I’m guessing because oligarchic corruption is what’s most effective at getting the state to work against the majority’s interest. Small time corruption where you have to insert coin here or there to get things moving but you don’t get power over the state can’t do that. It only introduces inefficiency. Oligarchic corruption gets the state to represent the oligarchy’s interests and since those are in contradiction with the interests of the majority, the states stops representing it. That includes taking control of any form of democracy that may exist. In the US the oligarchs have obtained control over the state and the democratic system. It’s why there are never good options to vote for, but turd sandwich or a giant douche. I don’t know enough about China but there are signs that the state is not owned by its oligarchy. E.g. when Jack Ma wanted to make a private bank / payment system that isn’t controlled by the state, he took a vacation for a while and returned a changed man.
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3·4 days agoI think the really useful idea here is solving the scaling issue by limiting the source sites to a known good set. 95% of the time I am not looking for results from unknown sites. In fact I actively work to get information from the sites I trust.
22·4 days agoCat on a table.jpg says:
“I’m going to create a new distro by changing the name of Debian”
Sir, every professional developer knows there’s never time and people to maintain the testing environment so testing is done in production! That testing environment you’re dreaming of is missed shareholder value.
Reading this quote from wiki:
After the XX Congress, in an ultra-narrow circle of our closest friends and associates, we often discussed the problems of democratization of the country and society. We chose a simple – like a sledgehammer – method of propagating the “ideas” of late Lenin. A group of true, not imaginary reformers developed (of course, orally) the following plan: to strike with the authority of Lenin at Stalin, at Stalinism. And then, if successful, – to strike with Plekhanov and Social Democracy – at Lenin, and then – with liberalism and “moral socialism” – at revolutionarism in general … The Soviet totalitarian regime could be destroyed only through glasnost and totalitarian party discipline, while hiding behind the interests of improving socialism. […] Looking back, I can proudly say that a clever, but very simple tactic – the mechanisms of totalitarianism against the system of totalitarianism – has worked.
Especially this part - “and then – with liberalism and ‘moral socialism’ – at revolutionarism in general” - it makes it sound like at least this guy (Yakovlev) wanted to move away from economic socialism altogether. Am I reading this right? Is it taken out of some context in which it has a different meaning? I’m asking in case you’ve read more about the topic. If you haven’t, that’s alright.
I read the wiki page on Perestroika. Am I understanding correctly that the people who pushed it, at least some, wanted to move the union to social democracy?
USB 3 should be plenty fast. Even 4-disks per port do 600MB/s. Get some USB-SATA adapters, or a multibay box, or some enclosures, and a USB hub. I was running 2 4-bay boxes on 2 USB 3 5Gb ports with 8-disk RAIDz2. Peaks at 1.3GB/s.
Trump may have asked for this. I guess we’ll know how the relationship is going if they reduce production in the future. 😂
Hey buddy, we’re not annexed yet!
The drop should dampen some of the inflationary effects of the tariffs. MBS is essentially helping Trump in this one.
Or… perhaps… talk to people and try to understand why they think the way they do. Who knows, maybe you’d hear something that makes sense. Just an idea! :D
Agreed. Snap is. It can do desktop and system components.
Probably prison staff.
Interesting. I’d have expected this to include more Western countries. Or do they expect we’ll notice and complain?