karlheinz

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by karlheinz 10y ago
“Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.” This is paraphrasing of Chairman Mao: "The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of
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When the bubble bursts – investment, risk-taking and financial bubbles(tankmagazine.com)
1 points by karlheinz 11y ago|0 comments
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by karlheinz 11y ago
Can you please point to the section where this evidence is provided? Last paragraph in the wikipedia section: "Research by the Oxford Martin School showed that employees engaged in "tasks following well-defined procedures that can
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by karlheinz 11y ago
I'm not the right person to answer this question. My initial comment was an attempt to illustrate the fact that startup funders and VC's that get rich don't make innovations in a vacuum. They rely on a complex network of glob
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by karlheinz 11y ago
Some classic examples: * TCP/IP (USDOD) * HTTP and HTML (CERN) * The initial research for the Google algorithm (NSF) * Compaq and Intel’s early stage funds (SBIR) * Tesla was launched with a $500m guaranteed government loan In fact, 77
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by karlheinz 11y ago
The wealth that PG and his friends accumulate through app startups does not come from nowhere. The millions of dollars that make a handful of men rich depends on extracting value out of: 1) Government funding. GPS, the Internet, touch scree
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On Manovich(publicseminar.org)
8 points by karlheinz 11y ago|1 comments
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Where did the Greek bailout money go?(theguardian.com)
2 points by karlheinz 11y ago|0 comments
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by karlheinz 12y ago
The only solution to homelessness is to abolish the class structure that is fundamental to capitalism. Our current model of private ownership has encouraged the ruling class to grab enormous amounts of land, because of it's speculative
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by karlheinz 12y ago
I definitely think he did
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by karlheinz 12y ago
js-csp enables go-like concurrency in javascript: https://github.com/ubolonton/js-csp
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by karlheinz 12y ago
This is a paradox rooted in capitalism itself, as Karl Marx pointed out in 1858: "Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other side, as s