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Apple and Microsoft would simply never allow that to happen. End of story. The Open Source "community" is hell-bent on finding technical solutions for political problems, and this …

Great solution if you're looking to spend hours installing CS6 built for a 1280x720 display, or CS18 (high DPI support) with very buggy operation and constant crashes. I've been th…

Behold our priorities as a society

In a capitalist society, class is the predominant relationship one has with their society. I know this is pretty obvious and may not entirely answer your question, but many people …

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This is almost entirely just plain false.

Historically mere "movements" don't accomplish anything. You need actual strategy. Not just attention wrangling. The fact that you haven't shared a strategy shows me you're ineffec…

> There are lots of business ventures that are illegal or heavily regulated. So????

The use of proportions rather than actual totals means the number of recruits could have dropped by that same 12.4% in every category, in which case the focus on race is completely…

> Another article is more explicit about exactly who isn’t joining the military anymore. The article doesn't confirm whether the total of any other groups is dropping, but it can b…

> the little things do add up This is the first thing that anyone who has actually studied historical societal change would have to disagree with. In fact, history almost completel…

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Is there a contest for the most stuffy and uncomfortable product reveal?

Capitalism is literally defined by the ability to exercise capital to accumulate more of it, which is literally the only way for a monopoly to exist. By definition, capitalism has …

> price caps make a lot more sense to me. Will never happen. Comcast has the power, not the politicians. As Marx showed us 150 years ago, a state under capitalism tends to become a…

I read Ages of Dischord! I think Peter Turchin has a lot of very valuable insights. Big fan! Also a great book for HN readers. :)

> Why are we doing this? someone got promoted

> This is why… uh… people started divorcing more? Yes. Divorce rates inversely correlate with wealth and income measurements. Poor people divorce a lot more than rich people, which…

that usually depends on who wants to know

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it exhibits a capacity to be full of shit with a straight face, which makes grant funders happy so grant reviewers view it as job security

> Same, but why would others live there ? Because has more theoretical opportunity than where they live and they can't move to Europe. This is not complicated.

Copyright law is a nearly perfect conflict in capitalism because profit by way of merely owning capital also has no moral or logical basis. Legitimation of such a system requires e…

> demand can be specific to a price point This only illustrates that you don't know what demand is, in the context of economics.