rockyleal · HackerTrans

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Intel NUCs are pretty neat

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The first 2 lines of the article are these:

"The fundamental theories on which the modern science of political economy is based are these:

    That under primitive conditions men lived and live by barter"

The basic premise, that barter was (and is) by which 'primitive' (whatever that is) live, has been thoroughly debunked by contemporary anthropologists of money. David Graeber's 'Debt: The first 5000 years" is a must read for anyone interested in the topic of theory of money from the anthroological (i.e., empirical) perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

rockyleal

قبل 10 سنواتdiscuss

I share your contempt towards Jobs and everything his work and Apple represent, but man your arguments are weird lol.

rockyleal

قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

This is the typical comment where preconceptions are so strong that they ignore, and even go literally against, the evidence at hand. In this case, the news is precisely about the Indian regulator standing against the wealthy lobbyist (who happens to be an American company, by the way). Talking about how corrupt countries are, or how corrupt they are perceived to be, I wonder if the same result would take place in the US.

rockyleal

قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

Bitcoin miner's dilemma: Should I mine where it's hot for the free solar energy or should I mine where it's cold for the extra refrigeration?

rockyleal

قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

Who said I am American?

rockyleal

قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

Legally? Going by whose laws? The legitimate owners of all that wealth are the indigenous inhabitants of the territory it was extracted from by invaders. According to indigenous law, it is definitively NOT legally owned by Spain.

rockyleal

قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

Me too. It would be cleaner, unpolluted, less bloody, and the native cultures would probably be blossoming and making interesting stuff by combining their knowledge with outside influences. Too bad most of them were exterminated and dispossessed (the galleon being just one instance of that dispossession), and too bad they continue to be institutionally and structurally marginalised, decimated, and dispossessed.

rockyleal

قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

Empire which was revoked due to being an illegitimate and genocidal regime. Your argument suggests they should be allowed to re-steal now what they would have stolen back then.

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