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Interesting how all of the same liberal yuppies who endorsed last year's hot summer, with the authorities bowing before the rioters and tolerating breakaway microstates, have now t…

> As far as I know there is no way to make a transactional state machine without having the concept of a single, reordable work unit. You're basically taking systemd's architecture…

If we can't ever perfectly adhere to an ideal, then I guess we ought to go full on with the connivery and deceit, then. Regardless, I did have at least some expectation that people…

All models are wrong, some are useful, others not so much. There's no need to treat me with these banalities. The job model ought to have died with Upstart. It did not. Oh well. > …

The 'job model' is the wrong abstraction, as is the unit concept which tries to reduce things that have irreducible differences. I'm also rather amused how you're conceding that th…

All of my views come straight from primary sources which I meticulously uncovered, including Debian mailing lists. I realize that you have been one of the more visible members of t…

Oh, but it is a good comparison. Many people have compared free software to communism. I always used to dismiss it. But, in a way, they were right. Both are movements with a self-c…

The problem with this straightforward thesis is twofold: firstly, distribution developers did not have any coherent position on the disadvantages of sysvinit or initscripts; second…

> it's nice to see you back again! Not for long, probably. I drifted out of this sphere years ago, and came back specifically for systemd's 10 year anniversary, as I felt obligated…

Well, my point is that (for instance) the specifics of its dependency model are still fairly obscure and undocumented knowledge. So I would say the statement is quite justified. An…

Criticisms of mathematical modeling in economics were most definitely given by Mises and Hayek. Historian of economic thought Mark Blaug was also very critical of how neoclassical …

objectively regulate There's your problem. Such grandiose visions might have passed for a 1930s-era technocrat, but are laughable today.

My architectural critique is becoming more pertinent (although they've had the sense to since deprecate the useless snapshot units): http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11…

If theirs is a drive-by misrepresentation, yours is a sycophancy and an adulation. The argument from bad people is a false one, largely because bad people are people and hence do e…

The Bakunin critique of Marx is then relevant, since the dictatorship of the proletariat is trivially hijacked by vanguardist interests. Moreover, Marx's diagnosis of capitalist br…

Your highlighting of "for-profit enterprise" takes me back to old Catholic anti-usury biases. They are rather juvenile. I'm also unsure of how you managed to reduce "capitalism" to…

Speaking of that trend, it is worth noting the British use of propaganda during WWI, particularly the Bryce Report and the Rape of Belgium. Much of modern propaganda owes to that w…

The middle class has not been decreasing by any measure other than subjective gut feeling.

Burkean conservatism and classical liberalism (modern right-libertarianism) are leaps and bounds apart. Just go read Russell Kirk's essays chewing off libertarians.

I presume you're referring to Norwegian black metal. Norway doesn't have a lot of DM, in fact the only band that comes to mind is Vomit from the 80s.

Assuming they can get past the veto-2/3 majority dance. It also strongly depends on the nature of the EO. Major economic restructurings have been struck down before, though usually…

Checks and balances are fine in theory. In practice, the executive and judiciary are overpowered. Judicial review quickly becomes judicial activism. Executive orders are a unilater…