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Wow. I'm marking my calendar. This is incredible.
>Some people don’t want to work
All we can be certain of is that they don't want to spend most of their lives under a dictatorship, and that's fair imo.
>Quit the bad ones, join the good ones.
It's literally a recession. IT just experienced historically massive layoffs over the last 6 months. Could you be any more out of touch?
No, it's not. What about Americans makes them speak of politics in these incredibly simplistic and inscrutable ways? If someone from another country makes such a useless comment, I know it means they are ready to change the subject. When an American does it, they actually think they are contributing something! In fact, they are merely exhibiting that they have never engaged with politics enough to know what they're talking about.
I'm glad you had a nice day! But why should I be paying taxes for that?
>I know exactly why we don’t have such an amendment.
Why?
If you live in the US, it's absolutely legal, and even if it's not then it doesn't matter because you live in the US under a dictator (your boss).
According to a Marxist definition of communism (classless society) neither Cuba or the Soviet Union are or were communist.
"Communist" Cuba has 64 physicians per 10K population, which is 2nd in the entire world for physicians per capita.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
During the pandemic, they were sending droves of doctors to Europe. They offered to assist in NYC but Trump turned them away as our population dwindled. Famously, when a British cruise ship with ill passengers aboard was denied by ports in Florida, Cuba took them in and saved many lives.
And you can trace the origins and overwhelming priorities of the Federal Government to bare brutal bourgeoise capitalism.
Quality masks require actual capital investments, so longer term commitments. Toxic hand sanitizer can turn a profit with practically zero capital investment. This is precisely how capitalism works. Socialism or barbarism.
That's a disgustingly low bar. Have some self-respect.
Correct. Above all, this is a subsidy laundering effort. The actual output will be dismal.
Stupid article, but funny that the title gives a nod to Karl Marx's "history moves in a straight line" analysis. Liberals have been furiously criticizing this idea for 150 years.
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People working in healthcare generally do care about improving health outcomes.If you knew the first thing about capitalism, you would know that what one "cares about" has only the most contingent relation to the end product of their labor. In other words, what the workers care about is effectively meaningless because the workers are not in charge; the profit is.
No, it does not. I have read the full text and it was garbage to my mind; another nonsense apology for liberal society's degeneracy.
I am an ex-SWE at a major health insurance company, and I have a bridge to sell you.
"Improving health outcomes" is corporate PR speak for "selling more insurance services." If you know the first thing about health insurance and capitalism, reading between the lines is easy. I can only assume you are not very familiar with these things. Frankly, every single minute of every single day at my job, the only thing myself or my colleagues worked on was generating more profit for the company we worked for. If customers ended up with better health, it was a side effect of the profit-making efforts and nothing else. Please learn to not believe every damn word someone says to you.
Liars (humans) are often unconcerned with facts or truth either. More often these days, they are only concerned with profit. Are unconfirmed lies in the pursuit of mere profit somehow not lies?
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It was given a sequence of words and tasked with producing a subsequent sequence of words that satisfy with high probability the constraints of the model.This is exactly the sort of behavior that produces many of the lies that humans tell everyday. The "constraints of the model" are synonymous with the constraints of a person's knowledge of the world (which is their model).
Maybe if the media wasn't effectively an appendage of the state and transparently lying on a regular basis, citizens would be a lot less vulnerable to bullshit.
Regulation under capitalism is a farce, of course. Karl Marx explained this in clear terms 150 years ago, and it shouldn't take long to guess why so few people know that.
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people already cannot tell whether code has backdoorsI was feeling crazy after reading that.
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Where and how is the democratic oversight implemented?What democratic oversight? This is the United States we're talking about lol.
The question was not about unionization, but the accomplishments of said unions, which remain to be seen. Unions that lack the strength to strike are a net negative.
The mayor elect didn't even support Bernie Sanders lol.
DSA membership has been nosediving for the past 2 years because DSA is effectively an appendage of the Democratic Party.
>If its immoral to have more or different privileges than someone else, thats literally communism
This is not quite the Marxist definition of communism, but it is a lot closer than I would expect to find on HN. I am surprised.
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Teacher strikes and unionization efforts have been winningCitations needed
In the aggregate, it is in fact replacing programmers; just not all of them.