FrankWilhoit

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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Obviously the only approach is prevention: but how many of them represent prevention that was not even attempted, and how many represent prevention that was attempted and backfired?
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
If scarcity promoted cooperation, nothing would be as it is.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Nobody knows how to play this game.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
The materials science of nuclear power generation, today, is about where the automobile industry was in the 1880s.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
It is far too late for any of this. They are being taught to cheat at home. Why do you think the British Empire punched so preposterously far above its own weight for so many years? Its elites did not participate in the education of the
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
A ghastly little work, not even written to shock, and with the bare minimum command of language. But do read it -- that much is quickly done -- and then go read what people said about it, at the time and since. It will fill in a gap in
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Ill though it comes to accede to any demand of the Chinese, I have no trouble giving them this one.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Not "periodically". A reset that does not say "never again" is not a reset; it is just a distinctive wrench of the steering wheel. The only thing that could justify it would be universal acknowledgment that the entire
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Mostly for data centers. He says ~~half will be grid-connected, but that does not imply that they can be used for peaking. The ones nearest me will not be grid-connected. My RTO have obviously no idea how to manage a market that is so sh
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Wake me up when he has been extracted. Until then, this is meaningless.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Questions are composed to fit or evoke predetermined answers. This is in all areas, academic, business, political, humanities. The foremost reason why economists do not listen is that no one is listening.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
The "crazier" Trump gets, the more his voters identify with him. That process does not have a limit.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
The business customers don't understand the concept of a dangling else.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
People who don't know how to read weather forecasts are crushing America's small businesses -- along with everything else that they come into contact with.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
He cites Brooks as proving that communication friction is quadratic in headcount. The exponent does not need to be exactly, or even nearly, 2; 1 + epsilon is already fatal. This is very closely related to Coase's ceiling.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Tell us you don't have cats without telling us you don't have cats.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
A penny drops. Murdoch thinks like a retailer. There is the regular stock, and then there are the experiments: put it out and see if it moves.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Just think if they could be sold in the US!
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Evidently their SSDs are nonstandard, if they are soldered to the motherboard. Do they also not answer to SMART?
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Remember that the stated purpose of such things is never their actual purpose.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Time was, any company, even the largest, would sacrifice any aspect of their business model in order to get Federal contracts. That was [the only place] where the money was. Right of repair? Source code in escrow? Documentation in Maldr
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
How do the Turks feel about this?
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Does anyone still expect good outcomes?
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Where I have seen this, the locked door was broken in some way.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
The product manager has probably been given something like two weeks to report a level of interest. The greatest likelihood is that we will never hear of this again.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Incoherent, even as nostalgia. Dishonest, meant to be weaponized for factional advantage: his own audience do not want to hear about equality before the law, but only about double standards benefitting them.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
It is certainly far too big to succeed.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
It is already too late for many.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
The article is poorly edited but even allowing for that fact, its author undermines his own argument at every turn. What he ends up showing is not the distinctness, but the interdependence, of two caricature habits of mind.
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by FrankWilhoit 2mo ago
Cost != price. Organizational friction is a cost; in fact it is the dominant hidden cost. Organizations that grow past Coase's ceiling are paralyzed by internal friction. They become unable to execute any mission: all they can do is

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