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At a cost of $20,000 per CSR that is $40 billion a year, which is more than the revenue of Facebook.

Wow, thanks for the link. His stuff is very cool.

Beautifully said.

In Australia IT is also a broader term encompassing development of software.

Great read. I really enjoy hearing people's career stories, it is interesting where you can end up after 35 years of work.

I agree, there are solutions out there like the aforementioned that are easier than seeking out individual mp3s from the websites. Overcast on iOS and Pocketcasts I have both used and are good.

Also curious.

Interestingly it also says:

> His children recall him working long hours, leaving home not long after dawn and returning home at 11 p.m., spending his days working two or three jobs at a time.

Getting home at 11pm doesn't leave a lot of time to worry about anything I suppose.

"it would be absurd to suggest X" doesn't amount to a denial of support for X? Why not?

You're not the only one.

A practical democracy must be an abstraction of a pure, idealistic democracy. You cannot have millions of people deciding on every issue. Democratically elected representatives are one way we can do this.

There may be better ways of doing things but it doesn't make democracies not democracies.

Are you one of the people who like Blinkist and think everything has to be distilled into dot points?

Why do you think you have that right? Honestly curious.

I agree with you, I started the book and I thought, "Why do people hate this? This is a joy." But, then it decayed into drivel, as you said. A shame. I think they could cut 100 pages and it would be a bit better.

Just listened, a great podcast and very useful for piecing apart why "statistically significant" isn't the gold standard of reliability for scientific studies.

I'm not having that problem on Safari.

Appreciate the short list and not hundreds of links to resources.

My takeaway from the article is that the author completely missed the point, which is that centralised bureaucracy and decision making can be very harmful.

Why are we reliant on an economist to pick up on this irrigation issue? You at least need people from industry to be consulted before regulations like this. Lucky that this particular person noticed the problem, but there probably shouldn't be a lawyer, a scientist and an economist making centralised farming regulations.

Could you point me in the direction of where Taleb has written on this topic?

As a backstabber she beget more backstabbing. I think you need to assign a little more blame for the political instability in Australia to her.

Despite Spotify's vastly superior user interface and a much quicker Android app, I've found myself switching to Apple music for the singular reason that their curated playlists are much, much better than Spotify's.

I don't have the hours and hours to spend online on music blogs downloading obscure MP3s like I did while I was at university, trawling through to find stuff I like. So now finding new music is more of a challenge.

I've found the curated approach of Apple to be much better than the algorithmic approach of Spotify (and Spotify's curated playlists are also worse).