ArkyBeagle

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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Bureaucracy has to do Real Work(tm). Gor bless 'em :) Leadership of tech, especially disruptive tech, is SFAIK mostly half black art and half blackmail.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Very interesting - thank you! It's apparently coal burning chimneys that were of concern there. "In effect until 1964" - which is even more interesting. My understanding is that in 1952, the effects of privation from WWII wer
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's posturing. Maybe it is just me, but I find the way folks get to these conclusions fascinating. Just as an example - outside of people like John Muir ( who was a somewhat obsessive ... guy ) , ALMOST NOBODY was an "environme
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
At one point, something like 70% of GDP was consumption. It's less now. This is fine so long as investments move. We have such a high degree of aggregation of capital now that it sort of doesn't. It's sort of ... pinned down
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Most of the processes and governance on assets held by billionaires is on rails. They may have control at a very high level, but they then have to become public figures to increase that. Most billion dollar things are really 100 10,000,000
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Tyler Cowen's "The Complacent Class" seems to paint a picture of satiety. I haven't gotten my copy yet so perhaps I missed something. We may get stuck at 1990s desires, except for experience ( and consumption and experi
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
FWIW, I almost guarantee you the justification for this is safety. That's the best kind of automation.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Farriers make excellent money.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Who is going to do provenance on the parts list? You know that all organizations that buy parts have an entire fleet of people to do this, right? It goes all the way from vendor accounting to physical inventory to finance to shipping to eng
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It is not a matter of assembling a team. It is a matter of corporate culture. You can't bolt software on to an organization like that. They simply do not understand, deeply and utterly. It might be willfully. Just identifying defects c
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
"...frankly, how bad these companies are at making software." Yep. And hardware, and knitting together the boxes, and power, configuration management, and networking and... If you can't do it with a pipe wrench, why it ain&#x
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I had no idea a crop (wheat) failure was involved. Thanks for that.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
There is a scene in "Better Things" where Sam's oldest expresses a dread of the future because she'd spent all her time "being social" and felt unprepared. This when the school counselor had demonstrated that h
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
"Being a team player" may be meant to include being intellectually dishonest and/or groupthink.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's not just McLuhan - even Ayn Rand's "villain" in the Fountainhead was a caricature of Wm. Randolph Hearst. That's turned out to be quite useful in understanding how distorted American history is, and floats in
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It should be pretty clear by now that the destabilization of certain old, corrupt regimes in the former Ottoman Empire leaned heavily on mobile Internet. We had the sobriquet "Arab Spring" for it, and look what it became. Mobile I
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
So was there ever an actual time when 802.16 was considered to be even in the same game as LTE? The people I know who were messing with it were specialized in underserved areas, where the cell size was a plus. Mobile was an afterthought. Wh
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
The dose is the poison.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
"Good" and "bad" mean different things at different times to the same company.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
As someone who has already paid the cost for learning Tcl[1], I find trying to migrate to Python equally daunting. [1] a man month of "homework", about a college semester's worth. At least the way I learned Tcl was through th
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Tcl forces an event driven approach that seems to be relatively unfamiliar.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Oh no. It's blindingly complex. The Dust Bowl happened well after Haber-Bosch.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Of course they could have. So by the same reasoning, people in China must put up with polluted cities as an inevitibilty? I have to know that hydraulic fracturing hasn't caught on in China. The barriers are bizarre, but they're st
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
That's simply false. It is anything but trivial.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Aren't all tech companies now effectively ad agencies?
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
H1B visas damage people. But then again, so do the university systems in China and India.
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
While I am sympathetic, perhaps those countries should solve these problems rather than emitting emigrants. The interval between opening new coal fired plants in China is on the order of days. If it wasn't possible to confuse H1B statu
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's because the barrier to entry into employment rises because the overall productive sector is - despite all the horror stories - quite effective at producing. They don't really need your help. My father, born in 1930, had to pe
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's funny - the name Lucifer means "bringer of light". Your metaphor has a Mobius strip problem :) it apparently matters a great deal to a great many people what is in other people's hearts and minds. I suspect they do
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by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's pronounced like Worchestershire. Almost :)

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