> most viable and desirable ways to distribute wealth None. > If you don't pay taxes, you go to jail. "If you dont pay protection money, we demolish your restaurant." So essentially youre advocating for a society thats…
Whatever I'm advocating, youre advocating flat out mugging, and to conceal that, youre giving it other names. Muging, aka forcible redistribution of other peoples wealth is called "communism", so stop pretending youre…
> And Michael Brown was probably a thug, so deserved to die? He didnt "deserve" to die, but the fact that he violently robbed a store minutes before he died, maybe, _only maybe_, contributed to his violent death, dont…
> Wow, trying to redefine racial diversity as racism. If a diversity quota decides about you gettnig a job or not getting a job, then it is indistinguishable from a race quota, i.e. racism.
> These experiences will have shaped the two men differently. You are implying that those negative experiences are a product of racism and not of simple statistics. Maybe, only maybe, people _dont have_ as many problems…
They didnt have to, neither Stroustrup nor Hejlsberg called their languages "a C".
> unless if you start paying. Which is unfortunate. So you want something for nothing. Why exactly would Ubuntu (or anybody else) want you as an user?
Considering that the push for Guile is not coming from the Emacs community, but from the Guile community in order to promote Guile, I guess that Emacs will be forked as soon as they deprecate Elisp and start forcing…
> I wonder why nobody has forked Wikipedia yet. Wikipedia _was_ forked, several times. The reason you dont seem to know about them are: 1. The added utility was not sufficient to make an impact strong enough to pull…
> left anarchism If it is not statist, what actually makes it "left"? > anarcho-communism Same question, how could a stateless communism possibly work?
Academia _as a whole_ is biased against republicans/libertarians/capitalists and toward the state, i.e. towards leftism, because thats where their paychecks come from. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
> Where I'm coming from we have this saying: communism is all about fixing problems that it created in the first place. As you will observe, HN is throughly infected with the communist delusion, commonly observed with…
Arguing with communists is a waste of time. Predator species always existed and will always exist. The whole "inequality" debate is beating around the bush. It is the classical grasshopper-ant situation. They simply…
The same way you could ask why GNU Emacs still exists. Because there are people who for various tiny (rational or irrational) reasons dont want to switch the editor they've been using the last 20 years. It is the same…
The decision to go either Common Lisp or Scheme was made based on RMS very personal reasons and conflicts with close-source Lisp machine companies during the first half of the 80s. GNU has had two common Lisp…
There is no time left to debate any more, we now have to act or we're all gonna die. Suppressing dissent by a Soviet style thought police is a small price to pay if the future of the human species is at stake. I for…
Journalists arent supposed to involuntarily spread goverment mandated propaganda. If the vast scientific consensus isnt able to make their point even to journalists and have to force them to print state mandated…
European countries are not directly threatened militarily by the US, but Russia is. Europe is being merely exploited economically. But even now that the Europeans are fully aware of being spied upon by the US, they can…
> in this conversation you are one of the extremists. It is extremism if and only if refusing to negotiate with muggers also is extremism. > trying to frame it as the world threatened by the sword of communism Whether…
> One side thinks that it's vital to allocate resources fairly It is actually capitalism that thinks that it is vital to allocate resources fairly. Communists, on the other hand, think that resources should be allocated…
> As for why a basic income makes sense Whether it makes sense for you or not, the discussion around this basic income nonsense regularly neglects the fact that in order for you to get money for not working, it has to…
There is no such possibility.
> we should strive Who is "we"? There is no "we". Capitalism exists because different people have conflicting desires and unequal abilities. Capitalism is just another word for natural selection. Any attempts to get rid…
The main issue with Guile is the same issue as with any other Scheme, and that issue is that it is a Scheme. No single Scheme is widely adopted and the main reason for that is extreme balkanization. You dont write code…
End users dont get their news from Wikileaks directly. What Wikileaks does is breaking the ice by publishing something that everybody else wouldnt touch, and keeping it in the open. Once Wikileaks took all the risk and…
> most viable and desirable ways to distribute wealth None. > If you don't pay taxes, you go to jail. "If you dont pay protection money, we demolish your restaurant." So essentially youre advocating for a society thats…
Whatever I'm advocating, youre advocating flat out mugging, and to conceal that, youre giving it other names. Muging, aka forcible redistribution of other peoples wealth is called "communism", so stop pretending youre…
> And Michael Brown was probably a thug, so deserved to die? He didnt "deserve" to die, but the fact that he violently robbed a store minutes before he died, maybe, _only maybe_, contributed to his violent death, dont…
> Wow, trying to redefine racial diversity as racism. If a diversity quota decides about you gettnig a job or not getting a job, then it is indistinguishable from a race quota, i.e. racism.
> These experiences will have shaped the two men differently. You are implying that those negative experiences are a product of racism and not of simple statistics. Maybe, only maybe, people _dont have_ as many problems…
They didnt have to, neither Stroustrup nor Hejlsberg called their languages "a C".
> unless if you start paying. Which is unfortunate. So you want something for nothing. Why exactly would Ubuntu (or anybody else) want you as an user?
Considering that the push for Guile is not coming from the Emacs community, but from the Guile community in order to promote Guile, I guess that Emacs will be forked as soon as they deprecate Elisp and start forcing…
> I wonder why nobody has forked Wikipedia yet. Wikipedia _was_ forked, several times. The reason you dont seem to know about them are: 1. The added utility was not sufficient to make an impact strong enough to pull…
> left anarchism If it is not statist, what actually makes it "left"? > anarcho-communism Same question, how could a stateless communism possibly work?
Academia _as a whole_ is biased against republicans/libertarians/capitalists and toward the state, i.e. towards leftism, because thats where their paychecks come from. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
> Where I'm coming from we have this saying: communism is all about fixing problems that it created in the first place. As you will observe, HN is throughly infected with the communist delusion, commonly observed with…
Arguing with communists is a waste of time. Predator species always existed and will always exist. The whole "inequality" debate is beating around the bush. It is the classical grasshopper-ant situation. They simply…
The same way you could ask why GNU Emacs still exists. Because there are people who for various tiny (rational or irrational) reasons dont want to switch the editor they've been using the last 20 years. It is the same…
The decision to go either Common Lisp or Scheme was made based on RMS very personal reasons and conflicts with close-source Lisp machine companies during the first half of the 80s. GNU has had two common Lisp…
There is no time left to debate any more, we now have to act or we're all gonna die. Suppressing dissent by a Soviet style thought police is a small price to pay if the future of the human species is at stake. I for…
Journalists arent supposed to involuntarily spread goverment mandated propaganda. If the vast scientific consensus isnt able to make their point even to journalists and have to force them to print state mandated…
European countries are not directly threatened militarily by the US, but Russia is. Europe is being merely exploited economically. But even now that the Europeans are fully aware of being spied upon by the US, they can…
> in this conversation you are one of the extremists. It is extremism if and only if refusing to negotiate with muggers also is extremism. > trying to frame it as the world threatened by the sword of communism Whether…
> One side thinks that it's vital to allocate resources fairly It is actually capitalism that thinks that it is vital to allocate resources fairly. Communists, on the other hand, think that resources should be allocated…
> As for why a basic income makes sense Whether it makes sense for you or not, the discussion around this basic income nonsense regularly neglects the fact that in order for you to get money for not working, it has to…
There is no such possibility.
> we should strive Who is "we"? There is no "we". Capitalism exists because different people have conflicting desires and unequal abilities. Capitalism is just another word for natural selection. Any attempts to get rid…
The main issue with Guile is the same issue as with any other Scheme, and that issue is that it is a Scheme. No single Scheme is widely adopted and the main reason for that is extreme balkanization. You dont write code…
End users dont get their news from Wikileaks directly. What Wikileaks does is breaking the ice by publishing something that everybody else wouldnt touch, and keeping it in the open. Once Wikileaks took all the risk and…