sollewitt

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by sollewitt 6y ago
And how much exacy are you willing to pay per Google search?
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by sollewitt 6y ago
Well, precisely define your terms "democracy" and "republic" because every democracy on earth effectively operates as a parliamentary republic - even the constitutional monarchies, so it's not clear what particular
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by sollewitt 6y ago
Google needs the competition. Search it's getting more and more laden with ads, and I have found the kind of specific technical searches it used to excel at are increasingly on page 2 after articles and videos and product listings.
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by sollewitt 6y ago
The core assumption in cognitive neuroscience is that cognition is centered in the activity of the brain. The second is that neuronal activation corresponds to function. After that it's about finding proxies for measuring activation. W
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by sollewitt 6y ago
Sweden is the size of California.
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by sollewitt 6y ago
There's this other division of the corporation you might be interested in called Google Research.
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by sollewitt 7y ago
Should have been libertarian, autocorrect. But this isn't basic economics, is the point: this is about what to do with limited resources in the social context of an emergency. Ignoring the context to justify the economics is just disho
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by sollewitt 7y ago
Take face masks, that front line medical workers don't have, that their procurement offices won't let them buy for 10x - we are all screwed if all our nurses are sick. You are basically saying "I am ok pricing limited necessa
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by sollewitt 7y ago
That's just poor reasoning on multiple levels: it assumes supply, the argument that it prevents hoarding misses that as prices are driven up the incentive to hold increases, and it overlooks that some populations night need the good im
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by sollewitt 7y ago
If you could plant some muscle in the ground and sprout a cow, muscle would be also be so complex we wouldn't expect to synthesize it soon either.