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I notice that you try to smear Kamprad in order to set the tone in order to defend union take over of companies by force, a typical tactic of the radicals. IKEA was Kamprad's own creation, not the creation of some union bureaucrat.

The Wikipedia article, both the Swedish and the English version, is fuzzy about the details how it worked, they took the company’s own money and use that to buy the company’s shares by forcing them to sell by equity issuance. Goal was to take over private companies and create socialism.

Social democrats were reformist but became radicals during the leadership of Olof Palme. This was not the only one radical thing that they did, another was the famous Pomperipossa taxation where some Swedes payed more than 100% in taxes. This led to other Swedes leaving the country, like the famous movie maker and director Ingmar Bergman.

As I wrote in another comment, this had disastrous consequences for Sweden, large companies left and we went from a consensus culture around business and politics (Saltsjöbadsandan) to a something much more antagonistic.

This radicalized the right wing in Sweden to become neoliberal for many decades to come, which led to other negative consequences.

Not in the interest of the workers, in the interest of the union (LO), they used the companies own money to do this, ie take the company own money and use that to buy the company’s shares by forcing them to sell by equity issuance.

The end goal was to take over companies and be owned by the unions.

This had disastrous consequences for Sweden, many companies left, one was IKEA. It created an hostile climate, instead of the previous decades of consensus between buiness and politics it created an antagonistic atmosphere.

The Social democrats lost their first election in 40 years.

The system was scrapped in the early nineties.

Kamprad got paranoid over the realization that politicians and bureaucrats could take over his life work and thus he moves to Switzerland and then created this non-profit to make sure it always remained in his family.

This scheme was the consequence of radical Swedish politicians, the Socialdemocrats, that tried to take over Kamprad’s own creation by pure theft.

https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ntagarfonder

One huge benefit of using a non-randomized token is that you can verify that you created it.

I think more like, how would you prepare and cook the best five course gala dinner for only $10. That requires true skill.

Former prime minister of Sweden Stefan Löfven got wind about Big data buzzword back in 2015 and used it in one of his speeches, that this is the future, however he used the Swedish translation of Big data, stordata. That generated some funny quips about where is lilldata.

https://www.aftonbladet.se/senastenytt/ttnyheter/inrikes/a/8...

Official ICQ client got bloated for every release. Security issues and lots of spam.

Miranda IM, open source plugin based architecture, was the best client for ICQ.

There was a fun plugin that notified you if anyone read your away message. Good trolling potential.

I had a Commodore 64 that I had bought with my own money, but my friend (rather his dad) had a Commodore 128 with a floppy drive. I was so impressed but also extremely jealous. My brother though bought a PC.

JQuery UI is a widgets library like datepicker, autocomplete input and progress bar but also has UI controls to make things draggable and such.

Assume this is doable, but who would legislate that? US congress that is already bought and paid for by the very same companies?

They are still supported and works perfectly fine still. Remember that browsers supports different DOCTYPEs (HTML5, XML, HTML4 strict and non strict etc) and they are not going away anytime soon, probably thousands and thousands web sites out there that doesn't implement HTML5 and never will.

Frameset is deprecated in HTML5, but your index page can be of the older frameset DOCTYPE and each frame valid HTML5 page with a <!DOCTYPE html> declaration. This is why frames (and iframes) are actually great because you can mix old an new.

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" 
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>My page</title>
    </head>
    <frameset cols="100%" rows="10%,*,10%">
        <frame name="header" src="header.html">
        <frameset cols="20%,80%" rows="100%">
            <frame name="sidebar" src="sidebar.html">
            <frame name="main" src="main.html">
        </frameset>
        <frame name="footer" src="footer.html">
    </frameset>
    </html>

e.g main.html

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
        <head>
            <title>main</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            main
        </body>
    </html>

Funny thing is that it still easier, even today, to use a frameset rather for header, sidebar and main area rather than fiddle with the new grid system.

It was me that was doing that comparison, agree it is not a perfect one because of many reasons, one is that communism is a political system that has an economic system (typically planned economy) and capitalism is an economic system only. Thus you can run a brutal dictatorship, like the communistic China, or benevolent democracy with capitalism.

And this is what I don't agree with the reasoning in this thread, it is a comparison of apples with oranges. Many proponents of capitalism does this error, they assume that capitalism gives political rights somehow, and they typically talk about things like freedom and such. But all of those political freedoms stem from somewhere.

And an continuation on that argument is that private companies a free to do what they want, when in reality private stock companies (in the West at least) has a separate legal entity and reduced liability as a guarantee from the state. Is that true capitalism?

Why I made the comparison between capitalism and communism is that both proponents of those systems usually reply "That is not real communism/capitalism!" about any flaw in these systems (which of course happened in this thread as well). But if every flaw is always theorized away, does it then only exist in theory?

If we look specifically at China for instance we can notice other things that has helped it, one is that greedy capitalist from the West moved industries there, China is also doing industrial espionage on Western companies, China as also aggressively spikes its currency, and it balloons it's GDP numbers by building ghost cities.

China and Poland has definitely got it better with less communism, but what is "more or less capitalist"?

I also notice that you completely ignored my reply.

Sure, if we two meet in the forest and I swap my piece of fur for some dried meat it is a win. But the problem with capitalism is that in the long run it starts to centralize in a similar manner as communism for efficiency and thus goes against the "Local knowledge problem"[1]

As a result what typically happens is that general quality goes down and that is what we observe can right now.

Please also read my other response in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978645

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_knowledge_problem

Market economy is not necessary the same as capitalism, China is capitalist in some parts but it also a heavy state subsidized economy with a regulated market and public ownership.

And the massive increase in living standard can be attributed to multiple factors that was all needed to make it possible, superposition as it is called in physics, e.g. a proper contracting framework, a literate and educated public, technological advances, deregulating markets from the old estates system, etc.

We can take Sweden as a good example, yes the legislative change in 1864[1] that anyone could operate a business was crucial, but where did all the talent come from that actually created all those famous Swedish companies and inventions? Many came from the Swedish Army because Sweden was an old Great Power and the army needed many engineers to be able to build fortifications and such. Two of the most famous ones would be Nils Ericson[2] and his younger brother John Ericsson[3]

But you also need qualified workers and it happens that Sweden had at the time one of the most literate population in the world because of the Swedish state church. In the old days Sweden was quite strict religiously and the Swedish state church had conducted Household Examinations since 1686[4] about general knowledge in the Bible and Luther's Small Catechism. You can't really run a modern industry with an illiterate public.

Thus attributing everything to "capitalism" is gross simplification of history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_of_Extended_Freedom_of_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Ericson

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ericsson

[4] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husf%C3%B6rh%C3%B6r

But I get no protection from these tech overlords, they can close me down at anytime or give my data away to third party or the government without my knowledge.

> You can only do that if you have cornered the market.

Which happens over and over because we humans are flawed, thus every system we create will also be flawed.

If capitalisms only works in theory then it is as good as communism.

I would rather say it is a synergi between technology and capitalism, both are needed to create the current state.

Technology has always been a double edged sword thru human history, it is just that the sword keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Capitalism can then take that sword and use one of the edges and make money out of it and that in turn wields political power.

Never use Facebook or any other of the big ones as a login provider. Always use a separate account for each cloud service.

Some dynamic languages do have type constraints these days, e.g. PHP.

Retvrn to New Roman Times.

Many years ago I started to dislike exception handling, probably because working in large software projects with many exceptions floating around.

Then a few years ago I started to write code in a primitive language without exception handling. I miss exceptions now.

This text doesn’t make much sense, on the one hand the author argues that software written in C is robust, on the other hand the author admits that he has unknown bugs lurking in his own project.

One bug took several months to track down. This is cognitive dissonance at its finest.

Probably even better to pick PHP then, large standard library included, open foo.php to code, no main function required, just start writing, no build step, can output to stdout or http without effort

Who is stressing you to refactor when doing exploratory programming? Yourself? OOP languages? Society?

What is stopping you from only using functions and structures in any language?

I built a house by only using a broken hammer, that made the house better because I needed to spend more time to handle the broken hammer correctly.

The websites uses a 3D library called three.js https://threejs.org/

If you go the main page of the blog, it is the background

https://www.mark-pekala.dev/

Funny coincidence in Scandinavian, XL "extra liten" (extra small), also works for XS "extra stor" (extra large).