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by wycx 10y ago
Very much so. My pet theory is that most business management practices evolved from manufacturing production line environments, and the application of these management practices to, say, running a university or research facility is cargo cu
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by wycx 10y ago
With that clarification, it clear I misunderstood your point. My (now unnecessary) point was that whilst tool-and-die makers are blue collar, I consider that profession to be full of practitioners of excellence (at least the ones I have enc
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by wycx 10y ago
How would you classify a tool-and-die maker?
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by wycx 10y ago
Mainstream (neoliberal/monetarist) economics has abundant academic proponents and is demonstrably flawed, so I am not sure counting the number of academic proponents is much of an indicator of anything other than what is academically f
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by wycx 10y ago
I note the following from the reference you provide: Today, most mainstream economists reject Say's law. ...and it would be hard to accuse mainstream economists today of all being Keynesians. edit: <i> to asterisk
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by wycx 10y ago
Only if you are borrowing the money to fund the deficit. Public money (as opposed to bank money) is a legitimate, but ignored, alternative. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
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by wycx 10y ago
How about a merger with Lycos or Excite?
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by wycx 10y ago
Whilst compliance with the European Initiative [1] is voluntary, I find it hard to believe that without the EU proposing the Initiative (presumably with an implied threat of a non-voluntary initiative), that phone manufacturers would all ha
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by wycx 10y ago
Will Intel spin out the fab side of the business? The large volume segments of the processor market seems headed towards nothing but low margins.
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by wycx 10y ago
Litter book?
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by wycx 10y ago
Why would recreational opiate use be a terrible thing? Would the world not be a better place if recreational crystal methamphetamine users had the option of legal recreational opiates (of known strength) instead?
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by wycx 11y ago
Except when they are chasing the hour record. Ondrej Sosenka ran 3.2 kg wheels in his 2005 hour record precisely for the flywheel effect.
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by wycx 11y ago
Something I recently learned of is basalt fiber rebar. It won't rust, but I guess on a long enough time frame it will devitrify. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basalt_fiber
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by wycx 11y ago
well yes. The years of Keyensian dominance in the post depression/post WW2 years were when the middle class was ascendent. One of the core components of Neoliberal ideology is the primacy of the rights of capital above all others. If y
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by wycx 11y ago
I am going to reproduce a relevant comment (not mine) from a discussion of this article at macrobusiness http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/04/weekend-links-16-17-... . "Part of the reason for neoliberalisms
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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems(theguardian.com)
11 points by wycx 11y ago|7 comments
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by wycx 11y ago
I doubt you will melt very far. For the same reason it is difficult to sustain super-liquidus magmas on earth-you just melt more material until your composition and temperature converge. Even a fusion reactor has small thermal mass relative
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by wycx 11y ago
It can be all of the above, plus government employees. An example would be government funding of large infrastructure projects that employ lots of people during construction.
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Stamp-Size Gravity Meter Could Have Big Impact on Oil Exploration(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by wycx 11y ago|0 comments
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by wycx 11y ago
Capitalism relies on employers to value their employees for the money to trickle down and the system to work. It is not capitalism but rather neoliberalism/monetarism that propels the trickle-down theory. The time period where grandfat
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by wycx 11y ago
Is this an April Fools reply? What you are saying is that we should build an economy of ticket clippers on top of very few who actually generate physical wealth. How is that efficient? Some other economy will come along without all the &#x2
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by wycx 11y ago
Unsolicited advice: Use the CHIP as a gateway for a network of devices like the Moteino[1] or JeeNode[2]. I tend to agree with then sentiments re. wifi from this post [3] [1] http://lowpowerlab.com/moteino/ [2] http:&
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by wycx 11y ago
<i>Capital is extremely mobile and not part of a market transaction, while most labor is immobile and constrained as a market transaction.</i> It does not have to be. The neo-feudalists have relentlessly advanced an agenda
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by wycx 11y ago
I do not think the US is unique, indeed I would say that all modern western countries suffer the same problem. The elites were closet supporters of fascism until they weren't. Then we had this anomalous period from the end of WW2 until
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by wycx 11y ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-07-01/andy-grove... Interesting words from Andy Grove in 2010. Bonus refutation of Thomas Friedman.
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by wycx 11y ago
Globalisation is not as inevitable as you make out, and it is not at all clear it is for the greater good. What does the greater good even mean in this case? Globalisation is definitely good for the holders of capital, because they can move
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by wycx 11y ago
I would suggest that the growing gap you describe is a symptom of continued application of neoliberal policies. It is not that there was a status quo for the last 40 years, it is that the last 40 years has seen accelerating erosion of the c
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by wycx 11y ago
Prices are set at the margin. A single digit percentage of actors in the market with the objective of not losing 100% of their capital by turning it into a hard asset in another country is sufficient to move the market. In Australia it is t
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by wycx 11y ago
I assume you meant 3000 milisieverts (3 sieverts) or even 3000 sieverts. 3000 microsieverts (3 milisieverts) is most definitely not fatal, as it is similar to the yearly exposure.
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by wycx 11y ago
Except that the primary focus of pain management services seems to be overwhelmingly about reducing opiate intake, rather than helping the patient deal with pain. Maybe there are no good choices for some long term pain.

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