bioh42_2

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by bioh42_2 15y ago
I agree... sort of. As someone who did not join live journal, friendster, orkut, myspace, etc, I too think Facebook is likely a fad. However, these days even I am tempted to get a Facebook and/or twitter sock puppet account, if only because
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Reading this story makes me sad. There's also another story (google fails me) about a legendary IBM programmer around whom IBM built an entire team of testers, documenters, etc, all to keep this one guy's way above average productivity goin
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Combustion engines have over 100 years of wast R&D and real world usage behind them. We already have the infrastructure to move their fuel all over the world in wast quantities. This means I would not be surprised if we start using sola
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
I don't think humans should be doing the text entry, too much room for human error. But of computers enter the text and then the printing is still done by cast metal, you could have an interesting business. I am sure that will be more expen
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Are there any examples of a kidnapping actually being profitable? It's very easy for kidnapping to be profitable. All you need is a state with a pathetic justice system. Start with a police force terrible at finding the real perpetrators
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
It's hard to imagine. The best I can do is think of Rome's slave based economy. Obviously slaves can do anything the free Romans could, and they did. The Romans were either plebes, dependent on government handouts like bread and circuses, o
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
It doesn't reduce the demand for high-end jobs, it might reduce the demand for the currently large variety of high-end jobs. I agree with you, but I had to read that sentence three times to realize that. I think what we agree on, is that
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
You rarely get extreme excellence without things like mean leaders. Think of Apple and Steve Jobs.
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Better than waste: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1945073/
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Today, it seems like there is a plague of (fake) "libertarian" arguments for protecting essentially government-sponsored enterprises from ... the government. No this is old big co. lobbying, nothing new under the sun. Their arguments are
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
(damage to society) <= (fine) * (risk of getting caught) This is nuts. If say a kid spray paints a tiny bit on an abandoned building at night, and then gets caught, by your logic we should ruin his life. We must treat something like tha
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
I think this is called comunism I think communism is chiefly defined by public ownership. What I propose is an obviously crazy impractical outlawing of owning big houses with much better then average infrastructure. It would still be perf
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Funny and quite true. And it is also true for many other countries, with a mostly poor population. All over the world, one of the big benefits of wealth is the ability to build your own "island" or castle. But here's an interesting question
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Guessing as someone who has very little clue about Scandinavia: Why have the Norwegian dialects diverged so much A rugged and wast geography tends to isolate people, this leads to greater drift between local dialects? Sweden is big too, b
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
And the catfish would keep the cod agile. But catfish are fresh water and cod are salt water fish?!
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
non-profits ==> competition is not exactly red in tooth and claw Are you serious? Competition for donations between non-profits in my experience is often even more extreme then between for-profits. Do you have any evidence for softer
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
The best example I could find is about non-profits: http://nvs.sagepub.com/content/39/6/1057.abstract But I think the same principles would apply to for-profits. The only other examples I have are anecdotal.
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
With no consumer protection or standards, this is what happens. Not always, some times a wild market eventually results in some of the strictest standards which also happen to be self enforced. I say sometimes but some economists believe,
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Oh I'll gladly trade color vision for this. Rainbows are overrated.
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Inferential or renarrative mood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferential_mood Not always intended as sarcastic, but: The main body of the news report tends to use the renarrative correctly - but sometimes, again, it is intentionally avo
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
You know, unlike English some languages have a sarcastic tense.
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Bingo. Speaking as someone who was once a foreign student, generic descriptions of what Americans are like are almost useless. What is very valuable is to describe them in terms of how they are different from your culture. Thus compared t
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
But most of China's raw materials importing is driven by their huge expert market, how would a collapse of domestic spending affect that? Isn't it everyone else that's buying Chinese goods that's driving the demand for resources?
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
This Patrick McKenzie sounds suspiciously like patio11, the submitter of this very link...
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Is it? If traditional college guaranteed excellent this would be fraud. Think of money vs. fake money. But both college and experience are no guarantee of anything. They are more like a faint hope. Hopefully someone with this resume will be
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
I would have thought their government would have been intelligent enough to go for a slow changes over lots of time and no killing protesters. I guess not. I wonder if the king will survive and/or throw the rest of the government under the
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Fiduciary duty obliges the agents (CEO, board) to act in the best interest of the investors. This is a legal obligation. But recently there have been some ideas about redefining fiduciary duty: http://www.lawforchange.org/lfc/NewsBot.asp?M
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Basshunter's Boten Anna came out in 2006 I think. But yes, the rise of bots on our networks is inevitable. And they do not have to fool everyone all of the time, only some for brief periods of time. On-line communication is already formulai
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by bioh42_2 15y ago
Because, like pregnancy, businesses can't scale with more people? It is well established that certain work scales almost linearly with more people. But it is also well known that a lot of other types of work do not at all scale when you t
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by bioh42_2 16y ago
Can someone show/tell me what I, an average person, can do? Get personally involved with your representatives and senators. Write paper letters, call, and show up in person. Be friendly and talk with other voters at the events you show u

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