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by openrisk 2y ago
Arguably yes, though it varies by domain. The closest equivalent to the internet would seem to be printed information technology (books, journals, newpapers etc.). While certainly not without problems of all sorts, there are so many lessons
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by openrisk 2y ago
The writing is clearly on the wall for the "internet" as there is no visible restoring force. If its not dead already, its getting pretty close. It is a sort of tragedy of the digital commons, where the commons in this instance is
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by openrisk 2y ago
Trying to understand consumer privacy behaviors outside the prevalent social contract that the vast majority of people operate under is bound to missinterpret what is happening and why. We live in a regulated "supermarket" economy
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by openrisk 2y ago
What if they gave a digital revolution and nobody came? Interesting mental exercise to put ourselves 50 years into the future and examine who, why and to what effect adopted what kind of digital technology...
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The relativistic version of the Maxwell equations simplifies them to a ridiculous degree but the price to pay is yet another layer of mathematical abstraction and fewer opportunities for intuitive visualization
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by openrisk 2y ago
Markets are now "de-globalizing" in real time but that is less relevant for startups. Any entity that is now a "global" multi-national had to grow into that status at some point in their lifecycle. That trajectory is muc
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by openrisk 2y ago
People attribute differences in the enterpreneurial landscape between the US and European countries to cultural factors (aka some "abnormal" risk aversion) but consider the possibility the difference is actually the rational stan
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by openrisk 2y ago
In transactional financial markets "friends" is not the right word, but there is something to be said about more or less effective alignment of interests and that is purely a matter of design. There is more than enough money slosh
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by openrisk 2y ago
This thinking links to how corporate debt has being valued theoretically, starting with the work of Merton [1], by looking at debt as an option with non-linear payoff. The borrower can put the busted assets to the lender. In practice there
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by openrisk 2y ago
Constraints (to the degree they are not debilitating) can trigger creativity, unlock efficiency and sharpen problem solving skills. Abundance is better than scarcity but it can lead to bloat and waste. With strong discipline and a value sys
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by openrisk 2y ago
An interesting question is how much of ancient greek music might be still with us (without being explicitly identified as such). With the collapse of the ancient world and the spread of Christianity in the Eastern Med various elements of th
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by openrisk 2y ago
Something that will surely play a role in the continuation of C++ as a key mainstream language is the degree to which is can selectively adopt features that made newer languages more attractive. Its not so much about deep design features or
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by openrisk 2y ago
Maybe its all relative (i.e., versus what other central banks have done in response to the same shocks). In any case the post-pandemic interest rate hikes are recent. There seems to be a much longer term (decades long) dollar strengthening
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by openrisk 2y ago
Indeed the definition is somewhat of an extrapolation. Product complexity defined in this way probably misses on intricate supply chain dependencies too. E.g., EUV lithography is essential for modern chips, but it is produced by ASML in NL
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by openrisk 2y ago
Personal computing has stagnated for such a long time, it creates substantial uncertainty about what state it might evolve to if and when the next step actually happens. In this respect local LLM's are simply the tip of the iceberg, po
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by openrisk 2y ago
The fact that fuel prices is the US are like 2.5x lower than Europe may also have contributed to the oversizing trend. You would think twice about gratuitously moving around a multi-ton behemoth if it actually hurt you economically.
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its possible that we simply havent evolved yet the mental faculties to reconcile them. After all none of these theories were around even like 200 years ago - we had in fact no clue whatsoever about any of that stuff. Mathematics is an evolv
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by openrisk 2y ago
It is interesting that competition seems to come from another mid-sized city (Nashville) rather than a return to megacities. There are plenty of such smaller cities and if there is indeed a move away from 10mln+ sized cities toward 1mln+ si
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by openrisk 2y ago
> It's a CS fantasy that evaporates as soon as you start doing experiments The interesting bit (pun) is that this seems to be a recurring pattern. Whenever there is a intellectual revolution that establishes new ways of thinking &#x
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by openrisk 2y ago
Given that the P and G initials (property graph) coincidentally match the commonly used Postgres abbreviation (pg) I would hope/wish that that ecosystem too develops a very strong GQL proposition. A reference "dual mode" SQL&
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by openrisk 2y ago
Thanks for the pointers. Nonlocal cellular automata do not seem to be an active area but I did find one old publication by Wentian Li. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
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by openrisk 2y ago
The island of La Palma in the Canaries archipelago pioneered the idea of a "dark skies" law back in 2007. It seems to have worked. It still houses most of Europe's active research observatories. https://www.starlig
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by openrisk 2y ago
Over the years there must have been countless interesting generalizations of Life. I wonder if there is good concise reference that classifies and groups the main ideas that have been proven "productive", in the sense that they op
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Biology is interesting and intellectually attractive without having to try too hard but the way it is typically taught is off-putting for the more mathematical types. Which is a pity. Biology is the very definition of complexity science and
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Various programming paradigms (modular programming, object-oriented, functional, test-driven etc) have developed to reduce precisely this cognitive load. The idea being that it is easier to reason and solve problems that are broken down int
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by openrisk 2y ago
Yes, the real sustainability problem is multifaceted and far more profound than the focus on fossil fuel induced climate change. But for me the currently near single-minded focus on the latter subset has some redeeming virtues: i) it is an
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Just one hundred years ago tourism was only available to a tiny elite. Like with all goods and services provisions that have been scaled exponentially in the mean time, the problem is that there is poor accounting and management of side-eff
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by openrisk 3y ago
Is it surprising that a macroeconomic model of this type is surprised by large scale convulsions in the economy? The combination of a pandemic and rapidly deteriorating geopolitics is a compound external shock that does not exist in its tra
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by openrisk 3y ago
This is insular attitude that will not serve well the open source desktop (and libreoffice in particular). Reasons to be annoyed by the "AI" emperor certainly abound, but one might get too distracted by distasteful mass hysteria p
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by openrisk 3y ago
The term "modeling" probably means different things in different research domains. I would expect on the one hand an effort to describe the conjectured dynamics with some detail and on the other hand a quantification and validatio

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