> the author is quoting prices in Euros, which is pretty much synonymous with "extreme poverty" I mentioned before :)
Care to elaborate?
> Especially ironic this article is from 2020 when M1 was launched and now laptops, both Qualcomm and Apple ones, are leaps and bounds better than before.
Something tells me you haven't quite grasped the blog post or what LOW←TECH MAGAZINE is about. https://permacomputing.net
Yes, I have [but I've not been to the border :-)].
Lack of air conditioning and low respect for tech employee (feudal style treatment of owner/worker) compared to Silicon Valley was obvious (although they are propagandized to think they have "better working conditions" due to more mandated vacation days and not being easily fired, but the order of magnitude lower salary is almost never brought up and if you bring up 500k salaries being a routine thing for upper-middle-range of a run-of-the-mill Senior SWE, they think you are exaggerating; to cope, immediately the subject of socialized health care comes up!) But good historic landmarks, for sure.
I honestly don't even know what to answer. You just generalized some places you think you saw as Europe.
I live in Switzerland, you can earn 500k if you want to. But you can also have a relaxed live. All your neighbours aren't poor so you barely have to be afraid of anything. Junkies get their heroin from the state, even them are nice people on the streets. Vacations is part of our lifestyle and even the poor have that. Tax burden is way less, startups are common and usually don't require a lot of investor money...
Also I have no idea why people always bring up silicon valley. That's not even 1% of the US, the rest of the country still is an obvious shit hole, in every single metric. And silicon valley is just barely better with super high wages.
You can build your walled mansion, but you can also enjoy being part of a healthy society.
Yes. "A communist state" is an oxymoron. Communism is by definition stateless. Government/governance, sure, but without a state. Rojava would probably be a better example of communism (in practice) than Soviet.
I was born in communist country. No money, only objective points to describe cost of production and egibility, no police but militia, one "united" workers party and tax in nature and goods. But no money ;D and no state ;D
I agree that it sucks. But does it really suck more than the alternative (Blink monopoly and terrible vertical tabs implementations)?. No way. I made most of these changes years ago and have just migrated my Firefox profiles directory since.
I like the stories suggested by Pocket, they seems to be from trusted sources and the personalization seems to happen locally[1].
>Are these stories in the new tab personalized to me?
> For the most part, no. Most recommendations on your new tab come from a general list of the best stories on the web. But Pocket is actively exploring ways to deliver personalized recommendations in a way that vigorously protects users’ privacy. Importantly, neither Mozilla nor Pocket ever receives a copy of your browser history. When personalization does occur, recommendations rely on a process of story sorting and filtering that happens locally in your personal copy of Firefox.
> You realize that heirarchy is exactly how you enforce rules, correct? You can't enforce rules without heirarchy.
That's not necessarily true, is it? All participants of an instance or group could practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy to form and enforce a set of rules without hierarchies. Not saying that's what happened here though...
Sure, but I don't think just only having direct democracy is sufficient, especially in an anarchist society.
The only nation state currently that somewhat has a form of direct democracy (Major emphasis on somewhat)- Switzerland- still has absurd hierarchies, some even more so than other countries, where entire cantons can decide who can or cannot move somewhere.
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