dalbasal

77 ms·

751.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Wow. Some of these seem highly significant. EG " Neanderthal flake with birch tar grip - 50kya " AKAIK, birch tar production has already been attributed to neanderthals, but hafting hasn't yet been. I wonder what kind of tool
752.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Two things are surprising to me. One is that copper pennies still circulate. I'd have expected most of them to end up in hoards. Gresham's Law (also observed by Maimonides centuries earlier) states that " bad money pushes out
753.
by dalbasal 5y ago
cheers.
754.
by dalbasal 5y ago
This was part of an attempt to commit extortion. That's beyond kids being kids or "some responsibility." Also, it doesn't sound like the police did anything wrong here. They were responding to a report of an armed killer
755.
by dalbasal 5y ago
>> I do not believe in the possibility of a "General Theory of Productivity." Important frame. I think any effort that doesn't start with this statement is probably headed for frustration. I reckon this is true also for
756.
by dalbasal 5y ago
There are more facets than restrictive/nonrestrictive. Culture is textured.
757.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Active struggle to get more people onto OF?
758.
by dalbasal 5y ago
>> That does fit the definition of a public good? If you're sticking to the Paul Samuelson definition, it does. Its also the main case the author is arguing for That said, what's the purpose of sticking to the definition? I
759.
by dalbasal 5y ago
He said them: medical research, and anything related to the internet which is all of the public goods like open source libraries, cryptography, and Ethereum projects like clients, base layer contracts, and other open source infrastructure.
760.
by dalbasal 5y ago
The economic definition could use an update, or at least some asterixis. Lin Ostrom's work is worth looking up, if the topic interests you. Both rivalrousness and excludability can get gray, changing as technology or legality changes.
761.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Well... we get to some sort of "then" regardless. I'm all for challenging norms and striving forward, sexual liberation and such. I just don't think only fans represents that better, more accepting world. Do you? Seems p
762.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Re: research. I'm not sure that academic research is the arbiter of business topics like this. In any case, we are engaging with the idea right now. This article didn't "engage" in the sense that it doesn't mention
763.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Engage as in "treat it as important?" IMO first mover advantage is even less worthfull than "ideas." Two reasons: One, first mover advantages rarely determine winners. Google followed altavista. FB followed Myspace. ipho
764.
by dalbasal 5y ago
How do you amortize CO2?
765.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Agreed, but it's not like europe was all nation-centric politics before. Europe was divided into provinces within empires. Ottoman, Russian, Austro Hungarian... most of Europe was part of a multinational empire, most of the time. The
766.
by dalbasal 5y ago
>> Nationalism is an ancient mentality In some sense, maybe... The foundations are ancient. But... The "world order" where the globe is divided into nation states is quite new. Before that, multinational empires were the dom
767.
by dalbasal 5y ago
>> If in 30 years we live in a society where people post nudes like they do facebook posts.. ..then the calculus will be different. Current culture is what it is, and we live within it. Imagine a culture where prostitution is "
768.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Agree with "primarily an economic bloc." On that note though, I don't think German-Hungarian industrial integration is all that weighty. Hungary's economy isn't big enough to make it compelling. The EU just doesn&#x
769.
by dalbasal 5y ago
The EU is still, at core, an economic/trade union, not a geopolitical actor. That's both cultural and structural. Meanwhile, european people's appetite for "international" politics is been mostly satisfied with worl
770.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Those aren't really equivalents. This isn't just a thread about chinese hacking, it's a thread about a US-NATO statement in response to hacking. Anyway, who cares about convicting one or the other. This is about consequences.
771.
by dalbasal 5y ago
What would you like to have discussed and/or judged independently? I agree that a lot of the comments here are shitposting or making reactionary equivocations. Others though, are making valid points... which you may agree with, or not.
772.
by dalbasal 5y ago
...and both are relevant. China probably is "hacking us." US/NATO credibility is suspect.
773.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Technology has a tendency of merging realms. Whether you compromise a system to get information or to cripple it is pretty much a detail.
774.
by dalbasal 5y ago
I sympathize with your sentiment, but dishonesty in that case is relevant to credibility in this one. What, besides credibility of the institutions making the allegations, are these allegations' "own merits"? Agreed that a
775.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Well... He would know. He's from activist land, and probably still has a lot of friends from the punk rock scene, became a serious environmental lobbyist and from there to being a centrist MP. I'm sure he had an interesting journe
776.
by dalbasal 5y ago
oh... yeah
777.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Its comical, but links to the founder of Adobe. IDK what the date alludes to.
778.
by dalbasal 5y ago
I found "PDFs are files" kind of compelling. Perhaps this was a flaw of the original www concept. Web pages were always technically files & documents, but this was always abstracted away from userland. "Save webpage&quo
779.
by dalbasal 5y ago
The author addresses this: “ We choose to switch to PDF in this decade, not because it easy, but because it is hard” – John F. Warnock, September 12th 1962 " The author is obviously making a statements, exploring ideas... not searching
780.
by dalbasal 5y ago
In 2010 I was living in Melbourne, where he's from. There was a pro Assange petition/demonstration in Richmond. I went over to sign. Assange was an Australian citizen. The Wikileaks leak was journalistic, as far as I could tell. T

More ›