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A comment on Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism. Parent comment

Re:Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism by jancsika on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:21PM (#21678194)
Easter egg inside that metaphor:

One day some Spanish anarchists built a functioning helicopter. Upon seeing it fly, the Wright brothers immediately teamed up with the auto industry and shot up everyone in the testing facility. Then the Wright brothers intoned:

Not invented here.

That was found crossed out in one of William Blum's manuscripts with these words written in red ink: "too inside baseball."

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Re:Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism by DoctorNick on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:52PM (#21678354)
Oh William Blum, still pining for Catalonia...
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Re:Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism by jancsika on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:17AM (#21680231)
I mention it on HN because it's a lot like that time the bearded guy and the clean shaven guy convinced their camps that their descriptions of the scientific method were different enough to warrant distinct sets of conferences. But at least in that case the result was only monumentally boring and not deadly.
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