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by dash2 2y ago
Perhaps you could name some worker-managed companies under socialism that did well - for example, East German companies that subsequently managed to compete against their West German peers. I can think of one - Zeiss Jena - though I don&#x2
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by dash2 2y ago
If you use it for 3 years, $1000 is about a dollar a day. Does a better phone generate that much value each day - about 1/5 of a cappucino? Probably.
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by dash2 2y ago
Voynich Studies seems like one of those interesting fields where hi-tech meets the humanities. One person is using mathematical cryptanalysis, another has spent their life studying medieval inks, somebody else knows about early gynecology..
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by dash2 2y ago
It's off topic, but congratulations on the triple mixed metaphor. Not sure whether you use the shovel to dig up the pot of gold to buy the pie, or sell the shovels to bash through the pie crust and get to the rainbow....
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by dash2 2y ago
I think the question is, will nationalization make things better? Historically, the UK has not done very well with nationalized industries. Maybe this time will be different.
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by dash2 2y ago
I think it's मम्बई not मुम्बई, but check with a real Hindi speaker...
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by dash2 2y ago
It sounds like we don't disagree!
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by dash2 2y ago
Some of us remember pre-privatisation as being a lot worse: carriages were older, trains were slower and there were less of them, staff were ruder and didn't care about their customers, announcements were inaudible. Fares were probably
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by dash2 2y ago
Here is evidence that you are mistaken: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GBR_rail_passengers_... This is only a Wikimedia page, so if you have better evidence that contradicts it, feel free to present it. But no
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by dash2 2y ago
It worked OK for the UK. Passenger numbers, which had been steadily falling, started to increase. On the other hand, there are complaints about high fares.
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by dash2 2y ago
I disagree. Again, if the German government demanded everybody call Germany "Deutschland", I'd say "we've been calling Germany 'Germany' for hundreds of years. The English word for Deutschland is 'Ger
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by dash2 2y ago
Despite the title, this actually has a set of interesting recommendations for maths books for children.
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by dash2 2y ago
After reading half of this long, dramatic screed, I realised I had not been told a single new fact. I’ll skip the second half.
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by dash2 2y ago
One story doing the rounds: the Japanese central bank was lending at roughly 0%. So the carry trade involved borrowing Yen, buying foreign currency, letting it appreciate (or investing it?) and paying back. Now the central bank has raised i
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by dash2 2y ago
You can only buy at a discount if you are holding cash to start with....
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by dash2 2y ago
I don't mean I've never heard of clear fraud. I mean I've never seen it myself among colleagues.
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by dash2 2y ago
Apple's app store should not be in the business of distributing software for pirating videos.
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by dash2 2y ago
I wouldn't be as pessimistic as this. Having been in relatively low-pressure parts of academia (polisci, behavioural economics, behavioural genetics), I can't say I've ever seen clear fraud or direct pressure to commit fraud.
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by dash2 2y ago
Have you read the article? It’s about Uber bypassing review so that it can track users against Apple’s rules, and against their will. Or other apps doing it so they can spread pirated software.
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by dash2 2y ago
I can recommend Ratta Supernote. I’ve got the A5X and I still use it regularly after a couple of years. It has handwriting recognition, the interface is pretty nicely designed, and sync is handled well also.
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by dash2 2y ago
Conversely, projects without clear leadership include rust (recently) and R, and I think they suffer for it. A very widespread system for organising people is to have a single responsible decision-maker, supported, monitored and advised by
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by dash2 2y ago
That argument completely makes sense (I don’t know if it’s true, because I know absolutely zero about the go community, but it’s a sensible argument). It’s a pity that to make it, you initially used the shorthand of “old white dudes“ - a de
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by dash2 2y ago
That story wouldn’t work in deeply secular England, & it seems unlikely to explain underperformance in maths.
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by dash2 2y ago
The most striking comment was this: > Growing up with Indian parents in California, I was exposed to both. My mom would write daily Kumon sheets out by hand for me to do, and teach me from Indian textbooks from the same grade (which were
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by dash2 2y ago
This reply seems snobbish and to ignore the huge value of the internet to ordinary people ("normies").
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by dash2 2y ago
It's tempting to play tiny violins for marketers who have, as a post below puts it, been "following us round smelling our farts to see what we had for breakfast". But the end of clicks is linked to a Balkanized internet where
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by dash2 2y ago
And an R library: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/patchwork/index.html
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by dash2 2y ago
My point was about the repetitious and not-very-insightful arguments made now whenever this topic comes up, including in this very discussion.
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"Shouldn't that work against me?"(polmeth.org)
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by dash2 2y ago
AlphaZero is more general than a Go and Chess AI, right? Isn't it a general self-play algorithm?

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