ajflkjasdf777's comments

Iterative improvements versus starting over. Particularly with something like environment change.

It took years just to get the Paris language settled. But yeah, let's start over. With Trump at the wheel. The great but actually spectacularly bad negotiator.

Why is that an insinuation and not simply a reminder?

Perhaps they just loaded them onto a shielded vehicle, moved them, dismantled them, and spread the parts around via regular trucks?

Personally, I look at all of it as rigged and treat their narratives as such up front, regardless of the source.

The media in the US has been gamed by one power broker or another since its beginning. The Founding Fathers wrote and distributed propaganda anonymously.

The government invented an entire group to handle modern propaganda operations and worked with the media to peddle their narratives for the last generation.

This is all documented plainly, often via government record itself.

I don't think measuring these things is all that useful, given this.

The premise of "it's gamed for partisan gain" is firmly established by history. How much either way is a quibble, IMO. Let's focus on equitable outcomes for all, and stop diving into these overly customized data holes.

"less and less chances of striking it rich."

Never said we weren't generally better off. But none of us have a shot at being oil barons, logging millionaires, retail moguls, etc.

Striking it rich now generally means achieving a higher level of knowledge and education first, then you can try to make your mark.

The previous generation hordes vast sums of wealth from endeavors that required less up front preparation and less capital (which was often provided rather no strings attached by the government, a tap which is being shut off (look at IBM's history of being gifted government funded inventions, among others)).

There are quotes from the private developer of the site that initial delays were due to the first designs for the site not feeling "inspired". So they opened an international competition that stretched on.

Doesn't sound like it's entirely due to toxic local politics and regulations.

They discuss TV tuner cards they support.

Suggests this is means local over air TV. So whatever you get by just plugging antenna into your TV directly.

"the people who start mining early win out, and the people who join later to speculate on the currency have less and less chances of striking it rich."

The people that were born early win out, and the people who are born later have less and less chances of striking it rich.

So human societies in general.

> So basically, they are people willing to do work that is needed and doing it responsibly. The work you are not willing to do and doing it without throwing temper tantrum over being too good for the work.

Basically there are people who are willing to drag your organizations failure to build a reasonable system into the future to keep you business.

I suppose you probably do want a team like that if you're the owner.