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by dilemma 10y ago
Lenses are needed to capture light.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Why hasn't America slapped a tariff on Uber and Tesla?
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>virtually no one disagrees with "the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into the brain". No, this is exactly where the field is split. Chomsky says that if a child socializes with people speaking a language with each other
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I think this is the insight underlying Tokyo's zoning system (linked here a few weeks back) that keeps the city so eclectic and alive, and Toyota's production system that seemingly no one can replicate though its been studied for
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Yes, I felt it to be extremely poor taste.
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by dilemma 10y ago
I'm not so sure that it's correct to call Chomsky a leftist. He clearly is not a Marxist and finds the ideology ridiculous, at the same level as religion. If Lakoff is a Marxist or socialist, then the two clearly do not have polit
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by dilemma 10y ago
Watch out guys, we've got a bad ass.
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by dilemma 10y ago
The 'bing' in cn.bing.com and the logo at the top of the same page isn't read out in English by a Chinese person, but in Chinese, and it has neither tone nor hanzi. "Disease" is a meaning that easily springs to mind
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by dilemma 10y ago
That doesn't negate the negative homonym.
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by dilemma 10y ago
I have friends named Dolphin, Fish and Shadow and they know perfectly well that their names are funny. I'm certain that Pancake does too. Having an English name is a bit unreal for them just as it would be for you and me getting a Chin
551.
by dilemma 10y ago
Yes and no. Stockholm grows by a relatively large percentage per year, and would grow even more if people could find housing there, but almost nothing is built. Whatever housing is available is condos, not rentals, so the low interest rates
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by dilemma 10y ago
The housing shortage situation is same as that of the Bay Area if you switch loose VC capital inflating prices to loose, close to zero interest rate mortgages. As for discourse, there is none. Absolutely nothing.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Wouldn't that have more to do with the company serving businesses rather than consumers, and so have less need for general brand awareness, and focus their sales and marketing efforts entirely differently?
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Colleges are still going to be rated and paid based on some measure, likely completion rates for courses and degrees. Then you get the situation where the education in the country's best technical university is a joke also known as te
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by dilemma 10y ago
Creativity and critical thinking. In subordinate position it gets you labelled a dreamer, a weirdo, or an idiot. In executive position, visionary, maverick, multidisciplinary thinker, etc. You can only truly creative in a position with auto
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by dilemma 10y ago
What gets measured gets managed.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Every action has a re-action. Once a development has reached an extreme it reverses in the opposite direction. Makes sense.
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by dilemma 10y ago
You're right, 2-10x is a more realistic number!
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by dilemma 10y ago
Franklin D. Roosevelt rounded up those of Japanese descent and put them in internment camps. Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy invaded, proceeded to rounded and murder and otherwise caused the death of up to 3.1 million Vietnamese in th
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by dilemma 10y ago
These loans aren't taken out to cover costs but to fund investment in new lines of business, or a 10-100x expansion of an existing one. Since nobody in your industry buys millions of dollars worth of servers, you should consider doing
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by dilemma 10y ago
Perfect.
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>If the business model has been proven unsustainable multiple times in a row, why founders continue to try and investors continue to believe? Too much money, too much time. We slowly went insane.
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by dilemma 10y ago
We don't know yet if Uber will manage to avoid phase 3. In China, they didn't.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>Major players in this unwritten pact include the USA, China, and the EU. It's so large you might almost think of it as WWIII, but being fought with monetary policy (mostly) instead of guns Indeed, there's a book called Currenc
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by dilemma 10y ago
Also, Facebook was funded by Zuck's parents in the beginning, letting him retain the large equity he has in thr company today.
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by dilemma 10y ago
>Imagine this on say the US national level. Apple wants to sell its computers in Alaska, but Alaska has a domestic computing company that gets goverment subsidizes, creating unfair competition. In this case the federal government would s
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by dilemma 10y ago
What you're saying is that you would have preferred that Gawker's strategy of outspending Hogan had worked, so that not only would he have had his privacy violated and reputation ruined, but he should also be bankrupt. That's
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by dilemma 10y ago
No, taxis are not very expensive. They're about what you'd expect in an industrialized country.
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That's not the point. That information needs to be processed by a human being who then outputs decisions. If you have too much "big data", that data becomes useless because it overwhelms thereby making itself useless.
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by dilemma 10y ago
The apparel industry provides one of three basic needs. The two others are food and shelter. A company that goes beyond providing bare necessities to also make products that fulfill psychological and social functions by offering different t

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