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by antitrust 13y ago
I'd agree there but with a couple of caveats. First, I went to a type of magnet school, so it was more difficult and required more initiative than most colleges. The top tier of students were probably about 50-50 intelligence and labor
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by antitrust 13y ago
> The various three letter agencies had no interest in correctly predicting the USSR's collapse as it'd get them defunded. You make a really good point here. It's not that there's a conspiracy, or they censored themse
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by antitrust 13y ago
I enjoyed reading your reply. I like the "spherical cow" metaphor. Foch was proven right. It must have been maddening for him to know the truth of the situation, but be over-ruled by popular sentiment toward ending a disastrous an
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by antitrust 13y ago
Oftentimes, the decisions admins make are determined by the needs of management of fellow employees. I have on frequent occasions mouthed words along these lines: "It's a bad idea to do it that way, but I can see how it would be m
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by antitrust 13y ago
Other than personal observation, no, I'm afraid. I doubt there is any (greater than zero) interest in researching this topic, especially since most of us get nostalgic for any type of system if we've succeeded in it. However, havi
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by antitrust 13y ago
It seems to me that startups fail for one or more of these two basic reasons: (1) The product can't make money. (Corollary: at first, the product only needs to convince investors it can make money, and then it can be sold to large web
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by antitrust 13y ago
> It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than gr
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by antitrust 13y ago
What should we have in place of politicians? It's a serious question.
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by antitrust 13y ago
Wars don't end until the underlying issue is settled. In this case it is very much as it was in 1914, which is "which large conglomerate of regional interests will rule the world," with participants being Russia, Europe and t
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by antitrust 13y ago
> institutional memory. Yes, exactly. Thank you for this phrase. There's also a certain amount of institutional bonding (to coin another phrase) involved with these people, in that they're sort of "mother hens" who ta
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by antitrust 13y ago
From the previous thread: The book "Whatever" by Michel Houellebecq describes this situation very well, and is very funny. Some quotations from it: http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/56842-extension-du-
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by antitrust 13y ago
At several workplaces, I have known people in similar situations. However, these people were among the most important parts of the workplace. They were valued for both having a lot of background knowledge in their area, and having an abilit
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by antitrust 13y ago
It seems that much of what's going on in that department is CYA activity, but it seems to me that an internal project or open source project are the most defensible uses of the time. Instead of sitting there doing nothing, he applied a
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by antitrust 13y ago
One technique that managers use is to over-purchase. Think about it this way: If a need comes up, it's going to take months to get all the paperwork done to get new hardware. If you have idle hardware, you're ready to go ASAP. It&
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by antitrust 13y ago
> You know what killed Occupy? Occupy! No goal, no purpose, just "we hate the bankers and we hate the gub'mint!". It seems to me most political movements, whether Rush Limbaugh or Occupy Wall St or even Anonymous, are like
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by antitrust 13y ago
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 There's the statute, for you armchair quarterback-lawyers out there.
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by antitrust 13y ago
He reminds me a bit (in a good way) of Steve Jobs.
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by antitrust 13y ago
I really like email lists. Everyone has email. Most get it on their phone. I feel your pain... and this is my suggestion for a work-around.
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by antitrust 13y ago
This has been my experience as well. Once the content is deleted, it's gone.
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by antitrust 13y ago
I think they make a really good point, which is that true neutrality is something beneficial for the whole community. Besides, DEFCON's statement was symbolic. If the NSA is watching us constantly anyway, they're going to be hacki
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by antitrust 13y ago
> I'd be far more worried about this sending a false prosperity signal that could exacerbate our already insane and unsustainable population levels. Hello there, person I'm very glad entered this conversation as you did. You&#x
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by antitrust 13y ago
Natural selection?
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by antitrust 13y ago
> Why aren't people going to vote themselves larger basic incomes every year? Congress has that authority over their own salaries, and they haven't abused it.
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by antitrust 13y ago
I am enjoying the subtlety of your Darwinian argument. One friend of mine suggests that we need to make adult play centers that have pitfalls, like dead drops, to keep people fit and alert. The kicker is that they would be placed in such a
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by antitrust 13y ago
I think that's an entirely separate argument. Do you? The fact that right now the economy stinks (P-U) and that some people who want to work, cannot, does not really have any bearing on future plans for guaranteed basic income.
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by antitrust 13y ago
> A program that you yourself benefit from tends to be less likely to get eroded by future politicians. This could be bad. Very popular programs never get reconsidered, even if they have bad effects.
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by antitrust 13y ago
Another problem is that it might devalue the currency. When most of it is given away, there's decreased competition for it, and thus its value in the market decreases.
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by antitrust 13y ago
> it adds a financial incentive to reinvest profits into the company to avoid taxation. Couldn't that cause corporations to become bloated monsters?
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by antitrust 13y ago
The problem with unconditional basic income is that there's no incentive to do anything beyond the minimum. Like most utopian plans, this idea relies on the belief that humans will get up and do things in large numbers. We can't e
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by antitrust 13y ago
Obliquely, you make a good point. We should neither censor ourselves (exclude something) or leap to conclusions before the full verdict is in. As I know less than f k-all about airlines and airplanes, I'm just reading this stuff, and

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