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It would better for people such as Christensen to call themselves "business historians." They make ex post facto analyses of what made a business successful. There's value to that,…

True, but consider this from the shitphone piece... "Things had gradually become slower. They rarely came to a full stop, but they got close. Complicated websites in particular wer…

This article reminds me of the "shitphone" story that got posted here a while back. Long but definitely worthwhile IMHO. https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e664348…

If you put something like this in space, and pointed it down, would it be a useful espionage tool (more useful than the spy satellites the US and its allies already have)?

Nah, that's what I'm talking about. Makes things too complicated and expensive. How about this... If you have the capital, you can build whatever you want as long as you don't phys…

I would point the finger at NIMBYism and the fact that new developments in places like San Francisco, London, and New York have to hop through many many hoops to get built (and pas…

"Grindhouse Wetware" ...that company name

Not exactly my point, and I won't go there. I don't know enough about drugs to comment. Smart, creative people are, by and large, allergic to authoritarianism. Draconian rules arou…

> mandate out for people to be more "creative" A tough sell in a place where the possession of even a tiny amount of marijuana is punishable by caning and long imprisonment.

Met a couple of these guys in my career in tech. Two were DevOps engineers who had no college but made themselves indispensable. One was a guy who had only a smattering of Java but…

To me it makes sense that the FBI needs a fleet of surveillance planes for investigations. It also makes sense that these aircraft carry civilian livery to be low-profile (same ide…

I'll concede the point on the R&R paper. Didn't know there was so much controversy about it, and the accusations that some of their findings were due to a technology glitch are pre…

Here's an interesting meta-study about the effects of a high debt to gdp ratio. http://www.nber.org/papers/w16827 I admire the candor of your second point ("we just inflated it awa…

Krugman presents this as a dilemma between two choices. 1. Institute austerity now. 2. Institute stimulus now, pay down debt responsibly once the good times roll. This is a sham di…