Nor are they addressing the reproduction of the classes shown by historical materialism to be just as fundamental a building block as the legalistic ones.
There are a few human quality estimate corpuses out there. I know a year or two ago they were re-running the quality assessments with RED camera footage. Check out the NYU/UTexas/Waterloo labs working on SSIM, I bet you can download it.
I also travel with custom imaging equipment that sometimes has exposed PCBs. My recommendation is to carry it on, so that you can open it and explain it. Twice I have approached the gate well ahead of my flight, and offered to show TSA the equipment. Both times they took only a cursory glance at it.
I'm surprised they don't just mandate the spectrogram swab on every piece of electronics that comes through, consumer or custom.
You can no longer afford the tithing rate of profit to Capital in San Francisco, and you're forcing someone else to pick up your tab instead of revolution.
The negative exponent bothers me. Every implementation I've used specifies either mantissa bits or exponent bits, as a positive value. The extraneous '-' everywhere feels like a waste
This is exactly how we keep intentionally misunderstanding Das Kapital on internet forums.
Class is not a minor outcome of a social moment. It is not a mere symbol that can be quickly turned on or off by a culture, the way a culture might shift from enjoying boxing to preferring mixed martial arts.
Class has arisen as an essential structure in the reproduction of society since the dissolution of European fuedalism. The same business logic that produces all our material wants, from coats to bushels, comes hand in hand with the logic that every business must give the profit (surplus labor) back to capital. Culture is a material basis, but class is the overdetermining superstructure.
Shifting from a class based society to a classless one would require a fundamental shift in the economic relations where workers would own the means of production. This shift would tear apart the material basis of our culture. MTV/Viacom, MSNBC/Fox/CNN, RCA/TicketMaster/C3, WaPo/NYT/WSJ, TWTR/Facebook/Google: all of these cultural production centers would shatter into cultural microcosms if the workers at these firms weren't bound to profit maximization.
On the other hand, it is trivial to manufacture new cultures without a whiff of change to class.
Marx being the economist in my post. My confusion is why the arguments presented here are being called "cultural". People are trying to frame left economics as a mere happenstance of a cultural moment (hippies or hipsters), in order to exclude it from the scientific register when we debate it.
The overlap between communitarian student protesters and Wall Street focused old money elite isn't zero but I find it very odd that you would paint them as a joint monolith. There are important tensions between those two cultures that you erase with such a claim.
(Also the timing is bizarre, the hippie image was already solidified in the summer of '68, but the old money came in increasing tides of the 80s 90s and 00s.)