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by guylhem 14y ago
It not weird - I'm a libertarian too and I'm worried about the situation in the west. It's bad when you notice that even with big government contracts the growth was much better. Something is happening - we just don't know what. We each hav
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by guylhem 14y ago
I never said we are not progressing anymore - just not as fast as before, and we were quite fast (log scale!). The fact that authors did believe we would have colonies on the Moon or Mars, or flying cars etc should tell you something too -
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by guylhem 14y ago
Let's talk about scientists and inventors - especially the world changing ones that are so rare. What if it had some effect? I mean, something small - but non zero? What if it did reduce their drive just enough that it made their rarity alm
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by guylhem 14y ago
It's indeed an ideological reply, because for someone with a libertarian approach (like - me), the slowdown seems to match quite well the rise of the welfare state. "the world has willingly retreated from a culture of risk and exploration t
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by guylhem 14y ago
This is unfortunately very true. We don't have a stagnation of tech progress, we keep going forward- but the grow rate seems to be decreasing. Some people apparently think existing innovation (ex: mindstab comment) suffice to disprove this.
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by guylhem 14y ago
Maybe that's because management is required for 95% of the employees who don't have a PhD and wouldn't know what to do next (no idea of the big picture) or just play on their worktime (no internal drive)?
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by guylhem 14y ago
Nope - that quote is reserved for Brasil :-)
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by guylhem 14y ago
Big country, with a large and growing population, a democracy (ie no transition liability unlike china), strongly investing in STEM education, previously a world leader before the british invasion, without too many concern about equality (i
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by guylhem 14y ago
that is a real problem however, and sometime made worse by the instance of the public that the actor ethnicity matches the character. That's stupid, considering most of the traditional stories have very few non whites (ok, there's Othello
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by guylhem 14y ago
We do have opposite viewpoints because I see the one man company or consultant as the closest ideal to a meritocracy. But still +1'ing for this very interesting opinion - because you're right, in a company which more than 1 employee it's
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by guylhem 14y ago
Poor kids get into the NBA because they invest a lot into their physical training and game abilities. You know the 10'000 hours rule. A ball may be less expansive than a computer, but a free access to a public library and following online p
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by guylhem 14y ago
> I care deeply about removing obstacles to equal representation Depending on the costs to removing such obstacles (if there are any), I might agree (ie if it's cheap enough), but even then I have my doubts about mandatory equality and
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by guylhem 14y ago
IMHO, it may be a contradiction - there is no need for any specific program to encourage some specific group (even if one is a member of a given group, and could take advantage of the program for profit in the short run, because one don't g
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by guylhem 14y ago
It is sad that the eastern european work ethic is only mentioned near the end of the article. In my island there are many romanian - hard working, well educated individuals. And I know one student that decided to go to university in Romania
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by guylhem 14y ago
Excellent article, full of excellent thoughts and ideas. I hope it'll remain frontpage material to clear some misrepresentations. "Heard Yeezy was racist, well, I guess that’s on one basis, I only like green faces." I guess I'm like Kanye
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by guylhem 14y ago
Education policy is interesting. What drove me to HN was that it had a better community that slashdot - but what drives me now is the quality of the content and the discussion, especially for economic ideas which challenge the theories I'm
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by guylhem 14y ago
Indeed, and I should have been more careful with my affirmations. But at least I now have learn something interesting - it has been disproved that only increasing education length had any effect of growth.
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by guylhem 14y ago
I admit my way is narrow minded, but it is also the currently admitted way of looking at success - attaining wealth to maximize intertemporal consumption. Money is indeed just a way to carry out one's dream, but without this way, dreams wil
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by guylhem 14y ago
Thanks a lot for the link, it is a very interesting study (reading that ATM), however they only consider the increase in year of education - or, as written in the comments on the blog "There is proof that more people received more years of
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by guylhem 14y ago
> (competition, no foreign languages, science first) > Parents urge their children to get the best degree they can in order to be able to take up the best paying job they can find. Money is the measure and not personal satisfaction.
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by guylhem 14y ago
[Disclosure- my best friend immigrated to Singapore after his PhD in Europe] Natural factors play a role, but only so much. IMHO, you are rationalizing. There are many places in the world that are strategically located and resource rich,
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by guylhem 14y ago
Indeed, the technical progress allowed a finer device, but besides the thinness (and therefore the weight) it was as similar as possible to an iPad with the constraints of the day.
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by guylhem 14y ago
You have to remember the constraints of the time - just like an early mac offered a windows (as in WIMP) experience compared to the prevalent DOS
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by guylhem 14y ago
I see many comments wondering how this can be compared to an iPad. Given the technology of the time - yes it was as close as possible to an iPad. Microsoft made the OS (a windows CE with minor tweaks) and Siemens made the hardware. A ARM po
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Product Review: Siemens' SIMpad SL4 (2003)(linuxjournal.com)
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by guylhem 14y ago
Very interesting. The "innovation" during low interest rate periods would still happen, but as you say would be a lesser kind of innovation, and with lasting persistent effects. This could explain the current divergence in the GDP per capit
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by guylhem 14y ago
Maybe. But Microsoft and others DID invent a iPad - in fact it was called the SimPad, Siemens own ipad. A tremendous device which I had the luck to own and hack, powered by a SA1100. It could run windows ce or Linux with Qtopia. It made a
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by guylhem 14y ago
A degree is like a past proof of minimal performance - ie that you did barely enough to satisfy the requirements at one point in the past. The requirements may or may not be relevant for the job at hand. A degree doesn't says how good you a
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by guylhem 14y ago
I don't think with the [1] graph that use a LINEAR LOG SCALE for the Y axis we can talk about a LINEAR growth of GDP per capita as you do. It's more like an EXPONENTIAL increase!! Also, if you look at the trend, the recent decline is
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by guylhem 14y ago
Indeed. A positive inflation (and a stimulus policy) make by themselves a case for waste. A negative inflation might favor resources conservation, or at least a better management. It's a complicated topic - there was a great discussion abou

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