jollybean

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by jollybean 4y ago
"this should create new prosperity for those who have been unable to enjoy access to fair courts and binding contracts. " This is the heady mythology of those who said 'Crypto would create XYZ for those who cannot'. Exce
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by jollybean 4y ago
"So you can implement legally binding (and unstoppable) contracts " No - they are not necessarily legally binding. They are just called 'contracts'. We have no idea what they mean, and each individual 'contract&#x27
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by jollybean 4y ago
Gaming does something i.e. entertain. Crypto does nothing. Or you could argue, it 'entertains'. But in a way that is unnecessary (it's a distraction, not entertainment), and in a manner that creates unnecessary energy costs (
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by jollybean 4y ago
It's not paper or digits it's a social contract i.e. 'power'.
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by jollybean 4y ago
The lesson for 'management' is get better contracts and don't invest and develop people who will walk out with your stuff. Item 'A' is a bit more reasonable, people not getting paid is bad. But item 'B' is
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by jollybean 4y ago
It's fair for employees to ask, it's fair to be told know. "You cannot apply copyright to the knowledge of your employees. " ? Absolutely you can, legally. But the issues is just as much moral one. The owners put it to
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by jollybean 4y ago
That's what I mean. And because it's CEOs and not CTOs it's likely a Zero-Day related to something geopolitical. The West is at war, my downvoting detractors are naive to not contemplate that the world's #2 Army is not r
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by jollybean 4y ago
$150B is a small amount of money that is otherwise just sitting there. Nobody is using it for anything and it's not growing. It's generally a riskless thing thing to put your money in so it's not surprising that a few funds h
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by jollybean 4y ago
Yeah this story has a problem. An entire company 'quits' and just 're-does the thing' is almost assuredly theft of know-now and IP, but more than that theft of the operating modality. It takes in incredible amount of wor
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by jollybean 4y ago
Your 'convictions' will not help you predict where a herd of cows will move or stampede. And that's all BTC is. Whatever a crew of people believe it will be worth. Other currencies are integrated into the economy, which gives
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by jollybean 4y ago
It should not have been any kind of 'investment' in the first place.
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by jollybean 4y ago
"If there was some crypto without any incentives of hodling long term, " The opposite. Cryptos that are anchored to USD have no appeal. They're less useful than USD, and, there's no 'get rich quick' aspect. So
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by jollybean 4y ago
For sure. Critical technology companies for sure have these kinds of plans and things ready. And these big brand companies with international offices are full of spies it's good cover.
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by jollybean 4y ago
Yeah, I think the hint is that something is going on here. Like possibly a national security issue of some kind. 'We' are at 'war' with Russia, after all.
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by jollybean 4y ago
It doesn't really matter what they believe, judicially. Trump believed he won the election. The students should also be given actual leadership, so that they can contextualize their concerns, and understand when they're being tits
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by jollybean 4y ago
Yes, you can. The whole point of white collar work is to escape Little's Law. Automation, outsourcing, better processes etc..
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by jollybean 4y ago
So that's neat, but not what I was saying. This is completely the wrong way to think about division of labour. We started to figure this out 300 years ago for god's sake. It's not helpful think about our tasks as a series of
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by jollybean 4y ago
There's a fundamental difference. He said something he thought to be true - he was making a rhetorical point, in an uncomfortable and insensitive manner. He doesn't really come from a position of power and notably, has wasn't
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by jollybean 4y ago
"The work capacity of an organization scales, at most, linearly as new members are added. " WTF? This is a bad way to think about the 'division of labour'. One man cannot ever get over a 10 foot wall. Two men together c
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by jollybean 4y ago
I think they mean to see children are not curious in a concientious and applied way. All kids are a bit curious, but it's hard to get them to 'stick' to something.
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by jollybean 4y ago
No, this is definitely not about money, and it's not even about ideology - it's petty backstabbing vindictiveness. These are adults beating each other up on the playground.
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by jollybean 4y ago
The professor is literally and obviously a victim of an ideological and authoritarian mob attack on his career. Blatant. Claims of victimhood by any other group are debatable in any general context. I'm ashamed that intelligent adults
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by jollybean 4y ago
Twitter is not an 'agent' of the US Government, that's completely ridiculous, as is the lawsuit alleging that somehow the government (really political entity) somehow 'forced' Twitter to do something political. Ther
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by jollybean 4y ago
It's not Twitter. The problem is vindictive people in positions of authority, with no constraints, and heavy ideology aka Universities. Most American corporations are not ideological, the public sector is a highly constrained place. Un
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by jollybean 4y ago
We need to do far far more than re-instate the profs - the school adminstrators need to be investigated, and damages need to be paid so as to keep them from these shenanigans. Finally, they need to change the administrative situation so tha
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by jollybean 4y ago
??? An adult female and an adult male having a consensual relations is related to 'rights' in what way exactly? Because I don't think that has anything to do with the situation. Exploitative by whom? Students don't have
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by jollybean 4y ago
There's an actual 'irony' in those that have difficulty grasping the difference between rhetoric about perceived social victimhood, and actual direct victhimhood, sneering about 'irony and victomhood'. Whether or no
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by jollybean 4y ago
Because it's not arbitrary, that's the point. Also, having 'a good job and good family' would likely also be a form of 'eudaimonic' happiness. 'Hedonic' happiness is more like being in a 'joyful
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by jollybean 4y ago
It has nothing to do with 'yimby/imby/anarcho' anything. People who live in quiet communities generally don't want their areas turning into Manhatten, that's it, it's the same everywhere.
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by jollybean 4y ago
You need to come around to the fact that people who live in areas have the right to live they they want. You need to come around to the fact that 'density' is a worthless metric, that has little advantage. It's laughable that

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