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by revelio 3y ago
Disappointing, the article doesn't say anything new or untold beyond some minor personal details about the people involved and the fact that people repeatedly missed major clues because they weren't talking to each other. Also, th
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by revelio 3y ago
I thought 37signals is privately owned. How do you know how much revenue they have?
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They probably do believe in it, if rephrased slightly. The term "central planning" is now indelibly associated with the USSR and failure so nobody supports it anymore, but take concepts that are very similar and all sorts of peopl
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by revelio 3y ago
He was happy to write books on what society should do and how it should be run, but never talked to the people whose lives he claimed to speak for. He saw no need. That's intellectuals running society, right? He was politically active
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by revelio 3y ago
I used to believe that, but no longer do. Private industry can build rockets, self driving cars, LLMs and other hugely expensive things. Academia can't. What are these huge risks that academia can take that private science won't?
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It doesn't remove the OS, it "just" requires all C/C++ to be ported to the new WASM/Browser OS. Which isn't very exciting. The browser isn't meant to be an OS.
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by revelio 3y ago
One that pays expensive senior full time SWEs to build it does, yes. Every programming language uses one of two models: 1. Patronage 2. Business Patronage is the Ruby/Python/Linux "one guy + volunteers" model where a few
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by revelio 3y ago
No, technically the issue that was supposedly the straw that broke the camel's back was simply placing a transparent div on top of the video. That is not an entirely unreasonable thing to do on a video player that supports overlays cap
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by revelio 3y ago
So what's the business model then?
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None of those claims about the effects of social media hold up under inspection. They're all academic pseudo-babble. Look at the Haidt response to people pointing out his evidence of social media = suicides isn't robust; he doesn&
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by revelio 3y ago
Ad hominem doesn't mean any description of a group of idea-defined people that you don't like. Definition of ad hominem: "directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining." My post: no specific per
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> Marx and other writers repeatedly emphasize that the working class itself must take power [...] He saw theory and practice as deeply connected Marx wrote a lot of things. How many times did this champion of the working class visit a
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by revelio 3y ago
You're right, we do have a communist research system but it doesn't work well. It has flooded the scientific literature with endless torrents of non-replicable P-hacked pseudo-science. Who still takes social science at face value?
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by revelio 3y ago
The problem with planned economies is not self-sustainability. The USSR proved it could be done. The problem is that they aren't competitive because their planning process is too low bandwidth to incorporate change of any kind. They&#x
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This is conflating cause and effect. Socialism is just a word, you can define it however you like. In theory it can be some sort of vague co-op of co-ops. In practice it always leads to a centrally planned economy. There's a good rea
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by revelio 3y ago
Arguably the big trend in recent decades has been the non centrally planned corporation. Google and Facebook are the poster boys for this approach in which managers see themselves primarily as enablers for the workers, in which those worker
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by revelio 3y ago
Netscape's original business model was selling Navigator. That didn't work for various reasons, like IE being given away for free. So then they switched to server side products. But there wasn't enough depth there, and there
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Like what, exactly?
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Everyone can extrapolate. One of the most irritating tendencies of public intellectuals is the assumption that only they understand the word exponential, and then insist on asserting that every trend they can lay their eyes on must be an ex
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by revelio 3y ago
Society will be fine, actually AI will make things much better, just as the internet did. People have been making these kind of extreme predictions for decades and it was always wrong. The only people still upset about better communications
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Prices were so heavily subsidized they were ruining the government's finances, so that's not a valid metric to compare on because it wasn't sustainable. Even when being bailed out by massive amounts of tax (a regressive tax!)
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North Sea came on-stream at the start of the 80s. The rise in rail traffic clearly starts around the time of privatization in ~95 and the huge plunge followed by decline starts around the time of nationalization. Certainly there were other
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It would have been no different at any other university. When anything goes wrong with science, safety related or not, the universities and other academic/governmental institutions always protect the professors. Always. Including if th
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by revelio 3y ago
> "Alive and thriving" seems a strange conclusion from recent events, given that its health assessment was downgraded to very poor The problem is it was downgraded by the same academics who a. clearly don't understand th
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> It's the modern conservative trick to make an outrageous claim, then link to data refuting that claim completely Er, he's reporting on the claims made by environmentalists and the data he links to that refutes that claim co
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Assumed /s but yes that seems to be the (re)definition they're using.
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Yup. Headline: "Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science" Subheading: "women have an edge over men in hiring." Paper abstract: "[women] are advantaged over men in a fourth domain (hiring), For teaching rati
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Paywalled but the paper is this one: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/152910062311631...
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This thread is getting quite confusing. OK, your argument is that only a tiny minority of people are engaged in misandry like constantly talking about incels, and they are exaggerated by the internet, and most of society actually cares a lo
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You're conceding the point, right? The OP asks why is the focus only on teen girls? Why not on everyone who is getting sadder? The answer is: society and especially academia is systematically biased against men for political and ideolo

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