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The product manager has probably been given something like two weeks to report a level of interest. The greatest likelihood is that we will never hear of this again.

Incoherent, even as nostalgia. Dishonest, meant to be weaponized for factional advantage: his own audience do not want to hear about equality before the law, but only about double …

It is certainly far too big to succeed.

It is already too late for many.

The article is poorly edited but even allowing for that fact, its author undermines his own argument at every turn. What he ends up showing is not the distinctness, but the interde…

Cost != price. Organizational friction is a cost; in fact it is the dominant hidden cost. Organizations that grow past Coase's ceiling are paralyzed by internal friction. They beco…

Dunbar's number is another manifestation of Coase's ceiling. Coase's insight is more general, as it applies not only to every other kind of organizational dynamic, but also to, e.g…

He neglects the liability incentive.

Free speech is bullshit, first because no one is listening. But then, is anyone free to speak to their parents, their teachers, their employers?

It is very cheap to say that Trump thinks like a child. It is probably true, but that doesn't even matter. Even if he did not, anyone in his position would have to talk and act lik…

Eventually we will get through the entire alphabet.

This neglects the people who think that disruption is opportunity.

If someone comes to you and says "I have proven the Riemann hypothesis", will you believe them, or think them a crank? If something comes to you and says (in effect) "I am The Sing…

Ooh! I know! I know! ... because the dollar will lose 90% of its value!

Interventions of this kind always end up having the opposite effect from what was intended, at a lag of days to months.

Because all of the plants like this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Castings ) have been torn out.

Not being OpEx. Taking blame. Lending credibility.

The argument is that the environment is so saturated with Federal enforcement that the airlines become de facto Federal concessionaires.

The problems discussed here are not The Problem, which is that businesspeople cannot understand the problems discussed here. The effect of The Problem is that the designers and ope…

The purpose of all automation and outsourcing is to obscure responsibility, not to reduce cost.

The number of crashes is not what matters. What matters is whether it is possible to hold anyone responsible for the crashes that do occur. The purpose of autonomous vehicles -- th…

Author doesn't know the difference between a premium and a discount. Calibrate accordingly.

2031 may as well be 3031.

Now do "why letting nations get away with international crimes is bad for the world".

Underground == inaccessible. That equation affects more things than power lines. Past time to solve it.