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by spyckie2 7y ago
As an ABC who currently lives in HK but has no ties to Asia (born and raised in the US) and has no personal interest in what's happening in HK, what I observe is a global increase in pace of change affecting this generation across the
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It's why I'm curious to see his opinions on this matter. The author pointed out the problem but didn't say much about the solution. I was wondering if his discourse on those who aren't the problem would yield insights.
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For your point 2, I think it's really interesting to think about creating value and capturing value. There's currently only 1 measure of success for capitalism, and that's capturing value. Creating value without capturing it
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> This [billionaire] class has no idea what to do with its wealth, much less the power that results from it. It can only withdraw and extract, socially and economically, while the political justifications for its existence melt away. Wou
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What I find interesting is these two contrasting undertones: 1) Geniuses who are obsessed with their own interests, not the outcome of pursuing their interest 2) PG obsessed with outcome (great work, being famous, leaving your mark on impor
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by spyckie2 7y ago
Here's the thing. Are "platforms for speech" so important? Are they as important to our society as say, basic infrastructure? If they are, we should treat them like how we treat electricity and plumbing, housing and transport
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Into the World of Genius(medium.com)
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Not on the side of Corporate America but curious how you would respond. As markets get more mature, it becomes difficult for companies to maintain employees if their salary level to contribution rate drops. Is the assumption that employees
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by spyckie2 7y ago
Whereas tinder, instagram, and others value add is from their content, the value of Facebook (the platform) has always been the network. Facebook as a company has always been chasing after content. This is because content has a direct and c
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Access to opportunities for more income also didn't exist either. The article specifically references serfs(!!!), possibly the most difficult economic class to escape, as the example. Cars, computers, phones, and health insurance also
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One of the lessons learned in the modern era is that you just can't get away with this kind of stuff - everything comes back to bite you in the end. I don't know which government officials in the communist party thinks this kind o
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Yes it does take two to tango. When both sides come from the underlying culture hard to blame one side or the other or even suggest solutions.
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I really like this kind of thinking, it's where my brain is heading currently. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or skill in weeding through historical facts and theory/storytelling to know if the "agricultural econom
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I'm inclined to believe it is driven by the economic situation and how power is consolidated. Where power and prestige creates strong economic advantages is where this kind of behavior wins out. And where innovation speed creates stron
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I don't want to change my original post, so I'll add to it here: When you're on the streets with the protests, it feels extremely primeval. The micro-scale interactions of the protest movement is like looking into a microscop
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This piece is quite accurate - it really makes you feel like you're in Hong Kong during the protests. References aside, as a US citizen in Hong Kong there are some things that I respect immensely and some things that really get on my n
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From the point of view of the individual, do what you love. From the point of view of the working world, do what people pay for. From the point of view of simple optimization with no bias, find the ideal intersection of both. From the point
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by spyckie2 7y ago
Please KEEP USING medium to keep all those uninspired rants, thought leader posturing, and no substance fluff pieces on subjects that are actually interesting behind a paywall. Please put more effort into creating better content by exhibiti
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> To identify a set of executives for analysis, we start with a list of male CEOs from the Standard & Poor’s 1500 stock index analyzed by Engelberg, Gao & Parsons (in press). We restrict attention to only male CEOs because of the
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by spyckie2 8y ago
Hard facts are hard facts. If New Orleans is going to be under water in 4 years, they will have to do something about it. Actually, we should probably treat New Orleans as a case study and learn from it since due to rising sea levels, a lot
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by spyckie2 8y ago
After reading the full report, I actually have a lot of respect for the author, even though I personally support leaving gender and race out of it. I also have minor gripes as well about "women, trans, or non-binary" - I believe a
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by spyckie2 8y ago
Ah. It reads like an opinion piece that has several citations of various books and historical figures, all of equal weight to the article. If it is a book review, there should be more separation between the book's content and the criti
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This is not a great article. First, if you mention that America has an overseas empire, you probably need to let us know exactly what the empire contains. Maps of European imperialism exist and help us understand what an "overseas empi
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by spyckie2 8y ago
from her paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01413 > Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique for imaging celestial radio emissions by simultaneously observing a source from telescopes distributed acros
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by spyckie2 8y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Many people have recommended and I agree, Thinking in Systems is a great primer. Here's an excerpt from the intro of that book: > So, what is a system? A system is a set of things—people, cells, molecules,
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by spyckie2 8y ago
You have to split the title, which is marketing mumbo jumbo, from the article, which is fundamentally talking about decision making. Smart decision making and persistent work is the X and Y axis of achievement. Decision making (which broadl
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The human interest aspect is the whole point of it. If there were no humans, there wouldn't even need to be a law about fox hunting, so if you take the human interest away, there is no issue. I think part of my praise of this piece is
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by spyckie2 8y ago
> smarmy, narcissistic, rooting for blood, lizard brain, macho guy, flippantly, cheeky Just letting you know about a blind spot you may have. These words I'm highlighting are the exact opposite of factual - they are all your opinion
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Wow - this is old journalism at its best. A few things really stand out: - a 36(!!) minute masterpiece, and difficult to cut anything out to make it shorter without losing something - the journalist covered both sides of the story, and did
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it sounds like the benefits of the line is the flexibility, not necessarily efficiency gains. I think the idea of the article is that fixed production is a business weakness in today's fast moving consumer market. This also doesn'

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