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by interpenetrate 3y ago
I've crunched the numbers. They just don't work without me giving up video games. And I'm not giving up video games!!
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by interpenetrate 3y ago
Then who's going to do the mining? Adults? Do you want your iPhone, your car, your video games, your shoes, your plane trips, or not? All that stuff is gonna be "cost prohibitive" if all of these quarry kids go to school and
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by interpenetrate 3y ago
You want to trade off positions with those 10 year olds in the quarries? That's fine. I'd rather go home at night to my family, watch The Wire with my wife for the tenth time, and then when everyone goes to sleep I'd like to
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by interpenetrate 3y ago
I don't know about that. I'm on a first name basis with my CTO. I hope to never see in person those wretched souls mining the cobalt for my Tesla. Ghastly!
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by interpenetrate 3y ago
You don't want to be divided from the miners who extract the minerals and the factory workers who assemble the crappy tech that we design? I do. It's absolutely squalid over there.
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by interpenetrate 3y ago
Thanks for the articles, I'll have to catch up.
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by interpenetrate 3y ago
This is my first time hearing "central sensitization syndrome." I know back ~5 years ago John Sarno's "tension myoneural syndrome" was still the dominant diagnosis in the self-help circles of mindbody illness, and i
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by interpenetrate 3y ago
A rupture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EksIy3aW0AEIsK-?format=jpg
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
The scope of Science has been set by private capital, but the Chinese lockdown is very clearly a scientific endeavor. Might as well compare vaccines vs. lockdown as two scientifically-informed tactics, although the two aren't mutually
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
The final step, you've unified the two sentences: "Chinese people are docile and weak or are evil, greedy liars."
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Oh. Well more people died of COVID in the past two weeks in the U.S. (where COVID is no longer a thing) than have died of COVID in China ever.
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
That's right. So the "cultural difference" you were referring to is the capacity to commit horrendous atrocities against basic civil rights that the West is too benevolent to grasp. You just used the words "expunging bas
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
> All I am seeing on HN are people being careful to not offend, but at some point it stops being "cultural differences". That's exactly my problem, too. Thankfully, someone in the replies to the tweet you sent finishes his
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Much more interesting to follow live stories rather than throw around Adrian Zenz's crumbs years later. Here's the ongoing protest I was referring to, where "shattered lives" is a bruised back or (worse) the imaginary th
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Why are you responding to me with this?
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
There are differences between the systems of a private capital and of a nation (or for that matter, the entire globe, which has never been planned centrally; incidentally this explains black markets). The difference in goods is a mere quant
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Well empirically lower demand does not lead to higher prices. The hopes and dreams of sustained profits are dashed by the coercive forces of competition. It's very sad.
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Within a single firm, particularly large ones, surpluses and deficits can be communicated absolutely and crises can be practically eliminated. (It would be unthinkable for Amazon to leave the coordination of its processes up to some sort of
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Wow, that's cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Forget "sprang." You said this: > Before the existence of our universe, there was no time . This is just a logical error. Unless you're using "before" in some novel way that needs clarifying. To be clear: The
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Time, as component of the universe, itself "sprang into existence?" Despite "sprang" being a fantastical word to use in this context, it at least carries with it one thing for sure: a temporal component. "Springing&
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Reading the first chapter alone (in particular the section on commodity fetishism) will tell you all you need to know about how economists think, because it tells you why economists think. This is a domain of inquiry that is necessary for
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Marx identifies 5 functions of money in the 3rd chapter of Capital Vol 1 called "Money," not to mention the expanded treatment of money by Capital Vol 3. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
They're company companies, meaning that their goal is to make profit, not do something that's "interesting." You can't take Apple seriously when its spokespeople explain the logic that drives its production. It&#x27
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
I think GP meant overheating/overcooling during off -peak hours? In which case plenty of people in well-insulated buildings go along with this, motivated by lower electricity prices during off-peak hours.
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Primitive Accumulation: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch26.htm (see ch. 26-33)
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
Bingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Afri...
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
The question contains a false premise. > Paging back through history, there have been very few opportunities for near-zero marginal cost goods. The only way that capitalism allows for the production of non-rival use values is by turning
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
What is emerging? All I see is a scholarly rejection of neoclassical policy. Since 2007 we've seen the frightfully predictable upsurge in Keynesian ideas. The articles on that site don't seem to go beyond Keynes whatsoever. Since
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by interpenetrate 4y ago
There's no need to imagine anything, here's the discussion Engels was having: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1888/letters/88_... He's replying to an aspiring author who s

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