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by dash2 2y ago
I'm not naive. Owners also don't pay wages out of sympathy for workers. When they give away wages, they give away profits directly . If anything, short-termist managers might prefer to give away rights to future profits, rather
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by dash2 2y ago
Thank you for this info! This is true, but workers can join for just £1, so I would expect very many workers to be members too: https://colleagues.coop.co.uk/colleague-membership-informati...
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by dash2 2y ago
Anything is a dud if the price is high enough.
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by dash2 2y ago
It's possible. But note that Germany has struggled to move out of declining sectors (petrol cars) and into new ones (tech) - which fits what I said about worker control making creative destruction hard. Its economic performance has bee
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by dash2 2y ago
> Worker coops often cut down on their individual profits in hard times to keep the boat afloat. Sure, I believe that. Do they do it enough though? Co-operatives were big in 19th century Britain; now they make up a small part of the mark
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by dash2 2y ago
Better still, optimize for social value provided. If taxes and regulation are right, companies that provide social value will make profits and their owners will get rich. The proposed changes would make that less likely to happen. If nothin
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by dash2 2y ago
Huang started as a chip designer and then founded a company developing chips. What other kind of work experience would be relevant? AI contains scams, but also obviously important real progress; your points about war and surveillance are pu
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by dash2 2y ago
I very much dislike these threads where two people act like sockpuppets of a single not-very-advanced llm, agreeing with each other's views which are invariably exaggerated, uninformed and cynical. I've been seeing more of them re
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by dash2 2y ago
Employee stock options are not a new idea, obviously. If the story is "every company should offer stock options to its employees", then sure, that's often a good business plan. The reason not every company does it to all its
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by dash2 2y ago
Yeah, this is really far from accurate, which is absolutely not to justify Sheikh Hasina's antics. GDP has shot up in the 21st century and the trend growth appears to be accelerating. Bangladesh was a very poor country, but it is get
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by dash2 2y ago
I wonder if the ChatGPT analyses of individual films might have biases. For example, since ChatGPT is trained on today's data, it might be better at recognizing social conflicts in themes of today's films, than the social conflict
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by dash2 2y ago
I'd recommend doing a PhD. Not everything in any science can be learnt from books. There is a lot of learning by doing. After that and a bit of experience, you don't necessarily need to be employed in academia. The obvious questio
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by dash2 2y ago
I burnt my maths books at 16 and didn't do any math after that until I was 30. Then I took Real Analysis as part of a PhD course. I was more mature, and I discovered I enjoyed the different approach. So (a) don't assume you haven&
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Homomorphic Encryption: An Application to Polygenic Risk Scores [pdf](assets-eu.researchsquare.com)
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by dash2 2y ago
I don't think the schooling of that period was the same as the schooling of today in all regards. You could read more in my book: https://www.wyclifsdust.com .
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by dash2 2y ago
Character was specifically moral character, which is related to how you interact with others.
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by dash2 2y ago
My impression is: * These guys are truly working very hard at guaranteeing privacy; * That will probably break some websites (I'm trying out the advanced tracking protection in normal mode, we'll see). * It will also put them on c
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by dash2 2y ago
> why would my browser spend my processor cycles, network bandwidth, and electricity for the benefit of someone else's for-profit business? I think a reasonable answer is that you are using their website for your own purposes; that
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by dash2 2y ago
Actually, until the mid 20th century almost everyone agreed that school was about building character, which can only be done in a social environment. As a British government report put it in 1846, schools should be "a little artificial
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by dash2 2y ago
I've really enjoyed having greyscale on my iPhone. I have some apps (maps, photos etc.) automatically go into colour using a Shortcut automation. You can set up greyscale in the Accessibility settings.
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by dash2 2y ago
But that's still surprising performance, because the S&P generates income and pays dividends. Its increase reflects (at least, is supposed to!) expectations of future higher income. Gold doesn't even bear interest....
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by dash2 2y ago
"Paul paints a rosy picture but doesn't mention that incomes for lower and middle-class families have fallen since the 80s." Doesn't look like it: median income in 2019 was $44K, in 2001 it was $31K. That's adjusted
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by dash2 2y ago
Like these guys' fascinating book, The Dawn of Everything , this article introduces but over-interprets some exciting new data. A lot of what we're told about is new locations for urban life. But the claim that they weren't
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by dash2 2y ago
He's popularizing interesting but complicated maths. That's always gonna attract people who think they understand it, but don't.
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by dash2 2y ago
The comments on this article are like a flytrap for people with exactly the kind of misconception the article is talking about.
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by dash2 2y ago
That sounds like the kind of over/misinterpretation of a scientific result which is typical with this stuff. How do you get from "neural pathways strengthen with repetition" to "people are resistant to change"? Is &
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by dash2 2y ago
I think galaxy-, indeed multiverse- and century-spanning is epic enough. (It's not a contest to be the most epic.)
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by dash2 2y ago
I agree TBP's characters aren't great. It makes up for that by the bold concepts. I don't think advanced civs not getting involved is a counterexample to the colonialist template. "Get involved or not" was a stand
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by dash2 2y ago
I don't think Iain M. Banks is a good writer. (You can see it in this piece, which falls into the trap of using long words to sound clever.) His sci-fi has a serious flaw: it's static. Nothing changes, everything is inevitable, th
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by dash2 2y ago
I use "the 1900s" to mean 1900-1910. I understand the difficulty, but I don't think it is too terrible for us to get used to it and we aren't gonna change the past 500 years of literature that already did this. Also, it&

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