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by qp11 3y ago
We have a voluntary reading group that meets once a week. There is a constantly growing team reading list from which volunteers pick and present 5 minute summaries at the weekly meeting. Usually just a round table conversation, but sometime
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by qp11 3y ago
> lot of viewers Its not that much. Enough to fund new shows but thats not a big amount in the large scheme of things. Entertainment can be used to comfort, educate, generate hope, make people think etc but at the most fundamental level
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by qp11 3y ago
sort of off topic sorry, but has the newly elected Dutch guy taken a stand on the US ASML affair?
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Understanding America's Post-Industrial Economy(michael-hudson.com)
25 points by qp11 3y ago|13 comments
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by qp11 3y ago
ChatGPT is pure crap to deploy for actual business cases. Why? Cause if it flubs 3 times out of 10 multiply that error by a million customers and add the cost of taking care of the mess. And you get the real cost. In the last 20-30 years bi
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by qp11 3y ago
The AI community isn't large, as in the brainpower available. I am talking about the PhD pool. If this pool isn't growing fast enough, no matter what cash or hardware is thrown on the table, then the hype Sam Altman generates can
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by qp11 3y ago
Android was a pure empire defense reaction by Google. Quality was not the priority but market capture through low prices was the game. Just like what they did with free email/free video. Youtube did not end up producing better Quality
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by qp11 3y ago
I don't know how dumb or possible this is, but why cant Billionaires fund affordable housing ala rich govts of Singapore or Austria?
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by qp11 3y ago
Have to admit, I got a bit carried away by all the banter about how this tank or that plane or AI was going to change the whole game. Also after the crappy show by the Russians at the beginning didnt expect things to last long.
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by qp11 3y ago
They need to be taking stakes in the companies when things (exploitation/loss of control etc) start escalating ala British East India Company taken over by the Queen after shit hits the fan. Or atleast the threat should be hanging over
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by qp11 3y ago
That's a response to the problem of things scaling to global levels faster than they can react to it.
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In theory tech firms should cause disintermediation. But we have seen in practice, once they get large enough they don't drop prices either. Big tech is not the answer. Federal govt must just use financial muscle to buy a few board sea
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by qp11 3y ago
Well they can become big and turn into utilities...think electricity, water, gas, post office etc. I think beyond a point govt should just buy a stake in them. That would keep them from misbehaving too much. Which is what happens in China,
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How Finance Became the Problem(project-syndicate.org)
2 points by qp11 3y ago|0 comments
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The financial sector, which creates the traps and treadmills, has to be reoriented toward sustainability instead of growth. Without that structural change people will keep falling into holes, no matter what drugs or advice they are given. S
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by qp11 3y ago
> All sorts of shared interests can be the Cultural Capital for this kind of friendship. I feel like my education was all about accumulation and allocation of financial capital, cause I guess its the easiest thing to measure and track. T
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by qp11 3y ago
I learned to cook. Then started inviting people I found interesting over. And they usually want to come back after eating my food :) Made most of my close friends that way. The meals become launch points for other bonding activities involvi
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by qp11 3y ago
It doesnt matter what Biden, Putin, Musk or Zelensky say. Germans have to come up with their own vision for the long term future of Europe. Cuz who else is going to lead Europe? If they cant agree within Germany about anything, its natural
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by qp11 3y ago
I thought so too coming from the same generation. But there was a moment, few years back, where I stopped worrying about it. My kids made me watch Sex Education on Netflix. My initial reaction was just irritation. There is so much content
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by qp11 3y ago
Isnt it also related to utilities? I mean if you have laid water/sewage/power/gas/telco infra for a one family home, and someone builds a structure for 5 families how does upgrading all that infra work?
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by qp11 3y ago
Hardly scary when its all solvable by raising taxes on the rent collecting 1%. The US and its fears are a real joke.
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by qp11 3y ago
In most of the under developed world were financial systems are unstable/dont control the economy, they dont convert gold into local currency. They use it as currency. "You want that cow, give me that nose ring". Ofcourse in
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by qp11 3y ago
There is a long history of technocracy movements. Always fails. Cause the connection with ordinary people is not real.
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by qp11 3y ago
Fundamental problem is oversupply of content. Information Overload leading to Attention Theft games. Its like the Chinese real estate market where more houses have been built than people available. Same story with content and eyeballs avail
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by qp11 3y ago
They are dominated by the mindless calculus of Wall St, injected deep into their programming. If they deviate from what Wall St wants they loose. So they dont dominate. They are dominated.
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by qp11 3y ago
Scale requires Purpose. When there is no Purpose, or no Purpose that Everyone accepts, and yet things are mindlessly scaled up, the scaler makes enemies. And its all pure chaos what happens next.
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There are lot of misunderstanding about whats really going on. And fears and reactions on top of those misunderstandings compound them. The fucking platforms dont talk about it cause the whole thing is fake. The UN report on the Attention
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by qp11 3y ago
Thats only in a day dream about how surpluses in the systems work. Read the history of banking. Wall St will show up and convince you to hand over surplus to protect it, and handle all the hassles of dealing with others who need it. This wa
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by qp11 3y ago
After the recent 20 year shit show and its cost what is "amazing" is how such people actual believe they are credible. The I flew F22s and its amazing and therefore I am amazing is what is supposed to give them credibility. But it
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by qp11 3y ago
Confusion happens when the compass is pointing in multiple directions. Pick a single heading. And stick to it. Thats the only way the boat travels furthest.

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