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This is sarcasm, right? (the part about Iraq and Afghanistan)

An expert's criticisms:

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/919-Cl...

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/920-An...

Not a blog, but a (highly opinionated) podcast:

https://www.fivefourpod.com/

You can automate setup for developers using this simple script:

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/12091/files

And here’s a GitLab issue requesting support for blame-ignore:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31423

I don’t think there’s a corresponding GitHub request, but maybe if GitLab adds this feature GitHub will have some incentive to follow suit.

Here’s a script that automates the once-per-repository local setup of this feature:

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/12091/files

Unfortunately there isn’t support for it in GitHub or GitLab yet, but there’s at least a GitLab issue here requesting it:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31423

Light automation: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/12091/files

Does it?

>(32) 5 Israelis working for an Israeli Company "Urban Moving" were arrested on 9/11 after being seen "documenting" (their own words during an Israeli interview) and celebrating the attack on the WTC. Owner of the company, Dominik Suter, fled to Israel after the incident. His name appeared on the May 2002 FBI Suspect List, along with the 9/11 hijackers and other suspected extremists. Israel has yet to extradiate him (2001):

Haha, what a huge oversight on my part, of course citizens and non-citizens have different rights.

One of the legal principles of Israel is:

> The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people. [0]

There's also a legal path from citizenship to legal-residency, which I would surmise is used almost exclusively on non-Jewish citizens, as well as the blanket permission for all Jewish people (and no one else) to become citizens of Israel.

[0]https://www.timesofisrael.com/final-text-of-jewish-nation-st...

All people residing in Israel do not have equal rights. Why do you think they have equal rights?

It's a democracy of the first-class citizens only. Don't forget it's an apartheid state!

Actually, forget I said anything about communism. My intent was to address the original topic, but I just couldn't resist inserting my take on communism to the original analogy used.

The Bolshevik revolution was carried out under the assumption that world revolution would follow, particularly in Germany. This assumption did not hold, and Russia did not have the needed technological developments to sustain themselves.

Cuba is the best example of a successful communist-ish state. Most if its struggles are due to sanctions imposed by the US and enforced via its allies across the world.

I would rephrase that argument as, "communism is good, it has just been ruthlessly sabotaged by capitalist interests every time an ideologically communist regime forms".

In the case of the NHS, my understanding is that neoliberal politicians have been pushing to privatize it, and have underfunded it to make it look like it's not working in order to make privatization more appealing. The same is true for many programs in the US too.

What you're describing is the lack of a normal market, and even that only applies if you have insurance. For the millions of people without insurance, they do indeed shop around. It is very much a capitalist system, since the ownership (& control) of the system is not in the hands of the workers - in insurance companies, hospitals, pharma, etc - but in the hands of wealthy shareholders.

To be fair, I suspect your definition of capitalism is very different from mine...

Ah, so they're designed to be on fire.

I wonder if there's there a terminal setting or font that renders whitespace like a ]-shaped underscore? Could solve a whole class of bugs.

I would love an iOS app that notifies me when my AirPods reach a configurable battery level.

This would be help me do two things: - Manage battery wear - Avoid losing audio when I'm using just one AirPod at a time

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Firefox and Safari on iOS 15 both render all the glyphs attached to the base character. Vivaldi, Chrome and Firefox on Win10 all render them stacked and overlapping the parent and child comments.

ahem Cooperatives and unions are by definition not capitalist.

The key feature of a capitalist enterprise is that the workers and the owners are not the same group. This is in contrast with a socialist enterprise, where the owners and the workers are the same group.

There is a ton of stuff preventing people from forming their own groups. Have you seen how companies (see Amazon & Starbucks recently) react to people attempting to do so?

Professional journalism has always had this problem to a degree; there's always been an advertiser or other funding source you don't want to piss off. Twitter just exacerbates this by rewarding the most sensational, attention-grabbing posts.

I think you're feeling envy, not jealousy. ;]

It seems like they have chosen to abstain from capitalism and have been allowed to exist because they don’t represent a threat to the capitalist order.

Also, by definition, if collective choices are being made about the use of technology, then it’s not capitalism.

>The hard part is creating a viable alternative culture that can make collective choices about technology use.

This alternative culture is impossible under capitalism, where the tendency is for any and every technology to be acquired and applied in the service of the already rich and powerful.

I agree with your opinion. I just couldn't tell what the antecedent to 'they' was.

Yeah, the financial paper trail is probably the most compelling. The most reactionary media figures tend to be directly financed by wealthy interests who are happy to sow division by inflaming superficial threats to people's identities. The most popular explanation for this type of behavior is simply that people are bigoted and otherwise bad. I think the more meaningful and rational explanation is that the wealthy owners of society are employing a divide-and-conquer strategy. In this case, superficial differences are emphasized in order to reduce the ability of the people to develop class-consciousness and organize based on their common interests.

Who does 'these people' refer to?

What helps me is to view intelligence as strictly a matter of brain power. I can use my intelligence to do things that are stupid, unwise, misinformed, harmful, etc.

What I take from the article is that saying stupid things is the best way to avoid doing stupid things.

The sub-headline reads: "...rising up against the tyranny of extreme activist trolls"

She's crying about people being mean to her on the internet.

Where's the tyranny, exactly?

Why be mad at either party? They are both making rational choices given their circumstances.

I don't expect politicians to act on principles more than anyone else. They are just trying to keep their jobs, and they functionally depend corporate financing to do this, so they will naturally go to bat for the same people.

Intuit is a profit-making machine with side-effects that include creating a tax-filing product. The people running it are acting rationally to keep their jobs too.

This situation is a predictable outcome given the way the system works, and is one example of the failings and inefficiencies of the system to serve the common good.

The argument that the number of deaths in the US greater than the baseline from the previous year is roughly the same as the reported deaths where there was a covid infection, so our count seems accurate?

A tool isn’t bad or good, but capitalism incentivizes people to hoard them and rent them out to make a profit by exploiting other people’s labor.

(Sorry, that escalated quickly)