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20 years with nearly nothing going wrong

Technology also causes the rate of profit to fall.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_prof...

A representative democracy would require at least some politicians representing working cutizens.

Rants are very different from actually influencing the software. The same people rarely care for the alternatives to systemd.

those HN posters are just rabid libertarians hell bent on dragging any and all services that are not privately owned and operated for profit.

Trains are running more safely, efficiently, elegantly, and reliably than both cars and airplanes, and they have consistently done so with a much longer track record.

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Not sure what point you're trying to make but the "non corporate hobbyists" are ineffective to the point of irrelevance when it comes to Linux core development. Everything they do is downstream from the influence of giant corporations.

Private equity is an inevitability of a financialised capitalist economy, so what are you suggesting? Some sort of vigilante justice?

The so-called "Linux enthusiast community" is better described as the Linux corporate enterprise community. Understanding this makes your comment make a lot more sense. The "specific applications" are in fact merely the priorities of the giant corporations who fund the overwhelming majority of Linux development for the purpose of accumulating profit.

>The videos look impressive

Where are these videos?

You are conflating Amazon with Amazon.com, and vice versa at your convenience. It's much too sloppy of analysis to sustain a worthy discussion.

It does work to an extent, but it's an appallingly cheap strategy that will fall very short of making NYC public transit remotely decent.

No, it's a scam that will backfire and ultimately end in regression. You can't just get rid of cars. You have to replace them with something. Working people will feel the pain of this because the trains are already way too overcrowded.

Punitive measures in the absence of constructive measures will absolutely fail. This isn't complicated.

When were profits negative? AFAIK Amazon.com may lose money but AWS more than makes up for it. Amazon.com is a long game to monopolize retail logistics, which they are just now starting to offer as a service to other retailers, meaning Amazon.com is of less importance.

Amazon is a private enterprise and its profit is soaring, which means this is simply a non-issue. I thought HN knew how free markets worked but I guess not.

>It's not privatisation that created laws forcing a minimum number of parking spaces.

It is privatization that renders the government only capable of punitive solutions (regressive fees, etc.) rather than constructive ones (public infrastructure upgrades, etc.). Realize the revenue from these fees will be 99% laundered and swallowed up by private contractors. That ink is already dry.

>You can bet if there were no zoning laws or mandatory parking space requirements

Nonsense. This is the demented obsession I described above. You aren't making any sense at all. Working people aren't lobbying for parking space requirements; petty business owners are.

a democratic state, which can only be achieved if the ruling class wants (they don't) it or the working class demands it.

You must be joking. Since tyrant Robert Moses, NYC is undeniably built for cars. Maybe if anything had changed since then you would have a point, but the fact is American society is wholly incapable of even maintaining, much leas building, public infrastructure due to its demented obsession with privatization and profit, so NYC's transit system is a clusterfuck of rot and in no way something to be proud of.

Mere "peace" is absolutely not the meaning of the phrase. If it were, the phrase would be unnecessary.

The phrase was dreamt up by Western Israeli allies to promote an oppressive pipe-dream border arrangement that was not even remotely acceptable by any reasonable standards. Only propagandized westerners even speak of it.

This is done so the Western media can frame Palestinians as uncooperative.

The Israeli government literally funds Hamas: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

This is because Netanyahu and Hamas both oppose a peaceful resolution.

Hamas =/= Palestinian people. However, if your family's home is taken from you by Israel and your family members are killed by Israeli forces, you will vote for anyone most capable of fighting back, and Israel's funding means Hamas is most capable.

>Just be sure you enjoy it when you no longer have a vote that counts

I am from the US. My vote is useless. No party or candidate representing my interests can run, much less win.

A so-called "2 state solution" is an oxymoron. A state, by definition, has a sovereign monopoly on violence. Your 2 states already exist and they are inevitably at war.

Where do you suggest they go?

>The majority of the world is against Israel's occupation of Palestine

The majority of the global ruling class is for Israel's occupation of Palestine.

History is incomprehensible if we ignore class conflict.

So sad :(

>how they'll impact future users

Most people in this thread understand that users' interests only matter insofar as they impact business profit.

I just think you're having a different conversation.

>parklets opened on Valencia for outdoor dining and people loved them!

Patrons of specific dining establishments sure, but they objectively inhibit transportation even more than parking spots do. This is painfully straightforward. Optimizing for wealthy people that frequently dine out is a expert way to undermine the collective interests of people who actually live in the city and those neighborhoods. Gentrification 101.

Are you implying that stocks are not legitimate trade? That's anti-freedom.

He comes from a very wealthy family. He just wanted fame, no matter the financial cost.

>Can you imagine if your dev job was like this?

Mine is. We have stack ranking and it's a living nightmare.