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by jp555 6y ago
Why? The wealth was not taken from those children.
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by jp555 6y ago
Bezos has $100B because Amazon generated $900B of wealth for other people. “Of all human emotions, none is trickier or more elusive than envy...as soon as we feel the pangs, we disguise it to ourselves—it is not envy we feel but unfairness
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by jp555 6y ago
Moore’s Law is an S-curve too. Its already approaching its asymptote - accelerating diminishing returns.
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by jp555 6y ago
“Intelligence is situational — there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. […] Currently, our environment, not
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by jp555 6y ago
I wonder if the iPhone's sapphire camera lens helps? My 4 year old 6S (used caseless and without much caution its entire life) lens is still pristine.
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by jp555 6y ago
This is great!! Blender is SO HUGE, even after years learning it I've not yet dabbled much into scripting, but it's the spirit of sharing like this that lets us dive in to an examples and learn so much!! Blender is truly remarkabl
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by jp555 6y ago
Music was being made LONG before there was a music industry. Creating value and collecting a portion of the value created are completely different skill sets. You can't put them together by just saying it MUST BE SO. That's the &q
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by jp555 6y ago
You're suggesting bureaucratic "software" works better? I don't put as much faith in that as you.
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by jp555 6y ago
If America goes home China's rise is quickly OVER, without anyone providing global trade security on the open oceans. This would drive unrest internally, and over the last 1500 years when China's central control has been threatene
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by jp555 6y ago
is it really in trouble? The EU experiment seems like it's in a LOT more trouble. Will the nearly retired Germans bail out COVID Europe? Germany knows it has less than a decade of working population left.
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by jp555 6y ago
China can only trade thanks to the global security the US provides (for FREE), and The US is now probably going home (and COVID could rapidly accelerate this). China cannot and is not even close to being able to provide security on the open
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by jp555 6y ago
Isn’t this like saying movie makers all have access to the same tools but not all movies are great?
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by jp555 6y ago
Because their minds are all still inseparable from their bodies. You make my point, we are not just our mind, but a mind dynamically interconnected with a civilization in amazingly complex ways. Whether its the medieval catholic church, the
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by jp555 6y ago
If you could put your mind into an octopus, could you learn to use your 8 tentacles? Probably not without no longer being a human mind and becoming an octopus mind. Our bodies (and culture & environment) are part of our minds. They cann
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by jp555 6y ago
Advertising is only one tool in creating a brand story. Design is often just as much about what you leave out than what you put in.
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by jp555 6y ago
Why do you think "personal data hoarding" a huge problem? I see it as MY data and YOUR data is pretty worthless. Aggregate data has value, but then that doesn't contain much insight about any individual at all. Isn't i
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by jp555 6y ago
I've been thinking more and more that when it comes to advertising, trying to squeeze irrational behaviour into a logical system just isnt going to work long term. Rory Sutherland's "Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science
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by jp555 6y ago
I hope it's teaching us that the next time some ivory tower bureaucrats suggest something, we'll assume they're full of shit and make it a lot harder for them to pull this kind of garbage.
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by jp555 6y ago
I felt they did. I think we've only ever seen things work sustainably when every individual adopts a particular set of behaviours, but maybe this is mostly just semantics?
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by jp555 6y ago
"the true power in society is held by a relatively small number of people who hold a massive amount of capital" ... so they can direct collective actions (eg. a free enterprise). So why would your top-down collective action be a
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by jp555 6y ago
Bokeh (I assume you actually mean shallow depth of field?) or the widest possible field of view - fish-eye? I can see why you might feel cocked if you keep changing what you're talking about. :P
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by jp555 6y ago
What hasn't worked: Expensive bureaucracy that big incumbents can easily afford to navigate but new entrants would be easily crippled by? Shocked. /s
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by jp555 6y ago
The second sentence makes an error. "Advertising remains useful to firms only as a tool for persuading consumers to purchase advertised products." is not true at all. Only ~10% of advertising dollars are spent on Direct Response a
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by jp555 6y ago
That's odd, my 6S can last a couple days at least on standby if I don't touch it (something I recently discovered in being stuck at home surrounded by PCs and iPads, not needing my iPhone much). And my unit is a total lemon, turns
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by jp555 6y ago
"I recall the days of mobile phones that ran for a week of usage" do you mean talk time or standby? Because I do not remember this. Seems much more likely we just used our "single-app" mobiles WAY less. Maybe you were on
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by jp555 6y ago
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” ― Cicero
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by jp555 6y ago
people have been saying this for thousands of years.
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by jp555 6y ago
"More citizen tools for observing and inspecting the elite" Yeah, this is a big reason smart people do not go into politics; the armchair-expert mob.
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by jp555 7y ago
I think it's much less likely that it's all those people who are wrong than that you don't really understand how people work.
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by jp555 7y ago
For anything close to the resolution the tech demos have people expecting, a true light field display, if we could even make one that fit in a svelte headset, would require hundreds of gigabytes per second of bandwidth. There is obviously

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