[-] Barx@hexbear.net 17 points 15 hours ago

Things like this always speak to weak parties and organizations. The candidates should be subordinate to their orgs, not the other way around. Even if a leader is particularly skilled, you are creating far too large of a liability when they inevitably fall out of power, at minimum because they will eventually die.

Kruschev was similarly an indicator of a party that could not reproduce competency and did actually overly depend on a team captain to not begin falling apart.

This is probably the most important aspect of protecting a revolution and it really seems like something that needs to be baked into the party/org before the revolution even happens. Where are the thousands of people ready to replace both Evo and Arce? Why are they not better-organized than these two factions? I'm sure the answer is in the details, but those are the details we have to care about.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 14 points 15 hours ago

There's a good chance this is the kind of stuff that gives him hope and he just wants to share that. Even if it's annoying.

PS texting is a bad way to have disagreements, I def recommemd having a real convo if you want to push back on what is basically new age karma, which itself leads to victim blaming if one is logical about it.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Given the other things listed it is a reference to the reimposition of slave-like conditions on liberated slaves, who were provided with nothing when slavery was abolished and of course still needed to feed themselves. Sharecropping was basically where they turned plantations into landlords for farm workers that had previously been slaves, who provided large shares of what they farmed to the former planter/new landlord. It had a transitional character, representing a move from the feudal character of chattel slavery towards the capitalist character of wage farm workers.

It goes in the pile of items removed because it makes America look bad because it did terrible things to black people beyond slavery as well. Any struggle against racism or capitalism seems to be their theme for removal.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

Control Theory is mostly just dynamical systems math using linear algebra to represent the system behavior. It becomes control-y by adding one thing into the mix: the controller itself that acts in the system in response to what it can observe. This is fleshed out for different considerations, like what properties you want the controller to have, what tradeoffs to make (e.g. faster but less accurate, the reverse, etc), whether the system is continuous or discrete, whether there are delays and how they are reoresented, how fancy you are being in terms of modeling observations vs. estimated internal state (e.g. a Kalman filter).

If you're interested in getting into the theory, the main places to start are linear algebra and differential equations. These are often coupled together in colleges because of their relevance to representing dynamic systems and concepts like "Jacobian" only make sense if you know both. I would recommend learning differential equations first because linear algebra texts might assume knowledge of them.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Per the article, "divisive" here just means that the US, sponsored of the aforementioned genocide, does its usual complaining about its critics.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

There's a "face the wall" joke in there somewhere

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Why even ask? He is obviously cooking water to make steam. This is what steampunks are all about.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

All I'm saying is that any real Marxist is investing in window boarding companies.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

Really sticking it to those... friendly Russian kernel maintainers. Really doing your part for your individual Two Minutes Hate.

So presumably, as a consistent person that is outrages by invasions and death, you call for the expulsion of all Americans and Usraelis, right?

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago

If their government wasn't such a lapdog they could just work with China to install their systems in Canada.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

By aesthetics alone it looks like if a McKinsey dweeb decided to become an Instagram (image only) influencer. Like they took the basic formula of conventionally attractive and lots of pictures with text on them but then tried to make them look a bit like a corporate headshot combined with a powerpoint slide.

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