jbrun

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by jbrun 4mo ago
Interestingly, the invention of the printing press, a clear analogous technology to AI, was directly linked to the schism and creation of the protestant and reformation movement and bloody religious wars. So the Catholic church knows what i
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by jbrun 6mo ago
Absolutely. Also, kids end up helping you focus on the travel, experiences and things that are truly worthwhile. You drop a lot of activities and TV and other activities that was frankly a waste of time anyways.
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by jbrun 4y ago
I use Instapaper for articles, videos and more. Does not work for dynamic web apps obviously.
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by jbrun 4y ago
The projections you are referring to are out of date. We are already well below replacement rates globally.
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by jbrun 4y ago
Population implosion is going to be the biggest problem of our lives. It is one of those issues that creeps up progressively (like Global Warming), but will have cataclysmic impacts. Sex is a precursor to relationships and kids, if people d
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by jbrun 4y ago
lol
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by jbrun 4y ago
Good luck
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by jbrun 5y ago
The comments below echo what I think. We are social animals, deal with it.
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by jbrun 5y ago
It's a bit paradoxical. I have a tech company and most staff want to come to the office 1 day a week. Getting them to come is very tough. Many of my staff and friends don't want to have kids, make no effort to find a partner and f
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by jbrun 5y ago
We use an external firm. Works great.
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by jbrun 5y ago
Breather tried to do that out of Montreal and went bankrupt this year, not sure how much overlap there is with your system.
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by jbrun 5y ago
Definitely agree.
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by jbrun 5y ago
America is built mostly on immigrant work ethic, vast amount of arable land, no bordering enemies and the collapse of the european powers. Not sure america is that special, just lucky - right place, right time. https://www.theglo
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by jbrun 5y ago
Yeah, probably true. My background is Jewish European and there is an obvious streak of self-improvement in that culture (or at least, there used to be....)
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by jbrun 5y ago
As a Canadian and a French citizen, America definitely has this puritan streak of trying to be the best person you can be - or the purest you can be. Work harder, drink less, exercise more, etc. My French grandparents lived until they were
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by jbrun 5y ago
I have had my remarkable 2 for a month and really love it. It replaces paper and annotating paper PDFs. It is simple and easy to use. If you currently take notes or write paper PDFs, it is for you (this is enough for many people).
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by jbrun 6y ago
America is so blinded by their love of free speech they fail to see that most countries operate quite well with modest limits on speech. If American style free speech were so great the country would not be tearing itself apart as we speak.
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by jbrun 6y ago
What a surprise!
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by jbrun 6y ago
Clarification: I meant rule of law broadly speaking as a human invention (like science and medicine), not specific to China. Sorry for the confusion.
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by jbrun 6y ago
I meant rule of law broadly speaking as a human invention, not specific to China. Sorry for the confusion. Pssst.... See Irak, invasion.
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by jbrun 6y ago
Not sure how many of the people on this thread have actually been or lived in China. I have lived there about 2 years and travelled fairly extensively. I cannot speak to these specific villages, but the amount of people lifted out of povert
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by jbrun 6y ago
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Picketty Both dramatically formed by world view.
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The Small Regulatory Change That Led to the Messy Web(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jbrun 7y ago|0 comments
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by jbrun 7y ago
I tried it for 1 month, it is genuinely great, just kind of expensive considering all the pretty good free email apps out there. It is nice for me (CEO), but buying this in addition to everything else for all of our staff is tough to justif
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by jbrun 8y ago
This is fairly accurate, I am in Montreal.
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by jbrun 8y ago
We are in Montreal and looking for great people! http://nimonik.com/jobs/
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by jbrun 8y ago
Lots - Lapham's Quarterly, Harpers, The Atlantic, Jacobin, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, Monde Diplomatique, ....
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by jbrun 8y ago
There are no bullshit jobs. I like David Graeber very much, but he is wrong on this. If you believe that we operate in a market economy, then by definition bullshit jobs would be removed. Government or public institutions may be less subjec
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Basic Income Pilot Projects will not work(jonathanbrun.com)
1 points by jbrun 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbrun 8y ago
Of course. Empires collapse from within.

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