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by m0llusk 4y ago
Amazon is mostly driven by AWS which is a very new paradigm for building business services. Insurance has been revolutionized by new methods for collecting and analyzing data in order to estimate risk. Monsanto's latest growth play i
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by m0llusk 4y ago
War with Russia is exactly what the strategy of supporting Ukraine avoids.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This is comparing a war over European territory to a war that accompanied an attempt at nation building far outside of Europe.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Seasteading predates Thiel and if anything Thiel's embrace disrupted progress. Stop using Thiel as an excuse to smear whatever he touched.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Yet the population continues to demand more miles of roads than budgets could conceivably maintain. Framing this as a moral issue doesn't really make sense. If our goal is to fix potholes we can, but the bill for fixing all potholes
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by m0llusk 4y ago
What technology? What use? The piece starts with a relatively straightforward value play being cast as not web3 enough. What even does that mean? And we are not supposed to talk about it, just let it crash around us like a wave?
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by m0llusk 4y ago
It seems like one of the big still largely unsolved problems here is that of connection among units. Even very compact cities sprawl out and have constant contact with markets through transportation. Having relatively easy connections bet
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by m0llusk 4y ago
It is interesting that changing military capacities have changed the impact of geography on politics and war. What really gets me are some of the things that have not changed. Resources make nations weak. Interconnection with other nation
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This is awful. He starts with people giving away money and wanting it to do the most good rather than be wasted and goes from there to trollies running over people, leaving drowning kids to die, butchering people for their organs, and bull
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Nifty, but that font rendering burns my eyes. Might it workout both technically and philosophically to pipe all the text output through LaTeX or some similar thing?
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Remote is cheaper and there is a squeeze happening.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
An alternative to high pay from corporate work is high pay from your own work.
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Love of money, to be specific. Asceticism is a thing.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
They tried to connect people, but that didn't make money. So they pivoted to ads, but that didn't bring steady growth. So they fueled participation with tools like the Like button which stoked conflict from the start. Had they
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Seems like a lot of sloppiness supported more by attitude than evidence. > ... there is very little resistance now to the assertion that COVID was manufactured in a biolab. Those responsible for making it are responsible for the millions
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Hiring in the law sector has been trending down for some years now. Law is one of the only sectors of the economy that has a thriving market for services that help lawyers get out of legal work. It can be good for some people, but it can
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Another example might illustrate the difference better: When Steve Jobs returned to Apple he found extremely diverse product offerings intended to offer solutions optimized for features and cost to all segments of the small computer market
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by m0llusk 4y ago
> ... business ... purpose is ... to survive, and ... to maximise profit ... That is kind of like saying the purpose of human life is breathing. Yes, breathing is critical and fully integrated into existence, but there is so much more t
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Completely incurious? NYC has a lot of subway miles. This particular subway was repeatedly proposed and rejected as being too costly. And when it was finally built it turned out to be hugely expensive just as predicted. And now this unu
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Administration is a factor, but higher education is a stark example of cost disease even without that. Gathering to listen to presentations is an extremely inefficient way of transferring knowledge.
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The idea that we can do better and save money by ignoring context is utterly and shamefully stupid. This piece highlights the Second Avenue subway. That line was first proposed roughly a hundred years ago. It was decided then that the lev
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Time for some A/B testing!
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Until the Atlantic Ocean currents shut down or roll back at which point Europe freezes. Hopefully they get on top of their energy situation before that happens.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
The current economic implosion in China also brings the future of this station into question. One of Xi's biggest dreams for the future was his vision of the Xiong'An new city which has recently been abandoned after being only pa
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Editors were crufty and basic Build tools were low functioning and extremely obscure. Graphics were limited and handling color was hard. Fonts were a dark art as was sound. Even basic libraries had lots of gotchas and the common to interfa
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by m0llusk 4y ago
From the perspective of a small business person complexity is a big deal. Amazon has amazing services with more than a hundred cloud products for tuning every aspect of a web site. But it is possible to get something going on Linode or Di
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So this means it is only a matter of time before my LEGO Mindstorm sets are bricked?
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This piece has some extreme assertions. That the US housing market is in bad shape is an extremely slanted statement. Housing prices being hugely inflated is causing huge damage to the poor and middle class, is greatly exacerbating inflatio
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The usual thing is to start with ideas about what might be possible. Then hone understanding to narrow possibilities to what is probable and use that to form a hypothesis that can be tested. Deciding from the start that simple causality wit
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There seems to be a fundamental problem with the logic here. It is asserted that because the COVID pandemic had a huge impact that the cause must be investigated, but if the origin was zoonotic then the origin may remain ambiguous and even

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