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Thanks for this. It is some really nasty stuff.

So you learn no? I'm sure the way fuel was carried during World War 1 is not the way the US Military carries it now.

Special ships? That probably depends on the economics. If the Electric Car Industry makes it worth a shippers while - Someone will invest in a special purpose vehicle.

So now we are at the first stages of this - in time - if the industry succeeds - the money will come.

Fuel literally burns and it is carried by ship - I believe there is a way to safely ferry them in ships.

I think like most things there is a balance. The sweet spot may be I can go hard on the project but if I feel like I need some time off - there is the ability to step back and have the work continue.

I'm sure I don't know how to achieve it though.

For those like me who didn't understand initially :

PTO ⩶ Paid Time Off

I'm not an expert here but it may be time for white box no name mobile phones that come with nothing that we have to set up ourselves. My second computer was the first time I downloaded from both kernel and kerneli and rolled my first Linux Kernel based gnu system....

You are not wrong and I agree but eventually I suspect there will be some project management (following up on peer reviewers, winnowing out the low quality papers, etc) that will need to be paid for on top of the server and bandwidth costs. Whatever service comes about it will need to collect some money. My view is it should be small in the single digit dollar space for unlimited monthly access for every paper that was funded by a tax payer in the world.

If that's the case, my suspicion is this may continue happening until a 'Netflix of scientific papers' appears. Even with Sci-Hub down it's likely someone else will replicate it.

Is there a sort of single sign on reasonably priced service that aggregates the many publishers of government funded papers in one place?

Rough consensus and running code!

Seems someone has responded to it.

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1346452935924846593

This gives me memories of SCO Linux.

I like your statement 'the mini-mill has already been made'. The thing is though not everyone needs an employee with Harvard degrees. Small companies may be happy with a finance person with a 4 year degree from a smaller university for example.

Yep.

Does anyone remember when this was called the Slashdot effect? Being Slashdotted.

There is concern that some people can not access the link. Here it is from Web Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200712115236/http://www.busine...

In the last few weeks many technology companies have been able to have their staff work remotely.

I wonder what suspending Visas means in so far as remote working is a thing.

Predicting what is next is hard. Turning what is next to be successful is even harder. China may be able to push into AI and microprocessors, but it will need to have the culture of trial and honest admission of failure if it is to actually deliver on the next big thing. I think it is still unclear (despite the great results they have with 5G) that China knows how to do that.

I am not an economist. Compared with the hard sciences (physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics) economics is still quite new and I suspect there would be more people seeing these trends and offer other models trying to explain them.

From a libertarian acquaintance the root cause is clear. Going off the Gold standard[1] in the US. I am not completely convinced.

[1] https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

TIL: NAIRU. Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment refers to a theoretical level of unemployment below which inflation would be expected to rise. It was first introduced as NIRU (non-inflationary rate of unemployment) by Franco Modigliani and Lucas Papademos in 1975, as an improvement over the "natural rate of unemployment" concept which was proposed earlier by Milton Friedman.

In the United States, estimates of NAIRU typically range between 5 and 6%.

Monetary policy conducted under the assumption of a NAIRU typically involves allowing just enough unemployment in the economy to prevent inflation rising above a given target figure. Prices are allowed to increase gradually and some unemployment is tolerated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIRU

> Most of the time, what programming really is - is just a lot of trial and error

I am not the best programmer ... but I have always felt like an imposter with how many times I googled the next expression.

Seems to work now.

Nairobi, Kenya.

The original document seems to suggest that the life sciences, at least as far as publication is concerned, appeared to buck the trend.

> ... firms in the life sciences such as Pharmacia, Lilly, Bristol Myers Squibb, Pfizer, and Amgen significantly increased publications. In the case of Pfizer and Amgen in the 2000s, this increase in publishing kept up with changes in R&D expenditures. One key feature of the pharmaceutical industry during this time period was the strong merger activity. However, comparisons with other sectors that also experienced strong merger activity suggests that the publishing behavior of firms in the life sciences was not simply an artifact of merger activity.[1]

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/593d9b08be65945a2e878... Page 29

Maybe she is used to it? I have used track changes and it is good and all ... but it may not be exactly the same as being able to know where and when a change was done, by whom, and with the reasoning sometimes added with it that comes from VCSs like SVN and GIT.

> More MACs equals more performance.

What does the acronym MAC stand for please?

My question would be ... does it work?

Say there are people who are not being tracked using these tools ... does the act of tracking them make them more productive?

𝗔𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 There is the old joke paper given to the British Medical Journal (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/). The "problem" it tries to figure out is do parachutes work? There is anecdotal evidence that they work - bit there have been cases where people have fallen from great height without a parachute and not died and there are cases where someone has jumped from low altitude with a parachute and died.

What they then do is suggest a proper double blind analysis to confirm that a parachute actually works. But it is a joke so they do not go far.

The point they make applies here also. On the part of the boss it does feel like you are in control and I am sure HR would love it because they now have time sheets that they can use to process payroll etc.

But for the end user ... does it actually increase productivity?

Actually ... does it actually matter whether it does or not? Maybe their goal is to make the bosses happy. My suspicion though is that it may actually be reducing productivity as they mess up morale. But that has not been tested either. (Not sure if it can be tested).

Are you sure? I have never had problems and use it in multiple profiles - one paid. https://www.lastpass.com/pricing

> It’s a good lesson but let’s not forget that completing the signup is not the goal in itself. If you look at post-signup user activity you will find many users stick around for a few minutes and then leave, never to return again.

I may be the only one with the following experience so please bear with me.

I use lastpass to generate passwords and save my credentials to use on websites/apps. While for many sites I will never use the site again, in some cases after some time I find myself back on a site I had registered on before.

It may be because the site has added new features or it could be because my condition has changed. (I would like to say I came back because of the work that the website owners did in marketing/new features etc).

I am not involved in this sort of thing from day to day but I think that one should also track "𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏"

I think another interesting data point demonstrating progress in this is the fact that the US Supreme Court can now receive requests, vote to listen to them, receive pleadings and also listening to oral arguments remotely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBrzxt7l7q4

> I don't believe in fighting "bad ideas" by suppressing them

What is a "bad idea" is also hard to know sometimes. If I was there in the time of Galileo I would probably be fighting his "the earth goes round the sun" argument as well.

Many times great ideas first appear seemingly as "bad ideas". Which then are the good "bad ideas" and the bad "bad ideas"? It is unclear if corporates can answer that better than the world as a whole.

Maybe they should just explicitly mark the content with "this may be a bad idea" and leave it online - trusting the users?

Elon is very tough on Public Transport no?