throwie_wayward

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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
because 'knowledge' on its own will not work to wield power over others just by itself. there are other ingredients in ensuring that knowledge can be used as power; these usually look like 'technology'. I should also say
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
I absolutely despise the ancient traditional ways they practice: referring to their techniques of 'mystery', secrecy, and occultation of knowledge (which they do in order to construct knowledge as authority and then wield it as po
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
but how do you prove that? seems like in practice it would boil down to whose lawyers are better which is just a proxy for which party has more money.
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
there's definitely something deeper and more significant between start at zero and start at one. something which mathematics alone is not sufficient to uncover, it requires more foundations/logic to be relevant; it requires comput
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
they're running a business, after all.
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
that's a fine example of capitalism driving costs down and making things cheaper.
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
because go big or GTFO? I posit this as an explanation. I think "go big or go home" is a terrible mindset.
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
worker owned companies being the norm rather than the exception would be nice
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
I completely disagree... on the trend you back up, I see a future where you cannot cook your own food unless you've become a professional specialist of cooking (for food safety). going to cartoon levels of ridiculousness, a society in
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
I consider it morally wrong for a system (this system) to expect people who essentially embody a company to not be considered to own the company. This means that such people do not own what they do (and have done). I consider that if I do s
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
FOSS was never about open source, it was about freedom and liberty. It is supposed to advocate a lack of restrictions upon what users can do to the software to balance against what software can do to the users, or more importantly, forbid t
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by throwie_wayward 4y ago
IMO, such a viewpoint about "learning" is limited to learning 'knowledge'; i.e. this sort of 'learning' is limited to repeating (replicating) facts external. I wonder, if learning is remembering, then what is