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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
These are great questions and it'd be impossible to answer then all here satisfactorily. I'd recommend the book "Making Mondragón" for more in depth analysis of labor relations at the company, especially during the trans
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
I wouldn't quite call it "unfair". Credit unions worldwide tend to offer higher savings rates because they distribute their profits to depositors as interest yield instead of to shareholders as dividends.
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
Many of the most successful agricultural, banking, and insurance firms are cooperatives. They have a number of advantages over other corporate forms, but suffer from a legislative and regulatory environment that has become increasingly disc
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
Co-ops are rarer for three reasons, chiefly: 1. Less access to capital. Investors want to exchange capital for ownership. Co-ops oppose this model. There are alternative methods for raising cash (subordinated capital campaigns are a success
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
Because the CO2 cost of manufacturing a new ICE car is comparable to that of a new EV, but the lifetime CO2 contribution of a new EV is far lower than that of an ICE car.
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
One small nit: Nobody is advocating "throwing away 1 billion ICE vehicles". If you have a car that works, the environmentally responsible decision is -- unless it's an absurdly inefficient vehicle -- to keep using that car in
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
... or charging infrastructure companies would simply expand their offerings to meet demand, since expansion for them is comparatively cheap. That, at least to me, seems to be the more likely scenario. Also keep in mind that fueling behavio
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
Buy yuan or any other traded fiat currency from a friendly state. In other words, the same way people have dodged currency controls and sanctions since time immemorial.
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
The original vision has some questionable assumptions. Being deflationary by design practically guarantees speculation and undermines any utility as a currency. If broad adoption was an actual goal, cryptocurrencies wouldn't be fundame
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by monodeldiablo 4y ago
Rehabilitated an abandoned olive farm in Dalmatia, although all my income still comes from software consulting. 90% of the oil goes to family and friends. Burned out on startup hours and the hamster wheel of tech and realized I was barely s
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
Except as regards gay or abortion rights, military funding, and drug policy. Right? I know that's the case for every conservative I know, at least. They stand for those values in the abstract, as an ostensibly philosophy to undergird t
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
That characterization doesn't match my experience at all. You presume we all want to go in the same direction, but that our main disagreement is about speed. In my experience, the main source of political conflict is direction, not spe
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
Boiling frogs, man. Google Glass was just too sudden a change. Another decade of eroding our collective sense of privacy and boundaries means it might be more successful now than it was back when we still had some expectation of personal pr
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
> One thing particularly strange about climate change alarmists is that they are just so damn sure of all these horrible outcomes that are absolutely sure to happen. It's a shame you didn't quote more of my first sentence there
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
Cool! Now consider that almost every previous cycle of the IPCC report has missed its forecasted marks because it was too conservative . The IPCC report is the toned down, let's-not-rock-the-boat version of the scientific community&#x
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
> I haven't read anything yet that caused me to think it's a particularly large problem. Then you haven't read much. I suggest looking into the North Atlantic current, ENSO, ocean acidification, and long term forecasts of
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
Scotland and Portugal have had success in reducing crime rates by treating crime as a public health issue and focusing their efforts on prevention. If you're genuinely interested in how to build a less violent society, I'd suggest
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
Allow me to pile on here. I used to believe as you do. Then I was a little down on my luck and found myself living in a poor, high-crime neighborhood. It was a shocking for me. There were cops everywhere, but they somehow never managed to h
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by monodeldiablo 5y ago
I think you're defining innovation too narrowly. There are lots of social, political, and behavioral innovations in hunter gatherer societies that may not necessarily manifest as technological innovations, but are no less innovative or
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by monodeldiablo 6y ago
But if their peers are missing school, too, I'm not sure how that research is relevant. Is there research showing that, when the whole class misses in person school, there's appreciable damage done? Allow me a counter example: M
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by monodeldiablo 6y ago
There's no way to get the information you desire without Big Brother level tracing. And even then the error bars are huge. Symptoms set in days after exposure, and transmission is uneven at best. Full disclosure: I've had covid. W
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by monodeldiablo 6y ago
I'd have thought so, too... except that I regularly speak with Brexiters. Cognitive dissonance is very real.
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by monodeldiablo 6y ago
We're unable to grow our population largely because of that unprecedented wealth. Children are no longer seen as an insurance policy, and young people are better educated, choosier about their partners, and more likely to utilize bir
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by monodeldiablo 6y ago
> What happens when active people are 1/3rd of the population or less and there are no more easy gains to be had? Old people retire, opening up jobs for younger workers. Old people die, freeing up housing stock and capital and tax m
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by monodeldiablo 6y ago
Giordano's is crap. Lou Malnati's is where it's at. Seriously, though: First chance we got, the wife and I fled Chicago. Great hospitality, fun culture and reasonable diversity (for the Midwest), but the weather is awful but
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by monodeldiablo 6y ago
I live in Croatia. Its population has been shrinking since 1991. Almost 30 years of unchecked population decline and it's still not an apocalyptic hellhole. In spite of entrenched corruption and other issues, standards of living and wa
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by monodeldiablo 6y ago
American here, and I'm pretty sure the poster you're replying to is also a product of American society. Once I moved to Europe, the shift in social norms was shocking. Now it's difficult for me to go back to the US because ev
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by monodeldiablo 7y ago
Travel by plane is orders of magnitude safer than by car. Your odds of dying in a traffic accident are close to 1:100. Your odds of dying in an air accident are closer to 1:10,000. If anything, I think your example underlines just how valua
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by monodeldiablo 7y ago
Gardener/mechanical sculptor/independent researcher

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