- 60 years ago, Hannah Arendt provided a haunting critique of modernity. Society will become stuck in accelerating cycles of labor and consumption, she argued. Free human action will be replaced by instrumentalization, and meaning will be replaced by productivity… https://philosophybreak.com/articles/hannah-arendt-on-the-human-condition-productivity-will-replace-meaning/ 160 comments philosophy
- Liebreich: Capturing only 90% of CO2 emissions in blue hydrogen production ‘ain’t good enough’. Still means that about a tonne of carbon dioxide would be released for every tonne of blue hydrogen. "I've got nothing against blue hydrogen, as long as there are no fugitive emissions and 100% capture." https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/liebreich-capturing-only-90-of-co2-emissions-in-blue-hydrogen-production-ain-t-good-enough-/2-1-1034599 117 comments energy
- Hypothesize less, validate more. Productivity means operating in the real world, not living in your head. https://suketk.com/thought-space-vs-reality 26 comments productivity
- Swadeshi does not mean boycotting all foreign products, says Mohan Bhagwat https://scroll.in/latest/970237/swadeshi-does-not-mean-boycotting-all-foreign-products-says-mohan-bhagwat/ 6 comments india
- Bernie Wants You to Own More of the Means of Production https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/10/bernie-wants-you-to-own-more-of-the-means-of-production 79 comments politics
- “Amazon’s Choice” Does Not Necessarily Mean A Product Is Good https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazons-choice-bad-products 88 comments technology
- How true is this - "If growth sucks, that usually means product is not good enough" https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/8wow8v/how_true_is_this_if_growth_sucks_that_usually/ 12 comments startups
- [OC] An in depth look at Jarvis Landry’s contract, his production on the field, and what they mean. https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/8w5fak/oc_an_in_depth_look_at_jarvis_landrys_contract/ 38 comments nfl
- Do tags in Apple ecosystem mean iCloud storage is better than Dropbox, Google Drive, etc, for productivity? https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/77skl9/do_tags_in_apple_ecosystem_mean_icloud_storage_is/ 7 comments productivity
- Trump's "Buy American, Hire American" Executive Order Means You Shouldn't Buy His Products https://www.bustle.com/p/trumps-buy-american-hire-american-executive-order-means-you-shouldnt-buy-his-products-52215 15 comments politics
- Manchester United have gone 20 games without defeat - but their 10 draws during that streak means it is the least productive unbeaten run in Premier League history. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/10825960/utds-unbeaten-run-worst-in-pl 256 comments soccer
- I just deployed my embedded Rust project to production. By which I mean I hung it on my bedroom wall. https://github.com/simonsapin/teensy-clock 23 comments rust
- Is there any info about this product? Meaning, what can I do with it? http://www.gearbest.com/development-boards/pp_211519.html 6 comments arduino
- Tell Congress You Want Truth in Fur Labeling - A loophole in the Fur Products Labeling Act means that a vast quantity of clothing made with less than $150 worth of real fur goes unlabeled in the U.S. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clicktogive/campaign.faces?siteid=3&campaign=furlabeling 4 comments reddit.com
- Look on the bottom right ... "MADE WITH NATURAL FRUIT FLAVOR. PRODUCT CONTAINS NO FRUIT JUICE" ... Well WTF does that mean? http://www.tacobell.com/frutistafreeze/ 10 comments reddit.com
- Juninho Pernambucano: ''We need to socialize the means of production.'' https://chuteirafc.cartacapital.com.br/juninho-pernambucano-me-revolto-quando-vejo-jogador-e-ex-jogador-de-direita-nos-viemos-de-baixo/ 3 comments soccer
- In Appeal to Moderates, Sanders Calls for Worker-Ownership of Means of Production http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/bernie-sanders-gets-pragmatic-by-getting-more-socialist.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s1&fbclid=iwar11_blzjdk8g5jpghorndaq31doxteim5u9zz32a7eraql0halvnrt0moi 10 comments politics
- European Court of Justice rules that gene-editing is genetic engineering. This means products resulting from technologies like CRISPR will have to undergo much needed regulations before being brought to market. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-44953100 9 comments science
- How can I get into the "world" of graphics cards/CPUs, meaning to know whats a better product to purchase if I'm buying a new computer, knowing what is a better product between 2 options, etc? https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/776xvr/how_can_i_get_into_the_world_of_graphics/ 66 comments hardware
- The Real Meaning of All Those Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories About Hillary’s Health - Most Clinton conspiracy theories are meant to delegitimize her, to explain away her baffling, irksome persistence in public life as a product of a scarcely comprehensible homicidal ruthlessness. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/the_real_meaning_of_the_right_wing_conspiracy_theories_about_hillary_s_health.html 15 comments politics
- Fixing Flint - "It should be clear now that “running government like a business” (the privatizers trope) means you don’t invest in places that don’t have markets that can afford to buy your products. It didn’t work for Flint and it doesn’t work for America." http://capitalandmain.com/latest-news/issues/politics-and-government/fixing-flint-0125/ 59 comments politics
- Why are analysts so fucking stupid? IDC analyst says Apple needs a new product for CEO Tim Cook to "mark his stamp" -- "That could come in the form of launching a smaller iPad with a longer battery life, for instance." YOU MEAN LIKE AN IPHONE? How do these "analysts" have jobs? http://news.yahoo.com/apple-touches-record-high-ipad-3-sales-run-025858495.html 93 comments technology
- All the well-intentioned blither-blather about “human rights” that I hear so many Americans pretending to care about MEANS NOTHING if we blindly buy products made by slaves. http://rightwingnews.com/china/how-much-would-an-apple-ipad-cost-if-it-werent-made-by-suicidal-slaves-in-china/ 6 comments politics
- Raul Castro said Sunday that the global economic crisis means tougher times ahead for Cuba, but the country has no one to blame but itself for poor farm production that leads to frequent shortages of fruits, vegetables and other basics. http://www.mail.com/article.aspx/world/latinamerica/apnews/latinamerica/20090726/u_cb-cuba-revolution-day?pageid=1 3 comments worldnews
- Dear Humans, Industry, Not Your Activities, Is Causing Climate Change. We need government to create better ground rules for energy production that account for the climate risks we face. That means we need companies to stop misrepresenting the science. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-huertas/dear-humans-industry-is-c_b_7017470.html 9 comments politics
- Why Prices At The Pump Are Still Falling. Gas prices fell to their lowest level since late July over the weekend. The fact that "no meaningful oil production has been impacted" by the Israel-Hamas war coupled with lower demand overall means prices at the pump are expected to continue falling. https://www.barrons.com/visual-stories/gas-price-israel-hamas-war-e37a7120 3 comments economy
- Look what happens when corporate monopolies take advantage of a crisis to hyper-profit on the back of the working class. It will become much worse when all sectors will go fully automated soon. We must put under full public control all the critical infrastructure and the means of production ... NOW! https://twitter.com/failedevolution/status/1564547757473517570 30 comments economy
- Mean national cost of oil production: Nigeria and Canada about $40- under water. http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/print-edition/20160109_fbc031.png 6 comments economy
- "The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist, remember this: I don’t believe government should own the means of production, but I do believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal," [Sanders] said. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/19/us-usa-election-sanders-iduskcn0t82v920151119 3133 comments politics
- The G.O.P. Can’t Ignore Climate Change - Discussions will not be productive if certain solutions are dismissed out of hand. This may mean accepting that natural gas or nuclear energy are part of our shorter-term horizon, rather than fighting those approaches. http://nytimes.com/2014/05/07/opinion/the-gop-cant-ignore-climate-change.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1&referrer= 12 comments politics
- To Increase Productivity, UPS Monitors Drivers' Every Move - "Technology means that no matter what kind of job you have ... your company can now measure everything you do." http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/04/17/303770907/to-increase-productivity-ups-monitors-drivers-every-move 16 comments technology
- National Iranian American Council email: "In some Apple stores, speaking Persian means you can’t buy their products...There have been additional reports of Apple employees preventing Iranian Americans and Iranian students from buying their products." https://secure3.convio.net/niac/site/advocacy?cmd=display&page=useraction&id=216&autologin=true&jservsessionidr004=e5dmtiokm2.app333b&printer_friendly=1 6 comments technology
- Liquid cocaine boom in Colombia - The arrest of eight people for the production and transport of liquid cocaine, as well as the discovery of 267 kilos of the substance in Medellin, indicate that the liquid form of the drug is an increasingly popular means of trafficking. http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/15142-liquid-cocaine-booming-in-medellin.html 10 comments worldnews
- Ben Stein: "Just as one person, I would give a lot to charity to save my family and the future from this kind of redistribution that could mean eliminating freedom and devastating the financial plans of the most productive among us." http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/178987;_ylt=atymwyn32wibw6vpzvsnqc.er4v4;_ylu=x3odmtfiadzwmnfwbhbvcwmznwrzzwmdymxvz0luzgv4q2h1bmtzbhnsawn0agvzzxjpz2h0c2q- 8 comments reddit.com
- The people behind Electron Cash keep producing very useful software products. Here is Electron Cash as a J2ME SPV wallet. This means it's becoming cheaper for people to run SPV wallets, since cheaper phones can run J2ME software. https://github.com/fyookball/Electron-Cash-Java/releases 56 comments btc
- Modi bets on GM crops for India's second green revolution. Allowing GM crops is critical to Modi's goal of boosting dismal farm productivity in India, where urbanisation is devouring arable land and population growth will mean there are 1.5 billion mouths to feed by 2030 - more even than China. http://www.trust.org/item/20150222010129-l6jxe/?source=jt 306 comments worldnews
- Noam Chomsky: "What does too big to fail in America mean? It means nationalization without control or regulation... That all the things that make businesses fail, including excessive executive salaries and bad products, are now paid for by the American taxpayer" [video] http://www.prosebeforehos.com/progressive-economics/04/14/what-does-too-big-to-fail-mean/? 12 comments business
- SPARC processors (a-n-y-o-n-e- with the money for the materials and means of production (which are NOT intellectual protery, unlike the x86 designs) can build their own fucking servers, and have been able to for a long time) Read more on Wikipedia about SPARC. http://news.cnet.com/sun-gives-away-major-chip-designs/2100-1001_3-222411.html 13 comments linux
- [Jaelen Strong] This is who Bill O Brien is. Y’all thought it was my fault I wasn’t seeing the field. The man simply didn’t like me because I was a product of my environment. PERFORMANCE means nothing. He wasted my first 3 years ultimately ruining my NFL career. I never knew how to kiss ass 🤷🏾♂️ https://twitter.com/JaelenStrong/status/1240305079086874627?s=20 229 comments nfl
- A new provision in the U.S. will impose anti-piracy vigilance on colleges and universities. Options include: limiting P2P bandwidth, monitoring traffic, using a commercial anti-piracy product, or "vigorously" responding to infringement notices. Inaction would mean losing valuable federal funding. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5imm4juc8pvdkwfvpmrqxpwfuwkuad9gmg4ro0 5 comments reddit.com
