allworknoplay

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by allworknoplay 2y ago
There is no "point" of automation here beyond deploying capital to produce returns. That this is the sticking point for the companies is inherently validating of the workers' concerns -- if the companies intended to solely in
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by allworknoplay 5y ago
Surprise, organizing takes an enormous amount of work, which anyone who's involved in any participatory, decentralized, leftist, or anarchist space will tell you. You may know this! Not clear from your response. Do you have a point abo
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by allworknoplay 5y ago
* 6 years old * hundreds of millions of videos * many make fairly strong pedagogical claims * mixed in advertising and product placement The third one there is the most important here. This isn't comic books, because comic books largel
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by allworknoplay 5y ago
Let me get this straight -- a commercial ad-driven marketplace supplies a very substantial amount of content consumed by children and markets it as educational (and/or allows such marketing), parents are not educational experts, and yo
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by allworknoplay 5y ago
This is insane. Phone companies published numbers because it was generally considered helpful and the costs of unsolicited calling were relatively high. By the 70s delisting was an option, and by the late 90s it was very common (in the US).
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by allworknoplay 5y ago
Why on earth did you pick this username
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
The value derived from public goods is mostly not factored into GDP growth and (when executed well) serves people both more efficiently and more equitably than the purchases GDP does account for (obvious examples, public or publicly funded
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Emissions are not down -- they've just been exported. The analysis you're looking at is a common one, but it's a shell game. Plenty has been written on this topic and on actual, hard, ecological limits we face; the book I rec
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Most people live there, and most food for those people is grown there. These are people, who are not responsible for the catastrophes destroying their ability to live.
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
I'm not sure where you get the idea that I'm vaguely moralizing -- elsewhere in this thread I recommend a 2020 book called Less is More ( https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more ) that contains analysis of these pr
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Great argument.
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
"We can literally consume our way out of this mess" is my new all-time favorite HN quote. Sorry if you were being tongue-in-cheek, it's just too good.
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Yeah this thread is filled with reactionaries downvoting everything that offends them :/
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
I said GDP and GDP growth, and if two countries are competing on GDP, the mechanism by which they compete is growth. I know you've seen my book recommendation in the thread here; it's about the incentives behind growth, and how de
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Yes exactly -- so to measure just by what happens to us in the north -- particularly when we're causing the problems -- is basically genocidal.
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Totally separately and having literally nothing to do with anything else here, but since you brought it up, the USSR lost an economic war to capitalism, it didn't collapse because communism doesn't work. They spent their money lif
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
You're somehow conflating a method of analysis with communism, which doesn't make any sense. Why are you bringing communism into this?
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
"For northern countries" It's absolutely monstrous to think in terms of what's ok just for the global north, here. We've done the vast majority of this polluting, and the global south is, in fact, currently, undergo
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Glad you asked! He's a marxist, so statements like that are grounded in a historical materialist analysis -- very basically, that the material result of policies is their reality, not whatever ideals they might aspire to. He makes a v
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
This just results in more junk. Where do you think it all goes? It's a shell game.
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
GDP and GDP growth are the universal metrics by which every major international organization judges and ranks economies. IMF voting is literally determined by your GDP. There are no other metrics that are remotely commonly used to determine
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
| renewables become more affordable than coal and nuclear And yet emissions keep climbing, because capitalism requires growth and demands deregulation. | Excess energy can be dumped in to carbon sequestration There is literally no scalable
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Our ability to organize the resources equitably and sustainably is the first barrier here, only then can we look at the resources as the hard limit.
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Capitalism's relentless drive for growth and deregulation would like a word with you. My favorite book of 2020 if you'd like to read more: https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
Of course they did. The DoD puts enormous resources into publicity stunts. They sponsor movies left and right, do tons of advertising and propaganda, and provide early-stage commercialization funding for consumer products to their contracto
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
And yet truly awful organizations have no trouble hiring programmers! Far too many of us are obsessed with puzzles and paychecks and couldn't give a fuck about the ethics of something like this.
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
I'm not writing it right now, but have never had trouble find really high quality work (in NYC and elsewhere). The community is active and generally very friendly/positive. The ecosystem is obviously rails-heavy, and you have to l
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
My understanding is that he burned out and had to take himself offline. He used to be involved in quite a bit (also see Hackety Hack), and it can be really exhausting for some people. I'm hopeful that he found the balance that he neede
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
"... the main cause was this book." Sorry, but blaming a single book for not learning something when there are an enormous number of other resources (and have been all along -- _why's was a long time ago, but so were, say Agi
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by allworknoplay 6y ago
If you read further down, it makes this clear: > Once a representative is identified, Google Assistant will notify you that someone’s ready to talk and ask the representative to hold for a moment while you return to the call.

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