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by netcan 5y ago
Sure, but i'm not even talking about externalities or 2nd order effects. I'm talking about first order effects. Google, FB, JPM, etc. achieve 350% growth over 5 years. OK. Does that mean they produce 350% as much utility? If these
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by netcan 5y ago
Testing prevailing hypotheses, in this sense, is a treacherous game. Number of business starts, IPOs, patents and most attempted refinements of such measures are very crude measures. For example, Cowen later softened some of his positions
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by netcan 5y ago
True, but writing has many forms of hero culture. Tolkien doesn't need a nobel, neither does Kafka. They became heroes regardless.
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by netcan 5y ago
Those are the article's examples, not mine.
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by netcan 5y ago
>>They're not the markers of exceptional genius we want to think they are, not for Turing or Einstein, but not for anyone at all, really. The point isn't to prove that they're special. The point is that something specia
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by netcan 5y ago
One thing "The EU" can do is provide demand. If they want to promote ethereum, IPFS, or WebRTC... use them for their activities in an open way. One real difficulty here is the ability of open systems people to communicate, lobby,
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by netcan 5y ago
Please relax. You don't have to leave your politics out of it, but you can't just start slinging it around belligerently. Stick to context. Be polite.
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by netcan 5y ago
There are modern species of snakes with vestigial legs today, pythons, boas... Leglessness in lizards not very uncommon. It evolves regularly, before and after the snake lineage likely originates. One species of such creatures became the an
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by netcan 5y ago
Don't forget the tragic way society later betrayed him.
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by netcan 5y ago
A typical medieval depiction of a great siege might be one king and two or three famous knights with a ladder assaulting a 5 foot castle manned by another king and a knight. Distilling stories to a handful of characters seems to make it eas
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by netcan 5y ago
Just the references here are probably an amazing resource for early computer science, and I'm not going to argue against such a force. Seems to be a lot of uneasiness, of late, about the way credit is allocated in science. IMO, it&#x27
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by netcan 5y ago
This is more about "barbarian" as a concept than dairy, IMO. No use trying to define it specifically, the word cannot be separated from its snobbery. In any case, almost every non modern piece of human culture comes from barbarian
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by netcan 5y ago
IIRC, this was already the standard story of snake evolution. I believe the remaining mystery revolves around which lineage they evolved from. Skinks, monitors and I believe Plesiosaurs are proposed as possibilities... At present, there a
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't disagree in the abstract. Massive entry costs and all sorts of structures can and do obstruct the "as intended" mechanics a lot of the time. It's a struggle to term the revenue dynamics of an Alphabet, FB or JP
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by netcan 5y ago
It's interesting how we all project a moral position, in defining what sits across from elites... representing everyone else. The blog puts a lot of weight on prestige and attention, celebrity in it's expert-elite division. &quot
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by netcan 5y ago
There's a certain kind of innocence to this. "Elites" are one half of many popular dichotomies, and the term takes a lot of meaning from whatever it's being compared to. Elite is a morally evocative term, and that tends
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by netcan 5y ago
Advertising exists, and I have no problem talking about that as a whole. "Paid influencing" is <1% of that near trillion dollar market. The real meat is divided between giants like Google and FB. They own the platforms, dictate
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by netcan 5y ago
precisely and concise.
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by netcan 5y ago
>> they (Google & FB) didn’t add those things because they wanted to. They added them because their platforms would be banned from Europe if they didn’t. These regulatory environments, including european countries, merge regulator
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by netcan 5y ago
Whether or not these influencers should have to label ads is one thing. But... I'll note how "little guy" regulation works relative to major players. You don't see court, legislature decisions, or such upending the busin
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by netcan 5y ago
It depends a lot on the era. A lot happened in 5, 10 years. 1916 was a far more edgy group than those who actually gained power and popularity later. Once Irish independence became the political issue, the country did divide along relig
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by netcan 5y ago
I agree that its forced, with 100 years of hindsight. ATT though, political-religious stuff was a major deal. Irish republicanism succeeded by delineating dividers across all the major lines. Republican-Monarchist, Nationalist-Unionist, Gae
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by netcan 5y ago
>> somehow Cuba managed to make it work with the Soviets History is complicated, but cuba is a caution tale as much as it is existence proof. Being Soviet-allied near the US during and after all that conflict hasn't been a smooth
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Another, perhaps more notable example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Soviet
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by netcan 5y ago
The "tech company" monicker is increasingly nondescript, but any kind of classification needs context to be useful. These big guys, at present, aren't doing obvious head-2-head competition in well defined market categories. F
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by netcan 5y ago
It depends on context. Here, the context appears to be a somewhat arbitrary selection of published algorithms. All they've really determined is that at least 94% are not ready to replace radiologists. That's pretty much confirmati
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by netcan 5y ago
Interesting read. Re: the former half of the blog... I know this is "obvious," but reading it just now has made all sorts of lights go on in my mind. It's as if software projects start perfect, getting infested with bugs and
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by netcan 5y ago
So... here in Ireland we're pretty open to immigration, both culturally and bureaucratically. English speaking, and Dublin has many of London's advantages on a more modest scale. The bottleneck here is housing, office space and su
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by netcan 5y ago
I think this is OP's point... Bureaucratic nastiness is only half the game.
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by netcan 5y ago
I love the way this is written. It's like the author, as a scientist, is in the service of humanity. The tone, language, the tongue in cheek apology... Something very noble and approachable to it. Good job. Find that planet for us! We

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