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Defining polycrisis – from crisis pictures to the crisis matrix(adamtooze.substack.com)
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"Super weird" /to you/? I just ment to underline that (for me) it's the same type of caring. I'm professional, could do the same job at a dozen employers, etc. I think we feel the same about that. But I care ab
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Honest question: Are there things privately you care about? I take pride in parts of my work with the same emotional response as I take pride in my family. Not exactly the same magnitude, but the same emotional pathways at work. After 15 ye
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by wjnc 4y ago
log(300) / log(2) = only 8.2 doublings away. That's near future material.
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by wjnc 4y ago
Your choice for the word "blame" is telling? Blame would not be the word I'd use in this case. It's understanding. Understanding that people have traumas. Traumas percolate through the generations. Without elaborating to
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Great story in there! Junior AI runs and hides from inceptive network.
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by wjnc 4y ago
No it’s pure logic. One can only write a prenup when going to get married. P(prenup | not marrying) = 0. So if GP is talking about prenup it can only be about marriages. It’s unrelated to falling marriage rates. Then some data [1]. It’s in
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by wjnc 4y ago
Thanks for reading. It’s not even that subtle a distinction. If marriage gets less normal, those who do get married feel stronger about it. It’s value theory 101.
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My parent is talking about prenup. That’s only in case of marriage. For those so inclined to get married I do expect marriage before children. With falling marriage rates I expect that effect to be stronger.
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Thing is I expect usually when people get married there are no children yet. On top of that, say a decade of marriage, children and changes in the way couples share their respective roles (say one works fulltime and the other parttime) and
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If interoperability was marketed as a feature at the moment you bought the product then in my understanding in Europe one could (try to) annul the agreement. Features are an integral part of the buying agreement. That still wouldn't hu
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Thanks Ted. In the Netherlands it’s a combination of a few market trends. 1. A trick insurers pulled in the 90s and consumers never forgave us for (lending money in the late 90s for leveraged stock investments with massive cost loading; sti
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Let me be the first to say that hardcore capitalism isn't my usual purview. And that exactly the diversity of stakeholders is why I like this question. TomTom obviously offers no value to shareholders (no dividend policy, history of lo
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Netscape disbanded as a company in 2003. Why is TomTom still here? I like the questions at the end of a company since a large market I work in (insurance / life insurance) is dwindling as well. What does that do with companies? How do
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TomTom is such an interesting story in technology and finance. Went from zero to $ 10B+ between '05 - '07 [1]. Everyone you knew had one, used one, loved one. Then the sudden boom in mobile phones and mobile internet and the finan
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I’d add that reading strategy matters a lot as well. When I read critically I usually do a few passes over the text. Before I start reading I make a list of what to Expect in a text. Then a quick pass to see if what I expect is there, and t
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Oh my. My city recently got a few of those vehicles doing automatic parking fines. They were so good the number of fines was national news. There is something to be said for 100% enforcement of these rules. NYC is a boon for AI powered enfo
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The comparison for the use of 'efficient' is watt and performance to watt. The initial cost is probably double for the Mac Studio, locking in a whole lot of MWh. I see a something like a 60 W difference in average power consumptio
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Herb Cohen - You Can Negotiate Anything (1980) thaught me this. Got that book from a street salesman in China. One of the few English paperbacks he had. It was old and great. Few memories that seem relevant: - The advice is to negotiate by
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Auditors don’t hate you for no reason. They have the tricky job for being (formally) responsible for signing off on practices they know too little about, get shitty documentation for while not getting enough time to understand. To make matt
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by wjnc 5y ago
To answer that question: Yes, I am and I’m not alone. GRRRM is free to not give a thing about this anger (look up the response to someone asking if he was going to do a Jordan) but I came to the conclusion that in buying and reading fantasy
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I’ve that in use on my personal pc (Ubuntu) for my personal files. Bringing in the pictures via Dropbox. It works flawlessly for about 1.5 yr and 150GB to Backblaze. What put me off initially is that the most important part of backups: test
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Total. Based on coverage in Dutch press. An issue I read about is that the sanctions can reach a maximum of a percentage of earnings (10%) but they need to take the exact legal entity into account. There are other ways in Dutch law to threa
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Do we really need more or new legislation if there is still ample room for improvement on the enforcement side of GDPR. Just a not so far stretch: all or most of the GDPR supervisors now think Google Analytics is a no-go. Publish this and a
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Yeah I was trying to make an argument the target audience might find persuasive. Inheritance is a nice concept when reasoning about (continental) contracts since a contract is only a contract if and only if it abides by contract law. That&#
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Contracts themselves are not articles of contract law. - This is true, but the concept of inheritance holds. 'Illegal' ~ 'against the law'. What is doing something against the law? Doing something the law states you are
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Please explain? I've googled your sentiment and have found some links but not many answers. Breaking a contract is just as illegal (~ against the law) as breaking the law? This follows trivially from contract law being a part of law. M
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Since I detect sarcasm, I'm not sure how to respond. As someone who chooses Apple partly because of the comparative privacy versus Android I'm actually quite happy that they bargain with other parties? It reminiscent of the workin
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You should browse acoup because he often mentions sources for different avenues of thought. He even has a tag for [operations] [1] Now that I am searching - he does use the operations level mainly to make fun of books, series and movies whe
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For me the anarchist in 'the anarchist cookbook' and newsletters that were spread via BBS and early internet capture the hacker (as in 'hacker news') spirit quite spot on. Haven't we come full circle with social eng

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