Oh, yes. But at a certain point it stops to make sense to count.

Baradar is the leader of the taliban. He can walk into any afghani home and take whatever and whomever he wants. No repercussions, no need for exchange of money. What’s his net worth?

At least, where I live, he isn’t allowed to take anything without a warrant. I value those things more: freedom to live, freedom to express, freedom to fart in front of the most of wealthy people.

Let others play their “maximizing net worth” game.

VERY CLEAR that’s where the greatest number of deaths associated it come from, not as an intended or desire outcome but by accident.

If it was an accident, the accident repeated several times. Even engineers got murdered for correctly saying you shouldn’t overload trains (1).

But then again, it wasn’t real communism, right. DDR, not real communism. Albania, not real communism. China, not real communism. Romania, not real communism. Etc. Etc.

I think you’re being totally blind of the fact Capitalism has a far greater death toll, and other detriments to the world you’re purposefully overlooking, or just ignorant of.

That’s because real capitalism hasn’t been tried yet. All the capitalist systems still had subsidies, governments beyond enforcing property law, …

Without a doubt Capitalism is responsible for everything I’ve spoken about here

No, because that was not real capitalism.

Every year they try to make it harder to smoke tobacco.

Might as well start smoking weed instead.

Used to think: wow they’ve got a lot of money. Untill I grew up and realised it’s not money they’ve got, it’s estimated net worth. It’s hard to turn that into cash.

If they got there by making a company that other people now value a lot: impressive.

If it’s a royal family member/inheritance/…, less impressive.

Overall: don’t think about it often.

I’m like your grandparents today. Grew up in DDR, had one heated room: the kitchen. It was also our living room, and on the coldest nights our bedroom. Not heated like an oven though.

It makes me physically uncomfortable to be in a >18C room in the winter, even today. I know it’s just a psychological thing, probably.

16C to 20C for euronerds.

For me the same. At my place of work it’s 22C (72F) and it makes me uncomfortable.

Tl;dr: corporate speak, just a rebrand, the new slogan suggests they want to lobby more.

Hope the corpo’s at the helm stay enough out of the way of engineering, that gecko remains. Poor mozilla engineers :(

Some excerpts:

Even though we’ve been at the forefront of privacy and open source, people weren’t getting the full picture of what we do. We were missing opportunities to connect with both new and existing users. This rebrand isn’t just a facelift — we’re laying the foundation for the next 25 years.”

We teamed up with global branding powerhouse Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) to revamp our brand.

We back people and projects that move technology, the internet and AI in the right direction. (…) With our “Reclaim the Internet” promise, a strategy built with DesignStudio in 2023, the new brand empowers people to speak up

“We intentionally designed a system, aptly named ‘Grassroots to Government,’

14C when away, 18C when home

Something like tinc? (1)

Play this song every time he enters the room?

That’s why it became known as Lysenkoism, because it came down to one con man.

It happens all the time. Take Theranos as an example.

The famine and millions of death are a consequence of the communist doctrine of not having different ideas compete, and have market forces reward the better ideas. Instead they took Lysenko’s ideas as true, implemented it nationwide, forbidding competing ideas, because it was politically agreeable. That is communist doctrine.

I’d argue it always takes ignoring reality, favouring faulty wishfull and selective thinking, to be communist.

Communist countries have tried to stop monarchies, democracies, capitalist, communist, too.

What makes communist countries special in that they turn out authoritarian, and the reverse, a communist country trying to stop a capitalist democracy, not?

Not sure if /s

Not every company. There’s plenty of free-lancers around. There’s oddities like valve.

But yes, the idea is a mix of companies, different shapes and sizes, coordinating through markets.

Lea Ypi’s book Free is a phenomenal book describing the albanian communist period. Can’t recommend it enough.

I grew up in DDR. It fails because it doesn’t reflect reality. People are different, can do different things, and want different things. An ideology that simplifies people into classes, stands between people and their dreams. And will always need an ever increasing police force to force reality to look like the ideology.

Lysenkoism, which wasn’t a part of communism

How so? Lysenkoism was wholely a result of the political ideology (environment determines wholely a crops’ yield), supressing scientific results (genetic differences exist).

weren’t that many

It’s a pretty long list (1)

They had no communist intentions to begin with.

All (>30 countries) of them (1)?

I wonder why r2d2 doesn’t simply close the stargates with his avatar powers (earth, wind, fire). 🤔

Now that there’s python in excel, I wonder how that competition will change.