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by dalbasal 5y ago
Agreed. Social media's the prime example. Take Youtube's monetization. Creators are plugged into a payment per view world. That's definitely an aggravating factor, but the competition for attention is there in a similar form
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by dalbasal 5y ago
If I was writing a science fiction... space debris is a wonderful way of imprisoning a planet. Just put a bunch of junk in orbit, now no one can get out. Only a Han Solo type with asteroid avoiding skillz and a taste for danger. Maybe a bui
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"the advertising business model" or the modern world more broadly? One way or another, there's a lot of short attention span razzle dazzle these days. Maybe adjective inflation is just positively correlated with the volume of
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by dalbasal 5y ago
There are more employees (per student) doing administrative work at small colleges now than before office PCs were ubiquitous. "Clerical* isn't really a term we use much now, and it's often associated with job descriptions
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by dalbasal 5y ago
..and computers don't help?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Agreed on the timeline. We certainly did have a lot of roles, like secretaries and typists that we don't have anymore. That happened 1980-2000ish. That said if you look at HR departments and such, they're not smaller today.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Not a bad hypothesis.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Sure... in the sense that everyone's job at a company is to make profit. By the same argument you could say that everything is marketing, including designing and making the product. This is true, I guess. You might borrow a mac for a w
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Perhaps. Why though? Why aren't HR, accounting or other such tasks more productive with computers than without?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think the fundamental flaw is indisputable. Everyone is aware of in-between stage problems. I don't think it's an insurmountable flaw. These things are on the road already. They have issues, but so do human only cars. Tweaks pro
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Not exclusively. When Toyota sponsors a motorsport team, that's not about getting someone to buy tomorrow. Neither are most TV commercials, brochures, etc. Neither is rebranding, etc.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Eloquently put. I think the woodworkers dilemma is a thing from the dev perspective. But, that still doesn't deal with the software users' side. Why does a modern company need more people in accounting, HR, even management? Shou
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Extremely worthwhile question, long overdue. Productivity, especially in relevant areas like administration, stagnated despite computers hitting every desk. I read the Cowen book (Complacent Class) at the same time I was reader Graeber&#x2
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by dalbasal 5y ago
In both cases, I think there's also an aspirational element. The perfect product is one with the perfect solution, but it just needs you , your skills, your powers. "Out of the box" just needs an astute cheque signer to mak
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Credit is an abstraction over future resources from the perspective of either party. To the economy , there is no future. If everyone saves all their money, the economy ceases to produce. It doesn't hold that production in reserve.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think there's a mirror to this in the real economy too. "Capital" isn't consumed by much of the tech industry in the same way as it was/is by manufacturing. If you're a toaster startup, you'll need a fac
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I didn't mean that money shortage is always the problem, that that has been often the notable case in recent experience. Hyperinflation is also a monetary/financial issue, too much money, not enough demand, crashing value. I think
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by dalbasal 5y ago
" There is no free lunch " is like one of those religious quotes that can mean anything and its opposite. What does "unwound all the extra money" mean? They didn't run surpluses, which means more money circulated ou
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"Isn't money just an abstraction over resources?" I think the economics of money tends to compete on which common sense, to follow. Taken to the extreme, you could say that money doesn't matter. Only resources and the
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This seems right, but I think we're seeing how resilient the real economy is, given appropriate financing. It's almost always the financial/monetary side that's the problem. An economy can usually make more of stuff, or
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> Over $60 billion worth of USDT now circulates through the crypto ecosystem... Tether has historically never faced a large amount of redemptions. Issuances have outpaced redemptions by more than 20:1. Does that mean that $60bn in ne
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> (on) stories about crypto being inscrutable to those looking in from the outside So... half the reasons are those you mention... subculture. Alien ecosystem, hard to distinguish between geniuses, quacks and con artists, blade run
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by dalbasal 5y ago
As I said, "defined more broadly," which I'm also arguing is the pertinent way to define public and private domain.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
My point was that as price drops & quality rises, there's an increase in consumption.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
True. Some of that "more" is even free, quite a lot of it. Still, if you do the sums, the education industry is larger.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I guess that's an example in both directions. WD40 formula is secret despite the existence of patents.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"From farming to high finance products and services are substantially more influenced and optimized by specialist professionals than they were in 1990. Increase efficiency like this throughout the national and global economy is how la
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"Happier and more fulfilled" is a good question to ask about a person, but I think it gets too squishy in regards to people. Too abstract. If you're going to broaden person to people, I think it's best to narrow to &quot
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by dalbasal 5y ago
True. I considered clarifying, but didn't to be concise. I think publication as a reasoning for granting patents is superseded. It's mostly relevant to the history of patents, not the present. You can't be secretive about a U
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This reminds me of a golden age blog post, when lists turned out to be an understudied literary device. I'm a fan of "dumps." Some interestingly debatable ones here: " Intellectual Property Maximalism rollback: copyright

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