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New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong (2017)"

xkekjrktllss — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:34:49 +0000

20 years with nearly nothing going wrong

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong (2017)"

xkekjrktllss — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:59:44 +0000

Technology also causes the rate of profit to fall.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_prof...

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Today Is One of the Biggest Surveillance Votes. Will the FBI Stop Spying?"

xkekjrktllss — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:33:59 +0000

A representative democracy would require at least some politicians representing working cutizens.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Make Apps for Linux"

xkekjrktllss — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 22:12:36 +0000

Rants are very different from actually influencing the software. The same people rarely care for the alternatives to systemd.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink"

xkekjrktllss — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 21:11:55 +0000

those HN posters are just rabid libertarians hell bent on dragging any and all services that are not privately owned and operated for profit.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink"

xkekjrktllss — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 04:20:51 +0000

Trains are running more safely, efficiently, elegantly, and reliably than both cars and airplanes, and they have consistently done so with a much longer track record.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Factors driving a productivity explosion"

xkekjrktllss — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 03:22:05 +0000

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New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Make Apps for Linux"

xkekjrktllss — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 02:49:35 +0000

Not sure what point you're trying to make but the "non corporate hobbyists" are ineffective to the point of irrelevance when it comes to Linux core development. Everything they do is downstream from the influence of giant corporations.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Factors driving a productivity explosion"

xkekjrktllss — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 02:40:06 +0000

Private equity is an inevitability of a financialised capitalist economy, so what are you suggesting? Some sort of vigilante justice?

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Make Apps for Linux"

xkekjrktllss — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 02:01:20 +0000

The so-called "Linux enthusiast community" is better described as the Linux corporate enterprise community. Understanding this makes your comment make a lot more sense. The "specific applications" are in fact merely the priorities of the giant corporations who fund the overwhelming majority of Linux development for the purpose of accumulating profit.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "The U.S. Government's Most Powerful Spying Tool Is Fighting for Its Life"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:14:54 +0000

>The videos look impressive

Where are these videos?

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Amazon Has an Honesty Issue"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 21:04:19 +0000

You are conflating Amazon with Amazon.com, and vice versa at your convenience. It's much too sloppy of analysis to sustain a worthy discussion.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:44:30 +0000

It does work to an extent, but it's an appallingly cheap strategy that will fall very short of making NYC public transit remotely decent.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:41:41 +0000

No, it's a scam that will backfire and ultimately end in regression. You can't just get rid of cars. You have to replace them with something. Working people will feel the pain of this because the trains are already way too overcrowded.

Punitive measures in the absence of constructive measures will absolutely fail. This isn't complicated.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Amazon Has an Honesty Issue"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:55:33 +0000

When were profits negative? AFAIK Amazon.com may lose money but AWS more than makes up for it. Amazon.com is a long game to monopolize retail logistics, which they are just now starting to offer as a service to other retailers, meaning Amazon.com is of less importance.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "Amazon Has an Honesty Issue"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:43:30 +0000

Amazon is a private enterprise and its profit is soaring, which means this is simply a non-issue. I thought HN knew how free markets worked but I guess not.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:28:46 +0000

>It's not privatisation that created laws forcing a minimum number of parking spaces.

It is privatization that renders the government only capable of punitive solutions (regressive fees, etc.) rather than constructive ones (public infrastructure upgrades, etc.). Realize the revenue from these fees will be 99% laundered and swallowed up by private contractors. That ink is already dry.

>You can bet if there were no zoning laws or mandatory parking space requirements

Nonsense. This is the demented obsession I described above. You aren't making any sense at all. Working people aren't lobbying for parking space requirements; petty business owners are.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "The pro-Israel information war"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:12:40 +0000

a democratic state, which can only be achieved if the ruling class wants (they don't) it or the working class demands it.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan"

xkekjrktllss — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:07:19 +0000

You must be joking. Since tyrant Robert Moses, NYC is undeniably built for cars. Maybe if anything had changed since then you would have a point, but the fact is American society is wholly incapable of even maintaining, much leas building, public infrastructure due to its demented obsession with privatization and profit, so NYC's transit system is a clusterfuck of rot and in no way something to be proud of.

New comment by xkekjrktllss in "The pro-Israel information war"

xkekjrktllss — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:41:16 +0000

Mere "peace" is absolutely not the meaning of the phrase. If it were, the phrase would be unnecessary.

The phrase was dreamt up by Western Israeli allies to promote an oppressive pipe-dream border arrangement that was not even remotely acceptable by any reasonable standards. Only propagandized westerners even speak of it.

This is done so the Western media can frame Palestinians as uncooperative.