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by netcan 5y ago
>>lacking a crucial ingredient for our continued evolution: the ability to align our actions (and motivations, and rewards), on a societal scale. I don't think these are contradictory statements. Our society is both defined and l
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Taking this more meta, and possibly utopian... Collective action, or rather, any effective form of organisation is (arguably) the limiting factor on human progress. Corporation, country, tribe, union... all forms of organisation. These are
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depends on the scale of your tax bill
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I would love to hear the "underpants planning" of self driving cars iterated, critiqued and discussed. Telsa's underpants plan appears to be (still?): [1] Base self driving software on affordable components that already exist
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"liability engineering" perhaps.
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Being litigious and earning revenue from non-practicing patent ownership are fairly intertwined. Being a new company with no history is, likely, strategic. Patent wars between practicing entities tend to be multi-front. Each side brings its
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No declaration, code or whatnot stands alone. We can always loophole or interpret our way around constitutions and things. Look at religion. Even an absolute, no exception statement doesn't guarantee anything absolutely. It needs more.
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>> Typically, the real evaluation is the market. Typically in what sense? I don't think there's much history of success from consumer/student "action." Market discipline exists where and when it exists. It&#x2
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So first, looking at recent decades' experience doesn't seem to support a "arms profiteering = victory" correlation. Second, historically... actively curbing private profiteering has generally been considered a crucial p
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I don't think it's correct to generalize this for most of the curriculum. Most people do learn some math skills. Many kids learn more than the basics. Obviously experiences vary. Yes, there are a lot of out-of-classroom factors.
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Interesting read. I think there is some parallel to "secondary school languages." If you compare secondary school (or k-12) language programs, you will find a vast range of outcomes. Vast. In one context, kids acquire usable langu
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Maybe I don't understand still. I wasn't disagreeing with your point. I was adding to it. I agree that if spotify annoy listeners with ads, they'll go elsewhere. Podcasts, unlike music, are (were?) a mostly free media... as i
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>> why not just use another service instead of Spotify for podcasts? So... Spotify have been buying popular podcasts outrights and signing exclusivity deals. Those are only on spotify now.
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Malls, seemingly, aren't a forever thing. Some malls might have "old market square" longevity to them, bit that's the exception. Most have 2-3 decades of prime followed by several more of decline and/or other kinds
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>> Same goes for reserves, that money isn't just dropped out of a helicopter with no strings attached, all that money introduced is backed by a commitment to repay it. This is true. However, the second half of this isn't alw
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Both true. I'd even say that "theories," is probably the wrong term. More "school of thought." I would also point out that the USD/EUR/GPM/Yen/etc are "run under MMT" in the basic sen
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The acolytes of MMT ? Sheesh! How come anything touching on "what is money" gets goofy immediately? Most of the world's monetary systems have been run under Monetarist theories for 40-ish years. Theory is now entirely at odd
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Every time I read one of these articles on modern antitrust, I get frustrated by the laws themselves. Win or lose on the case, I don't think they do much. Everything seems to be based on a marginalist theory/formalisation of what
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This article puts its finger on some interesting questions. Circa 1930, when Agatha's domestic servant was an affordable basic but a car was not, JM Keynes famously predicted a 15 hr workweek. His productivity and GDP growth projectio
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Or the reverse... price drops make people more open to "crypto is bullshit" arguments.
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Practical applications are circumstantial. Do you have a way of utilising or storing electricity/heat? If so, either are more efficient than not doing so. For example, if it's cold where you live and the heating is usually running
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>>Each of those is a successful tech company in their own right. I disagree. None are another revenue stream. Android/YouTube/etc pull a low of weight for the AdWords business but (a) those were acquisitions and (b) they don
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Whatever is going on with the >$1trn club's ideas for cracking that next ceiling... it's all quite opaque. "Let a thousand flowers bloom" failed, but at least we had a grasp of what's going on. It was a bet on th
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That's drab, IMO. Plenty of ways to interpret that sentence more charitably. How about "we" meaning "we the people of our time."
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I'll not argue that "who" matters. The sense in which stupidity and creativity are neighbors is the difference between expertise and qualifications. I didn't mean that stupid people are more creative. Where unqualified
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Sure. OTOH, I think cryptocynicism may be blinding us to the possibility of doing exactly what this hapless bunch did, but actually ending up owning the copyright to something... as they intended. The road from there to something noteworthy
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This is, obviously, silly. There are a lot of silly cryptostuff. Silliness aside though, this highlights a point to me. Methods of organising are (1) very important (2) relatively undiverse (3) hard to create out of whole cloth. The creatio
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A cover letter is a screen too. A cover letter is a kind of writing contest, or maybe it's perceived that way by a candidate. Writing about yourself can be stressful. I'm not saying not to, ask for a cover letter. Just saying that
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Hiring companies might prefer to just have this as a "hoop." There are, inevitably, some people who apply to a lot of jobs. Jobs they aren't qualified for. Low intent applications, where the applicant isn't really that
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Possibly, depending on what the question is. My point wasn't that an analogy to commercial businesses should be made, but that since an analogy is being made...

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