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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
>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…
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…
Could the good Doctor Strangelove be wrong?
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…
"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…
Because, while not bosom buddies, the medical professionals and insurance companies are better at working together to influence costs up?
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" (in their eyes) gov't in…
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…
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…
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…
A Wiener might be a person from Wien, Osterreich (which translates to Vienna, Austria in English).
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…
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…
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…
Who has jurisdiction?
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
>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…
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…
Could the good Doctor Strangelove be wrong?
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…
"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…
Because, while not bosom buddies, the medical professionals and insurance companies are better at working together to influence costs up?
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" (in their eyes) gov't in…
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…
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…
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…
A Wiener might be a person from Wien, Osterreich (which translates to Vienna, Austria in English).
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…
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…
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…
Who has jurisdiction?