GreeniFi

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by GreeniFi 6y ago
For low friction, transfer of ideas, Graham is right. But sometimes sounding like passport application form instructions doesn’t get the right feeling across. Words have a magic about them, and I don’t think Paul Graham would dispute that.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Less to do with insecurity, more to do with signifying membership of a club. A bit like a regimental tie, vocal fry or the latest pair of sneakers.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Great comment. I might go further and say that cherry-picking is either an attempt to deceive the listener or oneself. I’d put it on the same pedestal as lying.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
I found this very insightful, thank you.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
There was much resistance to quotas in South African rugby through the late 90s and noughts. But this was the team which won the 2019 rugby World Cup: https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/south-africa-win-rugby-wo... . I’
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Sheeesh. Bad news for entrepreneurship. As due to mortgage lending rules, it’s very difficult to get a loan as a business owner rather than an employee with steady, bankable, salary
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
What is the incentive for a bank to lend at 0%? Surely it’s more profitable to do nothing?
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
That’s an interesting site. I liked this essay more, dealing as it does with change and technology: https://www.richardhughestherapy.com/post/discovering-the-li...
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Thanks for doing this. I’ve a few to add and have already messaged this around a few people.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
I’ll look up that Wikipedia page. Thanks.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Every man has a balance sheet associated with his person: a sum of all his assets and liabilities, burdens and obligations. It captures one’s true wealth (or poverty). A large part of its content can only be settled in the political realm.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Fair point.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
It was my comment and I’d like to reply to that specific point, elaborating my initial comment: a true balance sheet is beyond the purely financial. It covers natural capital and social capital too. It’s only the narrow contemporary underst
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Agreed. And the owners billed.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
There’s a difference between “control” and “ownership”. And attributing causation is not a political point, it’s a point of fact.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Private Eye is one of the few publications which identifies this type of detail. I’m a regular buyer. Thanks for sharing.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
It’s interesting that the article does not attribute responsibility. Ultimately, that tanker was under the control of a group of decision-makers and liability should be attributed. I say this, because what pollution is in economic terms is
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Sorry to hear this story. Sounds like you’re over it, but maybe your younger self would have benefited from hearing this: https://twitter.com/JIMrichards1010/status/12391407105589698...
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Thanks Dang!
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Just to say, I’m case you’ve never heard it before, but there’s a theory that humanity as a whole only started seeing blue in modern times. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/humans-did... Ther
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
If this is how they treat investors, how will they persuade investors to invest again? Stupid question?
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
This sounds biblical. But it could also be Conan the Barbarian.
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
The “policy take-away” from the article seems to be that governments let it happen. I wonder if anyone on this board understands whether government inaction is due to incompetence, complacency or corruption. I guess like many issues these d
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
His obituary. An excellent read, even if you don’t agree with his world view. https://novaramedia.com/2020/09/04/the-opposite-of-a-cynic-d... Here is his series on debt on the BBC. Fascinating stuff if you ar
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
As a response to my original post, I believe you are (the more) correct to the extent execs need to receive a risk premium for helping save the business. I query whether the execs who (likely not always) oversaw the transition to bankruptcy
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Interesting article. The final “cliff-hanger” was great and not what I was expecting. But I wondered if there was bias in the collection of skulls. Did researchers, to satisfy their own biases, collect skulls which had a specific appearance
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
Organisations run on a charitable basis in this space on balance tend to be less transparent on impact than organisations run as businesses, which are better focused on effectively managing and reporting impact[1]. Oikocredit is probably my
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
“ Companies across America are awarding top executives multimillion-dollar “retention” bonuses shortly before declaring bankruptcy”. Shouldn’t this read: “Companies’ top executives are awarding themselves million dollar bonuses before decla
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by GreeniFi 6y ago
you’re right. We don’t live in a hellscape yet. But slow drawdown of environmental capital could bring this about. Climate change is the foremost example of this.

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