciences have to deal with. The naming is confusing.
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by albatruss 5y ago
How do you justify such an incredibly strong assertion?
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by albatruss 5y ago
Not good advice if you're American as your own government can always hurt you most.
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by albatruss 5y ago
If you're going to be this sort of fierce nerd, make sure you come from money, because you're getting fired if you pursue these traits in the workplace.
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by albatruss 5y ago
Astronomy and agriculture are celebrated because their advances make the world better in some broader sense. That broader sense, good as such, is the scope of morality.
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by albatruss 5y ago
I'm guessing your questions are facetious, but in case you seriously care, the nature of morality has been the subject of intensive research for thousands of years, including today. It predates even the concept of measurement, in fact.
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by albatruss 5y ago
Technical goals are means to moral ends, so I think it's great that the stuff that matters, the big picture, the point of it all, is getting more discussion nowadays.
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by albatruss 5y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you or defending Marx, only pointing out a common misconception. Marx's project is frequently misunderstood. > but the value of all goods derive from their use That's the definition of value econo
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by albatruss 5y ago
I don't know if the author is a socialist but Marx himself would certainly agree with your first paragraph. In his own words: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch05.htm...
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by albatruss 5y ago
By just helping people?
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by albatruss 5y ago
Exactly. That's why money is a proxy, not equivalent to power.
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by albatruss 5y ago
Smith does not address the point, made by Hickle and reiterated by the topmost comment, about taking into account subsistence farming and how that affects how we should be looking at the metric of income per day altogether. Hickle seems to
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by albatruss 5y ago
The article recognizes it, which I should have pointed out (on phone), but as far as addressing it there is only this line: > Except in all his later writings, he has relentlessly refused to pay attention to those increases. No examples
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by albatruss 5y ago
It's totally valid to see it as meaningful, but it doesn't really belong in a polemic titled "Against Hickelism" if it isn't what the target even believes. From the cited rebuttal: > Smith says we need to recogn
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by albatruss 5y ago
Yes, and Noah Smith never seems to address Jason Hickle's point that the evidence based poverty line should be $7.40. And it seems that if that point holds, as Smith never actually challenges the point that the population beneath that
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VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust(vpncloud.ddswd.de)
191 points by albatruss 5y ago|72 comments
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by albatruss 5y ago
There is no blame or antagonism towards British or South Africans implied by the use of those terms. No British or South African communities have seen a rise in violence against them in the last year. It's not mental acrobatics. It&#x2
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by albatruss 6y ago
What are you trying to say? It seems like the point you're making is that given a certain standard we are not able to say how someone's thoughts came to be for certain. But how is this a relevant or interesting point?
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by albatruss 6y ago
Former AWS employee after being employed for <3 months.

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