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by manachar 10y ago
From my perspective on Maui I think the fate of this factory shows a problem for any business. Had they modernized their equipment and methods years ago when profits were good, they very likely could have continued to operate at a profit an
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by manachar 10y ago
That would be a fantastic way to learn history! Only thing I'd add is that the written historical record only tells part of the story and can often get amazing insights from other sources such as the material record (i.e. archaeology).
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by manachar 10y ago
This idea that politics or partisanship is something new to the modern world is fascinating. I see it constantly among people that have little exposure to actual historical documents. I suspect its origin is a bit of nostalgia for the &quot
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by manachar 10y ago
Everyone rich enough should be able to murder one person without jail time? Is that a world you want to live in?
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by manachar 10y ago
Because private industry clearly has managed to avoid any security breaches? For the last ~5 years the only credit card that hasn't been reissued before the expiration date because of some large corporate data breach is the one I never
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by manachar 10y ago
You left out the interstate system, one of the largest public works projects of American history with lasting economic, social, and political impact. Big money does change stuff, it can just be really hard to determine what exactly it will
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by manachar 10y ago
Good for news and raw info - REALLY bad at analysis.
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by manachar 10y ago
Relying on the passions of benevolent billionaires seems like a really bad idea. Sure, I'm happy when they decide to do good, but they also do a fair bit of bad.
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by manachar 10y ago
Spreading true (well, at least less wrong) information is a noble goal. Unfortunately, I'm not sure we're not seeing such information availability providing avenues towards a smarter, more progressive planet. Instead, the internet
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by manachar 10y ago
History is almost always more complicated than people's narratives. Narratives are a model. Some are more accurate than others, but ultimately all of them are just models which simplify history (sometimes in verifiably false ways).
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by manachar 10y ago
Sometimes I wonder if VR is building Plato's Cave or revealing more of the way out of it. The more we learn about humans the more its clear our narratives and "real world" are at least partial figments of our imagination. We
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by manachar 10y ago
I get a little uncomfortable that a private company with as much power as Google is in the position to try to determine what is a legitimate news source and what is a fake news site. This issue goes well beyond left vs. right. Leftist fake
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by manachar 10y ago
Clinton did not get the majority by that much. A very significant portion of the public voted for this leader and the party espousing similar anti-science position all the way down the ticket.
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by manachar 10y ago
The amount that money dictates outcome in matters of law should frighten us to the core.
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by manachar 10y ago
This seems like a natural way to monetize instagram for accounts that I follow. I would take this over ads any day. If I like a business enough to follow them on instagram, then I won't mind being able to purchase something from the ac
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by manachar 10y ago
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Nosferatu-Silent-Max-Schreck/dp/B001O... https://www.amazon.com/Blowup-Vanessa-Redgrave/dp/B000I157KO https://www.amazon.com/Knife-Water-Le
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by manachar 10y ago
One thing that is impressive about YouTube versus other social media platforms has been YouTube's willingness to help content creators to make money. There's a path for people with a minimum of marketing savvy to start making reve
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by manachar 10y ago
Assuming it never gets released (never is a VERY long time), I'd rather get a documentary on how it failed to get made.
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by manachar 10y ago
I had a professor who gave up a good job at Harvard because he was tired of losing his best students to investment banking. It wasn't a field in any way directly related to business or finance, but Harvard students are highly recruited
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by manachar 10y ago
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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by manachar 10y ago
An interesting twist on free speech on the internet is that almost all speech on the internet is being done on private companies' websites. No private company is considered required to promote or protect free speech. Each forum is able
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by manachar 10y ago
Yeah, until the glowing rectangle problem goes away I'm not going to be too thrilled about digital frames.
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by manachar 10y ago
It got growing up poor better than many others. To see all the other kids stuffing themselves with candy and to be left out of that society just because of a lack of money - that was such a great visceral scene to watch growing up.
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by manachar 10y ago
"Water shoots into the cylinders at a pressure of 70 atmospheres and is pushed through the membranes, while the remaining brine is returned to the sea." I've heard this brine can have a pretty negative ecological impact, I wo
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by manachar 10y ago
"Counter-intuitively, a state is required to maintain individual liberty, I think." Why is this counterintuitive to so many people? This was one of the prime reasonings by almost all Enlightenment-era thinkers for the reason for a
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by manachar 10y ago
All of those are international actions. While the people in other countries impacted by these actions had no direct method to prevent the US government actions, the people making these choices do not have unchecked power. All of these actio
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by manachar 10y ago
It doesn't fall flat, it just (potentially) shows a net benefit for most. You've also narrowed the debate to a purely materialistic benefit (.i.e. more things cheaper) while taking a broader view of the whole class of people at a
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by manachar 10y ago
That would be helpful. It's not always easy to know which innovation is actually a net benefit. Leaded gasoline was a superior fuel in many respects but was clearly a fraudulent mistake (it was sold with false assurances of safety). Ev
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by manachar 10y ago
This comment reminds me of the various (likely apocryphal) laws when cars were still new and shared the road with cars. Cars we considered the new weird thing that needed to take special steps to not spook horses or their riders/driver
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by manachar 10y ago
I understand the insistence. Here in the US, people think "It's just a theory" is a legitimate refutation of evolution. Shorthand terms can shape the debate in wasteful ways. By always ensuring you use the correct terms and t

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