I could not read the article either, but one example is the Alabama Black Belt. Geologically that part of the deep South and its neighboring states is chalk, which over time has become covered in incredibly rich black soil. Perfect for growing things like cotton. Which, back in the not very recent past, was brutally made the responsibility of slaves. When the slaves were emancipated after the Civil War, many freedmen stayed on and ended up as sharecroppers, ultimately maintaining a deep well of Black American culture that persists to this day.
Edit: unpaywalled article on the human history[1], wikipedia[2], and geology[3]
That's just the intro. This is from the Chronicle of Higher Education, which is mostly about university administration issues. Anyone read the whole thing? I'll bet that's a lead-in to something about how universities differ depending on location.
JetBrains IDEs are all the same program just bundled with different language plugins. It would be like if you called VSCode by a different code name depending on which combination of extensions you had installed.
Not entirely. E.g. IntelliJ has a "project environment" modal (not sure about the exact name rn), in pycharm its part of the settings and a bit different. There are a few more things like this between the IDEs.
To +1 this: yes, they clearly share a lot of code, and have mostly-identical plug-in interfaces, and many dedicated IDEs have plugins for the more-general Intellij IDE.
And they present them as "just" a dedicated UI around the plugins.
But no, they are not actually the same. Essentially ever. The dedicated IDEs often have features that never make it into their plugins, and a lot of the UX and project structure/preferences/etc are quite specialized and don't always have equivalents outside it. You get like 90-95% with the plug-in, but not 100%, and sometimes that's a critical difference.
The plugins do have the distinct benefit of allowing you to use multiple in a single project, though.
If you open, say Android Studio (or IntelliJ) and start a new project, then open Rider and start a new project - the UI is actually very different for how the projects are managed. PyCharm is different too in different ways.
I think the differences are more akin to the old Visual C# Express and Visual Basic Express IDEs vs Visual Studio. Visual Studio was always "everything", but you used to get the express versions that were "low cost" or free. They only had the single language in them. They were customised to just that language. This is what Rider is to IntelliJ Professional, except from what I understand, the plug-ins for IntelliJ are not always on a 1:1 feature parity. This can even be seen with Android Studio and IntelliJ Community. The Android tooling in IntelliJ Community is almost the same, but it does miss out some stuff in Android Studio. Because Android Studio is specifically for Android development, and IntelliJ Community is more general purpose Kotlin and Java development. I think the Kotlin Native support is slightly better in IntelliJ Community.
Isn’t huge profits the definition of success in capitalism? As a capitalist society shouldn’t there be cheers instead of complaining? This part I don’t understand about American culture.
I think Americans were always happy with profit because they got a share, they had jobs, etc. it was good for everyone.
Now they’re learning first hand what happens when it escalates to outright greed and hoarding, and that life gets pretty shitty for the very vast majority when this happens to the basic needs of a decent life (groceries, education, healthcare, safety, roads, transit)
Huge profits mean a lot of value is being captured. That can be because of a large amount of value being created, which is successful capitalism, but it can also mean a lot of rent is being extracted from an existing value stream.
Not saying this is the later case, but when people are critical of large profits they usually are critical of the later, where they believe that the value being created has not really gone up, it’s just being funneled away to rent seekers now.
This is especially true for things that are seen as “essentials” where buying is fairly mandatory and so prices are inelastic, like housing, food and medical care. If these markets become uncompetitive consumers can’t just walk away from rising prices.
So rising profits + the same value being generated point to the market being uncompetitive and are not celebrated in the way rising profits + new value are.
The success of capitalism is to allow basic trade in smaller communities. Once it scales to the anonymity of the large corporation and the specialist of wealth extraction, it becomes malignant.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" said John Adams. In other words, the government is not going to impose religion, morals, or values it expects the people to have those on their own.
People who run businesses that extract wealth from the sick, the old, the dying, or people in other situations where they are not really able to make free choices, are vile and a cancer on our society.
> In other words, the government is not going to impose religion, morals, or values it expects the people to have those on their own.
That is right. But it doesn't mean something cannot be done, such as a general uprising with organized morals against the prevailing winds of profit above all else. Slavoj Žižek said it best when he said that we are conditioned to believe that anything is possible scientifically, but we are highly doubtful of any social change. We need to reverse that: to believe that we can change the world sociall rather than technologically, or perhaps despite the technological changes.
Thank you for your inspirational words comrade. You are a beacon of hope for all workers of the revolution.
Soviet Labor Committee has a place for you and all others! In fact we need 10,000 laborers to construct a new datacenter. Please report with a set of warm clothes.
