MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 11y ago
I've lived in good areas and bad areas, and the police act very differently in each of those areas. So my impression is that, in both situations, the police are responding largely in reasonable ways to their environments. So I believe
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Denmark is also worried about growth. But they have started a program to reduce hours at some select hospitals - to see if they could convert some of the GDP growth into higher quality of life for those workers. And I read that Sweden has b
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I did some consulting over 20 years ago to the elevator company that everybody would guess the name of. I spent a week coding with the PhD they had hired to use AI in scheduling banks of elevators (my expertise was the real time embedded OS
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Your experience makes sense. I've read articles analyzing happiness at work and there is a very strong correlation with job autonomy. (And that explains why executives often love work - studies find that executives control their time a
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You are arguing for supply and demand setting salaries. But there is plenty of evidence in the economic literature which finds that is not usually true in real world markets (in fact, it turn out to be really hard to find any market which o
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It's hard not to fall into the trap created by a society with "business values". Should it really be considered less successful to be someone who builds an energy-efficient building which may last for centuries? Should a sim
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But we have constructed our economy in such a way that school is required in order to be successful. So, for many of us, the very fact that education is required to be one of the "winners" is coercive.
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You're talking to someone who has spent most of his life in the Fortune 50 - working with executives who routinely hide the bulk of their wealth from any accounting. These techniques have been widely discussed in the press (if you look
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I believe in property rights to the extent that they benefit our society. That means that I don't believe in property rights as defined by the rich.
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It took me years to realize that economics isn't physics - and it isn't ruled by physics-like laws. Instead, economics is governed by laws created by our society. And what we think of as "free market" is really just norm
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Kinda off topic, but I once spoke with a guy who taught weather forecasting for the military. He explained that TV, cable, and radio don't hire forecasters for their skills - they hire them so that they will do OK if they are ever used
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I took it to mean that things exist - and that all the meaning is just intellectual overlay on that existence. Wasn't the famous example that meaning exists independent of words? The meaning was already there - and the word with its me
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I was told that we had developed most of the software in conjunction with the group that gave out IP addresses - but that we ended up doing almost all the work ourselves and setting up their machines at their site. (They were skeptical abou
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Was it Sartre or Camus who said "existence precedes cognizance"? As far as I can tell, I was born a geek - from my youngest memory. I guess that when you only have the "hammer" of psychology everything looks like a &quo
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The prototype I evaluated at NeXT was supposed to work with any modem (remember Hayes compatibility?) and didn't need PPP, since we had arranged a proprietary handshake with the organization that gave out IP addresses (I've forgot
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When I joined NeXT one of my first assignments was to evaluate a new piece of software that we were considering releasing. It was software that would automatically prompt you to sign up for an Internet connection when your new NeXT machine
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I've seen both good and bad societal outcomes from low barriers to entry. Similarly, I've seen both good and bad societal outcomes from unregulated free markets. I would argue that there is a distribution of outcomes as well as a
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Thanks for that suggestion of Softmaker. I've been trapped using Windows just because of MS Office. I just tried using their "freeoffice" and I was able to stay in Ubuntu while editing Word and Powerpoint. Libre Office had al
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I hate these types of comparisons. Their myopic view of society and progress is just a race to the bottom - there will always be someplace willing to sacrifice wider community values in order to benefit just a few. I would prefer some syste
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I disagree strongly with an interdependence on Excel. Instead, it would make sense to ask what new functionality could be added - and start by looking at major applications of databases (you might be surprised to hear that scalibility and r
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I remember once sitting with the company CEO and going over my spreadsheet estimates of project timelines, sales projections, and department growth. At the end of it all I said to him that I didn't know if any of this was really worth
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I wouldn't feel comfortable in one of these buildings. I designed and built a timber frame home, but I look at this "panelized wood" and see a glued product produced by corporations which are more interested in profit. There
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After reading about soap manufacturing I started making my own - not because I want to, but because it is impossible to know what they put in soap and, amazingly, the ingredient list on the side of the soap is not required to tell you all t
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As part of my job I teach some classes and give the occasional conference talk. As a result, I've spoken to dozens of people who have tried to adopt OpenStack and eventually gave up. There are a lot of reasons. But I also happen to kno
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Martinelli's uses a very fine filter for their juice - some juicers don't filter their juice (often because they want it to help define their brand - as unfiltered and natural.) Having heard a lot of stories about food production
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I may know what the cloudy stuff is. First, if the juice is outside the "best buy" date, just throw it away. The "cloudy juice" problem happened when they moved to a new production line in Watsonville. They discovered th
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Well, my wife works for Martinelli's - and it definitely doesn't take 2+ apples to make a cup of apple juice. (I'm not saying that apple juice should be your first choice.) They also carefully monitor "brix", which
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There is literally decades of research showing that it is possible to learn things faster and better with appropriate teaching materials. That is why we have Universities and schools to teach people - and don't just ask people to figur
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Stop believing the often BS personal opinions of "experts" like Andreessen or Horowitz. Most customers hate the products that they buy - but they need them to solve a problem and they have few choices. It is only in some markets w
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Remind me never to work for you.

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