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by leto_ii 7y ago
On a couple of occasions I have actually seen such ancient game boards in different places in Italy. Here's one from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaming_Board_in_the_...
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> and my salary is set by the market, not by any single employer Employers do have a tendency to collude though. The market for labor is very far from perfect. In most places even tech workers don't really get to negotiate much whe
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Since I started following HN I've seen these types of articles being posted with some regularity. The findings usually point in the same direction and the press write-up always tries to come up with explanations for why companies decid
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Does anybody know why this story was flagged? :-S
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by leto_ii 7y ago
It’s always been a bit of a puzzle for me to define just what the Democratic Party is. There are no formal membership dues, and registration varies by state. Candidates can sometimes run for the party nomination without being a member As
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> The closer you stick to "out the box" ERP the more chance you actually have of moving off of it in the future. Interesting. But it still limits you to moving from ERP to another I guess.
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Going through the comments here I notice the recurrent theme that it's your company that has to adapt to SAP and not the other way around. To me this raises two key questions: 1. Isn't this harmful/limiting for your enterpris
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by leto_ii 7y ago
A few of my points: > Recognize you only have a few "weirdness points" to spend. > Spend your weirdness points effectively. True, but it seems to neglect the possibility that your "weirdness" is actually a coherent
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> ...would require a major rewrite of the American character I wouldn't be that pessimistic. As far as I understand it, when polled Americans are significantly to the left of what mainstream politics has become. At least when it com
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> there are positive externalities to a company choosing to do that in your city. I get that that's the theory, but does it ever actually work in practice? Do you know instances when massive subsidies attracted big corporations that
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> The politicians making these decisions aren't playing with their own money. True that! Btw, the (apocryphal) Steinbeck quote I think is about socialism/communism. I don't think we need to go as far as that to figure out
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Billionaires trying to out-compete each other in the size of the public handouts they're receiving :)) I never understood why in the US (and in more and more other places as well) it's considered legitimate to give billions to pri
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> The point of colonizing Mars (for Musk) is not to move there when Earth becomes inhabitable. It's too remove the single point of failure for the species that Earth currently represents. Fair point. However it's sad to think t
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> he’s driven a company that has made more space progress than most of humanity Benefiting from open-sourced research that was publicly funded ( https://www.inverse.com/article/15272-nasa-releases-rocket-a... ) probab
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Thanks for the comprehensive reply :D If at least the hyperloop project manages to get off the ground (pun sort of intended) that would still be a nice contribution to human progress. I'm not at all sure about the long-haul rockets tho
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by leto_ii 7y ago
True. That's actually an interesting point. But is there money to be made on Mars (that could not be made with robots)? Also, I suspect that the people who are currently being persecuted (e.g. Uyghurs in China) won't be in a posit
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> If we can do it now, why wait? Sure. But does it make sense to rely on this as a realistic Plan B to an Earth destroyed by global warming?
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> The short-term goal (short in the grand scheme of things, that is) What is the timescale you have in mind? Hundreds, thousands of years? If this is the case, it makes more sense focusing on keeping Earth livable. I think Kim Stanley Ro
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Well, the truth is my comment doesn't directly attack the GP. It was more my take on Musk in general. That being said, the GP doesn't actually provide any evidence, hence there's not much to refute.
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> So the more nonsensical he makes it sound, the greater the return when it actually happens. I agree, but this is true only when things actually happen. How about his idea of using rockets instead of planes for long haul flight ( https:
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by leto_ii 7y ago
I feel that overall the interview is a mixed bag. Lovelock is unnecessarily dismissive of some things (e.g. Fridays for Future), understandably dismissive of some other things (colonization of Mars), but also right on a few counts. I think
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by leto_ii 7y ago
I'm gonna take the risk of being extremely unpopular and I'll say that Musk is completely overrated. I think he's nowhere near the level of people that we usually think of as geniuses. In certain ways he's good at market
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Well, it happens that I use 3 addresses currently :)) But I agree that this is uncommon. However, again, don't see how this relates to the point. The fact that a given person will likely use a single email address doesn't mean tha
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Not exactly related with the content of the article, but I was also reminded of the German tank problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> Need any more proof? :) yup, a lot more. I'll address your points individually: 1. > Didn't your grandparents kept all photos in one place? Perhaps, but not sure how this trickles up to societal/economic centralizati
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> Humans love centralization, we don't like to have things scattered around. It's in our nature Do you have any proof to back this up? And especially how a desire for tidiness in our daily lives would translate to large scale s
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> The Medallion fund has been closed to external capital since 1993, and analysis of the flagship fund’s annual returns suggests that significant distributions are made each year to keep the fund about the same size. For example, despite
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by leto_ii 7y ago
Well, as long as your employer doesn't pressure you into drinking coffee in order to keep your job I think it's not such a big issue :D
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by leto_ii 7y ago
> I figure that most engineers will reject collectivism and be comfortable with a libertarian framing. I realize this is a bit besides the point, but why are the two often presented as mutually exclusive? Why can't something be do
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by leto_ii 7y ago
You hardly provided more than enough evidence on the contrary. I can however point you to the work of Thomas Ferguson for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_theory_of_party_com...

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