nradov

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   by nradov 3mo ago

   Wrong framing. Copyrights and patents have been around for far longer than 40 years. Eliminating IP enforcement rights would destroy economic growth. The media and entertainment industry is relatively small and unimportant. If you occasiona
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   by nradov 3mo ago

   Lack of those metals is one of the key limiting factors holding back the electrification and re-industrialization of the US economy.
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   by nradov 3mo ago

   These corporate fads always run in cycles. Any large organization needs some resource managers but what is the optimal span of control? What tends to happen is that businesses lay off a bunch of managers and flatten the hierarchy. This does
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   by nradov 3mo ago

   And yet the Toyota RAV4 hybrid is selling so fast in the USA that customers can barely find one at a dealership.
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   by nradov 3mo ago

   Is that why those civilizations ultimately collapsed?
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   by nradov 3mo ago

   Have we tried adding bacon?
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   by nradov 3mo ago

   Tough to control for all the confounding variables, though.
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   by nradov 3mo ago

   We don't need cigarettes but metals are a necessity. How would you prefer we get them?
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   by nradov 3mo ago

   FWIW, one of the executives working on seafloor mining claims that they'll only suck up a limited pattern of manganese nodules from the seafloor and leave the rest undisturbed. If we're going to have an industrial economy then we
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    We don't even have reliable biomarkers for aging in general so what would the endpoints for such an experiment be?
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    Fortunately this is not an actual problem which needs to be solved.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    Nah. There's not going to be a law which expropriates someone else's IP due to a third party's bankruptcy. Makes no sense at all.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    Regardless of side effects there is no reliable evidence that rapamycin slows aging in humans.
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    A Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way(wsj.com)

    3 points by nradov 3mo ago|0 comments
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    This is just straight up false. Apparently you don't understand bankruptcy law. Courts will prioritize the interests of creditors first. And the notion of a law requiring source code to be released in the public domain is so stupid. Th
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    Legal rights don't matter if the other party is ever liquidated, or otherwise unable to meet their obligations.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    Roman emperors routinely issued statements about how they were working so hard on behalf of their subjects that they barely had time to sleep. Evaluating the veracity of those statements is left as an exercise to the reader.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    We should all listen to guys like your boss. Circumstances have changed a bit but their beliefs are generally directionally correct and they have some great lessons to teach.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    I would be happy to pay to buy or rent a single show or movie. The problem is that a lot of that content is only available with a monthly subscription. Screw that, those monthly bills eat you alive. I hear that the For All Mankind series
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    So just watch something else. We have more video content available than anyone could possibly watch in a lifetime.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    The last thing we need is governments mandating software functionality.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    OK, and then what happens when the money runs out? EU bureaucrats might be able to seize existing wealth but they don't know how to set policies that create new wealth. Rather the opposite.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    If you think capitalism is bad then wait until you see how many more "bullshit jobs" are needed for socialism.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    That's not completely true. Delta Airlines became the most profitable of the four major US carriers specifically by focusing on an improved customer experience. This allowed them to charge slightly higher ticket prices, and led to incr
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    Right, people should just sit at home and be miserable. Fun is sinful.
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    But the bureaucrats and NGO employees who tell the rest of how to live will still be able to take unlimited flights to climate change conferences, right?
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    There was a bizarre case where a drunk Texan drove her Tesla into a pond, got trapped inside, and drowned. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68622898
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    Trying to shame people into scaling back their lifestyles isn't going to work. We need to approach the problem with a growth and abundance mindset to innovate our way to solutions. Regardless of the larger impacts or moral issues most
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    This video shows a Ukrainian F-16 doing just that along with reactions from a pair of experienced US fighter pilots. It seems they're shooting from closer than 3km. https://youtu.be/xuriiDzSB5k
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    by nradov 3mo ago

    North Korea is definitely part of the Russian bloc now. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypr5985ejo