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by esja 18y ago
Paraphrasing Grey's Law... sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
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by esja 18y ago
True, but can you think of a better single word (not a phrase) to convey non-industrial-as-currently-practiced? "Natural" has the same weakness you identify, so that's out also. It's a bummer that there's no commonly accepted definition for
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by esja 18y ago
This should be a browser feature/plugin. Perhaps a question-mark icon next to the address bar. Site doesn't load or has other problems? Hit the question mark and see the latest reported issues. Your details (browser, IP, etc.) are automatic
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by esja 18y ago
Without wanting to start a debate about licensing, unionisation and so on, I expect that to take decades. Much of the enabling technology is here now, but the medical and legal industries have decades (or even centuries) of experience in li
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by esja 18y ago
Good analysis, to which I would add: peak debt. There is only so much debt a person can take on, and for now at least, that amount has been exceeded. Much of the financial innovation of the last few decades has been about pricing risk so ef
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by esja 18y ago
True, but you can't get to "no patents" via "more patents". If Google are genuinely against software patents, they should not participate, and fight them by other means, including entering "patent disarmament" agreements with other large c
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by esja 18y ago
The central problem with modern agriculture is hinted at by the Economist's reference to "food prices". The commoditisation of most food staples has meant that most people consider a banana to be a banana, a carrot to be a carrot, and so on
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by esja 18y ago
Absolutely. If they are not very careful with precisely this type of issue, it will become "the nomenklatura vs. the proles", and result in the leadership being insulated from what happens at the edges of the organisation - which would ensu