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by jmeister 4y ago
The two claims don't contradict each other.
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by jmeister 4y ago
Parent is comment is referring to poor corporate governance, not necessarily illegal.
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This makes sense. Steve Jobs famously observes this stark contrast during his india trip too. Though one can ask why this can’t be true of any ‘world-denying’ religion too? Judaism? Christianity? Why bother with physical cleanliness in this
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Great reference. Thank you. I think simulation is underused as a thinking aid and pedagogical tool. In statistics Andrew Gelman has been championing simulation lately.
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by jmeister 4y ago
Contra, from Noah Smith, 3 days ago: >China's industrial policy has mostly been a flop > China’s attempts to promote specific industries are relatively recent — in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s, China did very little of this. Barry
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Man I was hoping this wasn’t from DeepMind.. come one, one cutting edge paper, one!
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Everybody is talking about the need to incorporate knowledge representation and reasoning into the statistical models in vogue currently. Russell&Norvig will forever be relevant. Those guys are at the forefront of research in the academ
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It’s an awful title, probably chosen by the editors. The author Kotkin knows and does better.
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Fascinating. I’m going to look up this Marenches guy. Thank you.
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Of course.
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This is fair. Piketty thinks even 10x spread is sufficient to incentivize the entrepreneurs. I’m suggesting that villainizing the rich is silly. Even in a perfectly meritocratic system according to OP, there’s going to be massive inequality
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Related: there isn’t enough discussion on actual executive decision making. The experts are supposed to give their inputs, but the buck stops with the executives who are tasked with balancing various trade-offs(including the inherent uncert
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R&D is just one aspect. Productivity refers to general competent management incentivized by market pressure. Anti-capitalists apparently can't even run lemonade stands these days: Ezra Klein: "If progressivism can’t work ther
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by jmeister 4y ago
This focus on super-rich individuals is totally misguided. What's important is the economic system. Rich individuals are simply a nauseating side-effect of capitalism. Nobody really likes it, but there simply isn't anything bette
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by jmeister 4y ago
This focus on super-rich individuals is totally misguided. What's important is the economic system. Rich individuals are simply a nauseating side-effect of capitalism. Nobody really likes it, but there simply isn't anything better
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by jmeister 4y ago
The account has been suspended https://old.reddit.com/user/Elon_jet_tracker
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by jmeister 4y ago
Account suspended https://old.reddit.com/user/Elon_jet_tracker
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by jmeister 4y ago
Much of civil war violence is opportunistic violence enabled by a broader breakdown of norms. In this case, possibly his professional competitors/enemies, or class-enemies(race,sex), within Apple. "Civil war is a deadbeat screamin
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This is woefully simplistic Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burnham#The_Managerial_R...
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+1
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by jmeister 4y ago
You will probably enjoy CMU Statistician Cosma Shalizi's fabulous review of Red Plenty: http://bactra.org/weblog/918.html
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New EU law on gender balance on corporate boards(ec.europa.eu)
46 points by jmeister 4y ago|114 comments
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I don't know what's cooking there either. The point is the end-user experience has been nothing like what these Nostradamuses have been predicting. There is no cost for making wild predictions that turn out wrong. In real life if
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by jmeister 4y ago
You could block his account or the keywords 'Elon' and 'Musk'. That's the idea anyway, to provide moderation tools to the end user. You should check back when that idea is put into practice more comprehensively by T
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by jmeister 4y ago
This post is more than ten days old. Twitter has only gotten better. Why can't people exercise some discipline while running their mouths? If only to embarrass themselves less.
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Every tech product you use came out between '00-'10. Nothing was built from 2010(twitter.com)
1 points by jmeister 4y ago|6 comments
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Upvoted for honesty.
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Awesome question, and awesome thread.
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Musk Considers Further Twitter Layoffs in Sales on Monday(bloomberg.com)
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I guess enough has been said about the poetry over centuries, while new historical source material keeps getting unearthed with time?

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