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by hogFeast 6y ago
The US has lots of people with a superficial understanding of Scandinavia telling everyone that their idea of Scandinavia is brilliant, easy, etc. (and btw, this is a function of generally poor policy education in the US, the US produces pr
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, am in the UK. I have mainly outsourced design work (most to Belarus). Work is better, cheaper, faster, and the general attitude is better I would agree...I would even say they speak better English. In the UK, you will ask someone to do
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by hogFeast 6y ago
True. My point was more to highlight that I don't actually have a problem with work being outsourced to another location. You are correct, when cost is the issue that creates incentives that tend not to work.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
This is still very shallow thinking. Every company that views tech as a cost rather than a way to generate revenue will invest in these contracts/offshore centres, and that is the noose round their neck. In most cases, but not all, hir
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I didn't mention public vs private. This isn't what the debate is about, although telling that you brought it up unprompted, because most of these programs are government funded and are not private schools (there have been program
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Correct, and that is why schools in many places in the world don't do a great job of teaching students. No competition, no consequences (and compare that to the position students are in...they have to compete like hell, the people teac
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Marx, Adam Smith, Ricardo, pretty much every early economist wrote about this...I think Aristole even wrote about this (very briefly: the statement that some industries are extractive is saying that the price they charge isn't related
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, I have read both books. And I have also read the multiple books which were written in the 19th century which also said this...how did that wisdom end up working? Again, the idea that there is a small group of people extracting wealth f
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Right but the baseline regulatory function actually increases costs and prices. Extractive firms love these regulations because they create rents (i.e. law). The irony is too much. And the problem with Wirecard is that people don't ask
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yes, which is why I said it wasn't like law. Law is the price of the system, the price to train lawyers, the intentional complexity of law so that there is more work, time, and complexity. Saying that there is extortionate pricing in f
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I love how the author complains about wealth extraction but the author's last book opined about the brilliant entrepreneurial ability of govts. Just a guess but I never got the impression that the author understood anything about capit
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by hogFeast 6y ago
True. Who ever heard of a VC that believed in hype? Hyper rational.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
The guy in the OP was one of the most legendary editors of the Economist (he has also written some very good books). You have to separate the wheat from the chaff with Bloomberg. When Mickelthwait came in, BBG's public stuff was utterl
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by hogFeast 6y ago
This isn't Economics...I tried to explain this in my first post. Marxist history != Marxism. They overlap significantly but most economic history until the 1990s was Marxist because it emphasised economic determinism (and, in fact, a l
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by hogFeast 6y ago
You can go back further. They were writing articles about this in 03 and 04. They aren't right about everything but they will publish stuff about high valuations, etc. Also, just generally, they aren't particularly "neolibera
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Actually this is just Marxist history (which isn't the same thing as political Marxism btw, it just means a history that looks at how material conditions create reality). I didn't read the article, I am not going to but the abstra
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by hogFeast 6y ago
You do not have to be respectful or subject your own opinions to scientific evidence (are you implying that we can scientifically prove what an idea is? The anti-scientific implication behind this is ironic). Notions of respectability is li
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I think a lot of people here have missed the point. Social media has made it far easier to display your values to other people. Rather than led to diversity, it has massively consolidated the range of "acceptable" opinions to a se
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Correct, an audit that can cost somewhere between $10-70k (you pay, not Google)...like I said in my first post.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Would you build a livelihood on that? I have heard of that but it sounds like the kind of loophole that got the industry into a situation where you needed to pay tens of thousands to use an API.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I am not - https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914?hl=en - after Facebook, everyone is tightening up these permissions.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
The perception of people in academia is that innovation is the product of knowledge. That may have been true in the US. It has been true pretty much nowhere else (not for anything else, the real world is rarely so kind as to present solutio
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Right, but won't you need permissions to access data in user accounts? You can only get permissions with a Google audit (which you have to pay for).
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by hogFeast 6y ago
But presumably, that is going to cost you $15k or whatever it is now to be an approved user of Google API?
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Does this only work with public sheets?
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Oh god, it looks like the schemas are defined in Java. Cold sweat emerging, ORM flashbacks...no, no, I can't, sources of truth everywhere, they are multiplying. Srs, thank you. I will actually take a good look through that as I find th
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by hogFeast 6y ago
So Neo4J (I think that has versioning?) with AirFlow? Seriously, I have never quite understood what all these unstructured data companies do. Autonomy had quite a big product...which, as far as I can tell, was largely about spending heavily
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, I was in a similar position and feel exactly the opposite. I was short a ton of these retail positions. I remember a guy who used to be CFO of a clothing retailer telling me earnestly that I was an utter idiot, and didn't understa
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I studied economic history. I am not an expert on medieval economic history but the take in the article is definitely bad (unf, this is becoming more and more common). I am not going to speculate as to why but as an example: The article tal
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Have moved around several places in the UK. Big cities, countryside, etc. The only place where I got the speed I paid for was a small town in the middle of nowhere (and I got 70Mbps, I don't use a lot of bandwidth and I would say it wa

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