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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wound up on a Donkey Kong 64 Twitch charity stream(polygon.com)
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Stream for trans charity draws megabucks, gamedev guests, and US congresswoman(rockpapershotgun.com)
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>The end result probably looks like us burning most of the modern world to the ground, literally, but that's where game theory is taking us. Has it ever occurred to you that if people are willing to burn it to the ground, the "
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Except the actual left has been complaining about centralised capitalist control of the media for decades. Indeed, it's precisely because of that control that you've apparently never heard anything other than liberal centrists tal
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Ah yes, you're correct, I got confused by the first-name/surname thing. I would still question the validity of this approach, and more generally, I don't think you can meaningfully isolate class and race, since they're s
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by aninhumer 8y ago
I said power dynamics (i.e. power imbalances) should be opposed, not the abstract concept of power itself.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
If they can choose not to help they're not "helping you to live", they're choosing not to kill you. And if they choose whether to kill you based on whether you do what they want, that's violent coercion.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>If someone helps you live when otherwise you're going to die, you should tolerate more of his weirdness. Yes, if someone has control over your life or death, you should probably do what they say. That is what most people call &quot
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by aninhumer 8y ago
This only makes sense if you assume the organisation's interest is only to maximise productivity in the short term. An open source organisation may explicitly be interested in attracting marginalised people into the tech sector, to imp
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by aninhumer 8y ago
So looking at their methodology, they chose the "high class" black names ("Anderson" and "Thompson") (EDIT: I misread, these aren't the black names) based on census proportions, but that doesn't neces
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>Life creates a power dynamic which can be abused in this way. And such dynamics should be acknowledged and opposed wherever they exist. >Have some minimal set of rules Except as I said, these rules are frequently ignored or applied l
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>I just always have trouble imagining the end game of that kind of thinking - even in Stalinism, people with higher abilities were selected for various more demanding tasks. Rejecting meritocracy doesn't mean not acknowledging abili
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>The simple fact is that people who have power tend to abuse that power, but that has nothing to do with meritocracy as a concept. Except that by definition, meritocracy creates a power dynamic which can be abused in this way. Those with
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Humans have a sleep cycle driven by circadian rhythms, and most jobs in a country work similar clock hours in order to coordinate with other companies more easily. So in fact, it's much easier to change what the clocks say than it is t
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by aninhumer 8y ago
There is no way to implement verifiable voting which is not vulnerable to voter coercion. If you can verify your vote, so can the person threatening you. The way to ensure the ballot is secure is to have a fully publicly verifiable end-to-e
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by aninhumer 8y ago
For the majority of people, their share of the vote is a lot more powerful than their share of the dollars.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
You're not advocating for encouraging STEM graduate immigrants, you're advocating for the exclusion of any other immigrants. Unless you're also advocating for the deportation of non-STEM graduates, your position is explicitly
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by aninhumer 8y ago
The parent was not suggesting subsidies, they were suggesting nationalising the entire energy industry and managing it to address the problem directly. A carbon tax might work in theory, but the political reality is that as long as fossil f
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>Are you really suggesting that anybody in the world who wants to walk into the USA should be allowed to? Maybe block known criminals and bad actors, but otherwise yes. If your argument as to why we should exclude people is based on the
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>The thing with YouTube alternatives is that they have to be at least as good as YouTube. Creators will only go where their audiences will go, so a site that doesn't offer a good user experience will immediately be off the table. Wh
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Your analysis is numerical nonsense. Work is not divided into even units completed at a constant linear rate over the course of the day. It's a wide variety of different actions, and the time taken to complete each will vary wildly dep
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Because working out if someone is a competent doctor is hard and expecting every single person in society to work it out for themselves, regardless of their level of free time, education, or access to information, is a massive burden.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
That someone can earnestly suggest that going 48 hours without sleep is somehow an effective way to address an outage is an indictment of a messed up work culture. People need sleep to think straight, and no amount of money or responsibilit
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by aninhumer 8y ago
This means they can't process the payment, but it doesn't necessarily cancel the subscription, and if not, you still owe them the money legally, even if they can't get it easily.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
Socialists usually also argue from a utilitarian point of view. The utility a person experiences as a result of increasing access to resources is sublinear, i.e. there are diminishing utility returns to an individual as they acquire resou
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by aninhumer 8y ago
I suspect the reason he doesn't want that job is that he doesn't want the stress and responsibilities associated with that job, not that he doesn't like being creative.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
It's not about physical capability. Obviously people aren't getting exhausted moving around 5lb laptops instead of 3lb ones. It's about comfort and ease of manipulation.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>If sales increase when it is thinner, it stands to reason that customers want thinner devices. No it means consumers think they want thinner phones, not that they actually prefer using them in practice. That's what marketing mean
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It's not really surprising that the only part of the UK that gets significant investment is the only part that's able to make any money.
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by aninhumer 8y ago
>So you are adding more epicycles. Not really? I don't conceive of consciousness experience as something that can be meaningfully separated from the perception of that consciousness. For a consciousness, perception is experience.

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