asu_thomas

It would have been a worse deal for the politicians who brokered it.

Who? Who is supposed to do these things and why?

Utter nonsense. Kings and the like could not exist until agricultural societies needed armies to protect them from invasion. Only from within such material circumstances and relations could divine right be wrought on a public imagination, whether it be monarchic kings or founders of PayPal.

And this is why materialism, Marxism or possibly otherwise, is worth defending.

This is exactly right, and Marx opposed revolutionary efforts in pre-industrial Russia (e.g. the Russian Revolution). He did advocate Russian support of revolution in Germany, but saw no use in revolution in pre-capitalist society.

Labor theory of value is literally just an argument that labor is the historical source of wealth. The terminology here is specific and intentional.

Next, Marxists recognize 2 central forms of value:

Use value is abstract, but not subjective.

Exchange value is contextual.

That's it. That's what you need to argue with, instead of your ridiculous straw men above.

Additionally, it can hardly be stressed enough how unimportant labor theory of value is for Marxism as a whole.

> Marx believed that making functioning plans was useless since progress was inevitable once unleashed.

Excuse me? The overwhelming majority of Marx's published work was literally advocacy of concrete plans.

See his work with the International Workingmen's Association for some of the most well-known letters and articles arguing for explicit political positions and concrete labor actions: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/iwma/index....

Capitalism is a system in which those who control capital wield the most power, but without cheap enough labor to work the capital for a profit, capitalism will by definition give way to something else.

Realize capital has no market value without labor to work it. This goes for real estate too, which workers require to rest themselves just in time to return to work to turn a profit for those that control capital.

Tech companies in the US have significantly more lobbying power now. Microsoft will be fine. HN is amazingly ignorant and about political economy.

Yessir

> View Transitions are an entirely new API supported only by Chrome currently. (And Edge, which is a flavor of Chrome.)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...

I'm pretty sure this ridiculous nonsense is why people give me crap for carrying a film camera with me everywhere I go, then they relax and apologize when I tell them it's just a personal choice and obviously doesn't make sense for almost anybody these days.

Honestly looks terrible. I'll keep my Glove80.

https://www.moergo.com

The pup was the most innocent of all!

> Trinidad’s owners didn’t invest much in the vessel’s upkeep and her career was relatively short for her era.

> There, Captain Higgins told his story to the marine reporters. Loathe to blame the owners, Higgins speculated that the schooner’s hull may have been cut by ice in the Straits of Mackinac. However, a review of the vessel’s career suggests that she was little more than a floating coffin by the time of her final voyage. Most vessels of the Trinidad’s era lasted twice as long as she did, but they also received regular recaulking and replacement of decayed or rotten wood and rigging. The insurance records suggest that Trinidad received little of the normal maintenance and was essentially sailed into the bottom of the Lake.

A classic tale of capitalist barbarism and how American workers are manipulated and propagandized into shilling for their masters. Disgusting stuff, and sadly nothing has fundamentally changed in over 150 years.

How do such farms do with profit?

You can't buy adicles about vending machines, or at least they'd cost you more.

If you've ever been to Las Vegas, you'd know this is not that kind of bar. It's more comparable to a concession stand at a ballgame.

See: increasingly strong

This is why automated driving is untenable, just like why LLMs are untenable with copyright. Capitalism is so awkward that it requires these contradictory legal frameworks to give an impression of rationality or naturalistic logic. The contradictions come to the foreground more with new technology, but they have always been there.

Although I disagree and consider copyright an anti-social institution only necessary due to the anti-social capitalist mode of relations, I commend you for making an actually coherent argument on this question. It is the first coherent argument I've come across outside of the small Marxist circles I run in.

> You seem to be acting with a malicious intent here

Excuse me? I am acting with an intent of honesty. If you consider honesty malicious, then sure, but that is another point we disagree on.

With all due respect, you seem to be acting with the intent of dishonesty.

Wrong. You are the one making strange assumptions.

For one, your narrative fails to explain why such a drastically disproportionate number of Indian migrants are from upper castes. This is difficult to overstate since nearly all Indian-American migrants are from upper castes that collectively make up only a few percentage points of the total population of India. If you can't explain this, you're obviously missing something or choosing to ignore it.

A college-aged upper class Indian whose parents are alive would have significant wealth and mobility without having investment funds, obviously. As such, their expected path would be through attending American colleges and work visas.

The cost of migrating from India to the US is tremendous. In addition to the more obvious tuition costs and practical costs of uncertainty/risk, the corrupt market for work visas is favored by upper class Indians specifically because it allows them to leverage their family's wealth in what is effectively a black market for access to US employers interested in hiring Indian migrants, and in-turn access to work visas.

> The right wing loves to point out cultural discrepancies in minority populations they vilify but apparently pointing out effective culture is anathema.

It's not "effective culture". It's just wealth and everybody knows it. Indian-American migrants are almost all Brahmin elite who amassed their riches thanks to the deeply exploitative Indian caste system. There is absolutely nothing impressive about that. It's hideous.

> India is a country that has been growing at an average rate of 7% for more than two decades

Literally who cares? Why should any Indian or American worker give a single shit about this? Why would this make American workers want more Indian migrants moving to America? Because India's elite have a lot of money and oppressed masses? You have no point to make as far as I can tell.

> and has plenty of billion dollar unicorns and a strong culture of entrepreneurship

Again who cares? Not me.

What kind of financial advice says to take out more loans to make long term investments when you're already deep in debt?

Numpy and Pandas existed as they did because Python is written in C and cooperates so well with C, so I believe that would be the better answer.

I can hardly imagine building something like what I wish this was but failing to share the details of specific attribute support between each format. I am essentially the target audience for this (or not nearly gullible enough depending on the intent) and not coincidentally this isn't my first time on the internet. Regardless how amazing this tool is, I would statistically be a fool to get off the couch for 10 minutes to experiment with it, so I'm not going to.

Capitalism has only been the dominant mode of production for approximately 2 centuries, and people made all the same excuses for feudalism yet here we are.

> the government didn't really want to arrest all the people, cause that would indicate they are not in control

Objectively, not arresting them indicates they are not in control more than arresting them would.

Did you think you were responding to something else? This is nonsensical as a response to my comment.