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by thoward 11y ago
It would better for people such as Christensen to call themselves "business historians." They make ex post facto analyses of what made a business successful. There's value to that, and it often makes for very interesting read
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by thoward 11y ago
True, but consider this from the shitphone piece... "Things had gradually become slower. They rarely came to a full stop, but they got close. Complicated websites in particular were hard for shitphone. I found myself blaming the websit
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by thoward 11y ago
This article reminds me of the "shitphone" story that got posted here a while back. Long but definitely worthwhile IMHO. https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e6643480... Basically an exploratio
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by thoward 11y ago
If you put something like this in space, and pointed it down, would it be a useful espionage tool (more useful than the spy satellites the US and its allies already have)?
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by thoward 11y ago
Nah, that's what I'm talking about. Makes things too complicated and expensive. How about this... If you have the capital, you can build whatever you want as long as you don't physically endanger other people (building meets
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by thoward 11y ago
I would point the finger at NIMBYism and the fact that new developments in places like San Francisco, London, and New York have to hop through many many hoops to get built (and pass muster with a surprising number of "stakeholders&quot
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by thoward 11y ago
"Grindhouse Wetware" ...that company name
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by thoward 11y ago
Not exactly my point, and I won't go there. I don't know enough about drugs to comment. Smart, creative people are, by and large, allergic to authoritarianism. Draconian rules around possession of soft drugs like cannabis are usef
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by thoward 11y ago
> mandate out for people to be more "creative" A tough sell in a place where the possession of even a tiny amount of marijuana is punishable by caning and long imprisonment.
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by thoward 11y ago
Met a couple of these guys in my career in tech. Two were DevOps engineers who had no college but made themselves indispensable. One was a guy who had only a smattering of Java but became a really useful Salesforce platform developer. Our V
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by thoward 11y ago
To me it makes sense that the FBI needs a fleet of surveillance planes for investigations. It also makes sense that these aircraft carry civilian livery to be low-profile (same idea as an unmarked pursuit car). What seems f-ked up are the s
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by thoward 11y ago
I'll concede the point on the R&R paper. Didn't know there was so much controversy about it, and the accusations that some of their findings were due to a technology glitch are pretty damning. But still, the median age of the
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by thoward 11y ago
Here's an interesting meta-study about the effects of a high debt to gdp ratio. http://www.nber.org/papers/w16827 I admire the candor of your second point ("we just inflated it away.") I think this is ul
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by thoward 11y ago
Krugman presents this as a dilemma between two choices. 1. Institute austerity now. 2. Institute stimulus now, pay down debt responsibly once the good times roll. This is a sham dilemma. The real options appear to be. 1. Institute austerity