xlpz

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by xlpz 14y ago
I find it quite amusing that so many self-defined "Linux power users" can't use anything that isn't pretty much an exact copy, UX-wise, of Windows 95.
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by xlpz 14y ago
> Since the article talks about "social value" it almost implies that our commodity will always have some value to the society (it's called "social" after all), but that is often not the case at all. Seriously? Again? My goodness. Liste
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by xlpz 14y ago
> What he missed is that if you're putting labor into making something nobody wants (the classic example being toothless combs for bald men), you are not only failing to producing any value, you're arguably reducing the overall wealth p
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by xlpz 14y ago
> When talking about a fair world, people usually mean a world where everyone is equal, which is not tit-for-tat fairness. Citation needed.
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by xlpz 15y ago
I generally agree with most of what you are saying, but honestly this litte-s socialism, fascism, communism thing you are doing is making me gnash my teeth a bit :) Socialism was and is at its core about the working class as a whole owning
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by xlpz 15y ago
And some people argue laissez-faire capitalism does not naturally lead to concentration of capital and oligopolies/monopolies. I guess they should play MMOs ;)
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by xlpz 15y ago
What's the alternative exactly? Sell your resources as cheap as possible to avoid being corrupted by money? Surely there should be a way of capitalizing on your natural resources to improve the living standard of your people, and the explan
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by xlpz 15y ago
I've seen some estimates saying that the total percentage of waste coming from households can be as lows as 2%, depending on how you count. For example, this cites an EPA study: http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Statistics.htm The same page
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by xlpz 15y ago
It's a necessary condition for a functioning capitalist economy. I can go into more details if you want, but the fact that the key economic indicator is GDP growth and that all economies go into turmoil when growth approaches 0 should tell
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by xlpz 15y ago
> What is the end result of growth that makes societies "better"? The need for constant economic growth is just a side effect of how a capitalist economy works. That's why they all go into deep shit when growth slows down too much or st
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by xlpz 15y ago
Well, it's not complicated to do the math...
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by xlpz 16y ago
I quote from The Article(tm): "What is the worst-case scenario for Fukushima Daiichi? It's difficult to be definitive, because information is limited and often confused, and the outcome will depend on the decisions the plant's operators tak
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by xlpz 16y ago
It's amazing that you can know the accident was minor when it's not even over yet. Seems like you are not really using reality to form your opinions.
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by xlpz 16y ago
I never said it'd easy, or that it wouldn't cost money. Everything costs money. Nuclear power plants are expensive, and they have vast hidden costs that are offset to society (how much will it cost to Japan to clean up this mess? is this ad
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by xlpz 16y ago
What potentially devastating consequences would there be if instead of a nuclear plant a windmill had been hit by an earthquake, tsunami and explosion? I honestly fail to be impressed by this kind of reasoning about nuclear energy's safety.
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by xlpz 16y ago
There's a tension between making software fast, reliable and attractive and making it completely configurable. The current culture in GNOME, as far as I understand it, is that the primary goal is to provide a great experience for your users
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by xlpz 16y ago
What does that even mean? How could GNOME do what Apple does if all the code is open source? Anyone can come, change whatever they want and ship it as their own. This is what Ubuntu and others have been doing for years. The kind of competit
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by xlpz 16y ago
You are still saying the same thing. "A socialist country would have freedom restrictions in place". Who says that? Norway, and many other countries, have had socialdemocratic governments for a long time, who also define themselves as socia
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by xlpz 16y ago
Who exactly gets to define that only authoritarian regimes with freedom restrictions practice anything that can be properly described as socialism?
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by xlpz 16y ago
Fixed, thank you!
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by xlpz 16y ago
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by xlpz 16y ago
Capitalism and free enterprise produced everything good? A bit over the top aren't we?
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by xlpz 16y ago
Why would an animal sacrificed at an extremely young age in a farm need to receive more or less the same amount of antibiotics (normalized to its weight) in its life than a normal human being that lives many decades?
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by xlpz 16y ago
Solving a particular instance of a noncomputable problem is not the same than solving the problem itself. Eg, the busy beaver problem is noncomputable, but it's trivial to make a machine output solutions for simple cases in the same way tha
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by xlpz 16y ago
How does that prove in any way that the human mind can find all true statements in Mathematics and thus go beyond the limits of computability? Do you have any proof of this? Also, do you have any proof that the human mind is in fact consist