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Hal's dump-&-run still

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:35:10 +0000

In reply to Tragically we listened to the worst people in the world and opted to destroy the planet

Hal's dump-&-run still gathering dust.

Hal, do you hate that free trade helped extreme poverty in the world drop from 30% when the Wall fell to perhaps 8% before the pandemic? Do you hate that our globalization and more intertwined economies have produced say 1/10th the wars with 1/50th the bloodshed of the 40s up to 2000?

Would you agree that your "destroy the planet" is largely hyperbolic bullshit suitable for that tries-too-hard not-too-funny flick "Don't Look Up"?

It's called "scanners" and

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:32:16 +0000

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It's called "scanners" and "OCR". Unless someone still had a floppy (Hal? Are you a hoarder?)

It's certainly interesting to

artappraiser — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 20:30:24 +0000

In reply to Uh, okay Hal, what does this

It's certainly interesting to know that Harvard Business Review has digitized its articles from BEFORE THERE WAS EVEN AN INTERNET for history researchers. I suppose one could call that "in the news"?

A good thread on futility or

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 04:46:00 +0000

In reply to Uh, okay Hal, what does this

A good thread on futility or counterproductiveness of trying to combat kneejerk hard coded internet opinions with facts and reason (did you notice not 1 statistic in that '86 article? 3 countries mentioned but no industries? Try fighting back against gas - it's wispy, it's in graspable, it just flows everywhere... One might get a good killer comment or 300 in, but it just keeps coming back like Shaun of the Dead)

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— Dr. Tara C. Smith (@aetiology) January 2, 2022

Uh, okay Hal, what does this

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 04:25:00 +0000

In reply to Tragically we listened to the worst people in the world and opted to destroy the planet

Uh, okay Hal, what does this 35-year-old article tell us about our services industry - Google, Amazon, Facebook - or how Apple killed Nokia (and Samsung is just an also-ran) and is a mega-trilliin dollar company while Tesla's perhaps the highest valued car company, Buddha knows why, and Cisco took over the IoT market? Any thoughts on AirBnb and Uber global profits, and the US share in Cloud Computing? Are we sad because we don't make TVs anymore? I assume you're pointing at some disaster or other - care to clue the rest of us in? And is there any analysis re: how the pandemic plays into this, or how helping to elect Trump set things back? And a Happy New Year to you too.