What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future of Automation

Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by coliveira on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:13PM (#15178717)

Economic libertarianism is the XXI century version of Leibnitz optimism of the XVIII century, which was so eloquently critiqued by Voltaire in Candide -- with Capitalism replacing God. They just believe that capitalism is the best of all possible systems and if we just blindly follow its rules everything will be fine and well, it doesn't matter how many people suffer in the meantime.

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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by asdffdsa321 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:23PM (#15178806)

Would it kill you to join everyone else in the 21st century and use numbers instead of romance numerals

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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by rcMgD2BwE72F on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:41PM (#15179359)

FYI, many countries/languages write centuries this way (e.g la langue de Voltaire)

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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by freehunter on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:55PM (#15180063)

English-speaking countries? Because as a native English speaker, I have no problem reading their words but I have no idea what kind of numbers they're trying to express.

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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by cicero on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:36PM (#15180242)

Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by freehunter on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @09:47AM (#15183600)

Yeah I know they're roman numerals but I can't read roman numerals without significant effort. It's bad form to include large roman numerals in English text. The majority of English speakers aren't going to know roman numerals beyond 10.

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