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by iguy 6y ago
> > since everything done in the lecture is better done in the textbooks. > Strongly disagree. You are agreeing with the author. He is presenting his opponent's viewpoint, with humorous exaggeration. > It's just not th
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by iguy 6y ago
And it seems especially odd to lump "christian" in there, anyone heard of a little studio called Metro Goldwyn Mayer?
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by iguy 6y ago
I think the argument in such cases is that making a custom cake celebrating something is (in part) an artistic creation, a kind of speech, and (you can argue) should not be compelled. Whereas a grocery store refusing to sell things off t
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by iguy 6y ago
> AWS, as a private enterprise, is under no duty to sell its services to anybody. This may well be the legal position, but I think people are wondering whether it should be this way. The first electricity providers were (I think, mostl
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by iguy 6y ago
Would they? Your neighbors might be able to get a court order blocking you from calling them, or get you arrested for sufficiently graphic threats. But I thought phone companies had obligations of universal service (in most places), so that
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by iguy 6y ago
These don't seem like the sort of jumps I had in mind. I meant the wholesale import of a school of knowledge to a new place. As happened for instance with the arrival of many modern sciences in the US; lots of fields where everybody&#x
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by iguy 6y ago
These examples are of technical education. German rocket scientists, and British blast-furnace wizards (to France). These things are important of course but seem orthogonal to political institutional memory. Scholars deeply steeped in Bisma
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by iguy 6y ago
And the type of education surely matters. If the goal is to break through this 50-year horizon, then presumably an important part is to really get inside the heads of people at least that long ago. Not to just translate our quarrels & c
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by iguy 6y ago
I think the complaint is that many of the dramatic bee-decline stories are, without mentioning it, just about rent-a-hive services. It seems dishonest to present as evidence of an environmental catastrophe a particular business problem. How
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by iguy 6y ago
Sure, and the logic is pretty similar for the whole chain.
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by iguy 6y ago
It comes in because the subheading and first paragraph are carefully written to capture brexit-inflamed eyeballs. They do later tell you "11 countries to allow emergency use of the product" and "The UK ... joined EU countries
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by iguy 6y ago
Manufacturing capacity is going to be a big constraint this year, but surely whatever factory was going to make the old variant, could equally well make some new variant of the vaccine. Longer-term, if we need a new vaccine every 9 months,
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by iguy 6y ago
What was unsustainable was the will to calmly ignore 19 billion dollars sitting on the table. I would certainly fail that test. I wonder if they considered a legal structure which would tie their hands, precisely to prevent such a thing.
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by iguy 6y ago
My impression was that GM/Ford are, for investors, pension funds with a side-hustle making the odd car. But maybe this is out of date? Are the european manufacturers also like that?
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by iguy 6y ago
Note that I try not to say this consensus was either a good or a bad thing, only that it existed. It had pros & cons, and trying to weigh them up overall seems a bit of a distraction. I'm glad I don't live under it, although p
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by iguy 6y ago
I'm not sure this is your position, but one extreme is to describe this "shared reality" as being imposed by force on everyone by one privileged group. But I'd like to highlight other forces. One was technological, 3 TV
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by iguy 6y ago
I think you and GP are talking about different time periods. Walter Cronkite is 50s to 70s, the postwar figurehead when there were like 3 TV channels. That's where the notion of a shared reality comes from. And I guess this was still p
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by iguy 6y ago
I guess I do think people paying for education are trying to buy something other than knowledge, even when it's not the ivy league. Perhaps more like trying to buy a position in society, an entry to a respectable white-collar career. T
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by iguy 6y ago
To be clear, I mentioned this stereotype specifically to claim this is not what's happening.
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by iguy 6y ago
Yes I exaggerate slightly. But I wonder a lot about the quality of this data. Doesn't about half the country still work on farms? Low-tech farming has endless labor for all kinds of hands, but little paperwork.
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by iguy 6y ago
Seems unlikely this 20% number implies that 80% of women are sitting at home drinking tea & looking after kids. Where is it from? Is this formal sector employment? IIRC the informal labor market is something like 80% of the country in t
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by iguy 6y ago
People talk about dog-years too, but past some very crude level there's no avoiding knowing something about about the lives of dogs, or parrots, or goldfish. At which point it's less confusing to use ordinary earth-years for every
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by iguy 6y ago
It's messy right? I mean you aren't buying global data, you are buying data delivered in a particular town. Some of the costs of providing it are all about the location (e.g. renting land to put up towers) and some aren't at
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by iguy 6y ago
I'm not sure PPP is a great measure here. It works best when comparing people with relatively similar consumption, e.g. asking about the material lives of engineers in east- vs. west-germany. Both had cars, radios, apartments with indo
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by iguy 6y ago
I agree that there would be plenty of horror stories to fill the news, even if such events were extremely rare, but multiplied by 300 million. However, many people's "hearing" is a slightly less biased sample than that. It&#x
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by iguy 6y ago
You can also make almost the opposite point. We used to spend a lot on basic needs like food and shelter, 3/4 of the average income on food, and more money on bread alone than on housing (IIRC, 19thC rich countries). As growth/tec
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by iguy 6y ago
It's a bit confusing what he's arguing against. But his 2nd-last graph is the good one, [1]. That's only 20 years but [2] is the same thing since 1950. Some things have become much cheaper, other things have become more expen
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by iguy 6y ago
The more common thing (now) is to make the new work high-quality but clearly distinct. I presume that's what's planned here -- don't build all the basement walls up again with similar stone to an original-style stage floor, i
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by iguy 6y ago
Mostly outside the ruins. IIRC the main churches were built around the edge (because the center was full) in late Roman times, and these locations became the new centers in medieval times.
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by iguy 6y ago
Would be interested in links discussing this, if you know good ones (in English!). Who's the anti-Gaidar one should read to see his opponents point of view?

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