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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).
"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…
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…
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?
Yours is the correct viewpoint: it is incompatible with human cognition. If an alert system is not perceived as highly reliable in directing positive action, then the humans involved will inevitably disable the alert…
>It seems to me that these kinds of discussions tend to conflate forced government surveillence with voluntarily giving your information to other people (such as Facebook). They are inexorably linked together, but we…
"Enforcing a low ceiling" is a very bias conclusion, with no logical support provided here. The school system as we know it is a mass education "factory" system. There is and always will be cracks for students to fall…
Thanks for all the info! It seems possible that torturing animals for days on end could be fatal to the victim. I hesitate to suggest to try adding doses of sleep to this diabolic regimen, for fear it would be attempted.
It is not the neurons themselves, but the the glial cells that keep those very large and (potentially) active neurons healthy. Presumably the glial cells must partially shut down in order to physically shrink, thus the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).
"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…
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…
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?
Yours is the correct viewpoint: it is incompatible with human cognition. If an alert system is not perceived as highly reliable in directing positive action, then the humans involved will inevitably disable the alert…
>It seems to me that these kinds of discussions tend to conflate forced government surveillence with voluntarily giving your information to other people (such as Facebook). They are inexorably linked together, but we…
"Enforcing a low ceiling" is a very bias conclusion, with no logical support provided here. The school system as we know it is a mass education "factory" system. There is and always will be cracks for students to fall…
Thanks for all the info! It seems possible that torturing animals for days on end could be fatal to the victim. I hesitate to suggest to try adding doses of sleep to this diabolic regimen, for fear it would be attempted.
It is not the neurons themselves, but the the glial cells that keep those very large and (potentially) active neurons healthy. Presumably the glial cells must partially shut down in order to physically shrink, thus the…