kerbalspacepro

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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
China is a communist dictatorship where you can be arrested and possibly murdered for saying the wrong thing. This can happen in the interior and has even happened in places supposedly free from the terror of the Party, like in Hong Kong. T
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Research can, and do, and SHOULD. By writing popular pieces, scientists are basically using the Feynman technique and increasing their own understanding of whatever it is they're learning about
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Those are rookie numbers, kid.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
This is what I imagine what would happen when a modern day progressive is sent back in time and told to try out 21rst century ideas: it lasts until he dies.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
I mean, that's great for you, but kind of sad, too. A good company that wants its employees to stick around should be integrating the social lives of its employees.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
As they should! Failed interpersonal security is limited to a tiny area, failed bio security can fuck up an entire ecosystem!
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
You can't say, "Use this idealized theory of getting things done that isn't real" and then say "because I'm worried about this demonized theory of getting things don't that hasn't actually happened&qu
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Quitting a company that pays for your insurance, and likely deeply embedded itself in your social life, isn't "easy". Acting like the corporate-employee relationship is the same as between, say, a uber-driver and an uber-pass
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
The argument is that CEO salaries aren't actually determined by supply and demand, and that the uncertainties are so prevalent that any attempt at valuation is certainly made up. It comes down to more interpersonal networks, relationsh
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
I don't see how that follows.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
The point of owning a company is to have a share of its profits. But when you do that, you also sign onto a multitude of risks (like the profit going out the window!) So the stock market allows you to take those risks and mitigate them in n
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Companies aren't just supposed to make the maximum amount of money. If they were, then everything would be a bank. Companies are better thought of machines, like tractors or printing presses. You buy a tractor and a printing press to u
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
We're adaptable, sure. But we're not some collective. There are hundreds of millions of peoples lives that are tied up in the ocean. There are entire cultures. Those things don't adapt easily. Turn the ocean into plastic mush
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
People talk about the heat-death of the universe like its on par with other existential threats... but the heat death is literally trillions of years away. We're only at 0.5% of the universe's lifespan. A universe devoid of us for
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
If you can get a 50% reduction in costs by going to India, people would be doing it.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
It looks really pretty, but at least here in the Midatlantic, it ignores traffic by A LOT.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Your price sensitivity would rationally be set to look at the opportunity cost across spheres of spending- an extra $100 on your flight is 10 days of parking tickets or something like that. It seems like you're falling to the "Me
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
I don't really have that strong of an attachment to any specific one of these claims. I was just pointing out the logic of the parent comment is very narcissistic (without saying as much). The logic falls apart when you look at differe
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
1. Agile is not personally great for programmers. 2. Agile is good for managers. 3. Managers run the business and make sure it exists. 4. Programmers need the business in order to have a job. 5. Agile is therefore good for the business, 6.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Are you sure your price sensitivity is rational then?
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Are you including getting a return on your investments (with the assumption that Buffet wouldn't get a return on his investments)?
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
I guess we need to define what you mean by "personally panicky". I read you saying that a person shouldn't be personally panicky as "a person should not worry." That's where my annoyance comes from. The grandpa
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Nice red herring, dude.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
In your original post you listed out a bunch of issues that never amounted to anything. Did it occur to you that they never amounted to anything because people did shit about them? It wasn't the economy that stopped the Ozone hole from
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
We've actually had more than 100 years of doomsday warnings, that doesn't mean "nothing happened" if each warning is for a specific set of dates. If I say, "There will be a fire in your house in one year" and t
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
I don't even have my own comment page listed.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
We have reason to believe it's happening now! Besides the AGW signal in the temperature spread, there's now a AGW signal in hurricane behavior and precipitation patterns. It's happening now! That's the point of the artic
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
1. Carbon Dioxide stores lots of energy 2. The sun provides lots of energy 3. Therefore, carbon dioxide is able to store lots of solar energy 4. We are releasing lots of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere 5. Therefore, the atmosphere's
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
It's funny because your concerns are exactly like that of Bush Sr's advisors in the article. He's also one of the villains.
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by kerbalspacepro 8y ago
Mediocrity is a choice, brother. You need to do some root cause analysis to fix it.

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