sonnyblarney

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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
I think cars would be a better analogy. Something very useful but with negative externalities we did not predict.
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
"Their strategy of having some proxy forces in strategic places is part of their defence strategy, this has been studied." Iran's sponsorship of Hezbollah towards attacking Israel is part of their defence strategy? Iran&#x2
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
"Iran may have rhetoric, but Iran isn't occupying anyone" Well, Iraq and Syria would be two countries. And if they could, they would be occupying many more. Iran is not some entity trying to protect themselves from invaders,
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
" no comparable anti-intellectual streak in the American left as there is in the right" Wow. Intersectionalism, as it is applied popularly, is a massively 'anti intellectual' exercise. Authoritarianism, controlling speec
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
They didn't get anything. In fact, if a company is not going to invest after such massive subsidies are offered, then it's probably a huge valid signal that it really doesn't make sense for them.
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
The Soviets decided where the factories were built, how much to invest, in whom, what the products would be, quotas, volumes, suppliers, quality, etc. etc.. The Chinese gov. is mostly centrally planning strategically, i.e. with investments,
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
This is not an issue of corruption or necessarily incompetence of either party. 1) 'Tent pole' installations that employ a lot of people create substantial benefits way beyond whatever the investment is, at least on that basis sub
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Robert Shiller: Market Narratives Are Like Diseases (FT/iTunes Podcast)(itunes.apple.com)
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
Yes. Whatever gets built is a good thing on the whole. But the politics will be a mess.
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
I don't like how this was articulated because giving someone enough drugs to 'knock them out' is extremely dangerous in any circumstance. There are so many things that could have gone wrong during that time, my god man ..
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
The distinction between UK/EU was obviously made among the teams themselves. There happened to be a UK crew, and then another crew of Europeans, so 'team UK' 'team Europe' makes sense. If they were event eating&#x2F
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
Unlike so much of the ugly narrative, even the ugly bits and pieces of this project (i.e. buying up ports, putting countries into debt traps etc.) - this one is different because there's a real, underlying material reality here. It&#x2
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
Dubai has no banking treaties or extradition treaties with the US. So combine that with it's oil wealth and a lot of dollars sloshing around to begin with - they have created a zone that attracts zillions of ill gotten dollars, a lot o
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
That is an exceptional read, it's like watching a thriller. Highly recommend.
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
I agree, we should!
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
"Propaganda and asymmetric warfare" Is it possible to have a discussion in public without something being labelled as 'propaganda' because it's not perfectly consistent with the current popular orthodoxy? Maybe we s
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
"The win would be a scientific publication that takes science seriously." The articles in question are editorials, there are quite a number of them on Inference. So this is not a situation of Journal passing of pseudoscientific re
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M&M's colour distribution 1997-2017(qz.com)
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
If one is in the business of making such robots, then it would definitely be a good idea to protect one's IP. We don't get to automatically assume the position of one player in the value chain (say mobile manufacturer) and assume
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
This particular case doesn't seem to be about patents, rather design and know-how, i.e. the kind of IP not very well protected by law. It is a little ridiculous as you say, but the fact that a company was obviously involved in attempts
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
It's abundantly clear from the emails that Huawei was maliciously trying to steal IP, to the point wherein they snuck people into a facility to carry out industrial espionage. There are numerous reasons why a civil suit might have fail
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
Physical things are hard, there are a million little issues. Sometimes 'seeing' a piece or component can reveal a lot as it represents the solution to a problem that is not otherwise evident. The smallest details like the size&#x2
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
great developers with with bad process, quick turnaround, lack of ownership and bad habits can lead to a mess. Also - maybe they inherited the code from a startup and never had the chance to refactor and so there was a mess from the start.
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
Perhaps the worst hypocrisy is that the publication promotes on a daily basis their own version of 'social equality and justice' etc. which they themselves don't bother to live up to? Funny that.
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
"which flies in the face of anything remotely resembling critical thought. It’s just so depressing that people are so in denial over basic features of reality." Stop attacking with ad hominem and address the argument -> there i
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
" I can assure you they could easily find VCs there " It's not a question of 'easy or hard' it's a question of 'easier or harder'. Being in Czech definitely makes it harder, hands down. Thankfully, th
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
1x preference I think has meaning and it's reasonable. Basically, the VC's are 'getting their money back first' - after all, they put the money in. So if they put $1M in and the company sells for $1M ... should they only
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
What are 'standard, broad based weighted average anti-dilution rights' in this context? Surely early investors will be diluted, so what are these peculiar rights referring to?
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
The investments are effectively commensurate with population size, so not that far of equity by one measure.
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by sonnyblarney 8y ago
"Moving anywhere will incur a higher cost but this higher cost is temporary. This is econ 101." It is doubtful that India will ever develop the kind of ecosystem that you might find in say, Shenzhen. Those places are as different

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