lucian1900

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by lucian1900 5y ago
Being reasonable is often not effective. It’s like asking workers to communicate in a way that works for the capitalists’ police, as they get shot. Most Americans will choose fascism anyway, the only point is to get the rest to see it. Aggr
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Doesn’t really matter what you call it, the end result is about the same: polite thoughtful conversation on whether Chinese Americans should be interned or whether Eastern Europe should be invaded by NATO or even just whether exploiting wor
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Liberalism is the root of this obsession with civility, while our countries get bombed and pillaged. If you ban polemics, you side with the dominant ideology. As before, you compare similar handling of centre-left and far right politics. Go
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Others are free to make inflammatory ideological and political points, as long as they conform to liberalism. It’s your website, but history will not judge you kindly.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Sanders, maybe AOC. There are no US Democrats further left than that. You do have far-left organisations in the US, though. There's the CPUSA and the PSL, for example. Just because electoral politics in a particular country lack one en
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Capitalists, otherwise known as the bourgeoisie, make money from owning capital. Workers, otherwise known as the proletariat, make money from their own labour. Workers are by definition not capitalists.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Yes, quite literally Bonapartist compromise between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
That’s what centrists tend to say, yes. Compromise between capitalists and workers. Someone on the left might speak about trade unions, collectivising industry, arming workers, etc.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Warren and Sanders are centrists. Centre-right and centre-left respectively.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
You're conflating the ideology capitalism uses to justify and maintain itself with its actual material reality. It's not a surprise, considering this ideology (liberalism) is fundamentally idealist and not materialist. Have you ac
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by lucian1900 5y ago
You're just describing class struggle and industry, not capitalism specifically. Capitalism was once revolutionary against feudalism, as the bourgeoisie replaced the nobility as the ruling class. But that hasn't been the case for
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Our industry developed due to the labour put in by so many and central planning and funding by several governments, not due to free markets. It's a literal idealist position to insist that free markets cause development, when the vast
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Another option is a smartwatch. The screen isn't big enough to read much and notifications can be turned off. It's always with you and even has bluetooth, so no more wires.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Adding a playground for the foreign rich won’t reduce poverty caused by the foreign rich.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Or even better, proper sum types. They're a superset of enums anyway. https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype is great, but a bit unwieldy. Language support would be much better.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
If a network is not usable by anyone with a smartphone, it's strictly less usable than WhatsApp. That means in practice, it's unusable.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
If it's optional, then there is more than one way to identify users. For a non-technical user, that means they have to make a choice and understand that choice, as opposed to just always using a phone number. And everyone with a phone
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The phone number requirement is the only thing making Signal remotely close to usable for the wider public. Similarly, non-phone messaging is niche in the extreme. Unusable software is not an ally of user freedom. The actual problem with Si
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by lucian1900 5y ago
China has very strong privacy laws, though. In fact, Grindr recently stopped operating there because their business model was made very difficult by the new PIPL law.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Mine work fine on Apple laptops. I’ve tried with several and even a Mac mini. Bluetooth has failed in some device combinations for me, though. Seems like luck is required.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
It can be disabled, so it just beeps instead.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
It’s “personal data” in GDPR. PII is the US concept and much narrower.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Capitalism is a mode of production in which production is motivated by profit derived from the private ownership of the means of production. Those that own the means of production (factories, companies, etc.) perform no labour, but get paid
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Class struggle is the engine of history. Whether that fact is healthy for myself personally or not has no bearing on its truth. The company I work for keeps more of the value I create than they pay me. Whether I like it or not, I'm wor
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by lucian1900 5y ago
You mean countries that started off much poorer than the US, yet the standard of living drastically improved during the socialist period? Then drastically dropped after 89, when the imperialists won the Cold War? Just because poor countries
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by lucian1900 5y ago
McCarthyism was about class struggle. Persecuting all communists, socialists and trade unionists made it less likely the working class would rise up against the capitalist ruling class. It worked for the Nazis, after all. You seem to have i
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Lips are also an erogenous zone.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
It does depend on ears, for sure. Most in-ear headphones are painful for me, including the "dot" ones. Stem ones tend to be far more comfortable, with the Apple ones the most comfortable. I've also never had AirPods fall out
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by lucian1900 5y ago
You can pull the power button to switch between devices the headphones are paired to. I've instead found it useful to disable the voice prompts. The connects/disconnects become a short beep that doesn't drown out anything els
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by lucian1900 5y ago
That's mostly because tsc's parser is used by the JS implementations. Writing a parser for the purpose would achieve performance closer to the other implementations.

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