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by openrisk 2y ago
If you think "ideal businessmen" can spend millions to influence political outcomes and overtly commingle public and private interests I question the integrity of your judgement and feel no burden whatsoever.
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by openrisk 2y ago
> To ensure that interest expense falls toward zero over time, Congress could instruct the U.S. Treasury to stop issuing anything with duration beyond a 3-mo T-bill. Voilà! It wouldn’t just save $2 trillion, it would save tens of trillio
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by openrisk 2y ago
sorry, the burden is on you to distinguish genuine business accomplishment from what others might suspect, less charitably, is excellence in crony capitalism [1],[2]. The Economist made a feeble effort to rank countries in this respect [3]
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by openrisk 2y ago
You might be onto something but we need a proper "evolutionary theory of bootlicking" before we get carried away. Its pretty clear that the all-too-common in space and time hierarchies, oligarchies, command-and-control pyramids et
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing changed the way people lived, how they thought, how they communicated Thousands of years later (with few cultu
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by openrisk 2y ago
That seems only partly true. We did already have punctuation marks (like !?) that are a form of picture writing to modulate the underlying alphabetic meaning. The smiley was invented because a pure alphabetic script does not do a good job e
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by openrisk 2y ago
not sure if its the server traffic or browser limitations but zooming and panning are quite slow and somewhat dent the awesomeness of this.
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Northvolt files for bankruptcy protection in blow to Europe's EV ambitions(theguardian.com)
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by openrisk 2y ago
It might be useful to check how linear regression, the first form of "AI" has eaten the world. Lets call its modern incarnation LLR (Large Linear Regression) for kicks. In LLR you fit a massive chunk of data, you do an interpolati
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by openrisk 2y ago
There is this long-running (and quite fascinating I think) debate about the different "types" of mathematical thinking. Logical vs Intuitive, Geometric vs Algebraic etc. Can't recall where exactly but I remember reading about
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by openrisk 2y ago
The article points out very nicely that it is expensive (in space terms) to have cars integrate safely with the pedestrian and bicycle traffic of dense urban areas. The mismatch in size and speed requires buffer zones that must be dedicat
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by openrisk 2y ago
Maybe they are special dispensers that keep working in sudden and unplanned low pressure conditions?
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by openrisk 2y ago
There is this element of abstract mathematical thinking that many young people get exposed to at some point in the educational system but just never "get it" and they disconnect. This is where it goes awry as the gap only widens l
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by openrisk 2y ago
Governments have been in recent decades completely hands off from anything tech related. For the longest time they followed the usual neoliberal economist trope that markets solve everything optimally. As a result they have created in the s
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by openrisk 2y ago
What is tragic is that digital life should be very much part of the awe of the living experience. We are extremely lucky to live in this new period where communication and information processing have undergone exponential evolution. The iss
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by openrisk 2y ago
If there is an auction for Chrome maybe the Onion could place a bid?
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by openrisk 2y ago
What if "worldviews" are simply a cheating mechanism invented by the brain to (ex-post) explain, organize and rationalize more innate responses? Hence, no point to try to deconstruct them because they have no internal consistency
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by openrisk 2y ago
If one of the most important innovations in tech in recent times cannot support itself without ads what is the future of tech (and why?)
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by openrisk 2y ago
> I wonder why others don't work for free too? You need to explain the billions of lines of open source code. > It's not possible to prove that something can't be done. This is just sophistry. Many "business models
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by openrisk 2y ago
You'd have to ask though, if the whole premise is so flawed, how come it has been the dramatic success it has been? There is nothing like this anywhere else in society. The only thing coming close might academic publishing (science) an
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by openrisk 2y ago
There have been countless proposals for alternative systems. Last-in, first-out from memory is holacracy [1] "Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and dec
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by openrisk 2y ago
Establishing linkages between ML and Differential Geometry is intriguing (to say the least). But I have this nagging sense that "data manifolds" are too rigidly tied to numerical representations for this program to flourish. Diffe
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by openrisk 2y ago
Economic arguments almost always apply strictly to idealized worlds where each individual calculates the pennies for each action etc. The degree to which such deductions apply to the real world varies. In this case large bureaucracies are e
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by openrisk 2y ago
Most large organizations are hugely bureucratic regardless of whether they are successful or not :-) In any case the prompt for the thread is somebody mentioning their (subjective) view that the deep hiearachy they were operating under, mad
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by openrisk 2y ago
well others seems to be getting the meaning (whether they agree or not is another matter), so you might be too habituated to the "L" world to bother understanding? > if this comment weren't so short i'd swear it was w
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by openrisk 2y ago
> It's not ossified but efficient. These are just assertions. Efficient compared to what? > If a company like Google with about ~180.000 employees Why should an organization even have 180000 employees? What determines the distrib
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by openrisk 2y ago
> I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision omg, this sounds like the gigantic, ossified and crushing bureaucracy of a third world country. It must be saying something profound about the human condition that such immense hier
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Building and querying the quadtree is intrinsically heirarchical Glad to see I am not the only one having problems with hierarchy. Interesting work at many levels (no, no pun): starting with the bluesky data availability, the processin
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Evidence mounting: humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals(nat.au.dk)
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by openrisk 2y ago
External factors are the obvious answer, the Earth and its planetary environment are actively evolving over geological scales. Another intriguing possibility is some sort of senility setting in after long-term evolutionary success. The inte

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