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> The issue I take, is that there's actually very very little legitimate news being promoted. Blogs and detailed substack's have way WAY more interesting content than the New York Times on most topics. So you criticize them ba
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> Do you know of anyone working on healthy engagement? Wikipedia is one, by not "working on" it. > It's almost as though we sold millions of cars without brakes, everyone is crashing into things and hurting each othe
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This is how you create a regime of regulatory capture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture > banning people that are definitely not troll farms but somebody who dares to say something contradicting the
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I have a compulsion to create terms for arbitrary concepts such that recently I've considered learning German because it's easier to create new words (via compounds) there.
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Jack Dorsey isn't an economist.
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Workers are being blamed every time it's called a labor shortage instead of a wage shortage.
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Guns are the porn of manufacturing: cutting edge production and delivery concepts are always validated by the respective industries before the techniques get used by the wider markets. I think Gresham's Law might have a hand in how thi
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Fun fact: the entire NFT crypto system is powered by Walter Benjamin[1] spinning in his grave! 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
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That's been called "creeping featuritis" for about 25 years now. :)
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Productized class methods.
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Everything in your second paragraph points to companies that either through hiring, firing, or attrition have successfully excised all real systems expertise from the entire company. This isn't the fault of any ops methodology, so let&
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Key-person risk
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It's not a free market, it has never been a free market, and this is just another part of a market that should also be regulated.
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What's wrong with your local power provider not incorporating renewables? There are still solar installers, and it probably a better deal overall to own your own plant, as it were.
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Which half?
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> "Yes men" climb the ladder much easier, but then work doesn't do itself so that's the catch. The harder the work, the lower the pay.
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That's what they all say.
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> A successful (somewhere between millionaire and billionaire) entrepreneur has put his credibility on the line with those extremely astonishing claims. Credibility? You have to be joking, what does he actually have to lose? According t
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> trying to understand how this extremely contagious virus managed to not infect me while my wife and I shared bathrooms, beds, and car rides together There are a lot of things people don't understand, that's why expertise is
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"A hit dog will holler."
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I feel like my noticing and caring that he's working on one of those flimsy white plastic folding picnic tables is exactly why I (probably!) won't ever be this advanced in my hobbies. Focused on insignificant details from the star
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The people imposing DRM don't care whether anybody is unhappy about it. To them, the only unhappy people are frustrated thieves.
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Like Facebook and content moderation, Google is incapable of support. Look at the terms: at the very least, they'll be opening themselves up to people calling in with every KilledByGoogle complaint and lament. My impression from watchi
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Capitalism was invented to manage the slaver's business model in the US, so as long as "the elite" is defined to include the economic class of slavers, the US groups the super-rich and the mere business successes largely wi
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Chesa Boudin isn't a hack.
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> For the most part, your salary is affected by supply and demand. We've had a bullseye object lesson in the US over the past year and a half where company owners are complaining endlessly about being on the low side of the suppl
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The feeling I get is that founders aren't looking to the long-term anymore, either because they aren't confident of their ability to make it on their own or they're only working toward an acquisition. I assume the latter is t
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The 30-40 people wouldn't seem to be in the market for building a small project, could they be simply happy in their jobs? Working with 30-40 C/C++ developers just for browser-oriented code you obviously work at a company of a siz
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especially with such a small typeface
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Fair enough, I think the collusive part would be a vulnerability in the strategy. But even so, Fair Use is still in play. I imagine the legal fallout from this would be very bad for the police department itself. Communications about this sc

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