quantumofmalice

By the way, I appreciate you taking the time to thoughtfully respond to my comment. It is difficult to say what I think may be the truth (with, I hope, no maliciousness) in todays environment, so thank you.

It seems to me like the american continent, anyway, is large enough to give everyone what they would like, without either interfering with one another politically.

It seems like smaller, more homogonous political units is the best way to avoid conflict, and I don't see why that has to be malicious. My main problem with most of the ethno-nationalists that I read is that they are really racialists or pan-europeanists, which strikes me as almost (almost) as useless for generating inter-class solidarity as appealing to universal humanism.

This isn't solely a feature of capitalism. Any system is going to devolve into the strong eating the weak unless the strong identify with and have solidarity with the weak.

I have recently become much more willing to listen to ethno-nationalists of all ethnoses based on this realization: stripped of any imperialistic impulse it may be the best way to generate cross class identity in a given political unit. I tend to think size/scale matters as well, perhaps more so, so that the strong are forced into closer quarters with the weak and so that social interactions are iterated, leading to a better stable state.

Why not focus on the root company and family actually getting rich off selling the damned opioids (Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers, respectively)?

I don't understand how this company and family haven't been sued into the ground yet.

"evil"

On the other hand, three votes over three hours is a pretty insanely low bar, especially for a non-technical article.

What did dang mean by this?

I wish they'd make a smaller version of it.

Seems like begging the question to me, fam.

> you could get some by a miracle.

Well, at least that would be intellectually honest.

I do cry for the middle class and lower classes in the west, and for the beset upon labor of the third world. It worries me greatly: my class lives very well, but friends and family that didn't win the IQ lottery are falling apart.

I think this is going too far the other way. I appreciate the anger that this topic can generate, but it is always important to remember that markets have brought huge numbers of people out of poverty.

The best way that I can think of to deal with the problems of the market involves creating solidarity across class lines. That may require two very unpopular ideas: restricting trade across national borders so people don't cheat on that solidarity, and generating that solidarity via social identity, which is most often based on, everybody get their fainting couch ready, ethnicity and culture.

Yikes.

I think at this point everyone capable of doing so understands that international trade has benefits. I would prefer if the intellectual class in the west recognized and reflected on the costs that the middle and lower classes in the west, in particular, have paid for it.

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...

Well, Sam, you didn't say that.

Rather, the totalitarian left, exactly who the article was criticizing, sensed heresy and pounced, without any goodwill or thoughtfulness.

They did exactly what you implied they would do, and now you are apologizing for them doing it.

2017, everybody.

Unfortunately XML-RPC was such a nightmare that calling something JSON-RPC was out of the question. Shame.

There are a few blog posts up on the intercooler website that discuss this that I found enlightening:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...

I think the topic has been successfully in the mind of college educated people, so any mention of it immediately brings to mind both slavery and, somewhat amusingly, fascism.

It is too bad. As I said above, I see it as the best way to avoid violence.

I wish XML-RPC hadn't ruined things so utterly, so we could properly refer to these APIs as JSON-RPC and leave REST for hypertext-based architectures (e.g. intercooler.js + html)

Territories with strong social identity would maintain political union, territories with weak social identity and severe political disagreements would split. As much as is possible, no one is ruled by people they hate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity

We are taught this is impossible because the ruling class, who favors ever more centralization, wishes that to be so.

A lot of violence will be saved if we start agreeing to amicable divorces.

I don't expect us to do that, so, sadly, I expect a lot of violence.

You get 90% of the functionality at 10% of the complexity, and your back end looks essentially the same as it always has, in whatever language you want.

I wouldn't try to write a video game or anything like that with it, but for most of what I do it gives me what I want with very little complexity.

https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js/

I don't use it for everything, but it's great for a lot of my work.

Unfortunately it seems like during the holidays the usual delivery guy isn't around and it's a chaotic mix of people.

While we are here, I hate that they are now making people deliver on Sundays. Every year I struggle more with the morality of the package economy.

I don't mean to be unpleasant, but the idea that there has always been an oppositional libertine youth culture of selfishness is a modern canard.

Although male aggression is not tied solely to it, testosterone injections should help a sufficiently reflective transsexual understand this over time.