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==But it also has very conservative capital and tax and employment systems that make entrepreneurship difficult.==

The rate of new business creation is higher in Europe than the US. I would guess that the US has more venture-backed entrepreneurs, but more businesses are being start by Europeans than Americans.

“The net rate of business creation among the EU economies has been over three times faster than in the USA and Canada since the financial crisis, according to research by RSM International, the seventh largest global network of independent audit, tax and consulting firms.”

== https://www.businessawardseurope.com/news/item/rate-of-new-b...
Seems like a challenge as some would say the game would not have happened, on an NES, in Rust.

:D
Consent must specifically be freely given; it's not a valid basis if it's "forced opt in" in a TOS. I'm not sure if there's any jurisprudence here (on exactly what freely given means). Even if consent with a TOS were to be considered freely given (I don't think so, but IANAL), it would still need to be clear, and most TOS fail to clear that hurdle. At best it would be a push, and in principle if the legal basis in invalid, punishments can be just as severe as if you hadn't bothered trying at all (although clearly the enforcement at the moment still appears to give violators a lot of chances to repair any issues; so in practice a seemingly reasonable if invalid attempt might at least buy some temporary reprieve if every enforcement comes knocking).
"More come with sharp things and commit atrocities."
It is an array, not really a single camera. Note that there will be dead space, black lines between sensors, that wouldnt be acceptable in any camera not meant for a telescope. Imho if we are going to talk about big cameras, the detector array is less important than the light gathering system of mirrors and lenses.
> I've generally only regularly seen subcontracting used to do something immoral, unethical, or irresponsible

For example, almost all construction is subtracted.

You contract with someone for a construction project. They manage it and they subcontract to specialists to do the different parts of the job, such as electricians, plumbers, etc.

What on earth is 'immoral, unethical, or irresponsible' about that?
How do you know that's how the rating system is "supposed" to work?
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SpaceX is listed on EquityZen, but no shares are available. I suspect there is very low liquidity for most of these companies, a problem JPMorgan could potentially reduce.
I just rediscovered my 5th Gen iPod Video...after a $12 battery swap, I have uninterrupted high fidelity music in over the ear headphones has been a revelation.

-No interruptions from IMs, SMS, Facebook, Linked In, Slack, GCN, Ring, Nest, Apple+, Farmville, Solitaire, or any other application that thinks it must get a hold of your attention

-It's a timecapsule of 2005 and before - When I curated my music myself...I had to like a song, and then Star it to make it to my player

-Works everywhere, completely offline

-I found myself REALLY listening to music again...and the notifications I needed while WFH generally had a visual component, too, so I could opt to respond to that meeting or join that Teams Chat without necessarily interrupting the music.

-It dropped me back into iTunes Music (or ITunes...or Music...or whatever it's branded now) which is a much bigger view of my music that you just don't get looking at an iPhone screen.

I'm pretty sure it's a two week distraction (because holy-smokes, that cable catches on EVERYTHING) but it's a fun one.
> at least until epoch time reaches 1.7e10.

And to add insult to injury: that should actually be 1.7e9; 1.7e10 would be 17000M epoch seconds, not 1700M.
One person one vote doesn't mean equal power, it means the power distribution isn't nailed down by law.

It is rather apparent that some people - and certainly some groups - have a lot more power than others in any country. Voting just means the power is a little more mobile, and can shift over time.

1 randomly selected citizen has, practically speaking, no ownership or control of the welfare system.
Not in general of course but in the way you're asking, yes.

My broader team was already pretty distributed around North America and Europe already. And other groups I work with were pretty distributed as well. But some were in offices and would do calls from conference rooms. It is better, to at least some degree, with everyone now on their own camera/microphone. (And in fact a couple sub-teams already had a rule that everyone did calls from their own computer/phone.)
> whats happening with climate change

I'm not aware of any particular evidence that "second order effects" are driving climate change or causing feedback cycles. But I suppose it depends how you define it. What do you have in mind here?
Isn't the money they make from search because of ads?
There was a peak conventional oil in the US in the 1970's.
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From the article:

> "I’ve seen them look at boats hauling fish. I think they know that humans are somehow related to the scarcity of food"

If they are really that smart, they would be smart enough to figure out humans are made of food too, right? Some orca at some point in time would've realized it and eaten a human, yet that hasn't happened.

Hear me out: what if they don't kill us out of self preservation? They see the fishing boats, the harpoons. They even see the gigantic war ships, and are probably smart enough to realize that those are linked. Would we attract the ire of a species that is much more advanced than ours if it was just harvesting resources? Not until we're almost dead from starvation.
>(why is browser history search still so shit?)

Because Google wants people to search using the Google search engine, and see ads while they're at it. That would happen less often if Chrome were properly capable of searching the history.

Opera did full text history search a decade ago, but that browser doesn't exist anymore.

Also, history is expected not to be tied to the device in the cloud era. What more history data could you scalably sync other than URLs and page titles?
“So don’t get seen doing it.”
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Indeed, if the short sellers are wrong, they should be able to take advantage like VW in 2008.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-idUSTRE49R3I92...
That doesn’t prevent you from using them at home though.
In math "true" is essentially just a name for a symbol. Saying that an axiom is true is like saying that 3 comes after 2 - it doesn't imply any kind of truth in the usual "consistent with reality" sense.
Nearly everyone says we know what to do, we just lack the will to do it. We lack leadership -- not telling people facts, figures, doom, gloom, and instructions. That's management, which is important, but leadership -- helping people do what they want to but haven't figured out how. No leaders or people with authority understand nature and I think it's easier for scientists to learn leadership than leaders to learn science.

I support more science, but it's overwhelmingly clear. We don't need more science to create a vision and strategy. People need to feel meaning and purpose, to have an expectation of success. That comes from what leaders work on -- stories, images, role models, systems, emotions, and culture.

So I focus on leadership -- bringing what people like Mandela, Eisenhower, Ali, and Deming brought but I don't see anyone doing today. My TEDx talks https://joshuaspodek.com/tedx and podcast illustrate what I'm working on, though I've advanced a lot since then.

Here are podcast episodes describing my strategy:

- https://shows.pippa.io/leadership-and-the-environment/episod...

- https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...

- https://shows.pippa.io/leadership-and-the-environment/episod...

- https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...
This all matters to an employee why exactly? Objective measures have what value? An objective measure that no one is selling or buying at is toilet paper. Thus the only measure that matters is the market. If the fair value estimate is in line with the market (in case of IPO, sale, etc.) or higher than that is good enough for employee stock buy back. Note that the FMV doesn't need to be equal to the market in this case, it can be higher. In all your examples that was the case so I don't see the problem.
>Or it was just a concept car, like what automakers used to do for decades?

Can you really not differentiate the claims made by Nikola vs a manufacturer building a one-off concept car and parking it at a car show?
This is perhaps not all that relevant to your point, but "the sky is blue" so often being used as an example of an obvious truth is amusing to me, because very often the sky is not all that blue at all.

If I look outside right now, the sky is probably better described as cyan; quite obviously a different colour from the blue exercise mat that happens to be on my floor.

The sky can also be described by many of the other colours depending on weather or the time of day.
> It is unlikely we will ever “run out of fossil fuels” because the price will simply increase as supplies begin to run low. Then two things will happen: we will consume less and expand the scope of production to more expensive source.

You are just restating peak oil theory here.
You can't really say this without the followers of the Church of Musk attacking you for going against the saviour of the human race, but this is why I think there is something very fishy going on with Tesla and Elon Musk who also has a tendency to blame short-traders for any negative press (of which there is a lot, some of it extremely unsettling).
I feel those explanations are complementary. Being a product of evolution, the brain has some game-theoretic principles encoded in it. And with capability of conscious thought, communication, and later language and writing, we learn to recognize and apply game-theoretic principles more abstractly. Culture is, in part, game theory in form of heuristics.

On the other hand, where game theory says some choice is arbitrary, the brain can have a default encoded - and that default will be universal across humans.
The other requirement worth thinking about is the 3 seconds.
How many followers are going to be watching for that 3 seconds to matter. And how much slack can be in that?
Could 1.5 million followers be sleeping and not need the tweet for a few hours or only when they next sync.
For sure, and it’s definitely something I never would have planned or expected for myself. It was also partly influenced by COVID, and further compounded by pretty rough break up.

But the funny thing is, I really feel more comfortable and confident than when I was “succeeding”. I used to feel so guilty about a one line code fix taking weeks to deploy, or I used to feel so guilty and terrible for not paying attention during scrum and refinement and all those meetings. I always felt like I was working too hard and not hard enough.

Farming has this reputation of just interminable toil and physical labor, combined with high costs for agro chemicals. But then you read about farmers like Gabe Brown or Chris Trump, idk.

It only takes three nonlinearities to create chaotic, non predictable behavior.
It's really not. The costs of commuting and wfh vary dramatically between individuals.

In my case I have no commuting costs, I run or walk to work. Hell it's actually slightly cheaper as I showered at work 5 days a week.

The costs of wfh during winter however are massive as I live in an old northerly city where well insulated flats simply don't exist. Plus my flat is mostly one room, with massive windows and has electric heating. There's no affordable way to insulate it and heating it an extra 8 hours a day will cost £80-100 a month.
According to the article, hunger is a factor stressing them out and making them more aggressive towards the boats, though as you note they don’t seem to want to eat humans:

«The orcas return to this noisy, polluted stretch of water for one reason – to feed. They specialise in hunting bluefin tuna, also highly prized by humans. The near collapse of bluefin tuna between 2005 and 2010 “has led this orca population to the very edge, with about 30 adults left”, says Pauline Gauffier, who has studied them.»
Orcas don't eat typically humans, there are many examples of them not doing this when they could have. I have no evidence to support this, but if they're intelligent enough to have culture differences between pods, they might be intelligent enough to tell stories about the animals in boats on the surface and how they seem harmless, but if you attack one of them, the entire tribe of them will come and wipe out your entire family as retribution.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAToxJ9CGb8 has the headline "Nikola One Electric Semi Truck in Motion", and shows with camera angles implying it goes uphill.

Lots of frauds are done this way - trying to pull the "well, we didn't exactly say what you think we did". It remains fraud.
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I heard that whales intetionally sinking ships was common throughout the whaling era, and has all but stipped since whaling was (mostly) outlawed.
This! Also trading the time wasted commuting for exercising.
I guess slavery is worth having since someone, somewhere, "chose" to do it...

Wait, what's that!?!? Are you saying it's acceptable for society to make decisions for those who don't have the leverage to protect themselves?!?! WHAT?!?!? Say it aint so Mr Magoo, say it aint so...

Cause I hurd if you ever make a decision for another human being you're immoral, making all parents immoral. That's just how this shit wurks my brutha!
It's usually not seen very positively by the market unless the holder is viewed as extraordinarily visionary. Outside of tech, it's much harder to spin the visionary angle, so they often trade at a significant discount to their peers. It's the removal of a form of checks and balances. If the direction is good, shareholders would go along anyway, but if it's bad, there is nothing to do to exert influence except jump ship.
> The biggest growth phase (in terms of percentages, likelihoods, risk) is behind them.

That sounds wrong to me, they haven't even tapped much into their potential yet. SpaceX is still proving that they are a reliable, viable alternative to government backed space access. To my feeling they are at 1-5% of their journey.
I don't understand how land masses the size of africa detaches. The map shows africa attached to the US, but this doesn't make sense. I can understand water levels changing, exposing new areas that might have been underwater, drying up and turning into land masses, as well as areas that were previously land, becoming filled with water.
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>but this is why I think there is something fishy going on with Tesla

Well, maybe the Nikola thing will have people asking questions and holding Tesla to the same standard.

We know, from depositions in the Solar City law suit, that the solar shingle reveal was faked and non-functional. The shingles didn't exist in that form then, and still don't (they buy panels from China, the factory in Buffalo isn't doing anything). The battery swap demo was also likely faked, as was the "Paint it Black" self-driving video from 2016 (demonstrating self-driving capabilities Tesla still doesn't have in the real world, today). Those are off the top of my head.
If, as some are suggesting, a lot of people end up coming into the office one or two days a week, how could hot desking not be widely adopted?
> It's a cultural thing.

It was just another example of cultural behavior.

It was not a normative statement.
Let's not forget about the pleasures of communism. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn might be a worthwhile read.
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What's your option?

If you say solar or wind, I'll tell you not without solid state physics experiments to multiply battery capacity by at least 10x.
(Not impossible, but as much pie in the sky as fusion.) Or a global electric network. Or space solar with concomitant energy sending infrastructure.

Nuclear is good for maybe 300 years. (And not exclusive with other sources.) Hydro, geothermal are nice where we can have them.

Anything else, we don't even know where to start.
> Reusables [...] release loads of microplastics

Do people use synthetic reusable diapers? Why would you do that?
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The reason you get these sorts of bugs is not because of the languages used, but because of the tight constraints, most notably the limited amounts of ROM and RAM available. You simply couldn’t code such a thing in safe Rust. If you wanted to make cartridges like this with Rust, there would be a lot of unsafe code, and you’d get just the same bugs.

Put another way: if you said, “you wouldn’t get this if you wrote it in Java”—well, sure, but that’s because you wouldn’t get anything, because the JVM wouldn’t fit and couldn’t run on the target platform.
Not the OP, but I've got a pretty concrete example of how these effects can potentially slow down human-driven climate change, which is what they were likely referring to.

An immediate first-order effect is a lack of air travel.

A resulting second-order effect will be the eventual shift in aircraft buying trends, pricing, scheduling, etc. to adjust to diminished air travel, something that cements more concretely the travel patterns we're adopting during the pandemic. Examples may include smaller but more fuel efficient planes, but also potentially ordering far less of them (we're seeing this now - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-american-airline-outlook/...) as well as possibly shifting seat availability in favor of business and premium classes to extract more value from people who do fly...

...which loops (to the OP's point) back into keeping more people from flying as a third-order effect.

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Et voila, significantly reduced air travel and a significant aid in our fight against climate change.
> For example, almost all construction is subtracted.

Yes, that was the first example that came to mind. You hire "ABC Fencebuilders" to build a fence, but without informing you, they subscontracted the job out to "BCD Fencebuilders" who subcontracted the job out to "CDE Fencebuilders". And so, if anything goes wrong, you have a half-dozen companies to deal with (none of which you actually hired, none of which you would have used if you had a choice), and no one will take actual responsibility for the situation, because they can all point to mysterious third-parties.

That's what's irresponsible about that. Residential construction is rife with this, it's routinely used to screw people over.

It's not necessarily a problem for someone to contract out work outside their industry or field (a carpenter might recommend hiring an electrician and/or a plumber, because a carpenter is not an electrician. All good, makes sense).

But banning subcontracting within the same industry (i.e., an electrician subcontracting out their work to a different electrician) doesn't seem like a problem at all.
Yeah the problem with Chinese innovation is the government still has a brain drain for fundamental science and Advanced manufacturing which still needs years of development. So thanks a lot Trump to help creating a Chinese hostile atmosphere to turn it to a brain gain (you can argue about it but many talented people are going back whatsoever)

However the people there are ironically submissive, dictatorial, flexible and long term thinking. Every now and then magically CCP would adopt some bottom up Suggestion and turn it to top down strategy that does the right thing
Many, if not most, small MCUs can also run C++ these days as just as well as C. If you want to write simpler and more robust applications, it's easily achievable.
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I know. Just wanted to say: "I can confirm this so called urban myth."

It's not that I'd been that interested in it, just read about it, and looked into it afterwards. And it happens. Again and again.
I have mixed feelings on this. Nikola has a Theranos vibe to it. On the other hand, "Citron Research" has created stock crashes on shaky ground in both Shopify and Tesla using hit pieces with claims that didn't pan out. I'm not sure if it is a stopped-clock is right twice a day thing, or if this is a poker strategy adding to EV by mixing in bluffs with solid poker hands.
This final point is so important. I have been full-time WFH for the last ~6 years, and 2020 is by far and above 10x worse than any prior year. My immediate environment has not changed much, but the disruptions elsewhere have added up to quite the psychological burden.
Isn't that also the case in the us, with unions like the UAW?
That’s not mutually exclusive with a single person’s vote having effectively zero effect in and of itself.

Also I’d argue that even if technically everyone only gets one vote, some people exert much more control than that by influencing voters, politicians, etc, through their wealth or other sources of power.
Interesting fact, the killer whale (orca) is a natural predator of a moose.
Yes, short sellers are correct sometimes. Citron's report on
Valeant comes to mind. Actually, as I recall there was a report prior to Citron's that was much more convincing though didn't get as much publicity.
Which makes me why this got so much traction; meh it's only every 3 yearsish.
That says that you have to pay extra if you want to throw in more. Nothing about having to ask neighbors. There is also always the alternative of just buying a trash bag from the city and just filling that up.

The part about neighbors keeping watch over open windows however is hilariously dystopian. Especially given my own experience with passive buildings that completely failed to live up to the hype, with air circulation that was a health hazard..
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Google definitely could of created a research laboratory. Wasnt it not long ago that companies would invest a lot more money on research? That was why we got so many impressive projects out of Bell Labs and I am sure other companies. Its a shame that horse race ended.

Whats worse is Google wants all their software to be as intangible as possible by forcing it all on their servers. Google hasnt had many desktop apps you can use without their servers involved in a long time. I dont consider Chrome a desktop app since it is their own OS and the new IE based on its hostility on the web to build up a Google Monopoly.
Amazonian if you work for Amazon.
Allowing skilled workers or students to immigrate is one thing. Turning a blind eye to CCP/PLA espionage and IP theft is another. It is misleading and illogical to conflate the two.

Given that Schmidt is an intelligent person capable of parsing logic, is it fair to ask if he has ulterior motives here?
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The article offers some anecdotes, but nothing to support the claim that attacks have been "unusual" in the past or are increasing in number. There's no sense of whether this is still an isolated problem, whether it has exploded in recent years, or whether there's anything that connects these attacks with attacks in other places.

Local coast guards might keep track of this sort of information. But there's nothing about that one way or the other in the article.

Without some quantitative handle, it's impossible to even know whether something unusual is happening here.