knuththetruth

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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>presently life in western society Let’s be clear, this “kill the poor” precarity is mostly an American problem (maybe to a lesser extent in the UK and Canada). There are huge swathes of western society (i.e. European social democracies)
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>Some countries may have more welfare but I don't think anyone in America is trying to claim otherwise Actually, this is the party line of the right-wing in the US. It's not more, it's less, because...freedom? https:&#x2F
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It only works when you're talking massive, government-backed support for basic scientific and technological research. The tech industry likes to lean on this narrative, but the reality is they just exploit the gains of basic research
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Well, then wish Swedish-style social democracy for us all, but maybe where the Marxists get to win out in the 70s.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>Sure, I'm playing the devil's advocate here, but in the end it's also really hard to define what is 'good spending' on tax dollars. Most social services in developed European countries that allow people to be be
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
I think one of few good outcomes of monopolistic tech companies, like Amazon, is the degree to which they expose the lie that is American free market Capitalist ideology. There’s never been anything other than highly-subsidized State Capita
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
More or less, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War EDIT: Sorry about...history, I guess?
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
The British tried a similar narrative with the War of 1812, and we in America are still alive and kicking. I hope the same for Taiwan and their independence.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Be critical and unsupportive of American businesses that work with the CCP. Cite explicitly their human rights record and policy on Taiwan. Don't swallow narratives about the vaguely positive outcomes that could come from collaboration
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
I understand that you’re just using analogies, but since psychopathy appears to biologically instantiated and heritable, I’m not sure they’re very useful. More concretely, it’s a neurological variation that is “fit enough” to survive within
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>The authoritative tone of your comments bothers me. What are they based on? A moderately extensive reading of the popular and professional literature on psychopaths. I know this is an internet message board, so it’s best to doubt such c
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It’s touched on obliquely, but psychopaths are impulsive and in constant need of stimulation, which, because of their diminished emotional responses, they largely derive from anti-social behavior. Its adrenaline inducing response is one of
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
>Do you think it’s something that people suspect about you? Or do you think people’s perceptions are so off that they wouldn’t really know what psychopathy looks like? >No. Psychopaths use what we call a ‘mask.’ It’s basically an enti
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It’s of course totally beyond imagining that execs would plan such a leak to avoid further disclosure and sway favor to their side. Especially when they just lost to employee organizing on Project Maven and their entrance into the Chinese m
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Billionaires reach for the stars while world suffers(cnn.com)
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
India?
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Yes, they would need to organize, but what’s happening at Google is a nascent form of this kind of struggle. Before there were ever such things as unions, workers banned together and rebelled in precisely the way employees at Google are doi
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
How are unions a centralized decision-making process relative to companies that are ran like dictatorships by unelected executives? If anything, labor organization decentralizes decision-making and power within a company.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
I’m not sure that ethics aren’t valued on an individual-level by tech employees, so much as they’re denied opportunities to coordinate and express them. Google, because of historical quirks with its culture, has provided employees a platfor
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
I hope that between this and the defeat of Project Maven, Google employees are waking up to how much power they have when act collectively. Hopefully, more formal labor organization follows, so there can be an ongoing check on the poor, exe
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Perhaps in a free, highly competitive market. But that doesn’t seem true in a state-controlled market like Chinese IT, where collaboration with the government is required. The CCP is free to pick winners and losers, intrude and interfere wi
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
How would this work? It seems more likely that Google’s collaboration could allow them access to technology that they will copy and iterate upon. This is what Japan did and they now exceed the US in several technological domains (e.g. autom
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It’s odd that you’re willing to so vehemently question sourced reporting, while simultaneously postulating, without any evidence, that a very narrow, favorable to Google scenario is likely to be the case.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Fact 5: The Chinese Government, which Google will collaborate with to operate in China, has upwards of two million Uighurs and Muslim minorities in what the UN calls a “massive internment camp.” Uighurs are also reported to be being detaine
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
In a swimming pool? In a tweet?
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
It probably depends on the market where you’re job-hunting. In tech worker starved areas like the Midwest and South, it’s probably a sufficient credential. Either of the coasts, obviously less so.
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
...such as the ability to rescue children with a magical submarine?
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Samoans have a similar construct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa'afafine
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Taft-Hartley
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by knuththetruth 8y ago
Which was made explicitly illegal by US labor law in the face of rising union power to prevent workers from having this kind of say.

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