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by dalbasal 5y ago
>>How many studies like this need to not replicate before we stop treating them seriously? Hard to answer this, IMO. It would be hard to stop keep versions of such anecdata from informing our personal worldviews, for example. Business
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Agreed on the "post-90's economics" and "data is the new oil." In fact, a lot of Tesla's current market cap is tied to customer data. It's an "unavailable at any price" ingredient of their (prosp
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Not sure that the EU & US are all that different, in this regard. The article doesn't do a very good job of explaining how/what was promised or advertised. You need to deliver what you sell everywhere. Also, EU regulation is q
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by dalbasal 5y ago
IDk anything about promises vs this but... the key point for me, here, is subscriptions. Both software & subscription based business models have proved way better than just selling stuff. Tesla's business is increasingly proving
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by dalbasal 5y ago
IMO, it's cheap to reduce these to "it's all the same." Norway manages their oil wealth better than any country manages their wealth. Structurally, their actually prepared for oil ending. They use the cash to provide soc
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Sure, taxonomy is always debateable. It is approximate though. Beyond 4, other dynamics crop up. maybe we need more cultural tools to keep a conversation. Maybe the conversation starts to subdivide, some people dominate, other zone out... T
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think we're still just seeing the vanguard of this. Youtubers, maybe a few politicians. It's hard to predict, from this vantage point, where it will go. IMO, we're this is about many-2-many communication figuring itself out
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> it's not about private files, it's about distributing content The distinction between private files and distributed content is blurred-2-nonexistent, and Google Drive is not a neutral player in that process. The whole pre
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Three points. One is that our assumptions and norms around free speech/press aren't from digital communications world. They're from TV & newspaper world. Letters & Telephone world. In the last generation, lines have b
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This article and its chart is sending mixed messages. I wonder if the writer and graph guy are the same person. The poll lists a dozen reasons that 9%-14% ticked as reasons turning for down job offer. Third is benefits. Conspicuously missin
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Linux/GNU, Wikipedia, WorldWideWeb: these are existence proof, at meaningful scale/impact, for something... There's a qualitative difference between "open" efforts, and "conventional" organisation.. qualit
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by dalbasal 5y ago
A lot of things work like this. Call it "the lucky chancer game." The winner is likely to be a fortunate risk taker, with a side effect of survivorship bias... the "wrong lesson." Two thoughts... First, it's not nec
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think before addressing any of the specifics... the question to start with is "what if he is?" Are nutty crackpots something we need to worry about? Newton was a crackpot, when he wasn't revolutionizing physics and maths. I
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by dalbasal 5y ago
or paypal, or...
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Unfortunately, we have no real way, even theoretically of resolving these disputes besides war, or negotiations premised on the possibility of war. Hopefully (and IMO likely), this will all be resolved by negotiated compromises. All sides a
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Pharmaceutical patents, operatively, are really more about latter stage of drug development (human trials, regulatory approval, etc.) than they are about invention and discovery. A limited monopoly (or alternatives, such as bounties) make s
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Possibly, though there isn't really a standard way of doing so. I doubt that any such analysis accounts (nor should it) for technological curves yielded by investing in one technology or another. There are limits to any one calculatio
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Well put. Parent is correct that it "all counts," but that doesn't mean it all resolves to the same thing over the long term. For example, one of solar's key strength is the improvement curve that its on. Carbon, energy
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by dalbasal 5y ago
True. Some things don't change, I suppose.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
cheers.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Other Sapiens. People whos descendants would have been group 3, if a descendant population had survived to modern times. 90% of the DNA for groups 2 & 3 comes from those 1000-10,000 individuals. A small smattering from neanderthals deni
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Cheers. These blogs are a treat.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Interesting. What I meant though was introgression with closer groups. IE there clearly were surviving populations that didn't go through the major sapien funnels. Their descendants are in the "very diverse" group. Obviousl
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It might, depending on who's doing the counting? I would estimate that they themselves would probably identify with some of these tangping people. Spending long hours hacking computer systems, dressed in ripped jeans listening to Pink
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by dalbasal 5y ago
For me, it's easier to understand these ideas by adopting a "lumper" mentality to human history. IE, Neanderthals, Denisovans, late Erectus & other archaics were just populations of humans. Sections on a large map of huma
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Depreciation related accounting standards vary quite a lot, depending on what's depreciating and how it's valued in the first place.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Because depreciation is an accounting term, and a 101 understanding of it hides more than it reveals. Like anything accounting based, it's a collection of many little rules and norms that add up to something. Finding the operative leve
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"Poorer for the existence of these people," is quite a statement... hard to define too, at least in a value-less way. I'm skeptical. I feel like there's an instinctive lunge from "these people irritate me" to &
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The first guy quoted wants to be like Diogenes. Diogenes didn't just live in his barrel quitely wanting to be left alone. He was a subversive figure, criticising and challenging everything: Plato, Alexander, Athenian nobles, sensibilit
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by dalbasal 5y ago
We're always seeing "sociological experiments" across the globe... and in all parts of it. Stuff changes, society reacts. It's not like family life, economic life and such have been static in China for the last several g

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