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The communities that they lived in were more self-sufficient and probably lived outside of the influence of large government or corporations or lobbying groups. The flourishing town probably grew that way organically, not because of governm
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NYC lives on the fumes of its former reputation. Corporate chains have changed the city into basically a shopping mall. When I was a kid I was drawn to NYC by the little hole in the wall restaurants, delis, coffee shops, funky stores. All o
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From what I've seen the money in the trades is mostly from being the guy who gets the jobs and takes the money, not from being the guy actually doing the work.
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I can't help but notice that PE has been buying up HVAC companies in my region. I think sooner or later everything will get corporatized and even if your goal isn't to get acquired, you still need to learn how to compete with cong
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I think all he's saying to the kid is to avoid the wage slage mindset of always being a worker, renter, and consumer. You don't have to be born wealthy to understand that or to work your way out of it. Wages are important but they
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Even in the industries you're talking about you still have to pay your dues by building a client book, learning the industry, etc. It becomes wasteful when advancement depends less on experience or intelligence and more on seniority or
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Sure, but there needs to be some justification or measuring stick to decide what's worth researching and what isn't. Otherwise you're just burning up money and labor on fruitless tasks. Reading some of the comments in this th
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The old bureaucracy stopped being progressive long ago. I believe the EPA protects the environment about as much as I believe DOGE is about creating efficiencies. At this point these organizations are just tools for the administration in po
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It's not really socialism because you don't own or have any say in the company you work for. And not everybody owns stocks. It's more like feudalism where those kings cut in the people below them so that they have a stake in
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Is this actually happening? I figured the result would be China simply swooping in and picking up all the trade partners we've alienated. And also all the soft power we've abandoned.
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Who decides these standards and what right do they have to do so? Also, are employers really looking into if a prospect's school was accredited or not?
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Charity just means helping someone. Do you think no one in Chad needs or is offering help? And if you don't know anyone in Chad who's in need of charity then...why do you want to do charity in Chad? It seems that our notion of cha
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These are the sorts of hurdles that a wealthy, powerful, amd/or famous person could overcome. If Buffett University or Gates University opened tomorrow you'd have people clamoring to support it and attend it. As for a draw, the US
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I always wondered why no one creates new universities in the US. It seems like in the 1800s every rich guy started their own university, many with unique missions. The existing university model in the US seems like it's ripe for disrup
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I'll ask the same question I've asked elsewhere because "I want to believe:" How do you measure how much someone has made the world a better place? Especially when so much of their actions, their consequences, and their
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How do we measure if something is a net positive or negative when we're talking about global-level decisions? This has always been the sticking point for me when it comes to supporting large charities.
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Yes they're local, but its not like there's a limit to how many local charities there can be in the world. Operating at a huge scale requires you to lump people together into groups and make assumptions about who they are and what
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May be great or may be terrible applies to both the small and the the nation-state sized charity right? Maybe my judgement or efficiency is bad when I try to help my neighbor. Okay, whoopsie. Now apply that margin of error to a foundation
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The thing that's always made me skeptical of Gates and any other enormous foundations is that they operate at such a high level and with such enormous budgets that they basically exist in the same "amoral" world of nation sta
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Your examples are still using subcontractors, which is what I'm saying is the problem. Someone is diffusing responsibility and adding a layer of complexity just so they can reduce their risk and skim a little off the top. Most of this
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That's what I hear but I think this is going to be like fully self-driving cars. It's going to be just around the corner for a while, then all of the sudden it's going to be 20 years away.
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I think referendums and plebiscites on specific issues are always a possibility even without the whole system being a direct democracy. I've always wondered why other countries have used them but the US never has.
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I can't even think of what the new set of expectations would even be of that shift were to occur.
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A big issue is sub-contracting and diffusion of responsibilities. Often the person you're doing business with isn't the person who actually delivers the service to you, who instead is just a lowly paid worker who has no control or
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What you're describing is basically Conservativism. The root word is conserve. Liberals are often about taking down (liberating) the current system. But for some reason they often don't want or don't get the populist labels.
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This is true for other areas as well. Our healthcare, education, and tax systems for example aren't what anyone proposed or ever would propose. They ended up that way for a variety of reasons and now we're stuck with them because
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Why? How do LLMs amd diffusion models relate to the "vision of AI and the vision of Virtual Reality"
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Some marketer decided to call this stuff AI precisely because they wanted to make the connection to those grand visions that you're talking about. If instead we called them what they are, Large Language Models, would you still say that
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If they're the "investors" then aren't they also the equity owners? Yes they're growing new sectors, but they own the profits of those sectors, not the people in Squanderville, who have no capital left to invest. He
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The extreme opposite of zero foreign ownership would be full foreign ownerhship, ie. colonization. All your resources and wealth belong to a foreign nation. If we agree that that's a bad thing, then it stands to reason that there'

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