FrankWilhoit

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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Dunbar's number is another manifestation of Coase's ceiling. Coase's insight is more general, as it applies not only to every other kind of organizational dynamic, but also to, e.g., the scaling of friction in mechanical sys
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
He neglects the liability incentive.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Free speech is bullshit, first because no one is listening. But then, is anyone free to speak to their parents, their teachers, their employers?
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
It is very cheap to say that Trump thinks like a child. It is probably true, but that doesn't even matter. Even if he did not, anyone in his position would have to talk and act like a child, because the American people are children.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Eventually we will get through the entire alphabet.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
This neglects the people who think that disruption is opportunity.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
If someone comes to you and says "I have proven the Riemann hypothesis", will you believe them, or think them a crank? If something comes to you and says (in effect) "I am The Singularity", will you believe it?
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Ooh! I know! I know! ... because the dollar will lose 90% of its value!
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Interventions of this kind always end up having the opposite effect from what was intended, at a lag of days to months.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Because all of the plants like this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Castings ) have been torn out.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Not being OpEx. Taking blame. Lending credibility.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The argument is that the environment is so saturated with Federal enforcement that the airlines become de facto Federal concessionaires.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The problems discussed here are not The Problem, which is that businesspeople cannot understand the problems discussed here. The effect of The Problem is that the designers and operators of systems have to care how fast they get the wrong
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The purpose of all automation and outsourcing is to obscure responsibility, not to reduce cost.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The number of crashes is not what matters. What matters is whether it is possible to hold anyone responsible for the crashes that do occur. The purpose of autonomous vehicles -- the only purpose -- is to make that impossible.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Author doesn't know the difference between a premium and a discount. Calibrate accordingly.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
2031 may as well be 3031.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Now do "why letting nations get away with international crimes is bad for the world".
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Underground == inaccessible. That equation affects more things than power lines. Past time to solve it.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Just as there is "too big to fail", there is "too big to prosecute".
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The bubble will have burst long before then. Some market imbalances will remain, as when the aluminum smelters shut down twenty years ago, cutting total demand in my area by 30%: retail rates dropped a little, but not in proportion.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Oracle is too big to fail. When the crash comes, Larry Ellison (his personal self) will be made whole even if no one/nothing else is. Wait and watch.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The subtext here is that the security conversation consists of exactly one question: Vendor asks Prospect, do you trust us? And once that question is answered, the security conversation is over. The box is checked, on both sides.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The question to ask is, what are people still doing by hand? Then the trick would be to drill through the upper layers at which everyone has a different answer.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Trump is the American people and they are he. If you don't like that, welcome to good company, but be clear about what it is that you do not like.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
The status of the Woolsack has been declining for a century. It is now a ceremonial office, a place (like the Duchy) to put people who need to be given something .
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Looks like the right kind of idea. Still subjective, and not portable across age cohorts, let alone regional dialects.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
You don't get it. Using words correctly is woke.
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
You are implicitly dismissing any future in which the auditors actually do their job. Is that quite safe?
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by FrankWilhoit 3mo ago
Where I live, utility LC&I (large commercial and industrial) contracts are unregulated. Today it is data centers but thirty years ago and longer, it was aluminum smelting that dominated electric utility revenue. The same issues arose.

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