On 24.03.19 14:28, Florian Cramer wrote:
> Travis suggests that the 737 MAX fiasco resulted from a combination of
> market economics/cost-optimization management and software
> being used to correct hardware design flaws.
Yes. I think there are several factors involved that are in fact
How is the EU seizing control of the means of production? How is the EU
delegitimising the ownership of private property by private citizens? When
last I checked, it was still possible to establish for-profit businesses in the
EU, and it was still possible for individual EU citizens to purchase
Hey Douglas,
Nice to hear from you. Really interesting perspective and I appreciate
hearing about some of the 'on the ground' conditions in Wellington and
Christchurch.
I do agree that if the Springbok Tour of 1981 was one inflection point,
then Christchurch in 2019 is another. How do we rebound
On 27.03.19 22:05, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> EU is really another attempt at communism.
As I just wrote in another post, I think the US (and the UK and the EU)
far facing a similar structural crisis as the USSR faced in the 1970s.
Whether these countries turns out to be like the USSR, depends on
Felix, this is really interesting. Normally, I'm allergic to sweeping
models of history that involve anything like 'technology' or
'technology,' because they mostly serve as playgrounds for wannabe TED
talkers. Yours is different — maybe, in part, because you don't assume
that capitalism and
Property is just an opinion, programmed into certain number of human
brains. It's soft, and can be modified or erased. There is no brain area
dedicated for private property (witness human societies without it.)
Using this ephemeral phenomenon to understand underlying dynamics is
unproductive.
The basic issue is complexity crossing the threshold that humans cannot.
So far, at least in the last few thousand years or so, mental abilities
were one of key factors for individual 'success' (the other, likely more
important one, was class and heritage.) We appreciate smart people as
much
On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:05:16 PM CET, Morlock Elloi wrote:
EU is really another attempt at communism.
Go home grandpa, you're drunk.
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Not so fast, Felix, and not so clear.
The origins of the phrase black box are "obscure," but the cybernetics
crowd started using it from the mid-'50s. Their usage almost certainly
drew on electronics research, where it had been used on a few occasions
by a handful of people. However, that
On 29 March 2019 at 09:07:31, Morlock Elloi (morlockel...@gmail.com) wrote:
Seemingly totally unrelated:
1. flight recorders are brightly colored these days. The term "black
box" originates in WW2, mostly because the first flight recorders, as
all other "secret" electronics, was housed in metal
On 28.03.19 16:38, tbyfield wrote:
> Yes and no. In theory, plane crashes happen out in the open compared to
> other algorithmic catastrophes. In practice, the subsequent
> investigations have a very 'public secret' quality: vast expanses are
> cordoned off to be combed for every fragment,
Seemingly totally unrelated:
1. flight recorders are brightly colored these days. The term "black
box" originates in WW2, mostly because the first flight recorders, as
all other "secret" electronics, was housed in metal boxes painted matte
black.
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