curio_Pol_curio

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by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago
PP's point has (mostly?) been addressed in https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20180386 Inputs that can be monopolized are manifestly _not_ the intangibles; price-taking is independent of their effect
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by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago
If you are one of those that are amused by attempts to synthesize paradigms, here's one that superposes J-curve on the hype curve https://www.financialprofessionals.org/training-resources/re... Q: The J-dip is whe
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by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago
? https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-burned-3-7-bi... ? https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/index-startup-ornn-...
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Zero-knowledge SAT validation engine(ptsf-engine.vercel.app)
2 points by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago|0 comments
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Thomas Mann: Goethe Heartened by Panama (As Suez for English, or Danube-Rhine)(yalereview.org)
24 points by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago|2 comments
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by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago
that's when it appears cum "laude" (eg) in commonwealth (seniors in everyday UK, HR and pedants otherwise) usage it rhymes with dumb, like you'd expect https://youtu.be/RzESsmv5FhM Radcliff-cum-Chackmor
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by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago
Thermal recycling is a classic Japanese euphemism for burning plastics. Yes, for energy, but it's still misleading https://www.mitsui.com/solution/en/contents/solutions/circul... > it produces CO
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by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago
Bismarck? Or >his liberal father Might be a stretch to imply that the Wilhelm II was a mediocre illiberal. HIM was (for a time) interested in protecting workers' rights. However great he was, Bismarck couldn't overpower a &quo
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by curio_Pol_curio 4mo ago
Timeless interior. Maybe inspired https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/df7a5e0c-8004-40... (from the electric Ferrari http://www.roadandtrack.com/photos/g71401901/2028-ferrari-lu..
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Sir John Soane and the red telephone box(soane.org)
3 points by curio_Pol_curio 5mo ago|0 comments
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by curio_Pol_curio 5mo ago
Quick TILs: -preemptive defence=best offence=plausibly not a school bully https://www.brookings.edu/articles/you-go-to-war-with-the-pr... > As the saying goes, you go to [HN] with the [question] you have. And you do
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by curio_Pol_curio 5mo ago
LLM platforms are not fundamentally collaborative (think chatGPT vs stack overflow, or google DeepMind vs Bell Labs) Otherwise they would 1. force humans to spend much more time on these decisions, and 2. Teach humans that the only way to s
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by curio_Pol_curio 5mo ago
How about Taiwan? It's not fully Confucianist like the others[0], Taoist ex-Minister Audrey Tang visualizes AI to be a glue, "a steering wheel rather than a hamster wheel" https://english.cw.com.tw/article&#x2
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by curio_Pol_curio 5mo ago
According to 2024 GDI, using the generous "HN definition" which includes Finland and Czechia, only 1/2 of robust democracies are in "Western Europe" https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-state-of-demo
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by curio_Pol_curio 5mo ago
There's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Marxism Which I feel is the "most complete take" > Karl Marx... only criticizing the freedom in the great inequality of wealth and power.[3] Confuc
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by curio_Pol_curio 5mo ago
archive for the Reuters article https://archive.ph/uSXJx
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by curio_Pol_curio 5mo ago
FWIW I think both CPC and US "system" are _both_ fundamentally doomed versions of liberalism. (Are we forgetting that Marx was a liberal?) As is Taiwan's DPP. They are losing the youth vote to the more consistent but pragmati
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
Your abbreviation PCC suggests to me you're francophone. So you're probably not aware that everything you say about China has an equivalent in the US (deeply divided, lacking empathy etc) The political content of the respective ed
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
USians being proud of their nonconformism is like PG or Elon taking pride in their (children's) (meta)cognitive abilities (or HN talking its curiosity book) The more sophisticated equilibrium to compare with the Japanese is the Swiss:
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
Guessed that this was way before the Great (values) Party Flip. After the Flip it was more clear that the pachyderm hides behind "sincere deviance" (long before Nixon-Kissinger; I'll dig that up later) but the asinid hides be
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
How does it --if it does-- relate to your idea of "affordability porn" :) That line (between your other values?) was uproarious; I apologise for not u*voting it, partially because I couldn't vocalise my peculiar fetish att (+
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
MK is like (lower) midtown west? In terms of food options too https://youtu.be/fHmMx98G2cs
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
Ads on the FB & goog network (this includes phys.org btw) are NOT paper tigers, in the sense that they are a reliable anti-signal (to short, not to buy, to look at rising competitors, to look into reasons why a product might be f
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
GP might be making a prediction about Demis Hassabis, who happens to break the mold you've just described (but he is not a member of "the Physics community" so their expectations won't mean anything to him?)
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
I just realised that this is why SV centre-right is lowkey obsessed with Japan. Contrast with the SV-aligned execs-turned-thought-leaders from decades ago that used to claim that it is not in the cultural DNA of Japan to innovate. They don
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
To make hacking challenging+world-changing (in good ways) hire a large bunch of enby adults to do it for you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821166 ---- Dang and maybe all the mods are probably enby because they
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
>"Girard" >"99.9%" I despise "centrist-moderation" just like any other guy but maybe "entrepreneurial dignity" is not 100% of something but 65\pm1% homeownership https://www.visualcap
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
"I read a self-help book. It's really good. Everything works out if you'd just follow the rules." https://youtu.be/KOiDWGs4JE4?t=28s wHNston
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Australia closed almost all of its refineries(youtube.com)
3 points by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago|2 comments
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by curio_Pol_curio 6mo ago
Just saw this one. Chinese researchers based in US took out a patent in Japan https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2013504542A5/ja https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/biomedical-researchers-l..

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