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931.
by judk 13y ago
The American revolution was upper class vs upper upper class, quite different from the French or Russian revolutions. The USA didn't change much due to the revolution. The US Civil War was a much greater inequality-related upheaval
932.
by judk 13y ago
Perhaps if the wealthiest among us suffered more equally the pain of fighting wars and of medical care insecurity, they would invest more heavily in world peace and healthcare, and less on Angry Birds and luxury taxi services. This is why e
933.
by judk 13y ago
Gates and Zuck were born rich, FYI.
934.
by judk 13y ago
Paris Hilton earned her money as an entertainer. You may not like her, but she didn't flop into a career. She took some seed money (just like Bill Gates) and used it to build her bizarre but profitable little industry.
935.
by judk 13y ago
This practice turns off honest customers who just want good work at a good rate. Those customers will just not call you, or go to a competitor who has lower no-bullshit face pricing
936.
by judk 13y ago
Implicit? Tribes invented religions (over and over again) with complex rituals governing every aspect of daily, yearly, and generational life.
937.
by judk 13y ago
AirBnB's culture is to do whatever it takes to get (er, "hack") what you want, rules and agreements be damned, so they certainly should only make rules for the purpose of giving people practice bending them.
938.
by judk 13y ago
But they are the ones having the actual conversation and working the rhetoric to close a deal. They aren't Deciders, but they are Negotiators ("salespeople").
939.
by judk 13y ago
How is that possible? If you expose for shadows, you will blow out highlights before you develop.
940.
by judk 13y ago
> Dr. Strangelove: It would not be difficult, Mein Führer. Nuclear reactors could - heh, I'm sorry, Mr. President - This makes much more sense after learning the story of Werner von Braun (via Tom Lehrer's song) Fully appreciat
941.
by judk 13y ago
Selection for existing attributes is plausible on 200-yr timescale. Pro-adaptive mutation is not.
942.
by judk 13y ago
"Stealing" is different from "smuggling". The switches weren't secret tech in a govt lab, they were export-controlled private-sector tech-for-sale (similar legal status as encryption software)
943.
by judk 13y ago
People are trained to find itnrue so that high earners don't feel uncomfortable being at the top of inequality.
944.
by judk 13y ago
Britain is not the only euro nation with youth acess to alcohol, so something else is going on.
945.
by judk 13y ago
"It takes a lot of work to make it look easy."
946.
by judk 13y ago
Parent meant "sooner" not "faster". The derivative of temperature was not intended, the dervative of entanglement was intended.
947.
by judk 13y ago
In physics, a "model" is the same as "how something works", unless and until you can uncover details (like the precise order of generated numbers) that the old model can't express.
948.
by judk 13y ago
Gleason's theorem speaks to that. Mathematically, any "well-behaved" density function can be expressed as linear combination of quantum states
949.
by judk 13y ago
Two objects always attract under gravity, never repel under gravity. Why is this less mysterious than thermodynamic equilibrium, which is some sense just an opposite of gravity (repulsive instead of attractive)?
950.
by judk 13y ago
Oh so it it's not....unlimited.
951.
by judk 13y ago
If they make a lie that can be proven, they invite liability ($$). If they make an unclear statement and people foolishly trust then to mean more than they say, they skate by. That's why users should always assume the vendor is being i
952.
by judk 13y ago
Proper use is to communicate abundant details to remove any ambiguity in phrasing.
953.
by judk 13y ago
So, Apple suppressing engineer wages indirectly made the medical profession more attractive for doctors!
954.
by judk 13y ago
By having more doctors working less intensely for overlapping shifts, they can take more time to complete handoff documentation and conversations properly, and have fewer handoffs (by taking on fewer patients after the first half of their
955.
by judk 13y ago
Those top 5 have nothing to do with doctor salaries. The top 5 at any software company of 1000+ engineers to better than that.
956.
by judk 13y ago
That's not what "individual" means. Both of then ran organizations of inventors.
957.
by judk 13y ago
Slaves aren't paid market wages for their work and free to leave at any time. When someone invests in your creativity, they are entitled to the agreed returns. You are free to find funding on other terms elsewhere.
958.
by judk 13y ago
Courts don't get excited about reductio ad abusurbdum. Their job is to balance competing forces in real world disputes that require a compromise.
959.
by judk 13y ago
Ah but in practice, they won't agree. One aide will be motivated to claim the oral contract did not exist.
960.
by judk 13y ago
This is the difference between theory and practice. Yes, if A and B walk into court and say that the verbal contract exists, it is enforceable. But in the common case, A will deny that the contract existed (or disagree on the terms) AMD wit

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