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by edbaskerville 10y ago
Short version: how about we just literally give everyone a job that needs one? Long version: As Hyman Minsky* points out, financial capitalism is inherently unstable, in the sense of having perturbations that are big enough and frequent eno
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A lot of vitriol in response to this (specifically, the uncritical accusation that this is "bullshit"). But you're right on. The problem is, you can't take an existing current public school system (of the worst kind), fl
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In case you read this thread without clicking the link: astrodust's comment might lead you to believe that professional violinists can't tell the difference between factory-made Yamaha instruments and a Strad. The instruments in t
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by edbaskerville 10y ago
>> By any normal metric, Twitter is a huge success > Revenue - Cost is perhaps the most normal metric Badly chosen phrase. I'm not saying that currently Twitter is not a business failure --it is, at the moment. But from the
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by edbaskerville 10y ago
By any normal metric, Twitter is a huge success. 300 million people find their service useful. But it was already huge success when it had no business model. Moreover, what is fundamentally valuable about Twitter to its users--sharing and d
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by edbaskerville 10y ago
> And when it comes down to it, I think it takes more faith to believe that life exists because of random chance than because of a creator. It seems like you're being earnest here, so I'll respond earnestly and follow you tot