grapist420

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by grapist420 5y ago
yeah. This is the “I hate social media” equivalent of the daily mail’s pop science coverage. Most of it’s wrong, and the parts that aren’t are totally uninformative.
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by grapist420 5y ago
what are you watching, what’s the point, how is it screwing with your life
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by grapist420 5y ago
main problem is that so many firms are doing buybacks and I don’t see evidence that most of them are doing this. Might be wrong, but this indicates it can be misused vs is mostly misused
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by grapist420 5y ago
headline should include that “some”
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by grapist420 5y ago
what corporations in America are zombies? Buybacks are happening in sectors like tech as opposed to ones like utilities, which are more zombieish
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by grapist420 5y ago
what’s the dump part
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by grapist420 5y ago
I will eventually read leftist theory, but I won’t be caught dead watching political YouTube
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by grapist420 5y ago
and we could transition to a nuclear wasteland too, slow doesn’t mean the end can’t be bad. Amazon has people trained to manage Amazon and they currently do so. why would their interest be any more aligned with workers
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by grapist420 5y ago
what’s magical about workers? why wouldn’t they just be corrupt themselves
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by grapist420 5y ago
the soviets had expert top down control, not worker control. we currently have decentralized (by a bunch of experts who own stuff and pay each other and publish papers and legislate) control let’s say workers now control Amazon. all of Amaz
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by grapist420 5y ago
yes representative democracy deals with this problem in a way that workers councils doesn’t. swarms of lobbyists (not evil) and aides are not industrial workers
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by grapist420 5y ago
okay my issue wasn’t that worker controlled firms would be legally incapable of joint ventures for profit. My issue was - who makes the decision? Do the workers understand finance and supply chain management and commodity prices and politic
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by grapist420 5y ago
just google the phrase “five billion dollar joint venture”. They don’t come from rich peoples’ pocketbooks, but they do from other areas and are important. And don’t come from governments. They come from the businesses lol. Similarly, early
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by grapist420 5y ago
boys absolutely bully each other reputationally. “Trolling”, insults, etc
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by grapist420 5y ago
I agree likes are bad, but 4chan doesn’t have likes. insta girls can still farm attention without it dude
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by grapist420 5y ago
scale began when the first RNA doubled itself, when the first cell doubled, when the first animal doubled, when the first rat learned from another, etc
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by grapist420 5y ago
giving workers board seats doesn’t reduce their order following, it makes the orders better. > Another, if we are imagining a different society, is to make sure our educational system teaches every student the principles of worker self-m
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by grapist420 5y ago
Someone needs to fund the judges and regulators and the NSF! I mostly just disagree with “employee run corporations”
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by grapist420 5y ago
okay but the adage of “VC profit is mostly the huge winners”, so your marginal benefit goes down only at the highest valuation companies, and does that really harm much? There’s a great argument that yes, I’d rather have Elon be able to pum
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by grapist420 5y ago
I mean you can just think about “would I rather have CEO musk / bezos or CEO drunk BPD girl”. It’s not actually based on percentages
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by grapist420 5y ago
> is whether it is socially sustainable not to re-distribute that “Bread and circuses” is derogatory, but the unsustainable parts of technological industrial society aren’t “rich people exist”. Conditions are so ridiculously prosperous a
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by grapist420 5y ago
yeah and computers are “just” interactions between electromagnetism and matter. This slides a lot > History has not been kind to nations whose governments break those rules and started nationalizing corporations Yeah but history has been
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by grapist420 5y ago
you don’t want pharmaceutical plant workers and accountants voting on whether the company should invest in mRNA tech in 2013?
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by grapist420 5y ago
okay so if nobody can have personal control over $100M how do $5B infrastructure investments (tens of thousands of which you personally benefit from, like chip foundries or joint city infrastructure and pharmaceutical ventures) or billion d
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by grapist420 5y ago
I have no idea why the workers of, say, Uber would know how to decision make for tech infrastructure and strategy. unless you mean “give them board seats”, which is rather different.
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by grapist420 5y ago
ok and in an open democracy it’s not for you to decide that 55% taxes are too much. The public discourse determines that ;)
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by grapist420 5y ago
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/23/the-dangers-of-bu... this is slightly informative unlike OP it’s section on leverage supports my sense that debt financed buybacks aren’t a massive catastrophe, and
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by grapist420 5y ago
Gravity is already helping all it wants to. Gravity is constantly redirecting the velocity in the circular orbit. A velocity change will push it into a new orbit, that will be slightly offset from the old one. You need so much velocity chan
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by grapist420 5y ago
they have been doing this for a long time
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by grapist420 5y ago
when I hack it into python, it’s slightly annoying. when done properly, no, it’s no worse than f(a+g(b+c())), which is everywhere in code already. And debuggers / error messages should indicate what sub expression caused it, which woul

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