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To grasp the extent of inequality, look at the relatively well-off(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
96 points by ksey3 3y ago|126 comments
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Silicon Valley Fractures(dollarsandsense.org)
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by ksey3 3y ago
In this case CBDCs (the interest bearing kind) actually have the potential of disintermediating banks. Or atleast reducing credit/liquidity risk. Grandma's savings/deposits arent going to evaporate the next time a bank collap
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by ksey3 3y ago
He is just another mindless robot, sent on rounds on behalf of corporate wonderland, to tell govts and regulators what to think. Basically a lobbyist. From what he chooses to talk about, you can see how totally vacuous corporate wonderland
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by ksey3 3y ago
Well its not called censorship when we allocate radio spectrum. But I think the point is above a particular level, there is so much noise everyone gets drowned out and some will act out of frustration causing harm to others or themselves. R
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by ksey3 3y ago
Managers running the show there for quite a while. The creatives get turned into stepford wives.
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by ksey3 3y ago
He pays his mortgages doing attention capture well. He is not fit for anything else. Once upon a time the western intellectual class was known for their outcomes, not just their thoughts. Now its just overflowing with this kind of performin
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by ksey3 3y ago
Thank trash software. Keeping the ship afloat becomes more important, than wondering where the ship is heading. Thats what trash software does to ppls brains. Its so bad, it allows (and requires) 600 ppl to sit together and produce a few se
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China digitalyuan office too generous in payrises,but rapid expansion continues(scmp.com)
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by ksey3 3y ago
Our abilities to pay attention are limited. Not so our abilities to receive it - Michael Goldharber The Attention Economy accidentally came into being taking advantage of the inequality above without anyone knowing about the inequality itse
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by ksey3 3y ago
pornhub is decent
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by ksey3 3y ago
Depends on the type of problem being solved. You need different kinds of ppl at different phases. Similar to the Explore-Exploit Tradeoff. Once you find a gold mine in the jungle, you dont need undisciplined creative explorers, you only nee
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by ksey3 3y ago
Progress in physics was/is also slow. People couldn't explain what the compass was doing for a few thousand years. Systematic futzing about and day dreaming was required over multiple centuries. That is the norm when you are given
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Europe’s technocracy is killing its global dreams(aljazeera.com)
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by ksey3 3y ago
SIO covers this as if they are fixing software bugs. No rage against the machine. They have become part of the machine. We have such a fit for nothing intellectual class.
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by ksey3 3y ago
OP is more worried about how it effects Ambitious people. Ambitious people are a small subset of the chimp troupe, and they usually end up in charge cause they dont mind doing mindless bullshit everyday, as long as they get their status ele
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by ksey3 3y ago
This is interesting. I hope it grows in scope cuz AT&T needs to go die already. I dont know how big Telcos havent been gobbled up by larger groups yet. They are such a slow moving gigantic revenue generating juicy targets. Big tech (adv
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by ksey3 7y ago
Sometimes I think PhD's should be awarded to Groups or atleast Pairs of researchers. Let the group find each other and defend a thesis. If the group breaks apart they loose their certification of expertise. And can reform and reprove i