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by leftyted 6y ago
Having read the paper ( https://gofile.io/d/WfcxoF ), I can't take the idea that Google wanted to suppress it seriously (as the article argues). In the paper, another paper is summarized describing the environmental
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by leftyted 6y ago
Coal mines should be unionized because the miners have their backs against the wall. If I felt I was being under-compensated, working in poor conditions, and had my back against the wall, I'd want a union too. But describing my job
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by leftyted 6y ago
Working at Google while complaining about "labor exploitation" is like being a rich white kid in a Che shirt
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by leftyted 6y ago
The idea of Google exploiting its programmers is an insult to actual exploited labor. These aren't coal miners. There's no factories. The programmers where I work have too much power. We're exploiting the company. If I do
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by leftyted 6y ago
Yes, the parent comment was about "lack of administrative rigor". The cheerful acceptance of that situation was the topic of my post. There is no reason why someone can't support the welfare state and also demand efficiency.
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by leftyted 6y ago
Because, as I said in my original post, "[shoddiness, etc] represents the best objections to the welfare state". In other words, blithe dismissals like "I accept some inefficienies and waste" provide the other side with
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by leftyted 6y ago
I should have said "supposed shoddiness". My point was not that the welfare state is shoddy but that, if you support the welfare state, mistakes like this should bother you more, not less.
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by leftyted 6y ago
Ironically, the idea you're pushing, something like "this doesn't really matter, the important thing is the government giving people money, the more the better, who even cares if they're American," precisely represe
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by leftyted 6y ago
I identified his interest. Are you getting all the way through my posts? > Horne's writings aren't about history: they're a form public of agitation so that "the USA will do less racist shit".
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by leftyted 6y ago
Just because you view all history as the result of a "secret cabal of evildoers" (in this case, plotting to preserve slavery) doesn't mean I have to. As you let slip here, Horne's writings aren't about history: they
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by leftyted 6y ago
Horne is a clumsy propagandist and you've been thoroughly propagandized. In this kind of history, all nuance (like Adams' views on slavery) is lost and all historical events are made to fit a predetermined narrative. In addition
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by leftyted 6y ago
The DHS was established in the panic following 9/11. If they're knocking on doors trying to intimidate dissidents, it seems clear that it has outlived its usefulness (if it ever had any) and should be dismantled. You'd think
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by leftyted 6y ago
> Do you? Not to over simplify things, but freedom, liberty, and equal treatment were pretty much empty words and applied only to white American men (see: treatment of Native Americans, the Mexican-American war, slaves, and women). This
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by leftyted 6y ago
> Don't you see the contradiction there? First he says it isn't helpful if foreigners criticize Russia, because Russians need to learn to criticize themselves. But later he says that his work aimed to lead the Jews to examine t
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by leftyted 6y ago
Here's an interview of Solzhenitsyn from 2007: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview... Der Spiegel tries to pin him down as a reactionary Putinist and anti-semite. I think the attempt
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by leftyted 6y ago
Unless "geopolitical theory" can be used to predict the future then I see no reason to assume it's the correct way of interpreting the past.
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by leftyted 6y ago
Your post shows how significant events are stripped of their meaning by the dictum that there must be some material end behind every act. But it's a decision to look at history and explain everything in terms of geopolitics. Can&#x27
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by leftyted 6y ago
I think you're partly right but I also think there's something a bit deeper at work here. These days science is viewed as a means to various ends. These ends are all wonderful...eliminate poverty, curtail climate change, cheaper
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by leftyted 6y ago
I understand what you're saying but I disagree: atheism is not a religion. The verb "is" does not mean "fulfills the same function as". Just because atheists have to answer the same questions as theists does not m
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by leftyted 6y ago
None of this makes his research "pseudoscience".
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by leftyted 6y ago
Let's run an experiment by moving cameras into the Supreme Court -- actually all courtrooms -- and the rooms where juries deliberate and all Cabinet meetings. We'll be able to tell that I'm right after our government stops w
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by leftyted 6y ago
Without the cameras they have no reason to posture. They posture so they can cut a clip, publish it, and say: "Look! Here's me standing up to the evil Republicans|Democrats|tech CEOs who want to steal your precious bodily fluids!
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by leftyted 6y ago
> I'm curious what other people think the informational value of these hearings are. It seems like it is either posturing and grandstanding, or reasonable questions to which evasive or non-answers are given. I agree with you. They n
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by leftyted 6y ago
Whether or not "10x programmers" exist, I can say for sure that 1/10th programmers exist. I know a few in that category. And it really amounts to the same thing.
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by leftyted 6y ago
We're talking about supreme court justices...
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by leftyted 6y ago
> Are any of them advocating the seizure of the means of production for the workers? Abolish the state or private property? Devolve control into local worker's councils or other non-hierarchical means of decision-making? Are any of
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by leftyted 6y ago
> Imagine you're living through the events described in the essay. You know exactly where things are heading and that the situation is dire. While your question is interesting, isn't this exactly the problem? People didn'
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by leftyted 6y ago
> Which philosophers are saying this? I majored in philosophy, still read philosophy (both ancient and modern academic), and have never encountered anyone saying that classification of things is a violent act. Foucault, Irigaray, Rorty,
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by leftyted 6y ago
It used to be common knowledge that those "ready to abandon the possibility of America" were kids in college with little influence and that they'd grow out of youthful extremism. But by writing this, Barack Obama seems to say
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by leftyted 6y ago
> The only problem with blind selection, is that, sooner or later, the race/gender/sexual orientation/religion/fitness/attractiveness/age (I'm an old fart, so I can tell you a thing or two about ageism

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