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by wnc3141 3y ago
Genuine question. I do not doubt that pursuing the question would be worthwhile. However given how far off we are from achieving this aim, does the effort itself provide value elsewhere from the diffusion of innovation in the same way the A
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Absolutely in that sense the ends justify the means. I was just wondering what we can get from the means themselves given how far off achieving that end appears.
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Are there any trickle down technologies or scientific discoveries making the search itself worthwhile? In terms of an economic development perspective?
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you see that with very high dollar listings. They sit on the market longer
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i wonder if there's legal precedent for management induced mental illness as other physical workplace hazards have
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yes but that's very hard and doesn't scale, (can't be cheaply shot from multiple angles etc.)
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It really is! Americans like myself feel the magnetic energy of old European city centers yet we relegate them to vacation rather than import them here. My only guess as to why developments don't achieve this is that the most desirable
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I think the lack of organic place making is hard, but certainly not impossible. The example I listed suffered from insufficient place making (which one day may yet appear). The pedestrian and shopping areas are linearized instead of polycen
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I absolutely think your'e right - given permissive small business landscape
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If it is discontinuous with the broader urban fabric this is definitely a risk. Look up Ørestad in Copenhagen - a massive master planned area that never gained any of the hoped for vitality you would see elsewhere in the city. A decent vid
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yup! the user base is 99% of the value in any network enabled platform
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that's probably priced in at this point
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Love that book. Tom Wolfe's dry wit is a joy. However the modernism originating with bauhaus can be applied tactfully with enhanced functionality (I.e larger unobstructed spaces- but in limited fashion. Too often it strips the humanity
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this is inevitable. Organizational design turns out to be critical in aligning interests and incentives from the outset across all organizations throughout history - from the Roman Empire to Open AI
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Snohetta definitely my favorite architecture firms. They strike that balance between having creative ideas and nuanced and functional execution
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You are absolutely right. In ecology (which mimics the scaling of any physical system) population responds to resource stresses. I consider this a signal of resource scarcity. As for why it's inevitable: we have unbounded ability to in
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Look up the "Simon–Ehrlich wager" - essentially a economist and naturalist held a very public bet about whether certain critical resources would dramatically rise on price due to scarcity constraints. Essentially the economist, wh
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The incentive to race through traffic is felt from the back seat in my experience
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It's a structure in the sense of a non profit may not have shareholders or equity. In a practical sense, there needs not be an operational difference, and is subject to scrutiny from the IRS to determine whether an organization is elig
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Interesting points about unions providing reliability to the firm . Hadn't considered that benefit.
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Important to note that there is little differentiation of labor productivity in mechanized labor environments. I can't operate a machine faster than the guy next to me. We can only both competently operate the machine. Enabling safe op
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Future switching costs to a new plant are non trivial as well
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Agreed. that I think why some here prefer the more stripped down but more actively operated products is that, in contemporary versions of Apple (or similar ) products is that the surface level simplicity of those products comes in exchange
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I wonder if we as a society, have overrated value created digitally, and underrated value created physically or with proximity. We still need nurses, cooks, theater, builders etc.
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I agree that preventing technology from dispersing generally prevents the creation of wealth. However, given our current economic structure, the downside in instability of a livelihood has dramatic effects on swaths of people who were unluc
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If we had a safety net where career progression and time/money invested in training was unnecessary to sustain life, then maybe. Until then it feels like a bit of allowing a few people to plunder and own the collective output of millio
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Research on creativity and competition points to this. Essentially, creativity occurs when there is some expectancy of increasing competitiveness. However when the expectancy of value capture from your effort becomes less clear, or diminish
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I'm curious to see which the market demands, the highest performance, the most cost efficient, or the best integrated llm?
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I always flirted with the idea of making a dating app that charges users a ridiculous amount like $10,000 a year, as a cynical form of manufacturing exclusivity.
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by wnc3141 3y ago
Great tip! I'm going to play with that idea

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