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Do you want your children to live in a world with +4 degrees because some purely financially motivated people stopped progress on the environmental protection front?

Wanted to post exactly this. WSJ doing some terrific propaganda here.

You’re german, you should be very well aware that CCC always has been political and that being Antifa is a stance a lot of folks support. Don’t try to muddy the waters here.

In the US it’s a different case but here we’re explicitly speaking of the CCC.

To add an anecdote: I’ve only seen it in professor’s labs before and have been looking for it for a long time.

What does this article really ‘reality check’? The editor’s understanding of quantum computing?

I wasn’t talking about revolution, just about acknowledging critique. I highly agree that capitalism brought the most prosperous period for humanity but there’s still lots to do and we all _have_ to listen to the poor, the disenfranchised, the ones getting the short end of the stick (ie Gilets Jaunes).

I’m sorry but this assertion does not hold in general.

Two things to think about

https://psmag.com/magazine/cellphone-revolutionary-objects

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/commun...

who would have thought that capitalist realism wasn’t the antidote to all of the world’s problems? certainly not thatcherite or reaganite policy building ideologists!

ethz going _strong_ these days on HN

Now THAT’s gold. Thanks for this nice explanation.

There’s actual nazis running for the Republican party (https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/1...)

Does that make the Republican party nazi? Absolutely not and you should not project your feelings on an entire political branch.

How is this comment downvoted? It’s true.

Ok. I see our definitions diverge too much for me to work on your assumptions.

Sorry how is suppressing your right to organize in the workplace not internal politics?

Imagine saying this with a straight face when “Google and most SV companies” became literally the largest donors of neoliberal lobbying in the US during the last 10 years (also, Europe).

Your worldview skews very right if you say that. While I respect you and your opinion, the framing of Google being ‘far-left’ is absolutely out of touch with reality. Sure, Google management tries to have a position in the US culture war but in the end they still work heavily with law enforcement and military and work strongly to suppress worker’s rights.

The United States government is legitimized by its people. While I highly disagree with the ‘America terrible’ feeling your argument does not hold.

It’s called ‘millenium’ non-plural.

You’re just showing that you’re not judging on information but on a hinch of what Switzerland is to you.

1) Very conservative and risk-averse population, yes, but also really open to technological innovation

2) Best universities in mainland Europe

3) High profile mutlinationals having their headquarters there

This could go on and on ...

Please respond to trhway’s response. You’re being the generic HN person that misses historical understanding here. It’s not flamebait to be highly concerned about political developments, please try to understand.

holy fuck no

Chain rule???

Thank you. Apparently everyone on HN loves a contrarian until they see one in the wild.

You should get to work, there’s a lot of stuff to do. Of course we need to protect our precious peace and prosperity, but we also need public opinion to reflect on certain issues. And we need policy makers to implement solutions on said certain issues. We’ll get there but it’ll be really damn tiring and exhausting.

How much more apocalyptic can you get? Do you think painting an apocalyptic picture and then blaming some parts of the population on the bad parts of your picture will do anything good?

Look I’m trying to build alternatives and help struggling social movements. I just don’t agree that the analysis of “it’s the elite, dumbass” is sufficiently clear eyed.

Of course, that’s the whole point. But you can build inertia. Take a look at Europe where there’s tremendous protesting going on regarding Climate Change, and we slowly see some change in for one, public opinion and two in policy making. It’s slow and painful and frustrating but you gotta work and not always blame the ‘global elite’. I know it’s hard to build inertia, I failed in court, I failed at building companies. But we all have to try and not put the blame on someone without doing anything.

Of course it’s difficult, but we all have the means to build social movements, companies or sue if we feel that there’s something terrible going on. But we all like our flights, our cars, our cheaper and cheaper phones, stable policy in the West and perceived security. It’s hard but you can go against it. Just always saying ‘it’s the elite’ and then sitting it out seems really easy to me. Everyone has a conception of injustice, it just depends on how badly you crave that justice.

You willingly put up with the ‘global elite’ though.

There’s a reason we have vocabulary for this kind of situations, ie. Nuremberg Defense.

Reading books he's missing the bare basic understanding of?

Doubtful that a clinical psychologist would grasp 300 books in a highly mathematical field. You know, next to doing his job.

I’m not saying he isn’t smart just that his conceptions about Continental philosophers stem from poor understanding and shallow reading of the philosophers’ works.