comrade_ogilvy

6 ms·

1.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I think a variation of your idea is a winner. The top of the delivery truck can have lots of instrumentation to determine whether the final approach is safe, and help guide the landing. The human does the last 50 feet of delivery. A compu
2.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The practical answer is probably to blend the technologies. In an urban environment, the bikes do the last mile. Very small drop off points with tiny specialized helipads would accept a stream of fast deliveries from the more distant real
3.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Keep in the larger context in mind: Your former employer (and anyone else you have done significant business with) can always find some flimsy basis for a lawsuit that will cost you several dozens of sleepless nights and $10k-$20k in lawyer
4.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I have had this happen a couple time. I got a call one Saturday morning asking about 3 recent charges, including a Men's Warehouse in Waikiki. My response: "You are calling me at my California home number. I WISH I were in Waiki
5.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Exactly. When you pre-authorize money to be removed from your account, the bank will happily believe every future charge from that party. From their point of view, your emptied bank account is your problem. In fact, some banks will not ev
6.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I am ideologically opposed to ever letting money leaving my bank account, except under my close supervision with direct instructions on time and amount and to whom. That means nobody has a right to ask for money from my bank. I tell my ban
7.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
That sounds exactly like the kind of wishful thinking the OP is railing against. For "retail" folk who are having trouble navigating through regular life without getting screwed by their regular bank account, what does bitcoin of
8.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I would argue that fear of failure is taught. Small children are relentless and courageous and highly tolerant of discomfort -- falling down 20 times does not intimidate them when learning to walk. They get tired, shrug and try again later
9.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
The founders were pushed out because the VCs perceived the founders were not running the company all that well. The VCs may have been wrong in that assessment, but the VC controlled board did go through the hassle of bringing in new manage
10.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Exactly. The preferred stock is paid for with real money. The common shares I bought as an employee was at single digit pennies a share. While I am not exactly happy how I got wiped out, I did less badly than many VCs did.
11.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Yup. Our choices have consequences, and he put a lot of effort into making the world a crappier place so he could have a bit more stuff, most of which he probably did not actually need. But the author did even realize half of it. A cashie
12.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
It is true that the cost may well be less than sending a check to some American farmers to ship over rice, because the monies circulate locally. But ultimately that money could have built a big dam, or a few beautiful bridges, or a small po
13.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
>Compelling someone to lie after the facts have changed seems to me a far murkier legal area (and perhaps easier to fight in court). And IIRC C-level executives are required to certify they believe their quarterly reports are, to the bes
14.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Being deceitful about something that a reasonable person could construe as relevant to the value of the corporation in a public document could be a crime. Stockholders have rights. I think a case can be made that public perceptions about h
15.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Could the good Doctor Strangelove be wrong?
16.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Not quite so simple. The nuclear industry wanted/needed federal dollars, so not being in the uranium game looked like a bad bet. Once you have all that infrastructure invested in uranium, investing additional resources into thorium
17.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
We should keep in mind that the Age Of Exploration, circa Columbus, was considered monumentally successful by their Eurpoean sponsors, but being a explorer was nearly a death sentence. (I exaggerate only slightly).
18.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
"The range of verbs is further cut down by means of the -ize and de- formations, and the banal statements are given an appearance of profundity by means of the not un- formation." Obviously, we need to deincentivize that. &quot
19.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Because, while not bosom buddies, the medical professionals and insurance companies are better at working together to influence costs up?
20.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Part of the problem here is a matter of conflating people and government. "Death to America" =/= "Death to Americans" The better translation is "Regime change in America" -- they want a "better"
21.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
I agree. The best examples of third parties are the modern British Liberal party, and the insurgent Republican Party of 1860. But we can see that there were/are very strong regional factors in play, and that it never found a stable o
22.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
If the case is so clear, then they will be convicted with the full rights as the rest of us, won't they? Once upon a time, I was waiting in the Illinois state supreme court room for my then SO to be sworn in as a new member of the bar.
23.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Yes and no. The idealized invisible hand is built on the axiom that information flows, and the decision makers have feedback to learn from their own mistakes and the mistakes of others. When the axiom happens to be mostly untrue, then p
24.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
A Wiener might be a person from Wien, Osterreich (which translates to Vienna, Austria in English).
25.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Your points are all good ones. The likely problem is the potential for increased suffering for future generations, not necessarily to the child to be immediately born. There are genes that a usually superior when heterogenous. Sickle cell
26.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Heterosis just means there are twice as many factors to worry over. If it becomes too faddish to pick the exact same two genetic codings for a particular gene or select away every gene not on a preferred list, we still lose and immense a
27.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Yes, I think it will happen. There is a market for this stuff, and, in time, when and why to say N-O will become less and less obvious. There are problems with genetic selection. But I think the larger problem will be the personal toll of
28.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Who has jurisdiction?
29.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
There will always be career men/women who have seen a lot of laundry, who might be bitter when passed up for promotion in favor of a political crony, and find that helping along justice makes for sweet revenge. That is why extremely ma
30.
by comrade_ogilvy 13y ago
Sports/fashion has its peculiarities, but your anecdote is not convincing. The big reason that Nike is so successful is that they have maintained their status of a premium brand, in a sweet spot a few notches above where the competitio

More ›