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by marnett 7y ago
There is a lot that remains unknown about the COVID-19 disease. Is it biphasic? Does it leave lung scarring or other chronic ailments? I think you are being very presumptuous as to the type of virus SARS-CoV-2 and disease COVID-19 are. Coul
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by marnett 7y ago
> points to the fact that Tom Hanks could get tested for coronavirus based on symtoms that were just like a cold as proof it's much easier to get tested in Australia than the US. I think this just points to the ease of being tested
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by marnett 7y ago
An example of exponential growth being a risk would be the risk of societal backlash when blue collar work is automated away at a large scale. And to GPs point, those reaping the rewards of the growth are not those impacted by the first or
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by marnett 7y ago
Having, gaining, and increasing investment builds wealth. My largest point is projecting a binary grouping like "have" and "have nots", which is typically used to delineate the poor and the not-poor is disingenuous. The
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by marnett 7y ago
> [...] we'd probably see even more of a culture of haves vs have nots in the investment world. There are no have nots in the investment world. The investment world, intuitively, is made up of have and have mores.
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by marnett 7y ago
thanks for sharing this - this is fascinating. Admittedly I have never been exposed to Control Theory before, so I see a rabbit hole in my future.
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by marnett 7y ago
This is profound and concise. Particularly that society/someone/something will make a plan out of you if you are without one.
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by marnett 7y ago
I heard somewhere, don’t remember where, but the easiest route to wealth, I heard, was simply to be born with it.
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by marnett 7y ago
How so?
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by marnett 7y ago
I find your first line about diminished ego very poetic. I very much enjoyed thinking that thought.
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by marnett 7y ago
food wishes is single handedly the most valuable cooking resource I have ever come across. cannot recommend enough.
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by marnett 7y ago
The electricity still has to be generated somewhere. That somewhere is usually quite far away (nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, coal/oil/natural gas powered facility). The generated energy now needs to be transmitted (via transmissio
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by marnett 7y ago
Thanks for that book recommendation - really appreciate it. I have been looking for a solid critical reference regarding the World Bank (and IMF, for that matter) for some time now. There were some allusions in Naomi Klein's The Shock
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by marnett 7y ago
I do not support the atrocities that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is committing against the people of Yemen (civilian death toll closing in on 100,000 [0]) with American purchased F-35 jets manufactured by Lockheed Martin. How can I, as a pe
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by marnett 7y ago
> Sorry, the average American are direct beneficiaries of the atrocities of the past This is true for most humans alive in nearly all nation-states today. At some point in the linear chain of humanity that allows my existence today, atro
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by marnett 7y ago
Ideally the foot soldiers in charge of implementing should have a background in ethics and morals; however, the change would be made by someone else. There might have been several resignations over this change - you do not have the full pic
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by marnett 7y ago
I'd consult goodreads.com (ownded by Amazon) to meet your criteria of matching experience with respect to genuine reviews, similar book recommendations, etc. It's not a flashy service by all means and has definitely been neglected
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by marnett 7y ago
I agree no one knows "the full extent", and I do not think we ever will. A lot of information is out there though - available as far back as the late 80s. A lot of this came out when Harold Blauer's [0] sued the U.S. governme
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by marnett 7y ago
browse goodreads! go to local author talks! go to a local book club ran by someone well-read! totally agree with the above supporting long form review publications like the new york/ london/ paris review of books; they typically w
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by marnett 7y ago
Consumer capitalism can not replace culture. I think that’s what your remarks about different bouroughs feeling alive was getting at.
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by marnett 7y ago
> Want to do something about climate change? Start with yourself I really dislike this line of thinking. I don’t manufacture millions of tons of concrete or millions of single-use plastic shampoo bottles. Our current path is irreversible
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by marnett 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this by the way. I actually checked out a published book of his (and associated) essay from my local library and read it just yesterday. His perspective against for-profit wars, yet lean towards defensive military spendin
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by marnett 7y ago
From an Individualistic perspective, as you loosely outlined, the US is unparalleled. However, from a collectivist perspective, which we are discussing in this thread, the US is empirically and emphatically bad.
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Also weapons technology!
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Wouldn’t a profit maximizing capitalist just invest in these unregulated pharmaceutical companies as opposed to starting an unprofitable pricing war?
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by marnett 7y ago
Removing the filler "uh" the sentence becomes "Like their purpose." Which could be semantically understood as "[I/He/They] Like (or enjoy) their (whale's song) purpose." A semantically ambiguous
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by marnett 7y ago
I am all for using a more casual voice when writing about a subject for an audience outside of that particular domain of expertise. However, "Like, uh, their purpose." is grammatically and semantically meaningless. I am for using
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by marnett 7y ago
Perhaps he delineates between practicing and playing? Maybe his friends conflated the two?
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by marnett 7y ago
China has manufacturing facilities and capacity that far exceed any other nation. This includes making high end products based on foreign designed specifications (I.e. iPhone). GP is saying that it is not if, but when, China will have attai
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by marnett 7y ago
to own a house in mountain view.

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