Aarostotle

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by Aarostotle 4y ago
What a pessimistic view from the person managing the River District. How many people would the river basin have supported without damming and irrigation? Far fewer than 40M. In other words, the engineers clearly engineered nature and made i
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by Aarostotle 4y ago
I’ll set a reminder to come back to this in 3, 10, and 20 years. We’ll see.
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by Aarostotle 4y ago
I think this was the crew with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck.
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by Aarostotle 4y ago
It's not ours to take. Where did it come from? Bezos produced it at Amazon. He has a moral right to keep it. Beyond that, though, you can only tax away 90% of billionaires' wealth once. That whole game depends on them continuing t
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by Aarostotle 4y ago
We live in the most equal time in human history. The actual standard of living of the average person in most developed countries rivals that of royal families from just a couple of centuries ago. Don't confuse monetary inequality with
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by Aarostotle 4y ago
That's up to the CEO. Recognize that you — and everyone else — are relying on him to work just as hard, to take on just as much responsibility, while sacrificing more and more for every incremental dollar of value he creates . Your qu
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by Aarostotle 6y ago
I have a dumb question. How much noise will these make?
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by Aarostotle 6y ago
This must be such a cool feeling. Congratulations. And thank you.
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by Aarostotle 6y ago
No, it’s just apples and oranges. The USA is a flawed constitutional republic that runs on a messy democratic process. It’s ugly sometimes, but it’s fundamentally good. The PRC is something else.
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by Aarostotle 6y ago
It only enabled the technological foundations to do all of the above.
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by Aarostotle 7y ago
Hail corporate!
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by Aarostotle 7y ago
This one is tricky. I always thought they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, so they have to tread that line as well. Does anyone know how that fits into the picture?
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by Aarostotle 7y ago
Think about it this way: Joining a startup is an opportunity to be part of a team that's doing something really hard, so you need to trust each other. Lying about the compensation structure isn't a good foundation for trust. Now,
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by Aarostotle 8y ago
I'm a paraglider pilot, not an aerospace engineer, so take this with a lot of salt... but: Paragliders can have asymmetric collapses of the airfoil due to turbulence, but usually it's no big deal (other than being a little scary).