asu_thomas

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by asu_thomas 3y ago
It would have been a worse deal for the politicians who brokered it.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Who? Who is supposed to do these things and why?
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230515004534/https://www.chica...
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Utter nonsense. Kings and the like could not exist until agricultural societies needed armies to protect them from invasion. Only from within such material circumstances and relations could divine right be wrought on a public imagination, w
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
This is exactly right, and Marx opposed revolutionary efforts in pre-industrial Russia (e.g. the Russian Revolution). He did advocate Russian support of revolution in Germany, but saw no use in revolution in pre-capitalist society.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Labor theory of value is literally just an argument that labor is the historical source of wealth . The terminology here is specific and intentional. Next, Marxists recognize 2 central forms of value: Use value is abstract, but not subje
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> Marx believed that making functioning plans was useless since progress was inevitable once unleashed. Excuse me? The overwhelming majority of Marx's published work was literally advocacy of concrete plans. See his work with the
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Capitalism is a system in which those who control capital wield the most power, but without cheap enough labor to work the capital for a profit, capitalism will by definition give way to something else. Realize capital has no market value w
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Tech companies in the US have significantly more lobbying power now. Microsoft will be fine. HN is amazingly ignorant and about political economy.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Yessir
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> View Transitions are an entirely new API supported only by Chrome currently. (And Edge, which is a flavor of Chrome.) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
I'm pretty sure this ridiculous nonsense is why people give me crap for carrying a film camera with me everywhere I go, then they relax and apologize when I tell them it's just a personal choice and obviously doesn't make sen
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Honestly looks terrible. I'll keep my Glove80. https://www.moergo.com
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
The pup was the most innocent of all!
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> Trinidad’s owners didn’t invest much in the vessel’s upkeep and her career was relatively short for her era. > There, Captain Higgins told his story to the marine reporters. Loathe to blame the owners, Higgins speculated that th
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
How do such farms do with profit?
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
You can't buy adicles about vending machines, or at least they'd cost you more.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
If you've ever been to Las Vegas, you'd know this is not that kind of bar. It's more comparable to a concession stand at a ballgame.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
See: increasingly strong
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
This is why automated driving is untenable, just like why LLMs are untenable with copyright. Capitalism is so awkward that it requires these contradictory legal frameworks to give an impression of rationality or naturalistic logic. The cont
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Although I disagree and consider copyright an anti-social institution only necessary due to the anti-social capitalist mode of relations, I commend you for making an actually coherent argument on this question. It is the first coherent argu
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> You seem to be acting with a malicious intent here Excuse me? I am acting with an intent of honesty. If you consider honesty malicious, then sure, but that is another point we disagree on. With all due respect, you seem to be acting
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Wrong. You are the one making strange assumptions. For one, your narrative fails to explain why such a drastically disproportionate number of Indian migrants are from upper castes. This is difficult to overstate since nearly all Indian-Ame
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> The right wing loves to point out cultural discrepancies in minority populations they vilify but apparently pointing out effective culture is anathema. It's not "effective culture". It's just wealth and everybody
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
What kind of financial advice says to take out more loans to make long term investments when you're already deep in debt?
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Numpy and Pandas existed as they did because Python is written in C and cooperates so well with C, so I believe that would be the better answer.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
I can hardly imagine building something like what I wish this was but failing to share the details of specific attribute support between each format. I am essentially the target audience for this (or not nearly gullible enough depending on
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Capitalism has only been the dominant mode of production for approximately 2 centuries, and people made all the same excuses for feudalism yet here we are.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
> the government didn't really want to arrest all the people, cause that would indicate they are not in control Objectively, not arresting them indicates they are not in control more than arresting them would.
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by asu_thomas 3y ago
Did you think you were responding to something else? This is nonsensical as a response to my comment.

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