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It's honestly very hard to say precisely. All parties are incentivized to blame someone else, but these kinds of regulations tend to change very slowly and usually grandfather in projects that are completed or are in process. Looking a
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I work in the energy industry and find these kinds of articles frustrating. Rather than arguing the facts, they paint a caricature of "the other side." Many environmentalists, particularly those focused on greenhouse gasses are ve
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> This isn't a false equivalency situation; both left and right are being pushed into division. In this case, it is a false equivalency. At least in terms of Democrat and Republican. Antifa is a fringe far-left group. They are not D
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You can't really have a "prediction model" that does not make predictions. Their research into the causes and contributing factors of genocide seems very worthwhile, but it's not prediction. In the same way, understandin
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Toyota is completely unionized. Toyota considers their workers to be one of the reasons for their quality. More important, the executives knew about the pension liabilities when they accepted the job. It's been part of their planning a
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When a small startup fails, it's often the fault of the team. When a large organization fails, it's almost always the fault of the leadership. It strikes me as a real chickensh*t move how our captains of industry rush to claim cre
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The most persuasive argument against nuclear power today is the economic one, and I find it odd that this article doesn't even mention it. While the global energy industry is moving towards distributed, flexible generation, nuclear pow
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But we love it! We have this strange idea that if you are well-rested, you are somehow lazy. I recent;y interviewed the founder of a startup that is focused on getting companies to improve the sleep habits of their employees. In case you ar
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That's a fascinating article on the construction of the Empire State Building. Thanks for sharing it. However, what the article describes is fundamentally a waterfall methodology. The innovative part was breaking the large project into
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Was that from Mother Night? That is an amazing book. By pretending to be a Nazi to spy for the allies, he turned out to be very good at being a Nazi. It's a dizzying trip around the age-old question of are we defined by what's in
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I think waterfall was adopted for software development, not by accident, but because it was a well-defined methodology with proven effectiveness in areas like construction and manufacturing. In areas where changes to the spec are expensive,
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I don't think the author understands what "fundamental analysis" is. If you really wanted to do a fundamental analysis you could, for example, calculate the size of the services built on top of the Etherium blockchain, calcul
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General Smedley Butler's "War Is A Racket" is every bit as relevant today as it was when he published is it in 1935. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket For those of you who have never heard of
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What I Learned as Japan's First Professional Podcaster(medium.com)
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> You say that as if the projects are all run by greedy grubby fraudsters I think you are reading in something that is not there. I have several friends who have run successful ICOs and they all sincerely believe in their vision and all
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Absolutely. There is always money to be made selling picks and shovels. IBM, ConsenSys, and others selling blockchain "solutions" to large customers has made a great deal of money over the past two years.
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The ETH example you mention was a PoC. It did not generate revenue and is not a business. Don't get me wrong. I think it's great, and it might be technically very impressive, but it's not generating money. It's not a bus
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ETH is used only within the blockchain ecosystem. Its greatest utility has been enabling ICOs. OMG and BAT are both interesting proof of concepts, but they are not really operating at any kind of scale. I don't see how they can transit
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A far bigger story would be an ICO-backed company that did not leave all their backers wondering where their money is. Aside from the startups selling tools and services to the crypto ecosystem itself, does anyone know of an ICO-backed proj
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This article is almost a year old, but it explains why using a utility token will put most companies at a strong competitive disadvantage. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tromero/2018/01/09/why-your-ico
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I think the reason many are both emotionally and logically concerned about this is that see it in the broader context of the growing wealth inequality and life inequality in America. In principle, having the wealthy rely on their own firefi
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> Examples of markets where this actually happens: Coca Cola (as discussed), Walmart (in local areas), YKK in zippers, AB inBev in Brazil, Luxottica in eyewear. None of these is the result of the "slight price advantage" and in
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> This is actually pretty common in hypercompetitive commodity markets. The largest player has a slight cost advantage due to economies of scale, so they have the best price and everyone buys from them. This is not true at all. Looking a
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I confess I don't have a literal list of ten books, but there is a small handful of books that shifted my way of thinking. A simple list of these books would require a great deal of explanation. None of them are generally considered &
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The seminal work on this tendency we humans have to classify and rank each other is Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man If you have a chance, it's wor
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> This article touches on an idea that I think many in the tech industry (myself included) continue to be myopic about: as disruptors we are held responsible for the negative social outcomes that we bestow upon society. I think that&#x27
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I've been living in Japan for about 25 years and a lot of Westerners get confused over this. Concepts like "blue" and "green" are abstract. The word 青 covers a different part of the spectrum than the word "blue
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Both Japan and German automakers have very strong unions and between the two of them, they make some of the best cars in the world. Any time management starts blaming their workforce for the poor perforance of their firms, we should take it
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Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed the article. That was one of the big revelations for me as well. One of the things that made me realize that pulling the plug was not only acceptable but the right thing to do.
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> At $100 a bottle I'm going to be loading up my SUV with as many water bottles as fit and I'll be driving to the disaster area. I'll take work off, maybe even risk getting fired for that type of payday. So would hundreds

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