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by coxmichael 3y ago
I’d wager that’s more to do with raising finance than organisational productivity, but I’m not aware of any actual research on something of that scale or even how to accurately study those effects without it turning into more of a qualitati
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by coxmichael 3y ago
I’m not convinced this is inevitable, but it certainly feels it within the current system. Co-ops exist and can be very successful. Hierarchies can be time-limited, or democratically limited, it just depends on the legal and organisational
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by coxmichael 3y ago
It’s harder to get finance as a co-operative, so it’s hardly a fair competition. Also, in most studies, co-ops and employee ownership models do actually end up being more profitable and sustainable in the long term [0, 1]. [0] Page 23+ in t
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by coxmichael 3y ago
Thanks, I’ll give it a read
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by coxmichael 3y ago
> Math is an epistemological tool to abstract the causality of existence into a simplified structure The mathematics to accurately predict or relay reality is still complex enough that it’s often beyond us. You’re right in that it’s a to
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by coxmichael 3y ago
Nice site/typography! The bold and italics look like they’re being applied in browser though, rather than specific faces. And it’s calling out for some small caps for acronyms like ‘HTML’. Nice to see sites with this style, it’s very r
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by coxmichael 3y ago
Roads were often made of wood blocks, so maybe that’s an option here too?
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by coxmichael 4y ago
In more political phraseology, that would be tyranny rather than anarchy (that is, without hierarchy)
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by coxmichael 4y ago
> broadly the analysis results in better outcomes or else there would be no economic incentive to facilitate medical research This is true to a degree, but outcomes for real healthcare rely on much more than research, as you’ve indicated
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by coxmichael 4y ago
Both can be true, and greater systems of medical research and analysis don’t necessarily lead to greater on-the-ground treatment. As you’ve pointed out, access to those information systems is critical. I’d add the distribution of that infor
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by coxmichael 4y ago
How do you structure the 2 hour session? Would be interesting to hear which kinds of tasks you use in a short space of time.
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by coxmichael 4y ago
Thanks, I appreciate your response, and agree on many of your points. > whatever happens with the dollars and financial instruments you ignore, and you take a pure look at the real goods and services involved The trick of forgetting abou
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Book Review: Seeing Like a State(slatestarcodex.com)
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by coxmichael 4y ago
Apologies here, my previous comment was a little flippant (I was at the pub…). There's absolutely an argument here that rents, as a basic dead-weight cost of all people within a society, don't affect the real economy or productivi
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by coxmichael 4y ago
I think one of the options here is to remove the standing charge, making pricing reflect usage — higher energy users will get a sudden disincentive to use the same level of energy. The article also mentions a domestic cap set at reasonable
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The UK Energy Crisis: An MMT Analysis(new-wayland.com)
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by coxmichael 4y ago
Exactly, it’s redistributive to the public good. That is, productive.
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by coxmichael 4y ago
Again, there’s the idea that wages and businesses produce nothing. They don’t.
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by coxmichael 4y ago
I feel like this kind of zero-sum argument does the rounds quite frequently. The reality is that housing is the main mechanism used by the older wealthy folk for their pensions, and subsequently transfers wealth up through the generations.
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by coxmichael 4y ago
Can we not just have something like: a { &:hover {…} &:parent(.theme):hover {…} } No crazy selectors with an ampersand in the middle allowed, but a way to apply a parent or ancestor selector, a bit like :where() or
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by coxmichael 4y ago
A favourite of mine was something along the lines of: Short circuit; a man, thinking peas would increase his virility, shovels them straight into his lap
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Running a Modern Money Economy (2017)(new-wayland.com)
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by coxmichael 5y ago
Out of interest, what language features do you see JavaScript needing to support these kinds of fine-grained reactive updates, and to allow destructuring? I'd assume something like es6 proxies for primitive values would be needed, but
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by coxmichael 6y ago
This article[1] from 2015 has stuck with me for years, talking about the same approach. The interesting thing about transactional/bitemporal databases is really the effect on how we consume them with our applications. The schema can be
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by coxmichael 6y ago
In the UK, the -ize spelling is generally attributed to "Americanization", but it’s actually more etymologically correct even for British English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling (It goes back a