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by mempko 5y ago
And just to clarify, the underlying hypothesis is correct. And your conclusion is also correct.
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by mempko 5y ago
Highest eviction rates in the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0qf0dv6jjE
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by mempko 5y ago
It's not pessimistic, just a fact of the R&D process. Public takes the risk, reward is privatized. Otherwise the VC model wouldn't work since most research doesn't fall within the horizon of a VC fund's lifetime.
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by mempko 5y ago
I'm trying to create a more balanced view. Andreessen made a claim that is completely false. > Moderna, a product of the American venture capital system -- Andreessen Where is he talking about the importance of government grants?
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by mempko 5y ago
Ok, but ... https://seekingalpha.com/news/3609955-moderna-failed-to-disc... And Derrick Rossi's research was publicly funded which led to creation of Moderna... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by mempko 5y ago
>Moderna, a product of the American venture capital system Moderna got a government grant to do the mRNA work didn't they? Seems a product of public investment. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/years-of-
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by mempko 5y ago
Makes me think of David Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs. In it he notes that people in power try to get as many underlings as possible whether it's useful for the company or not. I wonder if management has felt "out of control&q
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by mempko 5y ago
Yes! I guess I should be more precise thanks. It's a myth the tech world propagates to the general public. Updated my original comment.
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by mempko 5y ago
Read, Debt the First 5000 years by David Graeber. Which outlines what markets are really about. Markets are a tool for the government to provision itself. The government creates markets. The myth that markets were created because barter was
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by mempko 5y ago
A big myth often told in the tech world that things are developed by startups using private equity. We often forget the large and dynamic public sector. Biggest "VC" in the world is DARPA and other US government entities. EDIT: I
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by mempko 5y ago
The biodiversity is going down because of habitat loss (global warming, human encroachment). How will cloning help when there won't be a habitat to sustain the clones? Global warming alone will destroy the vast majority of habitat for
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by mempko 5y ago
You are assuming there is a neutral third party. Yes, the comparison does strengthen Putin's propaganda machine. But not mentioning it strengthens the US propaganda machine. You are picking sides either way.
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by mempko 5y ago
You should look into the Democracy at Work movement. https://www.democracyatwork.info/ EDIT: Just downvoting. No opinions about the above?
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by mempko 5y ago
Paul Graham, The Fierce Nerd Eater. Feed him fierce nerds. Many will be chewed and spit out. Some will succeed. Like highly competitive athletes (even more so, some become billionaires!). Those spit out need help with mental health. Or mayb
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by mempko 5y ago
Let's replace that phrase with past economic systems. 'The same thing happens in nature too. Feudalism isn't the cause of everything you don't like'. or how about 'The same thing happens in nature too. Slavery
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by mempko 5y ago
I don't know, seems a lot of wars start from USA after WW2. The US is an empire and those bases are there to protect the empire, not the countries they sit in.
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by mempko 6y ago
He didn't start Tesla. And you can thank NASA for funding SpaceX. In both cases you can thank generous government subsidies for keeping his businesses afloat until they started making money. Let's also thank the thousands of engin
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by mempko 6y ago
I am using Sailfish OS with Sony XA2. It's my daily driver and has been for years. Jolla still releases updates with new features and UI fixes. They also have been upgrading their Android support and most of the apps I care about work
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by mempko 6y ago
Yes, but what about all the jobs that don't pay severance?
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by mempko 6y ago
The only ones who made a 'power play' were DHH and Jason. They made it clear they don't want employee input, criticism.
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by mempko 6y ago
Exactly. Health insurance in US will tie people down even if they want to leave. For example.
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by mempko 6y ago
Didn't realize authoritarianism is a principle we really should be rewarding.
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by mempko 6y ago
Cui bono. Who does HR and external lawyers serve?
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by mempko 6y ago
And yet there was a prompt visit to HR. The text is also clearly redacted, so we actually don't know what the original said.
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by mempko 6y ago
"Especially because work involves all sorts of delicate power balances already." -- DHH The Democracy at Work movement advocated by Richard Wolff seems to be a solution to the problem. But "no committees" rule they just
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by mempko 6y ago
Seems Mondragon does just fine. > cooperatives tend to last longer and are less susceptible to perverse incentives and other problems of organizational governance than more traditionally managed organizations. https://en.wikip
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by mempko 6y ago
It's entirely cultural. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.
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by mempko 6y ago
> which is very much a political and left-wing stance Then I have to ask, is it then a political and right-wing stance NOT to ask these questions?
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by mempko 6y ago
There is nothing in Asian brains that makes them different than non-Asian brains. SAT does not capture people's innate ability but something else.
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by mempko 6y ago
For any given decision you make, you either only affect yourself or you can affect others. Similarly there are people making decisions that could affect you. In the situation where a decision could affect you, wouldn't you want to part

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