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by netcan 7y ago
We've ended up with thousands of lost airline jobs regardless. They aren't paying salaries while flights are grounded. Jobs are ultimately proportional to the number of people flying. More flights, more jobs. I appreciate that peo
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by netcan 7y ago
Got a link to Levine's post?
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by netcan 7y ago
For the sake of argument.... What happens if no airline gets any bail-out money? Do we end up with worse air travel in a year or two?
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by netcan 7y ago
a great time for Amazon or Google to buy Lyft ...What would they do with it? The business model (also uber) as-is makes a loss. Uber/Lyft's initial proposition was that once ride sharing incumbents were established, they'd
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by netcan 7y ago
Bucheight
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by netcan 7y ago
The "class divide" rhetoric re:amazon doesn't go anywhere good, imo. The corporate lesson being learned here is "be like uber," don't ever do mass unemployment directly. Is the goal to "ban" the tech
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by netcan 7y ago
Do you mean the literal salt, or the destruction? I've often wonder about the salt. The salt ritual (or figure of speech) originates in the eastern Mediterranean, which is why it features in the bible. Being Israeli, I always figured t
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by netcan 7y ago
Ah. makes sense.
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by netcan 7y ago
In some sense, if these things didn't ever happen then it would be a sign that VC is broken. They're not supposed to be investing in sure things.
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by netcan 7y ago
Don't forget Phoenicians, Assyrians & such. They were the local cultures. Those others were imperial rulers.
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by netcan 7y ago
I dunno if it's disingenuous, but it is kinda clunky.
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by netcan 7y ago
Marhabat. This particular list is pretty strict on the "continuous" criteria. I guess when the Romans plowed salt into it, continuity was broken, for the purposes of this list. Carthage does make this list. https://en
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by netcan 7y ago
Jericho might interest you then. It's an oasis city, with a very distinctive view of surrounding hills. The most ancient structures are from 9kya, and the city existed in a lot of forms since that point. I believe the current city stre
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by netcan 7y ago
In the early 90s, I lived in a US apartment complex and went to schools with a lot of recent Russian migrants. Three times a week all the Russian kids were rounded up for "Russian Math," taught by, Arkady... my friend Mike's
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by netcan 7y ago
...and other nonlinear cause-effect things. Working from home is a "benefit," and it can be demanded by developers with more leverage. They can also demand more money.
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by netcan 7y ago
The music was new, black polished chrome / And came over the summer like liquid night The DJ's took pills to stay awake / And play for seven days Andreesen's 'Software Eats The World,' Mosaic & associated
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by netcan 7y ago
What is the positive criteria? Who gets aid, and how is the amount calculated? It's somewhat surprising that foreign company would be eligible at all. Also, I'm skeptical of "common sense rules" being effectively impleme
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by netcan 7y ago
That's a good thing, but lingering emergency laws are not the full extent of the risk. The risk is largely related to changing perceptions and standards for what is normal, beyond the pales & such. Once something has been done wide
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by netcan 7y ago
Well, that seems to be the analogy the judge saw... and common law works by analogy. Analogies and metaphors break though.. when stacked too high or precariously. Here we stack the segregation analogy and the metaphor of "corporation
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by netcan 7y ago
The term "capitalism" is a mind-trap, vaguely encompassing everything.. carrying in political baggage but adda almost no actual information.
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by netcan 7y ago
Just because people believe in a scientific theory doesn't mean they don't believe in science. They don't technically even have to know about science. In practice though, most evolution skeptics don't believe in science.
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by netcan 7y ago
This is the opposite of what I meant. Darwinism is is a scientific theory par excellence. A lot of that "testable predictions" philosophy of science was inspired by darwinism. First, a scientific theory doesn't need to make
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by netcan 7y ago
Whatever the specific case here, I think we're hitting some sort of epistemological point with after-the-fact data analysis. Pseudoscience, basically. I realise that the term is inflammatory but ultimately it comes down to some fundame
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by netcan 7y ago
That's a little extreme, but they've certainly sucked the air out of the room. That said, I think we need to watch for this kind of demonisation... especially as we don't really have mature ideas on the alternative/solut
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by netcan 7y ago
Facebook was the next Google, Google the next Microsoft. Analogies are never perfect, but that's what I meant. The next big thing, in terms of cash returns to early/mid investors. For the purposes of this argument "next Twitt
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by netcan 7y ago
It doesn't rule it out in any particular case. It just makes it rarer in the population, so to speak. Sure, people can make whatever choices they want and wants vary. However, people make the economic choices on average. If these are i
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by netcan 7y ago
This, in a nutshell, demonstrates where the internet has gone awry. Wikipedia is hard to monetize, but it's still a "big thing." Luckily, it's organised in a way that doesn't require S&P 500 revenue targets. The
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by netcan 7y ago
I think a big part of the problem here is the cultural adaption. There's the covid microcosm, and the multi-decade macrocosm. We still don't fully know how remote work should work. That said, the various grades of "enterprise
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by netcan 7y ago
Initial peopling, or oldest known genetic ancestors of current individuals. Take Israel or Morocco as a comparative example. There were sapiens there before Neanderthals, but they are not thought to be ancestral to any modern people. The
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by netcan 7y ago
Those dates are in flux recently. As is the pattern in discoveries of our very ancient history... the story gets more complicated as we go. The fallacy that, IMO, we are falling into is (ironically) caused by scientific reductionism... the

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