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> Still, human history shows us that money always wins. Are you aware of what happened to the landlords in China or do you mean the landlords weren't human?

The USA threw 100k+ of its own citizens in concentration camps, stripping them of property and leaving them in poverty after the war. Not exactly a shining moment for principles.

Source with interactive data: https://www.staatus-index.org

> Also - shouldn't the web be full off vurnurable database servers then? No, the docker bridge network is not on a routable subnet.

Their MEGAsync client is open source at least.

Walmart makes over 200k in revenue per employee. Using profit to make your point is not applicable if honest. Otherwise you would advise Amazon to cease hiring altogether in all th…

It's worth mentioning that it wasn't just Germany on the Axis side, but a 6 nation alliance that invaded the USSR.

I cannot cite a universally accepted definition of anything. That is an impossible standard and I'm sure nothing I say will satisfy you. The only help I can offer you here is to qu…

The article concerns philosophers who loved talking about ideas, not the colloquial usage of the word stoic.

You've got it backwards. Toxic masculinity is exactly the avoidance of vulnerability and emotional openness you praise, not horsing around with your buds. You don't have to guess o…

Something important to understand is that the hard sciences are more rigorous, but that's because they're easier to model than what the social sciences have to deal with. The namin…

How do you justify such an incredibly strong assertion?

Not good advice if you're American as your own government can always hurt you most.

If you're going to be this sort of fierce nerd, make sure you come from money, because you're getting fired if you pursue these traits in the workplace.

Astronomy and agriculture are celebrated because their advances make the world better in some broader sense. That broader sense, good as such, is the scope of morality.

I'm guessing your questions are facetious, but in case you seriously care, the nature of morality has been the subject of intensive research for thousands of years, including today…

Technical goals are means to moral ends, so I think it's great that the stuff that matters, the big picture, the point of it all, is getting more discussion nowadays.

I'm not disagreeing with you or defending Marx, only pointing out a common misconception. Marx's project is frequently misunderstood. > but the value of all goods derive from their…

I don't know if the author is a socialist but Marx himself would certainly agree with your first paragraph. In his own words: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch…

By just helping people?

Exactly. That's why money is a proxy, not equivalent to power.

Smith does not address the point, made by Hickle and reiterated by the topmost comment, about taking into account subsistence farming and how that affects how we should be looking …

The article recognizes it, which I should have pointed out (on phone), but as far as addressing it there is only this line: > Except in all his later writings, he has relentlessly …