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by esja 4y ago
Why does blockchain have a valid case for "tracking stocks"? We've been doing that for decades. Blockchain is a step backwards in many areas. So what positive benefits does it offer to compensate for its weaknesses?
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by esja 4y ago
From the Australian Financial Review two weeks ago: "Unfortunately, ASX management and its board of directors have proven over the past seven years they do not have the technical skills to manage a large-scale technology project or the
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by esja 4y ago
The same happened in the dot com era. They don’t understand the layers beneath them that make their businesses temporarily viable. Well, maybe their CFOs understand, but the rest of them either don’t, or have to pretend that they don’t.
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by esja 4y ago
It is: Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
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by esja 4y ago
It's also predicated on a never-ending flow of cheap debt being available to companies and their investors. When that stopped a few months ago a lot of these businesses died. It's just taken a little while for the bodies to float
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by esja 4y ago
That annoyed me too. Still, it's to be expected. Companies with this sort of business model are dishonest at their core.
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by esja 4y ago
A regulated labor market exists. The regulations are there due to past problems. Like warning signs beside a crocodile-infested swimming hole.
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by esja 4y ago
"We'll lose on every sale but make it up on volume" takes me right back to the dot com era. It's amazing what central banks can achieve when they really put their minds to it.
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by esja 4y ago
We also use 100 million barrels of oil every day. Each barrel carries equivalent energy to ten years of human labour. Let's forget for a moment about other energy sources, and also pretend we use all that oil just for energy. That woul
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by esja 4y ago
They called it pretty well in 2005: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2005/06/16/after-the-fall
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by esja 4y ago
The cycle will repeat again, eventually.
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by esja 4y ago
It's remarkable how Equity was just smuggled into "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion", without people realising that it doesn't mean the sort of equality that the majority supports.
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by esja 4y ago
I've had the same experience (over decades) and never understood it. SQL should not be difficult for any professional programmer, and it's extremely powerful.
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by esja 4y ago
Meanwhile in Switzerland, 4 year olds walk to Kindergarten and back home again, twice a day, on their own. They meet friends along the way, play games, take detours, catch lizards, but also learn how to manage their time. It’s very good for
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by esja 4y ago
It depends on the bank. In some places VPs can manage a lot of people without being promoted to Director.
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by esja 4y ago
No, Directors are also corporate officers (and more senior than VPs).
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by esja 4y ago
Directors are also officers, just more senior than VPs.
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by esja 4y ago
The first step is to run the same test. The second step is to work out why the results are different (if they are), which might include teaching styles, focus issues, malnutrition, or many other things.
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by esja 4y ago
There have always been vast swathes of uninhabited land in Australia. 7.6 million square kilometres divided by a few hundred thousand indigenous people, even allowing for movement = a lot of empty space. And that's even truer today tha
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by esja 4y ago
Slightly off-topic but Tudum is a terrible name! Not hard to mispronounce as "Too Dumb". How could professional writers and editors miss this?
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by esja 5y ago
We do segregate many sports on other dimensions, e.g. by weight in boxing. The problem with trying to do something like that across the sexes is that the performance gap between elite men and elite women (i.e. those at the top of their stat
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by esja 5y ago
My point is that you can’t reverse all the advantages of the years of previous testosterone (i.e. male puberty) just by cutting today‘s testosterone levels. You can make that person perform worse than other males, sure, but it’s not enough
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by esja 5y ago
This should give a sense of the outcome: https://boysvswomen.com/#/ Yes, teenage boys (even 13 and 14 year olds) frequently beat female world records. In almost all athletic sports, a "combined" Olympics woul
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by esja 5y ago
The advantages of male puberty and the Y chromosome extend far beyond testosterone. It's also irrelevant how much testosterone a person produces today. You can reduce the testosterone levels of a Michael Phelps type to female levels (t
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by esja 5y ago
I would suggest that declaring all views to be right and all views to be wrong is indistinguishable from your brain having fallen out. We can do better.
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by esja 5y ago
I think he feels like a prop for someone else's agenda. Imagine living a long life with congenital issues that seriously impacted your physical development, made you infertile etc., then suddenly loads of people are talking about your
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by esja 5y ago
I can see your point here, but would argue that biology is the underlying reason that you don't have to think about it too much. Think of it this way... in your lifetime of genuine interactions with people (e.g. conversations), how man
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by esja 5y ago
Lia Thomas has XY chromosomes, always has, has benefited from their advantages, and continues to do so. Everyone knows DSDs exist, but most of the time they are brought into this debate, they are merely a rhetorical device rather than any r
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by esja 5y ago
These sorts of comments are completely unnecessary, uncharitable, and against HN guidelines. This person is not hurting anybody (least of all you), and not doing anything that the rest of us wouldn't do in the same horrendous circumsta
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by esja 5y ago
Absolutely. I think democratic governance and rule of law should be table stakes for participation in the "Western" economy and its international institutions. Countries that don't respect those values in their own societies

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