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by ksdale 7y ago
There are two ways to get people to do the right thing, however right is defined. You can convince them to do right, or you can force them. If you've decided that you don't care if you alienate them, then you've settled on fo
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by ksdale 7y ago
Your description of your company sounds like it might be more of a transfer pricing issue than an antitrust issue. If the companies all have their own tax situations, then transactions between them need to be "arm's length" s
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by ksdale 7y ago
It seems like there could hardly be fewer amateur mathematicians making great contributions to science. The number of potentially great mathematicians who stop learning because they're satisfied with the informal coverage has to be abs
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by ksdale 7y ago
I suspect many historians also believe that people don't pay nearly enough attention to history.
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by ksdale 7y ago
Thank you for responding! I'm not super familiar with Strong Towns, but I really appreciate the work that's gone into it and I'm definitely going to read more. As for the hidden costs, it reminds me of assessments in HOAs and
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by ksdale 7y ago
This is a super interesting series, but I'm failing to see how most of the issues he covers are market failures. I love the way he explains infrastructure as an investment, but it seems like most of these infrastructure projects would.
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think there's a whole lot of ground between worshipping CEOs and pointing out that managing a large organization is an actual skill that is not particularly common.
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by ksdale 7y ago
I'm sure there are, that's where a lot of small non-profits find their leaders and board members, but past a certain size, the amount of time required means that they would not be retired anymore, and I presume most of them retire
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by ksdale 7y ago
You're very rude.
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by ksdale 7y ago
Lots of people run things, and lots of them are really bad at it. I've known people who I would classify as way above average managers, and their success is not just due to having carte blanche access to internal state. It's due t
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by ksdale 7y ago
Not only is it work, but as you say, beyond a certain scale, it's really, really hard work that can only be done by a person who is perfectly able to earn that kind of salary working at a for-profit. If you're not willing to pay f
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by ksdale 7y ago
I actually own a car where the handle is on the side away from the cap but there is also an arrow pointing to the correct side! I’ve always thought it would have been easier to just put the handle on the correct side...
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by ksdale 7y ago
What is normal changes, what seems absurd today might be quite possible tomorrow. Besides that, there is the fact that "Authoritarian High Modernism" absolutely existed in the past century and resulted in all sorts of "insane
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by ksdale 7y ago
Despite the fact that there are lots of talented and passionate teachers, I think it's fairly easy to describe the current American public school system as dystopian. Kids spend all day mostly just rote learning, barely allowed to use
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think this is a great point. When we tell people we're thinking about homeschooling, one of the most common responses is something along the lines of, "What makes you think you can do better than an educational professional?&quo
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by ksdale 7y ago
These are great points, and I'd take it even further and say the real goal of all education should be to get them to love learning. The quantity of formal education 18 year olds receive is potentially dwarfed by the amount of stuff the
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by ksdale 7y ago
I didn't know there was a term for this! My children are just starting to enter the education system and I constantly find myself thinking, "Why are we devoting so many hours to learning this (something like the alphabet) when we
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by ksdale 7y ago
I don't think I'd hold the position I do if protecting was all that the guns were used for.
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by ksdale 7y ago
I’m probably reading too much into your comment, but there’s a big difference between “a” government and “the” government depending on where you live. I don’t trust Facebook at all, but I trust them more than I trust certain governments aro
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by ksdale 7y ago
I'm not really a finance guy, but just off the top of my head, explicit credit requires trust, which mostly defeats the purpose of the blockchain, where you're trying to transact without needing trust. I also assume that explicit
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by ksdale 7y ago
I believe it's referring to the idea that because settlement of transactions happens instantly on blockchain, there is no lag time between a commitment to make a trade, and the trade itself, which means there is no credit, which means
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by ksdale 7y ago
The person you've described seems like they are choosing a person to become. A person who wishes to become better read and more knowledgeable wants to become a different person than a person who wants to read solely pulp mysteries. Pat
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by ksdale 7y ago
It seems... wrong to reduce this to a U.S. and Europe dichotomy, there are a lot of great schools in the U.S. and I assume there are bad ones in Europe as well.
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by ksdale 7y ago
Thanks for the pointer! It seems... symmetrical(?) that if corporations can sell stock, they should be able to buy it back. It's not a whole lot different from a dividend in practice, it's just cash flowing from the corporation to
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by ksdale 7y ago
That's an excellent example! Thank you.
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by ksdale 7y ago
Do you have examples? In my own personal experience, people are most often mistaken about what is insider trading due to a combination of a vague sense of unfairness and a lack of background knowledge about the reasons for insider trading l
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by ksdale 7y ago
To clarify, I wasn't really commenting on the validity on any particular regulation so much as on the idea that "it's time for the pendulum to swing the other way." which seemed to imply (to me, anyway) that it's be
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by ksdale 7y ago
The parent was suggesting to regulate first and fix broken regulations later. That's almost literally moving fast and breaking things.
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by ksdale 7y ago
Move fast and break things is bad policy for companies, I don't think it would be any better for the government.
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by ksdale 7y ago
I believe the graphic just says that 30% hold some view that is extreme, not that 30% believe the same extreme thing.

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