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by pjmorris 6y ago
> The world is not as simple as that one liner suggests. Everyone who sat out of the market since 2011 loudly shouting about a bubble. And the world is not as simple as your rejoinder. 2011 came after a crisis unlike anything seen since
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by pjmorris 6y ago
I found 'The Prize', a history of the development of the oil industry, by Daniel Yergin, to be fascinating. Perhaps closer to your request, 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain comes the closest to describing life
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by pjmorris 6y ago
FTA, 'Trade group Airlines for America'... how many trade groups are there? What does it take to form one? What kind of influence do they carry?
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by pjmorris 6y ago
One of the best meals I've ever made at home was a fried oyster poor boy (sandwich), prompted by an essay from MFK's oyster book (I think it was collected in some other book I happened to have.) Thirty years later, and the memory
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by pjmorris 6y ago
That's sort of how our schedule falls out anyway, bed around 10, rise around 6, first meetings don't kick in until 9. I have a variety of side projects, chores, and just plain entertainments that go in to that 7-9 slot, chosen bas
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by pjmorris 6y ago
I was astonished to see the article treat leisure time as something to be optimized out of people's lives rather than as fundamental to their well being. It's almost like they're trying to normalize a 6 day/72 hour week
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by pjmorris 6y ago
To be fair, a 996 schedule (9am-9pm, 6 days a week, 72 hours/week) doesn't leave a great deal of time for, e.g., hiking, biking, walks in the park. I suspect the trouble is less a paucity of imagination than a paucity of time.
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by pjmorris 6y ago
> "no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others." [0] It seems reasonable to me to think that, whatever the scientific contribution of the study, the fact that it doesn't t
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Limitations summary, quoted directly from Benfield study[0]: > Limitation: Inconclusive results, missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and no assessment of whether masks could decrease di
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Don't give anyone ideas!
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"I can't believe it's not Grana Padano!"
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I think that there's a reasonable argument to be made that we can place an expectation of agency and intent upon corporate executives that we can't place on a virus. So the coronavirus might not be expected to be a psychopath, jus
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by pjmorris 6y ago
> IMHO every human being is a blank slate of infinite potential at birth I respect that and principally agree on the ideals. And I don't think that's a complete picture. I ask you to consider the disabled and the aged as exampl
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by pjmorris 6y ago
> the argument isn't that everyone needs to be a KE worker - it's that everyone needs the opportunity to be one. But the key point against the argument is that not everyone is able to be a knowledge worker, so a universal oppor
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by pjmorris 6y ago
> The implicit idea of offering a transition to knowledge work as a means for people who have been economically shut out to catch up is a misreading of the situation. I agree with this premise. In essence, to argue that education is a su
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by pjmorris 6y ago
I find your summary to be concise and reasonable, to the degree I follow the article. I'd not heard of Unger before, but think he's brilliant. I found the reading to be a bit of a wade. For that, I'll fault my own lack of bac
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by pjmorris 6y ago
> Alas, most spending of the US federal government isn't an investment of any type. Unless you consider being the sovereign issuer of the world's reserve currency, and the military, civil government, legal system, and property
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by pjmorris 6y ago
> Now it's a fight over every little dollar. Unless a bank is in trouble or someone wants to fight a war.
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The future of work is written(increment.com)
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Note that I was capitalizing on the amorality for the purpose of the comparison.
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Bloomberg New Economy Forum: Bridging the Global Wealth Gap(bloomberg.com)
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Video panel, "IBM Executive Chair Ginni Rometty, McDonald’s Corp. CEO Chris Kempczinksi, Singapore Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Blackstone Group Inc. Chairman and CEO Stephen Schwarzman discuss the task of rebuilding the
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by pjmorris 6y ago
> corporations are tabula rasa with a single directive, "grow" they then go on to embody the qualities of the leadership and the regulatory climate under which they exist. Compare with: "viruses are tabula rasa with a sing
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by pjmorris 6y ago
They used to say 'cycles are free', because, for a long, long time, Moore's law would bail them out.
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True. That's a case where 'change your organization or change your organization' applies. Like it or not, that decision is more in your own hands than in those of the external mismanagers.
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What's your preferred alternative for making ethical judgements?
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I'm contemplating a whiteboard at home. How is handling cleanup from the inevitable marker dust?
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I'll grant that I was a pedantic fourth grader. And I'll grant that the other kids didn't care. Still, seems to me that the teacher could at least skip the topic if it's confusing.
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Not the OP, but a fourth grade substitute teacher made the claim that we always saw the same side of the moon because it didn't rotate. I don't know what got to me the most: that she didn't understand, that my attempt to expl
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Why do you see climate change and space exploration as orthogonal? It would seem to me that moving energy-intensive processes off the planet surface might ease the climate burden. In the early 70's, physicist Gerard K. O'Neil aske

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