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I hear the bit about America having the world to themselves trade-wise a lot from Americans, but it's not really true. Both Western Europe and capitalist Asia (Japan, Singapore, South Korea) also had near full employment with quality
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Absolutely, but you need to be very deliberate and careful in doing that. It's hard to pull off in practice. AWS, just like MS in the 90s, gives you access to a lot of amazing tools that make it very easy to "accidentally" lo
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Is this really new? It certainly feels new, but I don't think it is. There are two issues here. 1) You should be very careful about having your business too dependent on a single supplier or partner. You need to have a backup plan in c
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Thank you for that burst of nostalgia!
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Then you have the right to present that defense to a jury.
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What do they give each Elmo doll before it leaves the factory? . . . Two test tickles.
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When we go out and try to find a friend, they are rare. When we go out and try to be a friend, they are everywhere.
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The Taj Mahal. It's perhaps the most beautiful thing ever built by anyone. I've done a fair amount of traveling, and it's easy to get a bit jaded, but the Taj Mahal is every bit as spectacular as you imagine.
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I highly recommend Play, by Stuart Brown https://www.amazon.com/Play-Shapes-Brain-Imagination-Invigor... It walks though why and how play is important to both individuals and societies and gives some good advice on cultivat
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> Anime is not the dominant form of media in Japan, and is largely targeted at a relatively narrow age band. Outside of the main target demographic, you're not going to get a lot of familiarity with anything but the very largest sho
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I put myself through college largely by playing in clubs and bars on the east coast. Because the change happened so slowly, many people don't appreciate exactly how streaming killed musician's incomes. For the most part, they were
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This culminated in the Battle of Blair Mountain were mine owners employed private security and the US military to put down 10,000+ striking miners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain It's an in
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> overcome the issue of there being only one ship captain on the whole humongous ship I always figured that would be balanced out by the fact that there would be very few who large numbers of people would follow as captain. Even if you h
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FWIW, that is about the same amount the developer got to keep in the bad old days when games had to be packaged and shipped to retail stores. Of course, the publishers and distributors and retailers took a lot more risk than the AppStores a
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Environmental Carbon Capture is a terrible engineering solution. CO2 is millions of times more concentrated when it leaves the smokestack than it is in the general atmosphere. Any sensible approach would focus on removing CO2 where it is mo
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There is some truth to what the author writes, but it's not absolute. Softbank's Vision Fund basically exists to invest with that thesis. That an extremely well-funded and basically competent team will outlast all competitors and
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This is pretty remarkable, but the IEA report published on Tuesday says almost 90% of new electricity generation in 2020 will be renewable, with just 10% powered by gas and coal.
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90% of the Global Power Capacity Added in 2020 Will Be Renewable(singularityhub.com)
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I started my first tech startup in Japan in 1998 and have built several since them. For the last 20 years there has been a steady stream of articles on how Japanese web design is "broken", or "behind", or "cluttered
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Exit polling showed that a higher proportion of back and minority voters voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016. However, since exit polling only counts those who vote on election day, and far more Democrats voted early or by mail than Republ
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> but Trump increased his votes among both blacks and hispanics in 2020 compared to 2016. FWIW, that's not true, or more accurately is unknown. Those numbers come from election-day exit polling, and since many more Democratic voters
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> Its sad that people don't understand economics. FIW, Quite a few economists have looked into this, and there is at best no, and at worst an inverse, correlation between value creation and CEO pay. Some of the highest-paid CEOs in
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This is one of those things thats seems right as a principle, but really questionable as legislation. On on hand, using median salary rather than an absolute amount seems fair, but in practice, this will most likely result in firms creating
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This is a really disappointing article. It's a kind of data porn. Graph after graph of "See, nothing to see here." and I'm wondering what kind of point he's trying to make. Then out of nowhere, the author concludes
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Taibbi is right as far as he goes. We don't know its Russian disinformation. However, skepticism needs to run both ways. The fact that we are not sure the Russians are behind it, does not mean we should accept this preposterous story
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> That was Friday. On Monday morning that Training department didn't exist. All 6 employees dismissed instantly Without more context, it's hard to know if that response was laudable or horrifying. If this was an ongoing pattern
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> Content moderation is a form of censorship. It's really not. Not legally or in the common use of the word. If I kick an abusive troll off my message board that is moderation. If a judge orders someone not to use a computer for two
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> I am saying when you say "Twitter is a private company. They can choose without restriction who's allowed to use their platform," That's a straw man. I never said anything like what you are pretending I said. They o
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Many are confusing "censorship" with "content moderation". The difference is very important. Censorship is when you are prevented from publishing on your own platform. Content moderation is when a platform owner choses w
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"There, the guy who's got religion'll Tell you if your sin's original." Is probably the greatest rhyme ever made in the English language.

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