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Preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07425 NB: OP here, but I didn't write this blog or co-author this preprint.

>> its capabilities are arguably an improvement over the capabilities of the old monopolies >I think this is true, but it's a much, much weaker claim than the one you have been mak…

>> it's a market-maker that provides a venue for other vendors to sell stuff >That's not what a market maker is. A market maker is a market participant that guarantees to buy or se…

Sorry. Still, it never ceases to amaze me what some people end up doing for work. "You mean they pay people for this?!" is usually my first reaction.

>The Melbourne Gold rush was in the 1850s-1860s so the "new" part has become inaccurate. It also happened just a few years (very much less than a decade) after the California Gold …

>This came before the usage of 皇 to broadly mean emperor (i.e. during the Spring and Autumn period before the Qin dynasty), although it is used to describe the three mythical emper…

>Something I'm surprised hasn't come up yet is the ability to flex... "something" in your brain and turn hallucinations on and off. >I grew up in a Buddhist family and was meditati…

>She should use 鹄(swan) instead of 鹅(goose). Yes people don't usually use this character for swan I've never heard of or seen this character until today. >most people know of it as…

>>it is a marketplace-as-a-service >To the extent this makes a difference It does, because you're arguing as if Amazon sells stuff. It doesn't (just) do that: it's a market-maker t…

>Hayek was perfectly well aware that such market participants existed (after all, such participants existed in his day--for example, Standard Oil). And Hayek did mention monopolies…

>I would feel weird about giving myself a rare and ultra-high-prestige name. Er... 司馬 isn't that rare, and people would rather advise you to select a rare but prestigious family na…

>> I’ve collected names from the sublime—Vancouver city council candidate Jean Swanson’s (金玉鹅) beautifully phonetic and semantic rendering of her name >Was that joke? At least in J…

>please take this article with a grain of salt as it reeks of whitesplaining. Agreed. Also, most Chinese names are "invented" anyway, so why is that in the headline?

>鹅 = goose 鹅 can refer to quite a few birds in Chinese[0], and in this case, since the article noted: Vancouver city council candidate Jean Swanson’s (金玉鹅) [has a] beautifully phon…

>I think the Japanese meaning encompasses any kind of roundish object As in Chinese, 金玉 also means "gold and jewels" in Japanese, i.e. treasure, so the semantic distance to testicl…

>皇非我 (Not-Me Huang). An official of the kingdom of Song. Again maybe a result of traditions trying to protect children from evil spirits, but I still find it rather amusing. I'd th…

>>> The prototypical Chinese name has three characters, a single surname followed by a two-character given name. A smaller number of Chinese people only have a single given name, a…

>Sure it’s nice to have a Chinese name that sounds familiar, but would you expect your (say) Indian immigrant colleague to adapt an English-sounding name when moving to Canada? I r…

And in case anyone was wondering, the "New Gold Mountain" is another name for Melbourne[0]. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%96%B0%E9%87%91%E5%B1%B1

>Also Bostrom is a nincompoop and no article that mentions him deserves to be taken seriously. Agreed, and as I've pointed out elsewhere[0] (see also the parent comment[1]), his id…

>This struck me as a warmed-over version of the literary conceit that we're all just characters in a particularly elaborate-seeming novel or stage play. He also came up with the no…

>Alienation is a critical and central part of Marxist critique. To miss it is to misunderstand Marxism. I don't think the author meant that reference to Marxism as anything more th…

>You could just as easily say that space colonization is the highest form of humanitarianism. "Greed" and humanitarianism are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they can be mutually …