andrewjl

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by andrewjl 6y ago
What sort of regulatory process does software used in a hospital need to undergo? I'm aware of patient privacy requirements like HIPAA, are there others?
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Saying the Ricardo's theory is generally sound when taking into account intangibles is not gaping credulity. You seem to mistake that for unqualified support of what he wrote. You then deployed a quote by a scholar with an obvious axe
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I don't think it's necessarily false equivalence to say that if you assume a group of states can be bound in the same [legal, financial and political] ways that a single state is. I get that it's a near-identical variant of t
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So instead of a technical discussion on how to improve incentives, governance, etc we'll concoct fun, semi-fictional storylines and cash in on the book / film sales. Got it! Perhaps the so-called "critics" of corporate g
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> it quickly took on negative connotations and was employed principally by critics of market reform and laissez-faire capitalism - from the Wikipedia article you linked "Capitalism when it does something I don't like" isn
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit ... "This man is a frothing conspiracy theorist, a vainglorious peddler of nonsense, and yet his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is a runa
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I realize the irony of arguing against my prior IMO incorrect position, so it goes. Given it's a freely entered into contract I don't consider it our place to allow or disallow it. Apple's reason is a legitimate one, since it
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I'm not an anarcho-capitalist if that's what you're asking. Anarcho-capitalism is a great idealization but remains unsuitable for the real world. It's very hard to discuss the State without referencing Hobbes, Locke, Mon
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I'm well familiar with this viewpoint. I was and still largely am sympathetic to its (at least idealized) intentions, however too often it became obvious that those who hold it forget all about Hanlon's Razor. Not every policy fai
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I never reduced his works to dealing with economic issues and saying so is a misreading of what I wrote. What I meant was that the aspects of his work that do focus on economic issues betray a lack of technical understanding and a clear ide
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I'm well familiar with the directors other work to know he has next to zero credibility on economic issues. And after reading the directors quotes on the 2016 election[1], I don't think he has any credibility period. [1] https:&#
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Generally banal factual statements selectively arranged to form a narrative aimed at furthering a particular political agenda. TIL Fox News aren't the only ones that do this! Edit: If conspiratorial stuff like this is the entirety of y
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I'm not familiar with the details, but if they were at all similar to the mid-2010s Greek situation then they were not sustainable, irrespective of IMFs involvement. Generally I think there are better ways to grow economy than pure aus
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You're right. I misunderstood the article and edited my comments.
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I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but no country that falls into the category of "needing IMF and the World Bank" is one that has negative rates. It's usually the opposite. In general, negative rates mean the
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Your example is entirely about intangibles. Industrial development and associated intellectual capital is literally a textbook example. Portugal could have chosen to subsidize industrial development in some other way or for some other secto
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Edit: I misunderstood the article and thought that the devices were sold. Indeed a service contract for recycling should be enforced, unless health & safety reasons preclude.
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Why is Apple's reputation more important than the profits of a recycling company? Contracts aside, banning resale over something like this isn't capitalism. You either own something or you don't. Edit: I misunderstood the art
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It generally helps to read multiple perspectives before adopting such an extreme view. Obviously that's not true.
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The Bancor is a nice idea but cannot work in practice without a strong transnational institutional backing. Most countries would never cede their sovereignty to the extent that's needed and recent trends arguably point in the opposite
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In practice this has not worked (Argentina) just as often as it did (China). Ricardo's theory is generally sound, but leaves out intangibles which don't necessarily come for free.
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That's not the case in countries that have capital controls. Some of the biggest economies today do.
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The best way to solve for this is to raise the expected rate of return to cover risks and provide firm legal and regulatory incentives to return investor capital. This is exactly what institutions like the IMF and the World Bank are designe
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That's a very simplistic view. Programmers who work on SDKs and developer tools benefit tremendously from lower barriers to entry to programming.
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The solution to that isn't to make programming harder, but to make writing poor quality code harder. That's also in part, indirectly, a notation problem.
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Besides being beginner unfriendly, barriers to entry end up making things worse off for everyone by reducing productivity and efficiency. There's no reason to consider barriers a good thing, unless one has a motive to restrict use of p
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Yes. This extends not just to things like symmetry but also to what we think the concepts of "space" and "time" to be. The Critique of Pure Reason is the classic work on this.[1] There Kant defines the phenomenon and t
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The foundational crisis of mathematics in the early 20th century should have laid the notion of Platonism to rest, right? I guess a counter-argument to that could be that the Forms would be incognizable. In either case it's hard for me
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> The best way to fight disinformation is to challenge it with true information. History shows there exists a subset of issues that drive deep emotion or passion, whether for historical reasons or otherwise, for which this approach won&#
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All those things you listed involve difficult trade-offs. Increased capital taxes would on the margin decrease capital expenditures, and thereby hurt income growth in long-term due to lack of productivity gains. That's the last thing w

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